Street photography is perhaps the best-loved and most widely known of all photographic genres, with names like Cartier-Bresson, Brassai and Doisneau familiar even to those with a fleeting knowledge of the medium. Yet, what exactly is street photography? From what viewpoint does it present its subjects, and how does this viewpoint differ from that of documentary photography? Looking closely at the work of Atget, Kertesz, Bovis, Rene-Jacques, Brassai, Doisneau, Cartier- Bresson and more, this elegantly written book, extensively illustrated with both well-known and neglected works, unpicks Parisian street photography's affinity with Impressionist art, as well as its complex relationship with parallel literary trends and authors from Baudelaire to Philippe Soupault. Clive Scott traces street photography's origins, asking what really what happened to photography when it first abandoned the studio, and brings to the fore fascinating questions about the way the street photographer captures or frames those subjects - traders, lovers, entertainers - so beloved of the genre.In doing so, Scott reveals street photography to be a poetic, even 'picturesque' form, looking not to the individual but to the type; not to the 'reality' of the street but to its 'romance'.
1908. Les tensions entre pays s'exacerbent et le monde semble se diriger vers la guerre. Lorsqu'un brillant ingénieur naval américain est retrouvé mort, sa fille refuse de croire à l'hypothèse du suicide et fait appel à la légendaire agence Van Dorn pour laver l'honneur de son père.
Bientôt, les morts accidentelles s'accumulent, et il ne fait plus aucun doute qu'un cerveau machiavélique cherche à anéantir les concepteurs du projet top-secret Hull 44, fleuron de l'industrie navale américaine.
Des bas-fonds de New York à Chinatown en passant par les chantiers navals, Isaac Bell doit composer avec des espions allemands, britanniques et japonais pour démasquer celui qui veut porter un coup fatal à la Navy.
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Shadows of Reality présente un catalogue unique et entièrement illustré des photographies de W.G. Sebald : une combinaison extraordinaire de négatifs de films, de tirages et de diapositives provenant de la collection photographique de l'Université d'East Anglia, du Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach et des archives de Sebald. Ce livre complet couvre les multiples facettes photographiques de son oeuvre publiée et comprend une quantité substantielle de matériel inédit.
The Thief is Clive Cussler''s fifth historical thriller featuring detective Isaac Bell.A bold kidnapping aboard an ocean liner sends detective Isaac Bell across America in a deadly game of cat and mouse . . .Leaving England aboard the liner Mauretania, Isaac Bell, chief investigator at the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency, stumbles on and thwarts a kidnapping. The two victims, who have fled Europe carrying a secret invention, fear that a foreign power wishes to steal it before they can bring it to America.Bell and the Van Dorn Agency offer to protect them.And it isn''t long before Bell is fighting skullduggery in the middle of the Atlantic. In New York City, as well as across the country as he and the inventors head for California, the deadly chase is on. On their trail is the murderous agent known only as the ''Acrobat'', instructed to steal this world-changing invention - and kill anyone in his way . . .Bestseller Clive Cussler - author of the Dirk Pitt novels Crescent Dawn and Atlantis Found - has legendary super-sleuth Isaac Bell protect a top-secret invention with the power to shape the course of history. The Thief is the fifth novel in the Isaac Bell series, following The Race.Praise for Clive Cussler:''The Adventure King'' Daily Express''The guy I read'' Tom Clancy>
The Bootlegger is the seventh of Clive Cussler's bestselling Isaac Bell novels.
It is 1920. Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing.
When Joseph Van Dorn is shot and nearly killed while in pursuit of a rum-running vessel, his friend and employee, Isaac Bell, swears to him that he will hunt down the lawbreakers. But Bell doesn't know what he is getting into. When a witness to the shooting is executed in a manner peculiar to the Russian secret police, it becomes clear that these were no ordinary bootleggers.
Bell is facing a team of Bolshevik assassins and saboteurs - and they are intent on overthrowing the government of the United States.
An adventure laced with secret cargo and assassins, The Bootlegger is the seventh of Clive Cussler's Isaac Bell novels, and follows The Spy, The Thief and The Striker.
Praise for Clive Cussler:
Cussler is hard to beat - Daily Mail The guy I read - Tom Clancy The Adventure King - Sunday Express Clive Cussler is the author or co-author of a great number of international bestsellers, including the famous Dirk Pitt® adventures, such as Arctic Drift; the NUMA® Files adventures, most recently Zero Hour; the Oregon Files, such as Mirage; the Isaac Bell Adventures, which began with The Chase; and the highly successful most recent series, the Fargo Adventures. He lives in Arizona.
