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333 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 x 39 cm
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333 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 x 39 cm
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- Polidori, Robert, 1951-,
- Polidori, Robert 1951-,
- Polidori, Robert.,
- Hurricane damage Louisiana New Orleans Pictorial works.,
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005 Pictorial works.,
- Dommages causés par les ouragans Louisiane La Nouvelle-Orléans Ouvrages illustrés.,
- Ouragan Katrina, 2005 Ouvrages illustrés.,
- Individual photographers.,
- Ecology,
- Hurricane damage,
- Auswirkung,
- Katrina,
- Fotografie,
- Tropischer Wirbelsturm,
- Fotografi Kanada 2000-talet.,
- Fotografer Kanada 1945-,
- Orkaner.,
- New Orleans (La.) Pictorial works.,
- New Orleans (La.) Environmental conditions Pictorial works.,
- New Orleans (La.) bildverk.,
- Louisiana New Orleans,
- New Orleans, La.,
- New Orleans,
- Bildband.,
- illustrated books.,
- Illustrated works,
- Ouvrages illustrés.
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Göttingen : Steidl, 2006., ©2006
Göttingen : Steidl, 2006., ©2006
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After the flood / Robert Polidori.
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333 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 x 39 cm
After the flood / Robert Polidori.
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333 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 x 39 cm
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Göttingen : Steidl, 2006., ©2006
Göttingen : Steidl, 2006., ©2006
Subject:
- Polidori, Robert, 1951-,
- Polidori, Robert 1951-,
- Polidori, Robert.,
- Hurricane damage Louisiana New Orleans Pictorial works.,
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005 Pictorial works.,
- Dommages causés par les ouragans Louisiane La Nouvelle-Orléans Ouvrages illustrés.,
- Ouragan Katrina, 2005 Ouvrages illustrés.,
- Individual photographers.,
- Ecology,
- Hurricane damage,
- Auswirkung,
- Katrina,
- Fotografie,
- Tropischer Wirbelsturm,
- Fotografi Kanada 2000-talet.,
- Fotografer Kanada 1945-,
- Orkaner.,
- New Orleans (La.) Pictorial works.,
- New Orleans (La.) Environmental conditions Pictorial works.,
- New Orleans (La.) bildverk.,
- Louisiana New Orleans,
- New Orleans, La.,
- New Orleans,
- Bildband.,
- illustrated books.,
- Illustrated works,
- Ouvrages illustrés.
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240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
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240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
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- Voysey, Charles F. A., 1857-1941 Criticism and interpretation.,
- Voysey, Charles F. A., 1857-1941,
- Voysey, Charles F. A. 1857-1941,
- Voysey, Charles Francis Annesley, (1857-1941) Critique et interprétation.,
- Voysey, Charles F. A.,
- Architecture, Domestic England.,
- Architecture England History 19th century.,
- Architecture England History 20th century.,
- Architecture Angleterre Histoire 19e siècle.,
- Architecture Angleterre Histoire 20e siècle.,
- Architecture,
- Architecture, Domestic,
- Bildband,
- Woningen.,
- Interieurkunst.,
- Architecture 1870-1914 Grande-Bretagne Angleterre (GB),
- Architecture 1900-1945 Grande-Bretagne Angleterre (GB),
- Architecture anglaise.,
- Architecture domestique.,
- Maison.,
- 19e siècle.,
- 20e siècle.,
- England,
- Houses Architecture,
- Biographies.,
- Catalogues raisonnés.,
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.,
- History,
- Books.
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London : Phaidon, 1995.
London : Phaidon, 1995.
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CFA Voysey / Wendy Hitchmough.
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240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
CFA Voysey / Wendy Hitchmough.
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240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
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London : Phaidon, 1995.
London : Phaidon, 1995.
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- Voysey, Charles F. A., 1857-1941 Criticism and interpretation.,
- Voysey, Charles F. A., 1857-1941,
- Voysey, Charles F. A. 1857-1941,
- Voysey, Charles Francis Annesley, (1857-1941) Critique et interprétation.,
- Voysey, Charles F. A.,
- Architecture, Domestic England.,
- Architecture England History 19th century.,
- Architecture England History 20th century.,
- Architecture Angleterre Histoire 19e siècle.,
- Architecture Angleterre Histoire 20e siècle.,
- Architecture,
- Architecture, Domestic,
- Bildband,
- Woningen.,
- Interieurkunst.,
- Architecture 1870-1914 Grande-Bretagne Angleterre (GB),
- Architecture 1900-1945 Grande-Bretagne Angleterre (GB),
- Architecture anglaise.,
- Architecture domestique.,
- Maison.,
- 19e siècle.,
- 20e siècle.,
- England,
- Houses Architecture,
- Biographies.,
- Catalogues raisonnés.,
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.,
- History,
- Books.
