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William Eggleston Portraits
by Phillip Prodger, William Eggleston
Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 2016 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-22252-4, ISBN: 0-300-22252-1

"“So many people take those simple snapshots of life, but there’s something about Eggleston that no one can match.” —Sofia Coppola The eminent American photographer William Eggleston (b. 1939) was a pioneer in exploring the artistic potential of color photography. Eggleston made a name for himself with his eccentric, unexpected compositions of everyday life that were nonetheless rife with implied narrative, elevating the commonplace to a ..."






Darwin's Camera(1st Edition)
Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution
by Phillip Prodger
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2009 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-515031-5, ISBN: 0-19-515031-7

"Darwin's Camera tells the extraordinary story of how Charles Darwin changed the way pictures are seen and made. In his illustrated masterpiece, Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1871), Darwin introduced the idea of using photographs to illustrate a scientific theory--his was the first photographically illustrated science book ever published. Using photographs to depict fleeting expressions of emotion--laughter, crying, a ..."






E. O. Hoppé's Amerika(1st Edition)
Modernist Photographs from the 1920s
by Phillip Prodger, Colin Westerbeck, Emil Otto Hoppe
Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2007 by W. W. Norton & Company
Bargain Price
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-06544-2, ISBN: 0-393-06544-8

"Once locked away in European archives, these early modernist photographs of America rival those of Steichen and Evans. Emil Otto Hoppé was born in Munich in 1878 but lived in London from 1900 until his death in 1972. He was an early and important modernist whose seminal views of the United States in the 1920s rival those of his peers: Paul Strand, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, and Walker Evans. His work shows us an America as only ..."






Only Human(1st Edition)
Photographs by Martin Parr (Photography)
by Martin Parr, Phillip Prodger, Grayson Perry, Martin Perry, Vv.Aa, Anna Starling
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2019 by Phaidon Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7148-7857-7, ISBN: 0-7148-7857-X

"Explore the concepts of Britishness and national identity through the rituals and habits of everyday life Published to coincide with Parr's 2019 exhibition at London's National Portrait Gallery - Only Human examines what it means to be human at a time of both change and retrospection. Martin Parr explores the photographer's most enduring subject - people - as never before. By turns witty, surprising, and ingenious, Martin Parr's photogr ..."






William Eggleston Portraits(1st Edition)
by Phillip Prodger, Sofia Coppola, Christopher-Tinker, Booby Brown, Aa.Vv., Harry Styles, Nicholas Cullinan
Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 2012 by Natl Portrait Gallery Pubns
ISBN-13: 978-1-85514-710-2, ISBN: 1-85514-710-6

""I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never been a bit interested in the fact that this was a picture of a blues musician or a street corner or something." (William Eggleston). William Eggleston's photographs are special for their eccentric, unexpected compositions, playfulness, implied narrative and, above all, his portrayals of people., Over the past half-century he has cre ..."






Suzanne Opton(1st Edition)
Soldier, Many Wars
by Phillip Prodger, Ann Jones, Suzanne Opton
Hardcover, 104 Pages, Published 2011 by Decode Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-9833942-0-4, ISBN: 0-9833942-0-2

"In the two series collected in this volume, "Soldier"and "Many Wars," photographer Suzanne Opton (born 1954) photographs a range of American soldiers close up, with their heads resting on tabletops, and American veterans draped in cloth blankets. The subjects of the "Soldier" series are all young, active-duty soldiers from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and the photographs were presented as billboards in nine American cities from 2008 t ..."






Hoppé Portraits(1st Edition)
Society, Studio and Street
by Phillip Prodger, Terence Pepper, Emil Otto Hoppe, E. O. Hoppae, Phillip Pepper
Hardcover, 150 Pages, Published 2011 by National Portrait Gallery
ISBN-13: 978-1-85514-421-7, ISBN: 1-85514-421-2

"'I knew Hoppe's photographs for years.' - Alfred Stieglitz, New York, 1921 'The Master' - Cecil Beaton, London, 1945 'The missing link in British photography between Frederick Evans and those contrasting moderns, Bill Brandt and Cecil Beaton' - Mark Haworth-Booth, London, 2006 Born in Munich in 1878 and resident in Britain from 1902, Emil Otto Hoppe began his photographic career in 1907 and soon developed a transatlantic reputation for ..."






Man Ray / Lee Miller(1st Edition)
Partners in Surrealism
by Phillip Prodger, Antony Penrose, Lynda Roscoe Harigan, Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Man Ray, Lee Miller
Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2011 by Merrell Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-1-85894-557-6, ISBN: 1-85894-557-7

"Bringing together unique and rarely seen photographs, paintings, sculpture and drawings, this exquisite book tells the story of the tumultuous relationship between the artists Man Ray (1890–1976) and Lee Miller (1907–1977). From 1929 to 1932, the two lived together in Paris, first as teacher and student, and later as lovers. Historically, Miller has been described as Man Ray’s muse, but Partners in Surrealism reveals how their brief, me ..."






Face Time
A History of the Photographic Portrait (Hardback)
by Mr Phillip Prodger
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2022 by Thames & Hudson Jan 2022
ISBN-13: 978-0-500-54491-4, ISBN: 0-500-54491-3

"Featuring portraits of great figures such as Queen Elizabeth II, Barack Obama, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, and Yuri Gagarin, Prodger aligns some of the best-known portraits ever made alongside rarely seen gems to tell the story of one ..."






