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Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
399 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.
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...
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Publisher
Reel Art Press
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
304 pages : chiefly illustrations (some colour) ; 31 cm
Description
Something of a living legend, Daniel Nicoletta (born 1954) has been the leading chronicler of the LGBT civil rights movement in San Francisco over the last 40 years. This is the first book dedicated to his powerful photographs from the burgeoning lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender mecca that was San Francisco in the 1970s and its journey to the present. Nicoletta is best known for his iconic images of Harvey Milk, one of the world's first openly gay...
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Publisher
powerHouse Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
119 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 26 cm
Description
The increasing ubiquity of gun violence has become the norm across the world and particularly in the United States, where we have begun to hear horror after horror on a daily basis. So much so that it has started to produce a numbing effect, a helplessness that allows us to hear the news and say, “Here we go again,” and put it out of our mind. Gun violence is now something we expect to happen. SHOT is about people who have been shot and survived...
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 71 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Shelby Lee Adams has been photographing the eastern Kentucky Appalachian mountain people for thirty years, and been both praised and derided for his portraits of impoverished Appalachian families. Accused of perpetuating stereotypes, Adams is said to exploit his subjects; this documentary explores the controversy. The director allows Adams, his critics and the subjects of his work to speak their minds.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
370 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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,...
Publisher
Time Books, an imprint of Time Inc. Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
235 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Description
"...to mark the 175th anniversary of photography and the birth of photojournalism, the Editors of TIME magazine are publishing this companion book to the groundbreaking digital celebration of photography that TIME.com will be mounting online, displaying the most influential photographs of all time. While they may not be the most famous or well-known photographs, each one is unique for the way in which it changed, influenced, or commemorated a particular...
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