Walker Evans ranks with Steiglitz, Steichen and Strand as an artist of the highest calibre. His images captured forever the harshness of the Depression, the beauty of 19th-century brownstone architecture, the very essence of American life. Evans began photographing regularly in 1927, and came to specialize in street life - views of buildings, of ...
In the 1960s and 1970s, photography in America reached a peak of invention and achievement. Freed from the constraints of modernist limits, photographers such as Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, Robert Mapplethorpe, William Eggleston, Diane Arbus, Stephen Shore and Sherrie Levine pushed the envelope of visual expression in critical ways. In the ...
The complexities of photographics techniques, from the calotype to digital imaging and beyond, are explained in this work. The aesthetic concepts and critical language used to explain photography over the century and a half are demystified in prose.
This is the most complete monograph on the work of W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978), one of the heroes of American photojournalism. Beginning in the 1930s, working for Newsweek and other magazines, he created poetic photo essays of enormous and lasting impact. Drawing from Smiths own archives and including illuminating texts, this comprehensive volume ...
Between the World Wars, America's Great Depression spawned the need for many public works agencies, in particular the Farm Security Administration. Director Roy Stryker was invited by the Roosevelt administration to assemble a team of photographers, which included Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, Jack Delano and Gordon Parks, to ...
This comprehensive study of homoeroticism and male homosexuality surveys the homoerotic urge in fashion photography, including layouts in "Vogue" and reprints rare and unpublished work by such photographers as Horst, Mapplethorpe, and Herb Ritts.
Bernard Plossu, born in Vietnam in 1945, is one of today's best-known French photographers. His photos reflect locales he has visited all over the world: Senegal, Turkey, Poland, Mexico, Guatemala, and the American West. The photographs here were taken by Plossu in the late 1970s and are images of New Mexico - where the sun, the dust, the rain, ...
Edward Weston was an influential and innovative figure in photography during the first half of the 20th century. This new monograph surveys Weston's work through biography, visual image and critical analysis, and contains images selected from Weston photographs held in archives in Arizona and Boston. The photographs include nudes, portraits, ...
This is a complete monograph on the work of W. Eugene Smith, one of the heroes of American photojournalism. Beginning in the 1930s working for "Newsweek" and other magazines, he created subjective photo essays of lasting impact. Drawing from Smith's own archives and including illuminating texts from historians and critics, this comprehensive ...
This revised second edition text includes updated information on quality standards - TickIt, SPICE and Bootstrap methodology. It includes mini-cases and vignettes plus a case study measuring the benefits of ISO9001 and end of chapter exercises and discussion programmes.
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: musee reattu / american center
Date Published: 1981
Description: Very Good. Exhibition catalog, rare. Cover moderately worn, rubbed. Text is spotless. We ship daily. International orders ship airmail. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Printed Card Covers
Publisher: Les Cahiers De La Photographie, France
Date Published: 1981
Description: Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. WE SPECIALIZE IN PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS. 72 pages, illustrated with B&W photographs. No 2 in the Les Cahier series, this one covering the literature of photography. Includes articles by or on Nancy Newhall, Walker Evans, James Agee, Michael Wiedemann and others. French text throughout. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
Date Published: 1981
Description: Exhibition catalogue (Arles, 5 July-30 September, 1981). Very good+ in stapled wraps. Unpaginated with 2 photographs each by 11 Sanfe Fe photographers: Paul Caponigro, Walter Chappell, William Clift, Laura Gilpin, Alex Harris, Joan Myers, Beaumont Newhall, Bernard Plossu, Eliot Porter, Edward Ranney, and Meridel Rubenstein. Bilingual (French/English) text. read more
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