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Current culturally oriented media studies have significantly advanced central concepts such like »mediality«, »media culture«, »media discourse« and »procedures of media«. Focused on this newly defined terminological field, this volume presents landmark contributions for media studies providing new insights into the current state of research on media theory and media culture, simultaneously developing an agenda for future research.
The authors highlight the new symbolic forces put in play by technologies of the illustrated press and the sound film - technologies that converged with efforts among writers, artists, and other intellectuals to respond to the crises of the decade.
Nadar, whose real name was Felix Tournachon (1820-1910), was a conspicuous, even astonishing presence in nineteenth-century France. Engaging and quick-witted, he invented himself over and over as a bohemian writer, a journalist, a romantic utopian, a caricaturist, a portrait photographer, a balloonist, an entrepreneur, a prophet of aeronautics. The name "Nadar" was on everyone's lips. Today, it is Nadar's photography that is remembered. His sitters, who were often his friends, included the great men and women of his time: Dumas, Rossini, Baudelaire, Sarah Bernhardt, Daumier, Berlioz, George Sand, Delacroix. Nadar's legendary name has been attached not only to his original photographs but to reprints, copies and a great deal of studio work. For that reason, this volume exactingly reproduces some one hundred photographs from the years 1854-60, the period of his earliest and finest photography, allowing viewers to become familiar with the subtle light and balanced, velvety tones that distinguish Nadar's original work. Accompanying the photographs are essays that shed new light on the many facets of Nadar.
This collection of essays, Volume 17 of "The Tamarind Papers and the third to be produced in book form, describes the intersections of lithography, photography, and established printmaking techniques. Considering topics from William Henry Fox Talbot's botanical illustrations and the Lemerciers' invention of photolithography to the sociopolitical prints of Ben Shahn and Walton Ford's incorporation of the photograph in contemporary lithography, these nine essays mark the two hundredth anniversary of the lithographic process and expand the history of graphic processes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The connections between lithography and photography are many and varied. This volume expands the reader's knowledge of the history of printmaking and underscores the enduring beauty of prints.
Throughout the 20th century, French photographer Brassaï remained at the cutting edge of avant-garde, and he refused to espouse a single style. Based on his own unpublished archives, this biography offers an intimate and multi-faceted view of the artist's life and of the bonds that link him and his legendary images to Paris.
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"QUALCUNO VA IN VACANZA PER UCCIDERE LA NOIA QUALCUNO VA IN VACANZA PER UCCIDERE LO STRESS LUI ANDAVA IN VACANZA PER UCCIDERE QUALCUNO..." Estate. Su una piccola isola greca del Dodecaneso si suppone che arriverà un serial killer che da anni, in agosto, uccide donne bellissime. L’assassino ammazza sempre la notte di San Lorenzo, quando cadono le stelle. L’Interpol, questa volta, è certa di aver individuato in Lipsi l’isola dove colpirà e invia una squadra di otto uomini di diverse nazionalità, tra cui Alex Cordi, un funzionario di P.S. genovese, sessantatreenne e prossimo alla pensione. Tutti attendono l’arrivo del folle serial killer senza, però, sapere chi sarà e intanto la t...
L'histoire d'une rue qui constituait un axe principal de circulation sur la rive gauche, avant les travaux d'Haussmann. « Copyright Electre »
A comprehensive book on the French army of Louis XIII and Richelieu with ful accounts of battles of this period and order of battles. This book begins in 1617, the year that Louis XIII really took power by distancing the queen mother and ordering the assassination of Concini (24 April 1617), and ends in 1648 - five years after the death of Louis XIII - the year of the Westphalia Peace Treaty (24 October 1648). This period was mostly dominated by the personality and works of Richelieu, who entered the king's Council in April 1624. He gave the king an ambition: "to procure the ruin of the Huguenot party, humble the pride of the great, reduce all subjects to their duty, and elevate your majesty...