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Author
Publisher
Wings Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (127 pages)
Language
English
Description
In 2006, Texas historian and photographer Bill Wright traveled to Afghanistan to teach a course--sponsored by the Afghan NGO ASCHIANA, which seeks to support working children and their families--on digital photography to young Afghans living in Kabul. In this illuminating, visually captivating book, Wright records his personal journey and experiences with a group of students ranging from ages 12 to the early 20s. The students' photographs capture...
2) Occupants
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (176 pages)
Language
English
Description
"For the past 25 years, Henry Rollins has searched out the most desolate corners of the Earth-from Iran to Iraq, China to Syria, and beyond-articulating his observations through music and words, on radio and television, and in magazines and books. Though he's known for the raw power of his expression, Rollins has shown that the greatest statements can be made with the simplest of acts: to just bear witness, to be present. In Occupants, Rollins invites...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Speaking OUT: Queer Youth in Focus is a photographic essay that explores a wide spectrum of experiences told from the perspective of a diverse group of young people, ages fourteen to twenty-four, identifying as queer (i.e., lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning). Portraits are presented without judgment or stereotype by eliminating environmental influence with a stark white backdrop. This backdrop acts as a blank canvas, where each subject's...
Author
Publisher
Roberts Rinehart
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (168 pages)
Language
English
Description
"A regional pioneer of photojournalism, Jack Richard photographed in the Yellowstone area from the 1940s to the 1980s, where his crisp, superbly composed images captured the Western way of life. This book presents more than 150 black and white photographs, from stunning landscapes to tender portraits, and chronicles the American West from the end of the frontier era to the age of tourism, industry, and large-scale ranch operations.Yellowstone Country...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 online resource (164 p.)
Language
English
Description
"The kitchen of Henrietta Levine in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where chopped liver is sautTing. Ben and Betty Lee Lamensdorf's farmland in Cary, Mississippi, where cotton, wheat, and pecans are harvested. The New Americans Social Club, a group of Holocaust survivors that meet regularly in New Orleans. The historic and flourishing Temple Emanu-El in Birmingham, Alabama. From Levy, Arkansas, to Kaplan, Louisiana, Southern Jewish culture is alive and well...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 57 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
An hour long documentary about pioneer photographer Lewis Hine, who documented child labor and the building of America from 1900-1940. Hine's work helped establish child labor legislation and is an important part of our national heritage.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Edward Curtis was dashing, charismatic, a passionate mountaineer, a famous photographer--the Annie Liebowitz of his time. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his great idea: He would try to capture on film the Native American nation before it disappeared. At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan's book tells the remarkable untold story behind Curtis's iconic photographs,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The terrorist attack on the World Trade Center was the most universally observed news event in human history. That the event was so visual is owing to the people who, facing disaster, took photographs of it: imperiled office workers, horrified tourists, professional photographers risking their lives. Conceived by Osama bin Laden as the toppling of an image of America right before the world's eyes, the tragedy swiftly came to be defined by photography,...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
6 online resources (6 video files, approximately 60 min. ea) : digital, stereo., sound, color.
Language
English
Description
Each series explores the works of Australia's contemporary photographers. It also includes 'After Two Hundred Years' which documents the diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander life in the late 1980's.The series features talented photographers Fiona Hall, Emmanuel Angelicas, Jon Lewis, Max Pam and Grant Mudford.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
399 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this dazzling book of visual wonders, National Geographic reveals a world very few will have the chance to see for themselves. Shot by some of the world's finest photographers, Rarely Seen features striking images of places, events, natural phenomena, and manmade heirlooms seldom seen by human eyes. It's all here: 30,000-year-old cave art sealed from the public; animals that are among the last of their species on Earth; volcanic lightning; giant...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 536 p., [40] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dorothea Lange's photographs define how the American Depression is remembered; this evocative biography defines her creative struggles and enduring legacy.
17) Walker Evans
Author
Publisher
Aperture Foundation
Pub. Date
1997, c1993
Physical Desc
95 p. : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xxv, 310 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 24 cm.
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...
Series
Collector's edition volume 1
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
150 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
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