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Alex Webb: IstanbulIn Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names, Magnum photographer Alex Webb displays his particular ability to distill gesture, color and contrasting cultural tensions into a single, beguiling frame. He presents a vision of Istanbul as an urban cultural center, rich with the incandescence of its past--a city of minarets and pigeons rising to the heavens during the early-morning call to Muslim prayers--yet also a city riddled with ATM machines and clothed in designer jeans. Webb began photographing Istan... |
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America's Wetland: Louisiana's Vanishing CoastWith America’s WETLAND, award-winning photographer Bevil Knapp and veteran reporter Mike Dunne sound the clarion call of the catastrophic effects of Louisiana’s vanishing coastline—not just for Louisiana but for the nation and the world. This vital landscape known as America’s Wetland is currently disappearing at a rate of twenty-four square miles per year and could lose another five to seven hundred square miles in the next fifty years if no action is taken. New Orleans could become "... |
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Thank God For These Guys: Chicago's Firemen on the JobThis book is about firemen doing their work. It is not a book exclusively for firemen, men and women, at least not directly. It is a book about them, their work and how they do it, their tradition and dedication. It is for all of us who didn't know what they do. It is for all the fascinated people to whom the author has shown these photos who never realized how compelling the work really is. We can honor the memories of those fallen in the line of duty with ceremonies and dedications, not only a... |
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Live at the Fillmore East: A Photographic MemoirFrom 1968 to 1971 Bill Graham's Fillmore East in New York was the headquarters of the rock explosion. Live at the Fillmore East tells the story of its heyday with hundreds of behind-the-scenes photographs and exclusive interviews. Included here are photos of the Who's premiere of Tommy in 1969; John and Yoko's surprise encore to a Frank Zappa concert; the jam between the Allman Brothers, the Grateful Dead, and Mick Fleetwood in 1970; Janis Joplin's first performance after signing with CBS record... |
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Still Life : Irving Penn Photographs, 1938-2000Irving Penn is acknowledged as a master of the still life genre. This is the first book devoted solely to Penns elegant and original still life work. Penn has personally overseen every detail of this exquisite books design and production. Still Life is certain to be one of the most powerful photography books of the new century.... |
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They Dared To Dream: Hollywood's "A" List Before They Were StarsA unique compilation of photographs and interviews with 16 of Hollywood’s hottest celebrities. These A-list actors and actresses include Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, John Cusack, Sandra Bullock, Laura Dern and Courtney Cox. Shot and recorded by Photographer Karen Bystedt, these photographs and interviews lend unique insight into the lives of these actors and a... |
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California: With Classic California WritingsAnsel Adams lived his entire life in California, and his monumental photographs of the state's most striking natural wonders -- Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada -- won him worldwide renown. But throughout his career, from the 1920s to the 1980s, Adams also photographed many other areas of the Golden State -- from the Sonoma Valley to Big Sur to Death Valley. This volume collects the full range of Adams' California images for the first time, focusing largely an his lesser-known work outside the Sie... |
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Strange Days, Dangerous Nights: Photos from the Speed Graphics EraDriven by the desire to fill newspaper pages with sensational images, press photographers shot everything, day and night: automobile accidents, fires, murders, all the cop news that fought for a hot spot on the Front Page. And they covered uncounted numbers of social affairs -- pictures called 'grip-and-grins' in the trade: school events, sports, celebrities, oddities both of nature and humanity. Veteran journalist and mystery writer Larry Millett has unearthed over 200 of the best photos from t... |
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Illuminations: A BestiaryFrom albatross and angler fish to zebra and zozymus, a photographer and a scientist offer a vision of the animal world from past to present in an eye-opening and imaginative essay on the wonders of life. 69 color and 4 black-and-white photographs.... |
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