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Robert Polidori's Metropolis

Author : Robert Polidori
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Robert Polidori's Metropolis written by Robert Polidori and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Robert Polidori is not only one of the world's preeminent architecture photographers, but he is also a master of urban portraiture. Polidori has made haunting studies of bombed-out buildings in Beirut, decaying New York tenements, the Palais de Versailles in dusty disarray, Brasilia's paean to spare 1950s modernism, and, most recently, the abandoned, contaminated cities of Chernobyl and Pripyat. Taken together, they add to his ongoing project: the interpretation of the interrupted urban landscape." "This new book combines the eye of a celebrated photographer with the distinctive voice of an artist and adventurer. Each image is accompanied by a first-person account, based on interviews conducted by Martin C. Pedersen, executive editor of Metropolis magazine. Polidori tells behind-the-scenes stories about the making of his photographs and discusses his approach to shooting a variety of locations and structures, taking us to such places as Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, Las Vegas, and Chandigarh."--BOOK JACKET.

Robert Polidori's Metropolis

Author : Robert Polidori
Publisher : Steidl Dap
ISBN 13 : 9783865210784
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Robert Polidori's Metropolis written by Robert Polidori and published by Steidl Dap. This book was released on 2005 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new monograph combines the eye of a celebrated photographer with the distinctive voice of an artist and adventurer.

After the Flood

Author : Robert Polidori
Publisher : Steidl Dap
ISBN 13 : 9783865212771
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book After the Flood written by Robert Polidori and published by Steidl Dap. This book was released on 2006 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Yorker photographer Robert Polidori traveled to New Orleans shortly after Hurricane Katrina to record the destruction. His photos documenting the paradoxically beautiful wreckage are mementos for those who could not return-mapping their lives through the remains of their belongings and their homes.

Chronophagia

Author : Robert Polidori
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783869306988
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Chronophagia written by Robert Polidori and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his images of the Chateau of Versailles under restoration to the faded grandeur of Havana, to scenes of devastation from Chernobyl after the nuclear explosion and a New Orleans ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, Robert Polidori is drawn to detritus, shattered worlds and elegant ruin. Often considered an architectural photographer, Polidori captures more than buildings: his highly detailed views of interiors evoke both the intimate and the mysterious, wherein the humanity of these photos is felt in its very absence, in the traces left behind in vacant spaces once inhabited. This book is a sampling of Polidori's many famous projects created from the artist's own selection of more than one hundred photographs. The result is a compendium of Polidori's twenty-eight year career and a visual exploration of the liminal space between past and present, of worlds on the brink of disappearance.

Points Between-- Up Till Now

Author : Robert Polidori
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783865219947
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Points Between-- Up Till Now written by Robert Polidori and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book for the first time assembles images from Polidori's major photographic series Beirut, Versailles, Havanna, New Orleans and Pripyat and Chernobyl, giving an overall impression of his oeuvre. Each of the series constitutes an experimental entity whose goal is to reveal something that no longer exists. They reflect a particular world of memory, the relation between present and past, and delve deep into subjects of profound historical significance. Juxtaposing human suffering, destruction and the magnificence born of man's imagination, these many-layered images provoke highly emotional reactions. In his soundings of reality, the artist creates a theatre of absence, of commemoration. Robert Polidori was born in Montréal in 1951 and lives in New York City. His work has been shown in Paris, Brasilia, New York, Los Angeles and Minneapolis, among other places. A staff photographer of The New Yorker, Polidori has received numerous honors, including a World Press Award for his coverage of the building of the Getty Museum and two Alfred Eisenstaedt Awards for his work in Havana and Brasilia. His bestselling books Havana, Zones of Exclusion - Pripyat and Chernobyl, After the Flood and Parcours Muséologique Revisité are published by Steidl.

Photography and Cinema

Author : David Campany
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781861893512
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book Photography and Cinema written by David Campany and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This account of photography and cinema shows how the two media are not separate but in fact have influenced each other since their inception. David Campany explores photographers on screen, photographic and filmic stillness, photographs in film, the influence of photography on cinema, and the photographer as a filmmaker"--OCLC

Expanding Architecture

Author : Bryan Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933045788
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (457 download)

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Download or read book Expanding Architecture written by Bryan Bell and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Bryan Bell and Katie Wakeford. Foreword by Thomas Fisher. Texts by Steve Badanes, Roberta M. Feldman, Sergio Palleroni, John Peterson, Katie Swenson, et al.

