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1	Ways of Seeing more books like this by John Berger add to wishlist WAYS OF SEEING (1972), one of John Berger's best known works, began as a series of BBC programs. Both TV shows and book attempt to popularize some of Berger's very anti-establishment ideas about art, particularly his proto-feminist way of looking at the nude, his appreciation of photography and other mechanically reproduced art, and his ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $8.74! \| first editions \| SVS
2	On Photography more books like this by Susan Sontag add to wishlist In her great classic work ON PHOTOGRAPHY (1977), without including a single photograph, Susan Sontag looks at the impact of photography on real life in the 20th century. Her thesis is that the universal presence of the photographic image in our lives as something we take for granted has made the photograph more real than what it represents, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	World History of Photography more books like this by Naomi Rosenblum add to wishlist From the camera lucida to the latest in digital image making and computer manipulation, photographic technology has dramatically changed throughout its nearly 200-year history, as succinctly explained and powerfully illustrated in "A World History of Photography". Thanks to the unique immediacy with which photography captures perspective and ... see all copies from $4.75! new only from $45.09! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images more books like this by Terry Barrett add to wishlist This brief text is designed to help both beginning and advanced students of photography better develop and articulate thoughtful criticism. Organized around the major activities of criticism (describing, interpreting, evaluating, and theorizing), "Criticizing Photographs" provides a clear framework and vocabulary for students' critical skill ... see all copies from $3.30! new only from $28.82! \| SVS
5	History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present more books like this by Beaumont Newhall add to wishlist see all copies from $12.88! new only from $35.54! \| first editions
6	The art spirit more books like this by Robert Henri add to wishlist Embodying the entire system of Robert Henris teaching, The Art Spirit contains much valuable advice, critical comment, and inspiration to every student of the arts. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Classic Essays on Photography more books like this by Alan Trachtenberg add to wishlist This anthology gathers into a single volume 30 essays which embody the history of photography. Contributors include: Niepce, Daguere, Fox Talbot, Poe, Baudelaire, Emerson, Hine, Stieglitz, Weston, Abbot, Barthes and others. Their writings encompass the technical origin and development of the medium, the aesthetic perspective of many influential ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $9.59! \| SVS
8	Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim add to wishlist Since its publication fifty years ago, this work has established itself as a classic. It casts the visual process in psychological terms and describes the creative way one's eye organizes visual material according to specific psychological premises. In 1974 this book was revised and expanded, and since then it has continued to burnish Rudolf ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $15.93! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Winogrand: Figments from the Real World more books like this by John Szarkowski (Editor) add to wishlist The first comprehensive overview of the work of Garry Winogrand, long out of print and difficult to come by, contains an eloquent and important essay on the life and work of the photographer by John Szarkowski and a lavish plate section presenting the 208 photos thematically. see all copies from $40.00! new only from $115.00! \| first editions
10	The International Style more books like this by Henry-Rusell Hitchcock, Philip Johnson add to wishlist This work sets out to describe the aesthetic qualities intrinsic to the work of such architects as Le Corbusier, Oud, Gropius and Mies van der Rohe. The authors observed the distinguishing features that made possible a definition of a new "style": emphasis on volume as opposed to mass; regularity as opposed to symmetry; and dependence on the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.19! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life more books like this by Frank Thomas add to wishlist Filled with marvelous color and black-and-white illustrations, here is the story of Disney animated characters and their creators. Original drawings and sketches of favorite characters will delight the Disney buff. see all copies from $31.70! new only from $52.52! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Photography: A Critical Introduction more books like this by Liz Wells add to wishlist This is the first introductory textbook to examine key debates in photographic theory and place them in their social and political contexts. Written especially for students in further education, higher education and introductory college courses, it provides a coherent introduction to the nature of photographic seeing. Individual chapters cover key ... see all copies from $10.77! new only from $20.00! \| SVS
13 view cover	The Photograph as Contemporary Art more books like this by Charlotte Cotton add to wishlist This book, now updated and expanded, is a profusely illustrated survey of the use of photography in contemporary art since the mid-1980s. It features the work of more than 170 of internationally renowned and up-and-coming artist-photographers, including Andreas Gursky, Nan Goldin, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Richard Billingham, Jurgen Teller, Thomas ... see all copies from $7.50! new only from $12.07! \| SVS
