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Escapism: Words + Photos
ISBN: 9780997948813 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a story about love and loss. This full-color book is a collection of poems and landscape photographs--all written, shot, and arranged by the author. Composed in the style of a memoir, she shares her experiences through words and photos. This window into her emotions reveals the dark side of love as it narrates the journey through relationships, friendships, it's-complicated-ships, and self-identity. But really, it's a story about finding beauty in pain through growth. Note from the author: This is a story about love and loss. This full-color book is a collection of poems and landscape photographs--all written, shot, and arranged by th... |
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126,13 |
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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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99,57 |
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Pastoral and Monumental: Dams, Postcards, and the American Landscape
ISBN: 9780822944263 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Pastoral and Monumental, Donald C. Jackson chronicles America's longtime fascination with dams as represented on picture postcards from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Through over four hundred images, Jackson documents the remarkable transformation of dams and their significance to the environment and culture of America. Initially, dams were portrayed in pastoral settings on postcards that might jokingly proclaim them as "a dam pretty place." But scenes of flood damage, dam collapses, and other disasters also captured people's attention. Later, images of... In Pastoral and Monumental, Donald C. Jackson chronicles America's longtime fascination with dams as represented on picture postcards from t... |
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209,06 |
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A New Form of Beauty: Glen Canyon Beyond Climate Change
ISBN: 9780816531929 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Glen Canyon waters rose, inundating petroglyphs and creating Lake Powell. Now the Colorado River basin is experiencing the longest dry spell in modern history--one that shows alarming signs of becoming the new normal. In A New Form of Beauty photographer Peter Goin and writer Peter Friederici tackle science from the viewpoint of art, creating a lyrical exploration in words and photographs, setting Glen Canyon and Lake Powell as the quintessential example of the challenges of perceiving place in a new era of radical change. Through evocative photography and extensive reporting,...
In Glen Canyon waters rose, inundating petroglyphs and creating Lake Powell. Now the Colorado River basin is experiencing the longest dry spell in mod...
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164,83 |
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A Prairie State of Mind
ISBN: 9780252040337 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Celebrating the American heartland as only Larry Kanfer can, A Prairie State of Mind takes readers over fields fertile and fallow and through the eternal cycle of the seasons. Walk roads melodic with birdsong and the chatter of cicadas. Look onto hillsides plowed into geometric perfection while breathtaking thunderheads boil overhead. Experience barn textures and rusted sheds pulled from the past and wind turbines signaling the future. Selected from Kanfer's new collection, A Prairie State of Mind takes readers into a landscape of serene beauty and startling contrasts. His perspectives,...
Celebrating the American heartland as only Larry Kanfer can, A Prairie State of Mind takes readers over fields fertile and fallow and through the eter...
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140,54 |
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A Family of the Land: The Texas Photography of Guy Gillette
ISBN: 9780806144047 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since he first dreamed of a career in photography, Guy Gillette has traveled regularly to his wife's family's ranch, located outside the small town of Crockett, Texas. When Gillette first came to the Porter Place, as the ranch has always been known, he began to photograph the Porter family and their land. Thanks to Gillette's sense of composition, these wonderful black-and-white photographs, dating from the 1940s, led to his career as a magazine photographer. Collected here for the first time, they document small-town life in East Texas, where Guy Gillette's sons, the musical duo the Gillette...
Since he first dreamed of a career in photography, Guy Gillette has traveled regularly to his wife's family's ranch, located outside the small town of...
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121,15 |
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Firmament: Deluxe Edition: A Meditation on Place in Three Parts
ISBN: 9781938086151 / Angielski / Twarda / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a signed and numbered edition of 100. It will be slip-cased. ALL sales are final - no returns.
The transient nature of our place in the world has long been an abiding artistic concern of Andrew Beckham. Whether he stands firmly on the ground or star-gazes into the heavens, Beckham, through the frame of his camera, tries to answer questions that have accompanied human life over the millennia: How do we know where and when we fit in the scheme of Life? How do we find a meaningful place for ourselves within Nature? Is one place more or less important than another for... This is a signed and numbered edition of 100. It will be slip-cased. ALL sales are final - no returns.
