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“ernst van alphen”

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  • Staging the Archive

    Art and Photography in the Age of New Media

    Dedicated to art practices that mobilize the model of the archive, this book demonstrates the ways in which such ‘archival artworks’ probe the possibilities of what art is and what it can do. Through a variety of media, methodologies and perspectives, the artists surveyed here also challenge the principles on which the notions of organization, evidence and documentation are built.The earliest ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

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    A lavishly illustrated companion to Winston Graham's beloved Poldark novels, reissued to coincide with the BBC series based on the novels.Graham's saga of Cornish life in the eighteenth century has enthralled readers throughout the world for seventy years and the wild landscapes that inspired the novels have - even today - remained relatively unchanged. Cornwall then was a perilous world of ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Around the World in 80 Years

    by Eric Newby ...
    An illustrated ebook documenting the hugely varied and always entertaining career of one of Britain’s best-loved travel writers.Born in London in 1919, Eric Newby was educated at St Paul’s School. He began his travelling career in a perambulator commuting between Hammersmith Bridge and such seaside resorts as Frinton. In 1938 he persuaded his father to have him apprenticed to the four-masted ... Read more

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  • Spitfire

    A Photographic Biography

    by Dilip Sarkar ...
    The elliptical shape and mighty roar of the Supermarine Spitfire continues to inspire people all over the world. During the Second World War, the Spitfire became the icon of Britain's defiance of Nazi Germany in those dark days of 1940 when Britain stood alone. Today it remains a symbol of great national pride - and the fascination in R. J. Mitchell's little fighter shows no sign of diminishing. ... Read more

    $14.19 USD

  • Contingency in Madagascar

    PHOTOGRAPHY • ENCOUNTERS • WRITING

    As they set off for Madagascar in 2003, photographer Max Pam and writer Stephen Muecke adopted as their guiding principle the idea of contingency—central to which is the conscious embrace of risk and chance. In doing so, they established a new aesthetic in which image and text are inextricably linked to the notion of possibility. This stunning collection of photos and essays is the result of their ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • National Geographic Simply Beautiful Photographs

    National Geographic Simply Beautiful Photographs takes readers on a spectacular visual journey through some of the most stunning photographs to be found in National Geographic's famed Image Collection. Award-winning photographer Annie Griffiths culled the images to reflect the many variations on the universal theme of beauty. Chapters are organized around the aesthetic concepts that create beauty ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Baseball Americana

    Treasures from the Library of Congress

    Foreword by George F. WillWith a new Preface by Carla Hayden, Librarian of CongressA lavishly illustrated history of America's game, from the unparalleled collections of the Library of Congress.“One of the most seductively designed books about the sport to come our way. … A book like this, so rich and deep in material. … brings baseball history to multifaceted life and reminds us that baseball is ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Daylight After a Century

    Dr. George Djerdjian's Collection of Photographs of Pre-1915 Ottoman Life in Eastern Anatolia

    Dr. George Djerdjian (1870-1947), grandfather of the writer, took 240 photographs of his hometown of Arabkir and his college town of Erzeroum between 1900 and 1907, of which only about 100 survive. These photographs capture the way of life of a people that within a decade would become extinct in Anatolia, their homeland for over 3,000 years. The photographs are varied and have been arranged under ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • New York In The Snow

    A photographic vision of the iconic city in winter

    The iconic city of New York is a bustling, heady metropolis that, thanks to the power of media, everyone in the world knows intimately, even if they've never been. But every once in a while it changes completely. At first a few flakes will fall, then more, and more. Hardened New Yorkers rush for warmth and, while they're absent, an amazing, glistening almost deserted winter wonderland momentarily ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Southern Railway Gallery

    A Pictorial Journey Through Time

    Southern Railway Gallery is the first volume in a new series of picture books, designed to be of interest to railway historians and modellers. The series subjects are themed to include an interesting mixture of useful historic illustrations, depicting locomotives, rolling stock and infrastructure.Southern Railway Gallery covers the history of the Southern Railway from its beginings in 1923, to ... Read more

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  • Uncertain Images: Museums and the Work of Photographs

    Almost all museums hold photographs in their collections, and museum professionals and their audiences engage with photographs in a myriad of ways. Yet despite some three decades of critical museology and photographic theory, and an extensive debate on the politics of representation, outside art museums, almost no critical attention has been given specifically to the roles, purposes and lives of ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Great War Illustrated 1916

    Archive and Colour Photographs of WWI

    Series series The Great War Illustrated
    With conscription introduced, Zeppelins carrying out bombing raids on key towns and cities across England, the Battle of Jutland seeing fourteen British ships sunk and the Battle of the Somme claiming 20,000 British dead on the first day alone, the resolve of the British and allied troops in 1916 was being sorely tested. The Great War Illustrated 1916 is the third picture volume in this series ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus