"Five
Hundred Self-Portraits"
Edited by Julian Bell
Beginning with its reflective book jacket, which playfully inducts the
reader into the ranks of self-portraitists, "Five Hundred
Self-Portraits" is a delight for browsers. Works by artists from
the Middle Ages to our own times are organised chronologically, one per
page, in this compact volume.
"Boring
Postcards USA"
by Martin Parr
Beginning with panoramas of highways in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and
other US states, "Boring Postcards USA" segues to truck stops,
restaurants, motor inns, malls, airports, and military bases. Every
image is certifiably boring,
whether by dint of a photographer's ineptitude or the sorry state of
corporate architecture and interior design.
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"Egypt
from the Air"
by Max Rodenbeck and Guido Rossi
Combining the great sights of Egypt--from the pyramids and pharoahs'
tombs--with natural phenomena such as the Nile and the Sinai Desert, the
superbly photographed "Egypt from the Air" follows on from the
bestselling "Earth from the Air" in the great tradition of
aerial photography.
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