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260 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 x 27 cm
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, ©2002.
Traveling the Pennsylvania Railroad : the photographs of William H. Rau / edited by John C. Van Horne with Eileen E. Drelick ; essays by Kenneth Finkel, Mary Panzer, John R. Stilgoe.
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, ©2002.
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1 album ([43] p.) : [125] b&w photographic prints ; 32 x 45 cm.
Kiev : [Gosudarstvennyĭ institut po proektirovani︠u︡ zhilishchno-grazhdanskogo stroitelʹstva], 1946.
Государственный институт по проектированю жилищно-гражданского строительства : 1944-1945. Gosudarstvennyĭ institut po proektirovani︠u︡ zhilishchno-grazhdanskogo stroitelʹstva : 1944-1945.
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Kiev : [Gosudarstvennyĭ institut po proektirovani︠u︡ zhilishchno-grazhdanskogo stroitelʹstva], 1946.
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Product Description This book focuses on the letterforms and typography in public places, from road signs to building names, that help us to navigate cities and countryside and contribute to a sense of place. Featuring examples from around the world, the book discusses the function and execution of signage. Visually led, "Signs" contains 700 colour images grouped(...)
Signs: lettering in the environment
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Product Description This book focuses on the letterforms and typography in public places, from road signs to building names, that help us to navigate cities and countryside and contribute to a sense of place. Featuring examples from around the world, the book discusses the function and execution of signage. Visually led, "Signs" contains 700 colour images grouped together thematically and described in extended captions, showing the best current examples alongside historical material. Part resource, part celebration, the book forms an exciting visual compendium. Phil Baines is Professor of Typography at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London. Catherine Dixon completed her Ph.D. in typeform description at Central Saint Martin where she is now Senior Lecturer in Typography.
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Ceci n'est pas un portrait.
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"Ceci n'est pas un portrait" is a possible comprehensive depiction of the production of a new generation of Portuguese practices. The publication brings together a collection of more than 300 photographs by Francisco Ascensão illustrating about 70 projects made by young architecture offices in Portugal."Today, it is nearly impossible to distinguish architectural schools(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
December 2024
Ceci n'est pas un portrait.
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"Ceci n'est pas un portrait" is a possible comprehensive depiction of the production of a new generation of Portuguese practices. The publication brings together a collection of more than 300 photographs by Francisco Ascensão illustrating about 70 projects made by young architecture offices in Portugal."Today, it is nearly impossible to distinguish architectural schools or styles. Regional schools are homogenized by a universal system of education and references, temporal periodization is absorbed by the ‘contemporary’. In the book there is no claim about a certain tendency. The absence of captions is programmatic. Rather than competing for clients and attention the images show a culture of generosity and mutual curiosity, a culture of openness and collectivity, immediacy and care, optimism and liveliness. A new beginning." - Philip Ursprung, 2024
Architecture since 1900, Europe
Searching for Sebald
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W.G. Sebaldís books are sui generis hybrids of fiction, travelogue, autobiography and historical expose, in which a narrator (both Sebald and not Sebald) comments on the quick blossoming of natural wonders and the long deaths that come of human atrocities. All his narratives are punctuated with images--murky photographs, architectural plans, engravings, paintings,(...)
Theory of Photography
May 2006, Los Angeles
Searching for Sebald
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W.G. Sebaldís books are sui generis hybrids of fiction, travelogue, autobiography and historical expose, in which a narrator (both Sebald and not Sebald) comments on the quick blossoming of natural wonders and the long deaths that come of human atrocities. All his narratives are punctuated with images--murky photographs, architectural plans, engravings, paintings, newspaper clippings--inserted into the prose without captions and often without obvious connection to the words that surround them. This important volume includes a rare 1993 interview called ì'But the written word is not a true document': A Conversation with W.G. Sebald about Photography and Literature,î in which Sebald talks exclusively about his use of photographs. It contains some of Sebald's most illuminating and poetic remarks about the topic yet.
