ilość książek w kategorii: 17199
Military Flash
ISBN: 9780764315381 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Hundreds of anchors, exotic dancers, angry daggers, and patriotic decorations are shown that adorned the flesh of veterans returning from the world wars. This collection of historic flash boards is a tribute to those who served their countries; a sentimental look at body art available in the early 20th Century; and an exciting examination of bold designs that have stood the test of time. This book invites you to peruse an exhibition wartime art from the turn of the century through World War II; art that is enjoying increasing popularity on today's young crop of skin canvas. Perforated pages...
Hundreds of anchors, exotic dancers, angry daggers, and patriotic decorations are shown that adorned the flesh of veterans returning from the world wa...
|
|
cena:
116,73 zł |
Bunny Yeager's Bikini Girls of the 1950s
ISBN: 9780764320026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. As the 1950s dawned, a new level of sexual openness developed in behavior and dress. In magazines and on beaches, women appeared in revealing two-piece bathing suits called bikinis. Bunny Yeager, model and commercial photographer, forged a unique role in 1952, photographing bikinis and the beautiful women who wore them. This collection of Bunny's work from the 1950s features 169 original photographs and featuring little known models and women she helped launch to fame, such as Betty Page. The bikinis they wore were often of Bunny's own creation, sewn with her own hands. She says, "My ability...
As the 1950s dawned, a new level of sexual openness developed in behavior and dress. In magazines and on beaches, women appeared in revealing two-piec...
|
|
cena:
96,42 zł |
Images of Intercourse
ISBN: 9780764320149 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A delightful journey through Pennsylvania Dutch Country. Explore the tourist-magnet town of Intercourse, PA, in full color This souvenir book will prove a nostaligic tour for all who have been there, and a motivational force to anyone else. Comes in two versions, this one with a novelty cover, the other with a cover that displays the area.
A delightful journey through Pennsylvania Dutch Country. Explore the tourist-magnet town of Intercourse, PA, in full color This souvenir book will pro...
|
|
cena:
50,73 zł |
Bunny Yeager's Pin-Up Girls of the 1960s
ISBN: 9780764323348 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Famed photographer Bunny Yeager presents the latest retrospective of her own work, revisiting the spirited, fun-loving women of the flower-power decade. More than 230 color-packed images present 80 beautiful women, captured in the 1960s in a multitude of exciting locations, from natural surroundings with wild animals, to professional studio shots. Here are the pin-up girls who hung in school lockers, on garage walls, and in the hearts of men around the world. Each woman exhibits her own style and intrigue, along with the aura and fashions of the '60s era.
Famed photographer Bunny Yeager presents the latest retrospective of her own work, revisiting the spirited, fun-loving women of the flower-power decad...
|
|
cena:
142,12 zł |
Bikini Girl Postcards by Bunny Yeager: Shore Wish You Were Here!
ISBN: 9780764323881 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Forty beautiful women cavort on the beach for the 1950s most famous female photographer, Bunny Yeager. Pleasingly attired for the sun, they present a healthy balance of enthusiasm, exhibitionism, and a dash of decorum. Enjoy a bit of beach, a spark of sunshine, and a nostalgic romp with beauties of bygone days. Tear these cards out and mail them to friends, or frame them in any standard 5 x 7-inch frame. This little book is a bargain at only $14.95.
Forty beautiful women cavort on the beach for the 1950s most famous female photographer, Bunny Yeager. Pleasingly attired for the sun, they present a ...
|
|
cena:
71,03 zł |
Image & Imagination
ISBN: 9780773529694 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Photography and reality are inextricably linked but, whether one is being photographed, making a photograph, or looking at a photograph, photography is an act of the imagination. In nine original essays, art historians and cultural theorists break with photographic tradition to explore the crucial role of the imagination in photography from 19th-century studio portraiture to 21st-century digital innovations.
Photography and reality are inextricably linked but, whether one is being photographed, making a photograph, or looking at a photograph, photography i...
|
|
cena:
176,37 zł |
Scissors, Paper, Stone: Expressions of Memory in Contemporary Photographic Art
ISBN: 9780773532113 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Finalist: Raymond Klibansky Book Prize Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada (2008) Making a connection between photography and memory is almost automatic. Should it be? In Scissors, Paper, Stone Martha Langford explores the nature of memory and art. She challenges the conventional emphasis on the camera as a tool of perception by arguing that photographic works are products of the mind - picturing memory is, first and foremost, the expression of a mental process. Langford organizes the book around the conceit of the child's game scissors, paper, stone, using it to ground her...
