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Flowers 8 reviews
Robert Mapplethorpe
Bulfinch Pr, 1990
Perpetual Spring Provides Creative Inspiration!
This book deserves more than five stars. It is the finest set of flower photography that I have seen before, and presents more dimensions of what a flower can mean that I would have thought possible. I took a course of creativity from author Dan Wakefield a number of years ago. One of the many excellent exercises we did was to take a flower and write as much as we could about what we observed ...
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In Ruins: The Once Great Houses of Ireland5 reviews
Duncan McLaren
Bulfinch Pr, 1997
Examples of fine infrared photographs
For some reason neither the authors nor the publishers admit that the images in this book are photographed in infrared. This is a pity since the juxtaposition of buildings and foliage is one of the best subjects for this and overgrown ruins are an excellent subject. As an infrared specialist myself I have a small reservation about a few of the photographs from a technical standpoint but I can't ...
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An Architect's Rome (Bulfinch Architecture/Travel Series)3 reviews
John M., Jr. McGuire
Bulfinch Pr, 1995
Everyone traveling to Rome must read this book
As an architect, I appreciate John McGuire's personal descriptions of my favorite places in Rome. The illustrations are some of the best I have ever seen. This past Christmas, I gave this book to several friends as a bon voyage gift. We spent the morning over coffee discussing how well Rome is described in this book. Anyone interested in Rome would enjoy reading this book.
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The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History5 reviews
Spiro Kostof
Bulfinch Pr, 1991
A Bible for an Urban Designer
Probably the most comprehensive guide to the thoughts, theories and practical aspects of designing a city. Buy it and weep for your boring grid plan cities....
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Gardens To Go: Creating Container Gardens4 reviews
Sydney Eddison
Bulfinch Pr, 2005
Simply Supurb
I cannot imagine a more informative, better written or more gorgeous book on container gardens than this remarkable achievement of Sidney Eddison and Steve Silk. The warm, friendly writing from the erudite Ms. Eddison combined with the beautiful photography of Mr. Silk make this a captivating, satisfying and thoroughly desirable book that will be a compliment to every garden library.
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Dali: The Salvador Dali Museum Collection4 reviews
Salvador Dali Foundation Inc.
Bulfinch Pr, 1991
Dali on the Beach
On a recent family visit I had the great fortune to visit the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. This excellent book cataloguing the museum's collection then makes for a very nice souvenir, of course--but it easily stands outside of this immediate context as a fine art book in its own right.
The main feature of the book is definitely the 94 large, carefully reproduced color ...
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Quiet Light4 reviews
John Sexton
Bulfinch Pr, 1990
Black and white photography at its best.
Quiet Light is a spectacular book of black and white
photographs. The images are superb and the reproduction
is extremely well done. "Quiet light" refers to the
very soft light found before sunrise and after sunset.
Such light requires long exposure and special technique.
Sexton masters this. The book is a "must" for anyone
who appreciates fine art black and white photography.
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Cal 98 Ansel Adams8 reviews
Ansel Adams
Bulfinch Pr, 1997
This is a spiral bound desk calendar,
and not a wall calendar
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Pump and Circumstance: Glory Days of the Gas Station4 reviews
John Margolies
Bulfinch Pr, 1996
PUMPS, PETROL, PROMOS AND PIZAZZ
Margolies has done his homework. In addition to a good written history of the "filling station," he has come up with photos and postcards depicting all aspects of delivering gasoline to your hungry tank. Following are just a few: A station shaped like a red and white teapot, complete with pouring spout, in Zillah, Washington, built in 1922. A 50 foot high tepee shaped gas station from Lawrence, ...
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The Enlightenment Pack: Identify Your Personal Goals, Improve Your Life, Your Work, Your ...4 reviews
Chuck Spezzano
Bulfinch Pr, 1997
The Enlgihtenment Pack is a deeply inspiring tool for growth
The Enlghtenment Pack is an inspired system of insight and transformation and the finest I have encountered in over 20 years of exploring Tarot, I Ching and other tools of awareness and inner exploration. The simplicity and clarity of the cards by Alison Jay and interpretations by Chuck Spezzano certainly startle, challenge, awaken and encourage me! I just became acquainted with this tool ...
