Individual photographers Books
Vanderbilt University Press American Ballads
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£29.95
Rizzoli International Publications The Coast of Maine
Book SynopsisWith a coastline that rivals California’s, Maine attracts millions of visitors each year who come to swim, fish, hike, or just enjoy the views. Many of the images present a near panoramic scope, placing the viewer in the middle of a wilderness splendor. The photographs capture the region’s famous sandy beaches, tree-covered mountains, tidepools brimming with life, and secluded harbors, as well as quaint villages, historic lighthouses, cranberry bogs, and lobster boats. Chapters cover Ogunquit, Kennebunkport, and Portland to Penobscot Bay, Mount Desert Island, and Cobscook Bay. A central focus is Acadia National Park, one of the top ten most visited national parks in America. Nearby, the town of Bar Harbor hosts more than eighty cruise ships each year. The book also celebrates offshore Maine, with images of whales, puffins, and other elusive sea creatures. The Coast of Maine makes an affordable and charming gift for anyone planning, or dreaming of, a visit to this glorious r
£15.65
Rizzoli International Publications Julius Shulman Los Angeles The Birth of a Modern
Book SynopsisA compilation of Julius Shulman's extraordinary images of his adopted city, ranging from residential, commercial, shops, factories, and street life of Los Angeles, a true portrait of a modern metropolis. The book will show the photographs chronologically from 1934, when Shulman shot Richard Neutra's Sten House on spec, to 1972, when Los Angeles comes into its own as a world metropolis. About 250 images of various aspects of the city life are represented, from residential to commercial, shops, offices, churches, schools, and street life.
£25.00
Rizzoli International Publications Jane
Book SynopsisAn intimate portrait of the daily life of the photographer's mother in her Hamptons' estate.
£45.00
Rizzoli International Publications Shaping Surf History Deluxe edition
Book SynopsisMetyko captures an era-defining snapshot of one of the most fertile and influential moments in California's surf history. The dramatic action shots and intimate moments follow the rise of young legend-to-be and future world champion Tom Curren and the surfboard shaper Al Merrick.During the early 1980’s, Santa Barbara, California, saw an extraordinary mix of innovation, individuals and imagery, combined with a relatively rare meteorological phenomena, that led to one of the most influential periods in modern surf history.The rise of young legend-to-be and future three-time world champion Tom Curren, whose preternatural wave-riding abilities would help establish California at the forefront of contemporary surfing; the emergence of then-unknown board builder Al Merrick of Channel Island Surfboards, who would go on to becoming the sport’s premier board-builder; a once-in-a-generation run of exceptional surf conditions - photographer Jimmy Metyko was
£262.50
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Chesapeake Sailing Craft Recollections of Robert
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£28.79
MIT Press Brian Weil 197995 Being in the World Semiotexte
Book SynopsisThe first career retrospective of activist photographer Brian Weil, whose work and practice explored insular cultures.This book offers the first career retrospective of Brian Weil (1954-1996), an artist whose photographs pushed viewers into a deeply unsteadying engagement with insular communities and subcultures. A younger contemporary of such participant-observer photographers as Larry Clark and Nan Goldin, Weil took photographs that foreground the complex relationships between photographer and subject, and between photograph and viewer. Weil was a member of ACT UP and the founder of New York City's first needle exchange, and his photographs became inextricably tied to his activist practice. His late work, an extensive series of portraits whose subjects bear witness to the emerging AIDS pandemic, is included here, along with selections from several earlier and concurrent projects: Sex (underground sex and bondage participants), Miami Crime (homicide scenes inve
£28.80
Museum of New Mexico Press Flight of Spirit
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£36.00
Museum of New Mexico Press Perdido Sierra San Luis
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£42.50
Getty Trust Publications Roger Fenton Pasha and Bayadere
Book SynopsisThis is a study of the Victorian photographer's photograph Pasha and Bayadere. It includes information about the life and career of Roger Fenton, best known for his photographs of The Crimean War.
