a history of the photographic lens (61 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. The Photography Handbook provides an introduction to the principles of photographic practice and theory and offers guidelines for the systematic study of photographic media. It explores the history of lens-based picture making and examines the mediums' characteristics, scope and limitations. Equipping the reader with a vocabulary for photographic phenomena and helping develop visual awareness and visual literacy, The Photography Handbook will enable students to familiarize themselves with current theoretical viewpoints and to evolve critical frameworks for their own photographic practice. The Photography Handbook includes: * an analysis of photographic theory * an introduction to conceptual skills necessary for photography * the historical background and rationale for photographic representation * the camera as a documentary tool * interviews with editors, photographers, picture editors and readers * the effect of new technologies on photographic practice and an exploration of the shift from analogue to digital imagery * over seventy images. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Zustand: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A new, revolutionary history of photography from a stellar team of writers and thinkers that challenges all existing narratives by focusing on the complex collaborations between photographer and subject. Collaboration presents a groundbreaking and multifaceted history of photography which explores photography through the lens of collaboration, challenging the dominant narratives around photographic history and authorship. In a vast, collaborative effort led by five of the great thinkers and practitioners in photography that includes more than 550 photographs and over 80 text contributors, this book breaks apart photography's 'single creator' tradition by bringing to light tangible traces of collaboration - the various relationships, exchanges and interactions which occur between all participants in the event of photography. This book will provide the keys to understanding and decoding the complex politics of seeing. The conditions of collaboration in photography are explored through over 100 photography projects, divided into eight thematic chapters. The photographs from each project are presented non-hierarchically alongside quotes, testimonies, and short texts by guest contributors. These networks of texts and images provide perspective on a vast array of photographic themes, from Araki's provocative portraits of women to archival files from the Spanish Civil War. Collaboration is not an ultimate account of what photography is, does, or means. Rather, the book is an inspiration for teaching and an open invitation to scholars, activists, photographers and others to practice always with and alongside others and participate actively in this engagement and enquiry.

Ppbck, card covers. 1st edition. 336 pp.with 900 illustrations. The book is an exhibition catalogue and presents over 1000 postcards of ordinary people made exceptional by the lens of the camera. These images, all real photographs in postcard form, have been selected from the extensive collection of the artist, Tom Phillips, a postcard collector for a quarter of a century. In the first half of the 20th Century, the picture postcard transformed the art of portraiture from elite pastime to popular craze. Photographic equipment was cheaper, film faster, studios sprang up in every town, on every seaside promenade. In this democratic new medium, cook and chatelaine, poacher and gamekeeper, boss and labourer, manager and clerk were suddenly equal. Everyone became a postcard. VERY FINE COPY, AS NEW Size: 19,5 x 25 cm.

hardcover. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut leichte Verschmutzung -Britain is changing. Don't panic! Let's talk. Who were we Who are we Who do we want to be Look back. Leap forward. Explore this treasure trove of images from the Mirror archives that expansively covers the last 100 years. Made in Britain is an epic collection of photographs chronicling Britain at work - that both reminds us of our collective power and giving us hope for the future. These images are pieces of a lost world. Ships emerge at the end of the street. The faces of tough, proud people look at us through the lens of a camera. They had their own hopes and fears. What would they say to us This was Britain at work. We used to make stuff on an epic scale. Life was not a rose garden, but together we achieved incredible things. We built the modern world. We were always a big family, welcoming workers from around the globe. Let's start a conversation. Let's look back to leap forward. Epic goals are exciting. Epic goals bring people together. We used to make stuff. Could we make stuff again Should we 198 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Leonard 'Len' Keith and Joseph 'Cub' Coates grew up in the rural New Brunswick village of Havelock in the early 20th century. The two were neighbours, and they clearly developed an inseparable relationship. Len was an amateur photographer and automobile enthusiast who went on to own a local garage and poolhall after serving in the First World War. Cub was the son of a farmer, also a veteran of the First World War, a butcher, contractor, and lover of horses. Their time together is catalogued by Len's photos which show that the two shared a mutual love of the outdoors, animals, and adventure. Photographs of Len and Cub on hunting and canoe trips with arms around each other's shoulders or in bed together make clear the affection they held for each other. Their story is one of the oldest photographic records of a same-sex couple in the Maritimes. Len & Cub features Len's photos of their life and tells the story of their relationship against the background of same-sex identity and relationships in rural North America of the early 20th century. Although Len was outed and forced to leave Havelock in the 1930s, the story of Len and Cub is one of love and friendship that challenges contemporary ideas about sex and gender expression in the early 20th century.'.

