Photography
Discover the best photography books, including top titles and cool photography guides for photographers of all levels.
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Silver Lake Bohemia: A HistorySince the early 1900s, Silver Lake has been a magnet for iconoclastic writers, architects and political activists. Famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who designed the Hollyhock House for socialist and oil heiress Aline Barnsdall, drew a wave of visionary modernists to the area. Local...
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CambriaLocated on the Pacific coast between San Francisco and Los Angeles, Cambria developed as a hub for lumbering, mining, whaling, and dairying in the 19th century. Situated in a pine forest and populated by immigrants from the eastern United States and numerous Swiss-Italians, it...
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Salt Lake City CemeteryThe Salt Lake City Cemetery was established in September 1847 when George Wallace, who arrived with the first company of Mormon pioneers two months prior, buried his young daughter on a picturesque hillside above the Salt Lake Valley. It has since grown to become...
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Baker IslandBaker Island is a quintessential Maine island, frozen in time. It was settled in 1806 by one family, and the island's population peaked at about two dozen people in five households at mid-century. The US government made use of the island's strategic location at...
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Building Chicago's SubwaysTake a trip underground and see how Chicago's I Will spirit overcame challenges and persevered to help with the successful building of the subways that move millions today!While the elevated Chicago Loop is justly famous as a symbol of the city, the fascinating history...
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The Folies Bergere in Las VegasDebuting at the Tropicana Hotel on Christmas Eve, 1959, at a reported cost of one quarter-million dollars (over two million in today's dollars), the Folies Bergere stage show featured a cast of eighty stars and promised an elegant evening of sensual entertainment complete with...
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South NashvilleOver the past 150 years, the boundaries and demographics of South Nashville have changed dramatically. Starting out as an industrial and blue-collar area comprised of factories, mills, and rail yards, the area quickly grew, drawing thousands looking for employment or more affordable housing. South...
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Homes of Hollywood StarsHomes of Hollywood Stars highlights the souvenir postcards and folders that were sold to millions of tourists who visited Hollywood between 1920 and 1970--an era known as the Golden Age of Hollywood. Some of the actors of those years permitted their elegant residences to...
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Key West's Duval StreetJourney from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico through the pulsing heart of historic Key West that is Duval Street Duval Street in Key West, Florida, is one of the most legendary avenues in the United States. This iconic thoroughfare has seen...
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San Diego's KensingtonThe mid-city San Diego neighborhood of Kensington was conceived as a streetcar suburb. Composed of several subdivisions, the first was Kensington Park, mapped on April 8, 1910. The principals involved in developing Kensington were also involved in creating the 1915 Panama-California Exposition in Balboa...
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Civilian Conservation Corps in VirginiaIn 1933, the United States was struggling to survive the Great Depression. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt promised a New Deal to put the nation back to work. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was launched in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where the first camp, Camp...
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Abandoned Asylums of ConnecticutThis collection of photographs, history, and firsthand accounts gives readers a glimpse at the roots of mental health. These vignettes are born of the personal stories of those who worked at these facilities, those who were institutionalized, and their families. The authors took the...
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Remarkable Women of San Diego: Pioneers, Visionaries and InnovatorsSan Diego enjoys a diverse legacy of formidable female leaders. Ellen Browning Scripps financed and established the groundbreaking Scripps Oceanography Institute. In 1927, Belle Benchley became the nation's first female zoo director and for nearly thirty years pioneered new forms of exhibition and developed...
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Wicked Women of MissouriMarauders like Jesse James and the Younger gang earned Missouri the title of Outlaw State, but the male desperadoes had nothing on their female counterparts. Belle Queen of the Bandits Starr and Cora Hubbard kept Missouri's sensationalist newspapers and dime novelists in business with...
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Misfortune on Cleveland's Millionaires' RowExtreme wealth could buy a mansion in Millionaires' Row but not immunity from unsavory business dealings or shameful behavior.May Hanna gave her millionaire ex-husband's hired Pinkerton detectives the slip to sneak out of the country. To escape financial embarrassment, James Potter, the manager of...
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Baseball in Hot SpringsHot Springs, known for its naturally heated springs and therapeutic bathhouses, became a major training ground in baseball. A must-have for fans of baseball history.Hot Springs, Arkansas, with its thermal water baths, attracted its first big-league outfit when the National League champion Chicago White...
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Ansley ParkAnsley Park, the first suburb built on the north side of Atlanta, has been the residence of many of the city's most prominent citizens. Images of America: Ansley Park is a pictorial history of this beautiful and unique suburb and its surrounding area. In...
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ReadingReading about Reading's long history and influence in industry.The town that began its life as Lynn Village in 1639, Reading has seen many changes during its 375-year history. Its initial settlement in the woods, Wood End, became a village of farms with countless stone...
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Legendary Locals of Oak ParkFounded in the 1830s by Joseph and Betty Kettlestrings, an intrepid young couple from Yorkshire, England, the small settlement of Oak Park grew slowly until the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Before the ashes had cooled, Oak Park's population boomed as displaced families relocated...
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Sante d'Orazio: PolaroidsKnown for a sensual style that helped shape the look of '90s glamour, photographer Sante D'Orazio presents in this new photobook his personal Polaroids--images that were usually taken as casual warm-ups for official shoots. Gathered here is a who's who of beloved pop culture...
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