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New Deal Photography
80,00 ₾“Through these travels and the photographs, I got to love the United States more than I could have in any other way.” — Jack Delano
Amid the ravages of the Great Depression, the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) was first founded in 1935 to address the country’s rural poverty. Its efforts focused on improving the lives of sharecroppers, tenants, and very poor landowning farmers, with resettlement and collectivization programs, as well as modernized farming methods. In a parallel documentation program, the FSA hired a number of photographers and writers to record the lives of the rural poor and “introduce America to Americans.”
This book records the full reach of the FSA program from 1935 to 1943, honoring its vigor and commitment across subjects, states, and stylistic preferences. The photographs are arranged into four broad regional sections but otherwise allowed to speak for themselves—to provide individual impressions as much as they cumulatively build an indelible survey of a nation.
The images are both color and black-and-white, and span the complete spetrum of American rural life. They show us convicts, cotton workers, kids, and relocated workers on the road. We see subjects victim to the elements of nature as much as to the vagaries of the global economic market. We find the work of such perceptive, sensitive photographers as Marion Post Wolcott, Jack Delano, Russell Lee, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, and Dorothea Lange, and read their own testimonies to the FSA project and their encounters with their subjects, including Lange’s worn, weather-beaten and iconic Migrant Mother.
What unites all of the pictures is a commitment to the individuality and dignity of each subject, as much as to the witness they bear to this particular period of the American past. The subjects are entrenched in the hardships of their historical lot as much as they are caught in universal cycles of growing, playing, eating, aging, and dying. Yet they face the viewer with what is utterly their own: a unique, irreplaceable, often unforgettable presence.
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Polaroid Book
110,00 ₾The Polaroid Corporation’s photography collection is the greatest portfolio of Polaroid images in the world. Begun by Polaroid founder Edwin Land and photographer Ansel Adams, the collection now includes some 23,000 images by hundreds of photographers throughout the world, including pieces by the likes of David Hockney, Andy Warhol, and Jeanloup Sieff.
The Polaroid Book dives into these archives, paying tribute to a medium that continues to defy the digital age. Like an oversized Polaroid film pack, this collection curates works by luminaries and unknowns alike, celebrating the boundless possibilities that develop inside the white borders of the original instant photograph.
Features: more than 250 works from the Polaroid Collections an essay by Polaroid’s Barbara Hitchcock on the beginnings of instant photography and the collection’s history a chapter featuring the various types of Polaroid cameras.
McCurry Animals
58,00 ₾Steve McCurry photographs the animal kingdom
In Animals, we discover a different side to the famed photographer who skillfully explores animals’ complex relationship with humans and the environment.
Tenderness abounds, particularly in scenes of unkempt street dogs sleeping contentedly next to a human. But there’s also a kind of essential solitude, with animals belonging to no one and simply wandering through life with only their survival instincts to guide them. We witness camels caught in the crossfire during the first Gulf War; a shepherd from Northern Pakistan tenderly feeding his goats; Beverly Hills designer dogs; race horses on a Hong Kong rooftop; an elephant in Thailand, and more images selected by McCurry from his vast archives.
Through McCurry’s lens, we discover an appreciation for each creature’s beauty and silent dignity. This kaleidoscopic collection is at once a beautiful travelogue and a touching tribute to the creatures who share our planet.
The Female Nude
75,00 ₾The history of Western art is saturated with images of the female body. Lynda Nead’s The Female Nude was the first book to critically examine this phenomenon from a feminist perspective and ask: how and why did the female nude acquire this status?
In a deft and engaging manner, Lynda Nead explores the ways in which acceptable and unacceptable images of the female body are produced, issues which have been reignited by current controversies around the patriarchy, objectification and pornography. Nead brilliantly illustrates the two opposing poles occupied by the female nude in the history of art; at one extreme the visual culmination of enlightenment aesthetics; at the other, spilling over into the degraded and the obscene. What both have in common, however, is the aim of containing the female body.
Unmasked: Portraits
65,00 ₾Portraiture is one of the oldest and most studied genres of art. While most scholars will look at a painting’s composition, style, and themes, often questions remain unanswered–who were these people and why were they painted? This entertaining book reveals the identities and lives of some of the most famous characters that populate art history–from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Readers will learn how the fifteen-year-old subject of da Vinci’s Lady with an Ermine nearly destroyed a marriage; that van Dyck’s depiction of Prudence in wild clothes is actually one of the most controversial aristocrats of the seventeenth century; and that Francis Bacon’s character George Dyer was a man he met in a Soho nightclub. These and other stories behind works by Picasso, Klimt, Rubens, Warhol, and dozens of other artists show how portraiture remains one of the most enthralling genres. Based on art scholarship and conveyed in an accessible tone, these fascinating tales of power, lust, intrigue, jealousy, vengeance, and romance will help readers understand masterpieces of art history in an entirely new light.
Terence Donovan 100 Fashion Photographs
32,00 ₾Terence Donovan was part of the English movement in fashion photography in the sixties and, together with Bailey and Duffy, was a photographer who made the world look at London for inspiration. His refusal to conform to expectation turned the fashion world on its head and left a lasting impact on fashion photography today. Born in East London in 1936 to a working-class family, Donovan opened his first photographic studio in 1959, and soon became known for doing things that were edgy and original. Terence Donovan: Fashion is a celebration of his best fashion photography, from his ground-breaking work in the sixties to his famous supermodel shots of the nineties. Beloved by fashion magazines, from Vogue to Elle, Marie-Claire and Harper’s Bazaar, Terence Donovan had been at the top of his profession for over thirty years when he died in 1996. This is a stylish gift book containing some of his most famous shots, perfect for anyone who loves his work, and lovers of fashion photography.
Digital Female Nude
45,00 ₾The beauty and grace of the exposed female body has captivated artists for centuries, but can todays digital eye do justice to this purest of natural forms? Award-winning photographer Peter Adams gives a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of his incredible photo shoots to show specific techniques for achieving stunning, organic results. User-friendly, comprehensive advice covers all aspects of nude photography, including approaching and interacting with models, scouting locations, and exploring various photographic styles. The Digital Female Nude couples inspiring photography with invaluable creative insight to create a unique step-by-step guide and striking coffee-table book in one breathtaking volume.
Life in 50mm: The Photographer’s Lens
50,00 ₾The 50mm lens is for photography purists. With fewer components it’s cheap to buy, light to carry and gets amazing results.It also makes even the greatest photographers try just that little bit harder – there is no zooming – everything is about being there and telling the visual story.
Life in 50mm shares the greatest captures – and the personal experiences that led to them – from some of today’s leading contemporary photographers.
It will also explain why that chose to reject complicated modern zooms and express themselves through the 50mm prime in the first place. Author Tanya Nagar, begins simply by explaining the importance – technical and emotional – of “The Nifty Fifty,” and why it was crucial to history’s greatest photographers – including Henri-Cartier Bresson himself.
Filled with inspiring photography, this book is perfect for any photography lover, and will set any adventurous street photographer on the right track.
How Wildlife Photography Became Art
80,00 ₾Featuring many of the greatest nature photographs of all time, this book charts the development of nature photography, from the first hand-held cameras and the color film revolution of the 1960s, to the increasingly sophisticated photographs of wild animals and unexplored places that are taken today. The prize-winning images include ground-breaking portraits, breathtaking aerial shots, underwater photography, close-up imagery, and much more. The images are accompanied by captions that put the photographs in context, explaining their importance, and revealing the vision, talent, passion, and technique of the world’s leading wildlife photographers. All those who are passionate about photography and who have followed this compelling competition since its inception 55 years ago will treasure this magnificent volume.
