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Cinco anos despues (Vidas minadas): Bilingual editionCoinciding with the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Ottawa Convention to ban land mines, this bilingual photo essay depicts how the lives of four young victims of land mines have evolved since they were featured in the author's first book on this topic.... |
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Cindy Sherman: RetrospectiveThis comprehensive book traces the career of Cindy Sherman, examining her achievements as one of the leading American artists of our time. Provocative and engaging, the vivid physicality of Sherman's photographs is the key to their dramatic power. By exploring the myriad constructions of female identity and the body in our culture, Sherman imitates and confronts assorted representational stereotypes, becoming for many an icon of the contemporary concerns of feminism and postmodernism. Essayists ... |
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Cities from the Sky: An Aerial Portrait of AmericaCities From the Sky: An Aerial Portrait of America features over 125 classic photographs that together form a definitive portrait of America's urban landscape. Taken by the intrepid photographers of the Fairchild Aerial Survey company over a five-decade span, these lavishly reproduced images provide a sparkling record of our cities in the boom years of the twentieth century. The Empire State Building, the Washington Monument, Wrigley Field, Hoover Dam, and Alacatraz Island are just a few of ... |
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Cities on the EdgeCaptured through the lenses of some of the leading names in photography, "Cities on the Edge" provides a fascinating insight into six of the world's most 'edgy' cities. Published to coincide with ambitious international 'Cities on the Edge' cultural programme, Davies and his hand picked team of photographers provide an incredible visual journey through six cities sharing common cultural, historical, social and economic ties (Liverpool, Naples, Marseilles, Istanbul, Gdansk, Bremen).They are all p... |
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Cities within the CityPhotographing the scattered street signs throughout the city, Scalia captures the spirit of Palermo Italy in this beautiful book.... |
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Citizens and SubjectsIn 2007, Aernout Mik represented the Netherlands at the Venice Biennale. Rather than produce a standard catalogue to accompany Mik's acclaimed three-part video installation, curator Maria Hlavajova organized this dense and galvanizing critical reader. Interspersed with provocative black-and-white images from Mik's artworks, Citizens and Subjects looks at the Netherlands as an example of the contemporary western condition at a time when the demands of "national security," the normalization of vio... |
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CityDisplacement, Flight, Isolation, Fragmentation. Fleeting disassociation. These are the groundbreaking photographic tropes established by Robert Frank in his landmark book The Americans. Now, more than four decades later, the same ground is rediscovered - again from an immigrant's status, but more tightly focused: that of the all too well known city of cities, New York. Polish-born Zulawinski came to these shores shortly after the Wall fell and began shooting. He dived head first into the rushing... |
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City 2000Inspired by the wish to capture Chicago's diversity and vibrance for posterity, an idea took shape to take "a year-long snapshot of the city," beginning with the first minute of the new millennium and ending with the last minute of the year 2000. Containing 199 photographs drawn from the Comer Archive of Chicago In The Year 2000 at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Richard J. Daley Library, the images in CITY 2000 capture the lifestyles, architecture, spirituality, and personality of thi... |
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City Ablaze: Life With the World's Busiest Fire-Fighters (Transaction Large Print Books)The fireman's world has traditionally been a private one: fire-fighters are the silent service, always playing down their image as heroes. Fireman have inspired writers and painters since the beginning of the last century, yet until recently any portrayal of their rescues has been a romanticised account, not documentary. This book is a comprehensive study of one fire station, its men, their lives and their work. Martin Lloyd-Elliott never outgrew his childhood fascination with the fire engines o... |

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