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Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Academy Award-wining filmmaker Errol Morris investigates the hidden truths behind a series of documentary photographs. In Believing Is Seeing Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris turns his eye to the nature of truth in photography. In his inimitable style, Morris untangles the mysteries behind an eclectic range of documentary photographs, from the ambrotype of three children found clasped in the hands of an unknown soldier at Gettysburg to...
Author
Publisher
Aperture
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In 1988, Mary Ellen Mark published a poignant document of a fiercely independent group of homeless and troubled youth living in Seattle as pimps, prostitutes, panhandlers and small-time drug dealers. Critically acclaimed, Streetwise introduced us to individuals who were not easily forgotten, including "Tiny" (Erin Blackwell)--a 13-year-old prostitute with dreams of a horse farm, diamonds and furs, and a baby of her own. Since meeting Tiny 30 years...
Author
Publisher
Peperoni Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Insgesamt 26 785 Autokilometer hätten Hoepker und Winter zurückgelegt, so Chefredakteur Mahnke, der im Editorial zu Heft 8/1964 den USA-kritischen Tenor der Serie insgesamt vorwegnahm: "Sie sahen weit hinter die Wolkenkratzer von Manhattan, deren eindrucksvolle Silhouette von vielen Europäern immer noch für typisch amerikanisch gehalten wird. Und sie fanden abseits des Postkarten-Amerikas einige Wahrheiten, von denen ich denke, dass es gut ist,...
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
This special and important photography book presents, for the first time, the very best contact sheets created by Magnum photographers. Contact sheets tell the truth behind a photograph. They unveil its process, and provide its back story. Was it the outcome of what a photographer had in mind from the outset? Did it emerge from a diligently worked sequence, or was the right shot down to pure serendipity - a matter of being in the right place at the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
First published in 1963, James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America's so-called "Negro problem." As remarkable for its masterful prose as for its frank and personal account of the black experience in the United States, it is considered one of the most passionate and influential explorations of 1960s race relations, weaving thematic threads of love, faith, and family into a candid assault on the hypocrisy of the "land of the...
14) Bare witness
Author
Publisher
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University in collaboration with SKIRA
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Publisher
La Fábrica
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
The main characters in his photographs are the weak, the disowned and all of those who struggle on a daily basis to survive. This book brings together images of workers breaking up boats, abandoned refugees, amateur boxers, garbage collectors in dumps and members of armed gangs among other subjects. Since 2006 Javier Arcenillas has been working on an essay about violence in Central America. His photographs document pain, desperation, impotence and...
Author
Publisher
Phaidon
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"American photographer Steve McCurry is universally recognized as one of today's finest image-makers and has won many of photography's top awards. This is the only major retrospective book to bring together the most memorable and beautiful of his images"--P. [2] of jacket.
Author
Publisher
Taschen
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Like hardly any other artist of his generation, Wolfgang Tillmans has shaped our perception of the world. From early portraits of his friends to still lifes, travel shots, nudes, landscape and sky photographs, to his abstract work, Tillmans has created a multitude of iconic works in his unmistakable visual language, opening up new paths and possibilities for both photography and contemporary art. In 2000 he was the first photographer and the first...
20) Lorna Simpson
Author
Publisher
Abrams, in association with the American Federation of Arts
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English