Photojournalism Books
University of Texas Press This Far and No Further
Book SynopsisIn This Far and No Further, photographer William Abranowicz delivers more than one hundred contemporary images of the places that shaped the civil rights movement, proving the Edmund Pettus Bridge and other historic sites still have stories to tell.Trade Review[A] powerful work...Eye-opening and moving, these images commemorate the past and have the power to energize leaders of the future. * Publishers Weekly, Starred Review *An earnest photographic exploration of some key loci of the Southern civil rights movement and its aftermath...Of interest as a visual record of ordinary places now exalted in history and memory. * Kirkus *[An] enlightening chronicle of the struggle for voting rights in the American South. * Elle Decor *Table of ContentsForeword Preface Part I. Mortal Sin Part II. Redemption Part III. Revival Further Reading
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Fordham University Press Reporting World War II
Book SynopsisThis set of essays offers new insights into the journalistic process and the pressures American front-line reporters experienced covering World War II. Transmitting stories through cable or couriers remained expensive and often required the cooperation of foreign governments and the American armed forces. Initially, reporters from a neutral America documented the early victories by Nazi Germany and the Soviet invasion of Finland. Not all journalists strove for objectivity. During her time reporting from Ireland, Helen Kirkpatrick remained a fierce critic of that country’s neutrality. Once the United States joined the fight after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, American journalists supported the struggle against the Axis powers, but this volume will show that reporters, even when members of the army sponsored newspaper, Stars and Stripes were not mere ciphers of the official line. African American reporters Roi Ottley and Ollie Stewart worked to bolster the morale of Black GIs and undermined the institutional racism endemic to the American war effort. Women front-line reporters are given their due in this volume examining the struggles to overcome gender bias by describing triumphs of Thérèse Mabel Bonney, Iris Carpenter, Lee Carson, and Anne Stringer. The line between public relations and journalism could be a fine one as reflected by the U.S. Marine Corps’ creating its own network of Marine correspondents who reported on the Pacific island campaigns and had their work published by American media outlets. Despite the pressures of censorship, the best American reporters strove for accuracy in reporting the facts even when dependent on official communiqués issued by the military. Many wartime reporters, even when covering major turning points, sought to embrace a reporting style that recorded the experiences of average soldiers. Often associated with Ernie Pyle and Bill Mauldin, the embrace of the human-interest story served as one of the enduring legacies of the conflict. Despite the importance of American war reporting in shaping perceptions of the war on the home front as well as shaping the historical narrative of the conflict, this work underscores how there is more to learn. Readers will gain from this work a new appreciation of the contribution of American journalists in writing the first version of history of the global struggle against Nazi Germany, imperial Japan, and fascist Italy.Table of ContentsForeword Max D. Lederer Jr. | vii Introduction G. Kurt Piehler and Ingo Trauschweizer | 1 1. Learning and Adapting: The American Media and the “Phony War,” September 1939–April 1940 Steven Casey | 15 2. Helen Kirkpatrick’s Reporting to Undercut Irish Neutrality Policy, 1939–1942 Karen Garner | 34 3. Miss Bonney Reporting from the Arctic Front Henry Oinas-Kukkonen | 55 4. Reporting from the Bureaus: The Lesser-Known World War II Correspondents Kendall Cosley | 85 5. Two African American Journalists Confront World War II: Perspectives on Nationalism, Racism, and Identity Larry A. Greene and Alan Delozier | 107 6. Bylines and Bayonets: How United States Marine Corps Combat Correspondents in World War II Blended Journalism and Public Relations Douglass K. Daniel | 132 7. Reporting Reconnaissance to the Public: A Comparative Analysis of Canadian and American Strategies Victoria Sotvedt | 159 8. Outstanding and Conspicuous Service: Iris Carpenter, Lee Carson, and Ann Stringer in the European Theater Carolyn M. Edy | 172 9. A “Butcher and Bolt” Force: Commandos, Rangers, and Newspaper Dramatics in World War II James Austin Sandy | 193 10. “A Major Readjustment”: Omar Bradley’s War against the Stars and Stripes Alexander G. Lovelace | 213 11. After the Shooting Stopped: Justice and Journalism at Nuremberg Nathaniel L. Moir | 234 Acknowledgments | 259 List of Contributors | 261 Index | 265
£79.90
Fordham University Press Reporting World War II
