North Light's Big Book of Painting Watercolor Flowers

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This giant treasury of watercolor florals brings together a popular medium with a popular subject matter. With North Light's Big Book of Painting Watercolor Flowers, readers can:

* Paint all their favorite flowers in watercolor--everything from wild daffodils and gladiola to hollyhock and mums

* Brush up on the basics, including composition, wet-into-wet washes, mixing color and stretching watercolor paper

* Create finished pieces in no time with easy step-by-step demonstrations

Page after page of gorgeous artwork and clear instruction make this the perfect choice for artists of all levels. Painting flowers has never been easier!

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North Light's Big Book of Painting watercolor flowers.......2005-08-23

Very nice book,looked like a new book

nice book.......2005-04-15

Very instructive. Many different styles of painting demonstrated in a way easy to follow. Very well worth the money.

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Want to see what do-it-yourself filmmaking is all about? Benjamin Morgan did, so he made the low-budget, scraped together film Quality of Life. Shot on location in San Francisco's Mission District, the movie sheds light on a clandestine graffiti subculture, telling an authentic and gripping story of two young graffiti writers whose friendship and lives unravel after they get arrested. Morgan's book delves into how he and his crew were able to build their movie out of nothing, get it screened to sold-out audiences at film festivals nationwide, and even take home a couple awards. Both a compelling story and an intriguing behind-the-scenes look at underground film, Putting the Pieces Together explores a burgeoning field in the evolving world of cinema.

Computer scheduling of public transport: Urban passenger vehicle and crew scheduling : papers based on presentations at the international workshop held at the University of Leeds, 16-18 July, 1980

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Computer scheduling of public transport: Urban passenger vehicle and crew scheduling : papers based on presentations at the international workshop held at the University of Leeds, 16-18 July, 1980

Manufacturer: Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier North-Holland
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Binding: Hardcover

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Town in the Ruhr: A Social History of Bochum, 1860-1914

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Town in the Ruhr: A Social History of Bochum, 1860-1914
David F. Crew
Manufacturer: Columbia Univ Pr
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ASIN: 0231043015

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Urban Crew (Manga Books)
QUA
Manufacturer: Top That Publishing PLC
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1845109708

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Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew
Bernard Hare
Manufacturer: Sceptre
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0340837349

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Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew
Bernard Hare
Manufacturer: Sceptre
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ASIN: B000OVV5QI

An economic and housing outlook for 2005.(Real Estate and Construction) : An article from: Fairfield County Business Journal

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An economic and housing outlook for 2005.(Real Estate and Construction) : An article from: Fairfield County Business Journal
Frank Nothaft , Amy Crews Cutts , and Michael Schoenbeck
Manufacturer: Westfair Communications, Inc.
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Fairfield County Business Journal, published by Westfair Communications, Inc. on November 8, 2004. The length of the article is 681 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: An economic and housing outlook for 2005.(Real Estate and Construction)
Author: Frank Nothaft
Publication: Fairfield County Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 8, 2004
Publisher: Westfair Communications, Inc.
Volume: 43 Issue: 45 Page: 27(1)

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Vehicle and crew scheduling for urban bus lines [An article from: European Journal of Operational Research]

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Vehicle and crew scheduling for urban bus lines [An article from: European Journal of Operational Research]
M.M. Rodrigues , C.C. de Souza , and A.V. Moura
Manufacturer: Elsevier
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000RR9UOS

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This digital document is a journal article from European Journal of Operational Research, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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A solution to the urban transportation problem is given by vehicle and crew schedules. These schedules must meet the passenger demand and satisfy technical and contractual restrictions stemming from the daily operation of the lines, while optimizing some measure of operational cost. This work describes a computational tool developed to solve the urban transportation problem in the large metropolitan area of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The techniques used are based on integer programming models coupled with heuristics. The former produces good feasible solutions, and the latter improves the quality of the final solutions. While the operational and labor restrictions are specific to the city of Sao Paulo, the same ideas can inspire similar approaches for solving the urban transportation problem arising in other metropolitan areas.

Forestry competition study: In-house crews vs contractors

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Forestry competition study: In-house crews vs contractors
Alan Miller
Manufacturer: City of New York Parks & Recreation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006S9I0Y

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Revered as a father of modern photography, August Sander (1876- 1964) so refined the art of portraiture that his moving images of his fellow countrymen have been heralded both as an important sociological document and a photographic masterpiece. But those images make up only a portion of this deluxe seven-volume set, which will stand as the definitive collection of Sander's considerable achievement.

