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The Boardwalk Album: Memories of the BeachA nostalgic look at Toronto's Beach area from 1878 to 1925, with wonderful period photographs of the Boardwalk, the sparsely populated Beaches neighborhood, bustling amusement parks, Kew Gardens, the Old Woodbine, picnics and paddlewheelers, bathers and brass bands. ... |
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BoatsHere's a real treat for travelers, sailors, or anyone with an interest in the nautical. Sumptuous, full-color photographs, highlighted with complementary quotes by internationally famous writers, distinguish this comprehensive tribute to myriad vessels around the globe, from the dhows of Kenya to the gondolas of Venice. Sailboats, yachts, schooners, cargo ships, Peruvian reed boats, Chilean fishing craft, and humble rowboats are celebrated in this international photo album of the vessels that ... |
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A BodyFor thirty-three years, John Coplans has photographed his body nude. He made his first picture of his back and hands in 1978 when he was fifty-eight and the last in A Body in 2001, at the age of eight-one. Mythic in scope and unflinching in its examination of one person's humanness and mortality, Coplans transcends, in this sequence of 115 images, the boundaries of photography as an art. A painter by training and a self-taught photographer by choice, Coplans uses his own headless body as his ... |
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Body and Soul: The Courage and Beauty of Breast Cancer SurvivorsBody and Soul is a collection of striking black-and-white images of breast cancer survivors. It presents a thoroughly inspiring and original look at a critically important subject for millions of women.... |
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Body Horror: Photojournalism, Catastrophe and War (Critical Image)Asks why anyone would want to look at shocking photographs. The text questions what happens when the press uses gruesome images to represent accidents and disasters, murder and execution, grief and death. It examines how the press pictures the dead and injured bodies of foreigners, with particular reference to the special conditions of photographing the horror of wars in the Gulf, Bosnia and Rwanda. It argues that hard-hitting documentary photography contributes to public knowledge and helps to ... |
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Body Horror: Photojournalism, Catastrophe and War (Critical Image)What compels us to look at shocking photographs or, alternatively, to look away? Should the media use disturbing images to inform, at the risk of offending? How is our sense of politics, morality, and culture affected when we are exposed to gruesome images of accidents and disasters, murder and execution, grief and death? In Body Horror, John Taylor addresses these questions by examining how the media presents unsettling pictures, especially those of dead and injured "foreigners." Drawing on r... |
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The Body in Question (Aperture)... |
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Bogota from the AirFollowing the success aerial photographic portraits of major cities of Europe, here is Bogota From the Air. The sabana de Bogotá has been described by travelers as one of earth´s most beautiful landscapes. Braced by the cerros, Bogota's ridges of green, is a vibrant commercial Latin American city of seven million people. These 200 photographs were taken from as close as 1500 feet above Bogota squares, parks and city buildings, reveal dazzling man-made and natural patterns. Seen from this va... |
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Bogota VivaThe largest city in South America north of Rio, Bogota is an urban environment of more than 7 million inhabitants; like other metropolitan areas, Bogota is many cities at once. Looking through Cristobal von Rothkirk's photographic eye, here is all of Bogota-the sophisticated Hispanic city, the South American captial, the complex of urban cultures tattooed with signs of international pop culture. In this book is both a city being reshaped by our times as well as a timeless city with 500-year-... |
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