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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorMarilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words
George Barris · 176 pages
The Audrey Hepburn Treasures
Ellen Erwin, Jessica Z. Diamond · 192 pages
A scrapbook-style souvenir album of Hepburn interviews, photos, and replicated memorabilia includes pieces from the late actress's estate and is complemented by removable elements and anecdotes by friends and family members.
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
Rebecca Solnit · 305 pages
An original telling of the story of Eadweard Muybridge, who in 1872 succeeded in capturing high-speed motion photographically, thus making movies possible. Solnit uses the story of Muybridge as a lens for a larger story about the transformation of time and space by railroads, telegraphy, photography, and myriad other contributions to the acceleration and industrialization of everyday life. She bol
Eclipse: The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion
Mark Cotta Vaz
Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland
Gerald Clarke · 528 pages
"Judy Garland. The brightest star of the Hollywood musical and an entertainer of almost magical power. Yet much of what has previously been written about her is either inaccurate or incomplete, and the Garland the world thought it knew was merely a sketch for the astonishing woman Gerald Clarke portrays in Get Happy. Here, more than thirty years after her death, is the real Judy.". "Get Happy is,
Possessed: The Life of Joan Crawford
Donald Spoto · 336 pages
Crawford was one of the most incandescent film stars of all time, yet she was also one of the most misunderstood. Spoto goes beyond the popular caricature to give us a three-dimensional portrait of a very human woman, her dazzling career, and her extraordinarily dramatic life and times.
Maggie Smith
Michael Coveney · 353 pages
"No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm or tight-lipped witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith. Michael Coveney's biography shines a light on the life and career of a truly remarkable performer, one whose stage and screen career spans six decades. From her days as a West End star of comedy and revue, Dame Maggie's path would cross with those of the greatest actors, playwrights and directors
Cindy Sherman: Untitled Films Stills
Cindy Sherman, Peter Galassi · 96 pages
Includes rarely seen works from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s, including work created while Sherman was an art student at Buffalo State College, Buffalo, New York (1972-76). These early works from 1975-1978 demonstrate Sherman’s conceptual approach to photography and foretell the career that would launch her into the art world in the late 1970s. On view, a grid of twenty-three hand
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
Al Pacino
Lawrence Grobel · 231 pages
"For more than a quarter century, Al Pacino has spoken freely and deeply with acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Lawrence Grobel on subjects as diverse as childhood, acting, and fatherhood. Here, for the first time, are the complete conversations and shared observations between the actor and the writer; the result is an intimate and revealing look at one of the most accomplished, and priv
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
Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind
Gavin Edwards · 273 pages
In Last Night at the Viper Room, acclaimed author and journalist Gavin Edwards vividly recounts the life and tragic death of acclaimed actor River Phoenix--a teen idol on the fast track to Hollywood royalty who died of a drug overdose in front of West Hollywood's storied club, the Viper Room, at the age of 23. Last Night at the Viper Room explores the young star's life, including his childhood in
Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century
Sam Kashner, Nancy Schoenberger · 500 pages
The definitive story of Hollywood's most famous coupleHe was a tough-guy Welshman softened by the affections of a breathtakingly beautiful woman; she was a modern-day Cleopatra madly in love with her own Mark Antony. For nearly a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were Hollywood royalty, and their fiery romance—often called "the marriage of the century"—was the most notoriou
Lincoln: A Photobiography
Russell Freedman · 150 pages
Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President.
Remembering Audrey 20 Years Later
LIFE · 144 pages
Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit
Sean Hepburn Ferrer · 240 pages
Elephant House; or, the Home of Edward Gorey
Kevin McDermott · 128 pages
Tough Without a Gun: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of Humphrey Bogart
Stefan Kanfer · 537 pages
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.
Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations
Peter Evans, Ava Gardner · 293 pages
A self-portrait of the late film legend's golden-era Hollywood life traces her impoverished childhood in North Carolina through the heights of her career, sharing details of her relationships with such figures as Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra, and George C. Scott.
King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema
Anupama Chopra · 272 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