Book SynopsisThis set of essays offers new insights into the journalistic process and the pressures American front-line reporters experienced covering World War II. Transmitting stories through cable or couriers remained expensive and often required the cooperation of foreign governments and the American armed forces. Initially, reporters from a neutral America documented the early victories by Nazi Germany and the Soviet invasion of Finland. Not all journalists strove for objectivity. During her time reporting from Ireland, Helen Kirkpatrick remained a fierce critic of that country’s neutrality. Once the United States joined the fight after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, American journalists supported the struggle against the Axis powers, but this volume will show that reporters, even when members of the army sponsored newspaper, Stars and Stripes were not mere ciphers of the official line. African American reporters Roi Ottley and Ollie Stewart worked to bolster the morale of Black GIs and undermined the institutional racism endemic to the American war effort. Women front-line reporters are given their due in this volume examining the struggles to overcome gender bias by describing triumphs of Thérèse Mabel Bonney, Iris Carpenter, Lee Carson, and Anne Stringer. The line between public relations and journalism could be a fine one as reflected by the U.S. Marine Corps’ creating its own network of Marine correspondents who reported on the Pacific island campaigns and had their work published by American media outlets. Despite the pressures of censorship, the best American reporters strove for accuracy in reporting the facts even when dependent on official communiqués issued by the military. Many wartime reporters, even when covering major turning points, sought to embrace a reporting style that recorded the experiences of average soldiers. Often associated with Ernie Pyle and Bill Mauldin, the embrace of the human-interest story served as one of the enduring legacies of the conflict. Despite the importance of American war reporting in shaping perceptions of the war on the home front as well as shaping the historical narrative of the conflict, this work underscores how there is more to learn. Readers will gain from this work a new appreciation of the contribution of American journalists in writing the first version of history of the global struggle against Nazi Germany, imperial Japan, and fascist Italy.Table of ContentsForeword Max D. Lederer Jr. | vii Introduction G. Kurt Piehler and Ingo Trauschweizer | 1 1. Learning and Adapting: The American Media and the “Phony War,” September 1939–April 1940 Steven Casey | 15 2. Helen Kirkpatrick’s Reporting to Undercut Irish Neutrality Policy, 1939–1942 Karen Garner | 34 3. Miss Bonney Reporting from the Arctic Front Henry Oinas-Kukkonen | 55 4. Reporting from the Bureaus: The Lesser-Known World War II Correspondents Kendall Cosley | 85 5. Two African American Journalists Confront World War II: Perspectives on Nationalism, Racism, and Identity Larry A. Greene and Alan Delozier | 107 6. Bylines and Bayonets: How United States Marine Corps Combat Correspondents in World War II Blended Journalism and Public Relations Douglass K. Daniel | 132 7. Reporting Reconnaissance to the Public: A Comparative Analysis of Canadian and American Strategies Victoria Sotvedt | 159 8. Outstanding and Conspicuous Service: Iris Carpenter, Lee Carson, and Ann Stringer in the European Theater Carolyn M. Edy | 172 9. A “Butcher and Bolt” Force: Commandos, Rangers, and Newspaper Dramatics in World War II James Austin Sandy | 193 10. “A Major Readjustment”: Omar Bradley’s War against the Stars and Stripes Alexander G. Lovelace | 213 11. After the Shooting Stopped: Justice and Journalism at Nuremberg Nathaniel L. Moir | 234 Acknowledgments | 259 List of Contributors | 261 Index | 265
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Getty Trust Publications This is the Day – The March on Washington
Book SynopsisThis title offers a superb collection of emotionally charged photographs that document a poignant day in American history. "This Is the Day" is a stirring photo-essay documenting the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom of August 28, 1963, the historic day on which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at the base of the Lincoln Memorial. This book commemorates the 50th anniversary of the historic march that ultimately led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Never before published in book form, the 75 photographs in this volume were chosen from among the hundreds of images that Freed captured - before, during, and after the march. These images not only present us with stunning wide-angle views of hundreds of thousands of marchers overflowing the National Mall but also focus on small groups of people straining to see the speakers and on individual faces, each one filled with hope and yearning, epitomized by the beautiful young woman who throws her entire being into singing "We Shall Overcome."
