‎SONTAG, Susan‎
‎On Photography. ‎

‎Genius of Photography : How photography has changed our lives.‎

‎, Quadrille Publishing, 2014 Softcover, 256 pages, ENG, 295 x 235 x 20 mm, in perfect condition, Over 170 colour & black and white photographs, . ISBN 9781849495233.‎

‎Published to huge critical acclaim to support the major BBC television series on this ever more influential art form, this landmark book explores the key events and the key images that have marked the development of photography. At the heart of the book is a quest to understand what makes a truly great photograph. What is it that makes a photograph by Nan Goldin or Henri Cartier Bresson stand out among the millions of others taken by all of us every single day? The Genius of Photography examines the evolution of photography in its wider context: social, political, economic, technological and artistic. It also brings a critical perspective and a strong aesthetic sense to the subject. Beginning with the earliest days of the photograph in the 1840s and ending with an examination of the state of photography today and the effect that the 'digital revolution' will have, the book challenges not only how we look at a photograph but what it is in a physical sense. It examines all the different genres of photography from landscape and portraiture to news and reportage. It also tells the great stories behind many of the world's most iconic photographs and reveals the extraordinary characters - from Louis Daguerre and Cindy Sherman, Paul Strand and Robert Capa - who have made and defined this art form. Provocative and enlightening by turns, this is a major book for anyone who wants to know more about one of the most important art forms of the 21st century.‎

‎Correspondence Courses of the C.S. O.D.S.C. Department of Photography. Lectures‎

‎Correspondence Courses of the C.S. O.D.S.C. Department of Photography. Lectures 1-5 7-13. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Zaochnye kursy Ts.S. O.D.S.K. Otdelenie fotografii. Lektsii 1- 5 7-13.M. Edition of Tea-Film-Print. 1929-1930. The edition consists of 12 separate books. 1. Donde A. M. Introduction to photography. 2. Basic information on chemistry. 3. Photooptics. 4. Photochemistry in application to photography. 5. Photochemistry. 7. Photography. 8. Negative process. 9. Positive process. 10. Enlargement of photographic images. 11. Photography laboratory. 12. Photography in the press science technology and economy. 13. Photography and the public. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb6f55284913238466‎

‎Collection Photographs : History of Photography-Centre Pompidou‎

‎, Steidl, 2008 Hardcover, 468 pages, ENG, 240 x 195 x 48 mm, in good condition, illustrated in colour / b/w. ISBN 9783865214805.‎

‎The Centre Pompidou in Paris houses the largest collection of Modern art in Europe, and one of the greatest collections of twentieth-century photography in the world. This comprehensive catalogue of the photo collection features 350 images, reproduced in tritone and duotone, by nearly 300 of the most famous artists and photographers to engage with the medium--from Franti ek Drtikol, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Rodchenko and Berenice Abbott, via Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Man Ray and Edouard Boubat, to Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky, Nan Goldin, Vik Muniz, Gregory Crewdson and Thomas Demand. It is divided into six sections, each of which is prefaced by a brief essay. Contributing scholars include Herbert Molderings (on Modernist photography), Alain Sayag (on Dada and Surrealist photography), Clement Cheroux (on "Poetic Realism"), Christopher Phillips, and Agnes de Gouvion Saint-Cyr and Quentin Bajac (on contemporary photography). This substantial and lavishly produced volume offers an authoritative perspective on twentieth-century photography as viewed through the contents of one of the greatest photographic archives in the world.‎

‎Illusions of Reality: Naturalist Painting, Photography and Cinema, 1875-1918,‎

‎Brussels, Fonds Mercator, 2010 Hardcover with dust-jacket, 25,1 x 30,1 cm, 224pp., 226 colour illustrations, of which 90 full pages. ISBN 9789061539414.‎

‎Capturing realistic images on canvas has been a staple of western art since the renaissance development of scientific perspective. At the end of the nineteenth century, however, artists attempted not only to paint realistically, but also to create images that reflected the reality of the world around them. Naturalist painters portrayed life as they observed it, utilizing their academic artistic training to illustrate the existence of everyday people. Illusions of Reality: Naturalist Painting, Photography and Cinema, 1875-1918, published in association with an eponymous exhibition developed by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, traces the relationship between several art forms that utilize the Naturalist aesthetic. Painting, literature, theatre, photography and film, and the important relationship between these art forms, are examined within the context of Naturalism as a vehicle for understanding the lives of ordinary people at a time of great social, economic and cultural transformation. The cultural and technological threads that wove these diverse art forms together emerged earlier in the nineteenth century with the development of photography. In the 1840, painters began to experiment with the use of the camera as a tool for composition, and by the 1870s, Naturalists novelists, such as Emile Zola, recognized that the camera could supplement their written notes in documenting scenes from daily life. Likewise, the theatre became more receptive to producing plays about social and cultural concerns, broadening the repertoire to include dramas based on contemporary issues. The advent of film in the late nineteenth century added yet another dimension to the Naturalist aesthetic, basing this new art form on the models provided by large-scale narrative painting, Naturalist photography, and contemporary, socially conscious theatre productions. In a series of essays, the authors of Illusions of Reality: Naturalist Painting, Photography and Cinema, 1875-1918 explore the international scope of Naturalism through a number of interwoven themes. The livres of ordinary people are at the heart of Naturalist art in any medium, and so the themes of these works reflect the common concerns shared by urban an rural populations in both Europe and North America. The social ills created by industrialization are frequent themes, as are the social responses to these problems in the form of public education and newly energized religious faith. Likewise, the transformation brought about by industrialization led many artists to focus on the loss of traditional agrarian culture as well as the political upheaval caused by working conditions in the factories. In short, Illusions of Reality: Naturalist Painting, Photography and Cinema, 1875-1918 offers a fresh interpretation of how Naturalist artists, and the aesthetic the espoused, attempted to understand and explain the rapid and profound changes of their own time. Accompanies the exhibitions in the Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam, 8 October 2010 - 16 January 2011, and in the Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, February - June 2011.‎

‎Basics of Photography by Soviet Inventor Bunimovich, D. Photography. Training t‎

‎Basics of Photography by Soviet Inventor Bunimovich, D. Photography. Training tables./Osnovy fotodela ot sovetskogo izobretatelya Bunimovich, D. Fotografiya. Uchebnye tablitsy. Basics of Photography from Soviet Inventor Bunimovich, D. Photography. Teaching tables. Moscow: Gokinoizdat, 1940. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUbd-7a8963b0ffbd76cb.‎