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Brennan, Thomas J. (Thomas James)

Summary: "A unique joint memoir by a U.S. Marine and a conflict photographer, whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and souls War tears people apart, but it can also bring them together. Through the unpredictability of war and its aftermath, a decorated Marine sergeant and a world-trotting war photographer became friends, their bond forged as they patrolled together through...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BRE

Rosenstock, Barb

Summary: An introduction to the life and achievements of the documentary photographer describes the disability that inspired Lange's photography career and her efforts to raise awareness about the unseen victims of the Great Depression.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LAN

Kino, Carol

Summary: The McLaughlin twins were trailblazing female photographers, celebrated in their time as stars in their respective fields, but have largely been forgotten since. Here, in Double Click, author Carol Kino provides us with a fascinating window into the golden era of magazine photography and the first young women's publications, bringing these two brilliant women and their remarkable...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024

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Hoelzel, Philip

Summary: "Sebastião adored exploring the paradise of his parents' farm in the Mata Atlântica forest of Brazil. From atop a hill, he would look at the world from a new perspective and dream of what might lie beyond his view. Then, when he went away to school, Sebastião met Lélia, who showed him how to use a camera for the very first time. When Sebastião looked through the camera, he realized he could use...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SAL

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Publisher / Publication Date: 1995

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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 770.92 CON

Farrell, Mary Cronk

Summary: ". . . tells the story of French-born Catherine Leroy, one of the Vietnam War's few woman photographers, who documented some of the fiercest fighting in the twenty-year conflict. Despite being told that women didn't belong in a "man's world," she was cool under fire, gravitated toward the thickest battles, went along on the soldiers' slogs through the heat and mud of the jungle, crawled through...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 LER

Greig, Geordie

Summary: "A memoir about the author's relationship with renowned painter Lucian Freud that includes interviews with many close friends and family members as well as critical analyses of Freud's art"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FREUD, LUCIAN GRE

Kurlansky, Mark

Summary: "By a series of coincidences, Mark Kurlansky's life has always been intertwined with Ernest Hemingway's legend, starting with being in Idaho the day of Hemingway's death. The Importance of Not Being Ernest explores the intersections between Hemingway's and Kurlansky's lives, resulting in vivid accounts of two inspiring writing careers. Travel the world with both authors in this entertaining and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Books & Books Press, a division of Mango Publishing Group, Inc. 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B HEMINGWAY KUR

Copaken, Deborah

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Breasts. Uterus. Cervix. Heart. Vagina. The source of life, right? Well, for writer and photographer Deborah Copaken, it turned out to be just the opposite--almost. Between escaping from an abusive marriage, facing down the challenge of single-parenthood, and attempting to find love again, getting her bearings after everything she knew fell to pieces proved more slippery than she ever could...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COPAKEN, DEBORAH COP

Marks, Ann

Summary: "The definitive and authorized biography that unlocks the remarkable story of Vivian Maier, the nanny who lived secretly as a world-class photographer, featuring nearly 400 of her images, many never seen before, placed for the first time in the context ofher life. Vivian Maier, the photographer nanny whose work was famously discovered in a Chicago storage locker, captured the imagination of the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAIER, VIVIAN MAR

Hobey, Jack

Contents: Introduction -- Promotor -- Teacher -- Artist -- Postcard man -- Multi-view and Miss Munk -- Kings and contracts -- Fire and other tragedies -- Dealer -- Publisher -- Competitor -- Resorters and collectors -- Promoter and the king -- Assistants -- Lottie and Anna -- Postscript -- Includes bibliography p 176.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harbor House Publishers 1997

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1 available in Adult, Call number: MIC 770.92 HOB

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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 770.92 BEEBE, EDWARD Hob

Hollihan, Kerrie Logan.

Summary: "The tremendous struggles women have faced as war correspondents and photojournalists A profile of 16 courageous women, Reporting Under Fire tells the story of journalists who risked their lives to bring back scoops from the front lines. Each woman--including Sigrid Schultz, who broadcast news via radio from Berlin on the eve of the Second World War; Margaret Bourke-White, who rode with General...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 HOL

Solnit, Rebecca.

Summary: A survey of the historical contributions of Eadweard Muybridge documents his role in filmmaking technology and as a war photographer before standing trial for the murder of his wife's lover.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUYBRIDGE, EADWEARD SOL

Woolf, Jenny.

Summary: A portrait of the author of "Alice in Wonderland" analyzes contradictory aspects of his character, tapping recently discovered sources to set Carroll's life in the context of Victorian England, and assesses his financial difficulties and his relationship with the real Alice.

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARROLL, LEWIS WOO

McCommons, James

Summary: "In 1906 George Shiras III (1859-1942) published a series of remarkable nighttime photographs in National Geographic. Taken with crude equipment, the black-and-white photographs featured leaping whitetail deer, a beaver gnawing on a tree, and a snowy owl perched along the shore of a lake in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The pictures, stunning in detail and composition, celebrated American...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of New Mexico Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 328.73 MCC

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHIRAS, GEORGE MCC

Rinehart, Lorissa

Summary: "From the beginning of World War II through the early days of Vietnam, groundbreaking female photojournalist and war correspondent Dickey Chapelle chased dangerous assignments her male colleagues wouldn't touch, pioneering a radical style of reporting that focused on the humanity of the oppressed. She documented conditions across Eastern Europe in the wake of the second world war. She marched...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAPELLE, DICKEY RIN

Rubin, Susan Goldman.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 1999

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Crippa, Luca

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Summary: "Wilhelm Brasse: "I looked death in the eyes. I did it fifty thousand times..." When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, photographer Wilhelm Brasse was sent to Auschwitz. His inability to condone the Third Reich and swear allegiance to Hitler landed him at one of the deadliest concentration camps of WWII. There, he was forced to record the camp's atrocities. From 1940-1945, Brasse took more than...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRASSE, WILHELM CRI

Aronson, Marc

Summary: Recounts the achievements of photojournalism pioneers Robert Capa and Gerda Taro as they captured the tragedies of the Spanish Civil War and documented the fight against Facism.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 770 ARO

Boynton, Graham

Summary: "Graham Boynton's Wild is the definitive biography of photographer Peter Beard, a larger-than-life icon who pushed the boundaries of art and scandalized international high society with his high-profile affairs. He was the original 20th century "enfant terrible" with the looks of a Greek god who blazed like a comet across the worlds of art, photography, and fame. The scion of several old WASP...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEARD, PETER BOY

Mann, Sally

Summary: A revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her. Sorting...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANN, SALLY MAN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MANN MAN

Bannos, Pamela

Summary: Who was Vivian Maier? Many people 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 inadvertent master of twentieth-century American street photography. Not long after, the news broke that Maier had recently died and had no...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAIER, VIVIAN BAN

Gordon, Linda.

Summary: Dorothea Lange's photographs define how the American Depression is remembered; this evocative biography defines her creative struggles and enduring legacy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANGE, DOROTHEA GOR

Manseau, Peter

Summary: In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized Americas imagination. A "spirit photographer," William Mumler took portrait photographs that featured the ghostly presence of a lost loved one alongside the living subject. Mumler was a sensation: The affluent and influential came calling. Peter Manseau brilliantly captures a nation wracked with grief...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUMLER, WILLIAM MAN

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