Fowles, John, Photography by the Gibsons of Scilly

Shipwreck

London, Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1974, First Printing. 21 x 26,2 x 1,3 cm. oblong format, Hardcover (cloth), met stofomslag. 12 pagina's introduction by John Fowles, 36 pagina's met zwart-wit foto's. Black & White images. ISBN/EAN: 9780224010535. Conditie: Good, Boek wat verkleurd verder in goede staat, stofomslag zeer sterk verkleurd.. It seems inconceivable that ships illustrated in this book, with their air of permanence, of beauty allied with strength, should ever have met with destruction. Yet the sea has claimed them. The coasts of the Scilly Isles and West Cornwell have probably proved more lethal than any comparable area in the world. Four generations of the Gibson family of the Scillies, starting with John Gibson in the 1860s, have recorded the last moments of the ships, great and small, beautiful and utilitarian, which have met their end on these treacherous shoals and rocks. This book is a selection of the best of their photographs - superb visual epitaphs of maritime disaster which show the Gibsons to be neglected masters of the camera.

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N° du livre: 20240213

Catalogue: Photography

LEONG, MARK

China Obscura

San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 2004, 1ste druk. 23,8 x 16 x 2,3 cm. , Hardcover. Black & White images. ISBN/EAN: 9780811844611. Conditie: As new, Puntgaaf exemplaar. Foreword by Yang Lian, afterword by Peter Hessler, Book is oblong. Arriving in mainland China by change just a day after the Tiananman Square crackdown, Mark Leong stayed to explore the contradictions of a rapidly changing but still intensely traditional Chinese society. In more than 140 photographs the book reveals an intimate and exquisitely detailed portrait of a China rarely seen, accelerating towards an uncertain future between old and new.

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N° du livre: 20210054

Catalogue: Photography

Sobieszek, Robert A. editor

The Architectural Photography of Hedrich-Blessing

New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984, 1ste druk. 26,4 x 22,8 x 1,2 cm., Hardcover (cloth), met stofomslag. 92 pagina's. Black & White images. ISBN/EAN: 9780030615542. Conditie: Very good, Licht verkleurd, verder als nieuw. Since 1930, the Chicago photography firm of Hedrich- Blessing has documented practically the entire history of modern architecture in America, from the Prairie School and Beaux-Arts to Late and Post- Modernism.This stunning collection, selected from the Hedrich-Blessing archives, opens with examples of Depression Modern from the early 1930s, including photographs of Chicago's famous "A Centuary of Progress" exposition of 1933. .

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N° du livre: 20240037

Catalogue: Photography

Mots-clés: Architecture