The Queen's Backyard(1st Edition)
by Jonathan Anderson, Edwin Low, Phillip Prodger, Dewi Lewis Publishing
Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2015 by Dewi Lewis Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-907893-70-4, ISBN: 1-907893-70-9

"Set in the grounds of Windsor Castle, The Royal Windsor Horse Show and Windsor Castle Royal Tattoo is a quintessentially British event on a truly international scale. It is the UK's largest outdoor show and features international competitions in four different equestrian disciplines. It also encompasses military displays involving The King's Troop and The Household Cavalry, as well as various other regiments from the British Army, Navy ..."






Impressionist Camera(1st Edition)
Pictorial Photography in Europe, 1888-1918
by Phillip Prodger, Patrick Daum, Francis Ribemont, English Edition
Hardcover, 344 Pages, Published 2006 by Merrell Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-1-85894-331-2, ISBN: 1-85894-331-0

"From its earliest days, photography could not escape the pictorial traditions that had gone before it. This book, the first comprehensive study of Pictorialism in Europe, analyses the remarkable diversity of approaches taken by photographers across the continent whose practice was infused with contemporary debate about photography's relationship to art. Written by an international team of art and photography historians, Impressionist Ca ..."






Time Stands Still(1st Edition)
Muybridge and the Instantaneous Photography Movement
by Phillip Prodger, Tom Gunning
Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2003 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-514964-7, ISBN: 0-19-514964-5

"Eadweard Muybridge, one of the great pioneer-innovators of the 19th century, is a familiar figure to students of art history, photography, and cinema. Best known for the photographs of horses and other animals in motion that he made in the 1870s and '80s, Muybridge was the first person to use photography to freeze rapid action for analysis and study. He devised a method for photographing episodes of behavior using a series of cameras, p ..."






Victorian Giants(1st Edition)
The Birth of Art Photography
by Phillip Prodger
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2018 by National Portrait Gallery
ISBN-13: 978-1-85514-706-5, ISBN: 1-85514-706-8

"Oscar Rejlander, Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll and Clementina Hawarden embody the very best of Victorian photographyThe work of Oscar Rejlander (1813–75), Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–79), Lewis Carroll (1832–98) and Lady Clementina Hawarden (1822–65) embodies the very best of photography from the Victorian era. These giants of 19th-century photography experimented with new approaches to picture-making and shaped attitudes towar ..."






Sharon Harper(Updated)
From Above and Below
by Jimena Canales, Phillip Prodger, Sharon Harper, Aaron Huey
Hardcover, 120 Pages, Published 2012 by Radius Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-934435-52-6, ISBN: 1-934435-52-X

"From Above and Below features ten years of Sharon Harper's conceptual photographs and video stills exploring perception, technology and the night sky. Her experimental images of the moon, stars and sun draw on scientific and artistic uses of photography to illuminate the medium's contradictory ability to both verify empirical evidence and to create poetic connections between our environment and ourselves. If one cannot gaze directly int ..."






The Mind's Eye(1st Edition)
Photographs by Jerry Uelsmann
by Phillip Prodger, Jerry Uelsmann
Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 2010 by Modernbook Editions
ISBN-13: 978-0-9801044-5-5, ISBN: 0-9801044-5-9

"More wonderful photographs from this magnificent photographer as featured in this touring exhibition. It is invaluable to see other images from the artist's oeuvre (especially early work from the 1950s to observe thematic development), not just the most famous of the surreal montages."






E. O. Hoppe's Amerika
by Phillip Prodger
Published 2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-7930-6544-8, ISBN: 0-7930-6544-5






An Annotated Catalogue of the Illustrations of Human and Animal Expression from the Collection of Charles Darwin
Early Case of the Use of Photography in Scientific Research (Hardback)
by Phillip Prodger, Paul Ekman
Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 1998 by Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-7734-8467-2, ISBN: 0-7734-8467-1

"This exhibition catalogue offers information about the illustrations in Charles Darwin's book on expression, an insight into Darwin's thinking, showing his meticulous concern with the fine details of each illustration, and a look at the intellectual context in which he lived and worked. The illustrations described in this catalogue were the subject of an exhibition at the Natural History Museum, London, from 5 February to 29 March 1998."






Harold Feinstein
A Retrospective
by Phillip Prodger, Harold Feinstein, Jim Fitts, Photography Harold Feinstein
Hardcover, 102 Pages, Published 2012 by Nazraeli Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-59005-369-0, ISBN: 1-59005-369-9

"Brand New, Direct from the Publisher"






SurfLand(1st Edition)
by Phillip Prodger, Joni Sternbach
Hardcover, 80 Pages, Published 2009 by Photolucida
ISBN-13: 978-1-934334-06-5, ISBN: 1-934334-06-5

""On the waves, surfers are muscle, sinew, and impulse. But at the shore, gravity weighs down their limbs. They become ordinary people again, their hair sliced with slat spray, their bodies squeezed into neoprene wetsuits. And it is here, on the beaches of Montauk, New York, Carpinteria and Santa Cruz, California, that Joni Sternbach finds and photographs them. Sternbach makes her photographs in tintype, a labor-intensive technique littl ..."






Oscar G. Rejlander
Artist Photographer
by Lori Pauli, Karen Hellman, Phillip Prodger, Jordan Bear
Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2018 by National Gallery Of Canada
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-23709-2, ISBN: 0-300-23709-X

"A fascinating survey of the varied career of an inventive and influential 19th-century photographer, from allegorical montage to Darwin’s catalogue of emotions Oscar G. Rejlander (1813–1875) was a Swedish-born photographer who pioneered the genre of art photography. He is best known for combining negatives to form elaborate allegorical compositions and for his ability to communicate expression through his photographic studies and portra ..."



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