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Wide-ranging study, enhanced with over 250 illustrations, offers a fascinating history of the Jewish house of worship from antiquity to modern times. Describes their functions, furnishings, and architectural changes through the centuries, with specific accounts of individual European synagogues and insightful discussions of fortifications, materials of construction, women's galleries, and more.
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“Well-illustrated...techniques, equipment and safety are all covered in detail...a good addition.”—Library Journal. “More than 20 patterns...illustrated with color photographs. ...Designs are simple, ranging from flowers, to art deco-type angles.”—Booklist.
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The New Stained Glass: Techniques * Projects * Patterns & Designs.......2007-01-13
Great even for beginners.
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New Glass Stained Glass Patterns
Ed Sibbett
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Stained Glass: New Designs
Christopher Martin , and
Jackie Estes
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- Covers well over 150 years of photography
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Singular Images
Darsie Alexander ,
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Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography
ASIN: 1597110175
Release Date: 2006-02-01 |
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Spanning 170 years, from William Henry Fox Talbot's first negative to Jeff Wall's latest constructed tableau, Singular Images collects thought-provoking essays on individual photographs, one image per writer. The essayists consider, sometimes in highly personal ways, the artist's intention, their own response, the work's technical complexities, its historical context or its formal properties. Each text captures a sense of how challenging it is to create a perfect single piece. Art photography has been increasingly well-surveyed in recent years, but individual works have rarely been written about at length, perhaps because of lingering doubt that a single photograph can command the kind of sustained attention often given to individual paintings or sculptures. Singular Images is a lively inquiry into the value of analyzing individual photographs, and it persuasively encourages the reader to engage at length and in depth with one remarkable piece at a time. With its broad scope and diverse range of issues, it can also be read as an informal--and thoroughly entertaining--introduction to art photography. Featuring essays by some of the most brilliant critical minds in the field, including David Campany on Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp, Darsie Alexander on Nan Goldin and Liz Jobey on Diane Arbus.
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Great Brook.......2007-04-01
Great book with interesting approches on the images.
I'm glad to have it.
Covers well over 150 years of photography.......2006-09-09
Singular Images: Essays On Remarkable Photographs covers well over 150 years of photography, from Talbot's first negative to the latest changes in photographic art. Essays collect analysis of individual photos however, not the genre as a whole, focusing on a single image's achievements and exploring artist intention, technical and historical background, and the artistic community's response. Black and white photos blend with in-depth analysis to show what makes an achievement exceptional in the photography field.
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Julia Margaret Cameron's women are, in a word, lovely. The 19th-century photographer was best known in her lifetime for her portraits of such major figures of the era as Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Darwin, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Alfred Tennyson--many of whom were her friends and neighbors on England's Isle of Wight. But her rich images of women, which convey a wide range of real emotion and experience rarely openly expressed during the Victoria era, are arguably her strongest, most important works. Taking themes from the Bible, mythology, literature, and Renaissance painting, Cameron modeled the women around her--friends, servants, relatives--as Ophelia, Juliet, Queen Esther, Rachel, A Bacchante, Guinevere, and Mary, among others. Julia Jackson, the photographer's niece and future mother of Virginia Woolf, was Cameron's favorite model--and the one woman Cameron always cast as herself, titling one 1867 image My Favorite Picture of All My Works. My Niece Julia. Cameron's softly lit, unsmiling women with unpinned hair are full of sensuality, longing, sadness, and beauty. Their powerful emotions fill the dark shadows and diffused backgrounds of their portraits.
The plates for the book were borrowed from collectors around the world and reproduced on creamy, heavy stock that does fair justice to the original albumin prints. As Cameron was less concerned with technical exactitude than the essence of the image, the blurring brought on by a model's movement or insufficient light is faithfully maintained, serving to heighten the mystery and allure of the images. Three essays by noted art historians place Cameron and her work in historical and social context. And appendices offering biographical data on the models and a reproduction of Cameron's original price catalog are a substantive complement to the photographs. Julia Margaret Cameron's Women is an excellent example of an expertly conceived and beautifully executed artist monograph. --Jordana Moskowitz
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This stunning book is the first to focus on the photographs of women taken by Julia Margaret Cameron, one of the great portrait photographers of all time. The superb photographs are complemented by essays on the artist and her work, the literary culture in which she lived. .
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a splendid collection!.......2001-08-18
julia margaret cameron's women contains 63 different plates representing magnificent victorian portraits photographed back in 1864 to 1874. every plates are monochromed in sepia or black & white. ...5 pages are consacrated to her models biographies,her favorite ones like: julia prinsep jackson (mother of virginia woolf & painter vanessa bell), mary ann hillier (her maid,cameron described her as one of the most beautiful & constant of her models.) , Alice Pleasance Liddell (aka the little girl from whom Lewis Caroll wrote "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" in 1865)..etc.. - 5 other pages focuses on cameron's Literary & mythological subjects:from "DAPHNE" (nymph pursued by the god Apollo) to "OPHELIA" (from shakespeare's "Hamlet")..all are well explained and presented...the rest of the 242 pages are dedicated to margaret's life, her debuts,her Illustrations to tennyson's "Idylls of the king", her different relations... - all fans of painting & photography should own this book! it is a unique reference! cameron was and still is one of the greatest portrait photographers of all time...
other interesting books in this genre: "Reflections in a looking Glass" a centennial celebration of Lewis carroll. , "Photo Historica" landmarks in photography , "a new history of photography" edited by michel frizot.
An Often missed Pre-Raphaelite Vision.......2000-03-25
This amazing book is well worth the investment. These photos still have the power to knock one over the head with their dizzying beauty. Too often people look to the men who made up the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood for an ideal of the Victorian woman. For a fresh look, one should explore Victoriana through the eyes of the women themselves. Cameron's photography is the perfect counterpart to Christina Rosetti's poetry. Enjoy.
