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1) The wish
Author
Language
English
Description
"1996 was the year that changed everything for Maggie Dawes. Sent away at sixteen to live with an aunt she barely knew in Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina's Outer Banks, she could think only of the friends and family she left behind...until she meets Bryce Trickett, one of the few teenagers on the island. Handsome, genuine, and newly admitted to West Point, Bryce gradually shows her how much there is to love about the wind-swept beach...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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,...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
AD 840L
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Gordon Parks is most famous for being the first black director in Hollywood. But before he made movies and wrote books, he was a poor African American looking for work. When he bought a camera, his life changed forever. He taught himself how to take pictures and before long, people noticed"--
Author
Language
English
Description
When Robert Kincaid drives through the heat and dust of an Iowa summer and turns into Francesca Johnson's farm lane looking for directions, the world-class photographer and the Iowa farm wife are joined in an experience of uncommon truth and stunning beauty that will haunt them forever.
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Lexile measure
950L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 p.) : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Readers will learn what it takes to succeed as a wildlife photographer. The book also explains the necessary educational steps, useful character traits, potential hazards, and daily job tasks related to this career. Sidebars include thought-provoking trivia. Questions in the backmatter ask for text-dependent analysis. Photos, a glossary, and additional resources are included.
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
575 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From the world renowned author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses comes Salman Rushdie's brilliant novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet, featuring an epic, exuberant love story with a rock 'n' roll soundtrack.
At the beginning of this stunning novel, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again by human eyes. This is her story, and that of Ormus Cama, the lover who finds, loses,...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
483 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Katherine Hoffman presents a comprehensive and provocative study of the life and work of the photographer, Alfred Stieglitz, focusing on the period from 1915 to his death in 1946, with some introductory material related to his early years. His work as photographer, editor, writer, and gallery director are explored in relationship to his personal biography and cultural milieu, presenting the complex tapestry that was Stieglitz's life and work.This...
15) Nothing in MoMA
Author
Publisher
Punctum Books
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 online resource (90 pages)
Language
English
Description
Nothing in MoMA is a series of photographs captured in areas of Manhattan museums in which there are no artworks, written words, or people. Addressing the "grammar that organizes and secures our scene of looking," in the words of art historian David Joselit's introduction, the book imagines a composite empty museum or a narrative of marginal attention. Originally displayed in partial prototype as a children's board book at Artists Space in 2015, Nothing...
Publisher
punctum books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (227 pages) : illustrations ;
Language
English
Description
Beta Exercise: The Theory and Practice of Osamu Kanemura is the first bilingual (Japanese-English) book to provide an overview of the theoretical work of Japanese photographer and video artist Osamu Kanemura, a unique voice in the world of contemporary photography. The opening essay "Life Is a Gift" comments on the transformation of human life into an exchangeable commodity and the abstraction it entails. "Essay 01" develops Kanemura's idea of photographic...
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
910L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Investigates the life and work of a professional fashion photographer, tracking the experiences of photographer Justin Dallas as he travels to different locations around the world to photograph celebrities.
20) Sanctuary
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Successful photographer Jo Ellen Hathaway realizes she must return to the Southern resort run by her estranged family and, with the help of one man, sets out to discover who is stalking her and who killed her mother.
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