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River of Shadows : Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit
River Of Shadows is at once a biography of famed 19th century photographer Eadweard Muybridge and a canvas of the socio-political context from which he sprung. Rebecca Solnit enlivens the pages with ...
(September 2003)
Ansel Adams
This video is from the outstanding American Experience series on Public Television. Ansel Adams was born in San Francisco, near the Land’s End area, in 1902. As a child he was not ...
(May 2003)
Paul Gauguin: A Life by David Sweetman
Sweetman's extensively researched biography is valuable chiefly for the clarity it brings to the details of its subject's outer life; what remains to be known about such relatively obscure matters as his ...
(January 2003)
The Tumultuous Fifties: A View from the New York Times Photo Archives by Douglas Dreishpoon, Alan Trachtenberg
The black and white photographs in this exhibition were originally published in the New York Times. This is appropriate, because people during this period saw themselves and their world in black and ...
(October 2002)
Life: Century of Change: America in Pictures 1900-2000
This attractive title from the editors of Life uses the photography that made the magazine famous to compare and contrast the dramatic changes which occurred in the lives of average citizens over ...
(June 2002)
Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King
This March marks the 566th year that the largest brick and mortar dome in the world was completed in Florence, Italy by the masterful Filippo Brunelleschi. The dome atop the church of ...
(March 2002)
Ansel Adams at 100 by by John Szarkowsi, with photographs by Ansel Adams
If a picture is worth a thousand words, Ansel Adams at 100 is worth more than one hundred thousand. Ansel Adams, America's finest landscape photographer, was born in San Francisco in 1902. ...
(October 2001)
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