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262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subject:
- Arts, Renaissance Themes, motives.,
- Arts de la Renaissance Thèmes, motifs.,
- Geography in art.,
- 23/28 -- Christianity.,
- 39(091) -- Ethnohistory.,
- 5(091) -- History of science.,
- 528.9(091) -- History of cartography.,
- 76 -- Engravings and prints.,
- 91(08)[1576 Frobisher] -- Expeditions: 1576 Frobisher.,
- 91(08)[1577 Frobisher] -- Expeditions: 1577 Frobisher.,
- 91(08)[1578 Frobisher] -- Expeditions: 1578 Frobisher.,
- 91(08)[1596-97 Barents] -- Expeditions: 1596-97 Barents.,
- 91(091) -- Exploration, history.,
- 93 -- History.,
- 93"15" -- Sixteenth century.,
- Arctic regions In art.,
- Arctic Regions.,
- 1500-1699,
- works of art.,
- Art.,
- Œuvres d'art.
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Brooklyn, NY : Zone Books, 2019., ©2019
Brooklyn, NY : Zone Books, 2019., ©2019
Title:
Into the white : the Renaissance Arctic and the end of the image / Christopher P. Heuer.
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262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Into the white : the Renaissance Arctic and the end of the image / Christopher P. Heuer.
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262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Brooklyn, NY : Zone Books, 2019., ©2019
Brooklyn, NY : Zone Books, 2019., ©2019
Subject:
- Arts, Renaissance Themes, motives.,
- Arts de la Renaissance Thèmes, motifs.,
- Geography in art.,
- 23/28 -- Christianity.,
- 39(091) -- Ethnohistory.,
- 5(091) -- History of science.,
- 528.9(091) -- History of cartography.,
- 76 -- Engravings and prints.,
- 91(08)[1576 Frobisher] -- Expeditions: 1576 Frobisher.,
- 91(08)[1577 Frobisher] -- Expeditions: 1577 Frobisher.,
- 91(08)[1578 Frobisher] -- Expeditions: 1578 Frobisher.,
- 91(08)[1596-97 Barents] -- Expeditions: 1596-97 Barents.,
- 91(091) -- Exploration, history.,
- 93 -- History.,
- 93"15" -- Sixteenth century.,
- Arctic regions In art.,
- Arctic Regions.,
- 1500-1699,
- works of art.,
- Art.,
- Œuvres d'art.
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xv, 463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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xv, 463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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- Social change Germany Weimar (Thuringia) History.,
- Changement social Allemagne Weimar (Thuringe) Histoire.,
- HISTORY Europe Germany.,
- HISTORY Social History.,
- Intellectual life,
- Politics and government,
- Social change,
- Kultur,
- Historia.,
- Intellektuellt liv.,
- Politiska förhållanden.,
- Weimar (Thuringia, Germany) History.,
- Weimar (Thuringia, Germany) Intellectual life.,
- Weimar (Thuringia, Germany) Politics and government.,
- Weimar (Thuringe, Allemagne) Histoire.,
- Weimar (Thuringe, Allemagne) Vie intellectuelle.,
- Weimar (Thuringe, Allemagne) Politique et gouvernement.,
- Germany Weimar (Thuringia),
- Weimar,
- Tyskland Thüringen.,
- History
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New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014], ©2014
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014], ©2014
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Weimar : from Enlightenment to the present / Michael H. Kater.
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xv, 463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Weimar : from Enlightenment to the present / Michael H. Kater.