£21.33
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press Carmen Lomas Garza
Book SynopsisExplores the art of the celebrated Chicana artist who depicts her childhood in the Mexican-American community in South Texas.Trade ReviewI saw the need to create images that would elicit recognition and appreciation among Mexican Americans, both adults and children, while at the same time serve as a source of education for others not familiar with our culture.--Carmen Lomas Garza
£18.99
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press The Oscar Castillo Papers and Photograph
Book SynopsisIncludes over 3,000 images by Oscar Castillo that are available through an online digital archive
£15.19
Northwestern University Press Chicago Parks Rediscovered
Book SynopsisA collection of Frank Dina's photographs, seeking to capture the light, colour and mood of Chicago's parks throughout the changing seasons. Both well-known and lesser-visited parks are featured, and the images at once incorporate and contrast the natural landscape within the urban landscape.Trade ReviewParks not only shape their surrounding communities, they are, as well, shaped by the changing needs and missions of their inhabitants. - JEFF HUEBNER, FROM HIS INTRODUCTION
£57.00
Wings Press Available Light Exile in Mexico
Book SynopsisCulled from previously unpublished material, this collection of writing and photography by John Howard Griffin was taken from the period during which he was writing and revising what would be his most famous book, the bestselling Black Like Me. The main body of the book is made up of three essays by Griffin - one on photography and two about trips he made to photograph rural Mexico.
£18.95
Tacoma Art Museum Captive Light
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£18.04
Tacoma Art Museum Sun Shadows Stone
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£18.99
Exhibit A Press Comic Book People Photographs from the 1970s and
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£31.46
House Photoworks Not a Good Sign
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£23.96
Cult Epics Women of the Sun Bunny Yeager in Mexico
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£53.96
St Martin's Press Ghosts of Segregation
Book SynopsisFrom award-winning photojournalist Richard Frishman comes a collection of photographs documenting America's history of segregation, slavery, and institutional racism hidden in plain sight, accompanied by hard-hitting personal essays from University of Virginia professor of sociology and Black culture B. Brian Foster and with a foreword by National Book Award winner Imani PerryBeginning in 2018, Richard Frishman embarked on a 35,000-mile journey, crossing the United States several times, traveling from his home state of Washington to Maine, from Mississippi to Michigan, and everywhere in between. Frishman was driven by a deep concern for capturing traces of the nation's history of segregation, slavery, and institutional racism embedded in everyday American architecture. Frishman spent the next five years capturing photographs of structures like the New Orleans Slave Exchange, old colored entrances at movie theaters in Seattle and Texas, formerly segregated beaches in L
£40.00
National Geographic Society Love
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£18.95
National Geographic Society The Ansel Adams Wilderness
Book SynopsisAUTHOR/PHOTOGRAPHER PETER ESSICK is a top National Geographic photographer, named by Outdoor Photography magazine as one of the world's 40 most influential nature photographers. His images have been exhibited worldwide and he has won numerous awards.Trade Review"Besides being beautiful, this book is instructive as well...For anyone who enjoys excellent black-and-white photography of wilderness areas, this book is a must have." --San Francisco Book Review"In addition to the photographs, the book features insights from naturalists and conservationists. The piece is ultimately a visually stunning celebration of wilderness and its preservation." --Mother Nature Network
£18.04
Temple University Press,U.S. Risking Life and Lens
