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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.36
EAN: 9780714845227
ISBN: 0714845221
Label: Phaidon Press
Manufacturer: Phaidon Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 184
Publication Date: August 01, 2005
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Sales Rank: 453349
Studio: Phaidon Press
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Rating:  - Good shipment
Ordered to be shipped to Australia, arrived fairly fast considering the distance. No complaints.
Rating:  - It is what it is
This is a book with no pretense: Fantastic images, from some of the world's greatest photographers, collected under the shaky title of "landscape," and put together in a well-designed, under-sized, cheaply produced pamphlet-book that can be purchased for under twenty dollars.
Rating: - handy photo book
It's cheap, small and light weighted. But filled with wonderful photos.
You can read it everywhere, in subway, in park, in rest room.
Rating: - Not your average landscape photography book
You wouldn't think Magnum, a photo agency best known for its outstanding photojournalism, could produce a compelling collection of landscape photographs. But going through the book, it made perfect sense. These photographs aren't the sublime visions of the natural world one associates with the art of landscape, whether in photography (e.g., A. Adams, the Westons) or painting (e.g., all of the Hudson River School artists), but are reports of the state of the world expressed through our landscape. ... Read More
Rating: - Lessons in seeing
Look at a famous Ansel Adams print and you see (generalising grossly) a technically immaculate, beautiful image of something that is itself obviously impressive and beautiful. Which is not to belittle the level of visual imagination and craftsmanship that went into making those photographs.
Look at some of the images in this book and you see something utterly different -- the ability to see a picture, to pull a compelling and fascinating image, out of nothing, out of scenes most people wouldn't ... Read More
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