Giovanni Umicini. My New York


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Un volume di grande formato, di 124 pagine con copertina cartonata, che porta alla luce il diario fotografico del maestro padovano della Street photography nella New York del 1985, la cui straordinarietà sta anche – ma non solo – nella scelta del medium: la Polaroid. “Scelta estrema e difficile – spiega Paolo Coltro nel saggio introduttivo – vuol dire che c’è un unico originale, non esiste negativo. Non è solo «o la va o la spacca» - con Umicini va praticamente sempre – significa che quell’immagine non avrà copie, che è un delicato tesoro come individualità, che dev’essere salvata pena la scomparsa definitiva.” 100 immagini scattate con i piedi per terra, frammenti di vita comune, che non inseguono un’ossessione estetica fine a se stessa, ma raccontano un luogo e un artista senza infingimenti, di un testimone attento e curioso che vuole mostrare e non dimostrare. *** This is a large format book with hard cover, which brings to light the photographic diary of the Paduan master of Street photography in the New York of 1985, whose extraordinary nature is also - but not only - in the unusual choice of the medium, the Polaroid . 100 images taken with their feet on the ground, fragments of common life, which do not pursue an aesthetic obsession for its own sake, but tell a place and an artist without pretense, of an attentive and curious witness who wants to show and not demonstrate.




Modern Photography


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Directory for Members


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A History of Women Photographers


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The definitive text on women in photography, now in an affordable paperback edition.




L'Arca


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Brasil Inspired


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Soaring past most nations' notion of culture Brazil boasts jungle, concrete, football, corruption, carnival and the place where first and third worlds make easy bedfellows. That such a place is well-charted through maps and guides is hardly surprising but the creative output and impressions of that country have largely been ignored. "Brasil "takes the center stage to lap up the works produced (exclusively for this book) by designers from all corners of the globe.




Women Seeing Women


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This anthology is dedicated to pictures of women taken by women. It begins withhotographs by the two great female photographers of the 19th century, Clementna Lady Hawarden and Julia Margaret Cameron, and covers a period of over 100 yars to the present day.;Some 160 images by 90 photographers present us with th entire spectrum of female self-definition both behind and in front of the camra. As such, the four major themes of social reality, the family, the female bdy and virtual reality come to the fore with their multifarious pictures fromhe worlds of art, literature, fashion, dance and show business. There are selfprotraits as well as female photographers' portraits of female photographers,aughters, mothers and, of course, several important female figures including Vrginia Woolf, Greta Garbo, Martha Graham, Simone de Beauvoir, Maria Callas, Maonna, Hillary Clinton, and even Her Majesty the Queen.




Reading American Photographs


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Considers five documentary sequences or narratives: the antebellum portraits of Mathew Brady and others; the Civil War albums of Alexander Gardner, George Barnard and A.J. Russell; the Western survey and landscape photographs of Timothy O'Sullivan, A.J. Russell, and Carleton Watkins; and social photographs and texts by Alfred Stieglitz and Lewis Hine; as well as documentaries inspired by the Depression, esp. Walker Evans's American Photographs.




Harvest Pilgrims


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A renowned photographer tells the little-known story of Canada's migrant workers




Homer: The Iliad


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This book offers a clear and stimulating introduction to Homer's Iliad, the greatest poem of Western culture. It discusses central aspects of the work (including the tradition of oral poetry, the style and structure of the epic, and its depiction of the gods, heroism, war, and gender roles) and guides the reader in understanding the skill and profundity of Homer's achievement. This introduction is ideal for undergraduates and students in the upper forms of schools, but it requires no knowledge of ancient Greek and is intended for all readers interested in Homer. The Classical World series is well established and explores the culture and achievements of the civilizations of Greece and Rome. Concise yet informative and stimulating, each book includes illustrations and suggestions for further reading and study. Designed specifically for students and teachers of Classical Civilization at late school and early university level, the series provides an up-to-date collection of accessible guides to the history, institutions, literature, art and values of the Classical world.