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Individual photographer portfolios are interwoven with theme-based sections exploring common subject matter — places of leisure, marketplaces, travel — and city-focused chapters on Paris, New York, Tokyo, and London, showing how each urban landscape has shaped the photographers who worked within it.\u003cspan class=\"inline-flex\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eNew York Magazine called it \"the definitive collection of street photography, culled from the archives of photography cooperative Magnum Photos.\" Essential for anyone shooting on film in the streets — or anyone who wants to understand why street photography matters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Astra Store ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52900907647160,"sku":null,"price":3390.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/3035\/0008\/files\/1_26a3ce1b-81f8-4473-a725-179d1fc3d740.png?v=1772527239"},{"product_id":"dali-the-paintings-predictions-from-transaction-costs-economics-resource-based-theory-and-real-options-theory","title":"Dali. 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He was one of the first to apply the insights of Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis to the art of painting, approaching the subconscious with extraordinary sensitivity and imagination. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eAfter years of research, authors Robert Descharnes and Gilles Néret located painted works by the master that had been inaccessible for years — so many that almost half the featured illustrations appeared in public for the first time in this book.  Beyond the paintings themselves, the book contextualises Dalí's oeuvre by examining contemporary documents — from writings and drawings to material from other facets of his work including ballet, cinema, fashion, advertising, and objets d'art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eGeorge Orwell called Dalí a disgusting human being — then admitted he had fifty times more talent than most of the people who would denounce him. 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Drawing on contemporary advertisements, comic strips, consumer products, and Hollywood's most famous faces, he proposed a radical reevaluation of what constituted artistic subject matter — making a Campbell's soup can and a Coca-Cola bottle as worthy of artistic status as any traditional still life. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eFamously stating \"I want to be a machine,\" Warhol systematically reduced the presence of his own authorship, working with mass-production methods and dozens of assistants in a studio he dubbed the Factory. 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It not only lists some of the greatest works of art but brings them to life with the help of more than 700 photographs and descriptive text. 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