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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorElephant House; or, the Home of Edward Gorey
Kevin McDermott · 128 pages
Francesca Woodman
Chris Townsend · 254 pages
"Francesca Woodman has become one of the most talked about, studied and influential of late twentieth-century photographers. She started taking photographs when she was barely thirteen, and in less than a decade created a body of work that has now secured her reputation as one of the most original American artists of the 1970s. Woodman brought an understanding of Baroque painting, modernist art an
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
Timothy Egan · 368 pages
How a lone man's epic obsession led to one of America's greatest cultural treasures: Prizewinning writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in Native American history and the driven, brilliant man who made them. Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time. He moved in
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
Andrew Bolton, Harold Koda · 240 pages
Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows
Richard Cahan, Michael Williams
Eclipse: The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion
Mark Cotta Vaz
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Walter Benjamin · 45 pages
"An attempt by literary critic Walter Benjamin to analyze the changed experience of art in modern society."--Page 4 of cover.
Banksy Locations & Tours: A Collection of Graffiti Locations and Photographs in London, England
Martin Bull · 176 pages
Gothic and Lolita
Masayuki Yoshinaga, Katsuhiko Ishikawa · 272 pages
The Oldest Living Things in the World
Rachel Sussman · 269 pages
"The Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and traveled the world to photograph continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older. Spanning from Antarctica to Greenland, the Mojave Desert to the Australian Outback, the result is a stunning and unique visual coll
Strong Is the New Pretty: A Celebration of Girls Being Themselves
Kate T. Parker · 240 pages
"Girls being fearless. Girls being silly. Girls being wild, stubborn, and proud. Girls whose faces are smeared with dirt and lit up with joy. So simple and yet so powerful, Strong Is the New Pretty celebrates, through more than 175 memorable photographs, the strength and spirit of girls being 100% themselves. Real beauty isn't about being a certain size, acting a certain way, wearing the right clo
The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide
Eva Talmadge, Justin Taylor · 173 pages
Collects photographs of quotations and illustrations tattooed on human epidermis with statements from the bearers on the history of the tattoos and the personal significance of the chosen work.
Harry Potter: Film Wizardry
Brian Sibley · 159 pages
Immerse yourself in the world of the spectacular Harry Potter film series, and learn why Yule Ball ice sculptures never melt, where Galleons, Sickles, and Knuts are really "minted," how to get a Hippogriff to work with actors, the inspiration behind Hogwarts castle, and why Dementors move the way they do. Written and designed in collaboration with the cast and crew that brought J.K. Rowling's cele
Picture Perfect Practice: A Self-Training Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Taking World-Class Photographs
Roberto Valenzuela · 312 pages
Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture
Marita Sturken, Lisa Cartwright · 495 pages
"This introduction to visual culture explores the ways we use and understand images. It looks at painting, photography, film, television, and new media across the realms of art, advertising, news, science, and law. Authors Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright present the diverse range of approaches to visual analysis that have emerged in the last few decades, and lead the reader through the key theo
Subway Art
Martha Cooper, Henry Chalfant · 104 pages
New afterwords continue the story, tracing the decline of the subway and graffiti scene in the late 1980s to its unexpected rebirth as a global art movement.
The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War
Denise Chong · 373 pages
On June 8, 1972, nine-year-old Kim Phuc, severely burned by napalm, ran from her blazing village in South Vietnam and into the eye of history. Her photograph-one of the most unforgettable images of the twentieth century-was seen around the world and helped turn public opinion against the Vietnam War.This book is the story of how that photograph came to be-and the story of what happened to that gir