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Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: World Press Photos third place for Daily Life stories in 2012. In this photographic account, Alexander Gronsky portrays the outskirts of Moscow: the places where humanity takes refuge to find solace far from the cities, colliding with urban expansion and frailty of nature. Alexander Gronsky was born in 1980 in Tallinn, Estonia. His photographic works have been published in numerous international…

Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: In 1968, Josef Koudelka was a 30-year-old acclaimed theater photographer who had never made pictures of a news event. That all changed on the night of August 21, when Warsaw Pact tanks invaded the city of Prague, ending the short-lived political liberalization in Czechoslovakia that came to be known as the Prague Spring. Koudelka had returned home the day before from photographing gypsies in…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: This book gathers the most beautiful pictures of the legendary Mick Jagger, taken by some of the greatest photographers in the world. His extremely distinctive face has made him the archetypal rock star: Mick Jagger is universal. His physique and the way he moves have helped fashion the myth of the uber-sexy male celebrity. His mouth has become the emblem of his band The Rolling Stones. His face…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Love Me explores the insidious power of the global beauty industry and our collective insecurity, vanity, and fear of aging. In a series of compelling images, it reflects a world we have created in which there are enormous social, psychological, and economic rewards and penalties attached to the way we look. We meet cosmetic surgeons, anorexics, child beauty queens, bodybuilders, housewives, porn…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: In this ultimate volume, Mario Giacomelli’s most appreciated collection of landscapes, street scenes, still life, and portraits of everyday Italian life are combined with a unique and unseen new series. Mario Giacomelli (1925–2000) is one of the most well-known photographers. His work has won many international prizes and has been exposed all over the world. This book is a survey of Giacomelli’s…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The ongoing relevance of Belgian painter Rene Magritte may lie in the semiotic character of his work and its ability to create chasms between the world, its surfaces and the signs we use to occupy it. Magritte's paintings offer a space for the viewer to contemplate the emptiness of signs and to locate that emptiness in a world we recognize--indeed, the artist relies on the props of normalcy in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: 1989 is one of two books published this season by Contrasto that presents a montage of photographs from a specific year. The power of these photographs calls to mind the years principal birthdays and highlights its key players. 1989 was an epoch-making year; among the extraordinary events that this book records are the fall of the BerlinWall, Tiananmen Square, the Velvet Revolution in…