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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe 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
Lincoln: A Photobiography
Russell Freedman · 150 pages
Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President.
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
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.
The Private World of Tasha Tudor
Tasha Tudor, Richard Brown · 134 pages
Laura's Album: A Remembrance Scrapbook of Laura Ingalls Wilder
William Anderson, Laura Ingalls Wilder · 80 pages
Photographs and mementos accompany an account of the life and literary career of the author of the well-loved "Little House" books.
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
Snowflake Bentley
Jacqueline Briggs Martin · 32 pages
A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.
Marilyn Monroe: Private And Undisclosed
Michelle Morgan · 288 pages
An illustrated biography of actress Marilyn Monroe featuring photographs that have not been previously published.
A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
John Berger · 172 pages
Elephant House; or, the Home of Edward Gorey
Kevin McDermott · 128 pages
The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
Darby Penney, Peter Stastny · 206 pages
Foreword / Robert Whitaker -- 1. He took them on their last walk -- 2. Who were the people that went to Willard and why did they go there? --3. How I would have furnished my room (if not for the voices) -- 4. In permanent limbo: she kept asking for dispensation (until her doctor turned into the devil incarnate) -- 5. Children were buried and she knit her life away -- 6. Like a fly in a spider web
The ISIS Hostage: One Man's True Story of 13 Months in Captivity
Puk Damsgard · 352 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
Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Vicki Goldberg, Nan Richardson · 180 pages
This lavish book is the first-ever retrospective on Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895-1989), one of the great fashion photographers of her era. In addition to fashion images, the 140 photos collected here include a sampling of Dahl-Wolfe's portrait work--unforgettable images of Josephine Baker, Edward Hopper, Eudora Welty, and Jean Cocteau, among other luminaries. 140 illustrations. 100 in full color.
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
Andrew Bolton, Harold Koda · 240 pages
Image-Music-Text
Roland Barthes · 220 pages
'Image-Music-Text' brings together major essays by Roland Barthes on the structural analysis of narrative and on issues in literary theory, on the semiotics of photograph and film, on the practice of music and voice. Throughout the volume runs a constant movement 'from work to text': an attention to the very 'grain' of signifying activity and the desire to follow -- in literature, image, film, son
Known and Strange Things: Essays
Teju Cole · 393 pages
"With this collection of more than fifty pieces on politics, photography, travel, history, and literature, Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of today's most powerful and original voices. On page after page, deploying prose dense with beauty and ideas, he finds fresh and potent ways to interpret art, people, and historical moments, taking in subjects from Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, and W. G.
Just Kids
Patti Smith · 336 pages
In this memoir, singer-songwriter Patti Smith shares tales of New York City : the denizens of Max's Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribner's, Brentano's and Strand bookstores and her new life in Brooklyn with a young man named Robert Mapplethorpe--the man who changed her life with his love, friendship, and genius.
How the Other Half Lives
Jacob A. Riis · 246 pages
A photographic collection exposing social conditions and daily life in the slums of late 19th century New York City. The title of the book is a reference to a sentence by French writer and philosopher François Rabelais, who famously wrote in his Pantagruel : "one half of the world does not know how the other half lives" ("la moitié du monde ne sait pas comment l'autre vit").