Resultados de búsqueda: Photography / History from LEFT COAST BOOKS

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1999. Cloth, 232 pages, illustrations; 31 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. First Edition, First Printing. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. The companion book to the major PBS series. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: I. The Developing Image, 1900-1934. The Snapshot Revolution. Photography as Fine Art. Foreign Peoples, Foreign Places. Extending Vision: Science and Photography. Social Reform: The Camera as Weapon. Capturing Time: Motion Study and Social Control. Photographing the News. World War I: The Camera Goes to War. Advertising Photography. The Cult of Celebrity; II. The Photographic Age, 1935-1959. LIFE and the Rise of the Picture Magazines. The Wire Services. The Farm Security Administration (FSA): Documenting the Depression. MoMA, 1937: The History of Photography Comes to the Museum. World War II: Censorship and Revelation. The… Leer más

New York: Aperture, 1996. 79 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. CONTENTS: Picasso the Photographer: Beyond Appearances, by Anne Baldassari; Dark Mirror: The Photographs of Edvard Munch, by Charles Hagen; Studio Poses: Photographs by Constantin Brancusi and Kiki Smith, by David Frankel; Polkography, by Paul Schimmel; Louise Lawler: Souvenir Memories, by Rosalind Krauss; Gerhard Richter: Photographs and Notes: An Edge of Black: Photographs and Text, by Petah Coyne; Richard Pousette-Dart: Photographs and Journal Entries; Chris Marker's Reality Bytes, by Jan-Christopher Horak; Once: Photographs and Stories, by Wim Wenders; People & Ideas.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Serial.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Mariner Books, 2018. xi, 335 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Remainder mark/top edge. First paperback edition. "In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized Americas imagination. A 'spirit photographer,' William Mumler, took portrait photographs that featured the ghostly presence of lost loved ones alongside his living subjects. At a time when artists like Mathew Brady were remaking American culture with their cameras, Mumler was a sensation: the affluent and influential came calling, including Mary Todd Lincoln. It took a circuslike trial of Mumler on fraud charges, starring P. T. Barnum for the prosecution, to expose a fault line of doubt and manipulation. And even then, the judge's stunning verdict suggested no one would ever solve the mystery of how Mumler did it. This forgotten puzzle offers a vivid snapshot of America at a crossroads in its history, a nation… Leer más

Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1989. 83 pages, illustrations, filmography; 24 x 26 cm. Published to document the film series "Photography and the Moving Image," 27 May to 13 August 1989, presented in conjunction with the exhibition "On the Art of Fixing a Shadow," 7 May to 30 July 1989." Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Foreword, by J. Carter Brown; Acknowledgements, by Annette Michelson; The Art of Moving Shadows, by Annette Michelson; Still Images in Motion: The Influence of Photography on Motion Pictures in the Early Silent Period, by Patrick Loughney; Structuring the Moving Picture Image: The Classic Hollywood Narrative, by Douglas Gomery; Filmography, by Michael Zryd.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong. Collectible.

Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011. Cloth, x, 382 pages, illustrations, portraits; 26 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. "This captivating biography reveals the previously untold love story of Edward Weston and Margrethe Mather. Both were photographic artists at the center of the bohemian cultural scene in Los Angeles during the 1910s and 1920s, yet Weston would become a major Modernist photographer while Mather, who Weston ultimately expunged from his journals, would fall into obscurity. The book reveals how they and their entourage sought out the limelight as the Hollywood film industry came of age. Based on ten years of research and illustrated with extraordinary images, some never published, this history has a captivating range of characters, including Charlie Chaplin, Imogen Cunningham, Max Eastman, Emma Goldman, Tina Modotti, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Carl Sandburg. The lively text brings to life the ambiance of this exciting time in Los… Leer más

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston; A William Abrahams Book, 1982. Cloth, 192 pages, [4] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First American Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 2004. 292 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "Photography and the Smithsonian were invented at the same time, and both were instrumental in revealing the modern world to itself. The Smithsonian holds more than 13 million images spanning over 150 years of taking and collecting photographs. The book contains photographs that span the medium's history and record science, geography, history, the arts, and cultural events, from the first photographs ever made to digital views beamed back from Mars. The famous, the infamous, and the never-before-seen are here in a remarkable "democracy of images": Amelia Earhart, Abraham Lincoln, P.T. Barnum and Tom Thumb, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Lucille Ball, Greta Garbo, Babe Ruth; the earliest views of the moon and the earliest panoramic view of Damascus; rare Native American photography; views of Asia, Africa, and the American West; photographs of early flight, and… Leer más

Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 2003. 292 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. A fine copy of the first printing. "Photography and the Smithsonian were invented at the same time, and both were instrumental in revealing the modern world to itself. The Smithsonian holds more than 13 million images spanning over 150 years of taking and collecting photographs. The book contains photographs that span the medium's history and record science, geography, history, the arts, and cultural events, from the first photographs ever made to digital views beamed back from Mars. The famous, the infamous, and the never-before-seen are here in a remarkable 'democracy of images': Amelia Earhart, Abraham Lincoln, P. T. Barnum and Tom Thumb, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Lucille Ball, Greta Garbo, Babe Ruth; the earliest views of the moon and the earliest panoramic view of Damascus; rare Native American photography; views of Asia, Africa, and the American West;… Leer más

New York: Pantheon Books, 1982. 59, 108 pages, illustrations; 28 cm. First published 1982 under title: Avantgarde-Fotografie in Deutschland, 1919-1939. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1981. 15l pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 x 26 cm. Exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 9 to July 5, 1981, and at three other museums through May 9, 1982. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. CONTENTS: BEFORE PHOTOGRAPHY. PLATES: Paintings and Drawings, Panoramas, Photographs. CATALOGUE: Paintings and Drawings, Photographs. Bibliography.. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong.

