Frank Carlson Library

American war photographer Valentine Denning, stunned to learn that her lover, Tony, who was killed while taking pictures in Kosovo, was still married and not divorced as he had told her, soon realizes that the true love of her life is her best friend, Jake.

A classic early example of "muck-racking" journalism, or reporting by reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt, "How the Other Half Lives" is a chronicle of the conditions of abject poverty that the residents of the slums of New York endured at the end of the 19th century. Danish immigrant Jacob A. Riis saw first-hand the horrible conditions of the Lower East Side of Manhattan following his immigration...

Recounts the achievements of photojournalism pioneers Robert Capa and Gerda Taro as they captured the tragedies of the Spanish Civil War and documented the fight against Fascism. "Robert Capa and Gerda Taro were young Jewish refugees, idealistic and in love. As photographers in the 1930s, they set off to capture their generation's most important struggle--the fight against fascism. Among the first to depict modern warfare, Capa, Taro, and their friend...

As her special project for Flirt magazine, sixteen-year-old Alexa plans to do a photo-shoot on horseback in Central Park, but the attentions of "the cute coffee guy," sabotage by a fellow intern, and her own nature get in her way.

Life has gone to battle during World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam war and the gulf war. Life 60 years is a history of Life and of life.

"From Picasso's private life and his unknown paintings to never-photographed treasures in Moscow's Kremlin, to America's historic 1968 Presidential Convention (also NBC's first photo-news one-man report), the results of Duncan's exuberance and keen eye are finally assembled in Photo Nomad, giving us indelible images of his tireless curiosity and almost limitless range as a photographer."--Jacket.