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Author
Publisher
Clarkson Potter Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"An exclusive sneak peek inside the creative minds of more than 50 New Yorker cartoonists, celebrating legends and newcomers alike with stunning photography and engaging profiles. For a century, The New Yorker has provided readers with hundreds of thousands of cartoons that humorously (and accurately) encapsulate the cultural happenings in our world. From politics to pop culture, New Yorker cartoonists have found a way to make complex topics digestible...
Author
Publisher
PowerHouse Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Renowned and celebrated musician and artist John Cohen came of age at the confluence of Old Time and early Bluegrass music, the historic intersection of traditional and folk music. Travelling between the Union Grove Fiddlers' Convention to the Grand Old Opry to a Coal Celebration in Hazard, Kentucky, Cohen made historic photographs of performers like Bill Monroe and Doc Watson, the country's very first all bluegrass show, and a bluegrass bar in Baltimore,...
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A photograph is worth a thousand words" has never been more fitting than in this thought-provoking book. Photographs serve as snapshots of time, capturing the emotions, humanity, and history of a specific moment. Since the camera's invention, photographs have captured pivotal moments that defined and shaped American history. Young readers will examine this book's photographs as primary sources. Readers will investigate the context of each photograph...
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Based on the popular and groundbreaking PBS multiplatform documentary project, this is an inspiring and striking photographic portrait that brilliantly captures the tumultuous, historic year that was 2020. American Portrait offers an intimate look at what it really means to be an American today, revealed through the stories of ordinary people and in their own voices. Told by people of all ages, orientations, and walks of life, these unique stories...
Author
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
American Jukebox profiles the spirit and heartbeat of our American musical heritage. Christopher Felver has collected over 240 photographs from tours and encounters with musicians over the past 25 years. Caught in action on the stage or posed, Felver captures these musicians and composers in their musical element, revealing the faces behind the rhythms, beats, and melodies that have punctuated American musical culture. Scattered throughout are playlists,...
Author
Publisher
Schaffner Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"With this fascinating synthesis of word and image, internationally renowned photographer B.A. Van Sise offers a visually stimulating anthology that will enchant lovers of both poetry and photography. At times whimsical, surreal, challenging, enigmatic, joyful and sobering, these portraits--running adjacent to poems by each of their subjects--highlight some of the most influential poets of our time and celebrate creativity as only these poets in collaboration...
Author
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Through art photography and prose, this book addresses the fragility, beauty, and cultural value of preserving endangered languages.
"Through art photography and prose, this book addresses the fragility, beauty, and cultural value of preserving endangered languages, particulary Indigenous languages, at a time when Indigenous and diversity issues are at the forefront of our national conversations. In a groundbreaking project turned into a national...
Author
Publisher
DelMonico Books-Prestel
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This collection presents a selection of vintage photographs by the renowned photographer Edward S. Curtis. Featuring both iconic and rarely seen images from the more than 40,000 photographs Curtis took in his quest to document the physical and spiritual lives of the Native peoples of North America, this volume explores Curtis' artistry, his mastery of the photographic process, and his commitment to preserving for posterity the traditional lifeways...
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