Book SynopsisFor more than forty years, Helen M. Stummer has captured images depicting the dignity, humanity, and suffering of people living in conditions of poverty. Her efforts taught her to understand firsthand the resilience of people living in insufferable conditions. In her inspiring memoir, Risking Life and Lens, Stummer recounts her experiences as a socially-concerned documentary photographer whose passion for her work overcame her fears. Stummer's images, from the mean streets of Manhattan and Newark, New Jersey, to the back woods of Maine and the mountains of Guatemala, expose the myths of poverty and serve as a metaphor for her challenges in her own life. The 159 photographs reproduced here recount Stummer's journey as an artist and her personal quest for truth. Risking Life and Lens shares Stummer's work and educational efforts and it provides valuable insights about race, class, and social justiceissues that continue to divide the country and the world. Her work has created change Trade Review"Helen M. Stummer is of that rare breed of humans who seek a personal path of enlightenment that ends up teaching us all. In this case, as a social documentary photographer who opens windows for viewing extraordinary social worlds. Worlds of real, diverse people living out everyday lives criss-crossed by realities of race, class, gender in intensely urban settings of East Coast metropolises. Her always emotion-laden, highly humanized, and vividly realistic black-and-white photos speak much beyond the thousand words of the old cliché to universal lived truths no number of words can convey." —Joe Feagin, Distinguished Professor, Texas A&M University
£98.80
Chronicle Books Sante DOrazio Polaroids
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£25.46
Chronicle Books JR
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£27.54
Pelican Publishing Co A Fire in My Lens
Book SynopsisSee the Crescent City through a photographers eyes! Through the vibrant images captured in his compositions, photographer Armand J. Sheik Richardson lures the viewer into the city that lives within his imagination. Richardson passionately relates the experimentation that first brought to life the magical world he saw through his cameras lens. His fascinating anecdotes accompany each picture providing context to the images while conveying the rich pallet of colors and textures that makes New Orleans such a unique place. From personal moments of his childhood, family, and friends to professional shoots and casual snapshots of the hidden life and everyday events in the city, Richardson presents a captivating visual record of New Orleans.
£28.79
DK Photography
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The compendium deserves consideration as a teaching text for middle and high school libraries." – VOYA Magazine "Photography is 'a true celebration of the greatest photographs and photographers from around the world.'" – Shutterbug Magazine
£27.00
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Robert Allerton His Parks and Legacies Images of
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Floyd Ingrahams Springwater
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£20.39
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Ogden
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£20.39
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Lorain County Through the Lens of Willis Leiter
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£20.39
University of Arkansas Press A Photographer of Note: Arkansas Artist Geleve
Book Synopsis In a selection of more than one hundred black and white images taken over a period of sixty years, this book bears witness to the life of a remarkable photographer and to small-town African American life in the middle of the twentieth century. Geleve Grice was born and raised near Pine Bluff, and he has documented the ordinary life of his community: parades, graduations, weddings, club events, and whatever else brought people together. In the process he has created a remarkable historical portrait of an African American community. Through his lens we glimpse the daily patterns of segregated Pine Bluff, and we also participate in the excitement of greeting extraordinary visitors. Martin Luther King Jr., Mary McLeod Bethune, Harry S. Truman, and others all came through town. Folklorist Robert Cochran worked with Grice to select these photographs from the thousands he has taken across a lifetime. They organized the work chronologically, reflecting Grice's early years in small-town Arkansas, his travel as a serviceman in World War II, and his long career in Pine Bluff. Cochran's accompanying chapters link Grice to the great tradition of American community photographers. He also shows how work for pay-at the Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal College in Pine Bluff; at the Arkansas State Press daily newspaper; through his own studio-shaped Grice's work. Cochran shows that Grice not only made his living taking photographs for jobs, but that he also made his own life by making photographs for himself-and now for history.Trade ReviewA great book! These are wonderful images embedded in a very important story. At last we see, vividly and intimately, a complex world that has for too long remained obscured. Grice's images and Cochran's text transform and deepen our vision." —Tom Rankin, executive director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University"Striking images reveal celebrities and ordinary folks at moments of celebration and of sadness. They show scenes of black life in the South that are too seldom seen, of people living lives of great dignity even amidst social burdens. Bob Cochran's narrative is a triumph of documentary work. A splendid achievement!" —Charles Reagan Wilson, editor of Encyclopedia of Southern Culture and director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi
