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Author
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Thirty-eight of the most important and influential figures of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus and Andrew Kertesz to Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe and Alfred Stieglitz, are profiled in bold and compelling detail."--flyleaf.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The photography experts at National Geographic share their invaluable tips, advice and insights alongside more than 200 breathtaking photos ranging from glorious landscapes to intimate moments, from black-and-white to exuberant color, from the exotic to the homespun. These stunning and evocative photos, drawn from National Geographic's thriving online photography community, "Your Shot".
Author
Publisher
University Of Washington Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Whether at UFW picket lines in California's Central Valley or capturing summertime street life in East Harlem Latinx photographers have documented fights for dignity and justice as well as the daily lives of ordinary people. Their powerful, innovative photographic art touches on family, identity, protest, borders, and other themes, including the experiences of immigration and marginalization common to many of their communities. Yet the work of these...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Filmmaker, photographer, and world-class mountaineer Jimmy Chin goes where few can follow to capture stunning images in death-defying situations. There and Back draws from his breathtaking portfolio of photographs, captured over twenty years during cutting-edge expeditions on all seven continents--from skiing Mount Everest, to an unsupported traverse of Tibet's Chang Tang Plateau on foot, to first ascents in Chad's Ennedi Desert and Antarctica's...
Author
Publisher
Rizzoli
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A visual autobiography of a kind as only Diane Keaton could tell it, via the celebrated star's idiosyncratic and personal collections and ruminative texts, Saved offers an unprecedented glimpse into the mind of the legendary film star. The book begins with an homage to movies--curiously, to old "b" grade horror flicks, such as Attack of the Puppet People--a passion that manifests in a collection of rare film stills showing large-brain aliens with...
20) How photography became contemporary art: inside an artistic revolution from pop to the digital age
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When Andy Grundberg landed in New York in the early 1970s as a writer, photography was at the margins of the contemporary art world. By 1991, when he left his post as critic for the New York Times, photography was at the center of artistic debate. Grundberg writes about photography's "boom years," chronicling the medium's increasing role within the most important art movements of the time, from Earth Art and Conceptual Art to performance and video....
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