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In search of a fresh start, Strand traveled to Mexico City in late 1932 at the invitation of Carlos Chavez, the eminent Mexican composer and conductor. The work he created during this key period reflects a time of intense productivity, and of creative renewal. This book tells the story of Strands journeys through Mexico in the early 1930s.

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Introduces the history and art of photography to a broader public. This book provides a comprehensive view of the artists who have helped shape the medium.

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Paul Strand, as well as being an advocate for photography as fine art, was an innovative film-maker, and a political activist committed to social causes. This collection of essays about Strand's work includes contributions from Basil Davidson, Naomi Rosenblum and Edmond Desnoes.

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For Paul Strand, the great pioneer of modernism, the summers of 1926 and 1930-1932 were a return to experimentation, and the Southwest USA became his laboratory, with makeshift darkrooms. These were years of critical artistic growth. Absorbing the complex cultural local history, Strand made pictures that merged realism with abstraction.

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Deals with the study of the forms and patterns within nature of tiny buttonshaped flowers, cascading winter branches, and fierce snarls of twigs. This books task is to do credit to Strands final work, both as an individual and as a key figure in Modernist photography.

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Reveals an extreme aesthetic that also exposes the potholes and irregularities left in the path of modernization. This book focuses on the social marginality that continues to plague the country, thereby capsizing Chile's image of buoyancy by intuitively penetrating the contradictions - the innumerable cracks and fissures-that persist to this day.

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Offers a reinterpretation of every-day consumer and vernacular images. This title presents an approach to quintessential issues of representation in contemporary culture, including how images are used to construct and communicate consumer desire, and whether or not the growing volume of images we view online fosters a critical visual literacy.

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Offers an analysis of the causes of decades of environmental abuse along the largest river system in North America.

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Traces the rise of the album from the turn of the century onwards showcasing some of the most important examples in the history of the medium, as collected by the Library of Congress. This title provides a look at the history of photography through the handmade objects of some its most famous practitioners.

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To celebrate the centennial of America's National Park Service, this title brings together some of the finest landscape photography in the history of the medium, from America's most magnificent and sacred environments. It pays homage to a practice that has defined the way we see America, particularly the American West.

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Offers a collection of Richard Learoyds color studio images to datemostly portraits, but also including a handful of exquisite still lifes. This book deal with his life and work.

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Five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Misrach presents his previously unpublished photo-portrait of the messages scrawled by the disaster's victims--on cars, walls, streets, and roofs

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Presents a portraiture on the human figure. In this book, each image is presented both as full frame and as a series of enlarged details that enable the viewer to linger on each individuals complete surrender of their body to the sea seductive melding of human and nature.

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Since 2007, the author has been working on a series of photographs that involve approaching and asking complete strangers to physically interact while posing together for a portrait. This book tells his story.

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From a Montessori preschool to churches, mosques, and diverse civic spaces a Swedish courtroom, the Iraqi National Assembly hall, the United Nations, this book features images that display the ever harsher manifestations of authority: an interrogation room at Guantanamo, segregation cells at Abu Ghraib, and a capital-punishment death chamber.

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In 2001, Rinko Kawauchi launched her career with the simultaneous publication of three astonishing photobooks. This title continues her exploration of the extraordinary in the mundane, drawn to the fundamental cycles of life and the seemingly inadvertent, fractal-like organization of the natural world into formal patterns.

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Amelia is fourteen years old. In many ways, she is your average American teenager: since she was three years old, she has been her mothers muse and the subject of her photographs. However, not every mom is a world-class photographer with a predilection for photographing animals.

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In 2012, the Eastman Kodak Company declared bankruptcy. That same year, a group of ten photographers documented the process in audio and video. This title presents all one thousand images, together with commentary by poets, art historians and photo theorists.

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A groundbreaking classic reissued with sumptuous new duotones Wrap-around flap

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Explores the dialectics of nature and culture in both artistic and scientific contexts. Breaking away from the conventions of nature photography, which typically presents specimens in isolation, devoid of context, this title addresses the acts of staging and image-making.