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Challenging the conventional wisdom that the 1930s were dominated by literary and photographic realism, Sensational Modernism uncovers a rich vein of experimental work by politically progressive artists. Examining images by photographers such as Weegee and Aaron Siskind and fiction by writers such as William Carlos Williams, Richard Wright, Tillie Olsen, and Pietro di Donato, Joseph Entin argues that these artists drew attention to the country's most...
3) Reflections
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James Elliott Foster gives us over 100 poems and 40 illustrations to describe what he sees and how he feels about the world around him. "Reflections" is a very personal and very unique view of the world, but it also speaks to the human condition...a condition each of us shares with Mr. Foster. As Mr. Foster puts it, "While [each of us] will experience a different combination of moments, phases, and places, I'm hoping my poetry will have meaning to...
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This is retrospective collection of the photography of photojournalist James Crnkovich. It is, introduced by Bob Mielke and has commentaries by Lester Joos. The book contains fifty-five of James's finest photographs in either black and white or color. The photographs document life in America under the following categories: Intimate Relationships, Studies, Rethinking Art, Geometry, Incongruous Places, the Politics of Irony, Gun Culture, Public Permissibility,...
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A sampling of photographic images 1975-2015, using the various instruments in vogue at the time, whether 35mm or iPhone, black & white or digitally manipulated. Ecology is both the art and the science of an element in its environment, or humans in their community. When you look at a photograph and you are moved, you become an integral part of the ecology of the photograph.
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Life and Beyond is a collaboration between the prize-winning film director Jonah L. Salander, who is responsible for the beautiful and profound photographs in this volume, and his father, the artist and poet Lawrence Salander.
This book is the result of Jonah Salander's habit of walking the streets of New York City , where for various reasons-including his love for the city and his profound regard and empathy for the people who live there, and as...
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Esta obra de la artista argentina Matilde Marín lleva a los lectores, a través de las imágenes de los faros, a transitar espacios y recuperar distintos tiempos. Marín en las fotografías ha registrado con sutileza los faros y sus luces, aguas, tierra y cielo. Quienes vean/lean el libro accederán a esos mundos, para conocerlos y explorarlos, en un viaje imaginario con diez estaciones.
Pharus. Del hemisferio Sur al Norte testimonia la materialidad...
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In the pre-digital era, the age of mechanical reproduction, the New York Public Library's Picture Collection provided the free circulation of prints, photographs, postcards and other clippings to its constituency of artists, illustrators, advertisers, and businessmen. It was, in essence, the Google Images of its day. Since its initial beginnings in 1914 the Picture Collection has been a unique public service for New York City's thriving educational,...
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From the pages of Epic magazine come the true stories that Inspired the Apple Original Series.
Includes nearly a hundred color photographs and a Foreword by Kumail Nanjiani.
Nearly everyone in America came from somewhere else. This is a fundamental part of the American idea-an identity and place open to everyone. People arrive from all points distant, speaking a thousand languages, carrying every culture, each with their own reason for uprooting...
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Letters to Love is a modern-day collection of poetry, beautifully enhanced with the visual persuasion of photography. Both creative elements work together to describe the remarkable essence of love within self, romance, and community relationships.
This book of poetry was created for the collective to inspire arouse, heal, and naturally cause reason to open the mind, imagine, daydream and reminisce. Enjoy!
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Whether you call them franks, wieners, or red hots, hot dogs are as American as apple pie, but how did these little links become icons of American culture? Man Bites Dog explores the transformation of hot dogs from unassuming street fare to paradigms of regional expression, social mobility, and democracy. World-renowned hot dog scholar Bruce Kraig investigates the history, people, décor, and venues that make up hot dog culture and what it says about...
12) Por Siempre
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Photojournalist Tony Salazar has a poet's intuition for images that echo beyond themselves and constellate a narrative.
Guns, tattoos, pit bulls, and cars appear alongside a tender aubade, a couple holding hands, a baby bathing in a kitchen sink; landscapes and skylines in Phoenix and Los Angeles show palm trees and messy garages; long white socks and acrylic nails of younger generations meet the smiles and traditions of elders. In a society that...
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Edgar Allan Poe wrote his great works while living in several cities on the East Coast of the United States, but Baltimore's claim to him is special. His ancestors settled in the burgeoning town on the Chesapeake during the 18th century, and it was in Baltimore that he found refuge when his foster family in Virginia shut him out. Most importantly, it was here that he was first paid for his literary work. If Baltimore discovered Poe, it also has the...
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There's something about a fresh haircut that can change a black man's outlook on the world, change his outlook on himself. The experience extends beyond just the cut but to the environment of the barber shop. Growing up, getting my hair cut was a weekly event I looked forward to more than anything. My uncle Jason was a barber and embodied for me everything cool. There in that tilted chair, under the hand of my uncle, surrounded by members of my community...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013" Alexander Nemerov is the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Stanford University. He is the author of five previous books, including To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America, Icons of Grief: Val Lewton's Home Front Pictures, and Acting in the Night: "Macbeth" and the Places of the Civil War.
A deeply personal meditation on the haunting power of American...
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In Aquellos años / Those Years the author gathers a diverse collection of images captured from 1987 on, when, unexpectedly, he began his foray into photography. Even in those years, we perceive an avid and curious eye, willing and able to capture a family of folkloric musicians rehearsing on a roof in Buenos Aires, or a Dominican boy bathing in a bucket. This book is a testimony to the evolution of a photographer and his hallmark style.
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In photos, drawings and words, Sign Language pays homage to the lost art of urban outdoor sign painting. In a working environment both novel and ambitious, author John S. Paul found success, noting, "No other job gave me such a direct impact on the urban landscape, or such physical engagement. Painting signs over Broadway in 1984 was a rare look down from the elevated height of a heroic messenger." Few books have ever provided such an insider perspective...
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A speech on the radio. A high school literature class. A promise made to a mother.
Activism begins in small ways and in unexpected places. In this inspiring book, over forty activists from Billie Jean King to Senator Bernie Sanders and Grover Norquist to Al Sharpton recount the experiences that sparked their journeys and share the beliefs that keep them going. These are citizens who met challenge with action. Their visions for peace, equality, and...
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Indianapolis boasts a few restaurants more than one hundred years old. Eateries like the legendary Hollyhock Hill and St. Elmo's Steakhouse are classic staples in the capital city. But for every legendary local restaurant that exists today, several more are mere memories. Diners can no longer feast on heaping piles of coconut shrimp at the Key West Shrimp House or sip on a Brandy Alexander at Fireside after a well-cooked steak, but their legacies...
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Paisley Rekdal questions how identity and being inhabit metaphorical and personified "vessels," from blown glass and soap bubbles to skulls unearthed at the Colorado State Mental Institution. Whether writing short lyrics or a sonnet sequence celebrating Mae West, Rekdal's intellectually inquisitive and carefully researched poems delight in sound, meter, and head-on engagement. Illustrated with twelve Andrea Modica photographs. From "You're": Vague...
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