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Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880a-1930
ISBN: 9780922233342 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Cadavers, camera, action " (The New York Times Book Review). From the advent of photography in the 19th and into the 20th century, medical students, often in secrecy, took photographs of themselves with the cadavers that they dissected: their first patients. Featuring 138 of these historic photographs and illuminating essays by two experts on the subject, Dissection reveals a startling piece of American history. Sherwin Nuland, MD, said this is "a truly unique and important book that] documents a period in medical education in a way that is matched by no other existing...
"Cadavers, camera, action " (The New York Times Book Review). From the advent of photography in the 19th and into the 20th century, medi...
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189,53 |
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Bunny Yeager’s Pin-Up Girls of the 1950s
ISBN: 9780764314735 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Before Bunny Yeager was old enough to be one, she fantasized about becoming a Pin-Up girl. She realized her dream and much more. After building a successful modeling career, she moved behind the camera, in the 1950s, to become one of the most renowned glamour photographers in the world. Her work has appeared in magazines, calendars, posters, and several books. This book is a celebration of all the emancipated young women with beautiful faces and figures who posed for her in the 1950s, just as she embarked on her career as a professional photographer. There are nearly 200 photographs, all...
Before Bunny Yeager was old enough to be one, she fantasized about becoming a Pin-Up girl. She realized her dream and much more. After building a succ...
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115,70 |
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Bikini Girls of the 1960s
ISBN: 9780764317354 / Angielski / Miękka / 143 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Renowned photographer Bunny Yeager was a magnet for beautiful models in the 1960s. She adorned them with beautiful bikinis and carefully photographed them in exotic and unexpected places, in playful poses that are simultaneously sweet and sexy. Here is a wonderful, reminiscent look at feminine beauty, 1960s style, by one of the key characters who defined it. More than 150 swimsuit models are represented.
Renowned photographer Bunny Yeager was a magnet for beautiful models in the 1960s. She adorned them with beautiful bikinis and carefully photographed ...
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117,08 |
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Eikoh Hosoe: Barakei
ISBN: 9781597110907 / Angielski / Twarda / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the fall of 1961, the photographer Eikoh Hosoe, then in his late 20s, agreed to make a series of portraits of the controversial author Yukio Mishima. Hosoe visited Mishima at his home and was immediately intrigued by a marble mosaic of the zodiac in the middle of Mishima's lawn. Taking the rubber hose with which Mishima's father was watering the garden, Hosoe wrapped it around the half-naked writer (who had been sunbathing) and photographed him in various poses against the zodiac mosaic and around the grounds. They named their collaboration Barakei ("bara" meaning "rose" and "kei"...
In the fall of 1961, the photographer Eikoh Hosoe, then in his late 20s, agreed to make a series of portraits of the controversial author Yukio Mishim...
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1990,01 |
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Brigitte Lacombe: Cinema/Theatre
ISBN: 9783888149498 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Always black and white, naturally lit, and stripped of make-up and costumes, French photographer Brigitte Lacombe's iconic celebrity portraits reveal the generation of film and theater stars that has emerged since the 70s. See Spielberg looking boyish; Kevin Kline embarassed and self-conscious; Leonardo di Caprio watching hawkishly; John Malkovich staring; Diane Keaton collapsed in laughter. This exquisitely produced oversize volume is a retrospective of images that gorgeously conveys Lacombe's deep love for the performing arts and the people involved in it.
Always black and white, naturally lit, and stripped of make-up and costumes, French photographer Brigitte Lacombe's iconic celebrity portraits reveal ...
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222,76 |
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Geisha & Maiko of Kyoto: Beauty, Art, & Dance
ISBN: 9780764332210 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This exquisite collection of photographs and interviews focuses on four of Kyoto's most beautiful geisha and maiko (apprentice geisha). First, the geisha and maiko were photographed at Kyoto's largest geisha dance performances and other important dances. Next, portrait sessions were held with each woman to capture the kata (forms or poses) of her favorite dances. The geisha and maiko were then interviewed about their photographs, giving the reader a rare insight into their artistic training. Finally, images follow one maiko from her last few days as an apprentice through her first few days as...
This exquisite collection of photographs and interviews focuses on four of Kyoto's most beautiful geisha and maiko (apprentice geisha). First, the gei...
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188,37 |
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The Farm: An American Living Portrait
ISBN: 9780887402593 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Images of country life captured for extended consideration. Glimpses of everyday chores reverently preserved. The bountiful land, the architecture it spawned, and the lives of the people, animals and crops it supports. These are the subjects which have caught the eyes of talented photographers Joan and David Hagan. Sensitive to the change of seasons and appreciative of the work expended by the people who cultivate the land, the authors celebrate their feelings through pictures. The Farm, An American Living Portrait communicates their love of farms to the world at large. Hundreds of color...
Images of country life captured for extended consideration. Glimpses of everyday chores reverently preserved. The bountiful land, the architecture it ...
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cena:
142,54 |
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Florida Cowboys: Keepers of the Last Frontier
ISBN: 9780813034089 / Angielski / Twarda / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Visit a Florida where sunburn is the result of honest, hard work--not an afternoon at the beach "Without its lush ranchlands, there would be precious little left to see of old Florida, and nowhere for some of our most endangered wildlife to survive. Carlton Ward s colorful tribute to this dwindling frontier is also a call to save what remains of it. The alternative is unthinkable."--Carl Hiaasen "Ward's masterful photographs go beyond pictures of cowboys and the Florida landscape to taste the life, feel the land, and appreciate the importance of the past, present, and... Visit a Florida where sunburn is the result of honest, hard work--not an afternoon at the beach "Without its lush ranchlands, there wo... |
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181,94 |
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Faces of the Frontier: Photographic Portraits from the American West, 1845-1924
ISBN: 9780806140827 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Their faces look out across a chasm of time. Stern and often stiff, they wear the high collars and hoop skirts, buckskins and ceremonial feathers of another era. The names of some are familiar Teddy Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Sitting Bull, Annie Oakley. The names of others may be less well known, but they played a significant role in re-creating the American West. These are all people of the West, and their portraits give us a unique glimpse into a lost time and place.