£40.80
Pfeifer Hamilton Publishers,US Gooseberry
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£23.39
Gingko Press, Inc Push: J. Grant Brittain - '80s Skateboarding
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£49.50
Gingko Press, Inc Nation of Graffiti Artists
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£31.50
Smithsonian Books The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington:
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£29.75
University of Alaska Press I Am Alaskan
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£43.70
J. Paul Getty Trust Publications Photographer of Modern Life Camille Silvy
£38.00
University of New Orleans Publishing Dogs in My Life: The Photographs of John Tibule
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£19.47
University of New Orleans Press Neutral Ground
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£43.12
University of Iowa Press Driving a Table Down
Book SynopsisOn September 23, 2018, photographer Barry Phipps drove seven hours south from his home in Iowa to his parents' house in southern Missouri. There they wrestled a family heirloom into his car - a wooden table for his Aunt Diane - and Barry and his mother drove more than twelve hundred miles to Diane's home on Florida's Gulf Coast, stayed a few days, then drove back to Missouri. Phipps presents the 104 color photographs in Driving a Table Down - selected from more than 2,000 photographs taken over the twelve-day trip - in sequential order to show, in his words, 'what does and does not change as one travels through shifting cultural and geographic regions.' By capturing the present moment while referencing the past with faded signs, almost obliterated murals, closed businesses in quiet towns, forgotten tourist attractions, and many other layers of historical accumulations, the photographs illustrate the stark fact that the present is never entirely present tense. Phipps's attention to the real-time details of rural regions of the Midwest and the South, juxtaposed with personal photographs of his family, gives us a momentary definition of America in a state of flux, an America that looks to the past in a time of an uncertain future.
£23.36
Princeton Architectural Press Radiant: Farm Animals Up Close and Personal
Book SynopsisGregarious or shy, curious or placid, playful or retiring, all the animals in Traer Scott’s newest collection have one thing in common: a sparkling personality! This whimsical, soulful, and personal photo collection focuses on the lives of the farm animals we often take for granted. Scott introduces us to barnyard animals both familiar and lesser known, from cows, pigs, sheep, and chickens to Dolly the wooly llama, Bianca the Sicilian miniature donkey, Percy the Indian peafowl, and Justice the yak. Some of the animals are kept as pets; others are denizens of farm sanctuaries that Scott has visited. She shares her anecdotes about a Texas longhorn steer whose best friends are a trio of goats, a turkey who likes to snack on grapes and watermelon, and many others. Lively captions provide information on each breed, to round out this enchanting tribute to our four-legged (and winged) friends from the farm.Trade Review"Gregarious or shy, placid, playful of retiring, all the animals in Traer Scott’s newest collection have one thing in common – great looks and personality. This whimsical photo collection focuses on the lives and history of livestock both familiar and lesser known, from cows, sheep and poultry to Dolly the woolly llama and Bianca the Sicilian miniature donkey. This is an intriguing book with enchanting photography over 120 pages." -- Countryside Magazine"IN THIS new book from photographer Traer Scott, we find ourselves presented with an unusual subject. Portraits of animals are not unusual per se but these images offer us an intimate insight into animals. Cows, pigs, chickens and sheep gaze into the camera lens; all of them are farmyard animals. Any photography book that deals with a subject such as this will inevitably mention the ethics