Baldwin, James
Summary: First published in 1963, James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America's so-called "Negro problem." As remarkable for its masterful prose as for its frank and personal account of the black experience in the United States, it is considered one of the most passionate and influential explorations of 1960s race relations, weaving thematic threads of love, faith, and family into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taschen 2019
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 305.8 BALMarcus, Leonard S.
Summary: "A middle-grade nonfiction book about one of America's most historically resonant images, the circumstances surrounding its creation, and the larger story it tells about Abraham Lincoln's life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023
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Summary: This collection of images assigns faces to an un-illustrated war and tells the stories of our nation's Founding Fathers and Mothers. It is a much-needed contribution to the history of the American Revolution, the history of the early Republic, and the history of photography.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kent State University Press 2010
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2 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.373 Taylor Vol. 1Call number: R GEN 929.373 Taylor Vol. 2
Burns, Ken
Summary: "From one of our most treasured filmmakers, a pictorial history of America-a stunning and moving collection of Ken Burns's favorite photographs"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973 BURCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 973 BURMyers, Tadd
Summary: "A collection of portraits of the people and products made in small workshops all over the country, with ... descriptions of what they make, who they are, and the tradition embedded in their trade ... A celebration of the handmade at a time when it's being embraced by a new generation of DIY and local-focused consumers who are averse to the mass-produced"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 770 MYEThomas, Andrew
Summary: "When award-winning landscape photographer Andrew Thomas visited four of the US National Parks in December 2007, he was mesmerized by their natural beauty. After two return trips within the next twelve months, he began a quest to travel to and photograph all fifty-nine parks of the US National Park Service. Every park is represented by several photos, giving a full impression of the varied...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Douglas & McIntyre 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 917.3 THOSummary: In 1976, William Eggleston's images were featured in the Museum of Modern Art's first one-man exhibition of color photographs. It is rare for an artist of such stature to allow himself to be shown as unguarded as Eggleston does in Michael Almereyda's intimate portrait. The filmmaker tracks the photographer on trips but gives particular attention to downtime in Memphis, Eggleston's home base....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WILVan Sise, B. A.
Summary: "With this fascinating synthesis of word and image, internationally renowned photographer B.A. Van Sise offers a visually stimulating anthology that will enchant lovers of both poetry and photography. At times whimsical, surreal, challenging, enigmatic, joyful and sobering, these portraits--running adjacent to poems by each of their subjects--highlight some of the most influential poets of our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schaffner Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 779.2 VANWillis, Deborah
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 770.8996 WILSchiff, Thomas R.
Summary: "In sweeping tableaux, photographer Thomas R. Schiff presents, America's most important art museums, using breathtaking photographs that compels us to revisit historic and modern cultural institutions and their storied rooms in a genuinely new light. Schiff skillfully combines his love of photography and architecture and profiles museums of all sizes and stripes across the country, showcasing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli Electa 2019
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 708.13 SCHHodgkins, Lisa
Summary: "In the last half of the 19th century, the women of America were beginning to develop their own sense of style. Although influenced by European fashions and the social and economic changes of the time, they made clothing choices based upon their personal aspirations and their practical everyday needs. Providing an overview of fashion influences for each decade from the 1860s to the end of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391.2 HODArnade, Chris
Summary: "Widely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten--both urban and rural, blue state and red state--and indicts the elitists who've left them behind. Like Jacob Riis in the 1890s, Walker Evans in the 1930s, or Michael Harrington in the 1960s, Chris Arnade bares the reality of our current class divide in stark pictures and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.509 ARNBannos, 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 BANAdams, Ansel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 702 ADAMS ADASummary: Strange, outdated laws from each of the 50 U.S. states--some overturned, some still on the books, and some merely the stuff of legends--are depicted with sly wit by Olivia Locher. These images will appeal to art buffs and trivia fans alike. A foreword from American poet Kenneth Goldsmith and an interview with the artist by Eric Shiner, former director of the Andy Warhol Museum, contextualize...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 770 LOCMacLean, Alex S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 779 MACSummary: Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger-than-life Polaroid Land 20x24 camera. For the next thirty-five years she captured the surfaces of those who visited her Massachusetts studio: families, Beat poets, rock stars, and Harvard notables.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BPanzer, Mary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Portrait Gallery 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 770.92 PANSummary: The incredible story of Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press photographer Nick Ut, whose photo, 'The Terror of War,' is credited with bringing an end to the Vietnam War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FROSummary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FIN1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FIN
Vaule, Rosamond B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: David R. Godine, Publisher 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 779.9973 VAUEgan, Timothy.
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CURTIS, EDWARD EGAKelly, Scott
Summary: A collection of photographs taken by Commander Scott Kelly documenting his journey on the International Space Station, 250 miles above the earth. One's perspective shifts when one lives for an entire year, as Commander Scott Kelly has. His breathtaking collection of photos document his journey on the International Space Station ... and the unparalleled beauty of our own home planet. His...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A Knopf 2018