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Hubert's Freaks: The Rare-Book Dealer, the Times Square Talker, and the Lost Photos of Diane Arbus

ISBN: 9780156033084

57,85 PLN (BRUTTO)
From the moment Bob Langmuir, a down-and-out rare book dealer, spies some intriguing photographs in the archive of a midcentury Times Square freak show, he knows he's on to something. It turns out he's made the find of a lifetime--never-before-seen prints by the legendary Diane Arbus. Furthermore, he begins to suspect that what he's found may add a pivotal chapter to what is now known about Arbus as well as about the "old weird America," in Greil Marcus's phrase, that Hubert's inhabited.
Bob's ensuing a
Photography: A Very Short Introduction

ISBN: 9780192801647

50,10 PLN (BRUTTO)
Photographs are an integral part of our daily lives, from sensationalist images in tabloid papers, to personal family snapshots, to the art photography displayed in galleries and sold through international art markets. In this thought-provoking exploration of the subject, Steve Edwards provides a clear, lively, and imaginative approach to the definition, importance, and meaning of photography. He combines a sense of its historical development with an analysis of its purpose and meaning within a wider cultur
The Photograph

ISBN: 9780192842008

91,44 PLN (BRUTTO)
How do we read a photograph? In this rich and fascinating work, Graham Clarke gives a clear and incisive account of the photograph's historical development, and elucidates the insights of the most engaging thinkers on the subject, such as Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag. From the first misty "heliograph" taken by Joseph Nicephore Niepce in 1826 to the classic compositions of Cartier-Bresson and Alfred Steiglitz and the striking postmodern strategies of Robert Mapplethorpe, Clarke provides a groundbreaking e
American Photography

ISBN: 9780192842718

83,69 PLN (BRUTTO)
150 years of American photography come alive in this exciting new book, placing it in its cultural context for the first time. Orvell examines this fascinating subject through a wide range of well known and less-well known images. He ranges from portraiture and landscape photography, family albums and memory, and analyses the particularly 'American' way in which American photographers have viewed the world around them.
Orvell combines a clear overview of the changing nature of photographic thinking and
Photographic Sensitivity: Theory and Mechanisms

ISBN: 9780195072402

953,76 PLN (BRUTTO)
Notwithstanding the current excitement surrounding cutting-edge digital imaging techniques, photographic film still provides the highest resolution and most beautiful images of any medium available. For the first time in nearly 20 years, Photographic Sensitivity: Theory and Mechanisms offers a comprehensive, systematic description of the subject, stressing in particular the characteristics of silver halide photography. Topics range from how to prepare silver halide grains and latent image formation to spect
Photography: An Illustrated History

ISBN: 9780195126082

191,44 PLN (BRUTTO)
Photography: An Illustrated History is a captivating account of how photography evolved from labor-intensive daguerrotypes in the mid-1800s to one of the most popular hobbies and respected art forms in the world today. Brimming with black-and-white and color photographs from throughout its multifaceted history, this volume not only documents technological developments, but also the phenomenal effect the craft has had upon journalism, industry, science, medicine, the military, and beyond. Featuring the accom
Framing the West: Race, Gender, and the Photographic Frontier in the Pacific Northwest

ISBN: 9780195146523

169,95 PLN (BRUTTO)
Framing the West argues that photography was intrinsic to British territorial expansion and settlement on the northwest coast. Williams shows how male and female settlers used photography to establish control over the territory and its indigenous inhabitants, as well as how native peoples eventually turned the technology to their own purposes. Photographs of the region were used to stimulate British immigration and entrepreneuralism, and imagies of babies and children were designed to advertise the populati
Darwin's Camera: Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution

ISBN: 9780195150315

182,67 PLN (BRUTTO)
Darwin's Camera tells the extraordinary story of how Charles Darwin changed the way pictures are seen and made.
In his illustrated masterpiece, Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1871), Darwin introduced the idea of using photographs to illustrate a scientific theory--his was the first photographically illustrated science book ever published. Using photographs to depict fleeting expressions of emotion--laughter, crying, anger, and so on--as they flit across a person's face, he managed to pr
Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word

ISBN: 9780195332933

126,67 PLN (BRUTTO)
"Camera Works is about the impact of photography and film on modern art and literature. For many artists and writers, these new media offered hope of new means of representation, neither linguistic nor pictorial, but hovering in a kind of utopian space between. At the same time, the new media introduced a dramatic element of novelty into the age-old evidence of the senses. For the avant-garde, the challenges of the new media were the modern in its most concentrated form, but even for aesthetically unadventu
Saving Cinema: The Politics of Preservation

