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Art
of natural Living by John Wagner Painting the nude takes on a new meaning when you are a nudist artist. Although John Wagner paid his dues in studying the traditional nude form, he soon evolved his themes and concepts into the wonderful paradisiacal images of innocence that represent the high aspirations of today's nudist society. This books depicts the naturalness of the family nudist lifestyle in a way that no other artist has yet achieved. £17.95 + p&p
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Notes - Jock Sturges 'Notes' gives fans of Jock Sturges' unforgettable images a glimpse behind the scenes of his working process. Over the past decade, Sturges has produced an incomparable body of work that revels in the beauty of the human form and celebrates the naturist spirit. In this volume, he discusses his interactions with the families and individuals for whom he has acted as community portraitist for over a decade and, for the very first time, presents his preliminary sketches in the form of Polaroids and other small format camera studies that he makes before following through with a final image. £22.00 + p&p
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Radiant
Identities by Jock Sturges Whether photographing on naturist beaches in the south of France, or in the communes of northern California, Sturges is at home with his subjects. This collection has caused controversy in its time, but is now widely accepted as a work of great sensitivity in its photographic study of his friends and their families growing up together in a contented naturist lifestyle during their formative years. £20.00 + p&p
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Last
Days of Summer by Jock Sturges The photographs of Jock Sturges are the record of the people he cherishes: mothers and daughters, friends, children. The gelatin silver prints luxuriate in textures of sand, flesh, cloth, tide pools and gentle waves. The high mark of Sturges' work is its naturalness and its gentle attentions to the pleasure that can be found in life. Superbly printed, expressive in their modulations of light and joyful tonalities, the photographs in this collection show the mark of a brilliant artist and master of the photographic art. £20.00 + p&p
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At
Twelve by Sally Mann ... but whatever the right word is, your photographs of the twelve-year-olds are just riviting, while at the same time rekindling for me a tenderness of emotion and memory... And to my mind some of the finest photographs being made (from a letter to the photographer. No-one captures the spirit of childhood in the way that Sally Mann does. Its a gift that one can but envy. £19.95+ p&p
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Immediate
Family by Sally Mann Sally Mann makes pictures of chldren - luminously beautiful balck and white images of mysteriously elfin children around her rural home in Virginia. These are riviting, enigmatic narrative images of her family growing up in the uninhibited freedom of the open countryside. The differing characters of her family shine through this delightful book with all the moods of childhood. £19.95+ p&p
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Mother
& Daughters It is at once the most basic and most mysterious of relationships: mothers beget, nourish, and ultimately are succeeded by their daughters. Therein lies the true thread of human continuity. In this extraordinary volume this relationship is explored in all of its variety, nuance and ambivilence. Pictures from some of the best known photgraphers of our age have been lovingly collected and carefully assembled by Tillie Olsen and Estelle Jussim to portray this most intimater of relationships. £19.95 + p&p
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Age of Innocence by David Hamilton This book contains some of the most compelling of David Hamilton’s photographs of youth growing up. His pictures capture all the changing moods of youth; the birth of enduring friendships, happiness, sadness, wistfulness, awareness of the metamorphis into adulthood and the uncertainties that lie ahead. Not all his subjects are great beauties, but they all portray the excitement and innocence of youth seeking to establish their identity in a complex world. £25.00 + p&p |
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Twenty Five Years of an Artist A collection containing some of the most important work of David Hamilton and spanning the principal 25 years of his professional life. In this collection are shown not only the nudes for which he has become best known perhaps, but also the many other facets of his brilliance as an artist with a camera. It is also a visual biography where his life’s work is described with few words but with many pictures. It you love great art, then this is a book for you! £35.00 + p&p
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Family Nudes £65.00 + p&p |
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Coming of Age Where David Hamilton has chronicled the delicate adolescent feelings of girls often set in almost surreal backgrounds, Will McBride has always been fascinated by the harsher realities faced by streetwise boys. He pulls no punches nor hides the starkness of the settings in which many of his subjects strive to establish themselves.Often his pictures show the joy and excitement of underprivileged youth that fight to overcome the vulnerabilities of their surroundings. Like Jock Sturges, he has befriended many of his subjects to whom he has returned year after year producing a pictorial diary of their coming of age. £28.50 + p&p
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Body Land
is the latest collection of self-portraits from this unique
artist. Arno Rafael Minkkinen incorporates his own nude body into a
range of isolated settings, emphasising its bond to the natural world.
Whether rooted to the ground like an aspen or emerging fom a smooth
bank of snow, he contorts himself to merge with the contours of the
landscape.
In single negative exposures with single negative prints, Minkkinen captures himself and sometimes his son in photographs taken between 1971 and 1996 in New England, Arizona, Paris, southwestern France and Finland. In an essay that explores his relationship to the camera as both photographer and subject, Minkkinen discusses how photography can merge past and future as well as individual bodies with the earth, sea, and even air. £18.95 + p&p
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complied by William A Ewing navigates the shoals and rapids
of an aesthetically and politically loaded topic, and manages not only
to survive the journey but also to shed light on how photographers have
used the human figure for a variety of pictorial purposes through more
than 150 years. Published to extraordinary worldwide acclaim, this superb
anthology was hailed as ‘one of the most unique and powerful photographic
books in recent memory’. Complied from the outstanding work of
some of the world’s most talented photographers the 365 pictures
are taken from the early days of photography to recent times.
You may find some of the pictures disturbing, but this book is a major work covering the use of photgraphy in many differing fields. £16.95 + p&p |
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This collection is alright with me and if you enjoy photographs by a master of his craft then it will be alright with you too! £4.99 + p&p |
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The Art of the Human Form Too often the human form is maligned as the seat of evil to be hidden and not appreciated, but the human form is complex, refined, meaningful and beautiful It is every bit as important, if not more so, than the flora and fauna surrounding us, which we photograph and appreciate daily. Each of the five talented photographers whose work is included in this book understands that, and uses the art and craft of photography to create lasting impressions of the human form. £21.99 + p&p |
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