Flying High - The Photography of Lloyd Homer by Simon Nathan
$45.00 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography | Reading Level: near fine
'Disaster man' Lloyd Homer photographed events such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and landslides arounf New Zealand for over 35 years. This book features a selection of spectacular colour aerial photohraphs, including high-altitude panoramas, from the GNS Science image library as well as many uniqu ...Show more
THE POETIC HOME by MUTHESIUS STEFAN
$75.00 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography
Today we are surrounded by glossy publications and TV shows demonstrating the latest interiors. We take notions of style, comfort and atmosphere completely for granted, even designing our own rooms to achieve the right 'mood'. Yet this language, seemingly so current, emerged in the 19th century, when a ...Show more
Old Beijing: Postcards from the Imperial City by Titus Felicitas
$59.99 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography
Camel trains arriving at a city gate; the distinctive architecture of the Forbidden City, its pagodas, imperial buildings and temples; Manchu fashion, the Empress Dowager and the child emperor Puyi; street performers and foreign tourists--all come to life again in this extraordinary collection of rare a ...Show more
Paula Modersohn-Becker: The First Modern Woman Artist by J. Diane Radycki
$139.00 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography
Considered one of the most important of the early German modernists, the painter Paula Modersoln-Becker (1876-1907) challenged traditional representations of the female body in art. She was the first modern woman artist to paint herself nude, as well as mothers and children nude. She also created the fi ...Show more
Wanted - The Search for the Modernist Murals of E. Mervyn Taylor by Bronwyn Holloway-Smith (ed.)
$39.99 NZD
$79.99 (50% off)
Category: Art, Design & Photography | Reading Level: very good
Mervyn Taylor - wood engraver, painter, illustrator, sculptor and designer - was one of the most celebrated New Zealand artists of the 1930s to 1960s. He was highly connected to modernism and nationalism as it was expressed in New Zealand art and literature of the period. In the 1960s he created twelve ...Show more
Views in Kulu and Spiti by Hugh Ashley Rayner; Clark Worswick (Notes by)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography
Impressed by Light - British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860 by Roger Taylor; Larry J. Schaaf (Contribution by)
$110.00 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography
When photography appeared shortly before 1840, the metal-plate daguerreotype, invented in France, was first to achieve popularity. But the process simultaneously developed in England for capturing an image on a paper negative--from which many positives could be printed--provided the foundation on whic ...Show more
The Design and Printing of Ephemera in Britain and America 1720-1920 by Graham S. Hudson
$49.99 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography
This book explores the closely interwoven printing histories of Britain and America. American colonial printers and engravers imported British type and equipment, took instruction from the same manuals and were guided by the same exemplars as their British counterparts, a relationship that continued thr ...Show more
Alphabets to Order - The Literature of Nineteenth-Century Typefounders' Specimens by Alastair Johnston
$39.99 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography
This appropriately lovely history surveys the literary output of the anonymous craftsmen who set type-specimen books during the typefounding boom of the 19th century. Combining typographic scholarship and literary criticism, Johnston (a bibliographer and co- founder of Poltroon Press) shows that the app ...Show more
Camile Silvy - Photographer of Modern Life, 1834-1910 by Mark Haworth-Booth
$65.00 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography
This compelling account of Camille Silvy's life and photography is published to mark the centenary of his death and the first retrospective of his work in Paris and London. With hitherto unseen material, Mark Haworth-Booth presents Silvy as an extraordinarily modern photographer of great talent and orig ...Show more
Olivia Spencer Bower: Making Her Own Discoveries by Julie King
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art & Artists | Reading Level: near fine
I paint for myself. That's the only way. For when you paint to please it's not the honest thing & inhibits the chances of discovery, because there's no point in writing or painting unless you make your own discoveries.' Olivia Spencer Bower wrote those words near the end of an almost six-decade care ...Show more