ISBN: 9780195368116

133,57 PLN (BRUTTO)
The importance of media preservation has in recent years achieved much broader public recognition. From the vaults of Hollywood and the halls of Congress to the cash-strapped museums of developing nations, people are working to safeguard film from physical harm. But the forces at work aren't just physical. The endeavor is also inherently political. What gets saved and why? What remains ignored? Who makes these decisions, and what criteria do they use? Saving Cinema narrates the development of the preservati
Visualizing Indian Women: 1875-1947

ISBN: 9780195677317

530,63 PLN (BRUTTO)
This rare collection of 300 archival photographs accompanied by explanatory captions depicts women's lives during the period 1875-1947. It also includes a comprehensive, well-researched, yet lucid introduction placing in context the photographs, which have been gleaned from private collections of families and friends, as well as from archive sections of various institutions, originally presented in an exhibition held by the Centre for Women's Development Studies.
The book is divided into five sections o
Philosophers

ISBN: 9780199757145

162,42 PLN (BRUTTO)
Steve Pyke, a photographer whose work is a regular feature of The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, is known for his stunning portraits of prominent authors, artists, actors, and intellectuals. In this riveting collection, which he has been working on for twenty-five years, Pyke presents 100 black-and-white portraits of contemporary philosophers, photographed in his distinctive style. The effect of his technique can be startling but always revealing, showing insight into personality while shedding new light on th
A Short Course in Photography: An Introduction to Photographic Technique

ISBN: 9780205066407

249,45 PLN (BRUTTO)
The London, Upton, Stone series has helped over 1,000,000 photography students capture their potential.The new 8th edition of "A Short Course in Photography "introduces students to the fundamentals of photography and suggests ways in which they might create photographs that have meaning. With a special focus on black and white photography, the book also explores digital techniques and web photography resources, equipment, cameras and camera accessories, the exposure and development of film, and the making a
A Short Course in Digital Photography

ISBN: 9780205066421

239,33 PLN (BRUTTO)
"For introductory, one-semester courses devoted to digital photography.
"The London, Upton, Stone series has helped over 1,000,000 photography students capture their potential. After a very successful first edition, this second edition returns with the most up-to-date industry knowledge. Modeled after the long-running and widely used "A ""Short Course in Photography, " a brief text which presents the medium entirely in its most updated form.
Digital Photojournalism

ISBN: 9780205332403

437,05 PLN (BRUTTO)

Digital Photojournalism is dedicated to instruction and theory of digital processes and tools for the study of photojournalism. Currently, the best-selling photojournalism textbooks provide only a chapter or two on digital issues and technology; Digital Photojournalism is an entire book on the subject. Co-authored by a photojournalism professor at the University of North Texas and an Assistant Managing Editor of Visuals for The Dallas Morning News, the book merges two worlds of photojournalism - the aca

Photography Value Package (Includes Myphotographykit Student Access )

ISBN: 9780205666256

563,36 PLN (BRUTTO)
Photography, Books a la Carte Plus Myphotographykit

ISBN: 9780205697595

381,51 PLN (BRUTTO)
For today's busy student, we've created a new line of highly portable books at affordable prices. Each title in the Books a la Carte Plus program features the exact same content from our traditional textbook in a convenient notebook-ready, loose-leaf version -- allowing students to take only what they need to class. As an added bonus, each Books a la Carte Plus edition is accompanied by an access code to all of the resources found in one of our best-selling multimedia products. Best of all? Our Books a la C
Photography: A Cultural History

ISBN: 9780205708000

488,90 PLN (BRUTTO)
For one or two semester courses in the History of Photography. "Mary Warner Marien has constructed a richer and more kaleidoscopic account of the history of photography than has previously been available. Her comprehensive survey shows compellingly how photography has sharpened, if not altered forever, our perception of the world." The book was written to introduce students to photography. It does not require that students possess any technical know-how and can be taught without referring to techniques in p
Photography

ISBN: 9780205711499

579,73 PLN (BRUTTO)
For introductory and advanced courses in Photography. The London, Upton, Stone series has helped ove
Photography, Books a la Carte Edition

ISBN: 9780205809370

365,46 PLN (BRUTTO)
For introductory and advanced courses in Photography. The London, Upton, Stone series has helped over 1,000,000 photography students capture their potential. And Photography, 10e is the most comprehensive, up-to-date resource for today's photography students. No other text teaches students the skills they need to use the medium confidently and effectively, while emphasizing both technique, visual awareness, and the latest technologies. This is the text that students will want to keep for years to come.
Photography, Books a la Carte Plus Myphotographykit