Zustand: New. A lavish photographic celebration of the life of charismatic Seve Ballesteros. Published to coincide with the 10th anniversary of his sad passing.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 53pp. Publisher's coated pictorial wrappers printed in blue-green ink. Portrait of Edison and numerous photographic plates and illustrations throughout. A few spots and creases and with some professional restoration at the spine and upper foredge of the front wrappers, else near fine. Housed in custom red quarter morocco clamshell case. A remarkable copy of the first book on the motion picture. This copy belonged to A.R. Allen of Famous Productions Inc. in Universal City, California, and is accompanied by a typed letter signed to Allen from Iris Barry, curator of the Museum of Modern Art Film Library, dated Dec. 4, 1939, who states: ".I do not think there can be much doubt that the Dickson 'History of the Kinetoscope' is the first book on the motion picture . ." This book details the invention and early experimentation of the kinetoscope with numerous images and closes with this bold but accurate prediction: "What is the future of the kinetograph? Ask rather, from what conceivable phase of the future it can be debarred. In the promotion of business interests, in the advancement of science, in the relation of unguessed worlds, in its educational and re-creative powers, and in its ability to immortalize our fleeting but beloved associations, the kinetograph stands foremost among the creations of modern inventive genius" (p. 52). William Kennedy Dickson's invention, the Kinetoscope, was simple: a strip of several images was passed in front of an illuminated lens and behind a spinning wheel. In fact, Edison saw very little value in the contraption, but thought that it might be served to enhance his phonograph. On January 7, 1894, Dickson received a patent for motion picture film. Shortly afterwards, after a great deal of debate with Edison and West Orange film colleague Jonathan Campbell, Dickson switched from the 19mm width, single sprocket film he was using, to the more stable 35mm double-sided sprocket film. Edison didn't see the need or benefit for redesigning the equipment to accept the larger negative, but Dickson and Campbell believed it was essential if the technology was to advance. Today's standard is still 35mm double-sided sprocket film. Dickinson's importance to early film-making cannot be overstated. He is credited with producing the first film shot in the United States (*Monkeyshines*, 1890), the first public demonstrations in the United States (*Dickson's Greeting*, 1891), the earliest known film containing actors (*The Blacksmith Scene*, 1893), and by default the first film director and studio head after the creation, by Edison in 1893, of the world's first film studio, Black Mariah (a nickname coined by Dickson). While numerous copies of a 1970 facsimile of the first edition can be found at institutions, the true first edition is exceedingly difficult to find with *OCLC* locating about 10 copies. A rare surviving copy of this landmark first book on motion picture by a true pioneer, too long overshadowed by more famous film "innovators" such as Edison.

hardcover. Zustand: Perfetto (Mint). Prima edizione (First Edition). Con contributi di Keith F. Davis. Introduzione di Julian Zugazagoitia. Ampiamente illustrato con riproduzioni a colori dei dagherrotipi con le loro cornici originali . 8vo (28x28 cm). pp. 168. . Perfetto (Mint). . Prima edizione (First Edition). . A fresh, comprehensive, and critical look at the California gold rush through the lens of the daguerreotype camera.The California gold rush was the first major event in American history to be documented in depth by photography. This fascinating volume offers a fresh, comprehensive, and critical look at the people, places, and culture of that historical episode as seen through daguerreotypes and ambrotypes of the era. After gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, thousands made the journey to California, including daguerreotypists who established studios in cities and towns and ventured into the gold fields in specially outfitted photographic wagons. Their images, including portraits, views of cities and gold towns, and miners at work in the field, provide an extraordinary glimpse into the evolution of mining culture and technology, the variety of nationalities and races involved in the mining industry, and the growth of cities such as San Francisco and Sacramento. Including numerous images published here for the first time, this book provides an extraordinary glimpse into the transformation of the American West.Uno sguardo nuovo, completo e critico sulla corsa all'oro in California attraverso l'obiettivo della macchina fotografica per dagherrotipiLa corsa all'oro in California è stato il primo grande evento della storia americana a essere documentato in modo approfondito dalla fotografia. Questo affascinante volume offre uno sguardo fresco, completo e critico sulle persone, i luoghi e la cultura di quell'episodio storico, visti attraverso i dagherrotipi e gli ambrotipi dell'epoca. Dopo la scoperta dell'oro a Sutter's Mill nel 1848, migliaia di persone si misero in viaggio verso la California, compresi i dagherrotipisti che aprirono studi in città e paesi e si avventurarono nei campi d'oro con carri fotografici appositamente attrezzati. Le loro immagini, tra cui ritratti, vedute di città e paesi auriferi e minatori al lavoro sul campo, offrono uno straordinario sguardo sull'evoluzione della cultura e della tecnologia mineraria, sulla varietà di nazionalità e razze coinvolte nell'industria mineraria e sulla crescita di città come San Francisco e Sacramento. Con numerose immagini pubblicate per la prima volta, questo libro offre uno sguardo straordinario sulla trasformazione dell'Ovest americano. Book.

