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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Berenice Abbott is to American photography what Georgia O'Keeffe is to painting or Willa Cather to letters. Abbott's sixty-year career established her not only as a master of American photography but also as a teacher, writer, archivist, and inventor. A teenage rebel from Ohio, Abbott escaped to Paris - photographing, in Sylvia Beach's words, "everyone who was anyone" - before returning to New York as the Roaring Twenties ended. She soon fell in love...
43) Retro photo: an obsession : a personal selection of vintage cameras and the photographs they take
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Studio
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
47) Endangered
Author
Publisher
Abrams, in association with Blackwell & Ruth
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In Endangered, the result of an extraordinary multiyear project to document the lives of threatened species, acclaimed photographer Tim Flach explores one of the most pressing issues of our time. Traveling around the world--to settings ranging from forest to savannah to the polar seas to the great coral reefs--Flach has constructed a powerful visual record of remarkable animals and ecosystems facing harsh challenges. Among them are primates coping...
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Limited
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Philip Larkin was a keen amateur photographer, and through his life he made images of the people, places and things that meant most to him. Publishing ahead of the thirtieth anniversary of the poet's death in December 2015, The Importance of Elsewhere gathers the best of Larkin's photographic work, divided into short thematic chapters arranged in chronological order.
Author
Publisher
Pulitzer Arts Foundation
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903-1993) lived and worked in Mexico City from 1927 to 1993 where she played a critical role in the country's cultural renaissance. With over forty photographs and photomontages, this book spans the artist's prolific five-decade career. Beyond her creative output as a photographer, this catalogue addresses Álvarez Bravo's role in building and securing the legacy of the post-revolutionary period through her work as a political...
Author
Publisher
National Portrait Gallery Publications
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) is one of the most celebrated British Portrait photographers of the twentieth century and is renowned for his images of elegance, glamour and style. His influence on portrait photography was profound and lives on today in the work of many contemporary photographers. Beaton used his camera, his ambition and his larger-than-life personality to mingle with a flamboyant and rebellious group of artists, writers, socialites and...
60) Hot damn!
Author
Publisher
Gost Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Chloe Sells worked as a personal assistant for American writer and journalist Hunter S. Thompson from 2003 until his death in 2005. This new book combines Sells's photographs of Hunter's home documenting the interior, his possessions and handwritten notes with landscape of Aspen, Colorado, and her recollections of her time spent working with him. Some of Sells's hand-printed photographs have been overlaid with traditional marbling techniques from...
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