ISBN: 9780205809554

411,98 PLN (BRUTTO)
For introductory and advanced courses in Photography. The London, Upton, Stone series has helped over 1,000,000 photography students capture their potential. And Photography, 10e is the most comprehensive, up-to-date resource for today's photography students. No other text teaches students the skills they need to use the medium confidently and effectively, while emphasizing both technique, visual awareness, and the latest technologies. This is the text that students will want to keep for years to come.
Pistils

ISBN: 9780224037839

334,14 PLN (BRUTTO)
Megaliths: The Ancient Stone Monuments of England and Wales

ISBN: 9780224064644

201,18 PLN (BRUTTO)
David Corio has systematically photographed the megalithic sites of England and Wales with the eye of a great landscape photographer, as well as with the passion of an explorer in the ruins of an ancient culture. These photographs go to the heart of prehistoric England and reveal a profound sense of place, with all the beauty that invited Romantic speculation from the seventeenth century onwards--as well as the encroaching modern world of distant urban skylines and protective barriers.
Don McCullin

ISBN: 9780224071185

114,26 PLN (BRUTTO)
Don McCullin is one of the greatest photographers of conflict in our time. The book begins and ends in the Somerset landscape that surrounds McCullin's home, but the whole sequence of more than two hundred photographs encompasses a ravaged northern England, war in Cyprus, Biafra, Vietnam, Cambodia, Beirut and riots in Derry. The climax of the book is among the cannibals and tribespeople deep in the jungles of Irian Jaya, where McCullin focuses on humanity in an almost Stone Age condition.
The Time of Her Life

ISBN: 9780224072540

96,20 PLN (BRUTTO)
Molly McIntyre was born in London with an abnormality in the formation of her muscles. Her condition was never fully diagnosed, and her mother was told that she would probably never leave hospital and might not survive more than a few weeks. Lesley took Molly home and she lived for fourteen years. Throughout her brief life Molly was highly active--travelling in Europe and America, joining a dance class in Covent Garden, and living every day to the fullest with the complete knowledge that her time was limite
American Music

ISBN: 9780224072717

402,94 PLN (BRUTTO)
The impulse to do AMERICAN MUSIC, writes famed photographer Annie Leibovitz, "came from a desire to return to my original subject and look at it with a mature eye. Bring my experience to it...make it a real American tapestry." Her ambitious idea became AMERICAN MUSIC, a stunning collection of photographs of the musicians, places and people that enrich the landscape of American music.
As "Rolling Stone's" chief photographer for over thirteen years, Leibovitz created a legendary body of work. Her portrait
Things: A Spectrum of Photography 1850-2001

ISBN: 9780224072892

173,18 PLN (BRUTTO)
"Things, " published in association with London's Victoria and Albert Museum and drawn from its superb photography collection, showcases the work of artists, scientists, reporters, and advertising and editorial photographers. Ranging over 150 years, it includes the images of ninety photographers, from Fox Talbot and Julia Margaret Cameron to Edward Weston, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Irving Penn, Diane Arbus, and that of a new generation on the cutting edge of recent technology. "Things" is an enlightening and c
Don McCullin in Africa

ISBN: 9780224075145

213,02 PLN (BRUTTO)
One of the greatest war photographers of our time, Don McCullin's new work was undertaken recently among Sudanese tribespeople. His compassionate photography respects his subjects' dignity and heroism, while allowing us, the viewers, to be amazed by their strength and beauty.
In England

ISBN: 9780224078702

201,18 PLN (BRUTTO)
Photographic journalist Don McCullin returns to the cities and landscape he knew as a young photographer, and a view of England where the line between wealthy and deprived is as defined as ever, but with a touch of wry humour added to his lyricism.
Southern Frontiers: A Journey Across the Roman Empire

ISBN: 9780224087087

199,97 PLN (BRUTTO)
An expansive photographic journey across the ruins and landscapes of the boundaries of the Roman Empire, from one of the greatest living photographers Photographer Don McCullin's most ambitious journey has been to explore the fringes of the Roman Empire, and this extraordinary collection does just that. His reputation as the greatest photographer of conflict has been replaced in recent years with an image of McCullin as the great traveler. He is now as familiar with the remoter parts of the globe as he was
Annie Leibovitz at Work