Zustand: New. 176, 200 col photos. 250x250mm. PB. NEW. . This book offers an extraordinary insight into the microworld through the lens of a camera, which has magnified the familiar and the unfamiliar living things that surround us. Images of insects; close-ups of spiders; delicate butterflies with wing patterns that rival the most elegant fabrics; fish whose scales create intricate designs.these are just a few of the living creatures featured in this book. Many of these images include rare exotic species and creatures that have scarcely been captured by the camera's lens before. The book's images are accompanied by professional photographers' recommendation on equipment and techniques necessary to obtain the types of photographic effects shown. This book will be of interest to photographers, naturalists, environmentalists, biologists and those who are simply fascinated by the world around us. [9781908126009].

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Using the theme of Currency to invite reflection on the contemporary power of the photograph to relay and relate meaning across distance, the Triennial of Photography Hamburg explores the value of photography in the 21st century. The extension of this economic term to art and visual culture allows for a sustained engagement with photography and its relationship to value-making, canon-making, access, circulation, and knowledge production. At a time when the production, distribution, and consumption of photographic images has become ubiquitous and we have learned to structure our contemporary world through a lens, the digital image has become the currency of exchange on social platforms. Fostering interdisciplinary dialogue, the Critical Reader Lucid Knowledge: The Currency of the Photographic Image gathers international perspectives that reflect on how photography shapes today's narratives, as well as our perception and experience of the world.With numerous photo exhibitions and events in Hamburg museums, exhibition venues, and galleries, the 8th edition of the TRIENNIAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY HAMBURG is a global survey of current developments in photography. A discursive forerunner to the exhibitions, the international symposium Lucid Knowldge: The Currency of the Photographic Image, which took place from September 30-October 2, 2021, initiated the critical exchange and reflections the Triennal aims to encourage.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. 152 pages. Black and white photographic plates. "This book does not claim to have said anything new, but is rather a reviewing of an old story through an individual lens which may bring into a new perspective the leading characters and events of that story. It is a story that can never be exhausted, and is always unfolding; that fact, and the narrow, unsatisfactory method of disconnecting teaching, and spiritualising in general practice, are my excuses for attempting to give it as one continual history, 'The Drama of the Ages', whose pivotal centre is Christ Himself and His teaching." - from Preface. Above-average wear to blue boards. Infrequent high-lighting to contents. Sound reference copy.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A photographic history of lifesaving at sea, told through the camera lens of the Reach (Mirrorpix) archives.

Pictorial Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No D/J. First Edition. No D/J. The book is tight and clean, but has usual library stamps. This is a good historical reference on the birth of photography, and how it has influenced some of the great artists of the day. You will receive the book seen in the image. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

fester Pappband. Zustand: wie neu. Format 22,0 x 28,0 cm; 1366 S. mit 2000 sw-Abbildungen; farbig bedruckter, glänzend cellohanierter Schutzumschlag (leicht berieben); mit Gold-(Rücken) und Blind-(Vorderseite)Prägungen versehener Efalin-Deckenband; Achtung: Erhöhte Versandkosten, da schwerer als 1.000 g: 6,80 EUR. Herman Hattaway: Vicksburg and Port Hudson, invincible until grant - Wherever they go, the camera follows - Norman C. Delany: Rebel commerce destroyers take the War around the World - Rowena Reed: The City that fathered secession suffers the War's longest siege - George W. Adams: Hospitals, Medicines, Doctores, and Do-Gooders - Innovation, Invention, and sometimes Art, spill from the Lens - Dee Brown: The dashing dash to "Jine the Cavalry" - Harold D. Langley: The Routine, Boredom, and somtime Adventure of webfoot Reb and Yank - Frank L. Byrne: Simple Names like Johnsons's Island and andersonville come to mean hell - Edwin C. Bearss: The endless, bloody Battles for the State called "Volunteer" - Frank J. Merli: Of Ships and Sea and suffocating the Confederacy - Haas & Peale and their incomparable Record of Siege in South Carolina - Robert K. Krick: Grand and Lee meet at last, and will not part - Richard M. McMurry: "Hell has broke loose in Georgia," and Sherman makes it so - Everard H. Smith: Some of the Faces are new, but the Sound of Battle is the same in the Shenandoah - Ludwell H. Johnson III.: Cotton and Politics and the red River make strange War in Louisiana - Maurice Melton: From the Mississippi to the Golden Gate, the civil War is everywhere - Russell F. Weigley: Years of War, of trial and error, produce at last a fighting Machine in the shape of things to come - Charles R. Haberlein, Jr.: Ships of Iron, and Men to match, Battle on an August morning for mobile - the little-known Vermont Photographer G.H. Houghton went to the War in 1862 for an unforgettable Series - John G. Barrett: "From Atlanta to the Sea" and on through the Carolinas, the indomitable Sherman could not be stopped - Richard J. Sommers: After three Years the Union finally has Lee at Bay, but the quarry goes to ground and Grant can only wait - Emory M. Thomas: Symbol of the Confederacy, the Virginia Metropolis fights to the last - Louis Manarin: When Blood and Bravery and Indomitable will could do no more, the southern Banners were furled - William C. Davis: The War done, there was Peace to wage, and Battles anew with the hatreds remaining, and challenges ahead for a nation reuniting - Abbreviationes - The Contributors - Index Sprache: eng.