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Around the world: The grand tour in photo albums

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Snapshots, passenger lists, itineraries, and postcards: From Cairo to Burma and back again, authors Barbara Levine and Kirsten Jensen transport readers back to the dawn of world travel when the middle class toured the world for the first time. In beautifully designed pages Around the World traces the development of the travel photo album. The book features a wealth of turn-of-the-twentieth-century photographs and ephemera, evoking the pleasures of a time when the surroundings were taken in slowly and travel was an art of itself.

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Industries

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En 1986, Josef Koudelka commence à utiliser un appareil photo au format panoramique et participe à la mission photographique de la DATAR, dont l'objectif est de "représenter le paysage français des années 1980". Il sillonne alors la France, puis le monde entier, pour rendre compte de l'influence de l'homme moderne sur le paysage. Le livre est composé de quarante photographies panoramiques choisies par l'artiste et François Hébel parmi les plus emblématiques de ce thème. Ces images, prises sur tous les continents, témoignent des grands travaux humains, allant des usines aux carrières, en passant par d'énormes complexes miniers et des zones abandonnées.

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CCCP (Multilingual Edition)

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This publication explores 90 buildings in 14 former Soviet Republics. Each of these structures expresses what Chaubin considers the fourth age of Soviet architecture, an unknown burgeoning that took place from 1970 until 1990. Contrary to the 1920s and 1950s, no “school” or main trend emerges here. These buildings represent a chaotic impulse brought about by a decaying system. Taking advantage of the collapsing monolithic structure, architects went far beyond modernism, going back to the roots or freely innovating. Some of the daring ones completed projects that the Constructivists would have dreamt of (Druzhba Sanatorium, Yalta), others expressed their imagination in an expressionist way (Palace of Weddings, Tbilisi). A summer camp, inspired by sketches of a prototype lunar base, lays claim to Suprematist influence (Prometheus youth camp, Bogatyr). Then comes the “speaking architecture” widespread in the last years of the USSR: a crematorium adorned with concrete flames (Crematorium, Kiev), a technological institute with a flying saucer crashed on the roof (Institute of Scientific Research, Kiev), a political center watching you like Big Brother (House of Soviets, Kaliningrad).

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Postcards fromCheckpoint Charlie: images of the Berlin wall

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Between 1945 and 1961, an estimated 2.5 million people fled East Germany in search of the political and economic freedom offered by West Germany. To thwart this tide of defections, on the morning of August 13, 1961, hundreds of East German troops began erecting the Berlin wall—a barrier that would take nearly twenty years to complete and would eventually span 166 kilometers. In Postcards from Checkpoint Charlie, the Bodleian Library assembles a stunning collection of images to document the wall’s impact worldwide. The postcards in this fascinating volume trace the development of the wall—from its beginnings as a simple stretch of barbed wire to the daunting final structure made of concrete and containing over 300 watchtowers. The images capture scenes of tension and urgency, such as those at Checkpoint Charlie, where we see Allied and East German soldiers coldly observing one another through binoculars.

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Picturing indians: photographics encounters and tourist fantasies in H.H. Bennett's Wisconsin Dells

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The interactions between Indian and white man, photographer amd photographed, suggested a relationship in which commercial motives and friendly feelings mixed, though not necessarily in equal measure. The Ho-Chunk resourcefully sought new ways to survive in the increasingly tourist-driven economy of the Dells. Bennett, struggling to keep his photography business alive, capitalized on America's comfortably nostalgic image of Native peoples as a vanishing race, no longer treatening and now safe for white consumption.

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America and the tintype

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Published in conjunction with the exhibition America and the Tintype organized by Steven Kasher and Brian Wallis for the International Center of Photography, New York. September 19, 2008 to January 4, 2009

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Left London

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Left London is a photographic portrayal of abandoned buildings across the capital that reveals an otherwise unseen side of city life. Having explored a multitude of sites and taken over twenty thousand images, the authors were able to assemble a unique collection of photographs vividly illustrating this evocative and beautiful subject. Furthermore, as well as extensive interior and exterior shots, the book also contains various items of ephemera found in situ, which provide an additional visual narrative. Like all cities, London has an established cycle of decay and renewal, however with the forthcoming 2012 Olympics, it is currently embarking on the most ambitious redevelopment plan in its history. In light of this, Left London takes on a particularly compelling and contemporary relevance.

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Heavy light: recent photography and video from Japan

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Published in conjunction with the exhibition Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan organized by Cristopher Phillips and Noriko Fuku for the International Center of Photography, New York.

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Charles Marville: Paris photographié au temps d'Haussmann

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En 1860 Haussmann créait la "commission historique de paris". C'est elle qui chargea Charles Marville de photographier, en 1865, les rues appelées à disparaître, puis, en 1877, les avenues nouvelles. Napoléon III accueillit cette initiative avec enthousiasme. "Ceci permettra de suivre à travers les siècles les transformations de la ville qui, grâce à votre infatigable activité, est aujourd'hui la plus splendide et la plus salubre des capitales de l'Europe," écrira-t-il à son préfet. Les photos de Marville qui figent l'avant et l'après Haussmann sont non seulement d'une grande beauté, mais aussi d'une importance capitale: elles racontent la plus grande mutation qu'une ville ait jamais connue.

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Paris, capitale photographique, 1920-1940

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Dès le début des années 1920, Paris s'affirme comme le lieu des avant-gardes de la photographie en Europe. Modèle de modernité au lendemain de la Première Guerre mondiale, la capitale devient un refuge pour les émigrants contraints à l'exil. Des photographes arrivés de l'étranger, tels Germaine Krull, André Kertész, Brassaï, Man Ray ou Berenice Abbott côtoient alors les Français Maurice Tabard, Roger Schall, Jean Moral, Emmanuel Sougez ou encore Pierre Boucher. C'est cette France de l'entre-deux-guerres, foyer de création où se rencontrent une multitude d'écoles photographiques, qui caractérise l'exceptionnelle collection réunie par l'historien et collectionneur Christian Bouqueret. Avec une sélection de 140 photographies, cet ouvrage propose un regard érudit et passionné sur la richesse formelle de cette "nouvelle vision photographique en France".