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Women in the Dark: Female Photographers in the Us, 1850-1900Recover the stories of long-overlooked American women who, at a time when women rarely worked outside the home, became commercial photographers and shaped the new, challenging medium. Covering two generations of photographers ranging from New York City to California's mining districts, this study goes...
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Memories of Jewish Poland: TheIn 1932, the budding twenty-three-year-old photographer Nachum Gidalewitsch (who would later become the celebrated Israeli photographer Tim Gidal) set out from his hometown of Munich, Germany, to visit relatives and photograph what were to him the exotic locals in Jewish Poland. The extraordinary photographic...
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The Roanoke Valley in the 1940sThe history of the Roanoke Valley during the 1940s has largely been unexplored until now. This significant decade bore witness to the birth of the local civil rights movement, the impact of World War II and the postwar boom in public projects and private...
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London's Museums and Galleries: Exploring the Best of the City's Art and CultureA curated guide to the best of London's museums and galleries. From the obscure to the resplendent, Eleanor Ross acquaints you with the very best museums and galleries the city has to offer. Including world-famous art to quirky collections, London is host to a...
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The Unseen Archive of IDI AminThis trove of recently discovered photographs offers an unprecedented opportunity to take a closer look at Idi Amin's dictatorship and its impact on Ugandan history. Chosen from a collection of 70,000 negatives from the archive of the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation, the images in this...
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Abandoned Industrial Places: Factories, Laboratories, Mills and Mines That the World Left BehindFrom factories, mines, and nuclear power stations to space research centers, Victorian English mill towns, and American gold rush settlements, Abandoned Industrial Places examines the places history left behind. Once these industrial spaces were celebrated and thriving; now, they're ghostly and forlorn. When times...
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Right Place, Right Time: The Life of a Rock & Roll PhotographerAn action-packed memoir that takes readers on the road with rock and roll's hardest-working photographer Bob Gruen is one of the most well-known and connected photographers in rock and roll. For almost 50 years, he has documented the music scene in pictures that have...
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Olivier Suter: ChildrenA gorgeous faux-leatherbound album compiling childhood portraits of the famous and the infamous, from Jimi Hendrix to Al CaponeProduced in a beautiful, faux-nubuck, pocket-sized format with marbled endpapers, Children collects the soft, fresh faces of future writers, artists, scientists, gangsters, killers and dictators. Could...
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The Cracks in EverythingIsrael has been in a near-continuous state of conflict since the day of its proclamation, some seventy years ago. It has sustained its military through compulsory service. The overwhelming majority of those in its Defense Forces were born in Israel, raised alongside this notion...
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Kicking Sawdust: Running Away with the Circus and CarnivalKicking Sawdust is a series of photos taken from 1988-1992 while on the road with the circus, carnival, sideshows. It is a personal documentation of friends and people Clayton Anderson encountered in his daily life while working and traveling in his family's food business....
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Russell Lee: A Photographer's Life and LegacyThe most prolific photographer of the Great Depression, Russell Lee has never been canonized for his iconic images. With this compulsively readable and definitive biography, historian and archivist Mary Jane Appel finally uncovers Lee's rebellious life, tracing his journey from blue-blood beginnings to intrepid...
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100 Girls on Polaroid"In search of the lost." The famous photographer Alexander Gnadinger asked 100 well-known models to stage themselves, how they perceive themselves as beautiful."Author: Alexan Der GnadigerPublisher: Seltmann+soehnePublished: 11/11/2013Pages: 476Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 5.75lbsSize: 13.50h x 9.70w x 1.30dISBN: 9783934687691This title is only available via back...
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Unflattering Photos of Fascists: Authoritarianism in Trump's AmericaDonald Trump is hated on the Left, but we owe him thanks for accomplishing what no other president has ever accomplished. He has brought into the bright light of day for the first time a quasi-fascist movement in the United States, the roiling ugliness...
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In the Arena: A History of American Presidential HopefulsIn the Arena profiles 34 American leaders who captured their party's nomination for the presidency, but never reached the Oval Office. Author Peter Shea tells of the rise, early career, campaign and later achievements of historical giants like Aaron Burr and Henry Clay, up...
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Faces of Union Soldiers at AntietamThe Battle of Antietam, fought near Sharpsburg, Maryland, was the bloodiest day in American history, with more than twenty-three thousand dead, wounded and missing. This book invites the reader to walk the routes of some of the units on the field through the stories...
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Impresiones perennes en Álamos SonoraSelection of photographs of Alamos Sonora like a spiritual journey. Includes brief introductory text in Spanish and English.Author: Javier Martinez RosasPublisher: Independently PublishedPublished: 12/18/2019Pages: 26Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.07dISBN: 9781677423378Language: SpanishThis title is not returnable
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Toy Photographer 2.0: How to Take Your Lego Toy Photography to the Next LevelDo you like photography? Do you like Legos? Why not combine the two and learn about toy photography? In this second book about toy photography by Pinar Alsac (who is the world's first author on this topic), the main subject of photographs is the...
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St. AlbansAs colonial New Yorkers expanded their housing and employment options beyond Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, southeast Queens became a destination for Dutch and English families who wanted more land and a better life.Beyond the confines of the village of Jamaica in Queens emerged a...
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The Photos App on the Mac - Part 5 of Introduction to the Mac (Catalina Edition): All you need to know about the wonderful Photos app on your MacLearn everything you need to know about managing your photos on your Mac, in the Mac Photos app. Discover all the great ways of viewing and organising your photos, editing your photos, creating and viewing slideshows and more. This easy-to-follow guide covers all the...
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Overview Timelapse: How We Change the EarthA striking collection of satellite images documenting human impact on the Earth--and how the Earth responds--from the creators of Overview and the Instagram sensation Daily Overview. Change is Earth's most important and influential constant. From geological changes that take place over millennia, to the...
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