Anna Atkins. Cyanotypes by Peter Walther
$250.00 AUD
Category: Art
At the dawn of the Victorian era in her open-air laboratory in Halstead, Kent, Anna Atkins embarked on a radical experiment to document botanical species using a completely new artistic medium. The inimitable cyanotype photograms of algae and ferns she created were made into the first books to feature p ...Show more
World Press Photo Yearbook 2023 by World Press Photo Foundation
$65.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Since 1955, the annual World Press Photo Contest has set the standard in visual journalism. The 2023 Yearbook showcases the most striking press photographs and compelling reports from 2022, carefully selected from thousands of entries by six regional and one global jury of acclaimed independent professi ...Show more
Mary Ellen Mark and Karen Folger Jacobs: Ward 81: Voices
$140.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Photographed in 1976, Ward 81 was Mary Ellen Mark's (1940-2015) first independent long-term project. Mark and writer Karen Folger Jacobs (born 1940) set out to document the lives of the women in this locked ward at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem--the only one in the state. Every day for five weeks, ...Show more
Golden Age of Photojournalism by RUSSELL MELCHER
$99.00 AUD
Category: Photography | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Russell "Russ" Melcher came to Europe and photographed the superstars of the time, either during their visits to Paris and France or accompanied them on worldwide trips. He witnessed many world events from film festivals to terrorist attacks. Among the portrayed were royal families like the Windsors, Gr ...Show more
Darwin Daze by BERNARD OLLIS
$40.00 AUD
Category: Art
A 26 year old graduating student from The Royal College of Art, London, goes on the journey of a lifetime to take up the position of lecturer in drawing and painting at The Darwin Community College, Northern Territory, Australia. The year is 1976 and the young, enthusiastic, but naive young man travels ...Show more
Photography: The Ultimate Guide by DK
$55.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Discover the history behind photography and learn the skills to get the best from your photographs. A comprehensive all-in-one guide, Photography introduces you to the art, history, and culture of photography, and shows you how to take your own fantastic professional-standard photographs. An in-depth gu ...Show more
Merchants of Style: Art and Fashion After Warhol by Natasha Degen
$40.00 AUD
Category: Art
Looking at Andy Warhol's legacy as maker and muse, this book offers a critical examination of the coalescence of commerce and style. Merchants of Style explores the accelerating convergence of art and fashion, looking at the interplay of artists and designers, and the role of institutions--both public a ...Show more
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard. Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrestricted acce ...Show more
Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle's Yard Artists by Laura Freeman
$80.00 AUD
Category: Art
The lives of Jim Ede and the Kettle’s Yard artists represent a thrilling tipping point in twentieth-century modernism: a new guard, a new way of making and seeing, and a new way of living with art. The artists Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Henry Moore, Christopher Wood, Barbara Hepworth, David Jones, Alfr ...Show more
Jeff Wall - Catalogue Raisonne 2005-2021 by Gary Dufour (Editor); Jean François Chevrier (Contribution by); Thierry de Duve (Contribution by); David Campany (Contribution by)
$259.95 AUD
Category: Photography
A handsome volume of the renowned photographer's work from 2005 to 2021 Best known for his large-scale photographs, carefully constructed "near documentaries" created in collaboration with the subjects, Jeff Wall (b. 1946) is one of the most influential photographers of the late twentieth and early twe ...Show more
Surrealists in New York: Atelier 17 and the Birth of Abstract Expressionism by Charles Darwent
$50.00 AUD
Category: Art
Sensing the emerging disaster that was about to consume Europe, surrealists began to arrive in New York from Paris even before the outbreak of World War II. This engaging group biography tells their story and that of the artistic exchange between the Old World and the New. It takes as its focus the lege ...Show more
Chiparus - Master of Art Deco by Alberto Shayo
$130.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
-One of the most important sculptors of the Art Deco era, Dem tre Chiparus (1886-1947) was a Romanian sculptor who lived and worked in Paris. This book is a stunning monograph covering the most iconic of the Art Deco sculptors. It delves into his work both as a sculptor and a painter This new and update ...Show more