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Product Description: Imagine the twentieth century without photography and film. Its history would be absent of images that define historical moments and generations: the death camps of Auschwitz, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Apollo lunar landing...read more
By Kelley Wilder (editor)

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9780226129112 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 5, 2016, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Imagine the twentieth century without photography and film.

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Product Description: Scorched Earth will be the first comprehensive history of fine art potteries in southern Africa, with a focus on pioneer ceramic studios and workshops. This encyclopedic revisionist history of an often overlooked sector of the South African art and design world explores the work of 30 potteries that produced high-quality ceramic wares from 1900 to 1980...read more

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9781431421268 | Jacana Media, September 1, 2016, cover price $55.95 | About this edition: Scorched Earth will be the first comprehensive history of fine art potteries in southern Africa, with a focus on pioneer ceramic studios and workshops.

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By Karlyn Olvido (contributor)

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9781606065105 | J Paul Getty Museum Pubns, August 30, 2016, cover price $59.95

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Product Description: Invented during a period of anxiety about the ability of human memory to cope with the demands of expanding knowledge, photography not only changed the way the Victorians saw the world, but also provided them with a new sense of connection with the past and a developing language with which to describe it...read more
By Patricia Hayes (editor)

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9781474263085 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, February 23, 2017, cover price $112.00 | About this edition: Invented during a period of anxiety about the ability of human memory to cope with the demands of expanding knowledge, photography not only changed the way the Victorians saw the world, but also provided them with a new sense of connection with the past and a developing language with which to describe it.

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Product Description: Spanning four decades of radical political and social change in Italy, this interdisciplinary study explores photography's relationship with Italian painting, film, literature, anthropological research and international photography...read more

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9781474246934 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 11, 2016, cover price $112.00 | About this edition: Spanning four decades of radical political and social change in Italy, this interdisciplinary study explores photography's relationship with Italian painting, film, literature, anthropological research and international photography.

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Product Description: Apple founder Steve Jobs once hailed Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid and the father of instant photography, as "a national treasure" and once confessed to a reporter that meeting Land was "like visiting a shrine." By his own admission, Jobs modeled much of his own career after Land's...read more

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9781627227698 | Amer Bar Assn, February 16, 2015, cover price $35.00

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9781634254281 | Amer Bar Assn, August 1, 2016, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Apple founder Steve Jobs once hailed Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid and the father of instant photography, as "a national treasure" and once confessed to a reporter that meeting Land was "like visiting a shrine.

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'Spirit of District Six' presents over 40 photographs by award winning photographer Cloete Breytenbach, which capture the atmosphere of District Six in Cape Town before 1966, when it was a vibrant, racially mixed community.
By Brian Barrow (contributor)

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9780798143875 | New edition (Gardners Books, July 1, 2004), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: 'Spirit of District Six' presents over 40 photographs by award winning photographer Cloete Breytenbach, which capture the atmosphere of District Six in Cape Town before 1966, when it was a vibrant, racially mixed community.

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9781485303060 | Protea Boekhuis, July 31, 2016, cover price $11.25

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By Patricia Hayes (editor)

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9781474235501 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, July 14, 2016, cover price $112.00

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Product Description: "The Victorians admired Julia Margaret Cameron for her evocative photographic portraits of eminent men like Tennyson, Carlyle and Darwin. However, Cameron also made numerous photographs that she called 'Fancy subjects', depicting scenes from literature, personifications from classical mythology, and Biblical parables from the Old and New Testament...read more

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9781784993177 | Manchester Univ Pr, July 1, 2016, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: "The Victorians admired Julia Margaret Cameron for her evocative photographic portraits of eminent men like Tennyson, Carlyle and Darwin.

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Product Description: Before the emergence of the steam railway rocketed the likes of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Robert Stephenson – the great Victorian engineers – into the limelight, there was a ‘Colossus’ who dominated the engineering scene and laid the foundations for what was to follow...read more

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9781445657813 | Amberley Pub Plc, June 30, 2016, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Before the emergence of the steam railway rocketed the likes of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Robert Stephenson – the great Victorian engineers – into the limelight, there was a ‘Colossus’ who dominated the engineering scene and laid the foundations for what was to follow.

