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A revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann.
In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her.
Sorting through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Turning her back on her wealthy, established family, Diane Arbus falls in with Lionel Sweeney. Sweeney is an enigmatic mentor who introduces Arbus to the marginalized people who help her become one of the most revered photographers of the twentieth century. Diane's strange, new world unlocks her deepest secrets, awakens her remarkable artistic genius, and launches her path to becoming the artist she is meant to be.
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
1980, c1978
Language
English
Description
Text and more than 300 photographs trace the evolution of war photography from the 1840s to the present, with an explanation of the changing role of the photographer and an introduction to the men and women who developed this art form.
4) Sanctuary
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Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Successful photographer Jo Ellen Hathaway thought she had put the disappearance of her mother behind her years ago, but when she receives a shocking portrait of her dead mother, she is compelled to return to her childhood home of Sanctuary and learn the truth about her family's past.
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In Sights is one man's journey from boyhood to manhood, ultimately finding himself in the theatre of war. It is a journey littered with colourful anecdotes that offer insight into male bonding. Few paths have included such diverse experience. From military training in the Guards Depot to Trooping the Colour, from academic failure to intelligence work in Northern Ireland; from helping Rudolf Hess out of an ambulance to being tasked with taking the...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Explore the life and work of a great twentieth-century photographer in this monograph and companion book to the eponymous PBS American Masters episode. This beautiful volume celebrates one of the twentieth century's most important photographers, Dorothea Lange. Led off by an authoritative biographical essay by Elizabeth Partridge (Lange's goddaughter), the book goes on to showcase Lange's work in over a hundred glorious plates. Dorothea Lange is...
8) Lavender
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Lavender is a taut psychological thriller that bends the line between memory and madness, past and present, like a splinter in the brain struggling to escape. Jane (Abbie Cornish) has always photographed old and abandoned farmhouses for as long as she can remember. It's a hobby bordering on obsession that has bloomed into a successful career. Until one day she photographs a particular house...and everything changes. A tragic car accident leaves her...
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Publisher
skirt!
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Most people associate Georgia O'Keeffe with New Mexico, painted cow skulls, and her flower paintings. She was revered for so long-born in 1887, died at age ninety-eight in 1986, that we forget how young, restless, passionate, searching, striking, even fearful she once was, a dazzling, mysterious female force in bohemian New York City during its heyday. In this distinctive book, Karen Karbo cracks open the O'Keeffe icon in her characteristic style,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
More than four decades of 20th-century America are filtered through Lange’s life and lens — her creations and achievements, her tragedies and losses. Known for her powerful images from the Great Depression, her haunting "Migrant Mother" remains emblematic of that period. In 1936, when photographs of the poverty-stricken mother of seven, stranded in a camp in California, were published, a national awareness began. As America matured into a world...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Kristin Burns is a struggling photographer just waiting for the glamorous life of a New York photographer. While waiting for her big break she works as a nanny for the wealthy Turnbull family. When a forbidden love develops with the man of her dreams, her life may end up in a catastrophe.
15) Second sight
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English
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Venetia Milton learns that Gabriel Jones, whose priceless artifacts and relics she has been photographing, has been reported dead; however, she receives quite a surprise when Jones winds up on her doorstep very much alive and afraid for his life.
Author
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the experiences of women reporters during World War II, discussing the discrimination they faced from the military and male colleagues, and looking at the adverse physical conditions they suffered in their efforts to bring the story of the war home to America.
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Language
English
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Bob Gruen is one of the most well-known and respected photographers in rock and roll. From John Lennon to Johnny Rotten, Muddy Waters to the Rolling Stones, Elvis to Madonna, Bob Dylan to Bob Marley, Tina Turner to Debbie Harry, he has documented the music scene for more than fifty years in photographs that have captured the world's attention.
In Right Place, Right Time, Gruen recounts his personal journey from discovering a love of photography in...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
Maggie Holloway arrives at the home of her long-lost stepmother Nuala, only to the find the older woman dead. During a visit to the cemetery, Maggie, a professional photographer, notices something is amiss and finds herself the target of a sinister money-bilking plot.
19) Walker Evans
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A biography of American photographer Walker Evans, drawing from his diaries, letters, work logs, and contact sheets, to provide information about his life and career.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
For 60 years, Australian photographer Jeff Carter traversed this country in search of stories. He wrote books and articles for the magazines of the time like People and Pix. And he never travelled without a camera. From the outset, Carter was drawn to document and celebrate the lives of working folk in the bush. From charcoal cutters and kangaroo shooters to dog trappers and drovers, his archive of wonderful images records a way of life that in many...
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