14 view cover	John Singer Sargent more books like this by Carter Ratcliff add to wishlist The name of John Singer Sargent evokes paintings of marvelously gowned Edwardian belles, of brooding aristocrats and princes of industry-insightful portraits executed with dazzling virtuosity. Sargent's enduring popularity has prompted a thoughtful reappraisal by prominent art critic Carter Ratcliff, who shows us the surprising breadth of the ... see all copies from $9.46! new only from $51.14! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Seven Lamps of Architecture more books like this by John Ruskin add to wishlist Classic work by great Victorian expresses his deepest convictions of the nature and role of architecture and its aesthetics. Authoritative edition includes reproductions of 14 plates of Ruskin's architectural drawings. see all copies from $3.98! new only from $7.71! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Writer's Desk more books like this by Jill Krementz add to wishlist Photos by Jill Krementz of a wide range of well-known writers in their workspaces. Among them are Eudora Welty, E. B. White, Stephen King, Amy Tan, Susan Sontag, Eugene Ionesco, Walker Percy, and Joseph Heller. see all copies from $26.04! new only from $59.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	The Contact Sheet more books like this by Steve Crist add to wishlist Examining the contact sheets from original photographic sessions allows in-depth insight into the subject matter, the photographic process, and often reveals a deeper story that has never been told. More than 100 iconic photographs by world famous photographers are examined in detail in this work. see all copies from $26.40! new only from $26.40! \| SVS
18 view cover	Why People Photograph more books like this by Robert Adams add to wishlist Photographs, selected essays, and reviews by Robert Adams This critically acclaimed work brings us a new selection of poignant essays by master photographer Robert Adams. In this volume, Adams evinces his firm belief in the importance of art. Photographers "may or may not make a living by photography," he writes, "but they are alive by it." see all copies from $5.87! new only from $8.70! \| first editions
19 view cover	Walker Evans the Hungry Eye more books like this by Gilles Mora, John Hill (Foreword by) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $6.20! new only from $9.49! \| first editions
20 view cover	The Nature of Photographs more books like this by Professor Stephen Shore (Photographer) add to wishlist This book grew out of a college course that Stephen Shore taught for many years. Its aim is not to explore photographic content - the subject of an image - but to describe the physical and formal attributes of a photographic print, the very elements that form the tools a photographer uses to define and interpret that content. By teaching us how to ... see all copies from $24.88! new only from $28.99! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Reading American Photographs: Images as History-Mathew Brady to Walker Evans more books like this by Alan Trachtenberg add to wishlist Winner of the Charles C. Eldredge Prize. In this book, Alan Trachtenberg reinterprets some of America's most significant photographs, presenting them not as static images but rather as rich cultural texts suffused with meaning and historical content." Reading American Photographs" is lavishly illustrated with the work of such luminaries as Mathew ... see all copies from $6.07! new only from $12.63! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Meditations on a hobby horse and other essays on the theory of art more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich add to wishlist Originally published in 1963, this book was the first volume to be published in the author's long and distinguished series of collected essays. In it he addresses fundamental questions about the nature of artistic achievement, the criteria of artistic value, and the role of language in understanding and interpreting images. These essays explore ... see all copies from $5.33! new only from $8.68! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Sense of Sight more books like this by John Berger add to wishlist This collection of John Berger's essays introduces some of the themes that would become his perennial preoccupations--Cubism, photography, the conflation of politics and art--topics he will explore at greater length in his influential WAYS OF SEEING (1972). The essays in THE SENSE OF SIGHT date from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s. see all copies from $2.65! new only from $9.00! \| first editions \| SVS
24	A New History of Photography more books like this by Michel Frizot add to wishlist Assembling the most influential and engaging photographs taken since the beginning of the 19th Century, Michel Frizot seamlessly weaves them into a visual and textual narrative which documents photography's evolution from daguerreotype to digital. see all copies from $14.54! new only from $280.88! \| first editions
25 view cover	On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton more books like this by Hollis Frampton, Bruce Jenkins (Editor) add to wishlist As Hollis Frampton's photographs and celebrated experimental films were testing the boundaries of 'the camera arts' in the 1960s and 1970s, his provocative and highly literate writings were attempting to establish an intellectually resonant form of discourse for these critically underexplored fields. It was a time when artists working in diverse ... see all copies from $27.47! new only from $27.47! \| first editions \| SVS

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