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"While taking photographs at an exposition in Seattle in 1909, Camera Girl Eleanor Bennett snaps an image of a woman in widow's clothes with deep sorrow etched in her expression and a young infant in her arms. Eleanor longs to study botany at the University of Washington and soon becomes fast friends with botanist Bill Reed, but she can't stop thinking about the widow in the photograph. She is stunned to learn Bill recognizes the woman as the sister-in-law...
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Famed nature photographer Clayton Chase survived a lightning strike -- only to discover his wife brutally slain. Clay can recall nothing of that fateful night. But when an autopsy revealed that his wife was pregnant with another man's child, the headlines screamed that he got away with murder. Now a second trial is looming and, more than ever, he needs to remember. Piper Jordan has a personal -- and tragic -- understanding of the natural but deadly...
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A profoundly moving portrayal of the lives of women, imagining the thoughts and events that produced eight famous female photographers of the twentieth century. Inspired by the work of Imogen Cunningham, Madame Yevonde, Tina Modotti, Grete Stern, Lee Miller, Ruth Orkin, and others, author Whitney Otto weaves together eight stories, crisscrossing the world and a century to portray the tensions that defined the lives of female artists. These memorable...
4) Pig the star
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Pig the pug volume 5
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Pig the self-centered pug, and his friend Trevor, the Dachshund, are at a photo-shoot, and as usual, Pig wants to hog all the costumes and be the star of the show--but the photographer favors Trevor, and Pig needs to learn a lesson about sharing the spotlight.
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New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell delivers an unforgettable tale of love and adventure set on the high seas... Photographer Cat Cochran has been to exotic places most people only dream about. Yet all she wants is to get her life in order. One last assignment and she can put her past behind her, forgetting about her heart's disastrous misadventures. But first she must photograph the mysterious ship designer T. H. Danvers. Travis Danvers...
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"Allison Scott has her mind on her career. As an up-and-coming photographer, she has neither the time nor the inclination for an affair -- especially since her last attempt at love with a handsome model shattered her dreams of rising to the top with a partner by her side. Now, Allison is determined to stay detached from the beautiful men she must photograph every day. But Rick Lang, who only models to pay the bills, can see through Allison's aloofness...
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Somewhere in the Australian outback, on land left to her by a late relative she never met, American photographer Erin Windsor believes a diamond mine might be waiting with the promised yield of millions of dollars in raw gems. But the old man took its location with him to the grave. Erin's not the only one in the hunt, though she's easily the least ruthless…and most vulnerable. Blood will stain the trail to a precious, well-hidden secret, and she...
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"The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense. From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny, deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in countless ways, from Tim Burton's movies to Anna Sui's fashion to Neil Gaiman's Coraline to Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Some call him the Grandfather of Goth (which would've given him the fantods)....
9) Texas BBQ
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To Texans, barbecue is elemental. Succulent, savory, perfumed with smoke and spice, it transcends the term "comfort food." It's downright heavenly, and it's also a staff of Texas life. Like a dust storm or a downpour, barbecue is a force of Texas nature, a stalwart tie to the state's cultural and culinary history. Though the word is often shortened to "BBQ," the tradition of barbecue stands Texas-tall. Photographer Wyatt McSpadden has spent some twenty...
10) Cuba-Going Back
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Imagine being unable to return to your homeland for thirty-six years. What would you do if you finally got a chance to go back?
In 1996, after travel restrictions between the United States and Cuba were relaxed, Cuban exile Tony Mendoza answered that question. Taking his cameras, notebooks, and an unquenchable curiosity, he returned for his first visit to Cuba since the summer of 1960, when he emigrated with his family at age eighteen. In this book...
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El alcance de las reflexiones de John Berger es tan diverso como sustancial e influyente. En 1972, Berger revolucionó la teoría del arte con el programa televisivo Ways of Seeing, que posteriormente se publicaría en el célebre libro homónimo Modos de ver. Poco después aparecieron Mirar y Otra manera de contar y, en paralelo, la obra artística y literaria de Berger. La presente antología viene a llenar un vacío en la publicación de su obra...
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El cambio de paradigma tecnológico al que la fotografía se ha visto sometida en los últimos años no sólo ha puesto de nuevo de manifiesto la naturaleza fotográfica de nuestra cultura, sino que ha zarandeado algunos de los fundamentos que parecían formar parte indisociable de lo fotográfico. A través del estilo desenfadado e irónico que siempre ha caracterizado a Joan Fontcuberta, La cámara de Pandora aborda la refundación de este medio...
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En la primera década del siglo XXI, una premiada imagen del fotoperiodista Javier Bauluz y otra de Clemente Bernad protagonizaron dos sonadas polémicas. Sin entrar en el fondo del debate, Joan Fontcuberta interpreta las razones esgrimidas, camufladas bajo un manto de indiferencias cruzadas. ¿Es la cámara indiferente al suceso fotografiado? ¿Se puede fotografiar la indiferencia? ¿Pueden fotógrafo y modelo mantenerse indiferentes? ¿Es la fotografía...
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En el mundo contemporáneo las apariencias han sustituido a la realidad. No obstante, la fotografía, una tecnología históricamente al servicio de la verdad, sigue ejerciendo una función de mecanismo ortopédico de la conciencia moderna: la cámara no miente, toda fotografía es una evidencia. A partir de vivencias personales, el autor crítica esta creencia y reflexiona sobre aspectos fundamentales de la creación y de la cultura actual.
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Los espacios de trabajo del artista Yves Berger y de su padre, John Berger, ubicados en la pequeña localidad de Quincy, en la Alta Saboya, se convirtieron en el privilegiado escenario donde tuvo lugar esta deliciosa conversación a tres bandas con el periodista literario Emmanuel Favre. Rodeados de fotografías, dibujos, lienzos y libros, el arte y su estrecha relación con la vida y la política se convierten en el hilo conductor de este diálogo...
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Laurie is a wedding photographer who has photographed more than a thousand weddings over the last ten years. One morning, she wakes up and wonders what happened to all those couples. She starts making calls. Some of them are still together. Others have split up. She begins a photography project to document what happens to love after the wedding. She photographs widowers and divorcees, homewreckers and stalkers.
She is still photographing weddings,...
17) Take me apart
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"A riveting debut novel of psychological suspense about a young archivist whose obsession with her subject's mysterious death threatens to destroy her fragile grasp on sanity"--
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A trailblazer for women photographers in the South, North Carolina's Bayard Wootten (1875-1959) overcame economic hardship, gender discrimination, and the obscurity of a small-town upbringing to become the state's most significant early female photographer. This advocate of equality for women combined an artistic vision of photography with determination and a love of adventure to forge a distinguished career spanning half a century. Originally trained...
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Rocker Rod Stewart, Jackson says, had it wrong when he titled his breakthrough album Every Picture Tells a Story. Pictures don't tell stories-but many of them call to mind stories or have stories about their making.
Throughout his sixty-year career as folklorist, ethnographer, criminologist, filmmaker, and journalist, Bruce Jackson has taken photographs of family, friends, people he worked with, people he studied, and people he encountered. Ways...
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Discovering old photos in which she sees what her work is missing, Manhattan photographer Dani Campbell searches for their source, which leads her to eighty-year-old Lawrence Sinclair who agrees to mentor her until his estranged grandson arrives believing she's a fortune hunter.
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