Picturing Time: The Work of Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904)
ISBN: 9780226071756 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Etienne-Jules Marey was an inventor whose methods of recording movement revolutionized our way of visualizing time and motion. Best remembered for his chronophotography, Marey constructed a single-camera system that led the way to cinematography. "Picturing Time, " the first complete survey of Marey's work, investigates the far reaching effects of Marey's inventions on stream-of-consciousness literature, psychoanalysis, Bergsonian philosophy, and the art of cubists and futurists.
Braun offers a fascinating look at how Marey's chronophotography was used to express the profound... Etienne-Jules Marey was an inventor whose methods of recording movement revolutionized our way of visualizing time and motion. Best remembered for his...
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245,70 zł |
Staring Back
ISBN: 9780262083652 / Angielski / Twarda / 157 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Any new film and any new book by French filmmaker Chris Marker is an event. Marker gave film lovers one of their most memorable experiences with La Jetee (1962) -- a time-travel montage set after a nuclear war that inspired Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys (1995). His still camerawork is not as well known, but Marker has been taking photographs as long as he has been making films. Staring Back presents 200 black-and-white photographs from Marker's personal archives, taken from 1952 to 2006. Some of the photographs are related to his classic films (which include Le... Any new film and any new book by French filmmaker Chris Marker is an event. Marker gave film lovers one of their most memorable experiences with |
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181,76 zł |
Weeping Mary
ISBN: 9780292709324 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Small and self-contained, yet with ties to the larger world, Weeping Mary is a community in rural East Texas. The poetic mystery of its name, which local legend attributes to an African American woman called Mary who wept inconsolably over the loss of her land to a deceitful white man, drew photographer O. Rufus Lovett in 1994. Feeling a kinship with the people and the rhythms of a small Southern town like the one in which he grew up, Lovett began photographing the residents of Weeping Mary. In the decade since his first visit, he has created an impressive body of work that distills the... Small and self-contained, yet with ties to the larger world, Weeping Mary is a community in rural East Texas. The poetic mystery of its name, which... |
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181,55 zł |
Leavin' a Testimony: Portraits from Rural Texas
ISBN: 9780292713055 / Angielski / Twarda / 327 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) First settled by Stephen F. Austin's colonists in the early nineteenth century, Colorado County has deep roots in Texas history. Mainly rural and agrarian until late in the twentieth century, Colorado County was a cotton-growing region whose population was about evenly divided between blacks and whites. These life-long neighbors led separate and unequal lives, memories of which still linger today. To preserve those memories, Patsy Cravens began interviewing and photographing the older residents of Colorado County in the 1980s. In this book, she presents photographs and recollections of the... First settled by Stephen F. Austin's colonists in the early nineteenth century, Colorado County has deep roots in Texas history. Mainly rural and a... |
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145,18 zł |
So That All Shall Know/Para Que Todos Lo Sepan: Photographs by Daniel Hernández-Salazar [Fotografías Por Daniel Hernández-Salazar]
ISBN: 9780292714670 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) How does an artist respond to the horrors of war and the genocide of his or her people? Can art play a role in the fight for justice? These are key questions for understanding the work of Guatemalan photographer Daniel Hernandez-Salazar. Since the 1980s, Hernandez-Salazar has created both documentary and aesthetic works that confront the state-sponsored terrorism and mass killings of Guatemala's long civil war (1962-1996). His photographic polyptych (4-panel image) "Clarification" became the icon for the Recovery of Historical Memory project of the Archbishopric of Guatemala, as well as a... How does an artist respond to the horrors of war and the genocide of his or her people? Can art play a role in the fight for justice? These are key... |
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160,80 zł |
Milton Rogovin: The Making of a Social Documentary Photographer
ISBN: 9780295986340 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "Milton Rogovin celebrates the non-celebrated, the ones who make the world go round." These words, spoken by prize-winning author Studs Terkel, are a fitting lens through which to view the work of Milton Rogovin, optometrist, political activist, and photographer. Milton Rogovin: The Making of a Social Documentary Photographer chronicles the story behind that life, and the man behind the acclaimed photographs that invite us to see for the first time, or to see anew, the tenacity, profound dignity, and resilience of people living in extremely difficult... "Milton Rogovin celebrates the non-celebrated, the ones who make the world go round." These words, spoken by prize-winning author Studs Terk... |
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124,44 zł |
Naked City
ISBN: 9780306812040 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The ultimate collection of Weegee's shocking tabloid photographs, from the ultimate tabloid city.
The ultimate collection of Weegee's shocking tabloid photographs, from the ultimate tabloid city.
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76,88 zł |
Henri Cartier-Bresson
ISBN: 9780500410608 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) studied painting before taking up photography in his early twenties. One of the founders of the photography agency Magnum (together with Robert Capa and others), he is best known for the skill with which he captured the most fleeting of scenes. This volume includes his photographs of France, Spain, America, India, Russia, Mexico, and pre-revolutionary China. About the series: The classic Photofile series brings together the best work of the world's greatest photographers in an attractive format and at a reasonable price. Handsome and collectible, the books...
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) studied painting before taking up photography in his early twenties. One of the founders of the photography agency M...
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70,93 zł |
Andre Kertesz
ISBN: 9780500410639 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Andre Kertesz is one of the figures who shaped modern photography. From the First World War onwards, his independent spirit led him to practice an art based on spontaneity and sincerity, seeking out the chance moments that "capture the true nature of things." Tender, nostalgic, modest, he forged a new path for photography, a kind of poetic realism that was neither forced nor showy. "I never document," he said. "I give my own interpretation."
Andre Kertesz is one of the figures who shaped modern photography. From the First World War onwards, his independent spirit led him to practice an art...
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70,93 zł |
Man Ray
ISBN: 9780500410653 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) He was soon experimenting with different processes solarization, negative images, multiple exposures and in 1921 he created the "rayograph." This volume collects together the best of his experimental work, as well as portraits of some of the most important figures in modern art. About the series The classic Photofile series brings together the best work of the world's greatest photographers in an attractive format and at a reasonable price. Handsome and collectible, the books are produced to the highest standards. Each volume contains some sixty full-page reproductions printed in superb...
He was soon experimenting with different processes solarization, negative images, multiple exposures and in 1921 he created the "rayograph." This volu...
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70,93 zł |
Children of a Vanished World
ISBN: 9780520221871 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Between 1935 and 1938 the celebrated photographer Roman Vishniac explored the cities and villages of Eastern Europe, capturing life in the Jewish shtetlekh of Poland, Romania, Russia, and Hungary, communities that even then seemed threatenednot by destruction and extermination, which no one foresaw, but by change. Using a hidden camera and under difficult circumstances, Vishniac was able to take over sixteen thousand photographs; most were left with his father in a village in France for the duration of the war. With the publication of Children of a Vanished World, seventy of...
Between 1935 and 1938 the celebrated photographer Roman Vishniac explored the cities and villages of Eastern Europe, capturing life in the Jewish s...
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218,40 zł |
He Saw a Hummingbird
ISBN: 9780595129744 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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51,07 zł |
El Patio del Diablo El Patio del Diablo
ISBN: 9780714897868 / Hiszpański / Twarda / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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327,33 zł |
Steve McCurry: Sur Sureste (South Southeast) (Spanish Edition)
ISBN: 9780714898117 / Hiszpański / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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218,13 zł |
Seduced by Modernity: The Photography of Margaret Watkins
ISBN: 9780773531192 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) A richly illustrated and vivid account of the life and work of an important Canadian modernist photographer.
A richly illustrated and vivid account of the life and work of an important Canadian modernist photographer.
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202,29 zł |
Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings: Second Edition
ISBN: 9780804742733 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This is an expanded edition of the first comprehensive overview of the work of Jean Baudrillard, one of the most fascinating thinkers on the French intellectual scene. To the original selection of his writings from 1968 to 1985, this new edition adds examples of Baudrillard's work since that time. Reviews of the First Edition "This is a good book, and the author of its selected writings, Jean Baudrillard, deserves only a share of the compliment. It is difficult to introduce a difficult author, and Mark Poster has done a brilliant job. He has selected wisely from... This is an expanded edition of the first comprehensive overview of the work of Jean Baudrillard, one of the most fascinating thinkers on the French... |
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129,62 zł |
Peoples of the Plateau, 2: The Indian Photographs of Lee Moorhouse, 1898-1915
ISBN: 9780806137421 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The remarkable photographs in Peoples of the Plateau capture the lives of Pacific Northwest Indians at the turn of the twentieth century--and at a turning point in their own history. The Columbia River Plateau, in the interior Pacific Northwest, was populated for centuries by the Umatilla, Walla Walla, and Cayuse Indians. By the late nineteenth century, after the U.S. government had confined these peoples to a single reservation, their lives began to change irrevocably. Major Lee Moorhouse, a businessman and former militia officer, served as an Indian agent during this period.... The remarkable photographs in Peoples of the Plateau capture the lives of Pacific Northwest Indians at the turn of the twentieth century--an... |
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185,49 zł |
The Quiet Hours: City Photographs
ISBN: 9780816643288 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) A visual tribute to the industrial spaces and commercial interiors of Minnesota's prewar era. A milling district along the Mississippi River. A railroad bridge on Washington Avenue. Jim's Hamburgers in Duluth. A spiral staircase in the Schmidt Brewery. These are the spaces that capture the moods of Minnesota's prewar era. These are the everyday places where ordinary people lived and worked. These are the images that show us the remnants of a city's past. In The Quiet Hours, Mike Melman records a vanishing era of Minnesota's towns and cities through a series of seventy black-and-white...
A visual tribute to the industrial spaces and commercial interiors of Minnesota's prewar era. A milling district along the Mississippi River. A railro...
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145,18 zł |
Examples: The Making Of 40 Photographs
ISBN: 9780821217504 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Ansel Adams recounts the situations surrounding the making of his photographs and the methods he used in their realization. Each image is accompanied by a text that studies the technical and aesthetic problems presented by the subject, and includes reminiscences of the places and people involved.
Ansel Adams recounts the situations surrounding the making of his photographs and the methods he used in their realization. Each image is accompanied ...
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254,56 zł |
Borrowed Time: Photographs by Caroline Vaughan
ISBN: 9780822318170 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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124,44 zł |