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As early as the 1850s, gaslight tempted New Yorkers out into a burgeoning nightlife filled with shopping, dining, and dancing. Electricity later turned the city at night into an even more stunning spectacle of brilliantly lit streets and glittering skyscrapers. The advent of artificial lighting revolutionized the urban night, creating not only new forms of life and leisure, but also new ways of perceiving the nocturnal experience. "New York Nocturne" is the first book to examine how the art of the...

When The Photography Book was first published in 1997 it was widely acclaimed as the most important reference book ever on its subject. This new mini edition has all the visual energy and compelling insights of the original, but in a light and truly portable format, making it ideal both for dipping into and for using as a serious sourcebook. Its 500 superb images represent the world's best photographers and encompass every sort of photography, from pictures of famous events, such as the Royal Wedding...

This book traces a brief history of contemporary Italian photography which came of age during the post World War II years, at the same time that the cities that are documented were starting to be rebuilt. By the early 1950s a new generation of Italian photographers such as Ugo Mulas and Giorgio Avigdor began photographing the new cities with tough, high-contrast pictures in the wake of such 'neo-Realist' movies as 'The Bicycle Thief' and 'Miracle in Milan'. In the following decades Italian photographers...

Sue Clifford's text discusses the importance of place in providing personal meaning and enrichment to human life, and presents several recent projects throughout Britain which have successfully demonstrated that artworks that integrate the specific character of a locality enhance people's appreciation and understanding of the places they inhabit. Sue Clifford is co-ordinator of Common Ground, an ideas organisation working with all branches of the arts from an environmental imperative.

This brand new stunning coffee table photography book produced by the renowned TeNeues fine art publishers, chronicles the last 30 years of this renowned spiritual leader’s extraordinary impact on the world. The photos reveal both the quieter side of the Dalai Lama’s life as well as the more public moments, with the Dalai Lama describing the photos as being special because of “the numerous friendly encounters they depict”. This exquisite book gives a wonderful glimpse into the Dalai Lama’s life,...

Numbered Titled & signed Limited Edition Print of 250 using Archival Matte Paper & Ultrachrome Pigment inks for clarity & longevity.

Working across a wide range of media, Lothar Hempel stages elaborate installations which are as much theatrical possibilities as artworks. His constructed ‘situations’ confront the viewer with open-ended dramas and ideological dilemmas. His paintings and puppet-like figures, similarly, exist as potential casts for his scenarios. Reminiscent of Bertolt Brecht's theatre, Hempel's works do not provoke emotional engagement, but rather the viewer's critical reaction to the presented narratives, and the...