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20th Century Photography

"Defining images of photographic art in this century which kept me turning the 750+ pages with enthusiasm for many an hour." -Photo Art International, United Kingdom

Robert Doisneau

Robert Doisneau (1912-1994) is best known for his magical, timeless 35mm street portraits taken in Paris and its suburbs. Fresh, unstaged, and full of poetry and humor, his photographs portray everyday people (in everyday places, doing everyday things) frozen in time, unwittingly revealing fleeting personal emotions in a public context. Doisneau's gift was the ability to seek out and capture, with humanity and grace, those little epiphanies of everyday Parisian life. This book traces Doisneau's life and career, providing a wonderful introduction to the work of this seminal photographer.

Photo Icons II

Each chapter of the two Photo Icons volumes focuses on a single image which is described and analyzed in detail, in aesthetic, historical, and artistic contexts.

Volume I begins with the very first permanent images (Nicéphore Niépce's 1827 8-hour-exposure rooftop picture and Louis Daguerre's famous 1839 street scene) and takes the reader up through the avant-garde photography of the 1920s.

Volume II explores works such as Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother (1936) and Robert Doisneau's Kiss in Front of City Hall (1950), up through Martin Parr's 'New European photography.'

Photo Icons I

Each chapter of the two Photo Icons volumes focuses on a single image which is described and analyzed in detail, in aesthetic, historical, and artistic contexts.

Volume I begins with the very first permanent images (Nicéphore Niépce's 1827 8-hour-exposure rooftop picture and Louis Daguerre's famous 1839 street scene) and takes the reader up through the avant-garde photography of the 1920s.

Volume II explores works such as Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother (1936) and Robert Doisneau's Kiss in Front of City Hall (1950), up through Martin Parr's 'New European photography.'

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The man, the image & the world

‘Images of pure genius … the real deal, a photographer who defined the purpose and power of photography … a definitive book’ – The Sunday Times
‘A body of work which continues to astonish with its beauty, lucidity and intelligence …
'The Man, the Image and the World' succeeds magnificently as an interpretative, celebratory selection of great images’ – The Art Newspaper

Львів на фотографії

Від другої половини XIX ст. фотографія продовжила давню традицію графічних зображень Львова. Завдяки сумлінній фотографічній фіксації урбанізаційних процесів сьогодні ми маємо можливість спостерігати за життям міста упродовж останніх 150 років. Окрім того, фотографія надає чудову можливість побачити відомі з літератури неіснуючі нині об’єкти, вигляд яких змінив або знищив невблаганний час. Увазі читачів пропонується альбом із 290 світлинами Львова. Головна мета видання – привернути увагу до багатої історичної спадщини та втамувати цікавість усіх шанувальників 750-річного міста.

Michelangelo - Life and Work

Il divino
A glorious exploration of Michelangelo's works

"The photography is sharp, the colour true and full of lustre...This will prove to be one of the art books of the year." - The Good Book Guide, London

Van Gogh

"This man will either go insane or leave us all far behind," prophesied the great Impressionist Camille Pissarro. The man was Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), a vicar's son born at Groot-Zundert near Breda in Holland, who at that time was struggling to find buyers for his paintings. Van Gogh did indeed go at least to the brink of insanity. And he has long been recognised as one of the greatest modern artists. Van Gogh, who followed a variety of professions before becoming an artist, was a solitary, despairing and self-destructive man his whole life long.

Renoir, Painter of Happiness

"Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world." — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Expressionism

A specifically German artistic revolution

In six chapters — The Brücke Group of Artists, Northern German Expressionism, The Blaue Reiter, Rhenish Expressionism, The City and Expressionism in Vienna — this publication deals with a specifically German artistic revolution, a phenomenon that has quite accurately been described as "the most significant German contribution to 20th century European art."