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A lavish account of pioneering polar photography and modern portraiture, "Face to Face: Polar Portraits" brings together in a single volume both rare, unpublished treasures from the historic collections of the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI), University of Cambridge, 'face to face' with cutting-edge modern imagery from expedition photographer Martin Hartley.This unique book by Huw Lewis-Jones is the first to examine the history and role of polar exploration photography, and showcases the very first polar photographs of 1845 through to images from the present day. It features the first portraits of explorers, some of the earliest photographs of the Inuit, the first polar photographs to appear in a book, and rare images never before published from many of the Heroic-Age Antarctic expeditions. Almost all the historic imagery - daguerreotypes, magic lantern slides, glass plate negatives and images from private albums - that have been rediscovered during research for this book have never been before the public eye.Set within a 'gallery' of 100 double page-spreads are 50 of the world's finest historic polar portraits from the SPRI collection alternated with 50 modern-day images by Martin Hartley, who has captured men and women of many nations, exploring, working, and living in the Polar Regions today. Each gallery spread, dedicated to a single individual, gives a sense of the isolation and intense personal experience each 'face' has had in living or travelling through the polar wilderness, whether they be one of the world's greatest explorers, or a humble cook.In addition to this remarkable collection is a foreword written by Sir Ranulph Fiennes; a fascinating exploration into 'photography then' - the history of photography and its role in shaping our vision of the polar hero by historian and curator of art at SPRI, Dr Huw Lewis-Jones; a discussion between Dr Lewis-Jones and Martin Hartley about 'photography now', focusing on the essential role that photography plays in modern polar adventuring; and an afterword entitled 'The Boundaries of Light' by the best-selling author Hugh Brody.Does an explorer need to appear frostbitten and adventurous to be seen as heroic, and do we need faces like these to imagine their achievement?Sir John Franklin is the first. The sun is high. He adjusts his cocked hat, bound with black silk, and gathers up his telescope. He shifts uncomfortably in his chair, positioned on the deck of the stout ship Erebus, as she wallows at her moorings in the London docks. It is 1845. The photographer, Richard Beard, urges the explorer to stay still for just a moment longer. He removes the lens cap, he waits, another minute, and then swiftly slots it back in place. The first polar photographic portrait is secured.Other senior officers of the exploration ships Erebus and Terror had their photographs taken that day, optimistic and ever hopeful. They appear to us now as if frozen in time. So too they followed Sir John Franklin as he led them in search of a navigable northwest passage, into the maze of islands and straits which forms the Canadian Arctic.'Mr Beard, at Franklin's request, supplied the expedition with a complete photographic apparatus, which was safely stowed aboard the well-stocked ship alongside other technological marvels: portable barrel-organs, tinned meat and soups, scientific equipment, the twenty-horse-power engines loaned from the Greenwich railway, and a library of over twelve hundred volumes. The camera now formed part of the kit thought essential to travel to the limits of the known world. Weighed down with stores, yet buoyant with Victorian confidence, the expedition sailed from the Thames on 19 May. The ships were last seen in late July, making their way northward in Baffin Bay, before vanishing without a trace - Huw Lewis-Jones,from the essay 'Photography Then' in "Face to Face".This title is available in both hardback and soft-cover. It features placement: photography, exploration, travel. It contains 288 pages in full-colour, including images that have never before been published. The South Pole was an awful place to be on 18 January 1912. Captain Scott and his four companions - Wilson, Bowers, Oates, and Evans - had just found that the Norwegian explorer Amundsen had beaten them to the prize one month earlier. The photograph that the men took that day speaks volumes for their achievement, of course, but there could be no truer record of their total disappointment. The men look absolutely broken; a photograph on top of everything else seems like a punishment. They are utterly devastated. A life's ambition has been snatched from their grasp. Now 800 miles from their base, they dragged themselves northward into the mouth of a raging blizzard. Their photographs and letters home, recovered with their bodies some time later, tell the sad tale of their sacrifice - Sir Ranulph Fiennes. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography, and Life Through the Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx is part photo, part journal but all Nikki Sixx. It is a collection of compelling photography and stories that capture the rage, love, optimism, darkness, and determination that shape his work. Combining the raw authenticity that defined his New York Times bestseller, The Heroin Diaries, with a photographic journey, This Is Gonna Hurt chronicles Sixx's experiences from his early years filled with toxic waste, to his success with Mötley Crüe, to his overdose and eventual rebirth through music, photography, and love.