surrounding the industrial scale of meat farming, providing us with the food we consume daily. However, Scott is keen to point out that this volume is not concerned with taking sides and instead she chooses to take an objective approach to the subjects. Not all of the animals featured are kept for slaughter, some are kept as pets." -- Amateur Photographer'“Pigs,” writes the American photographer Traer Scott, in the introduction to her new book, Radiant: Farm Animals Up Close and Personal, “remind me of huge, brainy, food-obsessed toddlers.” Pictured here is a Yorkshire Cross named Ben David, born as a runt, and brought up in the care of a woman who bottle fed and potty trained him, until he was ready to stand on his own four feet. Nowadays, he lives at an animal sanctuary, where he has a new surrogate mother in the form of a sow named Honey, to whom he is, says Scott, “very attached.”' -- TheTelegraph"Ben David the Yorkshire cross pig [...] is one of 42 rescued farm animals that American photographer Traer Scott recruited for her new book, Radiant. Scott spent a year trying to capture the best side of a dwarf goat or lure chickens to her backdrop. Farm animals, she says, live in the shadows of domestic and exotic animals." -- The Times Magazine
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Inner Traditions Bear and Company Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin: Art, Sex,
Book SynopsisGnostic poet, painter, writer, and magician Aleister Crowley arrived in Berlin on April 18, 1930. As prophet of his syncretic religion "Thelema," he wanted to be among the leaders of art and thought, and Berlin, the liberated future-gazing metropolis, wanted him. There he would live, until his hurried departure on June 22, 1932, as Hitler was rapidly rising to power and the black curtain of intolerance came down upon the city. Known to his friends affectionately as "The Beast," Crowley saw the closing lights of Berlin's artistic renaissance of the Weimar period when Berlin played host to many of the world's most outstanding artists, writers, filmmakers, performers, composers, architects, philosophers, and scientists, including Albert Einstein, Bertolt Brecht, Ethel Mannin, Otto Dix, Aldous Huxley, Jean Ross, Christopher Isherwood, and many other luminaries of a glittering world soon to be trampled into the mud by the global bloodbath of World War II. Drawing on previously unpublished letters and diary material by Crowley, Tobias Churton examines Crowley's years in Berlin and his intense focus on his art, his work as a spy for British Intelligence, his colorful love life and sex magick exploits, and his contacts with German Theosophy, Freemasonry, and magical orders. He recounts the fates of Crowley's colleagues under the Nazis as well as what happened to Crowley's lost art exhibition--six crates of paintings left behind in Germany as the Gestapo was closing in. Revealing the real Crowley long hidden from the historical record, Churton presents "the Beast" anew in all his ambiguous and, for some, terrifying glory, at a blazing, seminal moment in the history of the world.Trade Review“An invaluable in-depth history--magnificently illustrated in full color--that sheds light on one of the most important periods in both 20th century Europe and the life of the Magus of the Aeon, Aleister Crowley. His two-year stay in volatile, bohemian, and urbane Berlin during the final years of the Weimar Republic and first years of the Great Depression has hitherto been largely undocumented. This full-length treatment of Crowley as artist (in Churton’s words, “the only Magus in history with a name worthy of the annals of Art”) is cast against the last days of Germany’s Versailles Treaty era and the apocalyptic rise of Adolph Hitler and his “merely brutal men.” The author well captures the cultural spirit and intoxicating New Age currents in which Crowley moved. For specialists, he provides a uniquely intimate view of Crowley’s succession to the Headship of O.T.O. during the Weida Conference of 1925; some intelligent observations on sexual magick; and extensive extracts from Crowley’s voluminous correspondence--allowing the reader a “Beast’s-eye-view” of his personal life, proselytizing efforts, business activities, and thorough contempt for Nazism. Highly recommended.” * James Wasserman, author of The Mystery Traditions: Secret Symbols and Sacred Art and In the Center o *“As soon as I opened this book I knew I was in for an exceptional treat, and I was right. This is Churton at his best. His book focuses, with some broader contextualization, on Crowley’s intermittent sojourns in Berlin between 1930 and 1932, which climaxed in a sensational exhibition of his paintings in