Postcolonial Manchester

Author : Lynne Pearce
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526101874
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Manchester written by Lynne Pearce and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial Manchester offers a radical new perspective on Britain’s devolved literary cultures by focusing on Manchester’s vibrant, multicultural literary scene. Referencing Avtar Brah’s concept of ‘diaspora space’, the authors argue that Manchester is, and always has been, a quintessentially migrant city to which workers of all nationalities and cultures have been drawn since its origins in the cotton trade and the expansion of the British Empire. This colonial legacy – and the inequalities upon which it turns – is a recurrent motif in the texts and poetry performances of the contemporary Mancunian writers featured here, many of them members of the city’s long-established African, African-Caribbean, Asian, Chinese, Irish and Jewish diasporic communities. By turning the spotlight on Manchester’s rich, yet under-represented, literary tradition in this way, Postcolonial Manchester also argues for the devolution of the canon of English Literature and, in particular, recognition for contemporary black and Asian literary culture outside of London.

Katrina

Author : Andy Horowitz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674246764
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Katrina written by Andy Horowitz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Bancroft Prize Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Book of the Year “The main thrust of Horowitz’s account is to make us understand Katrina—the civic calamity, not the storm itself—as a consequence of decades of bad decisions by humans, not an unanticipated caprice of nature.” —Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, but the decisions that caused the disaster can be traced back nearly a century. After the city weathered a major hurricane in 1915, its Sewerage and Water Board believed that developers could safely build housing near the Mississippi, on lowlands that relied on significant government subsidies to stay dry. When the flawed levee system failed, these were the neighborhoods that were devastated. The flood line tells one important story about Katrina, but it is not the only story that matters. Andy Horowitz investigates the response to the flood, when policymakers made it easier for white New Orleanians to return home than for African Americans. He explores how the profits and liabilities created by Louisiana’s oil industry have been distributed unevenly, prompting dreams of abundance and a catastrophic land loss crisis that continues today. “Masterful...Disasters have the power to reveal who we are, what we value, what we’re willing—and unwilling—to protect.” —New York Review of Books “If you want to read only one book to better understand why people in positions of power in government and industry do so little to address climate change, even with wildfires burning and ice caps melting and extinctions becoming a daily occurrence, this is the one.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

Sperrzonen - Pripjat und Tschernobyl

Author : Robert Polidori
Publisher : Göttingen [Germany] : Steidl
ISBN 13 : 9783882439212
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (392 download)

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Download or read book Sperrzonen - Pripjat und Tschernobyl written by Robert Polidori and published by Göttingen [Germany] : Steidl. This book was released on 2003 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 11 days following the Chernobyl catastrophe on April 26, 1986, more than 116,000 people were permanently evacuated from the area surrounding the nuclear power plant. Declared unfit for human habitation, the Zones of Exclusion includes the towns of Pripyat (established in the 1970s to house workers) and Chernobyl. In May 2001, Robert Polidori photographed what was left behind in the this dead zone. His richly detailed images move from the burned-out control room of Reactor 4, where technicians staged the experiment that caused the disaster, to the unfinished apartment complexes, ransacked schools and abandoned nurseries that remain as evidence of those who once called Pripyat home. Nearby, trucks and tanks used in the cleanup efforts rest in an auto graveyard, some covered in lead shrouds and others robbed of parts. Houseboats and barges rust in the contaminated waters of the Pripyat River. Foliage grows over the sidewalks and hides the modest homes of Chernobyl. In his large-scale photographs, Polidori captures the faded colors and desolate atmosphere of these two towns, producing haunting documents that present the reader with a rare view of not just a disastrous event, but a place and the people who lived there.

Eye & I

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783869305929
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Eye & I written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Polidori is known for his large format photographs of habitats and rooms saturated with the traces of human intervention. In EYE and I, he turns the lens around to reveal the portraits of people he has encountered in his work of over thirty years photographing around the world, particularly in the Middle East and India. These instantaneous portraits of mutual recognition reveal the photographed subject and the photographer intersecting with each other in a fleeting gaze of mutual regard. Robert Polidori was born in Montreal in 1951 and lives in New York City. His work has been the subject of exhibitions in New York, London, Brazil, Montreal, among other places. He received the World Press Photo Award in 1997, the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography in 1999 and 2000, and Communication Arts awards in 2007 and 2008. In 2006, Polidori's series of photographs of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His bestselling books Havana (2003), Zones of Exclusion-Pripyat and Chernobyl (2003), After the Flood (2006), Parcours Muséologique Revisité (2009) and Some Points in Between... Up Till Now (2010) are published by Steidl.

