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Beatles in Rishikesh (Penguin Studio Books)In February 1968 The Beatles came to Rishikesh to study transcendental Meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. During this time they wrote most of the songs that were later to become the White Album. No professional photographers were allowed inside the Ashram but the group had no objections to Saltzman freely snapping pictures during their time together. The pictures are reproduced in this lavishly designed book along with Satlzman's account of his experiences with the band.... |
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Beaufighter Squadrons (In Focus)... |
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Beautiful and the Damned: The Creation of Identity in Nineteenth-Century PhotographyThis volume explores the broad social and cultural context for the development of portrait photography in the 19th century, showing how social and celebrity portraiture on the one hand, and scientific photography on the other, were different facets of the 19th-century fascination with classification and ordering. Between 1860 and 1900, editions of celebrity portraits, as well as the vogue for the "carte de visite", fuelled the fashion for collecting and classifying photographs of the face. In an... |
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Beautiful Kyoto: A Kodansha Postcard Book (Kodansha postcard books)A colourful range of scenes of traditional Kyoto are presented in this postcard book, capturing the delicate grace of Japan's ancient capital.... |
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The Beautiful Struggle: Street attitude from South Africa's TownshipsThe townships of Cape Town are the place where traditional African culture meets global youth cultures. Hip-hop has reached South Africa and is reinterpreted according to local conditions. Styles in fashion, dance and music are a way out of poverty. For the first time this fascinating street culture is presented outside South Africa.... |
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Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in PainSusan Sontag once remarked that since the invention of the camera, photography has “kept company with death.” And indeed, images of suffering human beings and devastated landscapes appear regularly in the popular media and even in contemporary art. This volume explores these painful images from the past few decades of photography, weighing in on the intense critical debate that has arisen in recent years around depictions of acute human suffering—especially those that are beautifully rende... |
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The Beauty Box: A Tribute to the Legendary Beauty Parlors of the SouthThe old-fashioned beauty parlor is rapidly vanishing in the wake of walk-in franchise haircutters and unisex styling salons. Where are the good old days full of weekly appointments, ladies' gossip, neighborhood chitchat, strong coffee, sweet cookies, and the powerful aroma of the traditional permanent wave? They're still alive in the Deep South, and they've been fully documented in this entertaining book by author Kathy Kemp and photographer Karim Shamsi-Basha.... |
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Before The Deluge... |
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Before Their Time: The World of Child LaborAlthough numerous international treaties and organizations work tirelessly to improve conditions for children, there are still 320 million children under the age of sixteen working around the world—150 million of those in the most harmful industries, such as prostitution and forced military service. This is their story, in words and photographs.Physician and photographer David L. Parker takes us beyond the headlines and into the textile factories, stone quarries, and garbage dumps where childr... |

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