Finalist: Raymond Klibansky Book Prize Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada (2008) Making a connection between photography and memory i...
|
|
cena:
331,36 zł |
Northern Exposures: Photographing and Filming the Canadian North, 1920-45
ISBN: 9780774809283 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. To many, the North is a familiar but inaccessible place. Yet images of the region are within easy reach, in magazine racks, on our coffee tables, and on television, computer, and movie screens. In Northern Exposures, Peter Geller uncovers the history behind these popular conceptions of the Canadian North. This book examines the photographic and film practice of the Canadian government, the Anglican Church of Canada, and the Hudson's Bay Company, the three major colonial institutions involved in the arctic and sub-arctic. In the first half of the twentieth century, visual... To many, the North is a familiar but inaccessible place. Yet images of the region are within easy reach, in magazine racks, on our coffee tables, a... |
|
cena:
142,12 zł |
Urban Photography in Argentina: Nine Artists of the Post-Dictatorship Era
ISBN: 9780786431212 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This work examines the cultural impact of photography in Argentina following the end of the countrys military dictatorship in the early 1980s. The interpretive study surveys nine modern photographers in ArgentinaMarcelo Brodsky, Gabriel Valansi, Eduardo Gil, Gaby Messina, Adriana Lestido, Gabriel Daz, Marcos Lpez, Silivio Fabrykant and Gabriela Liffschitzand covers the major themes in each of their works. The author details each photographers cultural and artistic contributions and provides a listing of the websites where their works can be viewed.
This work examines the cultural impact of photography in Argentina following the end of the countrys military dictatorship in the early 1980s. The int...
|
|
cena:
186,36 zł |
Ansel Adams: The National Parks Service Photographs
ISBN: 9780789207753 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1941 Ansel Adams was hired by the United States Department of the Interior to photograph America's national parks for a series of murals that would celebrate the country's natural heritage. Because of the escalation of World War II, the project was suspended after less than a year, but not before Adams had produced this group of breathtaking images, which illustrate both his early innovations and the shape of his later, legendary career as America's foremost landscape photographer.The invitation to photograph the nation's parklands was the perfect assignment for Adams, as it allowed him to...
In 1941 Ansel Adams was hired by the United States Department of the Interior to photograph America's national parks for a series of murals that would...
|
|
cena:
55,62 zł |
Photography, Vision, and the Production of Modern Bodies
ISBN: 9780791427187 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Lalvani argues that modernity represents the powerful privileging of vision and the introduction of a paradigm of seeing that is historically distinctive. Taking the introduction of photography in the nineteenth century as a crucial development in the expansion of modern vision, he draws on the writings of Alan Sekula, John Tagg, Jonathan Crary, Norman Bryson and Martin Jay to examine in a comprehensive manner how photography functioned to organize a set of relations between knowledge, power, and the body. However, in taking a broad cultural studies approach Lalvani situates the practices of...
Lalvani argues that modernity represents the powerful privileging of vision and the introduction of a paradigm of seeing that is historically distinct...
|
|
cena:
136,34 zł |
The Engine of Visualization
ISBN: 9780801486890 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "An extremely fascinating study, packed with insights and illumination and astute observation. It is first-rate philosophy clearheaded, imaginative, sophisticated, and resourceful. And in its historical and technological dimensions, it connects with the 'real world' in ways that are rare in philosophical studies." Kendall Walton, University of Michigan"For Patrick Maynard photography is in the first instance a technology for marking surfaces, and from this insight flows the most original sustained analysis and argument yet produced in the history of thinking about the camera and its work. At...
"An extremely fascinating study, packed with insights and illumination and astute observation. It is first-rate philosophy clearheaded, imaginative, s...
