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  • The Camera as Historian

    Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918

    Serie serie Objects/histories
    In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, hundreds of amateur photographers took part in the photographic survey movement in England. They sought to record the material remains of the English past so that it might be preserved for future generations. In The Camera as Historian, the groundbreaking historical and visual anthropologist Elizabeth Edwards works with an archive of nearly 55 ... Läs mer

    234,78 kr

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  • Inside the Dream Palace

    The Life and Times of New York's Legendary Chelsea Hotel

    Winner of the National Award for Arts Writing: “If there were a course in Chelsea Hotel-iana, this would be the textbook” (The New York Times).It’s where Dylan Thomas lived his last days, Bob Dylan wrote Blonde on Blonde, and Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey. It is memorialized by many of its famous inhabitants: Andy Warhol filmed Chelsea Girls there, and Leonard Cohen wrote Chelsea ... Läs mer

    113,94 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Last Camel Charge

    The Untold Story of America's Desert Military Experiment

    “A fascinating story, telling aspects of the American West that most of us know little about.”—True West MagazineIn the mid-nineteenth century, the U.S. Army was on the verge of employing a weapon that had never before been seen on its native soil: a cavalry mount that would fare better than both mules and horses in the American Southwest...Against the Mojave in the Arizona Territory, against the ... Läs mer

    61,26 kr

  • Daguerreotypes

    Fugitive Subjects, Contemporary Objects

    av Lisa Saltzman ...
    In the digital age, photography confronts its future under the competing signs of ubiquity and obsolescence. While technology has allowed amateurs and experts alike to create high-quality photographs in the blink of an eye, new electronic formats have severed the original photochemical link between image and subject. At the same time, recent cinematic photography has stretched the concept of ... Läs mer

    149,24 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Just Wild West Cowboy Photos! Big Book of Photographs & Pictures of Cowboys from The Wild West Vol. 1

    This is a wonderful collection of 30 high-quality amazing images produced by a series of today's top professional photographers. Enjoy and be inspired! ... Läs mer

    26,78 kr

  • Colonialist Photography

    Imag(in)ing Race and Place

    Redigerad av Eleanor M. Hight, Gary D. Sampson ...
    Colonialist Photography is an absorbing collection of essays and photographs exploring the relationship between photography and European and American colonialism. The book is packed with well over a hundred captivating images, ranging from the first experiments with photography as a documentary medium up to the decolonization of many regions after World War II.Reinforcing a broad range of Western ... Läs mer

    647,94 kr

  • The Making of Visual News

    A History of Photography in the Press

    The Making of Visual News sets out to show how photography has changed the way we read, report and sell the news. It investigates how photographs first became news images at the end of the nineteenth century and how magazines in the USA, the UK, France and Germany have put them to use ever since.Drawing on a wide selection of images, author Thierry Gervais (in collaboration with Gaëlle Morel) ... Läs mer

    253,75 kr

  • The African Photographic Archive

    Research and Curatorial Strategies

    African photography has emerged as a significant focus of research and scholarship over the last twenty years, the result of a growing interest in postcolonial societies and cultures and a turn towards visual evidence across the humanities and social sciences. At the same time, many rich and fascinating photographic collections have come to light.This volume explores the complex theoretical and ... Läs mer

    237,01 kr

  • Julia Margaret Cameron’s ‘fancy subjects’

    Photographic allegories of Victorian identity and empire

    av Jeffrey Rosen ...
    Nominated for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2017.The Victorians admired Julia Margaret Cameron for her evocative photographic portraits of eminent men like Tennyson, Carlyle and Darwin. However, Cameron also made numerous photographs that she called 'Fancy subjects', depicting scenes from literature, personifications from classical mythology, and Biblical parables from the ... Läs mer

    234,78 kr

  • Faces of the Civil War Navies

    An Album of Human and Confederate Sailors

    Explore the human side of the Civil War through archival images and biographical sketches of Confederate and Union sailors.During the American Civil War, more than one hundred thousand men fought on ships at sea or on one of America's great inland rivers. There were no large-scale fleet engagements, yet the navies, particularly the Union Navy, did much to define the character of the war and affect ... Läs mer

    Var 113,94 kr Nu 100,58 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Capturing the Essence of India

    av Vipin Chopal ...
    What makes India … Indiaaaaahhhh?It certainly is not the only country that has got beautiful snow-laden mountains and whitewashed valleys. Similarly, there are deserts all across the globe that are more majestic and enigmatic. There are waterfalls and lakes and rivers; after all, the entire world is a kaleidoscope of nature’s immense beauty. But still, there is something very special about India ... Läs mer

    18,15 kr

  • Flash!

    Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination

    av Kate Flint ...
    Flash! presents a fascinating cultural history of flash photography, from its mid-nineteenth century beginnings to the present day. All photography requires light, but the light of flash photography is quite distinctive: artificial, sudden, shocking, intrusive, and extraordinarily bright. Associated with revelation and wonder, it has been linked to the sublimity of lightning. Yet it has also been ... Läs mer

    239,92 kr