£23.75
University of Tennessee Press Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: An Annotated
Book SynopsisIn the summer of 1936, writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans, on assignment for Fortune magazine, went to central Alabama to document the lives of three white sharecropper families. Agee’s editors killed the article, and after a torturous five-year struggle to do artistic justice to the material, the author finally published it in book form as Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, only to see it sink with barely a ripple. The posthumous revival of Agee’s literary fortunes led to the work’s reissue in 1960, its adoption as an unofficial bible by civil rights workers, and its enshrinement as an American classic. It has remained in print ever since.In this, the third volume in The Works of James Agee series, editor Hugh Davis not only offers a thoroughly annotated edition of the Agee-Evans masterpiece, featuring invaluable explanatory notes as well as notes comparing the published work to extant copies of the original manuscript, but also supplements that text with a wealth of additional material: an insightful critical essay, variant versions of key sections, unused chapters, correspondence between Agee and others involved in the book’s publication (notably Houghton Mifflin editor Robert Linscott), generous selections from the author’s notebooks, and much more. This volume opens with the original gallery of Evans’s thirty-one photographs from the 1941 edition and also includes, as part of the supplementary material, the expanded gallery of sixty-two photos that appeared in the 1960 edition. Here as well is the text of the rejected Fortune article, “Cotton Tenants,” fully annotated for the first time.Informed by Agee’s love of his subjects, his acute observational skills, and his poetic, passionate, raging voice—not to mention the stark artistry of Evan’s black and white photography— Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a book that to this day defies easy classification. This volume recaptures the aesthetic impact of the original, corrects errors from earlier editions, and, most important, illuminates the difficult process that spawned its creation.
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Lars Muller Publishers Desert of Pharan
Book SynopsisThrough a series of photographs, Ahmed Mater charts the city's origins to its more recent history over the last 5 years. It is a study of the site's recent transformation - Makkah, until recently, embodied a unique urban tapestry, layered with histories that are stitched together by an abundance of organically rooted communities and cultures. It is a place that accommodated not only sacred structures and sites but also huge fluctuations in population during Ramadan (up to 3 million visitors a year travel to Makkah for Eid and Hajj). More recently, these sites and communities have been eradicated and are being replaced with five-star-studded high rise developments, transforming it from an active metropolis to the world's most exclusive, yet most visited religious tourist destination, reflective of an unprecedented experimentation with architecture and its possible impact on social stratification. This photographic essay is a celebration of Makkah's real and projected or imaginary states. It provides singular access to this site and its associated social and religious rituals, along with its architectural urban planned and proposed development.
£36.00
Lars Muller Publishers Landscape of Faith: Interventions Along the
Book SynopsisLa Ruta del Peregrino (the pilgrimage route) stretches a distance of 117 kilometers through the vast and imposing mountain range of Jalisco, Mexico. Approximately two million people participate each year in this religious phenomenon to meet the Virgin of Talpa as an act of devotion, faith, and gratitude. This book conveys the feeling of travelling on the pilgrim's route and encountering architectural monuments and their infrastructure, like shelters and viewpoints, embedded in the harsh landscape. Each introduced landmark, designed by renowned architects, sparks a dialogue about sustainability and austerity, landscape and architecture. Landscape of Faith is a documentation of the way architecture can increase the identity of a pilgrimage route and add layers of meaning that reach far beyond the religious.
£18.75
Lars Müller Publishers Leonardo Finotti A Collection of Latin American Modern Architecture
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De Gruyter Rural Revival
Book SynopsisWhen most of their jobs disappear, how do communities survive? In the hard-hit area explored in this book the Bonavista Peninsula, on the island of Newfoundland many residents transitioned into everyday entrepreneurs such as restauranteurs. Rural Revival explains how these business owners developed a place rich in entrepreneurial capital. The author draws on six years of ethnographic fieldwork in the area: observations from listening, watching and learning with people in their everyday settings. Camera work opened doors to people's ventures and their lives. The many photographs in this book bring you deeply into a sense of presence among the people and their natural settings. To interpret the findings from fieldwork, the author draws on rural sociology and economic anthropology. He shows how people transformed the value of once-neglected things in the house economy into assets for tourists, leaving the market economy. He uses theories of cross-sector partnerships to show the ways in