October 1931. We follow Crowley as he strolls through the city, dressed in a knickerbocker suit, proclaiming his gospel of Thelema, exploring Berlin’s extensive demi-monde, playing chess, painting, writing, fornicating, spying for British intelligence, and mingling with a remarkable constellation of artists, writers, philosophers, and occultists. One of his friends at the time was Christopher Isherwood, who fictionalized his own Berlin experience in the novel that later became the musical Cabaret. Churton, in his vivid, witty style, superbly captures the atmosphere of the city during that feverish, decadent, but immensely vibrant and creative era, which ended abruptly with the catastrophe of 1933. Move over, Isherwood. From now on we should be talking about ‘Crowley’s Berlin.’” * Christopher McIntosh, Ph.D., author and Honorary University Fellow and Western Esotericism lecturer *“Yet again, Tobias Churton shows a unique ability to combine an approachable writing style with scholarly research and the result is an authoritative book on Crowley, the artist, a person who deserves to be re-assessed rather than be relegated to the dustbin of history.” * Sanda Miller, Ph.D., research fellow, History of Art, Southampton Solent University *“Tobias Churton has done it again! Exhaustively exploring the Beast’s sojourn through the kaleidoscope of cultural tumult that was the final years of the Weimar Republic, Churton’s astute eye and clarity of composition provide the lucky reader with a riveting view into what was a hotbed of sex, art, and politics. Churton’s gifts at conjuring a fascinating and profound study from myriad sources are in evidence as usual, painting an engaging portrait of the Magus of the Aeon and the milieu in which he moved.” * Frater Puck, Ordo Templi Orientis-U.S. Grand Lodge and host of Thelema NOW! *“Whether Quantum Magus, Berlin Artist, lover, or spy, Churton brings Crowley to life like no other biographer. He truly gets him . . . You don’t so much read this book as you live it, the noisome Beast in Berlin, our own beast within. Churton brings us the first serious and comprehensive study of Crowley’s remarkable Berlin period.” * Stephen J. King (Shiva Xâ °), Grand Master, Ordo Templi Orientis *“A remarkable account of Baphomet in Berlin, full of fascinating new information on Crowley’s decadence and discipline as a Berlin Boy as Germany spiraled down into its apocalyptic picnic. Tobias Churton has uncovered much that is new and marvelously expands on and clarifies that which was already known. A wonderful evocation of the darkness becoming visible--a truly Manichæan history.” * David Tibet, founder of Current 93 *“Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin is magic! Churton opens box after box of secrets in a dazzling display of research, erudition, and insight. Aleister Crowley is revealed in all his jaw-dropping splendor, plus warts. A genius forced to suffer fools, able to transcend misfortune, an adventurer in the worlds of art and war. His wisdom is both light and deep; the book is thrilling.” * Vanilla Beer, artist *“It’s hard not to empathize with Crowley as portrayed in the book—a man possessed of more radical intelligence than most before or after, who probably came off a bit autistic in his time, dealing with constant trouble, power games and consistently overestimating both people’s intelligence and integrity. Though he stands so far above both the Theosophical movement and its heirs in the New Age and Neopagan Revival, much of Crowley’s life was overshadowed by his troubles with money, students, the press and local governments—all of which consistently seem to thwart him in his latter years. Despite all that, he left a body of work, and philosophy, of unparalleled clarity and value. But in Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin—Art, Sex and Magick in the Weimer Republic, we get a better look at Crowley not as a symbol, but as a man of his time. Highly recommended.” * Ultraculture, Jason Jouv, August, 2014 *“The Beast in Berlin is an inspiring and engaging narrative of Aleister Crowley in the turbulent and cathartic years of Berlin in the early 1930s. Meticulously researched and filled with just enough biographical fact, informed speculation, dirty gossip and esoteric philosophy to keep you riveted from first word to last, Crowleyan scholar Tobias Churton has spun an entertaining and eye-opening tale documenting the reckless life of outsider artists living on the edge in a city on the brink of Apocalypse. Along the way we see the Beast play chess with Fernando Pessoa, correspond with Aldous Huxley, night crawl with Christopher Isherwood, spy, paint, incant, exorcise and interact artistically and