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René Groebli’s Magie de Schiene is a landmark book in Swiss photography and graphic design; it is an excellent example of how a clean, minimal layout and considered sequencing can make a captivating book from just fourteen photographs and succeeds in capturing the thrill of steam-powered rail travel without seeming at all sentimental.
In Jazz, Ed van der Elsken’s photographs and, crucially, his design capture the freeform nature of the music and the energy and intensity of the performers and crowd alike.
Jacques Henri Lartigue’s photographs of his childhood and early adolescence are filled with wonder and curiosity. This is the best book on his work.
This beautiful and beautifully printed monograph, the first devoted to Man Ray’s photographs, contains his best-known pictures.
Jacques Henri Lartigue’s photographs of his childhood and early adolescence are filled with wonder and curiosity. This is the best book on his work.
Alvin Langdon Coburn made a point of meeting and photographing those people whose writing or expressed vision he admired. Men of Mark is the first collection of these portraits, presented in a chronological order, which hints at a chain of introductions to Coburn from the sitters to one another. George Bernard Shaw was particularly helpful with his letters of introduction.
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Bruce Weber's elegant paean to Rio interweaves portraits, still life, and landscape photographs with an extended study of Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu cha...
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With a signed photograph. This edition with a signed photograph. Hunter was originally published in 1972 by Chuo-koron-sha as the final book in the...
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With Jacobi's signed portrait of Albert Einstein. Deluxe issue, with the often missing original photograph, 'Albert Einstein, Physicist, Princeton,...
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Signed by the author. Magie der Schiene is a landmark book in postwar Swiss photography and design, with a format loosely modelled on Man Ray and P...
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Signed. signed copy of Friedlander's first solo book. Self Portrait comprises a series of urban and suburban scenes, into which Friedlander has inc...
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Deluxe issue signed by all three contributors. Deluxe issue of 200 copies signed by Robert Doisneau, Jacques Prévert, and Robert Giraud, this copy ...
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Deluxe issue with a signed print. deluxe issue of Brassai's last book, specially bound and with a signed gravure print: 'Henri Matisse drawing from...
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One of 500 copies - signed by the photographers. Number 100 of 500 copies, signed by the photographers. Featuring 42 previously unpublished images ...
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Signed presentation copy from the author. Inscribed by the photographer on the front free endpaper, 'To Bud & Helen l-o-v-e Aaron 5/21/65'. Thi...
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Inscribed to civil rights photographer gordon parks. An attractive dedication copy of Karsh's striking portraits. The photographer has inscribed th...
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Inscribed to civil rights photographer gordon parks. An excellent copy of this retrospective on the portraits of Karsh over the years, featuring a ...
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Ghosts Along the Mississippi presents the beauty and mystery of Louisiana's past in extraordinary photographs of old Louisiana homes.' (jacket)Rev...
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Signed. 'The ninety-eight photographs in this book, twenty of which are in colour, are divided almost equally between these two expressions of Roma...
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FIRST EDITION, a reprint of Krausz's Street Types of Chicago of 1892, this edition with 10 additional plates and vignettes and an updated title in...
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Join us as we journey through time to discover some of the rarest books in the world. The following texts have shown an extraordinary ability to survive, with some books having survived the ravages of flood and fire, and others counting only a single surviving copy.
The public perception of the East India Company, an organisation which was to become one of Britain's most notorious colonial ventures, was mediated by a collective of artists. Diplomatic wrangling, imperial posturing, trade and warfare became the subjects of a significant artistic movement, aimed at depicting and dissecting the Company’s involvement in the political and social life of the period.
The woods and rivers, hills and hollows of fiction constitute some of our earliest and most beloved memories: from the Hundred Acre Wood to the home of Mr. McGregor. Join us this Easter as we travel through the imaginary places and winding roads of children’s literature.
Welcome to TEFAF Maastricht: the fair that plays host to some of the most memorable treasures in the art world. With artworks that span over 7000 years, the event has an illustrious history, welcoming collectors and art loves alike for more than three decades.
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