Photography Kitsilano
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On Photography $81.25 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles On Photography is a 1977 collection of essays by Susan Sontag. It originally appeared as a series of essays in the New York Review of Books between 1973 and 1977. In the book, Sontag expresses her views on the history and presentday role of photography in capitalist societies as of the 1970s. Sontag discusses many examples of modern photography. Among these, she contrasts Diane Arbuss work with that of Depressionera documentary photography commissioned by the Farm Security Administration. She also explores the history of American photography in relation to the idealistic notions of America put forth by Walt Whitman and traces these ideas through to the increasingly cynical aesthetic notions of the 1970s, particularly in relation to Arbus and Andy Warhol. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 104 Publication Date: 2010/12/29 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.25 inches |
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Photography $14.3 Uses activities to explore photography from simple pinhole cameras to cameras that use film, explaining how different parts of a camera work and showing how to process and develop photographs. |
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The Life & Art of George Fertig $67.95 New – An important Canadian artist that time and city forgot.Part biography and part memoir of his older daughter’s remembrances of growing up in Kitsilano and Burnaby in the ’60s and ’70s, this book is a lively and thoughtful introduction to a B.C. artist and a Jungian who was ‘ahead of his time’. It includes fourteen years of research, interviews, letters and over one hundred rare photographs. George’s creative passion began at age twenty with photography during the Depression. He helped start |
