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Lexile measure
1210L
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English
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"The tremendous struggles women have faced as war correspondents and photojournalists. A profile of 16 courageous women, Reporting Under Fire tells the story of journalists who risked their lives to bring back scoops from the front lines. Each woman--including Sigrid Schultz, who broadcast news via radio from Berlin on the eve of the Second World War; Margaret Bourke-White, who rode with General George Patton's Third Army and brought back the first...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 840L
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English
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Gordon Parks is most famous for being the first black director in Hollywood. But before he made movies and wrote books, he was a poor African American looking for work. When he bought a camera, his life changed forever. He taught himself how to take pictures and before long, people noticed.--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Before she raised her lens to take her most iconic photo, Dorothea Lange took photos of the downtrodden from bankers in once-fine suits waiting in breadlines, to former slaves, to the homeless sleeping on sidewalks. A case of polio had left her with a limp and sympathetic to those less fortunate. Traveling across the United States, documenting with her camera and her fieldbook those most affected by the stock market crash, she found the face of the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
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As a young girl, Margaret Bourke-White dreamed of having great adventures-the kind only a brave and fearless woman would have. As she grew up, she found that the camera was her ticket to adventure. Her portraits of people in terrible circumstances-from the desperate farmers of the Dust Bowl to the victims of World War II's horrors-made her famous worldwide. With her camera always at the ready, Margaret faced many challenges, including floods, bombings,...
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English
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Beautifully illustrated with 97 of Adams' marvelously pristine photographs, the reader is offered an enthusiastic survey of Adams' varied career--from awkward commercial photographer to avant-garde modernist and finally to influential standard-bearer of "pure" photography.
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Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
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"Mathew Brady recognized that the new art of photography could be more than just a means of capturing people's likenesses in portraits. Beginning with the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861 and continuing through the entire Civil War, Brady and his employees chronicled the long, bloody conflict, bringing images of war directly to the people. Brady knew the photos would create valuable historical records for later generations. More than any other photographer...
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Pub. Date
1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1140L
Language
English
Description
Text and accompanying photographs show the use of children as industrial workers, interwoven with the story of Lewis W. Hine who took these photographs and whose life work made significant difference in the lives of others.
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Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
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A biography of Berenice Abbott, who was a pioneer in the field of professional photography and is particularly acclaimed for her photographs of the streets and buildings of New York City before they were replaced by skyscrapers during a building boom in the 1920s and early 1930s.
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
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"In this powerful and inspiring book, Barb Rosenstock and Gérard DuBois reveal the story of Dorothea's remarkable life and illuminate how her photographs continue to tell the world the truth."--
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