ilość książek w kategorii: 561
Lost Detroit
ISBN: 9781909108714 / Angielski / Twarda / 143 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contains 68 different losses from 1889 up to the present day, including schools, churches, theaters, clubhouses, parks, stores, hotels, offices, and factories Organized chronologically, starting with the earliest losses and ending with the latest, the book features much-loved Detroit institutions that failed to stand the test of time. Long before there was a motor industry, the city lost the Central Market (1889), the Belle Isle swimming pool, and the Capitol Building (1893). Grand buildings erected in the Victorian era that were too costly to be refurbished, or movie theaters...
Contains 68 different losses from 1889 up to the present day, including schools, churches, theaters, clubhouses, parks, stores, hotels, offices, an...
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107,32 zł |
Twilight Visions: Surrealism and Paris
ISBN: 9780520271272 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through an examination of surrealist photographs, objects, exhibitions, activities, and writings, the essays in Twilight Visions, the beautifully illustrated companion volume to the exhibition of the same name, portray the French capital as a city in the process of metamorphosis-in a kind of twilight state. The Bureau of Surrealist Research, the major Surrealist exhibitions, and the photographs of Paris by Brassai, Andre Kertesz, Ilse Bing, Germaine Krull, and Man Ray, among others, all reflect the tumultuous social and cultural transformations occurring in Paris in the 1920s and 30s....
Through an examination of surrealist photographs, objects, exhibitions, activities, and writings, the essays in Twilight Visions, the beautifu...
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149,65 zł |
Photography and Archaeology
ISBN: 9781861898708 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Photographs preserve the past, while archaeology unearths what has been preserved. Put together, photography and archaeology bring the past into the present, making its image available for a wide audience. In Photography and Archaeology, Frederick Bohrer examines some of history s most famous archaeological excavations, as well as lesser-known finds, from the Mediterranean, Middle East, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Bohrer examines the ways these sites have been represented in photographs and shows how the development of photography in the nineteenth century brought archaeology to... Photographs preserve the past, while archaeology unearths what has been preserved. Put together, photography and archaeology bring the past into th... |
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120,26 zł |
States of Decay: Urbex New York & Americas Forgotten North East
ISBN: 9781908211125 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If America is the Roman Empire of our time then New York City is Rome. The pulsating heart of the West pumps greenbacks through the veins of Manhattan, the richest place in the world. Power emanates from it's corporate brains and financial muscle across the whole surface of the globe. So how is it that even in the body of America, land of eternal youth, there is failure, death and decay hidden just beneath its glossy surfaces? A new breed of urban adventurers take a savage ride through the invisible story of the North Eastern USA. From NYC to the infamous Rust Belt, once home to America's...
If America is the Roman Empire of our time then New York City is Rome. The pulsating heart of the West pumps greenbacks through the veins of Manhattan...
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150,10 zł |
Abandoned Futures: A Journey to the Posthuman World
ISBN: 9781908211132 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What will the end of the world look like? Abandoned Futures is a breathtaking global overview of the decay and abandonment that sits in the midsts of humanities constant push towards an uncertain future. It s a visual epic dedicated to the edge of our power, where human industry fails and decay takes over. These are the landscapes that give the lie to our dreams of immortality. Abandoned Futures is a roadtrip into a post-apocalyptical landscape that is at turns both beautiful and frightening. It features striking imagery from every continent: from the futuristic island that forms the base of...
What will the end of the world look like? Abandoned Futures is a breathtaking global overview of the decay and abandonment that sits in the midsts of ...
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150,10 zł |
Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities
ISBN: 9783037782989 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Torre David is an incomplete skyscraper in the center of the Venezuelan capital Caracas that has been occupied and reconstructed by local residents. Work on the building, named after the financial investor David Brillembourg, who died in 1993, was suspended during the Venezuelan financial crisis of 1994. After the office tower-- the third highest in Venezuela--had stood empty for many years, it was taken over by the local population in 2008. The occupants made the building their own with improvisation and skill--it is a -vertical favela, - now containing not just housing but also other...
Torre David is an incomplete skyscraper in the center of the Venezuelan capital Caracas that has been occupied and reconstructed by local residents. W...