HB, 270 x 240 mm, 232 p, 220 illustraties , EN edition. ISBN 9789461617767. First curator of the Egyptian department at the Royal Museums of Art and History (RMAH), Jean Capart (1877-1947) is often regarded as the founding father of Belgian Egyptology. Besides being the one who gave its impulse and rise to the development of the Egyptian collection at the RMAH, he was at the root of many other initiatives that contributed to turn, within a few years only, the RMAH into a prominent research centre in Egyptology. Under Capart's leadership, one of the world's finest and most complete Egyptological libraries arose in Brussels at the RMAH during the first decades of the 20th century. Keeping up with pioneering practices that Capart had observed in leading-edge institutions around Europe and the USA, the museum's library rapidly housed a very large collection of books and journals about Egyptology and Egyptian archaeology along with an important photographic archive which was constituted for research purposes and academic dissemination as well as education and public outreach. During his entire career, Capart constantly invested in the development of this collection by feeding it with photos he bought from colleagues and institutions abroad, and with photos he and his collaborators took during their scientific missions and trips throughout Egypt and in museums over the world. The initial core on which this important photographic archive built up, and which counts more than 53.000 individual non-digital items today, consists of almost 7.000 high resolution historical glass plate photographic negatives dated to the first half of the 20th century. Although this large sub-collection constitutes, by its diversity and historical significance, an extremely rich source of documentation and information, it has been much neglected during the past decades, and its existence and contents remain completely undisclosed to the larger Egyptological community. Following Capart's initial ambition, the SURA project (sura being the Arabic word for 'photo' ) aims to make this highly valuable photographic collection available again to the international scientific community as well as to the public, by ensuring its conservation and by creating a fully digitised database that will be freely available online in the near future. 0 g.

Hardcover. Zustand: g+ to vg. First edition. Thin small quarto. 54pp. Period decorative blue cloth boards, with debossed blind-stamped motifs on the covers, and gilt lettering on the front. Photographic frontispiece (fold-out, measuring 8x9"). This historically significant work is considered only the second American publication to be photographically illustrated, and the first American scientific work to include a photograph. The frontispiece is a salt print photograph of fossilized dinosaur tracks, imprinted into the sandstone slab from the region of the Connecticut River. It is therefore also the case that this is very probably the first published photograph of a fossil. In the text the author states he is "indebted to photography for enabling us to represent the remarkable slab from Greenfield, and its numerous objects, in a small space, yet with perfect accuracy." The photo, which is often faint in most extant copies of the work, is credited to George M. Silsbee (1830-1900). The author, John C. Warren (1778-1856), was then serving as president of the Boston Society of Natural History, and had previously delivered much of the text included here during remarks to the society starting in late 1853. Starting in 1802 the Connecticut River Valley increasingly became a hotbed for the discovery of evidence of prehistoric life, and one of the first remarkable areas of its kind in North America. The main portion of this text deals with the noted 1835 discovery of prehistoric tracks uncovered in the town of Greenfield, Massachusetts (along the Connecticut River), and its subsequent investigation by Amherst College geology professor Edward Hitchcock (1793-1864). Although Hitchcock and the author of these remarks John C. Warren rightly recognized these as the footprints of large prehistoric animals, most of Hitchcock's initial writings and this text referred to them as belonging to a form of large ancient bird. It was not until much later that they were recognized as the tracks of a species of bipedal therapod dinosaur Eubrontes (Eubrontes giganteus). The other side of the sandstone block (not shown) contains the track of the sauropod species Otozoum. The first ten pages of this work are devoted to discussion of the recent discovery of the eggs of the species Aepyornis, a now extinct giant flightless bird endemic to Madagascar. This subject ties into the main subject of the piece due to the fact that the dinosaur tracks were believed, at the time of publication, to have been that of a giant bird. The work is illustrated with two additional engraved images, on p.5 (Aepyornis) and on p.53 (footprint of the Otozoum). This work was published at a transitional time in the evolution of modern paleontology as a distinct science within the realm of natural history. Only some eleven yerars before this, pioneering British naturalist Sir Richard Owen first coined the term "dinosaur", and the term had not yet become ubiquitous. It would not be until four years after this book that William Parker Foulke's pivotal 1858 discovery of the Hadrosaurus unequivocally set the study of dinosaurs in North America into motion, and it would not be until 1859 that Darwin would publish "The Origin of Species", which changed biology and life sciences forever. This work is a fascinating and notable work in the early history of modern paleontology in North America. Binding with some rubbing to extremities, including the front hinge of the spine. Spine sunned. Cover with some smudges. Gutter of interior front cover reinforced with japan tissue. Frontispiece photograph quite clean, but with a few small closed tears wear its bound in at the very edge. Text throughout quite clean, save for some very minor sporadic foxing and smudges. Binding in good+, interior in very good condition overall. Binding protected in modern mylar. Quite scarce. Although this work displays Warren's deep passion for natural history, the author is however most noted as a pioneering surgeon and leading American medical professional. He served the first Dean of Harvard Medical School, founded the New England Journal of Medicine, served as the third president of the American Medical Association, and in 1846 performed the first successful public demonstration of surgical anesthesia. Bibliographic References: Truthful Lens 181; Burns, "American Medical Publications with Photographs", p. 1250.