New York: Aperture Foundation, 2005. xv, 207 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. "In Between the Eyes, David Levi Strauss examines subjects ranging from 'Photography and Propaganda' to the ephemeral imagery of dreams; from Sebastiao Salgado's epic social documents to the profoundly personal photographic revelations of Francesca Woodman. In 'A Ferocious Philosophy,' Walt Whitman, George Eastman, and Paul Virilio sit down to an imagined conversation about democracy and images. The timely issue of photographic 'legitimacy' is addressed in 'Photography and Belief,' and in 'The Highest Degree of Illusion,' Strauss looks at the media frenzy surrounding the tragic events of September 11, 2001" - Publisher. CONTENTS: Where are we?, by John Berger; The documentary debate; Photography and propaganda; Epiphany of the other; An alchemical disturbance; Broken wings; A threnody for street kids; Photography and belief; A sea of griefs is not a proscenium; Beauty and the beast,… Leer más

Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1992. xii, 305 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. Stated First Edition. "Between 1935 and 1942, photographers for the New Deal's Resettlement Administration-Farm Security Administration (FSA) captured in powerfully moving images the travail of the Great Depression and the ways of a people confronting radical social change. Those who speak of the special achievement of FSA photography usually have in mind such white icons as Dorothea Lange's 'Migrant Mother' or Walker Evans's Alabama sharecroppers. But some six thousand printed images, a tenth of FSA's total, included black figures or their dwellings. At last, Nicholas Natanson reveals both the innovative treatment of African Americans in FSA photographs and the agency's highly problematic use of these images once they had been created. While mono-dimensional treatments of blacks were common in public and private photography of the… Leer más

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005. 256 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps, photographs; 22 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "The Body at Risk: Photography of Disorder, Illness, and Healing is the first book to explore the ways that photojournalists and social documentarians have conceptualized the human subject as a site of both good and ill health. The volume looks at photographs depicting child laborers; Depression-era health programs; general medical care in the southern United States at mid-century; people with HIV, AIDS, and polio, along with their caretakers and the health workers who advocate for them; environmental pollution; physical and psychological injuries received during warfare; domestic violence; and emergency care in the modern urban hospital. It brings together ten significant bodies of photographs made over the past one hundred years to show how human health topics have… Leer más

New York: Hill and Wang: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982. xix, 119 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. First published, 1980, under title: Chambre claire. Translated from the French. Good+. Stain on one leaf (pp. 17-18). "Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind." - Publisher.. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

New York: Viking Press; A Studio Book, 1980. Cloth, 192 pages, [4] leaves of plates, illustrations; 26 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978. Cloth, 240 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket with moderate edgewear. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "Text and more than 300 photographs trace the evolution of war photography from the 1840s to the present, with an explanation of the changing role of the photographer and an introduction to the men and women who developed this art form." - Publisher.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to.

New York and Washington D.C.: Business of Entertainment; Newseum, 2010. 249 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. New Updated Edition. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. Photojournalism, Pulitzer Award Winners. 1942 to 2009.. 2nd. Paperback. Fine. Folio.

Oakland and New York: Oakland Museum of California; W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2001. Cloth, xiv, 366 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Front free endpaper (blank) removed. Fine DJ. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. 1st. Hardcover. Good/Fine. 4to.

Washington D.C.: National Museum of American History; Smithsonian Institution Press, 2011. Cloth, xv, 159 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Tips lightly bumped. First printing. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. "A richly illustrated volume examines ten photographers' portrait work and explores the power of the portrait and the role it plays in our personal and national identities. The Changing Face of Portrait Photography explores ten groups of portraits selected from within the Smithsonian National Museum of American History's Photographic History Collection. The selections represent work by specific photographers with diverse relationships to portraiture, and through their sampling take a focused look at changing convention, theory, and technologies." - Publisher. CONTENTS: George K. Warren: the yearbook photographer--a perfect brick (1832-1884); Julia Margaret Cameron: spiritual and intellectual… Leer más

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995. vii, 409 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Moderate shelfwear to wraps. "Casting aside the traditional conception of film as an outgrowth of photography, theater, and the novel, the essays in this volume reassess the relationship between the emergence of film and the broader culture of modernity. Contributors, leading scholars in film and cultural studies, link the popularity of cinema in the late nineteenth century to emerging cultural phenomena such as window shopping, mail-order catalogs, and wax museums. / Leo Charney is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Iowa and Vanessa R. Schwartz is Assistant Professor of History at The American University in Washington, D.C." - Publisher. CONTRIBUTORS: Richard Abel, Leo Charney, Margaret Cohen, Jonathan Crary, Tom Gunning, Miriam Bratu Hansen, Alexandra Keller, Jeannene M. Pryzblyski, Erika Rappaport, Mark Sandberg, Vanessa R. Schwartz, Ben Singer, Marcus Verhagen.. Paperback.… Leer más