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Ciudad Juárez 2008 - 2010: A photographic testimony of our pain
ISBN: 9781453733172 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. BILINGUAL EDITION (English/Spanish) SECOND EDITION Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. 2008 changed our lives. During its first weeks the first executions took place. Alarmed, we wanted to believe these were just isolated events, underworld quarrels prone to end soon and everything would be just as it was before. However, the killings did not stop, and increasingly became more sadistic and violent. We would wake up just to find bodies hanging from our bridges as we drove to work or to drop our children at school. From their tribunes, our emboldened leaders ensured that organized crime was to be subdued...
BILINGUAL EDITION (English/Spanish) SECOND EDITION Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. 2008 changed our lives. During its first weeks the first executions took pla...
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132,62 |
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Attractions Within the Uintah Range and Basin
ISBN: 9781450012645 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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174,07 |
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Watching Over Us: WARNG 1-161 IN, A Year In Iraq
ISBN: 9781452896137 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Watching Over Us, Melinda Lambert's look at modern combat operations in Iraq, tells a realistically, raw photojournalistic account of our American soldiers in preparation for and at war. As a result of a successful military surge in Iraq, the commands have been able to reduce forces in theatre. In 2008, Washington State's 161 IN, was an integral part of that surge. Their involvement and fortitude allowed troops continual movement of personnel and supplies throughout the operational area. 161 provided an uninhibited ability to operate. By moving cargo with this kind of force, the enemy...
Watching Over Us, Melinda Lambert's look at modern combat operations in Iraq, tells a realistically, raw photojournalistic account of our American sol...
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82,87 |
No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy
ISBN: 9780226316123 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "No Caption Needed," Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites provide the definitive study of the iconic photograph as a dynamic form of public art. Their critical analyses of nine individual icons explore the photographs themselves and their subsequent circulation through an astonishing array of media, including stamps, posters, billboards, editorial cartoons, TV shows, Web pages, tattoos, and more. Iconic images are revealed as models of visual eloquence, signposts for collective memory, means of persuasion across the political spectrum, and a crucial resource for critical... In "No Caption Needed," Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites provide the definitive study of the iconic photograph as a dynamic form of public ar... |
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138,96 |
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This Is Not a House
ISBN: 9781907893025 / Angielski / Twarda / 105 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edgar Martins was initially commissioned by The New York Times to photograph the fallout from the US subprime mortgage crisis. Extending the project, he photographed across the United States in eight separate states and across sixteen different locations. These carefully researched sites exposed the extent and impact of the crisis on the US construction industry. Approaching the project as a photographic intervention into a crisis, the resulting images go beyond pure formal investigation or documentation. His interest is in summoning a disquieting conjunction of realism and... Edgar Martins was initially commissioned by The New York Times to photograph the fallout from the US subprime mortgage crisis. Extending the... |
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187,06 |
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Death Valley: The Hundred-Year Bloom
ISBN: 9781456485832 / Angielski / Miękka / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Death Valley's remarkable history and dark reputation are juxtaposed with Mark Grieco's stunning wildflower photography of the park's celebrated "Hundred-Year Bloom."
Death Valley's remarkable history and dark reputation are juxtaposed with Mark Grieco's stunning wildflower photography of the park's celebrated "Hund...
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53,84 |
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Pasefika: The Festival of Pacific Arts
ISBN: 9780615441467 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every four years since 1972, the Pacific Islands' best dancers and cultural practitioners gather to perform. The Festival of Pacific Arts, as this amazing event is known, is a celebration unlike any other held in Oceania. The Festival is a two-week showcase of the finest dancers, singers, carvers and other cultural masters from across the Pacific. This book, the first published about the Festival of Pacific Arts, tells the story of the 10th Festival that was held in American Samoa in mid-2008. More than 2,000 cultural practitioners traveled to Tutuila Island for the 10th Festival of Pacific...
Every four years since 1972, the Pacific Islands' best dancers and cultural practitioners gather to perform. The Festival of Pacific Arts, as this ama...
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153,34 |
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80 Years Gone in a Flash - The Memoirs of a Photojournalist
ISBN: 9781780920689 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From presidents to royalty, war torn regions to stunning scenery, the camera of John Jochimsen has captured it all. Perhaps the last person left alive today who was with Queen Elizabeth the day she became queen, John is one of the last remaining old school photojournalists. Eighty Years gone in a Flash traces the remarkable story in his own words, and with his own incredible pictures. From life at The News of the World to the jungles of Malaya, John provides an honest, witty and touching account of a colourful career spanning more than five decades.
From presidents to royalty, war torn regions to stunning scenery, the camera of John Jochimsen has captured it all. Perhaps the last person left alive...
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88,21 |
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The Cruel Radiance : Photography and Political Violence
ISBN: 9780226482514 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Cruel Radiance, Susie Linfield challenges the idea that photographs of political violence exploit their subjects and pander to the voyeuristic tendencies of their viewers. Instead she argues passionately that looking at such images-and learning to see the people in them-is an ethically and politically necessary act that connects us to our modern history of violence and probes the human capacity for cruelty. Grappling with critics from Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht to Susan Sontag and the postmoderns-and analyzing photographs from such events as the Holocaust, China's...
In The Cruel Radiance, Susie Linfield challenges the idea that photographs of political violence exploit their subjects and pander to the voyeu...
