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100 Photographs That Changed the World
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Include books by the same authorLewis & Clark
Stephen E. Ambrose, Sam Abell · 255 pages
"Interweaves choice entries from the explorers' journals with the author's own latter-day chronicle of how he and his family continue to discover the Trail today."--Jacket.
Lincoln: A Photobiography
Russell Freedman · 150 pages
Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President.
The Discovery of the Titanic
Robert D. Ballard · 230 pages
Récit de l'enquête à laquelle l'auteur a consacré treize ans pour retrouver le transatlantique coulé. Histoire, jour après jour, des expéditions qui l'ont retrouvé et exploré.
A Beautiful Mess Photo Idea Book: 95 Inspiring Ideas for Photographing Your Friends, Your World, and Yourself
Elsie Larson, Emma Chapman
Talking Pictures: Images and Messages Rescued from the Past
Ransom Riggs · 366 pages
A haunting collection of antique found photographs, with evocative inscriptions that bring these lost personal moments to life. Each image reveals a singular, frozen moment in a person's life, be it joyful, quiet, or steeped in sorrow; each inscription illuminates the photograph's particular context, and lights up our connection to the past.
Moonage Daydream: The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust
David Bowie · 334 pages
In 1972 David Bowie released the iconic LP The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, which established him as a major force in modern pop music. It was also his platform to present a visually fascinating and sexually ambivalent stage persona called Ziggy Stardust. Simultaneously, Bowie befriended the famed rock-and-roll photographer, Mick Rock, whom he invited to chronicle his
The Polaroid Book: Selections from the Polaroid Collections of Photography
Steve Crist · 353 pages
Selection of photographs from the Polaroid Collections, representing what can be accomplished with Polaroid film.
Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph
Roxane Orgill · 60 pages
When Esquire magazine planned an issue to salute the American jazz scene in 1958, graphic designer Art Kane pitched a crazy idea: how about gathering a group of beloved jazz musicians and photographing them? He didn t own a good camera, didn t know if any musicians would show up, and insisted on setting up the shoot in front of a Harlem brownstone.
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
South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917
Frank Hurley · 320 pages
Earth from Above
Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Lester Russell Brown, Herve Le Bras, Jean-Robert Pitte · 524 pages
The Dogist: Photographic Encounters with 1,000 Dogs
Elias Weiss Friedman · 304 pages
The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War
Greg Marinovich, Joao Silva · 254 pages
Through the Lens: National Geographic's Greatest Photographs
National Geographic Society · 504 pages
Ansel Adams: Our National Parks
Ansel Adams, Andrea G. Stillman, William A. Turnage · 135 pages
This illustrated autobiography focuses on Adams' dedication, adventures, achievements, friendships, wisdom, and concern for human beings and nature.
Genesis
Lelia Wanick Salgado · 518 pages
In 1970, 26-year-old Sebastiao Salgado held a camera for the first time. In over 32 trips, he created a collection of images showing us nature, animals, and indigenous people. This book presents his images such as: ancient animal species and volcanoes of the Galapagos; Brazilian alligators and jaguars; and, African lions, leopards, and elephants.
The Beatles: Unseen Archives
Tim Hill, Marie Clayton · 384 pages
Sarah Morton's Day: A Day In The Life Of A Pilgrim Girl
Kate Waters · 32 pages
A Drop Of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder
Walter Wick · 40 pages
Describes the origins, characteristics, and uses of water.
Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows
Richard Cahan, Michael Williams
Humans of New York
Brandon Stanton
"In the summer of 2010, photographer Brandon Stanton set out on an ambitious project: to single-handedly create a photographic census of New York City. Armed with his camera, he began crisscrossing the city, covering thousands of miles on foot, all in his attempt to capture ordinary New Yorkers in the most extraordinary of moments"--
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