
ilość książek w kategorii: 17717
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Great Lonely Places of the Texas Plains
ISBN: 9780896725065 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 165 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Clarity, focus, and startling detail are the stuff of lasting images in poetry or photography. It is all about beholding, about taking in what is ours to absorb if only we will. Little can overwhelm the senses more than our great lonely plains, expanses of sky and horizon so enormous that sometimes composition gets lost in between. Who better, then, to illuminate what would elude us than a native state photographer and native state poet laureate?Although Meinzer and McDonald have both devoted careers to seeing and celebrating these plains, garnering significant honors and awards along the...
Clarity, focus, and startling detail are the stuff of lasting images in poetry or photography. It is all about beholding, about taking in what is ours...
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138,76 |
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Windmill Tales: Stories from the American Wind Power Center
ISBN: 9780896725270 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Windmill Tales deftly presents these mechanical wonders as western icons. . . . Wyman Meinzer's images, each executed with precision and thoughtful perspective, range from grand, silhouetted landscapes to nuanced details. Every picture invites the reader to investigate further, to explore the contraption's engineering and rustic beauty." Great Plains Quarterly"The only sound that day was from the windmill, a creaking sound that a windmill makes turning in the summer breeze. It is a memory I deeply cherish and why I love windmills so much." A visitor to the American Wind Power CenterOn the...
"Windmill Tales deftly presents these mechanical wonders as western icons. . . . Wyman Meinzer's images, each executed with precision and thoughtful p...
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148,68 |
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Shadow and Substance: Essays on the History of Photography
ISBN: 9780910331012 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 377 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume features about fifty photo historians from fifteen countries offering substantial and previously unpublished essays in honor of Dr. Heinz K. Henisch, the founding editor of the international quarterly "History of Photography." The recognized authorities in the field, including Estelle Jussim, Ulrich Keller, Naomi Rosenblum, Mart Haworth-Booth, and others, are represented here and cover a wide range of topics from the earliest daguerreotypes to contemporary photography, with essays on nineteenth century practitioners, photojournalism, and twentieth-century aesthetics. This... This volume features about fifty photo historians from fifteen countries offering substantial and previously unpublished essays in honor of Dr. Hei... |
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74,32 |
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Chicago Parks Rediscovered
ISBN: 9780912223025 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 117 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. With this exquisite collection of color photographs of Chicago's parks, photographer and Chicago native, Frank Dina has cast a fresh eye on these natural gems that dot our urban landscape.
From the sumptuous lake shore to the inner city these images capture the light, color and mood of our public spaces throughout the changing seasons. Frederick Law Olmstead's and Jen Jensen's vision of a "garden in a city" is reflected within the pages of this book. The images at once subtly incorporate and contrast the natural landscape within the urban landscape. The Prairie style architecture that is... With this exquisite collection of color photographs of Chicago's parks, photographer and Chicago native, Frank Dina has cast a fresh eye on these natu...
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113,98 |
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Chicago Parks Rediscovered
ISBN: 9780912223032 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 117 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From the sumptuous lakeshore to the inner city, these images capture the light, color, and mood of our public spaces throughout the changing seasons. Frederick Law Olmsted's and Jens Jensen's vision of a 'garden in a city' is reflected within the pages of this book. The images at once subtly incorporate and contrast the natural landscape within the urban landscape. The Prairie-style architecture that is found in many of Chicago's parks is both a reflection of the natural prairie and a reminder of the concrete urban landscape within which the parks are located. These full-color photographs of...
From the sumptuous lakeshore to the inner city, these images capture the light, color, and mood of our public spaces throughout the changing seasons. ...
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237,96 |
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Classic Essays on Photography
ISBN: 9780918172082 / Angielski / Miękka / 1980 / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Containing 30 essays that embody the history of photography, this collection includes contributions fromNiepce, Daguerre, Fox, Talbot, Poe, Emerson, Hine, Stieglitz, and Weston, among others."
Containing 30 essays that embody the history of photography, this collection includes contributions fromNiepce, Daguerre, Fox, Talbot, Poe, Emerson, H...
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73,63 |
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Famous Forry Fotos: Over 70 Years of AckerMemories
ISBN: 9780918736321 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Over 70 years of Forrest J. Ackerman's fotos of sci-fi and horror fandom.
Over 70 years of Forrest J. Ackerman's fotos of sci-fi and horror fandom.
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cena:
60,98 |
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The Mütter Museum: Of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
ISBN: 9780922233243 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Home to over 20,000 mind-boggling anatomic specimens, plaster casts, wax models, and paintings, the Mutter Museum, founded in 1858, is part of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. This book features over 100 photographs by a select group of renowned photographers whose work appears in the award-winning Mutter Museum calendars. Highlights include a bust of an early-19th-century Parisian widow with a six-inch horn protruding from the forehead; the connected livers of Chang and Eng, the world-famous Siamese twins; the skeleton of a 7 6 giant from Kentucky; and a collection of 139 skulls...
Home to over 20,000 mind-boggling anatomic specimens, plaster casts, wax models, and paintings, the Mutter Museum, founded in 1858, is part of the Col...
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213,68 |
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Mtter Museum Historic Medical Photographs
ISBN: 9780922233281 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The first book on the Mutter Museum contain artful images of the museum's fascinating exhibits shot by contemporary fine art photographers. Here, the focus is on the museum s archive of rare historic photographs, most of which have never been seen by the public. Featured are poignant, aesthetically accomplished works ranging from Civil War photographs showing injury and recovery, to the ravages of diseases not yet conquered in the 19th century, to pathological anomalies, to psychological disorders. Many were taken by talented photographers between the 1860s and the 1940s as records for...