ISBN: 9780224087575

232,40 PLN (BRUTTO)
"The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination and moderation. It would be fair to ask if I took the moderation part to heart. But it certainly was a lesson in respecting your camera. If I was going to live with this thing, I was going to have to think about what that meant. There were not going to be any pictures without it."
--Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz describes how her pictures were made, starting with Richard Nixon's resig

Haunted Air

ISBN: 9780224089708

151,97 PLN (BRUTTO)
Anonymous Halloween photographs from c.1875-1955--truly haunting Americana, with a foreword by David Lynch The photographs in "Haunted Air" provide an extraordinary glimpse into the traditions of this macabre festival from ages past, and form an important document of photographic history. These are the pictures of the dead: family portraits, mementos of the treasured, now unrecognizable, and others. The roots of Halloween lie in the ancient pre-Christian Celtic festival of Samhain, a feast to mark the death
Shaped by War

ISBN: 9780224090261

135,50 PLN (BRUTTO)
The story of a legendary photographers' life and work is also a remarkable and devastating visual document of war and warfare
No other photographer in modern times has recorded war and its aftermath as widely and unsparingly as Don McCullin. After a London childhood during the Blitz, McCullin feels his life has indeed been shaped by war. From the building of the Berlin Wall at the height of the Cold War to El Salvador and Kurdistan, McCullin has covered the major conflicts of the last 50 years, with the
Turner and the Sublime

ISBN: 9780226061894

148,42 PLN (BRUTTO)
Throughout his life Turner was profoundly influenced by the eighteenth-century aesthetic theory of the "sublime." However, as Andrew Wilton now shows, the sublime was not merely a springboard for Turner's innovations; he reinterpreted the theory with great individualism and offered it to the world as a fresh and even more far-reaching philosophy of art.
The 140 illustrations, which include 32 in color, reproduce watercolors and prints that demonstrate the development of Turner's response to the sublime
Proust in the Power of Photography

ISBN: 9780226071442

213,02 PLN (BRUTTO)
One of the most original and memorable photographers of the twentieth century, Brassai was also a journalist, sculptor, and writer. He took great pride in his writing, and he loved literature and language-French most of all. When he arrived in Paris in 1924, Brassai began teaching himself French by reading Proust. Captured by the sensuality and visual strategies of Proust's writing, Brassai soon became convinced that he had discovered a kindred spirit. Brassai wrote: "In his battle against Time, that enemy
Picturing Time: The Work of Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904)

ISBN: 9780226071756

213,02 PLN (BRUTTO)
Etienne-Jules Marey was an inventor whose methods of recording movement revolutionized our way of visualizing time and motion. Best remembered for his chronophotography, Marey constructed a single-camera system that led the way to cinematography. "Picturing Time, " the first complete survey of Marey's work, investigates the far reaching effects of Marey's inventions on stream-of-consciousness literature, psychoanalysis, Bergsonian philosophy, and the art of cubists and futurists.
Braun offers a fascinat
French Daguerreotypes

ISBN: 9780226079851

417,58 PLN (BRUTTO)
Upon its introduction in 1839, the daguerreotype was hailed as a magical reflection of reality. Today, these early examples of the first practical photographic process offer fascinating windows into the past. The daguerreotypes collected here not only document the birth of photography and its aesthetic and historical legacy but also provide insight into French art and culture.
Lavishly illustrated, this volume is the first complete catalog of the French daguerreotype collection of the International Muse
Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz

ISBN: 9780226098753

135,50 PLN (BRUTTO)
Miles Davis, supremely cool behind his shades. Billie Holiday, eyes closed and head tilted back in full cry. John Coltrane, one hand behind his neck and a finger held pensively to his lips. These iconic images have captivated jazz fans nearly as much as the music has. Jazz photographs are visual landmarks in American history, acting as both a reflection and a vital part of African American culture in a time of immense upheaval, conflict, and celebration. Charting the development of jazz photography from the
On European Ground

ISBN: 9780226112947

245,32 PLN (BRUTTO)
Picturing a Colonial Past: The African Photographs of Isaac Schapera

ISBN: 9780226114118

299,15 PLN (BRUTTO)
This volume presents for the first time the selected photographs of the renowned British anthropologist Isaac Schapera (1905-2003). Taken between 1929 and 1934, largely during his earliest work among the Kgatla peoples of Bechuanaland (now Botswana), the 136 images in this selection reveal an emotional engagement and aesthetic impulse that Schapera seldom expressed in his writings. Covering a broad spectrum of daily activities, they include depictions of everything from pot making, thatching, and cattle her
The African Photographs of Isaac Schapera: Picturing a Colonial Past

