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Little Germany on the Missouri, 1: The Photographs of Edward J. Kemper, 1895-1920
ISBN: 9780826212054 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Capturing the day-to-day life of the German-American community of Hermann during the years from 1895 to 1920, Little Germany on the Missouri is an illuminating and fascinating look at Missouri's German heritage. Featuring more than a hundred images taken by Edward J. Kemper, a gifted horticulturist and viticulturist, the book depicts life in Hermann during the height of its cultural and economic achievements. Although Kemper's photographs center around his family, friends, and neighbors, they encompass the -essence of Hermann- through his eloquent visual realization of a golden...Capturing the day-to-day life of the German-American community of Hermann during the years from 1895 to 1920, Little Germany on the Missouri... |
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208,48 |
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Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present
ISBN: 9780826310910 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 570 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This useful collection includes over a century of the very best writing on photography. Vicki Goldberg has brought together more than 75 essays and excerpts that cover a vast and provocative range of topics. We have the first-hand accounts of photographers, from Fox Talbot to Alfred Stieglitz to Ansel Adams, and the thoughts of leading critics and philosophers, from Baudelaire to George Bernard Shaw to Susan Sontag. Some of the pieces illuminate important aspects of photographic history; others give unique insights in particular photographers; and some are just for fun. Together, they... This useful collection includes over a century of the very best writing on photography. Vicki Goldberg has brought together more than 75 essays and... |
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173,51 |
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Wisconsin Death Trip
ISBN: 9780826321930 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book is about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 1910. Against these are juxtaposed excerpts from the Badger State Banner, from the Mendota State (asylum) Record Book, and occasionally quotations from the writings of Hamlin Garland and Glenway Wescott.
This book is about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 1910. Agains...
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133,80 |
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The American Rockies : Photographs by Gus Foster
ISBN: 9780826330192 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "The American Rockies" presents an extraordinary visual diary of Gus Foster's Rocky Mountain odyssey with his panoramic camera. Foster climbed the major peaks along the backbone of the continent from the Canadian border to the border with Mexico, photographing the spectacular landscape sometimes at greater than 360 degrees. As James Enyeart writes in "A Traveler's Notebook" "A lifetime of travel places Gus Foster in a succession of artists who have gained insight and inspiration from the exotic and unfamiliar." Foster's panoramic photographs enable even the armchair traveler to experience... "The American Rockies" presents an extraordinary visual diary of Gus Foster's Rocky Mountain odyssey with his panoramic camera. Foster climbed the ... |
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69,35 |
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Silver Cities: Photographing American Urbanization, 1839-1939
ISBN: 9780826331786 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This vastly expanded edition presents a lively interdisciplinary history of the first century of urban photography in America.
This vastly expanded edition presents a lively interdisciplinary history of the first century of urban photography in America.
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158,64 |
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Desert Wetlands
ISBN: 9780826332615 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Over 150 color photos and accompanying text document wetland sites in the American Southwest and Mexico.
Over 150 color photos and accompanying text document wetland sites in the American Southwest and Mexico.
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74,32 |
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The Jicarilla Apache: A Portrait
ISBN: 9780826337764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 105 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Between 1976 and 1993 Nancy Warren visited the Jicarilla Apache reservation in northern New Mexico numerous times. She was permitted to photograph their daily activities and various celebrations. Warren's ninety halftone photographs capture the Jicarilla lifestyles and customs, revealing an understanding of their culture and beliefs. While most sacred ceremonies could not be photographed, the important tribal foot race is well documented.
Veronica Tiller provides an essay about the reservation, its history, and its resources to familiarize potential visitors with the area. "The... Between 1976 and 1993 Nancy Warren visited the Jicarilla Apache reservation in northern New Mexico numerous times. She was permitted to photograph the...