The transient nature of our place in ... |
cena:
269,05 |
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Let the River Run Wild!: Saving the Neches
ISBN: 9781622880287 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Neches River is not wild in its youth. It flows gently along pastures, under barb-wire fences, and through culverts lying under asphalt roads. It flows placidly through East Texas pastures and farm land, watering stock and nourishing the fringe trees along its margin.The river follows its valley and bottomland through thickets and dense woods, but its path is always narrow. Even when it floods, the water does not stray far from its banks. The young Neches nourishes the usual rural farmland population of deer, 'coons, 'possums and polecats, but nothing wild and scary, unless you count... The Neches River is not wild in its youth. It flows gently along pastures, under barb-wire fences, and through culverts lying under asphalt roads. ... |
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140,54 |
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Unexpected Indiana: A Portfolio of Natural Landscapes
ISBN: 9780253344854 / Angielski / Twarda / 143 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Christopher Jordan and Ron Leonetti have done a remarkable job of depicting the amazing natural beauty of Indiana. Their stunningly beautiful photographs capture the true essence of the natural world of the state. Take a close look at their images and allow yourself to be drawn into the beauty that is found in every corner of Indiana. Expect the unexpected. Delight in the truth." from the Introduction by Mary McConnell, Indiana Nature Conservancy Unexpected Indiana reveals the beauty and power of the natural world in Indiana. Ron Leonetti and Christopher Jordan have covered the... "Christopher Jordan and Ron Leonetti have done a remarkable job of depicting the amazing natural beauty of Indiana. Their stunningly beautiful phot... |
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140,54 |
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Ansel Adams' 400 Photographs
ISBN: 9780316400794 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The full spectrum of Ansel Adams' work in a single volume, offering the largest available compilation from his legendary photographic career capturing American landscapes.
The photographs are arranged chronologically into five major periods, from his first photographs made in Yosemite and the High Sierra in 1916 to his work in the National Parks in the 1940s up to his last important photographs from the 1960s. An introduction and brief essays on selected images provide information about Adams' life, document the evolution of his technique, and give voice to his artistic vision.... The full spectrum of Ansel Adams' work in a single volume, offering the largest available compilation from his legendary photographic career captu...
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150,61 |
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The Story of the Holy Land: A Visual History
ISBN: 9780745955827 / Angielski / Twarda / 173 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A visual tour of the promised land, from the stark vistas of the Judean wilderness to the lush banks of the Jordan
A visual tour of the promised land, from the stark vistas of the Judean wilderness to the lush banks of the Jordan
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86,70 |
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Land Matters : Landscape Photography, Culture and Identity
ISBN: 9781845118648 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This illuminating book will interest readers in photography and media, geography, art history and travel, as well as those concerned with environmental issues.
This illuminating book will interest readers in photography and media, geography, art history and travel, as well as those concerned with environmenta...
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121,15 |
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Wilderness
ISBN: 9780826354297 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Debra Bloomfield engaged for five years on a photographic project in the wilderness. After photographing the desert in Four Corners and the ocean in Still, she has moved on in this new book to the forest.
Her photographs do not describe a particular place. She does not catalog the elements that add up to wilderness. She does not show each detail she observed or convey all the information she learned while she was there. Instead, her photographs and soundscapes bring us to the experience of wilderness. A CD is an integral part of this book, allowing the reader... Debra Bloomfield engaged for five years on a photographic project in the wilderness. After photographing the desert in Four Corners and the o...
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203,61 |
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Iceland Pictorial
ISBN: 9780971070288 / Angielski / Twarda / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A treasury of the varied and fascinating landscapes and scenery of Iceland, this collection is sparing with words and lush with visual stimulus. Designed to entertain rather than educate, the photographs will take you to a place like none you've ever seen before.
A treasury of the varied and fascinating landscapes and scenery of Iceland, this collection is sparing with words and lush with visual stimulus. Desig...
