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2021) Marvels
Author
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to New York. Here, burning figures roam the streets, men in brightly colored costumes scale the glass and concrete walls, and creatures from space threaten to devour our world. This is the Marvel Universe, where the ordinary and fantastic interact daily. This is the world of Marvels"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Twin Palms Publishers
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"This young white New Yorker came South with a camera and a keen eye for history. And he used these simple, elegant gifts to capture the story of one of the most inspiring periods in America's twentieth century." -John Lewis, US CongressmanIn the summer of 1962, photographer Danny Lyon packed a Nikon Reflex and an old Leica in an army bag and hitchhiked south. Within a week he was in jail in Albany, Georgia, looking through the bars at another prisoner:...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
In a collection of personal anecdotes, essays, and reflections, the adventurer, photographer, and author describes his life in Africa, his arrival in Nairobi, Kenya, in the 1950s, his forty-acre Hog Ranch encampment, its animal inhabitants, and his encounter with the legendary man-eating lions of Tsavo.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A "celebration of what [writer and photographer] Bill Hayes calls 'the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected' of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late [neurologist] Oliver Sacks"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Max Liebermann: Modern Art and Modern Germany is the first English-language examination of this German impressionist painter whose long life and career spanned nine decades. Through a close reading of key paintings and by a discussion of his many cultural networks across Germany and throughout Europe, this study by Marion Deshmukh illuminates Liebermann's importance as a pioneer of German modernism. Critics and admirers alike saw his art as representing...
2027) The last resort
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Before the arrival of Miami Vice and MTV Spring Break, South Beach was home to the largest cluster of Jewish retirees in the country. Drawn by the apartments, low cost of living, sunny weather, and thriving cultural life, they came by the thousands seeking refuge from the Northeast. By the 1970s, these former New Yorkers had turned from seasonal visitors to year-round residents. The film takes viewers on a journey to the iconic Miami Beach of that...
Publisher
Peabody Essex Museum
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China seeks to rethink the global history of photography by recognizing the centrality of photography at the margins. Whereas histories of nineteenth century photography are often told through the story of a single, usually Euro-American, male hero photographer, the premise of Power and Perspective is that making a photograph is a social process. Each of the book's authors focuses on a different aspect...
Publisher
The Museum of Modern Art
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"For more than two decades, the artist-activist LaToya Ruby Frazier has used photography, text, moving images, and performance to revive and preserve forgotten narratives of labor, gender, and race in the postindustrial era. Frazier has cultivated a practice that builds on the legacy of the social documentary tradition of the 1930s, the photo-conceptual forays of the 1960s and 1970s, and the work of socially conscious writers like Upton Sinclair,...
Publisher
National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Horace Poolaw (Kiowa, 1906-84) was born during a time of great change for his American Indian people as they balanced age-old traditions with the influences of mainstream America. A rare American Indian photographer who documented Indian subjects, Poolaw began making a visual history in the mid-1920s and continued for the next fifty years. When he sold his photos, he often stamped the reverse: 'A Poolaw Photo, Pictures by an Indian, Horace M. Poolaw,...
Author
Pub. Date
1910
Language
English
Description
The Harold Mason Photograph Collection contains photographs and photographic postcards of domestic architecture and architectural elements of structures, specifically doorways, throughout Rhode Island. The bulk of the images are of building exteriors although some interior shots are included. Photographs are both mounted and on photographic postcards. Included in the collection is what is presumed to be the complete set of Providence doorways sold...
2034) The miracle
Author
Series
Men at work ; 36
Publisher
Harlequin Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
CityFiles Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Ernest C. Withers was one of the most prominent African-American photographers during the civil rights years. During the course of his work, he took thousands photographs that document the Movement--from the Emmett Till trial in 1955 to the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. What set his work apart was that he goes beyond the political struggles to show the human face of Movement. Withers worked primarily a local photographer, as a freelancer...
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