Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Hashem El Madani Hashem El Madani Karl Bassil,Zaatari, Akram,Le Feuvre, Lisa,Sara El Nusairi Hashem El Madani set up his first studio in his parents’ living room in 1948. In 1953, as his business grew, he moved to a modern space on the first floor of the prestigious Shehrazade building, whic… OL13536964W
Koo Jeong A Koo Jeong A Koo, Jeong-a,Yasmil Raymond,Molly Nesbit "Since the early 1990s, Koo Jeong A (b. 1967) has created ephemeral environments, sculptures, and drawings that examine the poetics of everyday life and the mysteries of imagination. This book, the f… OL16705157W
Asia in Amsterdam Asia in Amsterdam Jan van Campen,Femke Diercks,Karina Corrigan,Janet C. Blyberg "This lavishly illustrated catalogue discusses the Asian luxury goods that were imported into the Netherlands during the 17th century and demonstrates the overwhelming impact these works of art had o… OL19668284W
No man's land No man's land Ann Thomas,Lynne Cohen ""No Man's Land" is a surreal and terrifying place. It consists entirely of strange, often sinister interiors: spas that look like forensic laboratories; classrooms so clinical that they fill us with… OL2758539W
Doris Salcedo Doris Salcedo Charles Merewether,Doris Salcedo,Dan Cameron In her series "Tabula Rasa I-IV", Salcedo tackles the subject of rape, something that many women became the victim of during the Colombian civil conflicts and the continuing tyranny in that country. … OL2772794W
Paul Strand, Southwest Paul Strand, Southwest Trudy Wilner Stack,Paul Strand,Rebecca Busselle "Pioneering, modernist photographer Paul Strand made Southwest images of formal, evocative beauty during the turbulent years 1930 to 1932, a time of significant change in his personal, artistic, and … OL4346351W
Ruth Harriet Louise and Hollywood glamour photography Ruth Harriet Louise and Hollywood glamour photography Robert Dance "When Ruth Harriet Louise joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the studio with "more stars than there are in heaven," she was twenty-two years old and the only woman working as a portrait photographer for the… OL6209200W
Edward Weston, the last years in Carmel Edward Weston, the last years in Carmel David Travis,James N. Wood,Weston, Edward "Between 1938 and 1948, Edward Weston took the last photographs of his distinguished career. In 1938 he returned to scenic Carmel, California, after a twenty-five-thousand-mile, two-year journey thro… OL784115W
Aaron Rose Aaron Rose Alfred Corn,Aaron Rose "Aaron Rose has created one of the most remarkable bodies of work of any photographer living today, and for most of his career he did this in isolation from both the art world and the world of commer… OL9084787W