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Product Description: Francis Bacon’s style was so personal and distinctive that his influence lay more in the intensity of his commitment to art itself than in any direct stylistic legacy. The British artist developed a way of portraying the human body that was unique in the history of painting—usually in isolation, at moments of extreme tension or even pain, distorted like figures from a fantastical nightmare...read more
By Matthew Gale (editor), Martin Harrison (contributor) and Chris Stephens (editor)
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9780847832750 | Skira, May 19, 2009, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Francis Bacon’s style was so personal and distinctive that his influence lay more in the intensity of his commitment to art itself than in any direct stylistic legacy.

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Product Description: Martin Harrison is a writer whose poetry is both a meditation and a meeting place between the immensity of the Australian environment and the hi-tech urbane world of everyday Western life. In this new collection Harrison has gathered together some of his best works and included some alluring and lyrical new works...read more
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9781921401107 | Univ of Western Australia Pr, June 2, 2008, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Martin Harrison is a writer whose poetry is both a meditation and a meeting place between the immensity of the Australian environment and the hi-tech urbane world of everyday Western life.

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Product Description: Nobody told Katie that life is difficult so, for her, it isn't. Something will turn up, she says, and it usually does. 90% of Robert's trouble is in his head. Life's a struggle - Ellen sees to that - but he will get there. But who will he be when he arrives, assuming he decides to keep going? He HAS to keep going - if only for the kids...read more
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9781847533357 | Lulu.Com, December 30, 2007, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Nobody told Katie that life is difficult so, for her, it isn't.

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By Martin Harrison (introduced by) and Saul Leiter (photographer)
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9783865214133 | Steidl / Edition7L, July 30, 2012, cover price $145.00

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Product Description: Now available in paperbackIrving Penn’s photographs have become iconic documents of an era––from his fashion and commercial editorials to his series of nudes and portraits of artists, musicians, writers, celebrities, and tribesmen of New Guinea, Peru, and Morocco...read more
By Rosamond Bernier (contributor), Edmund Carpenter (contributor), Colin Eisler (contributor), Martin Harrison (contributor) and Colin Westerbeck (editor)
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9780300122367 | Art Inst of Chicago, February 28, 2007, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Now available in paperbackIrving Penn’s photographs have become iconic documents of an era––from his fashion and commercial editorials to his series of nudes and portraits of artists, musicians, writers, celebrities, and tribesmen of New Guinea, Peru, and Morocco.

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Addressing questions about Bacon's painting practice, this book deals with his life and work. Containing over 250 source images and documents, it shows how photography, film, mass-media imagery and other sources informed Bacon's painting, and how 'lens-based images' helped to trigger the most significant turning-point in his stylistic development.
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9780500286241 | Reprint edition (Thames & Hudson, October 1, 2006), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Draws on a broad range of source images and documents to discuss the role of photography, film stills, and mass-media imagery in some of Francis Bacon's most important paintings and stylistic development, in an account that places Bacon's work in context of the mechanical reproduction process and the influences of his time.

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Product Description: Although Edward Steichen exhibited some of Saul Leiter's color photographs at The Museum of Modern Art in 1953, for 40 years afterward they remained virtually unknown to the art world. Saul Leiter: Early Color provides the first opportunity to see a comprehensive presentation of images by one of photography's great originals...read more
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9783865211392 | Steidl / Edition7L, August 30, 2006, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Although Edward Steichen exhibited some of Saul Leiter's color photographs at The Museum of Modern Art in 1953, for 40 years afterward they remained virtually unknown to the art world.

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Draws on a broad range of source images and documents to discuss the role of photography, film stills, and mass-media imagery in some of Francis Bacon's most important paintings and stylistic development, in an account that places Bacon's work in a context of the mechanical reproduction process and the influences of his time.
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9780500238202 | Thames & Hudson, May 1, 2005, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Draws on a broad range of source images and documents to discuss the role of photography, film stills, and mass-media imagery in some of Francis Bacon's most important paintings and stylistic development, in an account that places Bacon's work in a context of the mechanical reproduction process and the influences of his time.

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Product Description: After his "aperitif" book of models, Ten Women, which was a world success within five months of publication, Peter Lindbergh presented in 1997 his long-awaited larger title Images of Women, comprising the creative essence of his photographic work...read more
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9783829601436 | Schirmer/Mosel Verlag Gmbh, September 30, 2004, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: After his "aperitif" book of models, Ten Women, which was a world success within five months of publication, Peter Lindbergh presented in 1997 his long-awaited larger title Images of Women, comprising the creative essence of his photographic work.

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Product Description: If David Bailey was the quintessential London photographer during the Swinging Sixties, the photographs he produced in the 1970s reflect a radical reorientation. As can be seen in this comprehensive selection, his subject matter became truly international...read more
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9780500542736 | Thames & Hudson, November 1, 2003, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: If David Bailey was the quintessential London photographer during the Swinging Sixties, the photographs he produced in the 1970s reflect a radical reorientation.

