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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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More than four decades of 20th-century America are filtered through Lange's life and lens - her creations and achievements, her tragedies and losses. Known for her powerful images from the Great Depression, her haunting "Migrant Mother" remains emblematic of that period. In 1936, when photographs of the poverty-stricken mother of seven, stranded in a camp in California, were published, a national awareness began. As America matured into a world power,...
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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For 60 years, Australian photographer Jeff Carter traversed this country in search of stories. He wrote books and articles for the magazines of the time like People and Pix. And he never travelled without a camera. From the outset, Carter was drawn to document and celebrate the lives of working folk in the bush. From charcoal cutters and kangaroo shooters to dog trappers and drovers, his archive of wonderful images records a way of life that in many...
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Pixiu Films
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English
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Herbert Matter designed a series of cutting-edge Swiss travel posters that won international acclaim for the pioneering use of photo-montage combined with type. Always striking a balance between fine art projects and commercial work, the taciturn designer found his own unique language. He was inspired by Russian constructivists and taught by artists in Paris in the late 20s. With his photography he was adept in documenting the early furniture of Charles...
6) Arakimentari
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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"I wish I was a god with a thousand arms, each one with a camera." So says Nobuyoshi Araki, who with more than 350 photo books stakes the claim as the most published photographer in the world. While his work spans varied subjects, his erotic work is what made his reputation, one that is infamous as well as notorious. Provoking the sexual prudery of Japan, his work has shaped an entire culture and made him the country's face of sexual liberation. Filmmakers...
7) Lone rider
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Wind River Valley romances volume 5
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English
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The new novel from the bestselling author of Wrangler's Challenge.
No one can outrun the past forever . . .
As a combat photographer in Afghanistan, Tara Dalton saw things she won't ever forget, as much as she would like to. And after returning Stateside, she can't fight her way past the PTSD that's haunted her ever since. Desperate to make a change, she joins her old friend Shay at the Bar C Ranch, where a group of ex-military vets are putting...
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Photographer Samantha Blakely is stunned when her dear friend leaves her the controlling interest in her family business, a magazine conglomerate: the same one that owns the magazine where Sam has just landed her dream job. Then she meets her new boss, Christian Delaney, and his mere gaze leaves her wanting more. How can she tell him that she's 'the' Sam Blakely who inherited the legacy he'd thought was his? If he discovers the truth, he'll probably...
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Yousuf Karsh emigrated to North America from Turkey in the 1920s, eventually settling in Ottawa. An early interest in photography inspired him to open his own studio. As he became known for the quality of his work, Karsh's close proximity to powerful leaders in Ottawa led to commissions of portraits of politicians. He became known as the worlds' finest portrait photographer for his gift of drawing out and capturing a subject's character in a photograph....
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Bloomsbury
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English
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Discovering a passion for photography after being given a camera during World War I, young Amory Clay embarks on a search for life and artistic expression throughout subsequent decades before becoming one of the the first female war photographers.
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Español
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El alcance de las reflexiones de John Berger es tan diverso como sustancial e influyente. En 1972, Berger revolucionó la teoría del arte con el programa televisivo Ways of Seeing, que posteriormente se publicaría en el célebre libro homónimo Modos de ver. Poco después aparecieron Mirar y Otra manera de contar y, en paralelo, la obra artística y literaria de Berger. La presente antología viene a llenar un vacío en la publicación de su obra...
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This lavish fourth volume in Abrams' Slim Aarons collection revels in this photographer's decades-long love affair with Italy. From breathtaking aerials of the Sicilian countryside to intimate portraits of celebrities and high society taken in magnificent villas, Slim Aarons: La Dolce Vita captures the essence of "the good life." Slim Aarons first visited Italy as a combat photographer during World War II and later moved to Rome to shoot for Life...
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Español
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El cambio de paradigma tecnológico al que la fotografía se ha visto sometida en los últimos años no sólo ha puesto de nuevo de manifiesto la naturaleza fotográfica de nuestra cultura, sino que ha zarandeado algunos de los fundamentos que parecían formar parte indisociable de lo fotográfico. A través del estilo desenfadado e irónico que siempre ha caracterizado a Joan Fontcuberta, La cámara de Pandora aborda la refundación de este medio...
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Español
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En el mundo contemporáneo las apariencias han sustituido a la realidad. No obstante, la fotografía, una tecnología históricamente al servicio de la verdad, sigue ejerciendo una función de mecanismo ortopédico de la conciencia moderna: la cámara no miente, toda fotografía es una evidencia. A partir de vivencias personales, el autor crítica esta creencia y reflexiona sobre aspectos fundamentales de la creación y de la cultura actual.
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16) Desaturated Soul
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English
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Ever since my teenage years, I've had a great desire to travel and find adventure. Using the camera to attain these goals, I have had some of the greatest adventures of my life. My life has been forever by the cultural influences and people I've encountered in my travels. The images I've taken are magical to me, and it is my hope that viewers will observe the uniqueness in each one. This goal is the basis for the collection, Desaturated Soul.
Loneliness...
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Español
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El libro Eliana Vásquez. Fotografías presenta una retrospectiva de la obra de Eliana Vásquez.
Este homenaje a su trabajo fotográfico está divido en tres secciones en las que se aprecian los lugares recorridos por la autora, sus técnicas fotográficas y las narrativas y estéticas de las imágenes: Paisajes en blanco y negro, Obeliscos y estructuras y Halo, el paisaje del color.
La publicación cuenta con el análisis del fotógrafo Billy Hare,...
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English
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This book will give you Advanced Tips and Techniques. Showing hundreds of breathtaking photographs with all camera data. It will walk you through the steps of shooting beaches, mountains and waterfalls in beautiful locations inside America's National and State Parks, or even your backyard. It will not teach you how to use your new digital camera, it will teach you how to use it better. After capture it will walk you through the Complete Digital Workflow....
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English
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Martin Fishman documented life in New York City from the 1960s through the early 2000s. His black and white photography was visual poetry that captured emotion, attitude and luster one impromptu moment at a time. His camera and mind's eye sought out the truth of New York rooted in its inhabitants and their experiences. Mr. Fishman's black and white street photography encompasses the essence of many famous events and gatherings such as Wigstock, the...
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Technology is moving so rapidly in quantum leaps...
I cannot even catch my breath following it
We get blindfolded when so entangled with the trivial
Do we ever stop for a bit and wonder, what kind of illusion we are living in...?
A new hybrid species is evolving among us...
Smoothly numbing us...
Making us dependable
Less and less indispensable
A.I. is catching up with us
Are we ready? Scary but true
Siri ends up being my best friend.
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