Panoramas of Lost London
Title | Panoramas of Lost London PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Davies |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2017-05-11 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781909242920 |
Over 300 spectacular photographs of London's lost buildings from the London Metropolitan Archive in Panoramic format. Tudor, Georgian and Victorian buidings, some of them historic masterpieces, captured in location just before their destruction between 1870-1945
Lost London 1870-1945
Title | Lost London 1870-1945 PDF eBook |
Author | Philip H. Davies |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 384 |
Release | 2013-10-01 |
Genre | Historic buildings |
ISBN | 9781909242272 |
Described as a publishing phenomenon, Lost London transports the reader back in time with amazing and evocative photographs. For this revised edition another 16 pages and approximately 50 previously unpublished photographs have been added
Panoramas of Lost London (slip-case Edition)
Title | Panoramas of Lost London (slip-case Edition) PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Davies |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2017-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781909242937 |
Over 300 spectacular photographs of London's lost buildings from the London Metropolitan Archive in Panoramic format. Tudor, Georgian and Victorian buidings, some of them historic masterpieces, captured in location just before their destruction between 19
Lost England
Title | Lost England PDF eBook |
Author | Philip H. Davies |
Publisher | Atlantic Publishing, Croxley Green |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Buildings |
ISBN | 9781909242791 |
Around 1500 photographs reveal what it was like to live in Victorian and Edwardian England. The long awaited sequel to Lost London
Full Moon
Title | Full Moon PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Light |
Publisher | Knopf |
Total Pages | 250 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Moon |
ISBN | 0375406344 |
The most thrilling of all journeys--the missions of the Apollo astronauts to the surface of the Moon and back--yielded 32,000 extraordinarily beautiful photographs, the record of a unique human achievement. Until recently, only a handful of these photographs had been released for publication; but now, for the first time, NASA has allowed a selection of the master negatives and transparencies to be scanned electronically, rendering the sharpest images of space that we have ever seen. Michael Light has woven 129 of these stunningly clear images into a single composite voyage, a narrative of breathtaking immediacy and authenticity that begins with the launch and is followed by a walk in space, an orbit of the Moon, a lunar landing and exploration, and a return to Earth with an orbit and splashdown. Graced by five 45-inch-wide gatefolds that display the lunar landscape, from above the surface and at eye level, in unprecedented detail and clarity, Full Moon conveys on each page the excitement, disorientation, and awe that the astronauts themselves felt as they were shot into space and then as they explored an alien landscape and looked back at their home planet from hundreds of thousands of miles away. Published on the thirtieth anniversary of Apollo 11--the first landing on the Moon--this remarkable and mesmerizing volume is, like the voyages it commemorates and re-creates, an experience both intimate and monumental.
On the Viewing Platform
Title | On the Viewing Platform PDF eBook |
Author | Katie Trumpener |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 325 |
Release | 2020-11-17 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0300184794 |
A wide-ranging study of the painted panorama’s influence on art, photography, and film This ambitious volume presents a multifaceted account of the legacy of the circular painted panorama and its far-reaching influence on art, photography, film, and architecture. From its 18th-century origins, the panorama quickly became a global mass-cultural phenomenon, often linked to an imperial worldview. Yet it also transformed modes of viewing and exerted a lasting, visible impact on filmmaking techniques, museum displays, and contemporary installation art. On the Viewing Platform offers close readings of works ranging from proto-panoramic Renaissance cityscapes and 19th-century paintings and photographs to experimental films and a wide array of contemporary art. Extensively researched and spectacularly illustrated, this volume proposes an expansive new framework for understanding the histories of art, film, and spectatorship.
The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott
Title | The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott PDF eBook |
Author | Dr. David M. Wilson |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Total Pages | 201 |
Release | 2012-01-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0316193585 |
The myth of Scott of the Antarctic, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, icon of fortitude and courage who perished with his fellow explorers on their return from the South Pole on March 29th, 1912, is an enduring one, elevated, dismantled and restored during the turbulence of the succeeding century. Until now, the legend of the doomed Terra Nova expedition has been constructed out of Scott's own diaries and those of his companions, the sketches of 'Uncle Bill' Wilson and the celebrated photographs of Herbert Ponting. Yet for the final, fateful months of their journey, the systematic imaging of this extraordinary scientific endeavor was left to Scott himself, trained by Ponting. In the face of extreme climactic conditions and technical challenges at the dawn of photography, Scott achieved an iconic series of images; breathtaking polar panoramas, geographical and geological formations, and action photographs of the explorers and their animals, remarkable for their technical mastery as well as for their poignancy. Lost, fought over, neglected and finally resurrected, Scott's final photographs are here collected, accurately attributed and catalogued for the first time: a new dimension to the last great expedition of the Heroic Age and a humbling testament to the men whose graves still lie unmarked in the vastness of the Great Alone.