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xv, 463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014], ©2014
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014], ©2014
Subject:
- Social change Germany Weimar (Thuringia) History.,
- Changement social Allemagne Weimar (Thuringe) Histoire.,
- HISTORY Europe Germany.,
- HISTORY Social History.,
- Intellectual life,
- Politics and government,
- Social change,
- Kultur,
- Historia.,
- Intellektuellt liv.,
- Politiska förhållanden.,
- Weimar (Thuringia, Germany) History.,
- Weimar (Thuringia, Germany) Intellectual life.,
- Weimar (Thuringia, Germany) Politics and government.,
- Weimar (Thuringe, Allemagne) Histoire.,
- Weimar (Thuringe, Allemagne) Vie intellectuelle.,
- Weimar (Thuringe, Allemagne) Politique et gouvernement.,
- Germany Weimar (Thuringia),
- Weimar,
- Tyskland Thüringen.,
- History
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286 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
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286 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
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- Ghirri, Luigi, 1943-1992 Exhibitions.,
- Ghirri, Luigi, 1943-1992,
- Photography Italy Puglia Exhibitions.,
- Photography Italy Puglia.,
- Photographie Italie Pouilles.,
- Photographie Italie Pouilles Expositions.,
- Photography,
- Puglia (Italy) Pictorial works Exhibitions.,
- Puglia (Italy),
- Pouilles (Italie),
- Pouilles (Italie) Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.,
- Italy Puglia,
- Exhibition (event) publication (document),
- Exhibition, pictorial works,
- Exhibition catalogs
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[London]: MACK, [2022], ©2022
[London]: MACK, [2022], ©2022
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Luigi Ghirri : Puglia : tra albe e tramonti / testi, Rosalba Branà, Adele Ghirri, Gianni Leone, Arturo Carlo Quintavalle.
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286 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
Luigi Ghirri : Puglia : tra albe e tramonti / testi, Rosalba Branà, Adele Ghirri, Gianni Leone, Arturo Carlo Quintavalle.
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286 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
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[London]: MACK, [2022], ©2022
[London]: MACK, [2022], ©2022
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- Ghirri, Luigi, 1943-1992 Exhibitions.,
- Ghirri, Luigi, 1943-1992,
- Photography Italy Puglia Exhibitions.,
- Photography Italy Puglia.,
- Photographie Italie Pouilles.,
- Photographie Italie Pouilles Expositions.,
- Photography,
- Puglia (Italy) Pictorial works Exhibitions.,
- Puglia (Italy),
- Pouilles (Italie),
- Pouilles (Italie) Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.,
- Italy Puglia,
- Exhibition (event) publication (document),
- Exhibition, pictorial works,
- Exhibition catalogs
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Béatrice Helg
Béatrice Helg
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With her great passion for music, architecture, the theatre and opera, Helg's photographs create monumental spaces in which sculpture, painting, installations, and most of all light are constantly interwoven. Like a window opening onto the invisible, giving glimpses of the mind, her light-filled world is weirdly beautiful, at once poetic and spiritual. You step inside and(...)
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With her great passion for music, architecture, the theatre and opera, Helg's photographs create monumental spaces in which sculpture, painting, installations, and most of all light are constantly interwoven. Like a window opening onto the invisible, giving glimpses of the mind, her light-filled world is weirdly beautiful, at once poetic and spiritual. You step inside and(...)
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Béatrice Helg
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With her great passion for music, architecture, the theatre and opera, Helg's photographs create monumental spaces in which sculpture, painting, installations, and most of all light are constantly interwoven. Like a window opening onto the invisible, giving glimpses of the mind, her light-filled world is weirdly beautiful, at once poetic and spiritual. You step inside and then lose your bearings, as if in a drunken stupor, and tempted to let yourself slide slowly, dangerously between blinding light and total darkness. Beatrice Helg's work ultimately explores the infinite; it is a quest for the absolute, or rather a delving into the boundless identity of an inner mystery. This book presents a selection of her photographs taken over the past twenty-five years, accompanied by original commentary by Robert Wilson, as well as critical writings and poetry by Philippe Piguet, Serge Linares and Sylviane Dupuis.
Béatrice Helg
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With her great passion for music, architecture, the theatre and opera, Helg's photographs create monumental spaces in which sculpture, painting, installations, and most of all light are constantly interwoven. Like a window opening onto the invisible, giving glimpses of the mind, her light-filled world is weirdly beautiful, at once poetic and spiritual. You step inside and then lose your bearings, as if in a drunken stupor, and tempted to let yourself slide slowly, dangerously between blinding light and total darkness. Beatrice Helg's work ultimately explores the infinite; it is a quest for the absolute, or rather a delving into the boundless identity of an inner mystery. This book presents a selection of her photographs taken over the past twenty-five years, accompanied by original commentary by Robert Wilson, as well as critical writings and poetry by Philippe Piguet, Serge Linares and Sylviane Dupuis.
