Martin Harrison

Francis Bacon: Incunabula

Martin Harrison; Rebecca Daniels

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Is That So Kid

Martin Harrison

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Too Much Information

Martin Harrison

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In Camera: Frances Bacon Photography, Film and the Practice Of Painting

Martin Harrison

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Peter Lindbergh: Images Of Women

Martin Harrison; Peter Lindbergh

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David Bailey Locations: The 1970's Archive

Martin Harrison

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Transition: The London Art Scene in the Fifties

Martin Harrison

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Breaks in Communication

Martin Harrison; Dorothy Bohm; Mark Haworth-Booth

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Ten Out of Ten: Great British Photography

Martin Harrison

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Summer

Martin Harrison

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Mountain and Plain: From the Lycian Coast to the Phrygian Plateau in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Periods

Martin Harrison; R. M. Harrison; Wendy Young

Martin Harrison traveled widely in Asia Minor from his youth onward, and he was always fascinated by the questions of how and why the great and elegant cities of classical antiquity declined, and what happened to the descendants of the people who lived in them. Over nearly forty years he returned again and again to remote Lycia, where the ruins of monasteries and churches, villages, hamlets, and towns remained largely inaccessible and unexplored. His interest eventually led him to undertake the excavation of the Phrygian city of Amorium, whose importance became greater as the classical cities declined. At its peak it was considered second only to Byzantium, until it fell to the Arab invasions. The present study is the fruit of years of excavation and research by the author. The manuscript was largely sketched out when Martin Harrison unexpectedly passed away, and the volume has been finished and prepared for press by his long-time assistant Wendy Young, with further guidance from friends and colleagues with whom he had discussed the project. The resulting volume explores Martin Harrison's belief that the coastal cities of Lycia declined after the fifth century C.E., and that smaller settlements (monasteries, villages, and towns) appeared in the mountains and further inland. In addition he considered that there was a demographic shift of masons and sculptors from the cities to serve these new settlements. This beautifully illustrated study provides convincing evidence from architecture, sculpture, and inscriptional sources to support this theory. It also contains a description of Amorium in Phrygia, as revealed in survey and excavation seasons from 1987 until the author's untimelydeath half a dozen years later. The volume includes a preface by Stephen Hill and an appendix by Michael Ballance and Charlotte Roueche on three special inscriptions from Ovacik. The volume will be of interest to historians of the Near East and classical antiquity, to archaeologists, and to students of architectural history.

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Paul Himmel

Martin Harrison

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Young Meteors: British Photojournalism 1957-1965

Martin Harrison; National Museum of Photography Film & Television

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Vision: 50 Years of British Creativity

Martin Harrison; David Hockney; Michael Craig-Martin; Melvyn Bragg; David Sylvester; Christopher Frayling; Nicholas Serota

The second half of the twentieth century has seen British artists, architects, and designers assuming a central role on the world stage. Starting in the years of reconstruction after the war, the young began to challenge accepted artistic values, looking at popular culture for their inspiration; the iconoclasm of the Pop movement has continued to be one of the most vital ingredients of the British art scene. In the year-by-year record that this book provides, the work of newcomers making their first impact is seen alongside that of outstanding artists in their maturity, with connections and contradictions across the entire visual scene -- from architecture, interior design, furniture, and the decorative arts to painting, sculpture, and graphic art. Pictures and text explore the many factors that contributed to the special character of British art. The unique system of artists teaching in art schools, the worlds of fashion and pop music, political and social developments: the response of the best artists to these influences has always been original and questioning and has opened new avenues for future development. The book is organized by decade, and the achievements of each are highlighted by statements from a distinguished group of artists, designers, collectors, and critics who have themselves made a significant contribution to each decade. Encouragement, challenge, and opposition have all provided stimulus for creative talents that have been able to override the changes of taste and fashion. The book features the work of more than 250 artists, from Henry Moore, David Hockney, Francis Bacon, and Lucian Freud to James Stirling, Richard Rogers, Neville Brody, and Damien Hint. Thepublication is also a celebration of the first fifty years of Thames and Hudson -- founded by Walter Neurath in 1949 -- and the role that the publishing house has played in educating the public and supporting the arts during this period.

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Paul Himmel Photographies

Martin Harrison; Paul Himmel

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David Bailey/Birth of the Cool: 1957-1969

Martin Harrison; David Bailey

No photographer had a greater impact on the 1960s than David Bailey. The best of the new breed of fashion photographers who catapulted onto the scene in the early years of that decade, he himself would become as famous as all the famous faces on which he trained his camera. In fact Michelangelo Antonioni's film Blow Up was inspired by Bailey. After Bailey, photography would never be the same again. David Bailey - Birth of the Cool tells for the first time the full story of Bailey's life and work from 1957 to 1969. Beginning with his early days in the East End, it follows his progress as assistant to photographer John French, his early years with Vogue; his close relationships with the stars of the pop music world - his pictures of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones will remain forever a part of the ichnography of Swinging London and the 1960s - and his friendships and love affairs with some of the period's most beautiful women - among them models Jean Shrimpton and Penelope Tree and actress Catherine Deneuve. Martin Harrison has brought together not only Bailey's most famous photographs, but also previously unknown images: pictures of Bailey's East End as well as private and previously unpublished documentary photography.

