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Jim Marshall : show me the picture : images and stories from a photography legend
Jim Marshall created iconic images of rock 'n' roll stars, jazz greats, and civil rights leaders. He had the power to look into the soul of an individual and to capture the mood of an entire generation. This deluxe, career-spanning volume showcases hundreds of photographs: intimate portraits, heady crowd scenes, and haunting street shots evoking the sights and sounds of the 1960s and 1970s. Marked-up proof sheets offer insight into Marshall's process, while in-depth essays from his contemporaries tell a compelling story about this larger-than-life man. Nearly a decade after his death, Marshall's legacy is the subject of a documentary feature film. This gorgeous collection is a must-have for devoted fans and newcomers alike; a fitting tribute to a true legend.
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To The City
In the 1930s and 1940s, as the United States moved from a rural to an urban nation, the pull of the city was irrepressible. It was so strong that even a photographic mission designed to record the essence of rural America could not help but capture the energy of urbanization too.To the Cityshowcases over 100 photographs from the Farm Security Administration (FSA) project along with extracts from the Works Progress Administration (WPA) guidebooks and oral histories, to convey the detail and dimensions of that transformation.
This artfully grouped collection of photographs includes magnificent images by notable photographers Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans and Gordon Parks, among many others. Foulkes organizes this history of Americana into five themes: Intersection; Traffic; High Life and Low Life; The City in the Country; and Citizens to illuminate the changes in habits, landscapes, and aspirations that the march to cities encompassed.
As the rural past holds symbolic sway and the suburb presents demographic force, the urban portion of our history-why and how cities have been a destination for hope-recedes from view.To the Cityis a thoughtful, engaging reminder.
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Our America : a photographic history
\"From one of our most treasured filmmakers, a pictorial history of America-a stunning and moving collection of Ken Burns's favorite photographs\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Postcards from the Road
Jonathan Day's book expounds, explores and examines Robert Frank's work pictorially. Frank's candid images of men and women from all classes and walks of life is credited with changing the course of the art form. Day pairs images with commentary that details the aspects of the work that are visually expounded and explain in Day's images.
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Robert frank’s the americans
In the mid-50s, Robert Frank embarked on a ten-thousand-mile road trip across post-war America, capturing thousands of photographs that resulted in The Americans, which represents a seminal moment in both photography and in America's emerging understanding of itself. Jonathan Day revisits this work and contributes a thoughtful critical commentary.
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An Amish garden : a year in the life of an Amish garden
The author's year-long diary of maintaining a garden in Amish country, recording uncertainties, long hours and hard work of her Lapp family as well as five other neighboring gardeners.
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Affrilachia
\"Affrilachia,\" a term first coined in 1991 by Kentucky poet
Frank X Walker, refers to the cultural contributions of African
Americans who live in Appalachia, a largely mountainous region
stretching over thirteen states from Mississippi to New York.
Although Black Americans have greatly influenced the popular
culture landscape in this region, their stories, trials, and
triumphs are often undocumented because Appalachia is perceived as
wholly white.
In this stunning visual history, photographer and curator Chris
Aluka Berry gives voice to the broad spectrum of African Americans
who have lived in the Appalachian region over the centuries. Berry,
who spent six years in western North Carolina, northeast Georgia,
and eastern Tennessee, immersed himself in the communities and
lives of Black Appalachians to present the diversity and
commonalities of the proud people in the region. His intimate and
revealing photographs capture African Americans in various
settings-churches, homes, revival services, family gatherings, and
homegoing celebrations.
Completing this comprehensive collection are powerful narratives
from the people who inhabit these places, and contributions from
Appalachian writers Kelly Elaine Navies and Maia A. Surdam, whose
poignant and powerful poems and essays offer historical perspective
and broaden the book's archival importance.
The first book of its kind, Affrilachia: Testimonies is
an inspired historical artifact that honors, represents, and
celebrates the proud people of color whose history and existence
has greatly contributed to the broad tapestry of Appalachia.
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Picturing Faith
In the midst of the Great Depression, the American government initiated one of the most ambitious national photographic projects ever undertaken. Such photographers as Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Gordon Parks-all then virtually unknown-were commissioned to chronicle in pictures the economic struggle and social dislocation of the Depression era. They explored every facet of rural life in an effort to document the troubles, as well as the spirit, of the nation.
Fanning out across the country, these photographers captured a nation alive with religious faith-from Dust Bowl migrants singing hymns to orthodox Jews praying in rural Connecticut. InPicturing Faith,the preeminent historian of religion Colleen McDannell recounts the history of this extraordinary project, telling the stories of the men and women who participated in it and exploring these little-known images of America.
Lavishly illustrated,Picturing Faithteases out the various and conflicting ways that these photographers portrayed American religion and enhances our understanding of how religion was practiced during this critical period of American history.
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