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Voodoo Rainbow Spectacular Places Flexi
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£15.55
Books on Demand Coches de policía americanos
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Books on Demand Coches y matrículas americanos
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Italian Humanist Photography from Fascism to the Cold War
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Getting the Picture
Book SynopsisPowerful and often controversial, news pictures promise to make the world at once immediate and knowable. Yet while many great writers and thinkers have evaluated photographs of atrocity and crisis, few have sought to set these images in a broader context by defining the rich and diverse history of news pictures in their many forms.For the first time, this volume defines what counts as a news picture, how pictures are selected and distributed, where they are seen and how we critique and value them. Presenting the best new thinking on this fascinating topic, this book considers the news picture over time, from the dawn of the illustrated press in the nineteenth century, through photojournalism's heyday and the rise of broadcast news and newsreels in the twentieth century and into today's digital platforms. It examines the many kinds of images: sport, fashion, society, celebrity, war, catastrophe and exoticism; and many mediums, including photography, painting, wood engraving, Trade Review"These 49 essays are far-ranging and cogent, and shed new and needed light on the visual culture of the news. The essays address topics as varied as technology, style, fashion as news, veracity, the myth of the decisive moment, censorship, and photojournalism as art. Mostly, this work is not about the specific, and sometimes iconic, photographs cited but instead uses the pictures to illustrate larger cultural and professional issues. In ""Street Execution of a Viet Cong Prisoner, Saigon, 1968,"" Robert Hariman and John Louis Locates supply needed background information on Eddie Adams's photograph, but more importantly argue that ""the significance of 'Saigon Execution' was not that it represented or misrepresented an execution but that it embodied the moral ambiguity of violence that characterized US involvement in the Vietnam War. Its continued circulation suggests that in more ways than one, the war is not over."" Regarding celebrity, Ryan Linkof makes the case that ""photojournalism plays an inseparable role in making celebrities, but also works to drag them into a court of public opinion; it is at once a condition of celebrity and a consequence of it."" This book is an important and timely addition to the literature of visual media. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels."--C. Baker, Baylor University, USA, CHOICE"An immensely rich collection of essays that will change the way that we understand and study the visual culture of the news." --Lynda Nead, Birkbeck University of London, UK "The representation of the news in pictures has a complex history that extends from early print-making through the industrial revolution to the contemporary digital device. It is amazing that this is the first book to attempt an in-depth account of this history, which is not just about images, but about editorial practices, technologies, censorship, authenticity, and styles of seeing and showing. Assembling a team of experts on everything from lithography to the laptop, the editors have created an essential scholarly compendium that will have a major impact on the general study of media and visual culture, as well as the specific fields of photography and art history."--W. J. T. Mitchell, The University of Chicago, USA"Getting the Picture is a fresh examination of the visual media that bring us the news. Its editors and contributors excel at drawing attention to moments of modernity captured, interpreted, disseminated and undergirded by the visual practices of the popular press. Historically grounded, theoretically informed, stylistically elegant and interpretively challenging, this anthology is an excellent foundational text." --Laura Wexler, Yale University, USATable of ContentsGeneral Introduction Part I: Big Pictures Part Introduction 1. Patricia Mainardi, Dupinade, French caricature, 1831 2. Martha A. Sandweiss, General Wool and His Troops in the Streets of Saltillo, 1847 3. Matthew Fox-Amato, An Abolitionist Daguerreotype, New York, 1850 4. Anthony Lee, Antietam Sketches and Photographs, 1862 5. Jeannene Przyblyski, Barricades of Paris Commune, 1871 6. Thierry Gervais, Interview of Chevreul, France, 1886 7. John Mraz, Zapata and Salinas, Mexico, 1911 and 1991 8. Caitlin Patrick, Photographer on the Western Front, 1917 9. Michel Frizot, Sports Photomontage, France, 1926 10. Richard Meyer, Public Execution of Ruth Meyer, Sing-Sing Prison, 1928 11. Daniel Magilow, Photo of Kellogg-Briand Pact Meeting, Paris, 1931 12. Catherine Clark, A Decisive Moment, France, 1932 