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240,50 zł |
Chernobyl Zone (ii)
ISBN: 9783868282108 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since 2008 photographer Andrej Krementschouk took several trips to Chernobyl, venturing into the restricted 30-kilometre zone of alienation around the reactor. This book shows pictures he took of the rural landscape, alongside moving portraits of people who refused to leave their homes despite the danger of radiation.
Since 2008 photographer Andrej Krementschouk took several trips to Chernobyl, venturing into the restricted 30-kilometre zone of alienation around the...
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133,61 zł |
Beyond the Architect's Eye: Photographs and the American Built Environment
ISBN: 9780812223095 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Typical architectural photography freezes buildings in an ideal moment and rarely captures what photographer Berenice Abbott called the medium's power to depict "how the past jostled the present." In "Beyond the Architect's Eye," Mary N. Woods expands on this range of images through a rich analysis that commingles art, amateur, and documentary photography, genres usually not considered architectural but that often take the built environment as their subject. Woods explores how photographers used their built environment to capture the disparate American landscapes prior to World War II,... Typical architectural photography freezes buildings in an ideal moment and rarely captures what photographer Berenice Abbott called the medium's po... |
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152,27 zł |
The Forbidden Tourist: An artist's journey through abandoned spaces
ISBN: 9780979135217 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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112,51 zł |
Bridges of Lancaster County Postcards
ISBN: 9780764346729 / Angielski / Postcard book or pack / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vibrant color photograph postcards show 32 Lancaster county covered bridges, representing every season. GPS coordinates with each bridge make every bridge easy to find using a GPS satellite navigation device. If you prefer, you may also use a local tour map. These bridges are architectural treasures spanning the rivers and streams of Lancaster County, a scenic landscape dotted with pristine Amish farms. These postcards will be treasured by all who enjoy the beauty of rural America and her historic covered bridges.
Vibrant color photograph postcards show 32 Lancaster county covered bridges, representing every season. GPS coordinates with each bridge make every br...
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50,73 zł |
Lost Las Vegas
ISBN: 9781909815032 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anostalgic journey back in time to visit a city that changes at a dizzying pace and is unrecognizable from a generation ago includes photos ofsome of the original casinos when they were surrounded by acres of barren desert"Lost Las Vegas"traces the cherished places in the city that time and economics have swept aside before the National Register of Historic Places could save them from the wrecker's ball or, in the case of Las Vegas, before the Neon Boneyard could claim them. Organized chronologically, the book details the many hotels and casinos that failed to move with the times and got...
Anostalgic journey back in time to visit a city that changes at a dizzying pace and is unrecognizable from a generation ago includes photos ofsome of ...
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107,32 zł |
Fast Wide Open
ISBN: 9780988251038 / Angielski / Twarda / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From #1 bestselling author Justin Blaney: I love telling stories. I've been earning a living-though sometimes it's been hard to call it that-from storytelling since I was sixteen years old selling vacuum cleaners door to door. Funnily enough, some of the stories I told back then were more fictional than the novels I write today. Over the years, the mediums I've used have changed, but for me, it's always been about the story. Through blogging and songwriting and photography and speaking and design and sales, I've learned that the power of story is universal. Today, I apply my passion to...
From #1 bestselling author Justin Blaney: I love telling stories. I've been earning a living-though sometimes it's been hard to call it that-from stor...
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168,35 zł |
Fast Wide Open
ISBN: 9781495335280 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From #1 bestselling author Justin Blaney
I love telling stories. I've been earning a living-though sometimes it's been hard to call it that-from storytelling since I was sixteen years old selling vacuum cleaners door to door. Funnily enough, some of the stories I told back then were more fictional than the novels I write today. Over the years, the mediums I've used have changed, but for me, it's always been about the story. Through blogging and songwriting and photography and speaking and design and sales, I've learned that the power of story is universal. Today, I... From #1 bestselling author Justin Blaney
I love telling stories. I've been earning a living-though sometimes it's been hard to call i... |
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67,64 zł |
Soviet Ghosts: The Soviet Union Abandoned: A Communist Empire in Decay
ISBN: 9781908211163 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Only the most intrepid urban explorers cross the tattered ruins of the old iron curtain to endure the excessive bureaucracy, military paranoia and freezing winds of the East to hunt for the ghosts of an empire. Rebecca Litchfield is one who couldn t resist the haunting allure of the ruins of the Soviet Union. Time and again she risked radiation exposure, experienced arrest and interrogation, and was accused of espionage while collecting the stunning photography in Soviet Ghosts. Join her on an adventure through the ruins of soviet bloc, never before seen by western eyes. The emotional affect...
