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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The McLaughlin twins were trailblazing female photographers, celebrated in their time as stars in their respective fields, but have largely been forgotten since. Here, in Double Click, author Carol Kino provides us with a fascinating window into the golden era of magazine photography and the first young women's publications, bringing these two brilliant women and their remarkable accomplishments to vivid life.
2) Strange hours: photography, memory, and the lives of artists : selected writings / by Rebecca Bengal
Author
Series
Publisher
Aperture
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In her collection Strange Hours, the writer Rebecca Bengal considers over a century of photography that has defined our relationship to the medium. Through generous and in-depth essays, profiles, reviews, and interviews, Bengal contemplates photography's narrative power, from the radical intimacy of Nan Goldin's New York demimonde to Justine Kurland's pictures of rebel girls on the open road. Bengal brings us closer to several pioneering artists...
Author
Publisher
Flashpoint publications
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Whether he was shooting a movie star or a family member, he saw his own search for joy reflected in the images. While growing up in Pittsburgh, Lange cherished his happy childhood, and he found himself unconsciously yearning for that feeling in his adult life. He strove to re-create those fleeting sparks of childhood joy in his relationships and his photographs. "Each day I am trying to find the place we are all connected, but I never know where...
Author
Publisher
Sideways, Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Shielding herself from the world behind the safety of her camera lens, photographer Ayah Fleming is pulled into the past when she returns home and uncovers the truth about her descendants with the help of a man who makes her long for a brighter future"--
6) Knowing you
Author
Series
Pictures of the heart volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"May Parker is captivated by the Japanese exhibits at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, longing to know more about her mother's heritage. When she's reunited with childhood friend Lee Munro, they become entangled in a dangerous heist involving samurai armor, and their love is threatened. Will they be able to overcome the odds against them?"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Sebastião adored exploring the paradise of his parents' farm in the Mata Atlântica forest of Brazil. From atop a hill, he would look at the world from a new perspective and dream of what might lie beyond his view. Then, when he went away to school, Sebastião met Lélia, who showed him how to use a camera for the very first time. When Sebastião looked through the camera, he realized he could use photography to organize how the world fit together....
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Liv Spyers hits the big time when she lands a photography assignment with Grammy Award-winning pop star, the one and only Bisa. A huge fan, Liv is extra thrilled that her new boyfriend, Harry, will join her at the glamorous premiere of Bisa's debut movie. But when the music icon's estranged sister, Anna, threatens to turn photo ops into PR disasters during Bisa's parties and pop-up concerts, Liv finds that the star-studded world she's joined is filled...
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Discovering old photos in which she sees what her work is missing, Manhattan photographer Dani Campbell searches for their source, which leads her to eighty-year-old Lawrence Sinclair who agrees to mentor her until his estranged grandson arrives believing she's a fortune hunter.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The first biography of pioneering photojournalist Dickey Chapelle, who from World War II through the early days of Vietnam got her story by any means necessary as one of the first female war correspondents. "I side with prisoners against guards, enlisted men against officers, weakness against power." From the beginning of World War II through the early days of Vietnam, groundbreaking female photojournalist and war correspondent Dickey Chapelle chased...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning Yellowstone photographer and documentary filmmaker Brad Orsted's seven-year search for refuge and redemption in America's greatest wilderness. When Brad Orsted's fifteen-month-old daughter, Marley, died mysteriously at the home of Brad's mother, he descended into madness. Blaming himself, he plunged into an abyss of grief, guilt, and self-recrimination, fueled by prescription drugs and alcohol. He planned his suicide as his wife, Stacey,...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"Driven and recklessly daring, Martin Sabater follows his lifelong dream of owning a cacao plantation in Valle del Cauca. But on the night of a spectacular gala, he disappears -- and is never seen again. Now his hacienda is a budding Catholic hospital saving lives during an emerging epidemic. And novice nun "Sor Puri" is there to uncover the truth behind Martin's disappearance. But her real identity -- and her past with the heartbreakingly charismatic...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Peter Beard lived an astonishing life. The artist, wildlife photographer, and bon vivant enthralled and inspired both because of his work and his legendary lifestyle. A scion of American industry turned explorer of Africa and environmental advocate, Beard embodied the extremes of his time: grand adventurer and sexually voracious partier, friend of everyone from the Rolling Stones to Jackie Onassis to Andy Warhol to Karen Blixen. And Beard had a passion...
Author
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Tougo Amase is a well-known photographer who focuses on night scenery--and the man Subaru Miyazawa not-so-secretly idolizes from afar. Subaru always assumed Tougo would be distant, just like the stars in his art, so he can't quite believe his luck when they meet at a trial screening of a new planetarium show. While Subaru is a totally awestruck mess of nerves, Tougo takes it all in stride. Not only that, but he's hopelessly sweet, carrying Subaru...
Author
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Elisheva Cohen has just returned to New York after almost a decade. The wounds of abandoning the Orthodox community that raised her, then shunned her because of her substance abuse, are still painful. But when she gets an amazing opportunity to study photography with art legend Wyatt Cole, Ely is willing to take the leap. On her first night back in town, Ely goes out to the infamous queer club Revel for a celebratory night of dancing. Ely is swept...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1961, and for Margo Hightower, everything is about to change. True, her engagement is off, her family has fallen in scandal, and she's completely broke. But she's just been hired as assistant to photographer Slim Aarons -- famous for his vibrant pictures of high society, royalty, and Hollywood stars -- and she knows this opportunity is her ticket to something better. From the bright beaches of Acapulco to glitzy parties in New York, Margo is...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Called to Nazi-occupied Italy in 1943, a German photographer and an American stenographer hunt for priceless masterpieces before they are destroyed by Hitler, in this pulse-pounding adventure inspired by the incredible true story of the Monuments Women, the Fifth Army WACs and the looted Florentine art collections during World War II.
Author
Series
Rose Bend novels volume 5
Publisher
Canary Street Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When her hot one-night-stand turns out to be the man leading the restoration project she's been hired to photograph, and his sweet little girl has decided she's her new bestie, Flo Dennison, as things become complicated, must decide if one wild night can become so much more.
19) Black is beautiful: JET beauties of the week : the photography of LaMonte McLemore with Chris Murray
Author
Publisher
powerHouse Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"As a founding member and vocalist in the award-winning pop-soul group The 5th Dimension, LaMonte McLemore enjoyed enormous critical and commercial acclaim in the late 1960s and early 1970s. But arguably just as impactful, if not more so, was his career as a photographer cementing Black women and models in American media and cultural history. McLemore freelanced for JET magazine for more than four decades, principally shooting for its "Beauty of the...
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