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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Cuba Cuba Ambrosio Fornet,Louis A.,Jr. Perez,E. Wright Ledbetter "With insightful essays - in English and Spanish - from Louis A. Perez Jr., America's preeminent Cuba scholar, and Ambrosio Fornet, renowned Cuban author and screenwriter, Cuba: Picturing Change intr… OL11636762W
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
Francis Frith's Cornwall living memories Francis Frith's Cornwall living memories Peter Stanier,Francis Frith Approximately 150 detailed period photographs from the Francis Frith archive with extended captions and full introduction. Suitable for tourists, local historians and general readers. Includes a vouc… OL18831076W
Native nations Native nations Booth-Clibborn Editions,Barbican Art Gallery,Jane Alison 320 p. : 30 cm OL19122827W
Farmwork Farmwork Phil Drabble,Colin Shaw A photographic documentation of British agriculture in the early 1980s. The idea was to show the hidden work of ordinary farm workers and their day to day life. The photographer travelled extensively… OL1955552W
The Plains Indian Photographs of Edward S. Curtis The Plains Indian Photographs of Edward S. Curtis Edward S. Curtis "The traditional cultures of the Indians of the Great Plains - Lakotas, Cheyennes, Wichitas, Arikaras, Crows, Osages, Assiniboins, Comanches, Crees, and Mandans, among others - are recalled in detail… OL2948522W
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
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
Dark matters, light affairs Dark matters, light affairs Joel Smith,Kunié Sugiura,Bill Arning "As flowers, kittens, fish, frogs, X-rays and shadows leave their fleeting marks on photographic paper, Kunie Sugiura transforms them into stunning works of art that echo stone-age cave paintings and… OL6237293W
Hector Acebes Hector Acebes Ed Marquand,Hector Acebes,Isolde Brielmaier "It is Hector Acebes's still photographs from his travels in the late 1940s and early 1950s throughout Africa and South American that may become his most important legacy. With the respect they comma… OL7487787W
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Roland Scotti,Kurt Wyss,Norman Rosenthal,Magdalena Moeller,Eberhard Kornfeld,Magdalena M. Moeller,Jobst Broelmann,Andrew Robison,Ernst Ludwig Kirchner,Wolfgang Henze,Klaus Freymann,Jill Lloyd 237 p. : 29 cm OL813647W
Emmet Gowin Emmet Gowin Russell Lord,Philip Brookman,Jock Reynolds,Terry Tempest Williams "Emmet Gowin has been taking aerial photographs of the landscape in the United States, Mexico, Czechoslovakia, Asia, and the Middle East for more than twenty years. His growing body of work bears wit… OL8890195W
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