ilość książek w kategorii: 1494
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Impressions of Alaska 2007
ISBN: 9780615145433 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Impressions of Alaska 2007" is a collection of 39 images taken on a journey covering over 275 miles of Alaska's highways in the late winter of 2007. The images explore a variety of subjects and photographic techniques offering a little something for everyone. Black & white, color, infrared, high dynamic range and panoramic photographs present subjects including dramatic sunsets, scenic country roads, majestic mountains, thought provoking bits of history, sled dogs and a weight pulling malamute.
"Impressions of Alaska 2007" is a collection of 39 images taken on a journey covering over 275 miles of Alaska's highways in the late winter of 2007. ...
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180,71 |
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Larry Fink
ISBN: 9780714840222 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born in 1941, Larry Fink was a teenager in the 1950s in an America on the cusp of radical social change. Growing up on Long Island in New York, Larry Fink was disinterested in the consumer-driven culture of 1950s' America. A disaffected teenager, his parents transferred him to art school where his career as a photographer began to flourish. His parents were supportive of his interest in the arts, and Fink would later drop out of college to join a circle of artists living in Greenwich Village. Fink spent the 1960s watching and learning from the prominent photographers of the time: Henri...
Born in 1941, Larry Fink was a teenager in the 1950s in an America on the cusp of radical social change. Growing up on Long Island in New York, Larry ...
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85,30 |
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Bunny Yeager's Bikini Girls of the 1950s
ISBN: 9780764320026 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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...
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97,30 |
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Flirts of the Fifties
ISBN: 9780764326370 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. World renowned photographer Bunny Yeager brings together 144 of the most beautiful and flirtatious girls from the 1950s. Selected from her vast photographic archives, these images will awaken the senses and stir the reader to a new appreciation of their timeless beauty. These are "flirty" photographs, because of the certain "something"--a look, an attitude, perhaps a suggestive body position.--that subtle way that a person says "Look at me " Appreciate the pioneering creativity of Bunny Yeager through her unique photographic art. And, of course, there is the wonderful allure of so many...
World renowned photographer Bunny Yeager brings together 144 of the most beautiful and flirtatious girls from the 1950s. Selected from her vast photog...
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97,30 |
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Far from Zion: Jews, Diaspora, Memory
ISBN: 9780804750455 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part document and part visual poem, Far from Zion is the response of a young American Jew to the historical experience of Ashkenazic Jewry in the last century. In the spirit of a contemplative but unsentimental reckoning, the photographs consider the fragmentation and historical contingency of Jewish experience, the discontinuity and fragility of Jewish identity, and the uncertain meaning of diaspora as a Jewish inheritance. The result is a sequence of pictures that moves between marked and unmarked historical locations in Europe and the United States, portraits of contemporary Jews,...
Part document and part visual poem, Far from Zion is the response of a young American Jew to the historical experience of Ashkenazic Jewry in t...
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141,12 |
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Heart Stones
ISBN: 9780810994652 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Iselin, author of "Beach Stones," has put together a magical collection of 100 heart stones, each one expressing a universal feeling such as love, passion, admiration, obsession, reassurance, joy, intrigue, comfort, wonder, and many other emotions.
Iselin, author of "Beach Stones," has put together a magical collection of 100 heart stones, each one expressing a universal feeling such as love, pas...
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83,58 |
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Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People's Photography
ISBN: 9780815608516 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Real Photo Postcard Guide" is an informative, comprehensive, and practical treatment of this wildly popular American phenomenon that dominated the United States photographic market during the first third of the twentieth century. Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh draw on extensive research and observation to address all aspects of the postcard from its history, origin, and cultural significance to practical matters like dating, purchasing, condition, and preservation. Illustrated with over 350 exceptional photo postcards taken from archives and private collections across the country, the...
"The Real Photo Postcard Guide" is an informative, comprehensive, and practical treatment of this wildly popular American phenomenon that dominated th...