Only the most intrepid urban explorers cross the tattered ruins of the old iron curtain to endure the excessive bureaucracy, military paranoia and fre...
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171,57 zł |
One World Trade Center: Biography of the Building
ISBN: 9780316336314 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The behind-the-scenes story of the most extraordinary building in the world, from the bestselling author of Skyscrapers
In this groundbreaking history, bestselling author Judith Dupre chronicles the most astonishing architectural project in memory: One World Trade Center. The new World Trade Center represents one of the most complex collaborations in human history. Nearly every state in the nation, a dozen countries around the world, and more than 25,000 workers helped raise the tower, which consumed ninety million pounds of steel, one million square feet of glass, and... The behind-the-scenes story of the most extraordinary building in the world, from the bestselling author of Skyscrapers
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150,31 zł |
Cities of the Dead: The Ancestral Cemeteries of Kyrgyzstan
ISBN: 9780295993980 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Kyrgyz cemetery seen from a distance is astonishing. The ornate domes and minarets, tightly clustered behind stone walls, seem at odds with this desolate mountain region. Islam, the prominent religion in the region since the twelfth century, discourages tombstones or decorative markers. However, elaborate Kyrgyz tombs combine earlier nomadic customs with Muslim architectural forms. After the territory was formally incorporated into the Russian Empire in 1876, enamel portraits for the deceased were attached to the Muslim monuments. Yet everything within the walls is overgrown with weeds,... A Kyrgyz cemetery seen from a distance is astonishing. The ornate domes and minarets, tightly clustered behind stone walls, seem at odds with this ... |
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192,40 zł |
Age of Electricity: Pioneering Achievements in Electrical Engineering
ISBN: 9783422072541 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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129,60 zł |
Cairo Islamic Architecture
ISBN: 9781500485351 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Khaled Sayed, acclaimed photographer and documentary filmmaker, has put together a custom curated collection of photographs he personally took while strolling in old Cairo in 2013. The book is an amazing exploration of this small section in Cairo, which Sayed has visited many times over the years, examining the architecture and learning the history. He decided to include in this book an essay he wrote about the hidden-in-plain-sight treasure in the heart of this bustling modern city. This book explores some of Cairo's richest and most ancient Islamic constructions, and would be a wonderful...
Khaled Sayed, acclaimed photographer and documentary filmmaker, has put together a custom curated collection of photographs he personally took while s...
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135,23 zł |
Abandoned America: Age of Consequences
ISBN: 9782361950941 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally intended as an examination of the rise and fall of the state hospital system, Matthew Christopher's Abandoned America rapidly grew to encompass derelict factories and industrial sites, schools, churches, power plants, hospitals, prisons, military installations, hotels, resorts, homes, and more.
Originally intended as an examination of the rise and fall of the state hospital system, Matthew Christopher's Abandoned America rapidly grew to encom...
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133,86 zł |
Cazelles, Gariottes lotoises
ISBN: 9782365416207 / Francuski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Un document exceptionnel sur le Lot qui disparait...
Livre d'art. Interieur: 123 photos en Noir et Blanc. Cazelles ou Gariottes? Peu importe le terme pourvu que l'on ait la construction de pierre seche... Abris fragiles, encore plus en l'absence d'entretien, et ils disparaissent dans l'indifference, ronges par les mousses, demolis par la vegetation, emiettes par le gel, detruits pour permettre le passage des tracteurs et autres engins agricoles toujours plus larges. Une gariotte qui tombe, c'est un peu d'espace regagne par l'agriculteur... Plus de 80% des cazelles lotoises... Un document exceptionnel sur le Lot qui disparait...
Livre d'art. Interieur: 123 photos en Noir et Blanc. Cazelles ou Gariottes? Peu im... |
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74,85 zł |