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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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This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in Los Angeles Photographs
by Jennifer A. Watts Synopsis Los Angeles, a sprawling, multi-ethnic city on the edge of a continent, conjures up imagery as seductive and contradictory as the place itself. Equal parts glamour and cataclysm, sunshine and noir, few cities have provoked visuol representation as...
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Photography Reader (03 Edition)
by Liz (ed.) Wells Publisher Comments "The Photography Reader" is a comprehensive collection of twentieth-century writings on photography- its production, its uses and effects. Encompassing essays by photographers including Edward Weston and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and key thinkers from Walter...
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On Photography
by Susan Sontag Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism (1977), this is "a brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking of the world and ourselves over the lost 140 years."-Washington Post BOOK...
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Discoveries: The Invention of Photography (Discoveries)
by Quentin Bajac Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 152) and index....
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Photolanguage: How Photos Reveal the Fascinating Stories of Our Lives and Relationships
by Robert U Akeret Synopsis Using 150 photographs spanning 100 years, psychotherapist Robert Akeret focuses on the vocabulary of "photolanguage"--showing how photos of famous people and ordinary folks reveal underlying desires and fears, loves and hates....
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Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science
by Ann Thomas Publisher Comments A pole vaulter in motion, algae, prehistoric footprints, human anatomy, solar eclipses, the Alps -- images in scientific photographs can puzzle, startle, and inspire new thinking. This handsomely illustrated book presents a pioneering collection of...
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Light Writing and Life Writing: Photography in Autobiography
by Timothy Dow Adams Publisher Comments This discussion of the role of photography in autobiography finds an inherent tendency in both to conceal as much as they reveal. Authors discussed include Paul Auster, Maxine Hong Kingston, Michael Ondaatje, Reynolds Price, and Eudora Welty....
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Jeff Wall: Exposure
by Jeff Wall Synopsis Jeff Wall: Exposure introduces four new large-scale black-and-white photographs by the Canadian artist Jeff Wall. Presented publicly for the first time in an accompanying special exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, this new work is shown...
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Silver Cities: Photographing American Urbanization, 1839-1939
by Peter B Hales Publisher Comments This vastly expanded edition presents a lively interdisciplinary history of the first century of urban photography in America....
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Camera Eye on Idaho: Pioneer Photography, 1863-1913
by Arthur A. Hart Publisher Comments This book is dedicated, not only to pioneer photographers, but to the people of Idaho over the past century who have preserved the images of our past shown here. Increasingly, we have come to realize the significant contribution to our knowledge of early...
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Photography Speaks
by Brooks Johnson Publisher Comments Produced in conjunction with the preeminent Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia, Aperture's essential series Photography Speaks will be reissued as one newly revised and expanded edition in the fall of 2004. From Matthew Brady to Cindy Sherman, more...
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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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In the Vernacular: Photography of the Everyday
by Stacey Mccarroll Cutshaw Synopsis Considers photography as a "vernacular" practice, drawing from a collection of 4000 images including snapshots, wedding photographs, news and advertising images, insurance pictures, family pictures, travel albums, grade-school class portraits, and pin-up...
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Creative Exposures: 23 Photographers Discuss Art and Technique
by Eddie Ephraums Publisher Comments Explore the creative process of photography as you delve into the minds of 23 master photographers. Chapters focus on particular photographers, showcasing choice examples of their work accompanied by first-person narration. Find out what inspired them to...
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Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values
by Robert Adams Publisher Comments These essays address us in the quiet voice of a working photographer, an artist and craftsman who has thought long and seriously about his endeavor, who has tested and questioned his own assumptions in the light of actual practice. The result is a rare...
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Searching for Sebald: Photography After W.G. Sebald
by Lise (edt) Patt Publisher Comments W.G. Sebald's books are sui generis hybrids of fiction, travelogue, autobiography and historical expose, in which a narrator (both Sebald and not Sebald) comments on the quick blossoming of natural wonders and the long deaths that come of human...
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Picture Perfect: Life in the Age of the Photo Op
by Kiku Adatto Publisher Comments We say that the camera doesn't lie, but we also know that photographs can distort and deceive. In Picture Perfect, Kiku Adatto brilliantly examines the use and abuse of images today; and the increasingly blurred boundaries between news and entertainment,...
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Wisconsin Death Trip (73 Edition)
by Michael Lesy Publisher Comments A shocking portrait of a small town crumbling--socially, morally, physically and emotionally--under the impact of the great depression of the 1890s. This "cult classic" is now available again in paperback....
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Image Makers, Image Takers: Interviews with Today's Leading Curators, Editors and Photographers
by Anne-celine Jaeger Publisher Comments Here is the first systematic attempt - for beginners, students and professionals alike - to find out how photographers of world stature approach their work, and what it is that makes them succeed. Unlike any other photography book to date, it uses in...
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