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Photographing the Female Form with Digital InfraredWith a nuanced approach to this classic style of artistic expression, Laurie Klein elevates the female nude to ethereal levels through the use of digital infrared (IR) photography. Using IR-modified cameras, she designs scenes of her models in evocative natural settings that transform them...
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Twentieth-Century Color Photographs: Identification and CareWith the advent of digital imaging, the era of traditional color photography is coming to an end. Yet more than 150 years after the invention of color photography, museums, archives, and personal collections are full of images to be cherished, studied, and preserved. These...
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The American Nurse2012 Nautilus Silver Award, Photography/Art category 2012 Indie Book Next Generation Award, Coffee Table Book/PhotographyForeword Reviews 2012 Book of the Year, Social Sciences, Finalist This extraordinary book of 75 portraits, interviews, and biographies is the result of the American Nurse Project, an endeavor launched...
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A Living Treasure: Seasonal Photographs of Arlington National CemeteryWalking through Arlington National Cemetery is an experience like no other. A quiet sense of respect persists, and the beauty is overwhelming. It is the final resting place of thousands of our nation's war heroes, with more added every day in poignant and moving...
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Richard Renaldi: Touching StrangersNow available in a new paperback edition, Richard Renaldi's Touching Strangers embodies the human desire to connect despite our differences. Renaldi directed strangers to pose in front of a large-format, 8-by-10-inch view camera in towns and cities all over the United States. These startlingly...
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Berenice Abbott: Aperture Masters of PhotographyIn this redesigned and expanded version of a classic Aperture book, the work of Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) is introduced by historian Julia Van Haaften, and includes new, image-by-image commentary and a chronology of this artist's life. An innovative documentary photographer, Abbott pioneered the depiction...
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Gail Albert Halaban: Paris ViewsGail Albert Halaban: Paris Views is a continuation of Halaban's 2012 series Out My Window. In this new set of images, Halaban shifts her focus from New York to Paris--while continuing to steady her gaze through the windows of her neighbors and others in...
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Mexican PortraitsCopublished by Aperture and Televisa FoundationAuthor: Pablo Ortiz MonasterioPublisher: AperturePublished: 05/31/2013Pages: 356Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 7.20lbsSize: 13.10h x 11.70w x 1.80dISBN: 9781597112277About the AuthorMonasterio, Pablo Ortiz: - Pablo Ortiz Monasterio is a photographer, curator, and editor who lives and works in Mexico City. In 1994...
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Robert Adams: Along Some Rivers: Photographs and ConversationsRobert Adams, one of America's foremost living photographers, has spent decades considering and documenting the landscape of the American West and the ways it has been altered, disturbed, or destroyed by the hand of man. A professor of English before turning to photography, Adams...
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Alex Webb: Istanbul: City of a Hundred NamesIn Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names, Magnum photographer Alex Webb displays his particular ability to distill gesture, color and contrasting cultural tensions into a single, beguiling frame. He presents a vision of Istanbul as an urban cultural center, rich with the incandescence of...
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Remembering GainesvilleNearly 200 years ago, settlers arrived in Alachua County to grow cotton and other crops. By the middle of the nineteenth century, enough people resided in the area today known as Gainesville that they decided to create a town to be the center of...
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Historic Photos of the Siege of PetersburgThe Battle of Petersburg began as an unsuccessful Union assault against the city of Petersburg, Virginia, June 9, 1864, during the American Civil War. Due to the rag-tag group of defenders involved, it is sometimes known as the Battle of Old Men and Young...
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Historic Photos of Ann ArborFounded in 1824, Ann Arbor got its name originally from Annsarbour in honor of the founders' wives, both of whom were named Ann. The Tree City boasts more than 50,000 trees and is home to the main campus of the University of Michigan. Historic...
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Hidden History of the Minnesota River ValleyTraveled by mammoth-hunters and motorcyclists alike, the Minnesota River Valley shows the traces of a unique legacy: where else are you going to find a political party with ideals based on honest conversation and gymnastics? Not all of it is as lovely as the...
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Lost Shreveport: Vanishing Scenes from the Red River ValleyOver the course of many decades, the city of Shreveport witnessed dramatic growth and ever-changing landscapes.Mule-drawn railways gave way to electric streetcars, and what was once the Confederate capital of the state became today's vibrant commercial hub of northwest Louisiana. Drawing from their extensive...
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Forgotten Tales of WisconsinDrift back to an era when the speed limit in Milwaukee was an edgy four miles per hour and Madison lawmakers could poke at hogs to punctuate the tedium of legislative sessions. Martin Hintz makes even the slow times of the Badger State fly...
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A Brief History of Old Newbury: From Settlement to SeparationIn the first ten years of its settlement, the town of Newburywitnessed murders, kidnappings, earthquakes and a plague of caterpillars. The century that followed--marked by religious conflict, Indian uprisings and public scandal--proved no less challenging to the early Puritan community.In 1640, Massachusetts Governor John...
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Richmond in Ragtime: Socialists, Suffragists, Sex & MurderThe three years from 1909 to 1911 were busy ones in Richmond, what with the misadventures of Adon A. Yoder, a muckrakingpamphleteer who gets beaten up, sued and thrown in jail; the organizing of women like Lila Meade Valentine to fight for their right...
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Wicked Charleston: The Dark Side of the Holy CityWicked Charleston: The Dark Side of the Holy City, by local resident and tour guide Mark R. Jones, explores the dark alleys and seedy characters not often associated with the Charleston of today.A beautiful Southern city distinguished by its opulent homes, towering church steeples...
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Ranch Gates of the SouthwestIn Ranch Gates of the Southwest, Daniel Olsen and Henk van Assen present more than 100 full-color photographs of ranch gates taken across Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona. From rugged and functional to stylized and adorned, ranches with names such...
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