12 books in Photography - History
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The Ongoing Moment
Written by Geoff Dyer
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2009
Price: $16.95
In his most recent book, Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It, Geoff Dyer confessed that not only did he not take pictures in the course of his travels but that he does not even own a camera. With characteristic perver-sity—and trademark originality—Dyer has now come up with... Read more >
Written by Geoff Dyer
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2009
Price: $16.95
In his most recent book, Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It, Geoff Dyer confessed that not only did he not take pictures in the course of his travels but that he does not even own a camera. With characteristic perver-sity—and trademark originality—Dyer has now come up with... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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National Geographic Image Collection
Written by National Geographic, Michelle Anne Delaney and Maura Mulvihill
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $50.00
Behind National Geographic’s worldwide reputation as a powerhouse of photography lies one of the finest, most extensive, and most unique graphic resources on Earth: the National Geographic Image Collection. For the first time ever, readers will plumb the fascinating depths of this immense archive from the earliest photographs collected in the... Read more >
Written by National Geographic, Michelle Anne Delaney and Maura Mulvihill
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $50.00
Behind National Geographic’s worldwide reputation as a powerhouse of photography lies one of the finest, most extensive, and most unique graphic resources on Earth: the National Geographic Image Collection. For the first time ever, readers will plumb the fascinating depths of this immense archive from the earliest photographs collected in the... Read more >
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Odysseys and Photographs
Four National Geographic Field Men
Written by Leah Bendavid-Val, Gilbert M. Grosvenor, Mark Collins Jenkins and Viola Kiesinger Wentzel
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $40.00
Spanning almost a century of global upheaval and riveting human drama, this magnificent book follows the careers of Maynard Owen Williams, Volkmar Wentzel, Luis Marden, and Tom Abercrombie—a stellar quartet of National Geographic photographers who used their cameras to record a truly remarkable era.
While the lensmen were all supported and nurtured... Read more >
Four National Geographic Field Men
Written by Leah Bendavid-Val, Gilbert M. Grosvenor, Mark Collins Jenkins and Viola Kiesinger Wentzel
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $40.00
Spanning almost a century of global upheaval and riveting human drama, this magnificent book follows the careers of Maynard Owen Williams, Volkmar Wentzel, Luis Marden, and Tom Abercrombie—a stellar quartet of National Geographic photographers who used their cameras to record a truly remarkable era.
While the lensmen were all supported and nurtured... Read more >
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Victorian Photographers at Work
Written by John Hannavy
Format: Trade Paperback, 136 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $19.95
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Written by John Hannavy
Format: Trade Paperback, 136 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $19.95
Read more >
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Love
Written by Ferdinand Protzman
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $30.00
Universally desired and uniquely experienced, love finds expression in every land and culture. This enchanting new book celebrates the depth and diversity of love—at many moments in history, and at every human age—in an exquisite collection of photographs from National Geographic’s famous archives and beyond. Each picture tells a tantalizing story... Read more >
Written by Ferdinand Protzman
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $30.00
Universally desired and uniquely experienced, love finds expression in every land and culture. This enchanting new book celebrates the depth and diversity of love—at many moments in history, and at every human age—in an exquisite collection of photographs from National Geographic’s famous archives and beyond. Each picture tells a tantalizing story... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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100 Days in Photographs
Pivotal Events That Changed the World
Written by Nick Yapp
Foreword by Douglas Brinkley
Introduction by Chris Johns
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2007
Price: $35.00
Much more than a book of pictures, 100 Days in Photographs is a compelling visual journey through our age—an odyssey that's personal and universal, immediate and timeless. To create it, Getty Images and National Geographic identified 100 days that represent defining moments of the past 150 years... and crystallized them with... Read more >
Pivotal Events That Changed the World
Written by Nick Yapp
Foreword by Douglas Brinkley
Introduction by Chris Johns
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2007
Price: $35.00
Much more than a book of pictures, 100 Days in Photographs is a compelling visual journey through our age—an odyssey that's personal and universal, immediate and timeless. To create it, Getty Images and National Geographic identified 100 days that represent defining moments of the past 150 years... and crystallized them with... Read more >
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Song Without Words
The Photographs & Diaries of Countess Sophia Tolstoy
Written by Leah Bendavid-Val
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2007
Price: $35.00
Through never-before-seen photographs and intriguing personal diaries, this beautiful book provides an intimate glimpse into the lives of Countess Sophia Tolstoy and her husband, Leo Tolstoy—one of the greatest authors of all time—set against the grand and terrifying backdrop of aristocratic Russia on the brink of its demise.