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cena:
74,32 |
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Photography and Writing in Latin America: Double Exposures
ISBN: 9780826338082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Photography came to Latin America early in its technological development and has proven an essential tool for documenting the region's physical spaces and encounters among varied cultures. Numerous Europeans experimented with the new medium as they traveled throughout Latin America. This is the first book to document the extensive collaboration between writers and photographers in Latin America from the Mexican Revolution through the twentieth century. Divided into four parts, the first section includes essays that review the varied roles of photography in the context of Latin American...
Photography came to Latin America early in its technological development and has proven an essential tool for documenting the region's physical spaces...
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cena:
133,80 |
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Bernard Plossu's New Mexico
ISBN: 9780826340061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Bernard Plossu, born in Vietnam in 1945, is one of today's best-known French photographers. His photos reflect locales he has visited all over the world: Senegal, Turkey, Poland, Mexico, Guatemala, and the American West. The photographs here were taken by Plossu in the late 1970s and are images of New Mexico--where the sun, the dust, the rain, the mud, the wind, the snow, the altitude (7,000 feet), and the smells forge a uniqueness.
"Bernard Plossu has given us a remarkable record of our own Southwest as seen through the eyes of a Frenchman. . . . The viewer knows what Plossu is saying by... Bernard Plossu, born in Vietnam in 1945, is one of today's best-known French photographers. His photos reflect locales he has visited all over the wor...
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cena:
74,32 |
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Four and Twenty Photographs: Stories from Behind the Lens
ISBN: 9780826340948 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Craig Varjabedian is one of the West's most eloquent photographers. In his sixth publication, Varjabedian shares his favorite photographs and the stories behind them. Landscapes, architecture, and people are magically revealed through his images as readers gain insight into his creative process. The strength of these four and twenty photographs is not only in their beauty but also in the relationship between photographer and subject--a relationship that goes far beyond the visual.
"This picture transcends a portrait of a cowboy and horse; it presents a moment of trust and affection. I see... Craig Varjabedian is one of the West's most eloquent photographers. In his sixth publication, Varjabedian shares his favorite photographs and the stor...
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133,80 |
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The Idea of Cuba
ISBN: 9780826341396 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Everyone seems to be waiting. A young woman in a pink shirt leans against a pillar. Two men sit on a stoop and look in her direction. Like most Havana streets, this one, Calle Zapatos in Santos Surez, has seen better days. A glance reveals generations of faded paint, cracked plaster, and worn-down sidewalks. It's a curious kind of waiting--at once lethargic and restless--that I've become accustomed to in Cuba. Whatever is going to happen seems a long way off."--Alex HarrisThis remarkable journey into contemporary Cuba by photographer and writer Alex Harris is both a powerful and mysterious...
"Everyone seems to be waiting. A young woman in a pink shirt leans against a pillar. Two men sit on a stoop and look in her direction. Like most Havan...
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158,64 |
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Eye of the West
ISBN: 9780826343192 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. More than thirty years ago and armed with little more than a camera and a vision, Western writer and photographer Nancy Wood set out in a battered Subaru to capture a vanishing part of the American West. Focusing on the Grass Roots People of Colorado, the Utes, Taos Pueblo, and homesteaders of Pie Town, New Mexico, Wood devoted nearly twenty years to cataloguing the lives of the rural inhabitants. The result is in an intimate portrait achieved through Wood's long associations with each subject.
"Eye of the West" covers Wood's photographic career and pays tribute to the ideas and techniques... More than thirty years ago and armed with little more than a camera and a vision, Western writer and photographer Nancy Wood set out in a battered Sub...
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79,28 |
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The Practical Methodology of Forensic Photography
ISBN: 9780849320040 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Second Edition of this bestseller combines directions for the old tried and true methods of photographic documentation (cameras, films, lighting sources) with analyses of the latest methods used in the practice (video, thermography, digital imaging). Specifically, Redsicker discusses the "how-to" of basic photography, shows the essentials of videography, and offers the fundamentals of aerial, underwater, and surveillance photography as they relate to the presentation of evidence in court. Redsicker presents this information in a practical, step-by-step fashion that is bound to enable...