The first book on the Mutter Museum contain artful images of the museum's fascinating exhibits shot by contemporary fine art photographers. Here, the ...
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202,66 |
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Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860-1880
ISBN: 9780932171542 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 135 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. As American settlement expanded westward in the 1860s, the U.S. government undertook large-scale investigations of its new territories. Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860 1880 presents memorable glass-plate photographs from these federal surveys. The selection includes breathtaking views of such iconic sites as Yosemite, as well as lesser-known ethnographic portraits taken by Timothy H. O Sullivan, William H. Jackson, and William Bell, among others. The accompanying essays discuss how the photographs were used to promote white settlement, how their...
As American settlement expanded westward in the 1860s, the U.S. government undertook large-scale investigations of its new territories. Images of t...
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193,08 |
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Smokers and Sleepers: Photographs by Jerome Mallmann
ISBN: 9780932900029 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Photographer Jerome Mallmann has captured images of New Yorkers in unguarded moments since the late 1960s. Images in this exhibition organized by the Elvehjem Museum of Art show a dispossessed population, those driven or escaping to the streets of New York to indulge in the compulsion to smoke or the need to sleep.
Photographer Jerome Mallmann has captured images of New Yorkers in unguarded moments since the late 1960s. Images in this exhibition organized by the ...
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54,48 |
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Wild Edges: Photographic Ink Prints
ISBN: 9780932900999 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Gregory Conniff's large-scale black and white pastoral images evoke the sensuality of nineteenth century photographic materials. In his affectionate and intelligent work, there is a visible connection to the history of landscape art, reaching back as far as Claude Lorrain and seventeenth-century Dutch drawing. Conniff is also a leading practitioner of a new pastoralism that is casting a contemporary eye on the current state of America's open land. Postmodern in the best sense, Conniff's pictures address the timeless human need to see beauty in the world that shapes our lives. A resident of...
Gregory Conniff's large-scale black and white pastoral images evoke the sensuality of nineteenth century photographic materials. In his affectionate a...
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113,98 |
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Photographs at St Lawrence University : A Critical Survey and Catalogue of the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery
ISBN: 9780933607026 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This text presents a critical survey and catalogue of the permanent collection of the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery with selected photographs from special collections and university archives.
This text presents a critical survey and catalogue of the permanent collection of the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery with selected photographs from spec...
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198,30 |
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Photographs at St. Lawrence University: A Critical Survey and Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery
ISBN: 9780933607033 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This text presents a critical survey and catalogue of the permanent collection of the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery with selected photographs from special collections and university archives.
This text presents a critical survey and catalogue of the permanent collection of the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery with selected photographs from spec...
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113,98 |
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Borrowed Ware: Medieval Persian Epigrams
ISBN: 9780934211383 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Poet and translator Dick Davis brings together a collection of epigrams by poets from the 'classic' period of Persian literature. It makes a fascinating introduction to a literature that is little known in the West, and incidentally provides insight into a vanished and extraordinary way of life. Davis's prodigious scholarship of Persian poetry has enabled him to select a wide range of poems, from both famous and little-known poets. Davis has maintained exceptional faithfulness to the original Persian while recasting the poems' grace and drive in English. The book also contains a lucid and...
Poet and translator Dick Davis brings together a collection of epigrams by poets from the 'classic' period of Persian literature. It makes a fascinati...
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130,32 |
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Space/Sight/Self
ISBN: 9780935573220 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The exhibition Space/Sight/Self was designed to study the role of portraiture in contemporary art as a nexus of three issues identity, vision, and place. The goal was to produce a portrait, as it were, of contemporary portraiture. This catalog documents the exhibition and helps to facilitate viewers' reflections and responses about the spaces, sights, and selves that enable us to construct and question our identity."
The exhibition Space/Sight/Self was designed to study the role of portraiture in contemporary art as a nexus of three issues identity, vision, ...
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60,02 |
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One/Many: Western American Survey Photographs by Bell and O'Sullivan
ISBN: 9780935573435 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Some of the most celebrated images of nineteenth-century American photography emerged from government-sponsored geological surveys whose purpose was to study and document western territories. Timothy H. O'Sullivan and William Bell, two survey photographers who joined expeditions in the 1860s and 1870s, opened the eyes of nineteenth-century Americans to the western frontier.
Highlighting a recent Smart Museum of Art acquisition, One/Many brings together an exquisite group of photographs by Bell and O'Sullivan. Particularly noteworthy are their photographic panoramas, assemblages of... Some of the most celebrated images of nineteenth-century American photography emerged from government-sponsored geological surveys whose purpose was t...
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109,59 |
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Catalogue of Photography: Cleveland Museum of Art
ISBN: 9780940717404 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 506 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Catalogue of the Cleveland Museum of Art's photographic holdings.
Catalogue of the Cleveland Museum of Art's photographic holdings.
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188,39 |
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William Eggleston: 2 1/4
ISBN: 9780944092705 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Born and raised in Mississippi and Tennessee, William Eggleston began taking pictures during the 1960s after seeing Henri Cartier-Bresson's The Decisive Moment. In 1966 he changed from black and white to color film, perhaps to make the medium more his own and less that of his esteemed predecessors. John Sarkowski, when he was curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, called Eggleston the "first color photographer, " and certainly the world in which we consider a color photograph as art has changed because of Eggleston.
From 1966 to 1971, Eggleston would occasionally use a two and... Born and raised in Mississippi and Tennessee, William Eggleston began taking pictures during the 1960s after seeing Henri Cartier-Bresson's The Decisi...
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291,38 |