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Between 2009 and 2013, as the nation contemplated the historic election of Barack Obama and endured the effects of the Great Recession, Matthew Frye Jacobson set out with a camera to explore and document what was discernible to the "historian's eye" during this tumultuous period. Having collected several thousand images, Jacobson began to reflect on their raw, informal immediacy alongside the recognition that they comprised an archive of a moment...
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In New York City in 1872, fourteen-year-old Horace, a photographer's apprentice, becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spirit photographs, but when Horace accidentally frees the real ghost of a dead girl bent on revenge, his life takes a frightening turn.
8) Kennedy through the lens: how photography and television revealed and shaped an extraordinary leader
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2011.
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Provides insight into how JFK used the new medium of television and the advances in color photography to further his ambitious agenda.
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[2008]
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Offers a complete portrait of this celebrated president through a review of his childhood upbringing, political views and goals, and historic legacy through an examination of his speeches, including the Gettysburg address, period photographs, personal statements, and more.
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2011.
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"Drawing upon the archives of the George Eastman House Collection, 500 Cameras takes a unique approach to the fascinating story of photography. Tracing the medium's history through some of the most important equipment ever used by professionals and amateurs, this remarkable survey presents 500 cameras, all beautifully illustrated in spectacular images."--P. [2] of cover.
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Reduktion auf das Wesentliche: Sehen und denken in Schwarz-Weiß Licht und Schatten gezielt für die Bildwirkung einsetzen Schwarz-Weiß-Umwandlung mit Photoshop & Co. verständlich erklärt Schwarz-Weiß-Fotografie hat bisher jede neue Entwicklung und jeden Trend in der Fotografie überlebt und behauptet hartnäckig ihre herausragende Stellung - insbesondere in den Bereichen Presse, Kunst und Mode. Aber auch in allen anderen Genres fallen Schwarz-Weiß-Bilder...
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2023.
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Wir leben bekanntermaßen in höchst visuellen Zeiten. Bilder prägen unser Denken, Fühlen und Sehen – aber unseren technologischen Fortschritt? Aber ja – haetten Sie gedacht, dass die Erfindung der Google-Bildersuche einzig und allein J.Los Kleiderwahl zur Grammyverleihung 2000 zu verdanken ist? Oder dass eine Wette über Pferdehufe beim Galopp zur Erfindung der ersten elektrischen Kameraverschlüsse führte? Dass ein berühmtes Porträt...
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℗2014.
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Now considered one of the 20th century's greatest street photographers, Vivian Maier was a mysterious nanny who secretly took over 100,000 photographs that went unseen during her lifetime. Vivian's strange and riveting life and art are revealed through never-before-seen photos, films, and interviews with dozens who thought they knew her.
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2012.
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"Edward Curtis was dashing, charismatic, a passionate mountaineer, a famous photographer--the Annie Liebowitz of his time. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his great idea: He would try to capture on film the Native American nation before it disappeared. At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan's book tells the remarkable untold story behind Curtis's iconic photographs,...
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2015.
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From a shared fascination with photography's past, including early photographic techniques, to creating works which give form to the literal passage of time and the fleeting evidence of cultural change, many contemporary artists are creating works that evocatively engage with how the past has been shaped by photography. The medium has been instrumental in both preserving and creating memory from its inception, and its ability to record the existence...
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2017.
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The definitive history of photography book, Seizing the Light: A Social & Aesthetic History of Photography delivers the fascinating story of how photography as an art form came into being, and its continued development, maturity, and transformation. Covering the major events, practitioners, works, and social effects of photographic practice, Robert Hirsch provides a concise and discerning chronological account of Western photography. This fundamental...
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[2013]
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Historical family photos offer a glimpse into the lives of our ancestors, but the images-- and the stories behind them-- often fade away as decades pass. Taylor shows you how to study the clues in your old family photos to put names to faces and recapture their lost stories.
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