This collection of rare and vintage postcards offers a unique look at a vanished China and its storied capital. Comprising 355 black-and-white and hand-tinted Beijing photography postcards that span the period from the last years of Imperial China to the Japanese invasion of 1937, it is a treasure trove for buffs of Beijing history, collectors, Sinophiles, and anyone fascinated by people and cultures from times past. Readers will enjoy the wide selection of images showing different aspects of th...
From the perspective of 60 years on Eric Newby looks back with characteristic humour to his young self and his days on board 'Moshulu' and pays tribute, with his photographs, to these magnificent ships and their crews. No one with a love of the sea or a sense of the past could fail to be moved and excited by them.
Series of Portraits
by Gabriele Betancourt-Nunez and Ulrike Schneider
194x Architecture Planning and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front
by Emerson Holt
African photography has emerged as a significant focus of research and scholarship over the last twenty years, the result of a growing interest in postcolonial societies and cultures and a turn towards visual evidence across the humanities and social sciences. At the same time, many rich and fascinating photographic collections have come to light. This volume explores the complex theoretical and practical issues involved in the study of African photographic archives, based on case studies drawn...
The first photograph in Ireland was taken in 1839 by Belfast engraver Francis Beatty. Taking this event as his starting point, and ending with Luftwaffe aerial reconnaissance photographs in 1939, photo-historian W.A. Maguire traces the history of photography in the nine counties of Ulster. The book introduces the innovative and often colourful professional photographers who practised this evolving art-form in the north. Outstanding amateurs such as the 5th Earl Annesley are covered, as are the t...
Since Magnum was founded in 1947, its members have been on hand to bear witness on the front line of world history. From Robert Capa's stark photograph of a Loyalist soldier being shot in the head during the Spanish Civil War to Eve Arnold's astonishingly intimate portraits of well-known faces - from Joan Crawford to Malcolm X - Magnum has changed how we perceive our political leaders, social crises, and the communities next door. Magnum's photographers are some of the most talented, brave, and...
Austro-Hungarian Navy K, u, K Kriegs Marine A Pictorial History Volume One (Volume One, #1)
by S M Schiff
The Feast Of San Gennaro, Little Italy, New York, 1971
by Alan Pakaln
Camera Commandos & Reminiscences of D-Day Normandy
by Brian O'Regan
Featuring over one hundred of Jessamine Spear Johnson's photographs, this volume is the first publication to showcase her work in detail. Essays and captions by granddaughter Tempe Javitz, along with an intro by historian Mary Murphy, situate Johnson's life and career in relation to broader shifts in ranching, tourism, and photography.
Picturing Toronto (McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History)
by Sarah Bassnett
In 1911, when Arthur Goss was hired as Toronto's first official photographer, the city was at a critical juncture. Industry expansion and population growth produced pressing concerns about housing shortages, sanitation, and the health and welfare of citizens. Dispelling popular misconceptions, Picturing Toronto demonstrates that Goss and other photographers did not simply document the changing conditions of urban life - their photography contributed to the development of modern Toronto and shape...
The Great War the War to End All Wars which began 100 years ago, cost 15 million lives, and shaped the modern world. New technologies such as tanks, aircraft, submarines and chemical warfare wrought unimaginable horror throughout Europe, upon combatants and civilians alike, for four years. Comprised of more than a thousand photographs, maps, battle plans and contemporaneous news reports, this book tells the complete story of this devastating war."
Portland and Newboro Ontario in Colour Photos (Cruising Ontario, #160)
by Barbara Raue
This book offers an analysis of the socio-historical conditions of the rise of postwar Italian photography, considers its practices, and outlines its destiny. Antonella Russo provides an incisive examination of Neorealist photography, delineates its periodization, traces its instances and its progressive popularization and subsequent co-optation that occurred with the advent of the industrialization of photographic magazines. This volume examines the ethno(photo)graphic missions of Ernesto De M...
Colonialism and Photography in the Era of the Great War
The millions of images that were taken pose important questions: How were colonial soldiers framed and photographed in wartime Europe, and Europeans in wartime colonies; and what languages did the 'eye' draw upon while capturing these men? These photographs - even when taken by Europeans - also break the silence around the colonial soldiers, who were often non-literate and did not leave behind many written records. Including a substantial introduction, a critical theoretical foreword from one...