[Military history] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.304. Publisher's blue cloth hardcovers lettered in gilt to the spine, red endpapers, top edge red, dust-wrapper displays a Paul Nash painting, priced at £4.95. With many photographic plates. Near fine. Deighton's acclaimed account of Germany's first major defeat of the Second World War. The 1969 Bafta-nominated film 'The Battle of Britain' was produced by Harry Saltzman, who had adapted the 'Harry Palmer' series of films from Deighton's spy novels. Deighton had contributed to Saltzman's James Bond screenplays. 'The Battle of Britain' utilised many of the James Bond and Harry Palmer film crews, including Guy Hamilton (director), Freddie Young (cinematography), Maurice Binder (main titles), Rick Lester & Nosher Powell (stunts) and Derek Coyte (publicity). The film also starred actors from Bond franchise including Robert Shaw, Curt Jurgens and Nikki Van Der Zyl. This copy is from the comprehensive James Bond collection assembled by bibliographer Jon Gilbert, with his pencilled ownership. Milward-Oliver; Len Deighton Annotated Bibliography p.54.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Illustrated by Frise, Jimmy; Waite, Alex E.; MacKenzie, K.R.; Brett,Harold F. (illustrator). First Edition. [8], 315, [13] pages. Black and white photographic plates. Eight maps on seven fold-outs. Roll of Honor. Nominal Roll. "A candid presentation of the human side of our experiences - highlighting the humorous incidents and skipping over, for the most part, the darker side of the war. We hope that those who read the book may recapture some of that wonderful spirit which then existed among us; and we use soldier language in order to stimulate the rousing of that spirit." - Introduction. Heavy wear to publisher's gilt-adorned navy blue cloth. Hinges open. Openings along backstrip. Undated but two of our three references suggest a 1937 printing date. A worthy reference copy of this informative World War I history. Dornbusch 329, Enser p.89, Cooke [3] p.201.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Fifth Canadian Field Ambulance, World War - 1914-1918, Canadian Army, Colonel George Devey Farmer, Ancaster, The Somme, Vimy Ridge, Lens, Passchendaele, Bienvillers-Au-Bois, Wailly, Amiens, Roll of Honor, Nominal Roll.

Zustand: Wie neu. Steidl, Göttingen. 2008. First edition, first printing. Mint, new, unread; originally shrink-wrapped in plublisher`s plastic foil. Hardcover (linen) without dustjacket (as issued). 248 x 337 mm. 440 pages. 220 black & white plates. Edited by Cristina Vives and Mark Sanders. Foreword by Diana Diaz. Printed paper over board. Text in english. Perfect condition! Collector`s copy! "Alberto Korda is internationally recognised as one of the masters of revolutionary Cuban photography whose portraits of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro inspired a generation of radical youth throughout the 1960s and 1970s. His most famous image is undoubtedly his powerful 1960 portrait of Che entitled Heroic Guerrilla, which has since become the most reproduced image in the history of photography. What is less known is that prior to the revolution in 1959 Korda was considered to be the Avedon of Cuba , a progressive fashion photographer whose portraits of leading Cuban models such as his second wife Norka graced the covers of leading fashion magazines around the world. Equally, his work of the 1970s and 1980s, that witnessed a prolonged discovery of underwater photography alongside a return to fashion, has been largely neglected. This book covers all aspects of Korda s extraordinary career with specific reference to his interest in fashion, the revolution and other features of Cuban society. Starting with his early advertising work from the early 1950s the book traces Korda s entry into the world of fashion and his belief in what he termed an aesthetics of beauty . He explored this idea not only in the sensuous curves of the female form but also in the unique landscape of Cuba as well as within the magnificence of the heroic revolutionary. The book also includes his extensive documentation of Castro and Che. A Revolutionary Lens is a celebration of Korda s belief in beauty and has been edited with full support of Alberto Korda s daughter Diana Diaz of the Korda estate. All prints that appear in the book have been completed under the supervision and care of José A. Figueroa, Alberto Korda s photographic assistant throughout the 1960s and 70s." (from the publisher) Alberto Korda was born in Havana and took many jobs before beginning as a photographer s assistant. After the Revolution Korda was one of the leading photographers for the Cuban newspaper Revolución and closely followed Fidel Castro throughout the 1960s. Two decades later he became internationally recognised as one of the most important figures in the history of Cuban Photography. From 1968 to 1978 he concentrated on underwater photography until a Japanese exhibition stimulated international interest in his work. Korda suffered a fatal heart attack in Paris in 2001 while presenting an exhibition of his work.**********Steidl, Göttingen. 2009. Erstausgabe. Neu, ungelesen, verlagsfrisch; noch original-verschweißt in der Plastikfolie des Verlags. Hardcover (Leinen) ohne Schutzumschlag (nur so erschienen). 248 x 337 mm. 440 Seiten. 220 schwarz-weiss Fotos. Editiert von Cristina Vives und Mark Sanders. Vorwort von Diana Diaz. Text in englischer Sprache. Perfekter Zustand! Sammler-Exemplar! Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1600.