ISBN: 9780226114125

148,42 PLN (BRUTTO)
This volume presents for the first time the selected photographs of the renowned British anthropologist Isaac Schapera (1905-2003). Taken between 1929 and 1934, largely during his earliest work among the Kgatla peoples of Bechuanaland (now Botswana), the 136 images in this selection reveal an emotional engagement and aesthetic impulse that Schapera seldom expressed in his writings. Covering a broad spectrum of daily activities, they include depictions of everything from pot making, thatching, and cattle her
Barrio: Photographs from Chicago's Pilsen and Little Village

ISBN: 9780226135052

117,20 PLN (BRUTTO)
In 1988 photographer Paul D'Amato was driving around Chicago with his camera when he decided to follow Halsted Street into Pilsen, the city's largest Mexican neighborhood. Intrigued by the barrio and neighboring Little Village, he began to take photographs and would continue to do so off and on for the next fourteen years. D'Amato started with the public life of the neighborhood: women and children in the streets, open fire hydrants, and graffiti. But later--after he got to know the area's Mexican residents
Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz

ISBN: 9780226148168

154,88 PLN (BRUTTO)
Of one and a half million surviving photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. "Images in Spite of All" reveals that these rare photos of Auschwitz, taken clandestinely by one of the Jewish prisoners forced to help carry out the atrocities there, were made as a potent act of resistance.
Available today because they were smuggled out of the camp and into the hands of Polish resistance fighters, the photographs show
Look at Me: Photographs from Mexico City

ISBN: 9780226248523

173,18 PLN (BRUTTO)

Sight is central to the medium of photography. But what happens when the subjects of photographic portraits cannot look back at the photographer or even see their own image? An in-depth pictorial study of blind schoolchildren in Mexico, "Look at me "draws attention to (and distinctions between) the activity of sight and the consciousness of form.

Combining aspects of his earlier, acclaimed street work with an innovative approach to portraiture, Chicago-based photographer Jed Fielding has concentrated c

Great Plains: America's Lingering Wild

ISBN: 9780226257259

135,50 PLN (BRUTTO)
The Great Plains were once among the greatest grasslands on the planet. But as the United States and Canada grew westward, the Plains were plowed up, fenced in, overgrazed, and otherwise degraded. Today, this fragmented landscape is the most endangered and least protected ecosystem in North America. But all is not lost on the prairie. Through lyrical photographs, essays, historical images, and maps, this beautifully illustrated book gets beneath the surface of the Plains, revealing the lingering wild that s
Architecture Under Construction

ISBN: 9780226306421

135,50 PLN (BRUTTO)
Mies van der Rohe once commented, "Only skyscrapers under construction reveal their bold constructive thoughts, and then the impression made by their soaring skeletal frames is overwhelming." Never has this statement resonated more than in recent years, when architectural design has undergone a radical transformation, and when powerful computers allow architects and engineers to design and construct buildings that were impossible just a few years ago. At the same time, what lies underneath these surfaces is
No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy

ISBN: 9780226316062

96,74 PLN (BRUTTO)
In "No Caption Needed," Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites provide the definitive study of the iconic photograph as a dynamic form of public art. Their critical analyses of nine individual icons explore the photographs themselves and their subsequent circulation through an astonishing array of media, including stamps, posters, billboards, editorial cartoons, TV shows, Web pages, tattoos, and more. Iconic images are revealed as models of visual eloquence, signposts for collective memory, means of persuas
No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy

ISBN: 9780226316123

116,12 PLN (BRUTTO)
In "No Caption Needed," Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites provide the definitive study of the iconic photograph as a dynamic form of public art. Their critical analyses of nine individual icons explore the photographs themselves and their subsequent circulation through an astonishing array of media, including stamps, posters, billboards, editorial cartoons, TV shows, Web pages, tattoos, and more. Iconic images are revealed as models of visual eloquence, signposts for collective memory, means of persuas
Picturing Men: A Century of Male Relationships in Everyday American Photography

ISBN: 9780226368580

105,35 PLN (BRUTTO)
There was a time in America when two men pictured with their arms wrapped around each other, or perhaps holding hands, weren't necessarily seen as sexually involved--a time when such gestures could be seen simply as those of intimate friendship rather than homoeroticism.
Such is the time John Ibson evokes in "Picturing Men," a striking visual record of changes in attitudes about relationships between gentlemen, soldiers, cowboys, students, lumberjacks, sailors, and practical jokers. Spanning from 1850 t
Venus Inferred

ISBN: 9780226473451

256,08 PLN (BRUTTO)

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