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1) Icons
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
The second in series charts the story of exploration in the 20th century. 20th-century exploration began with flag planting in the name of empire, and over the decades, improvements in technology saw explorers take on greater and greater challenges - pursuing prizes from the poles, to the highest points on earth - and beyond. The incredible individuals who took humankind to the limits of what was thought possible also oversaw an evolution - as time...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
After a slump in the ‘80s, Carlin comes back with a vengeance, reaching new heights – and new audiences – with another reinvention that highlights his prescient political commentary and sharply honed observations about the state of America and the world. Following his death in 2008, fellow comics reflect on his enduring legacy.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This visual documentary combines contemporary and historical perspectives. Viewers will find themselves wanting to delve into coffee-table books or take a trip to a museum. Ask people to name five photographers, from past or present, and chances are that few will think to name a woman. Highlighting Julia Margaret Cameron, Claude Cahun, Dorthea Lange, Lisette Model, Vivian Maier, Christine Spengler, and Nan Goldin-and featuring images from many more...
Author
Series
Timber Ridge reflections volume 1
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Determined to become one of the country's premier newspaper photographers, Elizabeth Westbrook travels to the Colorado Territory to capture the grandeur of the mountains surrounding the remote town of Timber Ridge. She hopes too, that the cool, dry air of Colorado, and its renowned hot springs, will cure the mysterious illness that threatens her career, and her life. Daniel Ranslett, a former Confederate sharpshooter, is a man shackled by his past,...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2014
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 power,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The definitive and authorized biography that unlocks the remarkable story of Vivian Maier, the nanny who lived secretly as a world-class photographer, featuring nearly 400 of her images, many never seen before, placed for the first time in the context of her life. Vivian Maier, the photographer nanny whose work was famously discovered in a Chicago storage locker, captured the imagination of the world with her masterful images and mysterious life....
11) One summer
Author
Series
Celebrity Magazine series volume 2
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"A summer spent traveling across America with cynical, brooding photojournalist Shade Colby was not 'Celebrity' photographer Bryan Mitchell's idea of a dream assignment. But Bryan will have to manage for an entire summer if she wants the fabulous cross-country shoot for a book, which they're both salivating over. However, Bryan and Shade disagree about everything -- everything, that is, except the fierce attraction they have for each other." Book...
Author
Series
My weirdest school volume 7
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
In this seventh book in the new My Weirdest School series, its picture day at Ella Mentry School! This year, Mr. Klutz has hired a weird photographer, Ms. Joni. She keeps saying fabulous, and she wants to turn A.J. into a supermodel. But what happens when the Picture Day Zombie makes an appearance? Run for your lives! Perfect for reluctant readers and word lovers alike, Dan Gutmans hugely popular My Weird School chapter book series has something for...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kristin Burns is a New York City nanny and aspiring photographer. She is devoted to the two children under her care and is having an affair with their father. Kristin's anxiety about her guilty secret is heightened by a series of frightening nightmares.
Author
Language
English
Description
In this spellbinding blend of suspense and human drama, top photographer Hope Dunne fights to escape a mesmerizing sociopath who holds her in his thrall after she accepts a last-minute assignment to fly to London at Christmas and photograph one of the world's most celebrated writers--an Irish-American author known for novels of thrilling literary darkness.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Based on the book by Dan Wakefield, the film combines stunning archival footage of New York with interviews of the icons of the day, including Kerouac, Ginsberg, Baldwin, Mailer, Robert Redford, Joan Didion, and more. Offering modern day perspectives and reminiscences are the writers, actors, and artists who were all part of the rich cultural and artistic scene of the time.
17) Norman Lear
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Largely responsible for bold American television in the 1970s, Norman Lear's name is synonymous with the sitcom. From his childhood and early career with his groundbreaking TV success (All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Good Times, Maude) and social activism, Lear proved social change was possible through an unlikely prism - laughter - and created some of the greatest moments in television history.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Chesley Bonestell was an architect and painter who worked on the Golden Gate Bridge and the Chrysler Building. He worked on famous movies like Citizen Kane as a matte artist, and his mesmerizing paintings of planets and star systems helped inspire America's space program.
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