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Product Description: In the late 1970s, the George Eastman Museum approached a group of photographers to ask for their favorite recipes and food-related photographs to go with them, in pursuit of publishing a cookbook. Playing off George Eastman's own famous recipe for lemon meringue pie, as well as former director Beaumont Newhall's love of food, the cookbook grew from the idea that photographers' talent in the darkroom must also translate into special skills in the kitchen...read more

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9781597113571 | Aperture, May 24, 2016, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In the late 1970s, the George Eastman Museum approached a group of photographers to ask for their favorite recipes and food-related photographs to go with them, in pursuit of publishing a cookbook.

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9781620405550 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, November 4, 2014, cover price $35.00

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9781620405567 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, June 7, 2016, cover price $22.00

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9788088805144, titled "Obchodná" | Slovart, June 1, 2016, cover price $89.95

Product Description: Now releasing at a price affordable for every fan, this hardcover book contains 125 of Weston's well-known images and many lesser-known gems. Additionally, a detailed introduction, along with reproductions of many unseen photographs and ephemera help round out this ultimate tribute to a legendary photographer...read more
By Steve Crist (editor)

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9781623260958 | Ammo Books, August 1, 2016, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Now releasing at a price affordable for every fan, this hardcover book contains 125 of Weston's well-known images and many lesser-known gems.

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By Diane Betties (photographer)

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9789810946296 | Scb Distributors, August 15, 2015, cover price $64.95

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9789810968830 | Reprint edition (Scb Distributors, June 30, 2016), cover price $64.95
9780521312578, titled "The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution" | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1986, cover price $19.95 | also contains The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution

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Product Description: Post-War Photography in Britain presents a substantial overview of key works in British photography from 1946 to the present day. Featuring c. 250 works from the Arts Council Collection, which was founded in 1946 to collect modern and contemporary British art, Post-War Photography in Britain provides a long overdue, affordable overview in a clear and accessible format...read more

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9781853323461 | Hayward Pub, October 25, 2016, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Post-War Photography in Britain presents a substantial overview of key works in British photography from 1946 to the present day.

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Product Description: Imagine Indiana farms at the turn of the last century. What comes from the land sustains us. Our farms and families depend on it. Having a good or bad year can mean the difference between prosperity and your family going hungry. Farmers knew how to provide...read more
By Neal Harmeyer (editor) and Frederick Whitford (editor)

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9781557537430, titled "Enriching the Hoosier Farm Family: A Photo History of Indiana’s Early County Extension Agents" | Purdue Univ Pr, May 15, 2016, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Imagine Indiana farms at the turn of the last century.

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Product Description: Although Jewish life in the Holy Land reawakened during the 19th century, photographs of Jews in Palestine and the life they lived there are scarce. Collecting photographs from the archives of the the Library of Congress, the Ottoman Imperial Archives, the New York Public Library, libraries in universities and churches around the world, and in families’ albums, Lenny Ben-David provides a unique and visual history of the American fascination and dedication to a Jewish national home in the Holy Land...read more

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9789655242355 | Urim Pubns, September 12, 2016, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Although Jewish life in the Holy Land reawakened during the 19th century, photographs of Jews in Palestine and the life they lived there are scarce.

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Product Description: In Ground, Bill McDowell has assembled a series of "killed" negatives from the FSA archives, many of which have never before been published. These include several photographs from 1936 that Walker Evans had made for Let Us Know Praise Famous Men, the book he published with James Agee...read more

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9781942084129 | Daylight Community Arts Foundation, April 26, 2016, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: In Ground, Bill McDowell has assembled a series of "killed" negatives from the FSA archives, many of which have never before been published.

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By Jim Heimann (introduced by)

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9780991619818 | Boyo Pr, April 26, 2016, cover price $39.95

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