Photography
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Walker Evans: FloridaAmerican photographer Walker Evans (1903-1975) is best known for his portraits of Depression-era America, a number of which were included in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), his famous collaboration with writer James Agee. In 1942 at the behest of retired journalist Karl...
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Walker Evans: SignsWalker Evans photographed signs throughout every phase of his career. From the 1920s to the time of his death in 1975, Evans was obsessed with the signage he found in modern America--from billboards to gas station pumps to street graffiti to handmade announcements of...
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Wind on the Waves: Stories from the Oregon CoastWind on the Waves is a collection of fifty-two stories that embody the beauty, mystery, and allure of Oregon's magnificent coast. Written by award-winning author and poet Kim Stafford, these wonderfully written vignettes celebrate the people, towns, wildlife, culture, and natural beauty of one...
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Moose ViewsMoose show up in the oddest places in the North, in children's inflatable swimming pools, peeking through living room windows, even at McDonald's drive-ups. The comical nature of Alaska's lumbering Official Land Mammal has long made it one of the must-sees high on every...
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New England Icons: Shaker Villages, Saltboxes, Stone Walls, and SteeplesCurl up in your favorite chair, relax, and take a tour of our common heritage--or take this insightful cultural guide with you as you travel New England's highways and byways. It's sure to shed new light on the old stalwart landscape features you see...
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The Photographer's Guide to Acadia National Park: Where to Find Perfect Shots and How to Take ThemKnown for their conservation-conscious photography, Jerry and Marcy Monkman have spent the last twenty years artfully documenting the mountains, forests, and coastlines that define New England. Their latest book is your essential guide for taking the best photos of the breathtaking mountains and coastlines...
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The Photographer's Guide to Vermont: Where to Find Perfect Shots and How to Take ThemFrom barns and quaint villages to vibrantly colored forests and peaks covered with pristine snow, tourists flock from around the world to photograph Vermont's beauty. Now, a nationally recognized outdoor photographer tells you exactly where to go and how to go about shooting those...
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Snapshot Versions of LifeSnapshot Versions of Life is an important foray into the culture of photography and home life from an anthropologist's perspective. Examining what he calls "Home Mode" photography, Richard Chalfen explores snapshots, slide shows, family albums, home movies, and home videos, uncovering what people do...
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Atget: Postcards of a Lost ParisAtget's charming postcard portraits of Paris tradespeople were his only publications during his lifetimeFew places on Earth have been as lovingly, almost fanatically, documented as Paris. Despite extraordinary growth and change, the Paris of the world's imagination is still, to a remarkable degree, the...
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Harker's Barns: Visions of an American IconMichael Harker drove past old barns on gravel roads and blacktop highways for years. He generally dismissed them as obsolete outbuildings until November 1993, when he felt compelled to photograph a windmill in Clutier, Iowa. This single photograph launched him on a seven-and-a-half-year mission...
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Chronicles of the Big Bend: A Photographic Memoir of Life on the BorderAs a young teamster on a pack-mule train, Wilfred Dudley Smithers saw the Rio Grande's Big Bend for the first time in 1916, and it captured his imagination forever. For decades thereafter he returned to Texas' last great frontier--the great bend of the Rio...
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Michael Rockefeller: New Guinea Photographs, 1961From April to August 1961, recent Harvard graduate Michael Clark Rockefeller was sound recordist and still photographer on a remarkable multidisciplinary expedition to the Dani people of highland New Guinea. In five short months he produced a wonderful body of work, including over 4,000...
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Minnesota County Fairs: Kids, Cows, Carnies, and ChowNinety-five county fairs are held through Minnesota every year, and Susan Lambert Miller has attended nearly every one of them. Camera in hand, she often visited multiple fairs in a weekend-sometimes more than one a day. And just a taste of what she found...
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The University Avenue Project Volume 2: The Language of Urbanism: A Six-Mile Photographic InquiryAcclaimed photographer Wing Young Huie explores the complex cultural and socioeconomic diversity of the St. Paul neighborhoods along University Avenue. This urban corridor connects a burgeoning condominium community, mom and pop stores, big-box retailers, schools, and family homes. At one public school alone, students...
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Suburban World: The Norling PhotosMen wearing suits jousting with sailfish. Head-on bridge collision. Men with linoleum. Kitchen murder-suicide. Firemen playing donkey baseball. Ideal woman in apron. Through more than 10,000 images, Irwin Denison Norling, the unofficial town photographer for Bloomington, Minnesota, captured the strange juxtapositions, incongruities, and dark...
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Strange Days, Dangerous Nights: Photos from the Speed Graphic EraFat men's races and fall-out shelters, murder victims and loose women, cheerleaders and immigrants, celebrities and children in distress were just some of the urban curiosities splashed across the pages of city newspapers during the Speed Graphic era (1930s-1950s). Championed by acclaimed news photographers...
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Frogtown: Photographs and Conversations in an Urban NeighborhoodFrogtown is a discerning portrait of an ethnically mixed neighbourhood that lies within the shadow of the Minnesota State Capital near downtown St. Paul. Wing Young Huie combines 130 compelling black-and-white photographs, some 50 quotes from talks with residents, and his own commentary to...
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Steel Remembered: Photos from the LTV Steel CollectionA photographic showcase of the heyday of the steel industry Published in cooperation with Western Reserve Historical Society In the first half of the twentieth century, the steel industry was the major heavy industry in the U.S. and the bellwether of regional economic might....
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Travels with Ginsberg: A Postcard Book: Allen Ginsberg PhotographsAllen Ginsberg was a serious shutterbug who delighted in taking candid snapshots of friends and fellow writers, but up until now readers have had little chance to consider the poetic world of his photographs. Here in the form of twenty detachable postcards are photographs...
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The Tintype in America, 1856-1880The book is a history of the ferrotype, or tintype, in American photography, from its origin in the 1850s until 1880. The heart of the book is the extended accounts of the improvements in the presentation of the images and of the inventors and...
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