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167,42 |
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The Offering & Other Poems with Photographs of Nature
ISBN: 9781614932017 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Ernesto Epistola has show a lyric sensibility and a delicacy of imagery that could linger in the memory long after one has read...Himself a gifted musical artist, he brings to his poetry a lyric quality quite distinct from that of general run of lyric poets." - Leopoldo Y. Yabes, Professor of English "Ernesto Epistola is a gifted musician and equally gifted poet who chooses topics well for his poetry. His poetic art bears unmistakable trademarks: love of Love and love of Nature and both are genuine and true. These qualities sweep the reader along as Epistola bares his soul and makes of him a...
"Ernesto Epistola has show a lyric sensibility and a delicacy of imagery that could linger in the memory long after one has read...Himself a gifted mu...
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97,70 |
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Dark Beauty: Photographs of New Mexico
ISBN: 9781938086229 / Angielski / Twarda / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jack Parsons has been investigating the incredible landscapes, amazing light, and diverse cultures of the American Southwest for more than thirty-five years, in turn becoming a master of photographic art. He has been the photographer for fifteen acclaimed books, including the seminal 1993 publication of Santa Fe Style, which helped to chronicle and establish a regional aesthetic for New Mexico's architecture that is now recognized worldwide.
In his commitment to capturing and comprehending the land and life of New Mexico, Parsons has made more than 400,000 photographs of every type... Jack Parsons has been investigating the incredible landscapes, amazing light, and diverse cultures of the American Southwest for more than thirty-five...
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145,44 |
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Alaska: A Visual Tour of America's Great Land
ISBN: 9781426213397 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An amazing tour through its history, culture and landscape, "Alaska"'s stunning imagery and informative text makes it the perfect book for those who dream of visiting the 49th state and those who want to celebrate its singular beauty and expansive history.From the lush rainforests of the Inside Passage, to the desolate beauty of the far north, Alaska's natural wonders never cease to enthrall and amaze. Join National Geographic on this spectacular visual journey through seven distinct geographic regions of this amazing state, bringing each region alive through brisk historical narrative and...
An amazing tour through its history, culture and landscape, "Alaska"'s stunning imagery and informative text makes it the perfect book for those who d...
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152,04 |
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Filial Arcade & Other Poems
ISBN: 9789491914003 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Filial Arcade & Other Poems is a book of poetry; a fusion of images and memories of a family, trees, piety, love, the sea, dying, animal life, video tapes, forests. The book is prefaced with images by Marco Mazzi.
Filial Arcade & Other Poems is a book of poetry; a fusion of images and memories of a family, trees, piety, love, the sea, dying, animal life, video t...
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83,62 |
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Bridges of Lancaster County Postcards
ISBN: 9780764346729 / Angielski / Postcard book or pack / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vibrant color photograph postcards show 32 Lancaster county covered bridges, representing every season. GPS coordinates with each bridge make every bridge easy to find using a GPS satellite navigation device. If you prefer, you may also use a local tour map. These bridges are architectural treasures spanning the rivers and streams of Lancaster County, a scenic landscape dotted with pristine Amish farms. These postcards will be treasured by all who enjoy the beauty of rural America and her historic covered bridges.
Vibrant color photograph postcards show 32 Lancaster county covered bridges, representing every season. GPS coordinates with each bridge make every br...
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50,98 |
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Yosemite Meditations
ISBN: 9781930238503 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This delightful little book provides the ideal pause for contemplating the special qualities and values of Yosemite National Park, as well as other parks and wilderness. Each dazzling full-color photograph, many of them new for this tenth anniversary edition, is paired with an original quote or newly selected classic quote about nature, the environment, or America's national parks. Includes a new foreword by former Yosemite National Park superintendent Mike Tollefson and the insights of writers, scientists, poets, and leaders such as:
David Brower Gary Snyder Rachel... This delightful little book provides the ideal pause for contemplating the special qualities and values of Yosemite National Park, as well as other pa...
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41,77 |