The books include some 150 never-before-seen images and essays by leading experts on the German photographer's work. Praising Sander's "vision . . . his knowledge, and his immense photographic talent," the writer Alfred Döblin said: "Those who know how to look will learn from his clear and powerful photographs, and will discover more about themselves and more about others."

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Photo Fine Art

Walker Evans & Company
Peter Galassi , Glenn Lowry , Stuart Davis , Edward Hopper , Roy Lichtenstein , and Ed Ruscha
Manufacturer: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Stephen Shore: American Surfaces

The Photobook: A History - Volume 2

The Photographer's Eye

William Christenberry

The Nature of Photographs

ASIN: 0870700324
Release Date: 2002-07-02

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Walker Evans' radical photography of the 1930s demonstrated that unembellished photographic fact could serve as a highly poetic language. These works expanded the potential of the art of photography and at the same time defined a lasting iconography that recognized advertising, movies, and car culture as central images of modern American identity. Walker Evans & Company focuses on Evans as a central figure in the arts of the 1920s and 30s, and includes works in photography and other mediums that influenced Evans or were influenced by him, or which resonate in a significant way with aspects of his imagery, sensibility, and style. Among the other artists whose work is featured are: Eugene Atget, Mathew Brady, Stuart Davis, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Edward Hopper, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, August Sander, Andy Warhol, and Edward Weston. Published in conjunction with the second of three cycles of millennial exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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Photo Fine Art.......2007-05-21

Peter Galassi focuses on Evans as one of the great photographers of the twentieth century who also had a huge influence on many American photographers (and some contemporary graphic artists) and the ten visual chapters in this beautiful book provide a convincing case.

Photography as an art form has had a hard time proving it. Unlike fine art paintings, which exist as an entity, photography has mainly presented a visual record in many printed mediums (newspapers, magazines, advertising, packaging, posters) all seen by the public but not as art. Walker Evans helped to change that perception in America.

The first two chapters are interesting because Galassi features photographers who influenced Evans, especially Eugene Atget and his studies of Paris. The remaining eight each start with work by Evans then the chapter theme is carried on by other well-known photographers (and artists) who drew inspiration from the style and subject matter in his work. The hundred creative folk featured are a who's who of American photography since the 1940s.

Just over three hundred images are shown printed in an impressively fine screen (more than 250dpi) that brings out the wonderful detail in so many of them. Galassi contributes a fine introduction and each photographer get a comprehensive list of their photos in the back of the book. Overall I thought this was a fascinating survey American art photography whose origins clearly owe so much to Walker Evans.

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August Sander: 'In Photography There Are No Unexplained Shadows'

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Fast delivery-damp and warped product.

August Sander: 'In Photography There Are No Unexplained Shadows'

Manufacturer: National Portrait Gallery
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1855141965

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Fast delivery-damp and warped product........2005-09-29

The book was delivered faster than expected. A couple of things could have been mentioned in the seller's product description. The book smelled very mildewy and the dampness caused the cover to warp quite a bit. I suspect it was stored in a basement for some time.

August Sander: 1876-1964 (Photographic Study)

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August Sander: 1876-1964 (Photographic Study)
Susanne Lange
Manufacturer: Benedikt Taschen Verlag
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Binding: Hardcover

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August Sander (Aperture Masters of Photography)

ASIN: 3822871796

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Photographer August Sander's great gift to the world is his collection of portraits documenting German society in the early decades of the 20th century. His sitters are anonymous, described simply by their occupation, with the stories of their lives, hard or soft, written on their faces. Drawn from all ranks of society, they look at us with a directness and honesty that reflect those of the man behind the camera. There is little artifice in their settings; Sander captures the essence of his subject's character through a neutral but sympathetic simplicity of vision. Calling his portfolio People of the Twentieth Century, Sander builds a picture of the Germany of his day that is at the same time both an artistic and sociological study. The calmness and humanity of his photographs contrast starkly with the violence of his times; though his work is pointedly apolitical, portrait titles such as Victim of Persecution, Cologne, 1938 suggest the hysteria that was overtaking contemporary Europe. Printed in Italy, this study presents a trilingual essay and 168 high-quality reproductions of Sander's work. Complementing the portraits are powerful landscape compositions of idyllic countryside and bombed-out ruins. The book is a fine introduction to the work of a pioneer who refined portraiture to its essence, changing the way photography was regarded in Germany and the world. --John Stevenson

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August Sander
Susanne Lange
Manufacturer: Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 3829600062

August Sander (Aperture Masters of Photography)

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August Sander (Aperture Masters of Photography)

Manufacturer: Aperture
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0893817481
Release Date: 2005-06-15

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An unobtrusive portrait photographer who knew what he wanted from his subjects at the onset of his career, August Sander is the photographer of the soul and the chronicler of an age.

