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Babel: A Film by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Photo Books)

On the set with Iñárritu: The making of the final film in the Mexican director’s acclaimed trilogy Mexican film director Alejandro González Iñárritu, along with top photographers Mary Ellen Mark, Patrick Bard, Graciela Iturbide, and Miguel Rio Branco, bring together their highly perceptive visions on cultural diversity in a book that combines seductive images and firsthand remarks on the unique experience of shooting Babel. Winner of the Best Director prize at the 2006 Cannes Film Fest...

Twelve Days of Christmas

The Twelve Days of Christmas is a special book that captures the true spirit of the Yuletide season through the enchanting images of photographer Anne Geddes.Her distinctive, gently humorous interpretation of the lyrics brings the joyful traditional song to life and makes it as fresh and fun today as it was when it was first sung hundreds of years ago.The ancient counting song, named after the 12-day holiday in England over Christmas, celebrates the tradition of gift giving. This updated edition...

A Hungry Heart: A Memoir

Gordon Parks, acclaimed photographer, filmmaker, composer, and author of fiction and nonfiction, has participated in, been witness to, and documented many of the major events in the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries.Born in Fort Scott, Kansas, on November 30, 1912, he left home at age fifteen when his mother passed away. For the next twelve years, he lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota, working as a piano player, bus boy, Civilian Conservation Corpsman, and professional basketball player befo...

Red Light: Inside the Sex Industry

Featuring over 120 gritty black-and-white photographs, Red Light: Inside the Sex Industry is a provocative tour of New York City's sexual underground, told in the authentic voices of those who live and work in it....

Minnesota 24/7

Take a visual journey through the Land of Lakes! The extraordinary photographs showcased in Minnesota 24/7 are an extension of the America 24/7 project, an unprecedented digital photography venture that harnessed the talents of more than 25,000 local photographers in all 50 states. This remarkable book showcases 713 images adding up to a panoramic view of life across this beautiful state. You ll discover heartwarming photographs that perfectly capture the spirit of the Minnesota, with images of:...

Cuba: Picturing Change

With insightful essays—in English and Spanish—from Louis A. Pérez Jr., America's preeminent Cuba scholar, and Ambrosio Fornet, renowned Cuban author and screenwriter, Cuba: Picturing Change introduces the work of photographer E. Wright Ledbetter, whose images create a captivating portrait of the remarkable Cuban culture as it faces the complex forces of change. Made from visits to Cuba over a four-year period (1997-2001), Ledbetter's photographs take us on a compelling journey within a...

Dayanita Singh: Go Away Closer

Go Away Closer is a novel without words. It concerns series of opposites in Singh's India: presence and absence, reality and dreams, tradition and progress. She is able to express the emotion underlying these often abstract concepts, because her photography springs from her own intimate experiences. For example, Singh establishes a connection between her personal losses, and the collective sadness due to lost traditions in the face of technology. Such opposites are ultimately irrec...

Moko Jumbies: The Dancing Spirits of Trinidad

Seventeen years ago, Glen 'Dragon' De Souza founded the Keylemanjahro School of Arts and Culture on the island of Trinidad in the Caribbean. The school's mission was to revive the almost-forgotten West African tradition of the moko jumbie, or 'stilt-walker', and adopt it into the annual Carnival celebration. Not only would it restore a centuries-old tribal custom that had been squelched by colonialism and slavery, but De Souza dreamed it would also keep underprivileged children from street life...

An American in Europe: The Photography Collection of Baroness Jeane von Oppenheim from the Norton Museum of Art

This new collection is proof that new ways of telling the history of photography still exist. Featuring a selection of works from the very personal collection of Cologne-based connoisseur Baroness Jeane von Oppenheim, An American in Europe experiences the development of photography in the 20th century not in a chronological fashion, but according to genre: from portraits, to landscapes, to architectural photography, to still lifes, to fashion and film. Oppenheim gave her outstanding collection o...

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