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Trends in Photography Special Collections Management, 2011 Edition presents detailed journalistic profiles of nine major photography special collections from academic, public and special libraries, government agencies and private enterprise. Collections profiled include the US Army Military History Institute, St. Andrews University (Scotland), the US National Archives and Records Administration, the San Francisco Public Library, Georgia State University, the University of Maryland, Baltimore, National...

By Robert A. Sobieszek. (1985). First Edition. Cross River Press. Hard-cover, 11 1/2 x 13 3/4", 466 pages, color and B&W photos. Selected from the thousands of rare and beautiful pictures in one the world's most famous photography collections, these 200 masterpieces cover a range from daguerreotypes to one made in outerspace by a satellite. Includes full page narrative about photo and photographer. Book is in "like-new" condition.

As American settlement expanded westward in the 1860s, the U.S. government undertook large-scale investigations of its new territories. Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860–1880 presents memorable glass-plate photographs from these federal surveys. The selection includes breathtaking views of such iconic sites as Yosemite, as well as lesser-known ethnographic portraits taken by Timothy H. O’Sullivan, William H. Jackson, and William Bell, among others. The accompanying...

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For the first time, a musical celebration of horses accompanied by the actual voices of stallions, mares, foals and nature. Experience the wonder: Witness the creation of the horse accompanied by the full orchestral sound of Carol Caldwell‘s original music score. Listen to the awesome voices of horses as their thundering hoof beats mark their arrival at the dawn ...

Curly tails, snouts, trotters, 'oinks', mud and unpleasant smells - these are the cliches of the pig. With their varied roles as sources of food, as pets and in medical testing, pigs have been materially and culturally associated with humans for thousands of years. Today there are more than one billion pigs on the planet, and there are countless representations of pigs and 'piggishness' circulating through the cultures of the world. Pig provides a richly illustrated, compelling look at the long,...

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art / the Viking Press Publisher Year: 1978 Edition: First Edition Book Condition: Very Good Jacket Condition: Very Good Binding: Hard Cover Publish Place: New York Notes: Light wear to spine. Very tight and clean.

* Exquisite photos bring nature to your coffee table * Details of how each photo was taken will inspire photographers The bioregion of Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea possesses a unique natural heritage stretching back over 50 million years since the break-up of the great southern continent of Gondwanaland. The South Australian Museum focuses on enhancing a general knowledge of this extraordinary legacy by encouraging photography of the region’s nature and wilderness, and promoting...

9 x 11.5", 164 pp., more than 200 illustrations, 35 in color, text in Japanese, brief English captions, list of works in Japanese and English, paper, Kawasaki City, 1988. (o.p.; sl wear to cover, text near fine)

Title: Picturing Modernity, Highlights from the Photography Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Drawing mainly on the photographic albums in the personal collection of Sir John Marshall, one of the most reputed British archaeologist of India and the longest serving Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India, this volume explores some of the civilisational histories of ‘ancient India’ that were founded through archaeological fieldwork and its photography. While maintaining focus on Marshall’s Contributions to South Asian Archaeology.

Description: Numerous photographic illustrations. 384pp. Thick 4to, stiff pictorial wrappers. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, (1993). First softcover edition. A near fine copy.

Published as the catalogue to the exhibition @New York: ICP (2005-2006). These selections make up an extraordinary group of images of African Americans in a variety of genres & poses, including formal studio portraits, casual snapshots, images of children, images of uniformed soldiers, wedding portraits & so-called 'Southern views' made for tourist consumption, all dating from circa 1860-1960. Culled from a collection of some 1600 images, these works span that era's range of commercial processes...

The Photographic Collection was established as an independent department in the Museum Folkwang in 1979. It was based on the collection Otto Steinert had bought together between 1959 and 1978. Today the Photographic Collection comprises nearly 60,000 photographs, the vast majority of which are vintage prints, by 1,300 photographers from the 19th to the 21st centuries. It encompasses the estates of Helmar Lerski, Germaine Krull, Otto Steinert and the Peter Keetman archive.

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The publication of this collection marks the 50th anniversary of the opening of George Eastman House in 1949 as a collecting institution, the first to unite photography and technology. The primary purpose of this collection - to preserve examples of what the practice of photography looks like - is quite different from simply being a picture collection with drawers of photographs arranged by subject. Each image in this publication is accompanied by a caption that indicates maker, nationality, life...

In this text, Keith F. Davis examines photography's social history and aesthetic development in an era of rapid national growth. He demonstrates how key themes and genres - including the business of daguerreian portraiture, the markets for Civil War images, and the art of Western landscape photography - reflected the concerns and values of nineteenth-century society. Photographers of this era expressed a new national consciousness while, at the same time, helping to shape it. They also explored the...