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New Yorkers: As Seen by Magnum PhotographersDiffering from other picture books on New York, New Yorkers: As Seen by Magnum Photographers introduces a gallery of eye-catching untamed images of the metropolis, taken by Magnum photographers. Known for their independent spirit, they proffer scenes that can best be described as bouncy, cryptic, melancholy, droll, or glamorous, often bringing these clashing possibilities together against great odds, in a single image. For these pictures to have been on target, they had to be off-kilter-as charg... |
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Tina Modotti PhotographsThe powerful work and dramatic life of Italian-born photographer and Marxist revolutionary Tina Modotti (1896-1942). These superb illustrations--many rarely or never before published--include "Roses", which in 1991 commanded the highest price ever paid to date for a photograph at auction. 148 duotone photos.... |
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A Small Nation of People: W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of ProgressAn incredible treasure trove of more than 150 illustrations detailing a small nation of African Americans prepared to make their mark on America... |
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Rain of Ruin: A Photographic History of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (America Goes to War)From Midwest Book ReviewThis photographic history of Hiroshima and Nagasaki provides the first comprehensive photographic record of the bombings and their aftermath, presenting a history of the two cities before and after the bombs drop and also including photos of American and Japanese politicians and military men involved in the bombing. Anticipate a detailed, well-rounded title.... |
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Passages: Photographs in Africa"A Magnificent documenting [of] the continent's rapidly vanishing kaleidoscope of tribal rites." -Time magazine "A visual feast. . . But even more impressive are the pictures from behind the scenes, in the more intimate events when ceremony comes to focus on a single moment in a human life." -New York Times Book Review Unanimous praise and sensational international sales greeted Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher's monumental two-volume African Ceremonies, published by Abrams in Fall 1999... |
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The Photo Essay (Photographers at Work)... |
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Chernobyl LegacyChernobyl Legacy bears witness to the present-day effects of a horrific nuclear accident of unprecedented magnitude. Searing images documenting the effects following the Chernobyl disaster are central to the mission of this book, the work of noted photojournalist Paul Fusco of Magnum Photos and Magdalena Caris. Commentaries by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, actor Michael Douglas and Didier J. Cherpitel, the secretary general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Cres... |
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Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920Throughout his tenure as a registry clerk with the Immigration Division of Ellis Island, Augustus F. Sherman systematically photographed more than 200 families, groups, and individuals while they were being held by customs for special investigations. This volume collects and provides an essential revaluation of Sherman’s striking portraits, which predate August Sander’s cataloging efforts by several years. A historical document of unprecedented worth, Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portra... |
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Pie Town Woman: The Hard Life and Good Times of a New Mexico HomesteaderPie Town, New Mexico, was immortalized in 1940 in the photographs of Russell Lee, who documented life in the high, dry farming community as part of the Farm Security Administration’s New Deal survey of American life. This book tells the story of one of the women photographed by Lee. Doris Caudill lived on a homestead with her husband and daughter, who was six years old when Lee made his famous photographs, many of which show Doris planting her garden, canning vegetables, and milking cows. Now,... |
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