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    • Adventures in motion pictures : Frozen fire 

      Purcell, Kerry William (2010)
      If, as the critic Peter Wollen famously said, 
film is like fire and photography like ice, what happens when technological developments force an elision between the still and moving image and how does this affect the content ...
    • Alexey Brodovitch 

      Purcell, Kerry William (2000)
      As the revolutionary art director of Harper’s Bazaar at its zenith (1934–58), as an educator of some of the most renowned and respected photographers in recent history, and as a photographer who, with one book, set free ...
    • Alexey Brodovitch 

      Purcell, Kerry William (Allworth Press, 2006)
    • Alexey Brodovitch 

      Purcell, Kerry William (Phaidon Press, 2002)
      Alexey Brodovitch (1898-1971) is a legend among graphic designers. A Russian who fled the Bolshevik Revolution to settle eventually in Paris and then New York, Brodovitch was one of the pioneers of graphic design in the ...
    • Alexey Brodovitch: Ballet (Books on Books) 

      Purcell, Kerry William (Errata, 2011)
      Published in 1945, Alexey Brodovitch's Ballet is easily among the most legendary photobooks of the twentieth century: the first and only book he authored as photographer, it was printed in a small run of a few hundred ...
    • Alphabet & Image 

      Purcell, Kerry William (2006)
    • The Art of Psychographics 

      Purcell, Kerry William (2008)
    • Ballet 

      Purcell, Kerry William (2003)
    • British Football Programmes 

      Purcell, Kerry William (2007)
    • Camera 

      Purcell, Kerry William (2005)
    • The Crafty Linotyper 

      Purcell, Kerry William (2005)
      In the autumn of 1936, the Swiss designer and pioneer of photo-graphics Herbert Matter arrived in New York as the official tour photographer for the Zurich-based dance company Trudi Schoop. Marking the end of a two-month ...
    • The “design event” : The anti-design- historian and a poetics of the object 

      Purcell, Kerry William (2015-04-21)
      What happens when a sudden encounter with a design-object calls into question traditional approaches to the history of design? Or, alternatively, when such moments make manifest how the symbolic roles we occupy as design ...
    • Foreword 

      Purcell, Kerry William (Phaidon Press, 2007)
      IN THE SHADOW OF MOUNTAINS is a new collection of sublime portraits, landscapes, and street photography taken by Steve McCurry over the last 27 years. Children and shepherds, warriors and laborers are presented alongside ...
    • From Riff Raff to Nil by Mouth 

      Purcell, Kerry William (Rivers Oram Press, 2001)
      Television and film not only entertain and reflect social change, they may also participate and influence these changes-the recent success of The Full Monty and Billy Elliot- show popular British comedy based on such painful ...
    • Great Magazine 

      Purcell, Kerry William (2011)
      The article shows the re-design of Great, the Photographers’ Gallery London magazine – North’s pragmatic and successful design concept of the gallery’s publication.
    • Herbert Matter 

      Purcell, Kerry William (2006)
      For over half a century, Herbert Matter pioneered a form of graphic photography that transcended the narrow limitations of what had been deemed possible in the medium’s short history. Continually challenging the literal ...
    • Herbert Matter 

      Purcell, Kerry William (Lars Muller, 2014-08-15)
    • A History of Swiss Photo-Graphics 

      Purcell, Kerry William (Lars Muller, 2014-08-15)
    • Josef Muller-Brockmann 

      Purcell, Kerry William (Phaidon Press, 2006)
      Swiss designer Josef Muller-Brockmann established himself as one of the most important and prolific voices of twentieth century graphic design, setting up his own studio in Zurich in 1936 and working until his death in ...