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Recommendations... Nantucket Then and Now
by John W. McCalley
These 210 exceptional photographs show the same scene viewed both in early photos and in more recent photos. Island has absorbed modern era while remaining untouched — text tells how.
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| |  Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War
by Alexander Gardner
One hundred of the greatest war pictures ever taken, this collection is also a dramatic record of American history. Union troops in battle, Lincoln at Antietam, the ruins of Richmond, Lee's surrender at Appomattox, more.
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 Photographs by Man Ray: 105 Works, 1920-1934
by Man Ray
Rich selection of various techniques include over and under exposure, shooting through fabric, superimposing images, and zeroing in on tiny details. Photographs are divided into general subjects, female figures (mainly nudes), women's faces, celebrity portraits, and rayographs.
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| |  Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown
by Arnold Genthe, John Kuo Wei Tchen
130 rare photos offer fascinating visual record of Chinatown, offering priceless glimpses of the rich street life before the great earthquake and fire of 1906. Informative text traces turbulent history of Chinese-Americans in California.
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| |  The Human Figure in Motion
by Eadweard Muybridge
The 4,789 photographs in this definitive selection show the human figure — models almost all undraped — engaged in over 160 different types of action: running, climbing stairs, etc.
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by Eadweard Muybridge
Nearly 4,000 photographs in series, stopped action, of horses, cats, lions, deer, kangaroos, etc. Indispensable for animal artists. Classic of 19th-century photography.
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| |  | Bain's New York: The City in News Pictures 1900-1925
by Michael Carlebach
Original hardcover compilation of 100 images from the photographic archives of one of the United States' earliest news agencies. Police activity, immigration, politics, street life, sports — everything from the mundane to the monumental. Detailed captions.
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| | | |  | Garden City, Long Island, in Early Photographs, 1869-1919
by Mildred H. Smith
Handsome treasury of 118 vintage pictures, accompanied by captions, document the Garden City Hotel fire (1899), the Vanderbilt Cup Race (1908), the first airmail flight departing from the Nassau Boulevard Aerodrome (1911), more.
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| | Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown
by Arnold Genthe, John Kuo Wei Tchen
130 rare photos offer fascinating visual record of Chinatown, offering priceless glimpses of the rich street life before the great earthquake and fire of 1906. Informative text traces turbulent history of Chinese-Americans in California.
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|  | Horses and Other Animals in Motion: 45 Classic Photographic Sequences
by Eadweard Muybridge
Horses hauling, walking, trotting, etc., plus sequences of donkeys, an ox, pig, dog, cat, deer, and other animals capture details of anatomy and movement with astonishing clarity.
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|  | How the Other Half Lives
by Jacob Riis
This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York's slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and of early American photography. Over 100 photographs.
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| | The Human Figure in Motion
by Eadweard Muybridge
The 4,789 photographs in this definitive selection show the human figure — models almost all undraped — engaged in over 160 different types of action: running, climbing stairs, etc.
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| |  | Men at Work
by Lewis W. Hine
Construction workers, railroad men, factory workers, miners, Empire State Building construction. 69 photos in all.
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| |  | Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man: Mathew B. Brady
by Roy Meredith
Over 300 Brady photos reproduced directly from original negatives. Photos, lively commentary on Jackson, Webster, Grant, Lee, Carnegie, Barnum, Lincoln, Battle Smoke, Death of Rebel Sniper, Atlanta Just After Capture, more.
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| | Nantucket Then and Now
by John W. McCalley
These 210 exceptional photographs show the same scene viewed both in early photos and in more recent photos. Island has absorbed modern era while remaining untouched — text tells how.
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|  | Natural Art Forms
by Karl Blossfeldt
Unique, dramatic images of seed pods, buds, stems, and other botanical items appear in this remarkable collection. Excellent source of royalty-free pictures and design ideas for artists, craftspeople. 120 full-page black-and-white plates.
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| |  | New York in the Forties
by Andreas Feininger
A former Life magazine photographer presents more than 160 photos of skyscrapers under construction, Harlem nightclubs, waterfront activity, Bowery flophouses, the Brooklyn Bridge, Chinatown, Coney Island, and more. Captions.
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|  | New York in the Thirties
by Berenice Abbott
Nearly 100 classic images by noted photographer: Rockefeller Center on the rise, Bowery restaurants, dramatic views of the City's bridges, Washington Square, old movie houses, rows of old tenements, and many other landmarks.
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