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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 distinguished career spanning half a century. Originally trained...
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This book of photographs complements the classic travel book Travels in Taiwan: Exploring Ilha Formosa-on six separate and arduous trips, the author deliberately headed for the areas of Taiwan neglected by other travel journalists in a singular feat of endurance and sustained curiosity. The engaging and lively account of his solitary journey abounds in descriptions of local geography and wildlife and includes numerous encounters with Native (indigenous)...
84) My Florence
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My Florence is a collection of striking moments drawn from the shared life of renowned Chicago photojournalist ART SHAY and his beloved wife, Florence. By turns casual and glamorous, pensive and humorous, the photographs start the day Art and Florence met in 1942, as 20-year-old camp counselors in the Catskill Mountains, and continue for seven decades.
Former LIFE, Fortune, Time, and Sports Illustrator photographer, ART SHAY is famous for immortalizing...
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Like a traveler who is eager to bathe in a cold waterfall after a long day's journey, the soul is anxious for the crystal clear knowledge that will give it happiness. It is believed by many, that up in the Himalayan Mountains of India millenniums ago the original Truth of the World was spoken. Finding the values of the materialistic world inconsistent, I journeyed to the land of sages in search of some traces of ancient culture. Climbing the ' roof...
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[2018]
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"Born in Mexico City in 1942, Graciela Iturbide wants to be a writer, but her conservative family has a different idea. Although she initially follows their wishes, she soon grows restless. After tragedy strikes, she turns to photography to better understand the world. The photographic journey she embarks on takes her throughout Mexico and around the globe, introducing her to fascinating people and cultures, and eventually bringing her success and...
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When he was nine years old, Paul Polson lay on his bed in his family home, burning up with fever. He experienced a "vision" during that fever that repeated itself several times throughout his life. The message was clear during the vision, but Paul couldn't describe it when he woke. What it did do was give him confidence that he could do anything he wanted and succeed.
In The Vision, he shares his story: A lifelong passion for the arts and a quest...
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2012
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"Photographer Michael Clark provides an inside look at the reality of working in extreme conditions to capture and process his breath-taking images. He offers start-to-finish details of some of his most demanding assignments--rock climbing, big wave surfing, sky diving, and mountain biking--and shares his post-processing techniques in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 and Adobe Photoshop CS6 for 16 images. These images are featured in his book Exposed:...
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[2020]
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"In 1947, photographer and war correspondent Janey Everett arrives at a remote surfing village on the Hawaiian island of Kauai to research a planned biography of forgotten aviation pioneer Sam Mallory, who joined the loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War and never returned. Obsessed with Sam's fate, Janey has tracked down Irene Lindquist, the owner of a local island-hopping airline, whom she believes might actually be the legendary Irene Foster,...
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"American photographer Cady Drake shoots local merry-go-rounds, a hobby inspired by a carved wooden rabbit gifted to her following her troubled years in foster care ... Cady can't refuse a freelance assignment documenting the antique carousels of Paris. While there, she hopes to track down the true origins of her rabbit, which she has always believed to be carved by French carousel maker Gustave Bayol"--
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American wonders collection volume 1
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Meg Pero has been assisting her photographer father since she was big enough to carry his equipment, so when he dies she is determined to take over his profession--starting with fulfilling the contract he signed to serve on an Army survey of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon in 1871. What she doesn't realize is that the leader of the expedition is none other than the man she once refused to marry. Captain Ben Coleridge would like nothing more than...
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"Liv Spyers hits the big time when she lands a photography assignment with Grammy Award-winning pop star, the one and only Bisa. A huge fan, Liv is extra thrilled that her new boyfriend, Harry, will join her at the glamorous premiere of Bisa's debut movie. But when the music icon's estranged sister, Anna, threatens to turn photo ops into PR disasters during Bisa's parties and pop-up concerts, Liv finds that the star-studded world she's joined is filled...
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[2018]
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"Having narrowly avoided tragedy in their hometown of Lavender Tides, Washington, Shauna and Zach Bannister are finally on a honeymoon cruise through the Hawaiian islands. Lost in the glow of their newfound love, they eagerly anticipate basking in the warmth of the lush tropics. But soon the newlyweds begin receiving mysterious threats. After Zach survives two attempts on his life--staged as freak accidents --Shauna ominously receives flowers from...
95) Flight
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Texas murder files volume 2
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2021.
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"When former forensic photographer Miranda Rhoads moves to the seaside town of Lost Beach, she's decided to make her living as a wildlife photographer and put crime scenes behind her. But her plans are quickly upended when one morning, she comes across a couple sleeping in a canoe, entwined in an embrace. Looking closer, she realizes the man and woman aren't asleep -- they've been murdered. Detective Joel Breda sets out to find answers -- not only...
96) Smash his camera
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2010
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Ron Galella, notorious paparazzo, captured some of the most memorable celebrity photographs. In order to do so, he suffered everything from a restraining order to a broken jaw. Includes archival footage of Grace Kelly, Clark Gable, Brad Pitt, Marlon Brando, and more.
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[2019]
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This compendium examines the choices, construction, inclusions and exemptions, and expanded practices involved in the process of creating a photograph. Focusing on work created in the past twenty-five years, this volume is divided into sections that address a separate means of creating photographs as careful constructs: Directing Spaces, Constructing Places, Performing Space, Building Images, and Camera-less Images. Introduced by both a curator and...
98) Polka dot parade
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[2018]
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Describes the life and work of the hatmaker-turned-photographer, detailing how he used his passion and talent to uncover the hidden stories that people's clothes told about fashion, individuality, and freedom.
99) Reunion pass
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Eternity Springs novels volume 11
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2016.
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Six years ago, Chase Timberlake bought an engagement ring for his high school sweetheart Lori Reese. Then ... life happened. Chase's adventure photography career took off, Lori's dream of getting into veterinary school came true, and their happily ever after never came to pass. When Chase's jet-setting life takes a tragic turn, he returns to Eternity Springs a damaged man ... Long summer days spent together rekindles the love that never died and Chase...
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2012.
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Her wisecracking approach to her job thrown off balance when a latest violent crime occurs in her own home and victimizes her uncle, TV news photographer Lilly Hawkins taps her station's resources and the insights of her eccentric co-workers to solve a case that threatens her career.
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