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Author: Bernard Quaritch
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Published: 1936
Total Pages: 36
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Odalisques and Arabesques
Author: Ken Jacobson
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 378
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKKen Jacobson shows that the history of Orientalist photography begins weeks after the invention of photography itself. Jacobson is not an academic, but has conducted a great deal of scholarly research on the often obscure careers of photographers and the intertwined histories of the Levantine studios. He demonstrates that many of the past criticisms of Orientalist photography are based on ignorance either of chronology or technology.
At First, All Went Well ...
Author: Nicolas Barker
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Published: 2019
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780995519213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollected obituaries chiefly reprinted from the Independent newspaper and the Book Collector.
The Diary of Master William Silence
Author: Dodgson Hamilton Madden
Publisher: London ; New York : Longmans, Green, and Company
Published: 1897
Total Pages: 408
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Author: Michael Faraday
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Published: 1844
Total Pages: 334
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTianshu
Author: John Cayley
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780955085291
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Tianshu: Passages in the Making of a Book" examines Tianshu with a focus on the bibliographic and technical details of the work and contains new essays by Xu Bing (published both in Mandarin and in translation); John Cayley (Brown University); Professor Lydia Liu (Columbia University); and Professor Haun Saussy (Yale University). It also includes an essay from 1994 on Xu Bing's "nonsense writing" by Professor Wu Hung (University of Chicago); a detailed bibliographic description of the Tianshu; and a thorough exhibition history. This book is the most comprehensive study of the Tianshu to date.
History of Photography in China 1842-1860
Author: Terry Bennett
Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 268
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the first extensive survey of early Chinese photographers in any language. It is profusely illustrated with more than 400 photographs, many of which are published here for the first time, including a fine selection of Foochow landscapes from the studios of Lai Fong, China's leading photographer during this period, and Tung Hing. Early chapters introduce the historical milieu from which the earliest Chinese photographers emerged and illuminate the beginnings of photography in China and contemporary Chinese reactions to its introduction. Early Chinese commercial photography - both portrait and landscape - are also discussed with reference to similar genres in a more international context. Individual chapters are devoted to Chinese photographers in Peking, Hong Kong, Canton, Shanghai, Foochow, Amoy, Hankow, Tientsin and other ports, Macau and Formosa. These are followed by a series of appendices: writings on photography in China by John Thomson and Isaac Taylor Headland and an invaluable guide to the identification of photographs from the Afong Studio. It concludes with an extensive bibliography, general and regional chronologies, and a biographical index. Publisher's note.
Four Antarctic Years in the South Orkney Islands
Author: José Manuel Moneta
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Published: 2017
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780995519206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCarrying Off the Palaces
Author: Ken Jacobson
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780956301277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe inspiration for this book was a remarkable discovery made by the authors at a small country auction in 2006. One lightly regarded lot was a distressed mahogany box crammed with long-lost early photographs. These daguerreotypes were later confirmed as once belonging to John Ruskin, the great 19th-century art critic, writer, artist and social reformer. Moreover, the many scenes of Italy, France and Switzerland included the largest collection of daguerreotypes of Venice in the world and probably the earliest surviving photographs of the Alps. 00Core to this book is a fully illustrated catalogue raisonné of the 325 known John Ruskin daguerreotypes. The overwhelming majority of the newly-discovered plates are published here for the first time. There are an additional 276 illustrations in the text and an essay describing the technical procedures used in conserving Ruskin’s photographs. Ten chapters extensively study Ruskin’s photographic endeavours. A chronology, glossary, twenty-page bibliography and comprehensive index complete this handsome hardback book.
Artists' Books
Author: Stephen Bury
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Published: 2015-06
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780956301291
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of artists’ involvement with the book format between 1963 and 2000 includes a fascinating range of artists and movements from Mallarméto the Piece of Paper Press via Cubism, Futurism, Dada, Fluxus and conceptual art. This second edition includes updated text with new bibliographic descriptions of 600 key artists’ books and over 130 new, full-page, colour illustrations taken from the internationally renowned Chelsea College of Art & Design Library collection. It is an indispensable resource for the definition and classification of artists’ books by a renowned scholar in the field.0.
