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The Building of the Panama Canal in Historic Photographs
In 1889 the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocanique declared bankruptcy. The French firm's optimistic and ill-planned attempt to construct a canal across the Isthmus of Panama had resulted in the death of 22,000 workers (most from yellow fever, typhoid fever, and malaria); the complete loss of one and a half billion francs for the company's 800,000 shareholders; and the bitter fa…
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Dos & Don'ts400 New Jokes From the Funniest Magazine Column to Ever Exist in …
In this new book of photographs - complete with sniping commentary - that document the dizzy heights and murky depths of street fashion, VICE magazine's staple humour series is collected in its entire, unabashed glory. The DOs are put on a pedestal that soars way past God and the DON'Ts are so cruel they sound litigiously close to death threats. DOs and DON'Ts will be the ultimate compendium …
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- 9780857860439
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The Ongoing MomentA Book About Photographs
Great photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both. With characteristic perversity ? and trademark originality - The Ongoing Moment is Dyer's unique and idiosyncratic history of photography. Seeking to identify their signature styles Dyer looks at the ways that canonical figures such as Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Kertesz, Doro…
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Shadow ModernismPhotography, Writing, and Space in Shanghai, 1925-1937
During the early twentieth century, Shanghai was the center of China's new media culture. Described by the modernist writer Mu Shiying as "transplanted from Europe" and "paved with shadows," for many of its residents Shanghai was a city without a past paradoxically haunted by the absent past's traces. In Shadow Modernism William Schaefer traces how photographic practices in Shanghai provided a …
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Journeys through the Russian EmpireThe Photographic Legacy of Sergey Prokudin…
At the turn of the twentieth century, the photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky undertook a quest to document an empire that was undergoing rapid change due to industrialization and the building of railroads. Between 1903 and 1916 Prokudin-Gorsky, who developed a pioneering method of capturing color images on glass plates, scoured the Russian Empire with the patronage of Nicholas II. Intrepidly c…
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Photography's Other Histories
Moving the critical debate about photography away from its current Euro-American center of gravity, Photography's Other Histories breaks with the notion that photographic history is best seen as the explosion of a Western technology advanced by the work of singular individuals. This collection presents a radically different account, describing photography as a globally disseminated and locally …
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Indigenes Erbe im InternetZur Identitätspolitik der Chicano-Fotografie im di…
Die Chicanos kämpfen seit den späten 1960er Jahren um kulturelle Anerkennung und soziale Gleichberechtigung in der US-amerikanischen Gesellschaft. Ihr indigenes Erbe stellt dabei ein essentielles Element der eigenen Identität und künstlerischen Authentizität dar. Ausgehend von 27 Interviews mit Chicano-Fotografen und -Aktivisten wie Delilah Montoya, Kathy Vargas, Lupita Murillo Tinnen, Ha…
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Liverpool and the Beatles legend: a photographic tour
A photographic tour to immortalize Liverpool and its suburbs, the mythical places where the Beatles spent their early youth, from their debut at the Cavern Club to the initial hits with Love Me Do and Please Please Me reaching the top of British charts in a very short time. In 1963 the tours, TV shows, teenagers in The Beatles' clothing and hairstyle, the discs of the Fab Four which climbed up …
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I ragni di Praha
"I ragni di Praha" di Sergio Failla, libro fotografico e di viaggio. Il viaggio a Praga, un attimo prima che la città divenisse parte dell'Europa. La voglia di una città di sentirsi europea. I segni del passato. Il grande fiume. I ragni. Foto e "diario di viaggio", testimonianza asciutta e ironica su una grande città che non si può non amare. Si viaggia per poterlo raccontare. Si racconta p…
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Visioni d'Europa / Visions of Europe 11 Rapimento / Abduction
Un punto del Mediterraneo che è Europa ma è anche Africa, e Asia. Luogo di approdo per chi proviene dall'altra sponda del mare. Luogo lunare, fatto di dune di sabbia e cartelli colorati. Chi ci sta è prigioniero, o è solo un viaggiatore che lascerà presto il luogo? È naufrago o la sentinella di un bastione ai confini del mondo? Questo è il primo volume di una trilogia fotografica dedicat…
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