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December 2019
December 2019
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Photography monographs
Photography monographs
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journals and magazines
journals and magazines
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$26.50
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"Flat Out 1" yields unlikely connections between subjects as diverse as lists, numbers, chairs, and death. In “Dear Renato,” The Challenger writes a letter to Italian architect Renato Rizzi on the darkness of his Shakespeare Theater. The Genealogist, in “Get the Door, It’s Domino’s,” dives into the pizza company’s trophy awards for architects. The Mortician prepares New(...)
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"Flat Out 1" yields unlikely connections between subjects as diverse as lists, numbers, chairs, and death. In “Dear Renato,” The Challenger writes a letter to Italian architect Renato Rizzi on the darkness of his Shakespeare Theater. The Genealogist, in “Get the Door, It’s Domino’s,” dives into the pizza company’s trophy awards for architects. The Mortician prepares New(...)
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Flat Out : claims on architecture from an unlikely cast
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"Flat Out 1" yields unlikely connections between subjects as diverse as lists, numbers, chairs, and death. In “Dear Renato,” The Challenger writes a letter to Italian architect Renato Rizzi on the darkness of his Shakespeare Theater. The Genealogist, in “Get the Door, It’s Domino’s,” dives into the pizza company’s trophy awards for architects. The Mortician prepares New Brutalism for the afterlife, while The Graphic Essayist fills columns with new orders. In “Easier Done than Said” an editorial board member appears as The Cameo to make much ado about the reception of the inaugural Chicago Architectural Biennial. The cast for this issue features (in order of appearance) Pier Paolo Tamburelli, Jayne Kelley, Alexander Eisenschmidt, Sam Jacob, Robert Bruegmann, Paul Andersen, Jon Langford, Ellen Grimes, John McMorrough, Ania Jaworska, Zehra Ahmed, R. E. Somol, Penelope Dean, and Julia Di Castri. Character portraits are by Cody Hudson.
Flat Out : claims on architecture from an unlikely cast
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"Flat Out 1" yields unlikely connections between subjects as diverse as lists, numbers, chairs, and death. In “Dear Renato,” The Challenger writes a letter to Italian architect Renato Rizzi on the darkness of his Shakespeare Theater. The Genealogist, in “Get the Door, It’s Domino’s,” dives into the pizza company’s trophy awards for architects. The Mortician prepares New Brutalism for the afterlife, while The Graphic Essayist fills columns with new orders. In “Easier Done than Said” an editorial board member appears as The Cameo to make much ado about the reception of the inaugural Chicago Architectural Biennial. The cast for this issue features (in order of appearance) Pier Paolo Tamburelli, Jayne Kelley, Alexander Eisenschmidt, Sam Jacob, Robert Bruegmann, Paul Andersen, Jon Langford, Ellen Grimes, John McMorrough, Ania Jaworska, Zehra Ahmed, R. E. Somol, Penelope Dean, and Julia Di Castri. Character portraits are by Cody Hudson.
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journals and magazines
journals and magazines
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November 2016
November 2016
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391 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm
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391 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm
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- Fog England London.,
- Cultural property England London.,
- Smog.,
- Air Pollution history,
- Brouillard Angleterre Londres.,
- Patrimoine culturel immatériel Angleterre Londres.,
- smog.,
- Climatology,
- Cultural property,
- Fog,
- Travel,
- Nebel,
- Luftverschmutzung,
- Kulturarv.,
- Dimma.,
- London (England) Climate.,
- London (England) History.,
- London (England) Description and travel.,
- Londres (Angleterre) Histoire.,
- Londres (Angleterre) Descriptions et voyages.,
- England London,
- London,
- Storbritannien London.,
- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain^HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century^HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.,
- Narrative non-fiction.,
- History
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015., ©2015
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015., ©2015
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London fog : the biography / Christine L. Corton.
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391 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm
London fog : the biography / Christine L. Corton.