|
|
cena:
192,94 zł |
Images and Enterprise: Technology and the American Photographic Industry 1839 to 1925
ISBN: 9780801835490 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 391 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. From the early daguerreotype to the rise of the motion picture, Images and Enterprise explores the business, technical, and social factors that transformed the American photographic industry between 1839 and 1925. Reese Jenkins's prize-winning history traces the technical changes that culminated in George Eastman's creation of the Kodak system of amateur photography in the 1880s. Its compact, simply operated cameras would revolutionize an entire industry--even if at first the whole camera had to be mailed back to the company for developing and reloading. Images and Enterprise... From the early daguerreotype to the rise of the motion picture, Images and Enterprise explores the business, technical, and social factors t... |
|
cena:
208,44 zł |
Disappearing Witness: Change in Twentieth-Century American Photography
ISBN: 9780801871672 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. American photographers documented and defined the twentieth century in a remarkable array of images, the style and content of which evolved dramatically over the course of the century. In Disappearing Witness, photographer and art historian Gretchen Garner chronicles this transformation, from the introduction of the 35-millimeter camera in the 1920s to the digital photography of today. Accompanied by over 125 key works in the history of photography--fine-art, documentary, and editorial--her thoughtful and enlightening discussion traces American photography's aesthetic, commercial,... American photographers documented and defined the twentieth century in a remarkable array of images, the style and content of which evolved dramati... |
|
cena:
213,78 zł |
Tulsa
ISBN: 9780802137487 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. First published in 1971, this remarkable, controversial photo-essay caputres the lives of midwestern youth during the turbulence of the 1960s as it documents in haunting black-and-white images a youth culture caught up in a world of violence, drugs, sexual abuse, and social upheaval. Simultaneous.
First published in 1971, this remarkable, controversial photo-essay caputres the lives of midwestern youth during the turbulence of the 1960s as it do...
|
|
cena:
107,36 zł |
The Road to Lame Deer
ISBN: 9780803231030 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A bittersweet cross-cultural friendship and the richness and melancholy of modern Cheyenne life are unforgettably recorded in the words and photographs of "The Road to Lame Deer."
In the 1970s photographer and writer Jerry Mader was drawn into the community of Lame Deer on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana. The winding road to Lame Deer allowed Mader to gradually perceive something of both the pain and the continuing vitality of the Cheyennes' distinctive world. Mader's narrative is centered on what he believed to be his last visit to the reservation and on the memories it... A bittersweet cross-cultural friendship and the richness and melancholy of modern Cheyenne life are unforgettably recorded in the words and photograph...
|
|
cena:
152,27 zł |
Nebraska: Under a Big Red Sky
ISBN: 9780803259706 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Welcome to a journey across Nebraska. Relax, take your time, and enjoy the vistas. From Chadron to Falls City, Carhenge to the Wayne Chicken Show, Burwell to Omaha, and everywhere in between, this book captures all that is Nebraska the people, places, and events that make this state our home. Joel Sartore drove ten thousand miles in a beat-up Chevy truck to record the essence of Nebraska in the images that grace this book. Every page offers readers a chance to reminisce about their own lives and their special times in this great state. If you don t find at least a few photographs that make...
Welcome to a journey across Nebraska. Relax, take your time, and enjoy the vistas. From Chadron to Falls City, Carhenge to the Wayne Chicken Show, Bur...
|
|
cena:
94,27 zł |
Frozen in Silver: Life & Frontier Photography of P. E. Larson
ISBN: 9780804009997 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In 1898 men and women from all over the world converged on Alaska. Gold had been discovered. In the Yukon Territory, all winter long eager gold seekers struggled over the mountain passes connecting Canada with the United States. A small group of photographers chronicled this epic, creating images of men and women laboring through blinding snowstorms over the windswept, ice-covered mountains. One of that group was a young Swedish immigrant by the name of P. E. Larson.
"Frozen in Silver" documents how this man used the recent medium of photography to earn a living as a merchant and... In 1898 men and women from all over the world converged on Alaska. Gold had been discovered. In the Yukon Territory, all winter long eager gold seeker...
|
|
cena:
365,57 zł |
Frozen in Silver: Life & Frontier Photography of P. E. Larson
ISBN: 9780804010009 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In 1898 men and women from all over the world converged on Alaska. Gold had been discovered in the Yukon Territory of Canada. All winter long eager gold seekers struggled over the mountain passes between Canada and the United States. A small group of photographers chronicled this epic, creating images of men and women laboring through blinding snowstorms over the windswept, ice-covered mountains. One of these photographers was a young Swedish immigrant, P. E. Larss. Frozen in Silver tells the story of Larss, who changed his name to Larson in 1904, and how he became a frontier photographer. It...
In 1898 men and women from all over the world converged on Alaska. Gold had been discovered in the Yukon Territory of Canada. All winter long eager go...
|
|
cena:
131,95 zł |
The Photograph: A Strange, Confined Space
ISBN: 9780804723084 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This richly evocative study of photography has two major emphases, that the language of description (be it title, caption, or text) is deeply implicated in how a viewer looks at photographs, and that the use of a photograph determines its meaning.
This richly evocative study of photography has two major emphases, that the language of description (be it title, caption, or text) is deeply implicat...
|
|
cena:
548,34 zł |