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Product Description: In the 1980s, Andre Kertesz encouraged Dorothy Bohm to switch to color film. Immediately thereafter, torn advertising posters, graffiti and vernacular murals began to emerge as one of the persistent themes in her work. If their initial appeal was their seductive visuality, their deeper significance arguably stems from her history as a Lithuanian refugee who lost touch with most of her family when she immigrated there as a teenager in 1939...read more
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9783882438130 | Steidl / Edition7L, September 1, 2002, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In the 1980s, Andre Kertesz encouraged Dorothy Bohm to switch to color film.

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Product Description: London in the 1950s was a city in transition. From its post-war bombsites and rolling smog-balls at the beginning of the decade through to the packed movie theaters and Soho coffee shops at the end, London experienced a huge change in its attitudes...read more
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9781858941721 | Merrell, May 1, 2002, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: London in the 1950s was a city in transition.

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Product Description: Description: Ten Out of Ten is a celebration of the best in British photography. It comprises ten photographs by each of ten leading photographers: Sir Cecil Beaton, Bill Brandt, Barry Lategan, Don McCullin, Roger Mayne, Norman Parkinson, Rankin, Lord Snowdon, John Swannell, and Albert Watson...read more
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9783882434408 | 1 edition (Steidl / Edition7L, January 1, 2002), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Description: Ten Out of Ten is a celebration of the best in British photography.

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Product Description: Martin Harrison traveled widely in Asia Minor from his youth onward, and he was always fascinated by the questions of how and why the great and elegant cities of classical antiquity declined, and what happened to the descendants of the people who lived in them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780472110841 | Ill edition (Univ of Michigan Pr, September 1, 2001), cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Martin Harrison traveled widely in Asia Minor from his youth onward, and he was always fascinated by the questions of how and why the great and elegant cities of classical antiquity declined, and what happened to the descendants of the people who lived in them.

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Product Description: This collection of photographs aims to capture the spirit of London at the beginning of the new millennium. A multi-cultural London, with its ethnic mix, shopping centres, smart restaurants, financial district and gleaming new office buildings...read more
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9780853317807 | Lund Humphries Pub Ltd, November 1, 2000, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: This collection of photographs aims to capture the spirit of London at the beginning of the new millennium.

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Product Description: Edited by Martin Harrison.
By Gilda's Club (corporate author) and Martin Harrison (editor)
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9783882437218 | Steidl / Edition7L, November 1, 2000, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Edited by Martin Harrison.

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9782843231537 | Editions Assouline, October 1, 1999, cover price $75.00

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More than two hundred duotone and color photographs from Britain's most famous photographer highlight a retrospective look at the London of the 1960s, when David Bailey ran with and documented the hippest and most trend-setting figures of the era. (view table of contents)
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9780670888184 | Viking Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: More than two hundred duotone and color photographs from Britain's most famous photographer highlight a retrospective look at the London of the 1960s, when David Bailey ran with and documented the hippest and most trend-setting figures of the era.

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Product Description: The second half of the 20th century has seen British artists, architects and designers assuming a central role on the world stage. In the years after the war, the young began to challenge accepted artistic values, looking at popular culture for their inspiration...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780500019061 | Thames & Hudson, June 1, 1999, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The second half of the 20th century has seen British artists, architects and designers assuming a central role on the world stage.

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9780224051293 | Jonathan Cape, March 1, 1999, cover price $40.00

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Never-before-published photographs of the King as he burst into superstardom chronicle his sweeping effect on a young generation, capturing him in performance, backstage, and at the house he bought for his parents. 20,000 first printing.
By Martin Harrison (editor) and Marvin Israel (photographer)
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9780810908994 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 1998, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Never-before-published photographs of Elvis Presley as he first achieved popularity chronicle his effect on a young generation, capturing him in performance, backstage, and at the house he bought for his parents

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9781891475115 | 3rd rev edition (Tony Shafrazi Gallery, August 1, 1998), cover price $49.95

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Product Description: Theatre has provided many words and meanings which we use--ignorant of their origins--in everyday writing and speech. This is the first book to explore 2,000 theatre terms in depth, in some cases tracing their history over two and a half millenia, in others exploring expressions less than a decade old...read more
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9780878300877 | Routledge, May 1, 1998, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Theatre has provided many words and meanings which we use--ignorant of their origins--in everyday writing and speech.

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Product Description: For 50 years Lillian Bassman has been one of the great figures in the world of fashion photography. Now, after a 20 year hiatus the 79 year old photographer is agai n at the forefront and her autobiography will thrill admirer s with its revelations. ' (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780821223765 | Bulfinch Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: For 50 years Lillian Bassman has been one of the great figures in the world of fashion photography.

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Amazon.com Review: Far from simply a "good clothes hanger", as she is known to have described herself, Lisa Fonssagrives brought her considerable talents as a dancer, fashion designer, photographer, and sculptor to her modeling, creating a persona at once earthly and larger than life...read more
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9780865659780 | Vendome Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Amazon.

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