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The Language of Theatre

Martin Harrison

Theatre has provided many words and meanings which we use--ignorant of their origins--in everyday writing and speech. This is the first book to explore 2,000 theatre terms in depth, in some cases tracing their history over two and a half millenia, in others exploring expressions less than a decade old. Terms are defined, shown in use and cross-referenced in ways which will fascinate theatre- goers, and encourage those actively engaged in the theatre to examine the familiar from new angles.

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Elvis Presley 1956

Martin Harrison; Marvin Israel

These dramatic, never-before-published photographs portray a young Elvis Presley during a pivotal year in his career, capturing his magnetic sensuality, physical grace, and innate sense of style.In 1956, Presley burst into superstardom. His first film, Love Me Tender, opened to mass teenage hysteria. He had his (and the world's) first million-selling album. He broke all viewing records when he appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. And Marvin Israel created this potent photographic essay of the 21-year-old star that is now being published for the first time.Israel captured Elvis in the heat of performance, relaxing backstage, and at the new house he bought for his parents in Memphis. His singular portrait is set within a critical moment in American popular culture, when it was hijacked by a new generation. Martin Harrison, who selected the photographs, provides a brief essay on Israel's work and his stature in the history of American photography.The late Marvin Israel was a designer and artist, mentor to such important photographers as Diane Arbus and Richard Avedon, and art director of Seventeen magazine and Harper's Bazaar.Martin Harrison is a curator, critic, and one of the foremost historians of postwar photography.

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Patrick Demarchalier: Exposing Elegance

Martin Harrison; Patrick Demarchelier; Museo De Arte Contemporaneo De Monterrey

In page after page, the photographs speak of a master craftsmen who manages to make his subjects seem wholly at ease. This book stands as vivid testimony a photographer who has shaped our times, and whose work transcends old notions of commercial picture making.

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Lillian Bassman

Martin Harrison; Lillian Bassman; Catherine Chermayeff; Nan Richardson; Kathy McCarver Mnuchin

This monograph of Bassman's legendary work - the first ever published - presents the romantic, experimental visions, seen mostly in Harper's Bazaar, that brought a sophisticated new aesthetic to print photography. Yet the story of Bassman's life and newfound celebrity at age eight and the extraordinary tale of how her work survived are as remarkable as the images themselves. From the 1940s to the 1960s Bassman was at fashion's cutting edge, working as both art director and photographer. At Junior Bazaar she worked with young photographers like Richard Avedon, Robert Frank, Louis Faurer, Arnold Newman and Paul Himmel. Then, under Russian emigre and Modernist guru Alexey Brodovitch (and while using George Hoyningen-Huene's darkroom), Bassman started to shoot pictures herself - diffuse, moody images with an idiosyncratic vocabulary of gestures, and an unsettling edge. Bassman soon was in constant demand and, in addition to her editorial work, shot advertising campaigns for clients like Chanel and Balenciaga. By the 1970s, Bassman's interest in pure form began to clash with fashion's changing aesthetic. Her increasing disenchantment with fashion as an industry led her to abandon commercial photography for personal projects instead. In a bold attempt to free herself creatively from the past, she jettisoned forty years of negatives and prints - her life's work. Over twenty years later, luck resurrected a forgotten bag, brimful of hundreds of images. Now, Bassman is enjoying a resurgence at fashion's forefront, with exhibitions at museums and art galleries in New York, Paris, London, and Milan, several portfolios in the New York Times Magazine, the coveted Neiman Marcus campaign, and an upcoming 1997 retrospective exhibition at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, that plans to travel to Germany and Milan. This long-awaited monograph, presenting both past and recent work, is not only a tribute to a great talent in the annals of fashion and photography but also the story of an indomitable creative personality.

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Patrick Demarchelier: Revelando La Elegancia = Exposing Elegance

Martin Harrison; Patrick Demarchelier; Museo De Arte Contemporaneo De Monterrey

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Lisa Fonssagrives: Three Decades of Classic Fashion Photography

Martin Harrison; David Seidner

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Parkinson: Photographs 1935-1990

Martin Harrison

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Theatre/a Book of Words

Martin Harrison

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De Gaulle to Mitterrand: Presidential Power in France

Martin Harrison

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Other editions: Softcover - 1993