Justin Scott is the author of twenty-six novels, including The Shipkiller and Normandie Triangle; the Ben Abbot detective series; and five modern sea thrillers under his pen name Paul Garrison. He lives in Connecticut.
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1909, San Francisco. L'éditeur de journaux Preston Whiteway organise à des fins publicitaires une course périlleuse : la traversée des États-Unis, en avion, d'est en ouest, en moins de cinquante jours. Le gagnant recevra 50 000 dollars. Whiteway apporte son soutien direct à Joséphine Frost, pilote intrépide et épouse de Harry Frost, un homme d'affaires sans scrupules.
Ce dernier, connu pour son tempérament violent, a tué l'amant de sa femme et essayé de lui faire subir le même sort avant de prendre la fuite. Preston Whiteway, convaincu que Frost ne va pas s'arrêter là, décide de contacter le détective Isaac Bell pour assurer la protection de Joséphine.
Bell a déjà eu à faire à Harry, qui a bâti son immense fortune en dirigeant des gangs de voleurs et d'assassins dans les grandes villes du pays. Il sait que l'homme ne reculera devant rien...
Isaac Bell is on the hunt for the killer of some of America's finest minds . . . 1908. When a brilliant American battleship gun designer kills himself, his grief-stricken daughter is deeply suspicious. She turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency where chief investigator Isaac Bell finds clues that indicate murder. Uncovering more suspicious deaths, Bell realises that someone - an elusive spy - is orchestrating the destruction of America's brightest technological minds. And the murders all connect to a top-secret project known as Hull 44. As Bell gets closer to the truth and the spy himself he is pitted against German, Japanese, and British agents. More than the future of his country is at stake - it's the fate of the world.
It is 1908, and international tensions are mounting as the world plunges towards war. When a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in an apparent suicide, the man's grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father's name.
Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell soon realizes that the clues point not to suicide, but to murder. When more suspicious deaths follow, it becomes clear that someone-an elusive spy-is orchestrating the destruction of America's brightest technological minds . . . and the murders all connect to a top-secret project called Hull 44.
As the intrigue deepens, Bell finds himself pitted against German, Japanese, and British spies, in a mission that encompasses dreadnaught battleships, Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet, Chinatown, Hell's Kitchen, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Isaac Bell has certainly faced perilous situations before, but this time it is more than the future of his country that's at stake - it's the fate of the world.
*PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOW*When Isaac Bell attempts to decipher the mysterious deaths of nine men, he encounters a secret so powerful it could dictate the fate of the world in this riveting thriller by the #1 Sunday Times-bestselling author.A century apart, NUMA Director Dirk Pitt and detective Isaac Bell team up to unlock the truth about the most famous maritime disaster of all time.In the present day, Pitt makes a daring rescue from inside an antiquated submersible in the waters off New York City. His reward afterwards is a document left behind a century earlier by legendary detective Isaac Bell--a document that re-opens a historical mystery...In 1911, in Colorado, Isaac Bell is asked to look into an unexplained tragedy at Little Angel Mine, in which nine people died. His dangerous quest to answer the riddle leads to a larger puzzle centered on byzanium, a rare element with extraordinary powers and of virtually incalculable value. As he discovers that there are people who will do anything to control the substance, Isaac Bell will find out just how far he''ll go to stop them.br>Praise for Clive Cussler''The Adventure King'' - Sunday Express''Cussler is hard to beat'' - Daily Mail''Just about the best in the business'' - New York Post''Oceanography''s answer to Indiana Jones. Exotic locations, ruthless villains, and many narrow escapes - Cussler''s fans come for swashbuckling and he delivers'' - Associated Press''Nobody does it better . . . nobody!'' - Stephen Coonts>
Alors qu'il s'apprête enfin à célébrer son mariage à bord du paquebot Mauretania, Isaac Bell vole au secours de deux hommes agressés en pleine nuit : des scientifiques, le professeur Beiderbecke et son jeune assistant Clyde Lynds, peu enclins à se confier au brillant détective de l'agence Van Dorn.
Quelques jours plus tard, le professeur est retrouvé à l'agonie, enfermé dans une malle. Dès lors, Clyde Lynds n'a d'autre choix que de se confier à Isaac Bell s'il veut garder la vie sauve et protéger leur invention des convoitises qu'elle suscite.
Mais les grandes firmes auxquelles il souhaite vendre son dispositif révolutionnaire ne sont visiblement pas les seules intéressées. Dans l'ombre, le mystérieux acrobate, et derrière lui le deuxième Reich, semblent prêts à tout pour mettre la main sur ce formidable outil de propagande.