13. Sally Stein, Republican Soldier, Spanish Civil War, 1936 14. Barbie Zelizer, Child in Warsaw Ghetto, 1943 15. Alexander Nemerov, Flag-Raising, Iwo Jima, 1945 16. David Shneer, Soviet War Photo, Crimea, 1942 17. Vanessa Schwartz, New York in Color, 1953 18. Martin Berger, Rosa Parks Fingerprinted, Montgomery, Alabama, 1956 19. Mary Panzer, An Essay on Success in the USA, 1962 20. Diane Winston, Burning Monk, Saigon, 1963 21. David Lubin, Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dallas, 1963 22. Victoria Gao, Chinese Political Persecution, Red Square, Harbin, 1966 23. Robert Hariman and John Lucaites, Street Execution of a Vietcong Prisoner, Saigon, 1968 24. Gennifer Weisenfeld, Industrial Poisoning, Minamata, 1972 25. Christian Delage, Police Beating, Los Angeles, 1992 26. Liam Kennedy, The Situation Room, Washington, DC, 2011 Part II: Re-Thinking the History of News Pictures 1. Justine de Young, Not Just a Pretty Picture: Fashion as News 2. Ryan Linkof, Celebrity Photos and Stolen Moments: Witnessing the Lives of Others 3. Ulrich Keller, Pictorial Press Reportage and Censorship in the First World War 4. Thierry Gervais, Illustrating Sports, or the Invention of the Magazine 5. Will Straw, After the Event: The Challenges of Crime Photography b) News Picture Media 6. Michael Leja, News Pictures in the Early Years of Mass Visual Culture in New York: Lithographs and the Penny Press 7. Jordana Mendelson, Beautiful Contradictions: News Pictures and Modern Magazines 8. Joe Clark, “Public Forum of the Screen”: Modernity, Mobility, and Debate at the Newsreel Cinema 9. Mike Conway, “See it Now”: Television News 10. Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Collective Self-Representation and the News: Torture at Abu-Ghraib c) News Picture Time 11. Jordan Bear, Adrift: The Time and Space of the News in Géricault’s Le Radeau de La Méduse 12. Jason Hill, Snap-Shot After Bullet Hit Gaynor 13. Andrés Zervigón, Rotogravure and the Modern Aesthetic of News Reporting 14. Zeynep Gursel, A Short History of Wire Service Photography d) Speaking of News Pictures 15. Jennifer Tucker, “Famished for News Pictures”: Mason Jackson, The Illustrated London News, and the Pictorial Spirit 16. Patricia Goldsworthy, Staying Close to Power: Picturing the King’s Entourage in Turn-of-the-Century Morocco 17. Nadya Bair, A Photojournalist is Never Alone: Photo Editing and Collaboration in the History of News Pictures 18. Kim Timby, Look at those Lollipops!: Integrating Color into News Pictures e) News Picture Connoisseurship 19. Katie Hornstein, Horace Vernet's Capture of the Smahla: Reportage and Actuality in the Early French Illustrated Press 20. Vincent Lavoie, Appraising News Pictures: Awarding a Multifaceted Icon 21. Kristen Gresh, An Era of Photographic Controversy: Edward Steichen at the MoMA 22. Gaëlle Morel, Photojournalism as Formal Paradigm in Contemporary Art 23. Erina Duganne, Adam Broomberg, Oliver Chanarin, and World Press Photo: Contemporary Art and Contemporary Photojournalism
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Jackie Style
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Lost Beatles Photographs
Book SynopsisIncludes behind-the-scenes, intimate, and unguarded shots that have been unearthed after spending 45 years in a duffel bag of The Beatles and Rolling Stones' former tour manager, Bob Bonis. This collection captured a pivotal time in the bands' career.Trade Review"Striking in their intimacy." -- Rolling Stone
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Lost Rolling Stones Photographs
Book SynopsisFeatures the photos of the Rolling Stones band, showing band members in intimate shots on stage, in rehearsal, in concert, backstage (tuning up, waiting to go on stage and clowning around), dressing and relaxing, on vacations or en route to shows or cities, getting haircuts, bowling, recording in the studio, and at press events.
£23.75
OUP India The Terrorist Image
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MO - University of Illinois Press I Hear a Voice Calling A Bluegrass Memoir
Book SynopsisA sensitive remembrance of bluegrass dreams and lessonsTrade Review"One cannot overrate the important of either the photographs or the memoir in terms of [Bill] Monroe, who is one of the most important American vernacular musicians of the last century. Highly recommended."--Choice "A welcome addition to the growing list of bluegrass memoirs."--Bluegrass Unlimited"The sense of an era that has passed, of a time now far distant when giants walked the earth and played the Grand Ole Opry is perfectly captured in dozens of rare and relishable on-stage and behind-the-scenes images."--R2"Bluegrass insiders will delight in Lowinger's detailed descriptions of [Bill Monroe's] interactions alongside candid photographs."--Sing Out!"An outstanding job in characterizing Bill Monroe in his stories, and the reader gets a good sense of what the life as a Bluegrass Boy in the mid-1960s must have been like, living and working with Monroe."--Journal of Folklore Research"I've known Gene Lowinger since our early days in the urban bluegrass scene of the sixties. His photographs have always offered unique perspectives on unique subjects. Now they are skillfully melded with personal remembrances of his own singular career as a 'Jewish Blue Grass Boy.'"