Photographs: collections Books
Sime Books Los Angeles Visual Notebook Mustard Yellow
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£15.26
The Chinese University Press Treasures The Yenching
Book SynopsisThis volume is intended to be both a catalogue for the special exhibit that will mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Harvard-Yenching Institute's founding and also a set of studies highlighting areas of the Harvard Yenching Library's collections. The eleven essays range from general survey's of the Library's resources in particular to studies based on the Library's holdings on particular subkjects. Some essays, in an attempt to illlustrate the rich and diverse collections at Harvard, also cover holdings on the same subjects in other libraries or museums. The essays and accompanying illustrations will demonstrate to the reader the richness and breadth of the Library's collections that are accessible to scholars from all over the world.
£60.75
Mandragora Firenze
Book SynopsisA journey to discover and rediscover aspects, anecdotes and curiosities of Florence, this atypical city, where every street, even the narrowest one, tells a story. Text in English and Italian.
£19.80
Mondadori Electa Vietnam
Book SynopsisOver two trips in the north, in spring and autumn 2016, Fokion Zissiadis covered some 6,000 kilometers of road, track and trail, and rocky mountains, close to Vietnam s far northern frontier. These epic extremes of the Vietnamese landscapes have resisted generations of invaders across the centuries and are home to an incredible humanity. The photographs in this collection show us a Vietnam known only to those following less-traveled paths. Faced with the landscapes, we experience human life at the threshold of nature; faced with the people, we feel as close as we might get without meeting them. But even then, it takes a special eye to give us the view as if we re standing right there and to rediscover the beauty and the value right around us. A man who has achieved a lot in life, Fokion Zissiadis is an architect, builder, and entrepreneur who has built one of the most amazing resorts in Europe. At this stage of his life, the Greek photographer has started to travel all over the world Africa, Iceland, India looking for the unseen side of the most remote landscapes and people of the planet
£112.50
Cannibal/Hannibal Publishers Family of Migrants
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£51.00
Ridge Books Marjorie Doggett’s Singapore: A Photographic
Book SynopsisMarjorie Doggett's Singapore, an evocative interplay of photos and texts, forms a tribute to a pioneer woman photographer, Marjorie Doggett. From 1954-57, camera in hand, she roamed Singapore's colonial precincts, its port and river, the characteristic ethnic areas and elsewhere. Mind and eye aligned, and aware of the increasing pace of development, Doggett captured for posterity the cityscape in images and with historical texts.Her work appeared in Characters of Light, the first photo book to fully portray Singapore's urban setting and architecture. Published in 1957, and reissued in 1985, the book was a pioneer: in its depiction of Singapore's city and as the first local photographic book by a woman. This work draws on those two publications, both long out of print. In this book, Marjorie Doggett's photos are enriched by Edward Stokes' historical and personal texts.Born in England, Doggett was a self-taught photographer. She had arrived in Singapore in early 1947 with her future husband. In 1962 they became citizens of Singapore, their lifetime home. The photos and narrative in Marjorie Doggett's Singapore offer an entirely new presentation. Half of the book's images are hitherto unpublished. The texts and photos portray Singapore the place, through the prism of Doggett's life, inspiration and methods. Marjorie Doggett had clear views concerning the preservation of buildings, and in later years her seminal book contributed significantly to the preservation of Singapore's historic architecture.Trade Review“...beautifully produced with top-quality photographic reproductions" and "excellent introductions and commentaries packed full of biographical and historical information which adds depth and contextuality to the photographs.” “Significantly, Marjorie Doggett’s photos are the first seriously published visual record of Singapore’s urban landscape to have superbly captured many of the island’s grand structures as well as its more modest vernacular buildings. . . . In Asia, the few women who did create photo books were virtually unknown, with Marjorie Doggett blazing the path.” “[It] is important in focusing on a photographer who, though she was productive, was neither commercial nor an artist, but who remained, in the true sense, an amateur, a dedicated documentarian. . . . this book serves handsomely as an example to others harboring (or hoarding!) a collection of historical photographs.” “Doggett captured what turned out to be the end of an era. . . . This beautifully produced book is a fitting testament to an outstanding woman who led a life of quiet significance.”
£39.91
The University of Hong Kong. University Museum and Art Gallery Interruptions – With Photographs by David Clarke
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£19.94
Man Mo Media Limited Hong Kong in 100 Photos
Book SynopsisIn Hong Kong in 100 Photos, professional photographer Joyce Yung tells the story of her beloved city using the medium she knows best. Each chosen photo represents an endearing slice of Hong Kong, captured by a veteran who has been to all its corners.
£28.04
ARGENTINA EN 365 FOTOS ESPECTACULARES
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£33.31
Lannoo Publishers Sunrise Destinations
Book SynopsisDiscover 50 sunrise destinations and find out what makes each spot in this book unique, when would be the perfect time to visit and what place to snap the best picture from.
