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	Women Photographers at National Geographic Photojournalism is a demanding art, even more so for female photographers than for their male colleagues: Along with the perils, and discomforts shared by every professional traveler, women all too often face other obstacles unique to their gender. But as this gloriously colorful celebration proves, the women of National Geographic have excelled behind the camera for almost a century, come hell or high water, documenting the world in arresting images that linger long in the viewer's eye. From ...
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	Faces of a Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991 A stunning visual history of all levels of Soviet society--the working-class people, political leaders, and the critical events that shaped the 20th-century Soviet Union. In a career that spanned more than five decades, Dmitri Baltermants was the premier photographer in the Soviet Union, an official photographer to Stalin and Kruschev and the editor of Ogonyok magazine. His works, as seen in this collection, helped shape the way in which the Soviet people viewed the world. 150 photos....
	Napoleon's Line Cavalry: Recreated in Colour Photographs (Europa Militaria Special) The hobby of historical re-enactment has come a long way over the past decade, attracting dedicated students of many aspects and periods of history to this uniquely engaging form of practical research.The ever-fascinating Napoleonic period is well represented, and groups of knowledgeable enthusiasts in many European countries have been formed to recreate the uniforms and equipment, and to practice the drills and tactics, of these colorful armies.This remarkable collection of 180 color photograph...
	Get the Picture: A Personal History of Photojournalism (Crime & Justice: A Review of Research; Crime & Justice: A Review of Research) How do photojournalists get the pictures that bring us the action from the world's most dangerous places? How do picture editors decide which photos to scrap and which to feature on the front page?Find out in Get the Picture, a personal history of fifty years of photojournalism by one of the top journalists of the twentieth century. John G. Morris brought us many of the images that defined our era, from photos of the London air raids and the D-Day landing during World War II to the assassination...
	Malick Sidibe: Photographs Malick Sidib documented an important period of West African history with great commitment, enthusiasm, and insight, focusing on Malian youth in the 1950s and 60s. His portraits and documentary photography captured the unique atmosphere and vitality of an African capital in a period of great euphoria. From the earliest days of the postcolonial period, Sidib was a privileged witness to a period of tremendous, euphoric cultural change. As a young but well thought-of photographer, he captured a ti...
	William Albert Allard: The Photographic Essay (American Photographer Master Series) Allard is the perfect choice for an inaugural volume, for the photographers in this series share an independence of vision and character--something Allard has in abundance. 84 illustrations, 78 in color....
	No Man's Land This is photographer and journalist Larry Towell's documentary account of the Palestinians. It reveals the landscape of a scarred and battered "no man's land"-neither fully Palestinian nor Israeli-and the daily life of the people who live there. Photographed over 10 years and completed with the support of the prestigious Henri Cartier-Bresson Award (with Towell its first recipient, in 2003), this is Towell's most important body of work to date and a landmark of photographic art and journalism. T...
	Robert Capa: Photographs Robert Capa: Photographs is the first true retrospective book of one of the century's greatest photographers. Drawing upon hundreds of previously unseen images, this collection reveals Capa as one of the great poets of the camera. In these photographs, we see through the eyes of a driven humanist who was also a documentarian of the highest caliber. While previous volumes on Capa have focused on his role as a war photographer, Robert Capa: Photographs shows us the remarkable range of his work, ...