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The Boardwalk Album: Memories of the Beach

A 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. ...

Boats

Here'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 ...

A Body

For 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 ...

Body and Soul: The Courage and Beauty of Breast Cancer Survivors

Body 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....

BODY HORROR: PHOTOJOURNALISM, CATASTROPHE AND WAR (CRITICAL IMAGE)

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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...

The Body in Question (Aperture)

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Bogota from the Air

Majestic at 2,600 metres above sea level, Bogotá shows its best face from the air. The book provides a different perspective to admire the best facet of one of the largest cities in South America and to enjoy it with the dignity that only height can provide. From north to south and from east to west, "Bogotá from the Air" is a due homage to the city that is capable of bringing as many emotions as people together. The book is the testimony of an evolutionary model that has turned the city, over...

Bogota Viva

The 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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