Inside Havana

Author :
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 0811833437
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book Inside Havana written by and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having enjoyed four years of unprecedented access to the private interiors of Cuba's capital, Moore has created an unrivaled portrait of both its legendary historic architecture and the city's inner life. 80 color photos.

The Mystery of Spring-Heeled Jack

Author : John Matthews
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620554976
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of Spring-Heeled Jack written by John Matthews and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensive investigation of the origins and numerous sightings of the mysterious and terrifying figure known as Spring-Heeled Jack • Shares original 19th-century newspaper accounts of Spring-Heeled Jack encounters as well as 20th and 21st-century reports • Explains his connections to Jack the Ripper and the Slender Man • Explores his origins in earlier mythical beings from folklore, his Steampunk popularity, and the theory that he may be an alien from a high-gravity planet Spring-Heeled Jack--a tall, thin, bounding figure with bat-like wings, clawed hands, wheels of fire for eyes, and breath of blue flames--first leapt to public attention in Victorian London in 1838, springing over hedges and walls, from dark lanes and dank graveyards, to frighten and sometimes physically attack women. News of this strange and terrifying character quickly spread, but despite numerous sightings through 1904 he was never captured or identified. Exploring the vast urban legend surrounding this enigmatic figure, John Matthews explains how the Victorian fascination with strange phenomena and sinister figures paired with hysterical reports enabled Spring-Heeled Jack to be conjured into existence. Sharing original 19th-century newspaper accounts of Spring-Heeled Jack sightings and encounters, he also examines recent 20th and 21st-century reports, including a 1953 UFO-related sighting from Houston, Texas, and disturbing accounts of the Slender Man, who displays notable similarities with Jack. He traces Spring-Heeled Jack’s origins to earlier mythical beings from folklore, such as fairy creatures and land spirits, and explores the theory that Jack is an alien marooned on Earth whose leaping prowess is attributed to his home planet having far stronger gravity than ours. The author reveals how Jack the Ripper, although a different and much more violent character, chose to identify himself with the old, well-established figure of Spring-Heeled Jack. Providing an extensive look at Spring-Heeled Jack from his beginnings to the present, Matthews illustrates why the worldwide Steampunk community has so thoroughly embraced Jack.

The Routledge History of Literature in English

Author : Ronald Carter
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415243179
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge History of Literature in English written by Ronald Carter and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.

Fine Books

Author : Alfred William Pollard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fine Books written by Alfred William Pollard and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

OZONE

Author : Velio Bocci
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 904819234X
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book OZONE written by Velio Bocci and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxygen-Ozone therapy is a complementary approach less known than homeopathy and acupuncture because it has come of age only three decades ago. This book clarifies that, in the often nebulous field of natural medicine, the biological bases of ozone therapy are totally in line with classical biochemistry, physiological and pharmacological knowledge. Ozone is an oxidizing molecule, a sort of super active oxygen, which, by reacting with blood components generates a number of chemical messengers responsible for activating crucial biological functions such as oxygen delivery, immune activation, release of hormones and induction of antioxidant enzymes, which is an exceptional property for correcting the chronic oxidative stress present in atherosclerosis, diabetes and cancer. Moreover, by inducing nitric oxide synthase, ozone therapy may mobilize endogenous stem cells, which will promote regeneration of ischemic tissues. The description of these phenomena offers the first comprehensive picture for understanding how ozone works and why. When properly used as a real drug within therapeutic range, ozone therapy does not only does not procure adverse effects but yields a feeling of wellness. Half the book describes the value of ozone treatment in several diseases, particularly cutanious infection and vascular diseases where ozone really behaves as a “wonder drug”. The book has been written for clinical researchers, physicians and ozone therapists, but also for the layman or the patient interested in this therapy.

Havana

Author : Robert Polidori
Publisher : Steidl / Edition7L
ISBN 13 : 9783882433333
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Havana written by Robert Polidori and published by Steidl / Edition7L. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Havana is a particularly rich setting for Polidori's inquiries. The curves and columns that line the streets refer to past eras and speak of the political, social and economic forces that have driven the city to its present condition.