Theory of Photography
Graphics and industry
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Graphics and Industry is an illustrated bibliography, a collection of commercial catalogues that were created for design companies between 1906 and 2002. It is published to mark the exhibition of the same name held from 15 September to 24 December at the Bibliothèque des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the book traces the history of Italian editorial graphic design through a(...)
Graphics and industry
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Graphics and Industry is an illustrated bibliography, a collection of commercial catalogues that were created for design companies between 1906 and 2002. It is published to mark the exhibition of the same name held from 15 September to 24 December at the Bibliothèque des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the book traces the history of Italian editorial graphic design through a new and unusual context, the layout of commercial catalogues. Arranged alphabetically throughout the book with captions in Italian and English, there are brochures, booklets, catalogues and leaflets featuring innovative and revolutionary designs. A range of projects that saw some of Italy’s foremost designers, such as Gio Ponti, Ettore Sottsass, Enzo Mari and Giovanni Pintori, put their skills as graphic designers to the test.
Graphic Design and Typography
Roman Ondák : observations
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Observations is Roman Ondák’s humorous and perceptive study of how language modifies images and vice versa. It consists of seemingly nondescript, black-and-white photographs of domestic interiors, public events, street scenes and objects, augmented with brief captions, which he arranges into thematic pairs or sequences. Thus a photograph of a train pulling into a station(...)
Roman Ondák : observations
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Observations is Roman Ondák’s humorous and perceptive study of how language modifies images and vice versa. It consists of seemingly nondescript, black-and-white photographs of domestic interiors, public events, street scenes and objects, augmented with brief captions, which he arranges into thematic pairs or sequences. Thus a photograph of a train pulling into a station is captioned “Emphasis on events to come,” and is paired with a photograph of an abandoned wrecked car, captioned “Emphasis on past events.” The images and their laconic texts coolly record the subtleties of everyday transactions and role play, abstracting layers of social coding and meaning from the most innocuous-seeming situations. Published for Observations’s first complete exhibition at Documenta 13 (2012), this artist’s book reproduces the entire series.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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"Images left behind are in the end stronger than truth and facts. Through Douglas Kirkland's images we can imagine what the famous Coco had been all about before she became the formidable Chanel," muses Karl Lagerfeld in Mademoiselle, a selection of photographs of Chanel taken by Douglas Kirkland in 1962 on assignment in Paris for the American magazine Look. Lagerfeld is(...)
Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel/Summer 62
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"Images left behind are in the end stronger than truth and facts. Through Douglas Kirkland's images we can imagine what the famous Coco had been all about before she became the formidable Chanel," muses Karl Lagerfeld in Mademoiselle, a selection of photographs of Chanel taken by Douglas Kirkland in 1962 on assignment in Paris for the American magazine Look. Lagerfeld is the designer currently at the helm of the Parisian fashion house, made iconic by designer Coco Chanel during her long reign, from 1909-1971--and the designer of this handsome edition as well. Through his introduction and captions to these photographs, we understand how important Chanel's image has been to the success of the century-old French couture line.
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[Oakland, California?] : Albert Kayser, c1896.
[Illustrated letter sheets of California scenes].
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[Oakland, California?] : Albert Kayser, c1896.
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The work of landscape architecture firm Lucas & Lucas extends the architecture of the house into the garden through carefully selected elements of design. Each of the ten projects in this volume includes a design narrative that addresses the interconnections between home and land, detailed captions, and a site plan. Readers will learn how to implement features such as(...)
Architectural gardens: inside the landscapes of Lucas & Lucas
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The work of landscape architecture firm Lucas & Lucas extends the architecture of the house into the garden through carefully selected elements of design. Each of the ten projects in this volume includes a design narrative that addresses the interconnections between home and land, detailed captions, and a site plan. Readers will learn how to implement features such as landscape windows, breeze-catching grasses, cascading concrete waterfalls, and trees with thoughtfully cast shadows to transform their landscape. The book includes a roundup of Mike Lucas's favorite plants—those best suited to different types of properties and for different purposes like drought tolerance or fast growth. The featured projects will appeal to garden designers, landscape architects, landscape contractors, architects, and home builders, as well as home gardeners looking for inspiration.
Landscape Architecture, Monographs