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391 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015., ©2015
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015., ©2015
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- Fog England London.,
- Cultural property England London.,
- Smog.,
- Air Pollution history,
- Brouillard Angleterre Londres.,
- Patrimoine culturel immatériel Angleterre Londres.,
- smog.,
- Climatology,
- Cultural property,
- Fog,
- Travel,
- Nebel,
- Luftverschmutzung,
- Kulturarv.,
- Dimma.,
- London (England) Climate.,
- London (England) History.,
- London (England) Description and travel.,
- Londres (Angleterre) Histoire.,
- Londres (Angleterre) Descriptions et voyages.,
- England London,
- London,
- Storbritannien London.,
- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain^HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century^HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.,
- Narrative non-fiction.,
- History
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Barcelona: 1000 graffiti
Barcelona: 1000 graffiti
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Barcelona 1000 Graffiti is a photo-essay by Rosa Puig about graffiti in Barcelona, a city that's become a meeting place and 'concrete canvas' for graffitists from all over the world. The wide range of graffiti documented in this work is scattered throughout the city, a cause of astonishment and admiration for some, of concern for the authorities, and of despair for the(...)
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Barcelona 1000 Graffiti is a photo-essay by Rosa Puig about graffiti in Barcelona, a city that's become a meeting place and 'concrete canvas' for graffitists from all over the world. The wide range of graffiti documented in this work is scattered throughout the city, a cause of astonishment and admiration for some, of concern for the authorities, and of despair for the(...)
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Barcelona: 1000 graffiti
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Barcelona 1000 Graffiti is a photo-essay by Rosa Puig about graffiti in Barcelona, a city that's become a meeting place and 'concrete canvas' for graffitists from all over the world. The wide range of graffiti documented in this work is scattered throughout the city, a cause of astonishment and admiration for some, of concern for the authorities, and of despair for the owners of facades irreverently invaded under cover of darkness. The graffiti collected in this book are found in different areas of Barcelona - from the very central to the most far-flung - and offer very diverse topics and tones - by turns poetic, socially aware, dissenting - while competing with the customary visual pollution of the city and helping to enrich its landscape. The photographs reflect the surprised gaze of their author, at once captivated by 'graphic pieces' that, as she says, she 'would rip off the walls and hang in my house.'
Barcelona: 1000 graffiti
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Barcelona 1000 Graffiti is a photo-essay by Rosa Puig about graffiti in Barcelona, a city that's become a meeting place and 'concrete canvas' for graffitists from all over the world. The wide range of graffiti documented in this work is scattered throughout the city, a cause of astonishment and admiration for some, of concern for the authorities, and of despair for the owners of facades irreverently invaded under cover of darkness. The graffiti collected in this book are found in different areas of Barcelona - from the very central to the most far-flung - and offer very diverse topics and tones - by turns poetic, socially aware, dissenting - while competing with the customary visual pollution of the city and helping to enrich its landscape. The photographs reflect the surprised gaze of their author, at once captivated by 'graphic pieces' that, as she says, she 'would rip off the walls and hang in my house.'
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April 2008, Barcelona
April 2008, Barcelona
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One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the humdrum, the non-event, the everyday--"what happens," as he put it, "when nothing happens." His choice of locale was Place Saint-Sulpice, where, ensconced behind first one café window, then another, he spent three days recording everything to pass through his field of vision:(...)
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One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the humdrum, the non-event, the everyday--"what happens," as he put it, "when nothing happens." His choice of locale was Place Saint-Sulpice, where, ensconced behind first one café window, then another, he spent three days recording everything to pass through his field of vision:(...)
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An attempt at exhausting a place in Paris
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One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the humdrum, the non-event, the everyday--"what happens," as he put it, "when nothing happens." His choice of locale was Place Saint-Sulpice, where, ensconced behind first one café window, then another, he spent three days recording everything to pass through his field of vision: the people walking by; the buses and driving-school cars caught in their routes; the pigeons moving suddenly en masse; a wedding (and then a funeral) at the church in the center of the square; the signs, symbols and slogans littering everything; and the darkness that finally absorbs it all. In An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, Perec compiled a melancholic, slightly eerie and oddly touching document in which existence boils down to rhythm, writing turns into time and the line between the empirical and the surreal grows surprisingly thin.
An attempt at exhausting a place in Paris
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One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the humdrum, the non-event, the everyday--"what happens," as he put it, "when nothing happens." His choice of locale was Place Saint-Sulpice, where, ensconced behind first one café window, then another, he spent three days recording everything to pass through his field of vision: the people walking by; the buses and driving-school cars caught in their routes; the pigeons moving suddenly en masse; a wedding (and then a funeral) at the church in the center of the square; the signs, symbols and slogans littering everything; and the darkness that finally absorbs it all. In An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, Perec compiled a melancholic, slightly eerie and oddly touching document in which existence boils down to rhythm, writing turns into time and the line between the empirical and the surreal grows surprisingly thin.
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September 2010
September 2010
