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American snapshots American snapshots Steven M. Johnson This book is a fascinating personal look at old snapshot photographs the author has found for sale in shops throughout the United States. The fact that the people are captured on film by amateur phot… OL15364694W
Earth Meets Spirit Earth Meets Spirit Winona Laduke 1 v. (unpaged) : 28 cm OL17554824W
William Henry Fox Talbot William Henry Fox Talbot J. Paul Getty Museum. "In 1839 the almost simultaneous announcement of the discovery of photography was made by Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre (French, 1787-1851) in Paris and William Henry Fox Talbot (English, 1800-1877) i… OL1802860W
The box of the dead The box of the dead Beatrice MacNeil Novel centers on Ivadoile Spears, aged ninety-two, who was widowed early and has run a boarding house on Cape Breton for many years in the splendid home left to her by her doctor husband. We muse wit… OL18153975W
Parallels & contrasts Parallels & contrasts Nancy Barrett 140 pages : 23 x 28 cm OL18281143W
Art Faces Art Faces François Meyer,C. Sylvia Weber,Kirsten Fiege 126 p. : 29 cm OL19417816W
Extraordinary records Extraordinary records Giorgio Moroder,Alessandro Benedetti "Across a plethora of colors, shapes, and forms, celebrate vinyl not only for the integrity of its sound but the artistic potential of its form. From The Beatles to Bon Jovi and from glow-in-the-dark… OL19738343W
Russian criminal tattoos and playing cards Russian criminal tattoos and playing cards A. G. Bronnikov,Ast A. Moore This book reveals the importance of playing cards in Russian criminal culture. The handmade decks are beautiful works of art in their own right. Prohibited by the prison authorities, they are constru… OL19764129W
Retronaut Retronaut Wolfgang Wild ""An emporium of retro treasure...from shocking sculptures of the 1700s, to Kodachrome snaps of 1950s Piccadilly Circus, to biblical scenes captured by Google Earth. Rather than nostalgia or folly, t… OL19991427W
The shape of things The shape of things Robert Menschel "This survey explores 60 remarkable photographs from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, all acquired with the support of Robert B. Menschel and meticulously selected for the book by the muse… OL20044165W
The radical eye The radical eye Elton John,Simon Baker,Shoair Mavlian,Newell Harbin Elton John's truly remarkable collection of international modernist photography stems from personal passion: since 1991, he has amassed more than two thousand photographs, which include key figures f… OL20054549W
News Art News Art Stanley B. Burns,Sara Cleary-Burns "... presents the unexplored visual history of the melding of art, photography, and journalism. It is the first work to document the fascinating combination of art and photography necessary to achiev… OL21015305W
Edward Sheriff Curtis Edward Sheriff Curtis Victor Boesen,Florence Curtis Graybill,Edward S. Curtis First published in 1976, this book is the classic photographic record of Native American life by one of America’s greatest photographers. From 1904 to 1930 Edward Sheriff Curtis sought out the van… OL2948539W
Walker Evans Walker Evans Walker Evans,Jeff L. Rosenheim,Douglas Eklund,Mia Fineman,Maria Morris Hambourg "In 1933, Walker Evans traveled to Cuba to take photographs for The Crime of Cuba, a book by the American journalist Carleton Beals. Beals's explicit goal was to expose the corruption of Cuban dictat… OL35160W
Photos and Phantasms Photos and Phantasms Petrine Archer Straw Photos and Phantasms is the catalogue accompanying an exhibition of the same name. The exhibition comprised photographs reproduced from British Colonial Sir Harry Johnston's archive held at the Roy… OL4554823W
Cuba in the 1850s Cuba in the 1850s Robert M. Levine "Presents a collection of mostly mid-19th-century photographs of Havana"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. OL489346W
Vision from the inner eye Vision from the inner eye O. Pī Śarmā Reproduction of photographs taken from the collection of A.L. Syed, 1904-1991. OL6227752W
Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set - Volume I & II Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set - Volume I & II Sarah et al. Greenough Few individuals have exerted as profound an influence on 20th-century American art and culture as Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946).This luxurious two-volume boxed set is the definitive catalogue of the A… OL8482369W
August Sander August Sander August Sander Sixty portraits of twentieth-century Germans. OL863255W
Notes from the Stone-Paved Path, Meditations on North India Notes from the Stone-Paved Path, Meditations on North India Lewis Koch An exhibition catalogue, the book presents a series of diptychs which pairs black-and-white photographs from north India with photographed book pages creating a dialogue between the two. The photogr… OL8681520W
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