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The Love Queen of the Amazon: A Novel2 reviews
Cecile Pineda
Bulfinch Pr, 1993
Latin American magic realism satire?
It's set in Peru and Bolivia and maybe Brazil, and is full of erudite literary references and wonderful descriptions of old Lima. At first I thought it was real magic realism but then I thought it was a satire of the genre. The heroine is a sort of sexy female Candide. I was just rereading it and checked Amazon.com for more Cecile Pineda but find everything out of print. The only other review ...
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Listen to the Trees3 reviews
John Sexton
Bulfinch Pr, 1994
Excellent Large Format B&W photographs of Aspens, trees
Well printed on glossy paper, this book contains pictures of Aspens, Redwoods, Cottonwoods, etc. in grand locations like Yosemite, Zion, and others, all done using 4x5 camera (with notes on lenses and film used). Some pictures are tack sharp and contrasty, seeing the new white buds on fir trees, or white star-like leaves behind a black stream. Some are eerily grey, or shot on misty mornings. ...
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Cats and Carols3 reviews
Lesley Anne Ivory
Bulfinch Pr, 1995
Perfect Christmas gift for cat lovers
This is a lavishly illustrated picture book with a gorgeous layout: each 2-page spread features the text of a Christmas carol (with all the verses, not just the familiar ones) with decorative initial letters and a lovely border on the left page; the facing page contains a painting (with matching border) of a cat or cats in a setting that illustrates the carol. Although the settings are ...
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Sound the Deep Waters: Women's Romantic Poetry in the Victorian Age3 reviews
Bulfinch Pr, 1992
Beautiful
Beauty seem so weak when describing this masterpeice. I found it in a library the other day, and I am reluctant to return something so absolutly incredible. I am devistated that such a wonderful peice of art should be out of print; I would love to own it.
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A Modern Book of Hours2 reviews
Bulfinch Pr, 1994
A jewel of a book
Every now and then you come across a little treasure, and that is exactly what this book is. Full of wonderful thoughts and delightful illustrations that just make you happy to be alive and in this world full of wonder. Yes, I am rhapsodizing, but it is seldom one finds something so charming and refreshing. It will do your soul good! "Words are not crystal, transparent and unchanged; they are the ...
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Chim: The Photographs of David Seymour3 reviews
David Seymour, Inge Bondi
Bulfinch Pr, 1996
great book, great man
This book is a biographical gem. It reviews the life and photography of David Seymour in an understated style of writing which was the man himself; bald, spectacled, yet powerful in his humanity and in his skill at nurturing friendships with photography as a shared interest.He lived a romantic European life of high times and tragic personal losses including his own premature death in 1956.The ...
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Mary Ellen Mark: 25 Years3 reviews
Marianne Fulton
Bulfinch Pr, 1991
An inspiration
This book inspired me to take up photography. The images are powerful, and heart felt. I sincerly hope that this book will once again be avaliable for purchase.
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An Ansel Adams Guide : Basic Techniques of Photography (Book One)2 reviews
John P. Schaefer, Ansel Adams
Bulfinch Pr, 1992
This is an outstanding book on photographic technique.
John Schaefer is a fine photographer who works in black and
white and color. In "Basic Techniques of Photography"
John Schaefer has created a wonderful "how to" on the
basic and intermediate aspects of photography. The book is
filled with helpful information, and beautifully illustrated
with the work of notable photographers, with many images due to
Ansel Adams. Here are summarized and ...
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Medicine's Great Journey: One Hundred Years of Healing2 reviews
Rick Smolan, Richard Flaste, ...
Bulfinch Pr, 1992
Medicine's Great Journey
This is an extremely informative book, packed with high-quality photographs. The text is geared toward the layperson; it is not a technical book. It is historically accurate and an enjoyable read for anyone interested in the history of medicine.
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C.Z. Guest's 5 Seasons of Gardening2 reviews
C. Z. Guest
Bulfinch Pr, 1992
Surprisingly, quite good. Lot's of good little tips in it.
This is surprisingly a great book. It is a shame that it is out of print. Tasha Tudor is of course the queen of all gardeners, but Ms. Guest's book is quite good and she does have some marvelous tips and hints on gardening from her massively wealthy Tempelton estate, in Old Westbury, Long Island. And on top of this, she has good taste and style which we can all learn from. To bad that her ...
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