£45.00
Five Continents Editions Loving II
Book SynopsisA stunning sequel, featuring vintage photographs of romantic male couples from the Nini Treadwell Collection. These intimate images offer a glimpse into a hidden history of love and resilience. Once hidden away, these photographs now bear witness to the enduring power of human affection.Loving II, the sequel to Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love, 1850s - 1950s, is a stunning collection of vintage vernacular photographs of romantic male couples. Drawn from the Nini-Treadwell Collection of over 4000 photos, some as much as 175 years old, the selection conveys the unadulterated joy - longed for by all of us and recognizable to anyone - of being in love. Starting from the earliest years of photography and continuing through the 1950s, this collection comprises daguerreotypes, silver gelatins, tintypes, ambrotypes, snap shots, and many more - a cross section of a century of photographic technique. The subjects come from all walks of life: soldiers, farmers, students, the young and the old, the poor and the affluent. These photographs were taken when being recognized as gay was to risk retribution, ridicule, banishment, imprisonment, and possibly death. They remained locked away during their subjects’ lifetimes for their very survival. The journeys that eventually brought them to the attention of Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell are mostly unknown, with only a few exceptions. Discovered in a variety of ways, sometimes tucked away in antique shops and flea markets, they had slipped into the cracks of photographic history before being added to the Nini-Treadwell Collection one at a time, over a 25-year period. These courageous couples, from so long ago, who took and protected these photos, could not have imagined that one day their mementos of love would appear in a book that has been embraced all over the world. So much so that a second volume was necessary. These couples sent a message to the future. The question now is, what message will we send?
£44.20
Federico Veronesi Photography Ltd One Life
Book SynopsisThe book tells the story of a life from birth through childhood, independence, isolation, confrontation, desolation, a journey through deserts and across rivers and thunderstorms, in search for one’s place in the world. The characters carrying the story forward with each image are different, but the story is one. The story of life, of dreams, of struggle, of resilience, of making it through the hardness life throws on all of us. The book features images primarily from East Africa, the wide open spaces of the Mara-Serengeti ecosystem and Amboseli. Also included are images from the Namib desert and the stunning enchanted forest of Mana Pools, in Zimbabwe.
£42.75
University of Iceland Press From Earth: Earth Architecture in Iceland
Book SynopsisThe first inhabitants of Iceland built their homes from the material that was closest at hand: the earth itself. In the early 20th century, more than half the Icelandic population were still living in turf houses, and a few dozen such buildings remain standing today. Icelanders were not the only northern nation, however, who built their homes of turf and rock: in the North Atlantic region, people were living in earth structures as recently as the early 20th century, although no trace of them remains today except in Iceland.The Icelandic turf house is a remarkable phenomenon in world architectural history. It is part of international cultural heritage, and one of Iceland’s most important contributions to global culture.
£32.30
Contrejour Swahili
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£29.75
Five Continents Editions Manhattan Project
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£36.90
Marsilio Arte Caring for the Countryside The Prosecco Hills of
Book SynopsisA scenic journey through the sweeping countryside of Italy's Prosecco regionThis first photobook in a new series on UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Veneto brings together writer Ginevra Lamberti (born 1985) and photographer Filippo Romano (born 1968) to capture the languid slopes and undulating treelines of the Prosecco Hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene.
£43.20
Franco Maria Ricci Editore Temples of Knowledge: Libraries, Art and Science
£71.25
Acc Publishing Group Ltd Pride
Book SynopsisA photographic narrative that crosses the world''s main cities to witness the shared intentions and feelings that bind the single Pride events in one big wave that envelops and crosses all countries, exalting the uniqueness and variegated compositions of identities and modes. A snapshot of global LGBTQIA+ pride, with a focus on Pride parades marking momentous anniversaries, including New York Pride in 2019, 50 years after the events of Stonewall, and London Pride in 2020, 50 years after the birth of the Gay Liberation Front.The book also bears witness to the spread of the Wave in the countries of Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Australia, which since the end of the 1990s, with particular regard to the last decade, has been gaining spaces for listening and rights.The Pride project recounts, celebrates and enhances LGBTQIA+ pride around the world, through the faces and claims of the protagonists of a struggle that involves us all: that for a fair and inclusive world, in which no person should feel excluded or discriminated against for their way of being, living and loving.Text in English and Italian.
£38.70
Blurb Murales y Arte Urbano #3: La historia contada en
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£26.70
Image Comics TimingLuck
Book SynopsisThe book contains hundreds of photos over two decades in writing rooms, green rooms and city streets around the world. Each photo tells a story, and collectively the book tells his. Timing/Luck is a mash-up of dark streets, bright minds and green rooms featuring your favorite comics creators, comedians, writers and filmmakers.
£16.19
She Writes Press Lessons in Hope
£28.79