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112,23 |
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Race in Translation: Culture Wars Around the Postcolonial Atlantic
ISBN: 9780814798379 / Angielski / Twarda / 383 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While the term -culture wars- often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiraling around race, the canon, and affirmative action, in fact these discussions have raged in diverse sites and languages. Race in Translation charts the transatlantic traffic of the debates within and between three zones--the U.S., France, and Brazil. Stam and Shohat trace the literal and figurative translation of these multidirectional intellectual debates, seen most recently in the emergence of postcolonial studies in France, and whiteness studies in Brazil. The authors also...
While the term -culture wars- often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiraling around race, the canon, and affirmative ac...
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379,46 |
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Race in Translation: Culture Wars Around the Postcolonial Atlantic
ISBN: 9780814798386 / Angielski / Miękka / 383 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While the term -culture wars- often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiraling around race, the canon, and affirmative action, in fact these discussions have raged in diverse sites and languages. Race in Translation charts the transatlantic traffic of the debates within and between three zones--the U.S., France, and Brazil. Stam and Shohat trace the literal and figurative translation of these multidirectional intellectual debates, seen most recently in the emergence of postcolonial studies in France, and whiteness studies in Brazil. The authors...
While the term -culture wars- often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiraling around race, the canon, and affirma...
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160,28 |
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100 Strangers
ISBN: 9781465396419 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 100 Strangers was a challenge: A Challenge to take a photo of 100 Strangers and to "Learn by Doing." Unlike a candid series of photos this adventure has some rules... Take a portrait photo with the prior permission of the subject. Post the person s photo and their story on an online photographic community website, namely Flickr(r).com Participants must be complete strangers - No friends or family are to be represented. Tim Commons, now a photojournalist, completed the Challenge over a six month period and discovered that the Adventure was well worth sharing, thus he became the... 100 Strangers was a challenge: A Challenge to take a photo of 100 Strangers and to "Learn by Doing." Unlike a candid series of photos this a... |
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251,79 |
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Impressions of My Hometown: A Photographic Journey
ISBN: 9781477159125 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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244,73 |
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African-American Community, History & Entertainment in Maryland
ISBN: 9781483612331 / Angielski / Miękka / 540 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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112,71 |
No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy
ISBN: 9780226316062 / Angielski / Twarda / 419 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "No Caption Needed," Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites provide the definitive study of the iconic photograph as a dynamic form of public art. Their critical analyses of nine individual icons explore the photographs themselves and their subsequent circulation through an astonishing array of media, including stamps, posters, billboards, editorial cartoons, TV shows, Web pages, tattoos, and more. Iconic images are revealed as models of visual eloquence, signposts for collective memory, means of persuasion across the political spectrum, and a crucial resource for critical... In "No Caption Needed," Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites provide the definitive study of the iconic photograph as a dynamic form of public ar... |
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213,78 |
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Vanity Fair 100 Years: From the Jazz Age to Our Age
ISBN: 9781419708633 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vanity Fair 100 Years showcases a century of personality and power, art and commerce, crisis and culture--both highbrow and low. From its inception in 1913, through the Jazz Age and the Depression, to its reincarnation in the boom-boom Reagan years, to the image-saturated Information Age, Vanity Fair has presented the modern era as it has unfolded, using wit, imagination, peerless literary narrative, and bold, groundbreaking imagery from the greatest photographers, artists, and illustrators of the day. This sumptuous book takes a decade-by-decade look at the world as seen by the...
Vanity Fair 100 Years showcases a century of personality and power, art and commerce, crisis and culture--both highbrow and low. From its incep...
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361,35 |
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The Other Hundred
ISBN: 9781780743752 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Forbes 100, the Fortune 500, Bloomberg's Billionaire Index . . . the list of rich lists is endless. Here instead are the stories of The Other Hundred -- those people who aren't among the world's rich, but whose lives deserve to be celebrated. The Other Hundred is an initiative of the Global Institute for Tomorrow, an independent think and do tank, dedicated to advancing an understanding of the reshaping the rules of global capitalism. A judging panel including leading photographers Stephen Wilkes, Richard Hsu and Ruth Eichhorn chose the images to be included in this book from over...
The Forbes 100, the Fortune 500, Bloomberg's Billionaire Index . . . the list of rich lists is endless. Here instead are the stories of The Other Hund...
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133,61 |
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Twelve Photographic Journeys: Iran in 21st Century
ISBN: 9781850437192 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores, through the vision of ten contemporary Iranian photographers, the contrasts and contradictions that exist in Iranian Society at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Each representation is different to the next and each image serves to represent the main conflict present in Iran today: that of the power of tradition versus the quest for modernity. Each of the ten photographers has chosen an aspect of daily life in their country, for example, a cafE, a shopping mall, and the clerics, with each serving to show another part of the mosaic of cultural experience in Iran....
This book explores, through the vision of ten contemporary Iranian photographers, the contrasts and contradictions that exist in Iranian Society at th...
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128,22 |
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News: The Televised Revolution
ISBN: 9783777453316 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The year 2012 is forever associated with protest from Occupy Wall Street protesters in America to the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt, and popular unrest in the face of austerity measures in Greece and Spain. This book covers these events in segments, accompanied by a flood of images, making them difficult for viewers to assess.
The year 2012 is forever associated with protest from Occupy Wall Street protesters in America to the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt, and popular un...
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68,37 |
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Parades, Parties, and Protests: Creative Resistance Culture
ISBN: 9780988399730 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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124,15 |