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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 779
EAN: 9780520259836
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0520259831
Label: University of California Press
Manufacturer: University of California Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: May 04, 2009
Publisher: University of California Press
Studio: University of California Press
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Anonymous photography has a magic all its own. The intriguing images assembled here by collector and curator Robert Flynn Johnson are all mysterious, but their appeal is various. By turns poignant, humorous, erotic, and disturbing, their subject is the human condition. In ten stunning chapters every aspect of human experience--both public and private--is explored. Richly reproduced and with subtle tonalities marking their age, over 220 photographs showcase the work of photographers whose identities have been lost in time. The images are never anything less than mesmerizing and include previously unseen portraits of such stars as Cary Grant, Richard Burton, and Marlene Dietrich. Introduced by Alexander McCall Smith, this follow-up to Johnson's widely acclaimed Anonymous touches on birth, marriage, death, disease, hope, glory, and despair and a plethora of additional emotions, events, and human states, and will capture the imagination of any reader.
Copub: Thames and Hudson
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I've got an entire wall of built-in bookcases filled with remarkable collections of anonymous photographs. This is one of the best such collections. My favorite has always been the volume entitled "America's Yesterdays: Images of Our Lost Past Discovered in the Photography Achieves of the Library of Congress" by Oliver Ormerod, Jensen. The only photographic collection I like better is "The Family of Man" a collection by Edward Steichen made for the Museum of Modern Art in the mid-1950s. However, ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 779
EAN: 9780520259836
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0520259831
Label: University of California Press
Manufacturer: University of California Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: May 04, 2009
Publisher: University of California Press
Studio: University of California Press