An Often missed Pre-Raphaelite Vision.......2000-03-24
This amazing book is well worth the investment. These photos still have the power to knock one over the head with their dizzying beauty. Too often people look to the men who made up the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood for an ideal of the Victorian woman. For a fresh look, one should explore Victoriana through the eyes of the women themselves. Cameron's photography is the perfect counterpart to Christina Rosetti's poetry. Enjoy.
Not merely an expensive coffee table book........1999-01-02
Most photographs here were made in ca. 1870. Looking through the book, I imagine that at that time photography was still so new, so unprecedented, that no one yet had idea of what portrait photography was to become. An art? Or a detailed recording of what the eye perceives? In this ambiguity, Julia Margaret Cameron shows herself in this volume to be great artist, a portrait photographer second to none. In the faces of her women, I can see stories and history as recorded nowhere else.
Most notable is the series of images of Julia Jackson. (She also appears on the front and back covers.) One can see her life evolve over the time span of the photos. These images become even more interesting upon learning she was mother of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. So here at last is the real Mrs. Ramsey.
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A Beautiful Monograph Illuminating the Iconic Portraits of Oneof Nineteenth Century's Influential Artistic Photographers. Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79) was forty-eight when her daughter gave hera camera as a gift.Even though her self-taught career started late she isconsidered an ambitious pioneer of the art of photography.Producing someof the most innovative and visually striking portraits of her time, Cameronhas left behind an unprecedented archive of the leaders and intellectualsof Victorian England, including Alfred Tennyson, Holsman Hunt, and CharlesDarwin.JULIA MARGARET CAMERON by Joanne Lukitsh, is an illustrated overview of thework of this legendary photographer. This affordable book documents thedevelopment of her photography through a chronological sequence of 55 blackand white images.The accompanying text by Boston-based Professor Lukitshprovides a fresh perspective on her life and work, placing her within thecultural context of her time and within the history of photojournalism.Cameron's artistic context for her photographs was her vital social circleof painters, writers, critics and intellectuals.Her images are often theonly existing photographs of these influential historical individuals.Inaddition her work encompassed tender portraits of children and wistful,poetic homages to female beauty.Cameron's sophisticated use of lighting and selective focus displayed herpassion for beauty, literature and, myth.In addition to literature, shedrew inspiration from the old masters.She stated her photographic missionas: "My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it thecharacter and uses of High Art by combining the real and Ideal andsacrificing nothing of the Truth by all possible devotion to Poetry andbeauty." Flipping through the pages of this beautiful monograph it isimmediately apparent that Cameron not only accomplished her mission, butultimately transformed the face of portraiture.
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Known as the "greatest pictorialist of her day," Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) came to photography late in life, bringing years of literary and artistic experience to what was still a relatively new medium. She believed the camera was a tool of expression and revolved to reconcile
traditional art content with modern forms of expression. The first volume in the In Focus series to examine the work of a nineteenth-century photographer, this beautiful volume examines Cameron's passion for the "divine art" and her "deeply seated love of the beautiful" that are clearly revealed by
her compelling pictures. The J. Paul Getty Museum's collection of Cameron photographs consists of 298 prints. Approximately fifty of them are presented here. The plates are accompanied by commentaries written by Julian Cox, assistant curator of photographs. Along with Judy Dater, David Featherstone,
Joanne Lukitsch, Weston Naef, Pamela Roberts, and Robert Woof, he participated in a colloquium on Cameron, an edited transcript of which is included here along with a chronology of Cameron's life.
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Dreamworld.......2007-08-07
It was a pleasant surprise to get to know this 19th century photographer. The images are beautiful and have a romantic dreamlike atmosphere that somehow recall pre-raphaelite paintings. The edition is well done and texts suit well the exquisite photographs.
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rom Life tells the story of the greatest portrait photographer of the Victorian Age, Julia Margaret Cameron. Born in Calcutta in 1815, she married Charles Hay Cameron in 1865 and settled down to the quiet life of a typical Victorian colonial; but beneath this conventional exterior she harbored a growing interest in the new photographic technologies that would allow images to be reproduced and preserved in a permanent form. Shortly after her marriage she began a long and affectionate correspondence with Sir John Herschel, the world-renowned scientist, who kept her informed about new developments in photography. In 1863, Cameron emerged as the leading portrait photographer of the day. Her work was chronicled in the diaries of her niece, Virginia Woolf, and she produced a series of portraits of dis-tinguished Victorians, including Tennyson, Carlyle, and Darwin. This is a fascinating and meticulously researched biography of a remarkable female artist who was decades ahead of her time.
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Passionate fan of julia margaret cameron's photography.......2007-08-01
OK,
in this 21rst century
I wish, ferverntly to promote
the irreproachhable photography of Julia Margaret Cameron .
To this day, I believe
No one has quite captured the inner energy and ardour of her subjects .
This book is a welcome treat.
It is a biography that helpfully describes & entertainingly so
this peculiar era
born of restraint, but passion too.
That of the late 19th century.
This bio really lends a witty feel to these surroundings, not dull !
To all who might be dis wayed from Victorian culture
Think again !
A fascinating and creative bunch .
Take a chance
and discover the life and photography of Julia Margaret Cameron !
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Victorian Album: Julia Margaret Cameron and Her Circle
Manufacturer: Da Capo Pr
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Julia Margaret Cameron, 1815-1879
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Income Inequality and Poverty in Eastern and Western Europe: Notburga Ott, Gert G. Wagner (Eds (Contributions to Economics)
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