ilość książek w kategorii: 877
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Breathing, in Dust
ISBN: 9780896726727 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A snapshot of California that never appears in the tourist brochures.
A snapshot of California that never appears in the tourist brochures.
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102,81 |
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The End Of The Rainbow: These Are Some Of The Colors That I Saw
ISBN: 9781438240626 / Angielski / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The end of the rainbow represents not only my own experience but also stories told by others in a desperate moment or during a glorious display of empathic abilities taught by the masters of hunger and dependencies. It is also a reflection of my view on spiritual and / or emotional human polarity and some of the subsequent behaviors that transcended age, gender and social status... It is simple urban poetry, colloquial talk fused with images. Images that by themselves tell one story or two...about dependencies so dark that when confessed even to ourselves, the words, thoughts and images drawn...
The end of the rainbow represents not only my own experience but also stories told by others in a desperate moment or during a glorious display of emp...
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44,51 |
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Likenesses
ISBN: 9781857549942 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a collection of photographic portraits of some of the most renowned writers from both sides of the Atlantic. Sitters include Saul Bellow, Seamus Heaney, Norman Mailer, Jonathan Miller, Joan Plowright, Simon Schama and Derek Walcott. Accompanied by exhibition 18 Sept - 19 Oct 2010 at Christ Church, Oxford.
This is a collection of photographic portraits of some of the most renowned writers from both sides of the Atlantic. Sitters include Saul Bellow, Seam...
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cena:
102,85 |
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Lobstering Life
ISBN: 9780881509397 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Lobstering Life puts readers in the boats, on the docks, in the bars, and in the lives of the men and women who pull bugs from the sea to sustain a cussedly independent, much admired way of life. Not since Peter Matthiessen s bestselling Men s Lives has this trade been so vibrantly brought to life. "
The Lobstering Life puts readers in the boats, on the docks, in the bars, and in the lives of the men and women who pull bugs from the sea to...
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cena:
180,93 |
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An Englishman in New York
ISBN: 9781904587972 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over one hundred and twenty thousand British men and women live in New York City. Jason Bell, an Englishman himself living in New York, was inspired to look further--An Englishman in New York is the result. The book features taxi drivers, cops, construction workers, divers, helicopter pilots, chefs, burlesque dancers, drug dealers, UN ambassadors, and even dog walkers. Jason was also struck by the significant influence that many Brits exercise on New York's cultural agenda, leading him to include amongst his subjects writer Zoe Heller, director Stephen Daldry, artists Cecily... Over one hundred and twenty thousand British men and women live in New York City. Jason Bell, an Englishman himself living in New York, was inspire... |
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180,44 |
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The Brothers
ISBN: 9781907893087 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Elin Hoyland heard about two elderly brothers, Harald and Mathias Ramen, living together in Tessanded, a small hamlet in rural Norway, she asked them if they would collaborate with her on a photographic project about their lives. The result is a fascinating study of a way of life that has now almost entirely disappeared."
When Elin Hoyland heard about two elderly brothers, Harald and Mathias Ramen, living together in Tessanded, a small hamlet in rural Norway, she asked ...
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154,67 |
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Ligonier: A Photographic Essay
ISBN: 9780253223630 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With clarity and attention to detail, Jeff Moerchen has captured in more than 80 black and white photographs the life of the Hispanic community of Ligonier, a small town in northern Indiana. These men and women have worked to make a comfortable home for themselves, trying to realize their dream of living in America, while avoiding some of the perils they might have experienced in borderlands. More than a narrow study of an immigrant population, Moerchen's evocative photo essay explores a small town as it struggles to survive. "With clarity and attention to detail, Jeff Moerchen has captured in more than 80 black and white photographs the life of the Hispanic community of ... |
cena:
117,50 |
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Texas Task Force 1: Urban Search & Rescue
ISBN: 9781603442886 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Trained for ground, water, and air missions throughout Texas and the nation, Texas Task Force 1 serves as the state's primary search and rescue team and as one of twenty-eight federal teams in the national urban search and rescue system. Founded in 1997, this elite team has been dispatched for state and national emergencies, probing the devastation at Ground Zero and saving lives on the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Trained for ground, water, and air missions throughout Texas and the nation, Texas Task Force 1 serves as the state's primary search and rescue tea... |
cena:
97,90 |
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Picturing an Exhibition: The Family of Man and 1950s America
ISBN: 9780826323668 / Angielski / Miękka / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Family of Man, a photography exhibition curated by Edward Steichen, opened at the Museum of Modern Art in 1955. More people saw that exhibit than any other show of photographs, and the book of the same title remains in print to this day. Despite the enormous success of this assemblage of photographs, surprisingly little critical attention has been paid to The Family of Man as a phenomenon. Eric Sandeen presents here the first in-depth study of the exhibit and its influence worldwide. He examines how the exhibit came to be assembled, the beliefs and background Edward Steichen brought to...
