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American Photography (Oxford History of Art)
by Miles Orvell  Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-232) and index....
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The New Earth from Above: 365 Days
by Yann (pht) Arthus-bertrand Publisher Comments The powerful aerial photographs in this collection reveal the incidental beauty of the Earth and its inhabitants, while the authoritative text explores current issues of sustainable development affecting the world such as global warming and poverty....
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1000 Nudes: A History of Erotic Photography from 1839-1939
by Uwe Scheid and Hans-Michael Koetzle Publisher Comments This book offers a cross-section of the history of nude photography, ranging from the earliest nude daguerrotypes and ethnographic nude photographs to experimental nude photography. All the pictures shown are taken from the late Uwe Scheid’s collection,...
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Reading American Photographs: Images as History: Mathew Brady to Walker Evans
by Alan Trachtenberg Publisher Comments Winner of the Charles C. Eldredge Prize In this book, Alan Trachtenberg reinterprets some of America's most significant photographs, presenting them not as static images but rather as rich cultural texts suffused with meaning and historical content."...
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Robert Frank: The Americans
by Robert (pht) Frank Publisher Comments In 1958, the first edition of Robert Frank's The Americans was published in Paris. Les Americains contained Frank's 83 photographs in the same sequence as all subsequent editions, with the image on the right hand page, but juxtaposed with historical...
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The History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present
by Beaumont Newhall Publisher Comments Since its first publication in 1937, this lucid and scholarly chronicle of the history of photography has been hailed as the classic work on the subject. No other book and no other author have managed to relate the aesthetic evolution of the art of...
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Playboy
by Jim Peterson Publisher Comments Playboy celebrates its 50th anniversary with this lavish collection of the very best of the magazine's photography. More than 250 full-color photographs, chosen from the ten million images preserved in the Playboy archive, chronicle five decades of...
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A Time It Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties
by Bill Eppridge Publisher Comments On June 6, 1968, at the age of 42 and at the height of his popularity, Robert F. Kennedy was tragically assassinated. Presidential candidate, U.S. Senator, father—Kennedy was all of these things—and, to many Americans, he embodied the power...
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The Tao of Photography: Seeing Beyond Seeing
by Philippe L Gross Publisher Comments -- ORIGINALITY: You don't see this one every day: Unique, unconventional approach to art of photography based on Taoist principles.<BR>-- CROSSOVER: Great crossover between Eastern Thought and Photography; appropriate for placement in both sections....
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Trailer Travel: A Visual History of Mobile America
by Phil Noyes and Bryan Burkhart and Allison Arieff Publisher Comments With linen postcards of trailer camps and auto courts, campy family photos, and ads dating back to the 1920s, "Trailer Travel" is the perfect complement to a new TV documentary on the colorful history of America's fascination with life on the road. 150...
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Desert to Dream: A Decade of Burning Man Photography
by Barbara Traub Publisher Comments "Barbara Traub captures an expansive desert of everything but normality where monstrous beings of all shapes, colors and sizes congregate each year with contraptions that challenge everyday familiarity."-"Sidelines Online" <P>"The event is more...
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The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford Companion To...)
by Robin Lenman Publisher Comments In addition to a wide range of technical information, the book encapsulates over 800 biographical entries, both on photographers and on other individuals who have significantly influenced photographic culture from the early 19th century to the present....
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Bound for Glory: America in Color 1939-43
by Paul Hendrickson Publisher Comments National Book Award finalist Hendrickson introduces a selection of the best of the Farm Security Administration color photographs, which remain among the most moving and famous documentary images from the first half of the 20th century....
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Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera Revised Edition
by Peterson. Bryan Publisher Comments More than 100 vivid, graphic comparison pictures illustrate every point in this revised classic and can help any photographer maximize the creative impact of his or her exposure decisions. Peterson stresses the importance of metering the subject for a...
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Ernie
by Tony Mendoza Publisher Comments "Ernie: A Photographer's Memoir" was first published by a small Santa Barbara press in 1985. By all accounts, Ernie was a phenomenon, selling an estimated 100,000 copies. Photographer Tony Mendoza had captured the mercurial character of that irascible...
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Camera Lucida
by Roland Barthes Publisher Comments This personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume--and the last book Barthes published--finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to the subject of photography. To this end, several black-and-white photos (by...
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A Camera, Two Kids, and a Camel: My Journey in Photographs
by Annie Griffith Belt Publisher Comments In a unique publishing event that's perfectly timed for Mother's Day, National Geographic photographer Annie Griffiths Belt discloses the secrets of a peripatetic life...revealing in often hilarious detail how she managed to juggle two children, bulky...
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Luigi Ghirri: It's Beautiful Here, Isn't It...
by Luigi Ghirri Publisher Comments Luigi Ghirri was an extraordinary photographer, as well as a writer and curator whose career was so rich and varied that it seems like a lesson in the contemporary history of the medium. Although well-known in his native Italy, Ghirri does not yet have...
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Material World : Global Family Portrait (94 Edition)
by Peter (photographer) Menzel Publisher Comments In an unprecedented effort, sixteen of the world’s foremost photographers traveled to thirty nations around the globe to live for a week with families that were statistically average for that nation. At the end of each visit, photographer and...
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Sportscape : The evolution of sports photography
by Paul Wombell Publisher Comments Sportscape tells the story of how sport has been shown by photographers over a period of 100 years, focusing on the beauty and interest of the photographs and what they are telling us about the development of sport. Many photographs have never been...
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