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Excess: Fashion And The Underground In The 80SProducing a book on fashion in the 1980s is not merely a question of immortalizing one of the most feverish periods of invention, creativity, and variety in our recent history. It also means providing a window on the increasingly pervasive advance of show-business society, and on the origins of the designer "total living" environment in which we are now permanently submerged. Ralph Lauren pillowcases, anyone? How about a sip of Absolut from my Calvin Klein Home champagne glasses? Excess: Fash... |
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At the Edge of the Light: Thoughts on Photography and Photographers, on Talent and GeniusDavid Travis, the Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago, is among the select few whose views on the subject are in focus and worth a close look. He has lived, breathed, and contemplated photographs for the past three decades and is among the small number of critics and writers whose knowledge of art, technique, and history (not to mention linguistics, mathematics, poetry, and philosophy) has enabled him to transcend the typical blather that surrounds photographs and get to the e... |
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The Majesty of the French Quarter (Majesty Architecture)New Orleans remembers. She lives. She loves. And her heart, beating for hundreds of years, following her own rhythm, is the French Quarter. Here, award-winning author and photographer Kerri McCaffety captures the majesty of the French Quarter and brings it to life in a luxurious parade of pictures and prose. Fabulous hotels, churches, fine restaurants, antique shops, and art galleries line the streets of the Quarter. But some of the most fascinating architecture -- that of private residences -- ... |
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Witness Iraq: A War Journal, February - April 2003Witness Iraq: A War Journal, February April 2003 presents compelling, provocative images of the war, as seen through the eyes of world-renowned independent and embedded photojournalists belonging to the most well-known and respected photo agencies. The books begins with the assassination attempt of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and continues through the massive roll out of tanks and troops in the desert, and on to the fight of the Kurds in the North, and finally culminating in the fall of Baghdad.... |
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Couples: Speaking from the HeartBargain Books are non-returnable. From the author of Fathers and Daughters and Mothers and Sons comes this moving tribute to love. In Couples, photographer Mariana Cook presents a stunning collection of black and white images and intimate texts from 60 different couples young, old, rich, poor, gay, straight, famous, unknown offering us a rare glimpse into the diverse meanings of that unique bond. These partners speak in their own words, and yet it is in the glance of the eye, the subtle gesture ... |
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Women Before 10 a.m.When our perennial bestseller, Women Before 10 a.m. first made waves in bookstores worldwide, many of the women in Veronique Vial's presciently delectable collection of portraits - Julia Stiles, Reese Witherspoon, Angelina Jolie, Milla Jovovich, Denise Richards, Laetitia Casta, Julianne Moore and Salma Hayek, among others - were up-and-coming celebrities. Now these fabulous femmes are the trendsetting stars of pop culture, making waves of their own. This deliciously intimate collection of por... |
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Fathers and Daughters: In Their Own WordsBargain Books are non-returnable. By turns adoring, alienating, challenging, and cherished, the bond between a father and daughter is always a compex and compelling one, and acclaimed photographer Mariana Cook explores this eternal relationship as never before. In the best-selling tradition of Gifts of Age, Fathers and Daughters offers a remarkable collection of photographic portraits of 60 fathers and their daughters, both famous and obscure. Cook's exquisite images are accompanied by deeply mo... |
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Women in Medicine: A Celebration of Their WorkA photographic tribute to women doctors, nurses and other medical professionals. Women in Medicine celebrates the women who spend their lives providing treatment, giving comfort and easing the pain of patients in hospitals and clinics across North America. The book's introduction traces the tumultuous progress of women healers from ancient Egypt until the present. Centuries before medical schools formally trained women, they learned through trial and error by caring for family members. T... |
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Seeing Gardens (New Millennium)In stunning images and soulful words, Seeing Gardens is award-winning photographic artist Sam Abell's intensely personal and celebratory display of the beautiful, exotic, and often startlingly unconventional gardens he has discovered and exquisitely captured over the course of three decades of international travel. Featuring more than 125 high-resolution, full-color photographs, the book is divided into three sections: "The Garden", "Wild Gardens", and "Seeing Gardens", which chronicle Abell's d... |
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