The Family of Man, a photography exhibition curated by Edward Steichen, opened at the Museum of Modern Art in 1955. More people saw that exhibit than ...
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117,50 |
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The Island Illustrators Society: 25th anniversary...68 studio visits
ISBN: 9781463717223 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A book of photographs and biographies of current and former members of the Island Illustrators Society in Victoria, BC during the society's 25th anniversary. The photographs are almost all in the members studios. Some members have added 'textual snapshots' about the society.
A book of photographs and biographies of current and former members of the Island Illustrators Society in Victoria, BC during the society's 25th anniv...
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cena:
121,18 |
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Gathering Remnants: A Tribute to the Working Cowboy
ISBN: 9780967744018 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contemporary cowboy life is masterfully revealed in this new book of large-format duotone photographs.
Contemporary cowboy life is masterfully revealed in this new book of large-format duotone photographs.
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cena:
328,15 |
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Pleasures Taken : Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs
ISBN: 9781860641169 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lewis Carroll's photographs of young girls, Julia Margaret Cameron's photographs of Madonnas and the photographs of Hannah Cullwick, maid of all work, pictured in masquerade - Carol Mavor addresses the erotic possibilities of these images, exploring not ony the sexualities of the girls, maids and Madonnas, but the pleasures taken - by the viewer, the photographer, the model - in imagining these sexualities.
Lewis Carroll's photographs of young girls, Julia Margaret Cameron's photographs of Madonnas and the photographs of Hannah Cullwick, maid of all work,...
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cena:
122,40 |
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Man Ray's Paris Portraits, 1921-39
ISBN: 9780962189319 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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152,09 |
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Romford
ISBN: 9781859373194 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work features approximately 100 detailed historic photographs from The Francis Frith Collection with extended captions and full introduction. Suitable for tourists, local historians and general readers.
This work features approximately 100 detailed historic photographs from The Francis Frith Collection with extended captions and full introduction. Sui...
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cena:
75,48 |
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Weeki Wachee Mermaids: Thirty Years of Underwater Photography
ISBN: 9780813044309 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By the late 1940s, long before Disney dreamed of building a magic kingdom in central Florida, the state had more botanical gardens, jungles, monkeys, parrots, and glass-bottomed boats than a tourist could shake a camera at. But only one place had banana-eating mermaids, and that was Weeki Wachee.
Located about forty-five miles north of Tampa, and still in existence today, Weeki Wachee has been featured in major motion pictures and visited by astronauts, movie stars, and Elvis Presley. Like everyone else, they came to see the famous mermaids in actuality, highly trained swimmers and... By the late 1940s, long before Disney dreamed of building a magic kingdom in central Florida, the state had more botanical gardens, jungles, monkeys, ...
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cena:
115,42 |
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Face to Face: The Photography of Lloyd E. Moore
ISBN: 9780821420300 / Angielski / Twarda / 129 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Face to Face: The Photography of Lloyd E. Moore" is a remarkable collection of photographs by an ex-Marine who worked as a lawyer in Lawrence County, Ohio, for around thirty-six years. As Moore himself tells us, An attorney who practices family, jury, and criminal law meets a lot of interesting people. Not all of them are clients or even people directly involved in various cases. Even though they might be connected to the job, that s not necessarily why you remember them . My experience led me to the conclusion that everybody matters.
In stark black-and-white photographs, or spread... "Face to Face: The Photography of Lloyd E. Moore" is a remarkable collection of photographs by an ex-Marine who worked as a lawyer in Lawrence County,...
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cena:
146,88 |
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Harlem
ISBN: 9780857420848 / Angielski / Twarda / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. W. E. B. Du Bois has described the African American at the end of the nineteenth century as two souls in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. In the United States today, the hyphen between these two souls African and American, African-American is still being negotiated.In "Harlem," Spivak engages with thirty-four photographs by photographer Alice Attie as she attempts "teleopoiesis," a reaching toward the distant other through the empathetic power of the imagination. In the hands of Spivak, "teleopoiesis" is a kind of identity politics in which one...
W. E. B. Du Bois has described the African American at the end of the nineteenth century as two souls in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone ke...
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cena:
77,33 |
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Prison Landscapes - Alyse Emdur
ISBN: 9780956192868 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Prison Landscapes artist Alyse Emdur (born 1983) presents over 100 photographs of prison inmates presenting themselves in front of the idealized landscapes of painted visiting-room backdrops, posing with their visitors and pretending, for a moment, that they are elsewhere. Prison Landscapes explores this little-known genre of painting and portraiture seen only by inmates, visitors and prison employees. Created specifically for escape and self-representation, the paintings of tropical beaches, waterfalls, mountain vistas and cityscapes invite sitters to engage in fantasies of...
In Prison Landscapes artist Alyse Emdur (born 1983) presents over 100 photographs of prison inmates presenting themselves in front of the ideal...
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cena:
99,80 |
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The Antics of Opie the Cat: And His Sidekick Daisy
ISBN: 9781477157329 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
129,43 |