sexually with a wide range of colorful, bizarre and nondescript characters—the absolute dregs of Berlin society. Perhaps the most readable and interesting book to catch the true spirit of Frater Perdurabo.” * John Zorn, Musician, July 2014 *“…This book offers a fascinating insight into a little known part of the Great Beast’s colourful and extraordinary life. Recommended.” * The Cauldron, December 2014 *“Weimar and what happens after become, in Churton’s hands, the darkness against which to highlight Crowley with stunning chiaroscuro.” * Rain Taxi, Spencer Dew, April 2015 *Table of ContentsForeword: Degenerate Berlin by Frank van Lamoen Assistant Curator, Stedelijk Museum, AmsterdamAcknowledgments Dramatis Personae -- WHO’S WHO IN THE BEAST IN BERLIN ONE -- SCOOP! TWO -- Selling Aleister Crowley THREE -- The New Age in Germany Theosophy in GermanyAleister Crowley Meets the German New AgeFOUR -- Karl Germer and the Weida Conference Arrival at HohenleubenKarl GermerThelema VerlagDr. PeithmannReturn to HohenleubenFIVE -- Cosmopolis--City of the Future SIX -- Good-Bye to All That Hello Again to All ThatSEVEN -- Kings in Exile Are Always Beggars The Stunt Hits the FanEIGHT-- Quantum Magus “Nick” Carter and the Case of the Reappearing WifeNINE -- An Old Master Modern Art in BerlinThe Artist in the BeastTEN -- Hanni Jaeger, Save Our Souls ELEVEN -- Thoroughly Modern MagusThe Ninth Degree (IX°)TWELVE -- The Last Summer of Freedom BlunderstormFlechtheimWerner Alvo Konstantin August von AlvenslebenTHIRTEEN -- Toward the Exhibition The World from BelowMarcellus and Margo SchifferFOURTEEN -- Porza! Mali and IgelFIFTEEN -- Hope of Harvest The Great Crowley Movie ConnectionSIXTEEN -- Spying Ethel ManninSEVENTEEN -- Last OrdersJean RossDiscovery of the NeutronEIGHTEEN -- Lost TimeLost PaintingsNINETEEN -- Lost People Before Hitler Was, I AmTWENTY -- Rebirth--The Spirit Can Return Notes Bibliography Index
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Calkins Creek Dorothea's Eyes: Dorothea Lange Photographs the
Book SynopsisUSBBY Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities Colonial Dames of America Book AwardALA/Amelia Bloomer Book ListNCSS Notable Trade BookBank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year“An excellent beginner’s resource for biography, U.S. history, and women’s studies.” —Kirkus ReviewsHere is the powerful and inspiring biography of Dorothea Lange, one of the founders of documentary photography.After a childhood bout of polio left her with a limp, all Dorothea Lange wanted to do was disappear. But her desire not to be seen helped her learn how to blend into the background and observe. With a passion for the artistic life, and in spite of her family''s disapproval, Lange pursued her dream to become a photographer and focused her lens on the previously unseen victims of the Great Depression. This poetic biography tells the emotional story of Lange''s life and includes a gallery of her photographs, an author''s note, a timeline, and a bibliography.
£12.99
Other Press LLC Little Dancer Aged Fourteen: The True Story
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Semiotext (E) Reynaldo Rivera: Provisional Notes for a
Book SynopsisPhotographs by Reynaldo Rivera that document a vanished LA of cheap rent, house parties, subversive fashion, and underground bands, and long-closed gay and transvestite bars.Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Reynaldo Rivera took personal photos of the Los Angeles that he lived in and knew: a world of cheap rent, house parties, subversive fashion, underground bands, and a handful of Latino gay and transvestite bars: Mugi''s, The Silverlake Lounge, and La Plaza. Most of these bars are long closed and many of the performers have died. But in Rivera''s photographs, these men and women live on in a silvery landscape of makeshift old-style cinematic glamour, a fabulous flight from unacceptable reality. As a teenager, Rivera took refuge in used bookstores and thrift stores, where he discovered old photo books of Mexican film stars and the work of Lisette Model, Brassai, and Bresson. Inspired, he bought a camera and began photographing people at his hotel. In 1981 he moved to Echo Park and began taking photos for the LA Weekly. This book is an ensemble of almost 200 images selected by Hedi El Kholti and Lauren Mackler spanning more than two decades in Los Angeles and Mexico. The book also includes Luis Bauz''s story, “Tatiana,” about one of the subjects of these photographs; a critical essay on Rivera''s work by Chris Kraus; and a novella-length conversation between Rivera and his friend and contemporary Vaginal Davis about their lives, work, fantasies, and collective histories.