Between 1885 and... Read more >
The Photographs & Diaries of Countess Sophia Tolstoy
Written by Leah Bendavid-Val
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2007
Price: $35.00
Through never-before-seen photographs and intriguing personal diaries, this beautiful book provides an intimate glimpse into the lives of Countess Sophia Tolstoy and her husband, Leo Tolstoy—one of the greatest authors of all time—set against the grand and terrifying backdrop of aristocratic Russia on the brink of its demise.
Between 1885 and... Read more >
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Etched in Stone
Enduring Words from Our Nation's Monuments
Written by Ryan Coonerty
Photographed by Carol Highsmith
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $30.00
This poignant, first-of-its-kind book celebrates words that define America's storied past and symbolize the drive of its people—from the boardrooms of Manhattan to the farm fields of Iowa. Author Ryan Coonerty highlights profound phrases inscribed on 52 monuments and public sites. Some are famed monuments like the Lincoln Memorial; others are... Read more >
Enduring Words from Our Nation's Monuments
Written by Ryan Coonerty
Photographed by Carol Highsmith
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $30.00
This poignant, first-of-its-kind book celebrates words that define America's storied past and symbolize the drive of its people—from the boardrooms of Manhattan to the farm fields of Iowa. Author Ryan Coonerty highlights profound phrases inscribed on 52 monuments and public sites. Some are famed monuments like the Lincoln Memorial; others are... Read more >
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The Ongoing Moment
Written by Geoff Dyer
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $16.95
Great photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both.
Focusing on the ways in which canonical figures like Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, and William Eggleston have photographed the same things—barber shops... Read more >
Written by Geoff Dyer
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $16.95
Great photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both.
Focusing on the ways in which canonical figures like Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, and William Eggleston have photographed the same things—barber shops... Read more >
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The Book of Photography
The History, the Technique, the Art, the Future
Written by Anne H. Hoy
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2005
Price: $40.00
Since its invention in 1839, photography has come to change not only the way we view the world, but the world itself. Every field—medicine, astronomy, journalism, art, geography, history—has been revolutionized by photography.
Now, spanning more than 166 years of photographic history and the work of more than 250 photographers, this comprehensive... Read more >
The History, the Technique, the Art, the Future
Written by Anne H. Hoy
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2005
Price: $40.00
Since its invention in 1839, photography has come to change not only the way we view the world, but the world itself. Every field—medicine, astronomy, journalism, art, geography, history—has been revolutionized by photography.
Now, spanning more than 166 years of photographic history and the work of more than 250 photographers, this comprehensive... Read more >
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The Ongoing Moment
Written by Geoff Dyer
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Price: $28.50
In his most recent book, Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It, Geoff Dyer confessed that not only did he not take pictures in the course of his travels but that he does not even own a camera. With characteristic perver-sity—and trademark originality—Dyer has now come up with... Read more >
Written by Geoff Dyer
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Price: $28.50
In his most recent book, Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It, Geoff Dyer confessed that not only did he not take pictures in the course of his travels but that he does not even own a camera. With characteristic perver-sity—and trademark originality—Dyer has now come up with... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Slightly Out of Focus
Written by Robert Capa
Foreword by Cornell Capa
Introduction by Richard Whelan
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2001
Price: $14.95
In 1942, a dashing young man who liked nothing so much as a heated game of poker, a good bottle of scotch, and the company of a pretty girl hopped a merchant ship to England. He was Robert Capa, the brilliant and daring photojournalist, and Collier's magazine had put him on... Read more >
Written by Robert Capa
Foreword by Cornell Capa
Introduction by Richard Whelan
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2001
Price: $14.95
In 1942, a dashing young man who liked nothing so much as a heated game of poker, a good bottle of scotch, and the company of a pretty girl hopped a merchant ship to England. He was Robert Capa, the brilliant and daring photojournalist, and Collier's magazine had put him on... Read more >
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