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7 produkter
Looking Backward
A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Av Michael Lesy
Inbunden, 2017
493 kr
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At the turn of the twentieth century, the stereograph was king. Its binocular images revealed the world in vivid, three-dimensional detail. Drawing on an enormous, rarely seen collection of stereographic views, Michael Lesy presents images displaying a riot of peoples and cultures, stark class …
Murder City
The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties
Av Michael Lesy
Häftad, 2008
324 kr
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Things began as they usually did: Someone shot someone else. So begins a chapter of Michael Lesy's disturbingly satisfying account of Chicago in the 1920s, the epicenter of Murder in America. Just as Lesy’s first book, Wisconsin Death Trip, subverted the accepted notion of the Gay Nineties, so …
Snapshots 1971–77
Av Michael Lesy, Laura Lindgren
Inbunden, 2021
304 kr
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In the summer of 1971, Michael Lesy and a friend found most of the snapshots in Snapshots 1971–77 in a dumpster behind a gigantic photo-processing plant in San Francisco. The photos were in the trash because the machines that printed them made them so fast — duplicates, triplicates, quadruplicates …
Walker Evans: Last Photographs & Life Stories
Av Michael Lesy, Laura Lindgren
Inbunden, 2022
384 kr
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In 1973, Michael Lesy was a young scholar whose first book had just been published. In the soon-legendary Wisconsin Death Trip he combined 1890s photographs and newspaper clippings to evoke a devastatingly tragic epoch, the real-world antithesis of the fanciful "Gay Nineties." It startled readers …
Long Time Coming
A Photographic Portrait of America, 1935-1943
Av Michael Lesy
Inbunden, 2002
594 kr
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Long Time Coming is derived from the 145,000 photographs made between 1935 and 1943 by a team of now-famous photographers employed by the Farm Security Administration (FSA), whose ranks included Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn, Dorothea Lange, and Walker Evans. We are all familiar with the iconic …
Repast
Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century, 1900-1910
Inbunden, 2013
216 kr
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Before Julia Child introduced the American housewife to France’s cuisine bourgeoise, before Alice Waters built her Berkeley shrine to local food, before Wolfgang Puck added Asian flavors to classical dishes and caviar to pizza, the restaurateurs and entrepreneurs of the early twentieth century were …
Wisconsin Death Trip
Av Michael Lesy
Häftad, 2000
375 kr
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This book is about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 1910. Against these are juxtaposed excerpts from the Badger State Banner, from the Mendota State (asylum) Record Book, and occasionally quotations from the …