The Second Edition of this bestseller combines directions for the old tried and true methods of photographic documentation (cameras, films, lighting s...
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cena:
768,42 |
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Usual Suspects
ISBN: 9780851708690 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A heist thriller with a dazzling twist in the tail, this film "The Usual Suspects" has seen its reputation grow until it is now a major cult movie. Ernest Larsen examines the film's sophistcated narrative structure and the new spin it puts on an old genre.
A heist thriller with a dazzling twist in the tail, this film "The Usual Suspects" has seen its reputation grow until it is now a major cult movie. Er...
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67,79 |
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Eyewitness: Four Decades of Northern Life
ISBN: 9780862788445 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. By turns beautiful, poignant, frightening, and funny, "Eyewitness" is a personal pictorial record of life in Northern Ireland over nearly forty years. Murphy's photographs are accompanied by detailed and candid captions revealing the events, people, and atmosphere in the region.This book is distributed for O'Brien Press, Dublin and is for sale only in the United States, it's territories and dependencies, Canada, and the Philippines."
By turns beautiful, poignant, frightening, and funny, "Eyewitness" is a personal pictorial record of life in Northern Ireland over nearly forty yea... |
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198,30 |
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All Changed: Fifty Years of Photographing Ireland
ISBN: 9780862788735 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. As Ireland has moved from a traditional to a modern society over the past fifty years, it has seen immense changes in attitude toward the Church, sex, relationships, property, emigration, and life in general. Here we see the faces, the landscapes, and the lives of the recently disappeared Ireland Jack Lynch, JFK, Grace Kelly, Dev, de Gaulle, the Troubles, folk traditions alongside the new faces and styles of modern society.
Distributed for O'Brien Press, Dublin As Ireland has moved from a traditional to a modern society over the past fifty years, it has seen immense changes in attitude toward the Church, sex,...
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158,64 |
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Classic Outdoor Color Portraits: A Guide for Photographers; It's Your Turn to Make a Portrait
ISBN: 9780865343023 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "It's your turn to make a photograph," states the author on the cover of this detailed handbook destined to become a classic instruction manual on portrait photography. And she shows the reader how by going through the basics of this photographic artform step by step in easy-to-follow instructions that will appeal to all levels of experience.
For beginners, a working knowledge of the camera is not even necessary; and for professionals there is more than enough to challenge them to exceed their own present excellence. It has taken the author years of working in the portrait profession to... "It's your turn to make a photograph," states the author on the cover of this detailed handbook destined to become a classic instruction manual on por...
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88,92 |
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Haunting Memories: Echoes Images Tennessees Past
ISBN: 9780870499302 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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128,85 |
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The Family of Man
ISBN: 9780870703416 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Hailed as the most successful exhibition of photography ever assembled, The Family of Man opened at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in January 1955. This book, the permanent embodiment of Edward Steichen's monumental exhibition, reproduces all of the 503 images that Steichen described as -a mirror of the essential oneness of mankind throughout the world. Photographs made in all parts of the world, of the gamut of life from birth to death.- A classic and inspiring work, The Family of Man has been in print for more than 40 years. The New York Times once wrote that it...
Hailed as the most successful exhibition of photography ever assembled, The Family of Man opened at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in Janua...
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cena:
126,75 |
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Images of the Rust Belt
ISBN: 9780873386265 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Over the last 150 years, steel production played a vital role in the shaping of our nation. This was especially true in Youngstown, Ohio, a part of what is now often referred to as "the Rust Belt." In their prime, however, the Youngstown mills ran along 25 miles of the Mahoning River and employed tens of thousands of people. All of that changed in September 1977 when the LTV Corporation announced that it was closing its Youngstown Works. Youngstown today struggles for its survival. Higgins's photography places these decaying traces of the industrial landscape squarely amid the magnificence...
Over the last 150 years, steel production played a vital role in the shaping of our nation. This was especially true in Youngstown, Ohio, a part of wh...
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cena:
99,10 |