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151,85 |
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HUSK OF TIME
ISBN: 9780816524969 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Photographer and filmmaker Victor Masayesva, Jr., was raised in the Hopi village of Hotevilla and was educated at the Horace Mann School in New York, Princeton University, and the University of Arizona. His immersion in photographic experimentation embraces a projection of stories and symbols, natural objects, and locations both at Hopi and worldwide. His work has been exhibited internationally, and he is perhaps best known for his feature-length film Imagining Indians. For Masayesva, photography is a discipline that he approaches in a manner similar to the way that he was taught about...
Photographer and filmmaker Victor Masayesva, Jr., was raised in the Hopi village of Hotevilla and was educated at the Horace Mann School in New York, ...
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165,50 |
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Husk of Time: The Photographs of Victor Masayesva Volume 55
ISBN: 9780816524976 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Photographer and filmmaker Victor Masayesva, Jr., was raised in the Hopi village of Hotevilla and was educated at the Horace Mann School in New York, Princeton University, and the University of Arizona. His immersion in photographic experimentation embraces a projection of stories and symbols, natural objects, and locations both at Hopi and worldwide. His work has been exhibited internationally, and he is perhaps best known for his feature-length film Imagining Indians. For Masayesva, photography is a discipline that he approaches in a manner similar to the way that he was taught about...
Photographer and filmmaker Victor Masayesva, Jr., was raised in the Hopi village of Hotevilla and was educated at the Horace Mann School in New York, ...
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97,30 |
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Views on the Mississippi: The Photography of Henry Peter Bosse
ISBN: 9780816636488 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As mapmaker and photographer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Henry Peter Bosse (1844-1903) took more than three hundred photographs of the Upper Mississippi River from 1883 to 1893. His work was almost unknown until five separate volumes of his photographs were discovered during the past few years. Since then, Bosse's work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian and sold by leading auction houses to private collectors around the world. Views on the Mississippi brings together for the first time almost one hundred of Bosse's most stunning images. These cyanotype photographs trace the river...
As mapmaker and photographer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Henry Peter Bosse (1844-1903) took more than three hundred photographs of the Upper...
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116,78 |
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Looking for Asian America: An Ethnocentric Tour
ISBN: 9780816646722 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Looking for Asian America shows real people engaged in the full range of human activity. This is no small accomplishment for the photographer or his subjects. For Asian Americans it is extraordinary to be merely ordinary. To others, even if not to themselves, Asian Americans appear to be contradictions of identity--a Chinese-Yankee is a knockoff." --Frank H. Wu, from the Foreword
In search of contemporary Asian America, celebrated photographer Wing Young Huie--the only member of his family not born in China--traveled with his wife Tara through nearly forty states to... "Looking for Asian America shows real people engaged in the full range of human activity. This is no small accomplishment for the photographer ... |
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155,77 |
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Borrowed Time: Photographs by Caroline Vaughan
ISBN: 9780822318170 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Caroline Vaughan's photographs offer inspired and surprising visions of landscapes, still lifes, and the human form. In "Borrowed Time," her images of nature and people, sometimes surreal and often arresting, follow each other to create a visual poem of opposition and likeness, physical beauty and balance. Compelling the viewer's attention with delicate rich tones and meticulous technique, she holds the viewer's gaze even when her subject is difficult. Most highly acclaimed for her psychologically complex but subtle portraits of family, friends, loved ones, and strangers, Vaughan's work,...
Caroline Vaughan's photographs offer inspired and surprising visions of landscapes, still lifes, and the human form. In "Borrowed Time," her images of...
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136,25 |
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Borrowed Time: Photographs by Caroline Vaughan
ISBN: 9780822318255 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Caroline Vaughan's photographs offer inspired and surprising visions of landscapes, still lifes, and the human form. In "Borrowed Time," her images of nature and people, sometimes surreal and often arresting, follow each other to create a visual poem of opposition and likeness, physical beauty and balance. Compelling the viewer's attention with delicate rich tones and meticulous technique, she holds the viewer's gaze even when her subject is difficult. Most highly acclaimed for her psychologically complex but subtle portraits of family, friends, loved ones, and strangers, Vaughan's work,...
Caroline Vaughan's photographs offer inspired and surprising visions of landscapes, still lifes, and the human form. In "Borrowed Time," her images of...