Large folio. Half morocco, retaining the original cloth covers and gilt cover label. 11 (instead of 21) plates. Author's Edition. Landmark collection of Muybridge's revolutionary "instantaneous photography", a self-developed technique that allowed for high-precision series of high shutter speed stop-motion photographs. He began his work with photographing horses, but in time it would also include athletes, birds, lions, and even camels. Muybridge first photographed a horse with all 4 hooves off the ground in 1872, after Leland Stanford (later the Governor of California) hired Muybridge to determine whether a horse leaves the ground completely when running, a hotly debated issue at the time. (Stanford believed they did, and Muybridge won Stanford a $25,000 bet.) By 1885, Muybridge had accumulated over 20,000 photographic negatives, or 781 sequential series of photo-plates, shot from multiple cameras at carefully planned locations and angles, each of which showed a human and/or animal engaged in a continuous motion. This required Muybridge to develop cameras for faster shutter closure. In cases where a human or animal moved any great distance, photographing the movement required a team of photographers, rather than a single photographer. Muybridge and H. Allen, a physiology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, published 37 eleven-volume sets which contained a collotype of every one of the 781 photographic series. This "Author's Edition" consists of a selection of the most important collotypes contained in the full work; the present set includes all the plates to show animals: No. 565. Horse trotting. - 616. Horse and rider, trotting more rapidly. - 626. A third horse and rider, running, including several frames with all 4 hooves off the ground. - 647. A horse jumping a hurdle at high speed, with a bareback jockey. - 659. Mule jumping and kicking with his hind limbs. - 710. Race hound at high speed, including frames with all 4 feet off the ground. - 721. Lion circling along the wall of a small enclosure. - 739. Camel walking. - 755. Bird flying, including swoops down. - 3. Runner. - 152. Runner jumping a hurdle. - The combined illustrated area of any given plate varies, but is typically about 21 x 30 cms. Muybridge had focused his early photographic work on San Francisco and Yosemite, but had later been sent by the Federal Government to photograph Alaska for the High Sierra Survey. (The latter project was in 1868, shortly after the territory was purchased. He was later sent on a second trip to Alaska to photograph the Tlingit tribe and the Modoc War.) During his time as a photographer, Muybridge owned a racetrack. Late in life, he invented the zoopraxiscope, a primitive forerunner of the motion picture camera. Analyses made possible by the technique later had a wide range of implications for sports, podiatry, physical therapy, vertebrate paleontology, and other fields. - Pastedowns and spine renewed, otherwise an excellent, clean copy in the original boards. - Grolier, Truthful Lens, 123. Parr/Badger, The Photobook I, 52.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A posthumous collection of over 200 breathtaking photographs that document the history and cultural impact of the Asian American social justice movement, through the lens of beloved photographer Corky Lee--the man who sought to change the world one photograph at a time Using his camera as his pen and sword, Corky Lee documented Asian American-Pacific Islander communities for fifty continuous years, breaking the stereotype of Asian Americans as docile, passive, and, above all, foreign to this country. Corky Lee's Asian America is a stunning retrospective of his life's work--a selection of the best photographs from his vast collection, including those he personally chose before he passed, from his start in New York's Chinatown to his coverage of diverse Asian American communities across the country. The pages in this book unfold Lee's decades-long quest for photographic justice, tracking AAPI social movements for recognition and rights alongside Corky's artistic development as a social photographer and activist. Iconic photographs of protests against police brutality in New York in the 1970s, a Sikh man draped in an American flag post-9/11, and a reenactment of the completion of the transcontinental railroad featuring descendants of Chinese railroad workers, live side by side with photos of New York's Chinatown from the inside--a child sitting on a tenement fire escape, a Chinese woman driving her taxi, an opera singer sitting on a park bench adjusting her hair, a package of laundry, waiting to be picked up. Asian American writers, artists, activists, and friends of Lee--including a foreword from writer Hua Hsu and essays from filmmaker Renâee Tajima-Peäna, writer Helen Zia, historians Gordon Chang and Vivek Bald, playwright David Henry Hwang, and TK--provide rich historical and cultural context to the photographs, while reflecting on their relationships to Lee. Corky Lee's Asian America represents Lee's mission to write a history of inclusion, resistance, ethnic pride, and patriotism. This is a remarkable documentary collection of that history in the moments of its making, but it's also a history that we continue to make'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A stunning photographic compilation showcasing Audrey Hepburn's iconic career in the 1950s-the decade that solidified her place as one of the world's greatest stars in film and