"Faces of the Frontier" showcases more than 120 photographic portraits of leaders, statesmen, soldiers, laborers, activists,... Their faces look out across a chasm of time. Stern and often stiff, they wear the high collars and hoop skirts, buckskins and ceremonial feathers of a...
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183,84 |
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The Bathers
ISBN: 9780822346234 / Angielski / Twarda / 71 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jennette Williams's stunning platinum prints of women bathers in Budapest and Istanbul take us inside spaces intimate and public, austere and sensuous, filled with water, steam, tile, stone, ethereal sunlight, and earthly flesh. Over a period of eight years, Williams, who is based in New York City, traveled to Hungary and Turkey to photograph, without sentimentality or objectification, women daring enough to stand naked before her camera. Young and old, the women of The Bathers inhabit and display their bodies with comfort and ease--floating, showering, conversing, lost in...
Jennette Williams's stunning platinum prints of women bathers in Budapest and Istanbul take us inside spaces intimate and public, austere and sensuous...
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183,84 |
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Hard Luck Blues: Roots Music Photographs from the Great Depression
ISBN: 9780252077098 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Showcasing American music and music making during the Great Depression, Hard Luck Blues presents more than two hundred photographs created by the New Deal's Farm Security Administration photography program. With an appreciation for the amateur and the local, FSA photographers depicted a range of musicians sharing the regular music of everyday life, from informal songs in migrant work camps, farmers' homes, barn dances, and on street corners to organized performances at church revivals, dance halls, and community festivals. Captured across the nation from the northeast to the... Showcasing American music and music making during the Great Depression, Hard Luck Blues presents more than two hundred photographs created b... |
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140,25 |
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The Jazz Image: Seeing Music Through Herman Leonard's Photography
ISBN: 9781604734942 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Typically a photograph of a jazz musician has several formal prerequisites: black and white film, an urban setting in the mid-twentieth century, and a black man standing, playing, or sitting next to his instrument. That's the jazz archetype that photography created. Author K. Heather Pinson discovers how such a steadfast script developed visually and what this convention meant for the music. Album covers, magazines, books, documentaries, art photographs, posters, and various other visual extensions of popular culture formed the commonly held image of the jazz player. Through... Typically a photograph of a jazz musician has several formal prerequisites: black and white film, an urban setting in the mid-twentieth century, an... |
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203,20 |
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Baltimore Portraits
ISBN: 9780822323686 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Baltimore Portraits is a unique presentation of photographs by Amos Badertscher. These portraits--many accompanied by poignantly revealing, hand-written narratives about their subjects--represent a sector of Baltimore that has gone largely unnoticed and rarely has been documented. In this volume, the assemblage of images of bar and street people--transvestites, strippers, drug addicts, drag queens, and hustlers--spans a twenty-year period from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s. Badertscher's arresting and melancholy photographs document a culture that has virtually disappeared due to...
Baltimore Portraits is a unique presentation of photographs by Amos Badertscher. These portraits--many accompanied by poignantly revealing, han...
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154,81 |
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Harvey Caplin's Real Cowboys & the Old West
ISBN: 9780764334344 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Freelance photographer Harvey Caplin recorded ranch life in the American West from the 1940s to the 1980s, before the last roundup, capturing magnificent landscapes, picturesque people, and the growing population. This selection features his images of cowboys at the vast Bell Ranch near Tucumcari, New Mexico, on the range, in camp, and working horses and cattle. Caplin went along as a trailhand during roundups, branding cattle, drives to stockyards, and the final journey to market. He patiently waited for the right time, the right light, and the right subject. See 173 of his beautiful images...
Freelance photographer Harvey Caplin recorded ranch life in the American West from the 1940s to the 1980s, before the last roundup, capturing magnific...
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188,37 |
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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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101,55 |
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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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43,79 |
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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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101,60 |
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Poze de Bikini: Fete Super Sexy in Bikini Brazilieni, Cu String, Albi, Rosi, Maro, Portocali, Transparenti Si Multe Alte Stiluri Si Mo
ISBN: 9780986642661 / Rumuński / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Peste 100 de imagini color cu femei si fete in bikini. Indiferent ce cauti, poze de femei si fete sexy in bikini sau doar un model de bikini pentru vara aceasta, cu siguranta nu vei fi dezamagit (dezamagita) de pozele din carte. Bikini brazilieni sau string, transparenti sau clasici, toate modelele si culorile la moda sunt foarte bine reprezentate iar fetele sunt extrem de sexy si atragatoare. Cartea este disponibila pe toate site-urile Amazon (US, Canada, UK, Franta, Germania si Japonia) si poate fi comandata in librarii (aveti nevoie de titlu, numele autorului si numarul ISBN... Peste 100 de imagini color cu femei si fete in bikini. Indiferent ce cauti, poze de femei si fete sexy in bikini sau doar un model de bikini pentru... |
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96,25 |
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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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177,96 |
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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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178,24 |