Biography & Autobiography - Artists, Architects, Photographers
Dive into our collection of photographers' books, architects' books, and stunning artwork. Discover artist biography examples, new biography books, top autobiographies, and best-selling titles online!
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Daybook: The Journal of an ArtistA "touchstone for aspiring artists and writers" (Megan O'Grady, The New Yorker), Daybook is a classic work about reconciling the call of creative work with the demands of daily life. Renowned American artist Anne Truitt kept this illuminating and inspiring journal over a period...
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Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh"Written from the heart and without restraint, alive."--The New York TimesVincent van Gogh, the great but tormented artist, bared his tortured yet ecstatic soul in his letters to his confidant and companion, his beloved brother Theo. These letters reveal the man behind such masterpieces...
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Dearest of Geniuses: A Life of Theodate Pope RiddleTheodate Pope Riddle was one of America's first successful female architects. She was the only child of a Cleveland millionaire whose hobby was collecting Impressionist paintings. Her first architectural project, a mansion she designed to house her father's magnificent collection, is now the Hill-Stead...
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Dieter Rams: The Complete Works'Chances are if you've shaved with an electric razor, blow-dried your hair, or sparked up a cigarette in the past 60 years, you owe a debt of gratitude to Dieter Rams.' - New York TimesMade in close collaboration with Rams himself, this catalogue raisonné...
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Don Bachardy: An Artist's LifeComplete with never-before-seen photos and a selection of iconic artworks, an unfiltered and intimate chronicle of the storied Hollywood life of Don Bachardy, the acclaimed portrait artist who, as famed author Christopher Isherwood's life partner, was half of America's most famous gay couple for...
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Down BelowA stunning work of memoir and an unforgettable depiction of the brilliance and madness by one of Surrealism's most compelling figures In 1937 Leonora Carrington--later to become one of the twentieth century's great painters of the weird, the alarming, and the wild--was a nineteen-year-old...
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Driftwood: The Life of Harlan HubbardAuthor: Jessica K. WhiteheadPublisher: University Press of KentuckyPublished: 02/25/2025Pages: 408Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.81lbsSize: 9.41h x 6.41w x 1.24dISBN: 9781985901544About the AuthorWhitehead, Jessica K.: - Jessica K. Whitehead, writer and curator of collections at the Kentucky Derby Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, is coauthor of The...
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Duchamp Takes New YorkPublishing to coincide with a major MoMA Retrospective, this book revisits the artist who upended modern art, and the city that made it possible.Artist, anti-artist, joker, trickster, shape-shifter: Marcel Duchamp broke with tradition and pushed the avant-garde decisively forward. When his work exploded like...
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Edward Burtynsky: The BiographyCanadian photographer Edward Burtynsky is one of the world's most important contemporary artists. His life and art have been dedicated to investigating the large-scale human incursions into the surface of the earth, to dealing with climate change, and to demonstrating the proliferation of toxins...
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Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the BluesThe life of blues legend Robert Johnson becomes the centerpiece for this innovative look at what many consider to be America's deepest and most influential music genre. Pivotal are the questions surrounding why Johnson was ignored by the core black audience of his time...
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Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece the Sun Also Rises"Brimming, addictive . . . In Everybody Behaves Badly, the party has just begun and the taste of fame is still ripe . . . The Lost Generation [is] restored to reckless youth in living black and white." -- James Wolcott, Vanity Fair "An...
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Everybody Thought We Were Crazy: Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los AngelesNational Bestseller"A landmark and long-overdue cultural history." --VogueThe stylish, wild story of the marriage of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward--a tale of love, art, Hollywood, and heartbreak "Those years in the sixties when I was married to Dennis were the most wonderful and awful...
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Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy, a Lost Generation Love StoryA dazzling biography for readers of The Great Gatsby and other Lost Generation authorsGifted artist Gerald Murphy and his elegant wife, Sara, were icons of the most enchanting period of our time; handsome, talented, and wealthy expatriate Americans, they were at the very center...
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Everybody's Fly: A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the CultureAn electrifying memoir from the pioneering cultural icon The New Yorker called "the coolest person in New York," whose fearless creativity reshaped the worlds of art, music, and style Fab 5 Freddy doesn't just have a great story--he is the story. Name a seismic...
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Everything Is Photograph: A Life of André KertészThe first full biography of the innovative "father of modern photography" vividly depicts his life and works, from Hungary to France and America, across the 20th century. Born in Budapest in 1894, André Kertész soared to star status in Jazz Age Paris, tumbled into...
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Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth AsawaNow in paperback! The definitive biography and inspiring story of American sculptor Ruth Asawa. "A fitting homage to this remarkable woman." --The Wall Street Journal This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who...
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Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the WertheimersJean Strouse captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies surrounding John Singer Sargent's portraits of the Wertheimer family. Jean Strouse's Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers looks at twelve portraits of one English family painted by the expatriate American artist at the...
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Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New YorkA National Book Critics Circle finalist - One of Vogue's Best Books of the Year A dazzling biography of one of the twentieth century's most respected painters, Helen Frankenthaler, as she came of age as an artist in postwar New York "The magic of...
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Floating Mountains: The Art of Imagining the ImpossibleDisney Legend and Imagineer Joe Rohde unlocks the secrets of creativity in this powerful exploration of imagination, innovation, and life lessons for turning vision into reality. In this inspiring narrative, Imagineer, explorer, and Disney Legend Joe Rohde offers a master class in creativity on...
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Footnote to History: From Hungary to America. The Memoir of a Holocaust SurvivorThe secret lay dormant for 50 years until Andrew Laszlo decided to share his past, the story of how his family perished in the Holocaust and only he survived. From his youth in Papa, Hungary, to his experiences with the Nazis, his will to...
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