--David Grisman, mandolinist and composer"A vivid, emotional, and poignant look at a unique era in bluegrass music, captured in words and photographs by a man who not only studied the music, but performed it and toured with the master as a member of his band."--Douglas B. Green (Ranger Doug), guitarist and vocalist of Riders in the Sky and author of Singing in the Saddle: The History of the Singing Cowboy"A fascinating meditation on the nature of creativity and mentorship. Intimate and moving, funny and profound, Lowinger's photographs powerfully represent the indomitable Bill Monroe in his last years as a performer."--Erika Brady, author of A Spiral Way: How the Phonograph Changed EthnographyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 CHAPTER 1. Beginnings, 1942-62 7 CHAPTER 2. Learning Bluegrass, 1963-65 14 CHAPTER 3. Nashville, 1965-66 22 CHAPTER 4. Home to Study Violin, 1966-92 42 CHAPTER 5. Back to Monroe, Bluegrass, and the Violin, 1991-96 57 CHAPTER 6. After Monroe, 1996 to the Present 72 Index 79 Illustrations follow pages 41 and 71
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MIT Press Ltd Asylum
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MIT Press Ltd Climate Refugees The MIT Press
Book SynopsisHeartbreaking stories and pictures documenting the phenomenon of populations displaced by climate change—homes, neighborhoods, livelihoods, and cultures lost.Our job is to tell stories we have heard and to bear witness to what we have seen. The science was already there when we started in 2004, but we wanted to emphasize the human dimension, especially for those most vulnerable.—Guy-Pierre Chomette, Collectif ArgosWe have all seen photographs of neighborhoods wrecked and abandoned after a hurricane, of dry, cracked terrain that was once fertile farmland, of islands wiped out by a tsunami. But what happens to the people who live in these areas? According to the United Nations, some 150 million people will become climate refugees by 2050. The journalists and photographers of Collectif Argos have spent four years seeking out the first wave of people displaced by the consequences of climate change. Using the massive 2,500-page report of the Intergovernmenta
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Little America
Book SynopsisA soon-to-be half-hour anthology series from Apple, airing starting January 2020, a gorgeous, intimate collective portrait of America's immigrants and thereby a portrait of the nation itself
£24.00
Alfred A. Knopf The Great War
Book SynopsisOn the occasion of the centenary of World War I in August 2014--an unprecedented, spectacular pictorial history of the first global war in 380 black-and-white photographs, many never seen before, from Imperial War Museums in London.This monumental, dramatic photographic narrative captures the war from the early arms race that developed around the massing of prewar battleship fleets to the final moments of the conflict with the sinking of the German fleet in Scapa. The photographs span the many battlefronts throughout the world: from the British Isles to the south Atlantic, across Europe and the Ottoman Empire, Sudan and East Africa, Jerusalem and Damascus. Here are soldiers from across the globe, vast battleships, dirigibles overhead, the streets of London, the first battle of Ypres, German submarines at sea, the beaches of Gallipoli, the battle of Jutland, the battle of the Somme trenches, and much, much more.
£75.00
WW Norton & Co Long Time Coming
Book SynopsisOver 400 rarely or never-seen photographs of a vanished America.
£46.54
Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Chasing Light Michelle Obama Through the Lens of
Book SynopsisA New York Times Best SellerA collection of striking and intimate photographs of Michelle Obama—many never before seen—coupled with personal reflections and behind-the-scenes stories from Official White House Photographer Amanda Lucidon, presented in a deluxe format. Michelle Obama is one of the most admired First Ladies in history, known for her grace, spirit, and beauty, as well as for the amazing work she did during her tenure to promote girls’ education, combat childhood obesity, and support military families. In Chasing Light, former White House photographer Amanda Lucidon, who spent four years covering the First Lady, shares a rare insider’s perspective, from documenting life at the White House to covering domestic and overseas travel. This collection of 150 candid photos—many previously unreleased—and Amanda’s narrative reflections reveal just what makes Mrs. Obama so special. Fro
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Thames and Hudson Ltd World Press Photo 14
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Thames and Hudson Ltd World Press Photo 15
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Thames and Hudson Ltd World Press Photo 16
Book SynopsisThe World Press Photo Foundation was founded in 1955. It is a major force in developing and promoting the work of visual journalists, with a range of activities and initiatives that span the globe. Its annual contest is one of the most prestigious awards in photojournalism and multimedia storytelling, and the exhibition it produces is seen by four million people worldwide each year.