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506,25 |
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The Weather and a Place to Live: Photographs of the Suburban West
ISBN: 9780822336112 / Angielski / Twarda / 121 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In compelling, often stunning black-and-white photographs, The Weather and a Place to Live portrays the manmade landscape of the western United States. Here we come face to face with the surreal intersection of the American appetite for suburban development and the resistant, rolling, arid country of the desert West. Steven B. Smith s extraordinary photographs take us into the contemporary reality of sprawling suburbs reconfiguring what was once vast, unpopulated territory. With arresting concision and an unblinking eye, Smith shows how a new frontier is being won, and suggests too how...
In compelling, often stunning black-and-white photographs, The Weather and a Place to Live portrays the manmade landscape of the western United...
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184,98 |
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Driftless: Photographs from Iowa
ISBN: 9780822341451 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the third biennial Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize
Robert Frank, Prize Judge In Driftless, Danny Wilcox Frazier's dramatic black-and-white photographs portray a changing Midwest of vanishing towns and transformed landscapes. As rural economies fail, people, resources, and services are migrating to the coasts and cities, as though the heart of America were being emptied. Frazier's arresting photographs take us into Iowa's abandoned places and illuminate the lives of those people who stay behind and continue to live there: young people at... Winner of the third biennial Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize
Robert Frank, Prize Judge In Driftless, Danny W... |
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184,98 |
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In Focus: László Moholy-Nagy: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: 9780892363247 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hungarian born Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was influential not only as a photographer but also as a filmmaker, teacher, and painter. He taught at the Bauhaus in Germany and, after fleeing the Nazi regime, settled in Chicago, where he founded the Institute of Design. He pioneered the photomontage and created the camera-less medium of the photogram. This book, the second in the Getty's In Focus series, features sixty reproductions from the Getty's outstanding collection of this important photographer's work--each described by Katherine Ware of the Museum's department of photographs. The book also...
Hungarian born Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was influential not only as a photographer but also as a filmmaker, teacher, and painter. He taught at the Bauh...
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87,06 |
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In Focus: Hill and Adamson: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: 9780892365401 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shortly after the dawn of photography, the unlikely partnership between the respected painter David Octavius Hill and the young engineer Robert Adamson produced some of the most important photographs in the history of the medium. Their alliance began when Hill, while working on his large commemorative painting of the people involved in forming the Free Chruch of Scotland in 1843, began using photography as a tool to document the church elders.
Shortly after the dawn of photography, the unlikely partnership between the respected painter David Octavius Hill and the young engineer Robert Adamso...
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87,06 |
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In Focus: André Kertész, László Moholy-Nagy, and Man Ray: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum Boxed Set of Three
ISBN: 9780892365685 / Angielski / Miękka / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This set brings together three photographers who have strong European ties - Kertesz and Moholy-Nagy were born and grew to maturity there, and Man Ray spent almost 40 years there. Each was also active in America. The social and artistic ferment of two continents is reflected in their work.
This set brings together three photographers who have strong European ties - Kertesz and Moholy-Nagy were born and grew to maturity there, and Man Ray...
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204,96 |
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In Focus: Eugène Atget: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: 9780892366019 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Parisian photographer Eugene Atget (1857-1927) set out to capture those commonplace features that were gradually disappearing from the city he loved. Only towards the end of his 30-year career was his genius recognized. This volume contains 50 Atget works with comprehensive captions and an edited colloquium on his life and work by seven scholars.
Parisian photographer Eugene Atget (1857-1927) set out to capture those commonplace features that were gradually disappearing from the city he loved. ...
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87,06 |
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Railroad Vision: Photography, Travel, and Perception
ISBN: 9780892367269 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With more than 100 photographs, this book illustrates the parallel histories of railroads and photography - from a photograph of George Stephenson's locomotion, to powerful images from the American Civil War, to a mid-20th-century photograph of a train roaring by a drive-in movie theatre.
With more than 100 photographs, this book illustrates the parallel histories of railroads and photography - from a photograph of George Stephenson's l...
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230,58 |