fashion.Devoted to her most influential decade, Audrey: The 50s brings together in one volume the allure and elegance that made Audrey Hepburn the most iconic figure in modern fashion history. Photographed during the early days of her career, both on the sets of Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Funny Face, and other classic films, and in fashion photo shoots by top photographers who adored and immortalized her, these beautiful black-and-white and color images radiate with Audrey's waifish charm, ethereal beauty, and effortless style.Renowned author, curator and photographic preservationist David Wills has carefully selected this collection of two hundred museum-quality photos that capture Audrey in her prime as never before. Audrey: The 50s displays this star at her brightest, and brings her legacy into perfect focus.Among the highlights:Rare and classic images digitally restored from vintage photographic prints, original studio negatives and transparencies.Never-before-seen publicity photos, scene stills and work shots from the sets of Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Funny Face, Love in the Afternoon, and The Nun's Story.Previously unpublished 'posed candids' of Audrey at home.Beautifully restored advertisements, fan magazine layouts, international film posters and lobby cards.Quotes from photographers, directors, and costars, including William Holden, Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire, Billy Wilder, King Vidor, William Wyler, Edith Head, Hubert de Givenchy, Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, and Audrey herself.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The 1960s was a decade that Hollywood actress and international fashion icon Audrey Hepburn defined with her gamine, elegant style. Audrey: The 60s is a landmark photographic chronicle of her film and fashion career during those tumultuous years. Regarded as one of the most beautiful and best-dressed women in the world, Audrey Hepburn had timeless appeal-and this breathtaking photographic collection compiled by David Wills, author of Marilyn Monroe: Metamorphosis, captures this legendary star at the height of her career-from Breakfast at Tiffany's to the Vogue fashion shoots with world-class photographers that captured her unique, trendsetting style.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The Barnard Objects have fascinated professional and amateur astronomers for over one hundred years. Many of those objects first imaged by E.E. Barnard on black-and-white photographic plates are now being captured daily in thousands of color astrophotographs. This book tells of Barnard's story; describing his life and work as well as how the fields of astronomy and astrophotography have transformed ever since.The chapters in this book are equal parts history and science. It will provide readers with an introduction to nebula science and the incredible discoveries made in this field over the decades; including an overview of popular astronomical catalogues and a detailed look at how astronomical imaging has advanced since Barnard's time, from early plates to digital imaging and chips. In addition, the book features a comprehensive guide to viewing and imaging these objects yourself. A glossary of astronomical and photographic terms is provided, along with detailed references.And, an updated table displaying the locations of these Barnard Objects; including the missing twenty-five objects from E.E. Barnard's original catalogue.Richly researched and illustrated, this fascinating reference will attract astronomers of all skill levels interested in astrophotography and how it has changed over the past hundred years.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Second Edition. 187 pages plus 14 pages of vintage ads. Several samples of black and white photos. Detailed diagrams of photographic equipment. First published in 1911, this edition incorporates many small changes which have taken place since then. Charming colour photo of Dutch children in wooden shoes on front board. Chapters include: Types of Hand Cameras; The Lens and Its Properties; Types of Hand Camera Lenses; Shutters; Movements and Fittings; Focussing; Exposure; The Hand Camera in Use; The Reflex and its Use; Orthochromatic and Telephoto Work; Developing and Printing Hand Camera Negatives. Front endpaper neatly removed. Prior owner's name, dated 1914 atop half-title page, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Small clipping from page 171 affects text. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy of this very early photographic guide.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The legacies of Joseph McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover, Roy Cohn seem like they might be with us forever. Yet Christopher Elias finds in them startling new connections between gender, sexuality, and national security in 20th-century US politics--a paradigm he christens 'security state masculinity.' Elias integrates biographies of the trio with a history of gossip magazines and their tactics--such as insinuation, guilt by association, hyperbole, and alarmism, not to mention cynicism, slang, and photographic manipulation--which all three used to consolidate their power. The story of security state masculinity reached its climax in the Army-McCarthy hearings, which were rife with insinuations and coded threats. Using gossip as a lens, Elias shifts our understanding of the development of American political culture'.