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Author: Church of England. Mission Theological Advisory Group
Publisher: Church House Publishing
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780715155509
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book of prayers and reflections includes extracts from books, poems, pictures and pieces of music which, like transparencies, or photographic negatives ready for development, have colours and images waiting to be discovered.
Author: Laurence Chatel de Brancion
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780892369096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLouis de Carmontelle was an eighteenth-century French draftsman, painter, and garden designer. Beginning in 1783 he painted a series of panoramas on translucent paper that became a popular source of entertainment at royal court gatherings. These rolled-up transparencies (rouleaux transparents) were cranked through a backlit viewing box, and the "moving pictures" were accompanied by live storytelling that gave spectators the experience of journeying through beautiful landscapes. Presented chronologically, the transparencies show the evolution of eighteenth-century fashions and customs.The author re-creates the original viewing experience by leading the reader through a series of panoramic scenes, and, in the process, offers a lively analysis of social life in the 1700s. Drawn from both museum and private collections, the charming illustrations include gatefolds showing the full extent of the J. Paul Getty Museum's Figures Walking in a Parkland as well as many exquisite details of elegant outdoor gatherings and verdant parklands. The book presents all of Carmontelle's extant transparencies, some of which survive only in fragments and a number of which have never been published.
Author: Aki Ishida
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-04-22
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 042901385X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlurred Transparencies in Contemporary Glass Architecture brings to light complex readings of transparent glass through close observations of six pivotal works of architecture. Written from the perspectives of a practitioner, the six essays challenge assumptions about fragility and visual transparency of glass. A material imbued with idealism and utopic vision, glass has captured architects’ imagination, and glass’s fragility and difficulties in thermal control continue to present technical challenges. In recent decades, architecture has witnessed an emergence of technological advancements in chemical coating, structural engineering, and fabrication methods that resulted in new kinds of glass transparencies. Buildings examined in the book include a sanatorium with expansive windows delivering light and air to recovering tuberculosis patients, a pavilion with a crystal clear glass plenum circulating air for heating and cooling, a glass monument symbolizing the screen of personal devices that shortened the distance between machines and humans, and a glass building symbolizing the social and material intertwining in the glass ceiling metaphor. Connecting material glass to broader cultural and social contexts, Blurred Transparencies in Contemporary Glass Architecture enlightens students and practitioners of architecture as well as the general public with interest in design. The author demonstrates how glass is rarely crystal clear but is blurred both materially and metaphysically, revealing complex readings of ideas for which glass continues to stand.
Author: Rudolph ACKERMANN
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Published: 1800
Total Pages: 28
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stefan Berger
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2019-10-18
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 3030239497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited collection examines the multi-faceted phenomenon of transparency, especially in its relation to social movements, from a range of multi-disciplinary viewpoints. Over the past few decades, transparency has become an omnipresent catch phrase in public and scientific debates. The volume tracks developments of ideas and practices of transparency from the eighteenth century to the current day, as well as their semantic, cultural and social preconditions. It connects analyses of the ideological implications of transparency concepts and transparency claims with their impact on the public sphere in general and on social movements in particular. In doing so, the book contributes to a better understanding of social conflicts and power relations in modern societies. The chapters are organized into four parts, covering the concept and ideology of transparency, historical and recent developments of the public sphere and media, the role of the state as an agent of surveillance, and conflicts over transparency and participation connected to social movements.
Author: United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward Luther Stevenson
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 64
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Published: 1840
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen Shore
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Published: 2020-03-05
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781912339709
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Transparencies: Small Camera Works 1971-1979' offers an alternative account of one of the most fabled episodes in photographic history: the cross-country journeys that produced Stephen Shore's luminous new vision of the American landscape, 'Uncommon Places'. Along with his large-format camera, Shore also brought a 35mm Leica on his travels. The images made with it, on luminous colour slide film, are intimate, spontaneous and personal, while retaining Shore's studied formal sensitivity. In these entirely unseen photographs, a parallel iteration of an iconic vision emerges like a piece of music played in a new key. The vocabulary is familiar: highways and homes, phone boxes, fast food and sun-strewn parking lots. But the alternative format unmistakably re-envisions these subjects through distinct experiments with composition, attitude, and colour. Transparencies uncovers both a detail-oriented survey of the American landscape of the 1970s and a rigorous, imaginative exercise in form by an undisputed modern master. With an afterword by Britt Salvesen, curator at LACMA, titled 'Ordinary Speech: The Vernacular in Stephen Shore's Early 35mm Photography'.
Author: William Peters
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2012-04-23
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1620958201
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMike Morgan, a world renowned engineer, finally realizes the dream of owning a historical 1855 plantation estate. Soon after moving in, he is plagued by haunting nightmares that evolve into a terrifying reality. The story begins to unfold, revealing a tale of deception and murder that has trapped spirits to the plantation grounds for decades.Will Mike rise to the challenge of revealing the mysteries of the past and finally free the plantation's ghostly inhabitants? Or will the sins of the past continue to take their revenge on the occupants of the present?