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Penguin Putnam Inc America and Americans
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Random House Canada North Korea Journal
Book SynopsisIn this beautifully illustrated journal based on a TV documentary, writer, comedian and world traveller Michael Palin journeys to North Korea, offering a glimpse of life inside the world's most secretive country, uncovering surprises and making friends along the way.In May 2018, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin ventured into the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, camera crew in tow, to gain a glimpse of life in the most notoriously secretive and cut-off nation on earth. His resulting two-part documentary for Channel 5 fascinated millions and won universal plaudits.Now he shares the journal he meticulously kept during his trip, in which he describes his experiences in a country wholly unlike any other he has ever visited: a country where you will find the Tallest Unoccupied Building in the World; where the residents of Pyongyang awake every morning to the strains of 'Where Are You, Dear General?', broadcast from speakers acr
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Arcadia Publishing Waco Texas A Postcard Journey Postcard History
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DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) World War I
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd FDR Skatepark a Visual History
Book SynopsisFDR Skatepark began its life in 1996 with a few small obstacles built by the City of Philadelphia in an attempt to meet the needs of a growing community. In true D-I-Y fashion, local skaters soon gathered their resources and began the ongoing construction of a space of their own design. As the world's largest D-I-Y skateboard park, today FDR is recognized throughout the world as a landmark in the skateboarding community. A photographic history of FDR, this book contains work from more than 25 contributors, from amateurs with disposable cameras to professional photographers. Side by side with the actual skateboarding are photos of wildfires, box cutter wounds, riot police, and drunks shooting sewer rats. Complete with oral histories gathered from park locals, this one-of-a-kind record documents the legend and landscape of the past fifteen years under the bridge.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd American Coasters
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Newport Naval Training Station
Book SynopsisIn the late 19th century, at the site of an old asylum for the poor on Coaster's Harbor Island off the city of Newport, Rhode Island, local residents made a decision that would change American military history forever: they proposed that the 90-acre Island become a U.S. Naval Training Center. Postcards and other artifacts document physical changes over time, activities of enlisted trainees, and images of stationed ships. A detailed history unfolds through historical documents, 19th century newspapers, and detailed images. The metamorphosis of Newport, Rhode Island into today''s vibrant city is revealed. Development of the Newport Naval Training Station, still in use as Naval Station Newport and The Navy War College, waxed and waned with political forces and both world wars. Postcard images show all facets of life on the base: from the mundane, like washing clothes, to the serious, like drilling, sham battles, artillery training, signal training, and life aboard the battleship USS Const
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Inside a Bald Eagles Nest A Photographic Journey
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd My Cape May
Book SynopsisCape May is regarded as the nation''s oldest seaside resort and is a popular tourist destination today. For photographer Mark Malacavage and countless other visitors and residents, Cape May, New Jersey, is a place of exquisite beauty and spirit. As seen through Malacavage''s lens, that natural beauty comes alive in 230 color images. From the Washington Street Pedestrian Mall and other landmarks around town to the beaches, the images tell the story of why so many people love Cape May and keep coming back year after year after year. Whether you are already one of those people, are planning a first time visit, or just appreciate fine photography, My Cape May will be a treasured addition to your table or bookshelf.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd The White Dress in Color Wedding Inspirations for
Book SynopsisPlanning a wedding offers many beautiful opportunities that are just waiting to be discovered. To help inspire couples and ignite a creative spark, The White Dress in Color is filled with photographs that celebrate the creative spirit through beautiful bridal stories and innovative planning tips from industry experts. Follow each tale as it unfolds in gorgeous on-location photography, and then go behind the scenes where tips and ideas on color palette, textures, flowers, stationery, and, of course, the dress, are revealed. From rustic barn settings to industrial loading docks to tropical beaches, this journey covers thousands of wedding planning ideas in 200+ images and is an ideal source of inspiration for couples looking for a muse to foster creativity throughout their wedding planning process.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Faces of Lancaster County Postcards
Book SynopsisThis beautiful book of art postcards provides 32 candid views of Amish life in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. See Amish families at work, play, and socializing in their society. The powerful photography speaks for itself and gives you a professional photographer''s view of their compelling world. The Old Order Amish settled in Pennsylvania in 1737. For over 250 years they have thrived, doubling their population every 20 years. These Amish Christians worship in their homes every other Sunday. You could not ask for better neighbors. They are always ready and willing to help in times of need. Some Amish are volunteer firemen. As you will see in these postcards, in this technology-filled 21st century, the Amish remain steadfast to their traditions, driving horse drawn carriages, maintaining businesses, farms, and homes without electricity, and farming with mule and horse power. Enjoy--and share--this unusual look into the unique world of Amish life.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Scars Stripes
Book SynopsisTrade Review "Funky exuberance dominates the book . . . a must-have for the sport's participants and fans. But what may surprise outsiders is the strong sense of family, commitment, and loyalty that emerges from these pictures; although men, who are relatively new to the sport, appear in the book, most affecting are the images of powerful, committed women celebrating their strength and outrageousness and mentoring young girls to do the same." —Publishers Weekly
£28.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Balloons Over Albuquerque
Book SynopsisA photographic celebration of hot-air balloons' culture and community!