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Chicago Review Press On Assignment: Memoir of a National Geographic
Book SynopsisAn exciting adventure story with personal drama and high stakes, as well as a glimpse behind the scenes of the highly regarded National Geographic brand Jim and Elaine Larison spent years studying, exploring, and living in wild places, making more than thirty environmental films, most for the National Geographic Society. These films won more than forty international awards from leading environmental and broadcast organizations. This memoir tells the story behind the adventure and describes the rather substantial personal costs of this career. While shooting film in Alaska, Jim Larison narrowly survived a devastating airplane crash in the Bering Sea. Later, while filming on the Great Barrier Reef, the Larisons fought off an aggressive twelve-foot tiger shark. Midway through their careers, the Larisons were nearly swept to their deaths by an icefall while filming on Mount Robson. A thrilling adventure story, full of risk and personal conflict, On Assignment is also a touching look at the tender bonds that held the married couple together while they struggled to complete their many film assignments. The Larisons were changed by what they saw and what they captured on film: the destruction of forests, the death of coral reefs, and global warming.In the beginning, the Larisons wanted nothing more than to spend time in the wilderness. By the end, they were fighting for its very survival.Trade Review"Excellent and profoundly moving. James Larison is a master storyteller who's produced an adventure yarn and love story as deeply rewarding as his best films. On Assignment is insightful and inspiring, honest, engaging, and most of all, immensely entertaining." -- Kevin Grange, author of Wild Rescues: A Paramedic's Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone and Grand Teton"James Larison's book On Assignment is a compelling real-life adventure filled with danger and survival. I think readers will be on the edge of their seats when learning about the difficulties of filming for National Geographic. It would make a brilliant movie." -- Carl Ziebe, National Geographic Society Assistant Director, Educational Films"Good writing, great stories! If you like National Geographic , you'll love this book. Larison's journey is truly one of adventure and a life well lived." -- Jack Gustafson, Wildlife Biologist, Alaska Department of Fish and Game"No one works harder on his films than Jim Larison. . . . Technically and aesthetically, his films are simply unmatched among those produced for and by the National Geographic Society's Educational Film Department. . . . But what drives these filmsand what is integral to their successis more than technical prowess with a motion picture camera and a refined aesthetic sensibility; it is, as well, a passion for the subject at hand and a depth of knowledge about it. Jim's passion for ecology, biodiversity, and the health of the environment is what fuels his desire to make his films the most effective communication tools they can possibly be." -- Donald M Cooper, Associate Director and Acting Director, Educational Films, The National Geographic Society"This captivating book gains elevation by the page, until we soon find ourselves in the rarefied air of an adventure memoir that engages on both the visceral and cerebral level. Larison has penned a vivid chronicle rich with hard-won wisdom and brimming with life." -- Chris Dombrowski, author of Body of WaterTable of ContentsAuthor’s Note Prologue Part 1: Coming into the Wild 1. Lake Timagami 2. A Winter Wilderness 3. Egegik 4. The Flying Coffin 5. Rescue and Recovery 6. The Conversation Part 2: On Assignment 7. That Big Break 8. On Assignment 9. The Cayman Trench 10. Hart Mountain 11. Living Ocean 12. Tiger Shark Part III: Love of Wilderness 13. The Unforgiving World of Ice 14. Robson Glacier Part IV: Advocacy 15. The Living Earth 16. Old Growth 17. Ancient Forests 18. Diversity of Life 19. Palau 20. Egegik Revisited Part V: Wounds That Will Not Heal 21. A World of Wounds Epilogue: How Films Were Made Appendix A: Films Made for the National Geographic Society Appendix B: Films Made for The Discovery Channel, the Public Broadcasting Service, and State and Federal Agencies
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