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“jerry w cotten”

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  • Light and Air

    The Photography of Bayard Wootten

    by Jerry W. Cotten ...
    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 ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    by Pete Souza ...
    Relive the extraordinary Presidency of Barack Obama through White House photographer Pete Souza's behind-the-scenes images and stories in this #1 New York Times bestseller -- with a foreword from the President himself.During Barack Obama's two terms, Pete Souza was with the President during more crucial moments than anyone else -- and he photographed them all. Souza captured nearly two million ... Read more

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  • Letters on Landscape Photography

    by Henry Peach Robinson ...
    Working at the end of the nineteenth century, photographer Henry Peach Robinson was best known for his zealous, and highly adept, use of combination printing -- creating a single image from multiple negatives. He was also an accomplished writer and this short book from 1888 remains one of his most endearing. In practical instruction and personal anecdote, it extols his unyielding belief that ... Read more

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  • Vivian Maier

    A Photographer's Life and Afterlife

    by Pamela Bannos ...
    "Look[s] past the mystique of the 'eccentric nanny with a camera' to tell the true Maier story . . . [An] extraordinary work." — Library JournalWho was Vivian Maier? Many know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photographs, which were unseen until they were discovered in a seemingly abandoned storage locker. They revealed her to be an ... Read more

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  • Natalia Osipova

    Becoming a Swan

    Natalia Osipova: Becoming a Swan is an intimate portrait of the work of a ballet superstar, and the story told in pictures of how she prepares for the most iconic role in all of ballet. Features over 150 black and white images of Osipova behind the scenes and on stage, including unique glimpses taken from the wings at Covent Garden. Andrej Uspenski has used his exclusive vantage point as a First ... Read more

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  • Photography and the Art of Chance

    by Robin Kelsey ...
    Photography has a unique relationship to chance. Anyone who has wielded a camera has taken a picture ruined by an ill-timed blink or enhanced by an unexpected gesture or expression. Although this proneness to chance may amuse the casual photographer, Robin Kelsey points out that historically it has been a mixed blessing for those seeking to make photographic art. On the one hand, it has weakened ... Read more

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  • Delia's Tears

    by Molly Rogers, David Blight ...

    $26.99 USD

  • Daguerreotypes

    Fugitive Subjects, Contemporary Objects

    by Lisa Saltzman ...
    In the digital age, photography confronts its future under the competing signs of ubiquity and obsolescence. While technology has allowed amateurs and experts alike to create high-quality photographs in the blink of an eye, new electronic formats have severed the original photochemical link between image and subject. At the same time, recent cinematic photography has stretched the concept of ... Read more

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  • Berenice Abbott

    A Life in Photography

    by Julia Van Haaften ...
    The comprehensive biography of the iconic twentieth-century American photographer Berenice Abbott, a trailblazing documentary modernist, author, and inventor.Berenice Abbott is to American photography as Georgia O’Keeffe is to painting or Willa Cather to letters. She was a photographer of astounding innovation and artistry, a pioneer in both her personal and professional life. Abbott’s sixty-year ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Singular Images, Failed Copies

    William Henry Fox Talbot and the Early Photograph

    by Vered Maimon ...
    Focusing on early nineteenth-century England?and on the works and texts of the inventor of paper photography, William Henry Fox Talbot?Singular Images, Failed Copies historicizes the conceptualization of photography in that era as part of a major historical change.Treating photography not merely as a medium or a system of representation but also as an epistemology, Vered Maimon challenges today’s ... Read more

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  • Transformational Imagemaking: Handmade Photography Since 1960

    by Robert Hirsch ...
    This groundbreaking survey of significant work and ideas focuses on imagemakers who have pushed beyond the boundaries of photography as a window on our material world. Through interviews with more than 40 key artists, this book explores a diverse group of curious experimentalists who have propelled the medium’s evolution by visualizing their subject matter as it originates from their mind’s eye. ... Read more

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  • Snapdragon

    The World War II Exploits of Darby's Ranger and Combat Photographer Phil Stern

    by Liesl Bradner, Phil Stern ...
    The combat photography and wartime experiences of Phil 'Snapdragon' Stern, an iconic photographer of JFK, Marilyn Monroe and James Dean, published for the first time and beautifully presented.Prior to Phil Stern's death on December 13, 2014, his original, unfinished, tattered wartime memoir was discovered, stashed away in an old folio box in his cluttered Hollywood bungalow. Best remembered for ... Read more

    $17.99 USD