A meticulous workman and driven artist, he photographed the defeated citizenry of Germany in 1918, who needed photo identification cards for the occupying forces. By 1929 he had photographed all classes and types of the German people. Sander came under the influence of modern art and its vocal intellectual practitioners, whom he befriended in Cologne. It was through his discussions with them that he came to understand the importance of his portrait work and was encouraged to continue. He produced the first volume of an extended series he hoped would provide an exhaustive catalog, but by the 1930s his work fell into disfavor by the Nazis and was banned.

The photography of August Sander, resounding with clarity and expressiveness, comprises an extraordinary human document. This volume of the Masters of Photography series includes forty-three of his portraits that reveal a vast cross section of German society, from pastry chefs to industrialists, and provide a provocative glance at the Weimar Republic.

August Sander: Photographs of an Epoch 1904-1959

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August Sander: Photographs of an Epoch 1904-1959

Manufacturer: Aperture
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0893810584

One of a Kind: Portraits from the LaSalle Bank Photography Collection

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One of a Kind: Portraits from the LaSalle Bank Photography Collection
Carol Ehlers , and Thomas Heagy
Manufacturer: LaSalle Bank, N.A., Chicago, Illinois
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0970245246
Release Date: 2007-03-01

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Brought to you by the publishers of Rineke Dijkstra: Beach Portraits and Chicago Photographs, One of a Kind features 48 magnificently reproduced portraits from some of the greatest image-makers in the history of modern photography. Culled from the renowned archives of Chicago's LaSalle Bank, One of a Kind begins inside the studio, with work by such greats as Edward Weston, Richard Avedon and Julia Margaret Cameron. Outside of the studio, there are energetic and sometimes lonely street scenes by William Klein, Rineke Dijkstra and Gordon Parks. Next, there are intimate family photographs by Roy DeCarava, Larry Sultan, Tina Barney and Thomas Struth. Other artists include: August Sander, Walker Evans, Mike Disfarmer, Cindy Sherman, Meridel Rubenstein, David Hilliard, Carrie Mae Weems, Diane Arbus, Stephen Shore, David Hockney, Dawoud Bey, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Edward Steichen, Man Ray and Seydou Keita.

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Lasalle.......2007-03-25

very happy to discover some photos I have not seen in other books or exhibitions in France or England.

In Focus: August Sander: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (In Focus)

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In Focus: August Sander: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (In Focus)
August Sander
Manufacturer: Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0892365676

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The long life of German photographer August Sander (1876-1964) spanned one of the most turbulent eras in his country's history. The Great War of 1914-1918, the Weimar Republic, the reign of National Socialism, and the horrors of World War II all left an indelible imprint on both the man and
his work. Sander, a conventional studio portraitist who transformed himself into an avant-gardist, exemplified the complex and sometimes contradictory nature of his time. He was at once innovative and deeply wedded to the past, blending a progressive vision with a traditional view of society and his
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The approximately fifty plates featured in In Focus: August Sander are some of the most striking from the Getty Museum's more than twelve hundred pictures by the artist. They include images of rural dwellers such as those found in Young Farmers and Farm Girls, and other portraits including Wife of
the Cologne Painter Peter Abelen, Parliamentarianand the poignant Blind Children, Duren. A chronological overview of Sander's life provides a factual framework for this discussion.

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Aperture (#83 & #84)

Manufacturer: Aperture, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000G7LB8W

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This double-issue of Aperture focused on 'August Sander, Photographs of an Epoch, 1904-1959', with a 4-page Preface by Beaumont Newhall, 22-page Historical Commentary by Robert Kramer, and excerpts from the writings of August Sander and his contemporaries. Photographs are categorized by 'The Man of the 20th Century', 'Rhineland Landscapes', 'Architecture and Industry', 'Nature Studies', and 'Sardinia'. Includes detailed artist chronology and bibliography.

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