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The Photographer's Eye, available again after some years out of print, offers a guide to the medium's visual language through works by such early masters as Atget, Cartier-Bresson, Evans, Strand and Weston. In this re-issue, 172 illustrations...
In 1909 the French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn launched a monumentally ambitious project: to produce a color photographic record of human life on Earth. An internationalist and pacifist, Kahn believed that he could use the new...
The Chinese Photobook
Book - 2016
Newly revised histories of photography as recorded via the photobook have added enormously to our understanding of the mediums culture, particularly in places that are often marginalized, such as Latin America and Africa. However, until now, only...
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Beyond the Frame: Click! Photography through the Lens of History
"Learn about the history of photography with these books and videos. This list was created by a librarian at The Seattle Public Library to accompany Beyond the Frame, a year-long commemoration, through programs and exhibits, of the 150th anniversar..."
"This is perhaps the best narrative history of Tecumseh and the Indian wars that coincided with the War of 1812 to date. Hickey is an authority on the period, having published several scholarly histories of the War of 1812, but he makes the case th..."
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