£17.09
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Two Scoops of Hooah The TWall Art of Kuwait and
Book SynopsisWithin the pages of this book you will see how cement structures, intended for barriers, are transformed into pictorial walls that identify military units and honor service members who gave their lives for freedom in the Gulf War. They provide an esprit de corps for their unit members who are forward deployed from their home base, post, or camp. The unit colors and insignias displayed on these walls become the thoughts and memories of the men and women who have fought, and for those who have died for freedom. Memorial walls proclaim in silence the ultimate sacrifice of service. This artwork represents Coalition Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, Coast Guard, and D.O.D. Civilians who answered the call of freedom and deployed far from home and family. When these walls decay and are turned to rubble, this book will become a lasting legacy to those who have served in Kuwait and Iraq.
£25.19
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Blues Hands
Book SynopsisGreat joy, great sorrow; gradations of emotion, all expressed in the service of music. Conveys the strength, beauty, diversity and depth of blues music—hands tell a story.Trade ReviewMany books have been published over the years pictorially depicting blues artists at work and play. So you might well ask, what is different about Blues Hands that would make you buy another? The clue is in the title. All musicians need hands to play and often vocalists too, to visually amplify aspects of the lyrics. The book opens with a quote from Willie Dixon; The Blues is the roots, everything else is the fruits. So here are some of the fruits in a unique perspective from the camera of Joe Rosen, drawn from over thirty years of covering the American blues scene. What lifts a photograph from a mere visual recording of a subject to an art form is the skill of the photographer. Inherent in that skill is a passionate interest and understanding of the subject matter and the technical abilities to fulfil it in the final print. Joe has it all in spades. Until you come across a book of this nature you dont realise how hands are as unique as faces and often reflect the character and experiences of the owners, especially those of the older generation. The photographs are enhanced towards the back of the book by potted histories of the artists careers to date and in some cases eulogies, drawn from Joes knowledge of them. Youll want this one on your bookshelf. - Mike Owens, Blues Matters June 2016
£23.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Hollywood Celebrates the Holidays
Book SynopsisRare promotional photos of stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood posing for holiday-themed images Marvelously illustrated with more than 200 rare images from the silent era through the 1970s, this joyous treasure trove features film and television's most famous actors and actresses celebrating the holidays, big and small, in lavishly produced photographs ranging from high art to kitsch. Join the stars for festive fun in celebrating a variety of holidays, from New Year's to Saint Patrick's Day to Christmas and everything in between. Legends such as Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Crawford, Judy Garland, and Audrey Hepburn spread holiday cheer throughout the calendar year in iconic, ironic, and illustrious style. These images, taken by legendary stills photographers, hearken back to the Golden Age of Hollywood, when motion picture studios devised elaborate publicity campaigns to promote their stars and to keep their names and faces in front of the movie-going public all year round.Trade ReviewKultguys Keep website featured an extensive review of this title in February 2016. "A nostalgic treasure trove from cinemas Golden Age... The books authors, Mary Mallory and Karie Bible, have given each picture a lively caption that evokes the advertorial style that was commonplace in vintage magazines like Photoplay and Modern Screen. Its makes for a fun read, while the short bios provide some valuable trivia that movie buffs will lap up."Each page of the book is crammed with glossy black and white and colour photographs with more stars than in the heavens as the old MGM adage goes, each page celebrating holidays beginning with New Year through to Christmas and everything in between including St. Patricks Day and 4th July, each represented by a separate chapter. What is clear is how twisted, bizarre and surreal some of these images are such as the smiling but sadistic Thanksgiving images silent star Mary Philbin sharpening her blade in front of a giant turkey. Few of these pictures, no matter how beautifully composed or shot are anything short of disturbed and at the very least kitsch. Rich in imagery but less in text this perfect coffee table is a nice soak to the brain. - Chris Hick Filmwerk.co.uk March 2016
£25.19
Schiffer Publishing Ltd American Coasters 2
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£28.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Subway Beats Celebrating New York City Buskers
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£17.09
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Weapons of Mass Destruction
Book SynopsisHow and why the US created 70,000 nuclear weapons during the Cold War . The Nuclear Age properly began with the discovery of the nucleus by Ernest Rutherford in 1911, but its impact on civilization began with the use of atomic bombs against Japan in WWII. The development of atomic bombs forever changed the world. From having a single bomb immediately after the Nagasaki attack, the United States would go on to build some 70,000 nuclear bombs over the course of the Cold War. The colossal brinkmanship with the Soviet Union threatened each country's people. Why were so many bombs thought to be necessary? How did the infrastructure come about to enable the delicate business of building and deploying so many bombs? This book answers these questions and more; through high-quality photographs, the full flowering of the warheads and delivery systems of the nuclear age are shown in chilling detail.
£36.89
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Scenes from the Country Fair
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