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Beginning in 1847, Henry David Thoreau made three trips to the mostly unexplored Maine woods. Along the way he recorded his observations on the wildlife (flora and fauna), the weather, terrain, and on the nature of the people he met along the way, including loggers, rivermen, and his Abnaki guides. In Thoreau's Maine Woods, photographer Dan Tobyne captures the essence of the Maine Thoreau discovered and described in his book. The combination of short...
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Vincent van Goghs life was driven by passions, from the religious to the romantic. These passions illuminated his work as an artist, but also led to his many disappointments in life. Whether attempting to be a missionary, falling in love with his cousin, sheltering a prostitute and her children, proposing to his neighbors spinster daughter or establishing an art colony with Paul Gauguin failure haunted him. Although his uniquely vibrant colors and...
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"Heilige Mutter Gottes, erlöse Russland von Putin."
Im August 2012 wurden Maria Aljochina, Nadescha Tolokonnikowa und Jekaterina Samuzewitsch, drei Mitglieder des Punk-Kunstkollektivs Pussy Riot, wegen "Rowdytum aus religiös motiviertem Hass" zu zwei Jahren Straflager verurteilt - ein politischer Skandal, der ein riesiges Presse-Echo und weltweit Solidaritätsbekundungen hervorgerufen hat.
In dem vorliegenden Band wird bisher unveröffentlichtes...
5) Veritas
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A stunning monograph, depicting the real, unstaged, natural beauty of California's wine industry by a photographer and wine industry insider
Behind the polish and the glamour of the tasting room is an industry notable for its complex labor challenges and its constant duel against unforgiving natural conditions. Longtime Napa-based photographer Jimmy Hayes, who has been documenting the California wine industry since 2014, offers an intimate look at...
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East Austin, just across Interstate 35 from Austin, Texas's capital city, is a historically working-class neighborhood that in recent years has become an arts district and hotbed for real estate developers targeting a young urban population. The shops and restaurants that for decades served Latino and African American residents are being crowded out by coffee shops, cocktail bars, and upscale bakeries hoping to attract newer residents. The resulting...
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Nés aux quatre coins du monde, ils nous racontent leur Paris.
À l'initiative du musée de l'Histoire de l'Immigration (installé au Palais de la Porte dorée), vingt écrivains comptant chacun une longue bibliographie et lauréats de nombreux prix littéraires ont répondu à l'invitation de parler de LEUR Paris, tel qu'ils le vivent tous les jours, avec tendresse, forts de leur choix, conscients de leur chance. On n'est jamais aussi bien perçus...
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Best known for his remarkable photographs, few people are aware of Francis Browne's astonishing war record. Joining the British Army as a Chaplain in 1916, he served for most of the war with the Irish Guards, ministering to the troops at the Somme, Messines Ridge, Paschendaele, Ypres, Amiens, and Arras. Determined to stay at the front with his men, he was wounded five times, starting with a broken jaw in 1916, and was, gassed in 1918. Each time he...
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Strange, outdated laws from each of the 50 U.S. states-some overturned, some still on the books, and some merely the stuff of legends-are depicted with sly wit by Olivia Locher. Incisive, ironic, and gorgeous, these images will appeal to art buffs and trivia fans alike. A foreword from American poet Kenneth Goldsmith and an interview with the artist by Eric Shiner, former director of the Andy Warhol Museum, contextualize rising-star Locher's photography....
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In 2018, over one thousand New Yorkers posed for the camera and told their stories at JR's mobile photo studio and JR compiled their portraits into an astounding photographic mural-a portrait of the city-for the Brooklyn Museum.
This book features both the final mural and every individual photo, as well as a selection of compelling stories and a behind-the-scenes look at how this incredible work was made.
• This art piece captures the essence...
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What do artist models think about while posing nude on the stand? Do they watch you as much as you watch them? Are they musing about their misadventures or what they want to do when they put their clothes back on and go home? Is it possible that they are living, breathing bodies who may be reminiscing about their trips to Europe, Morocco or New York City? Are they perhaps cold, itchy or trying not to sneeze? Was it different for artist models...
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Secrets. Sigalerts. Ravines. Records.
In Paperback L.A., A Casual Anthology Book 3, our contributors deftly command fiction, nonfiction, playwriting, magazine writing, memoir and other forms to conjure up visions of a Beverly Hills Wonderbread factory, the founding of the first sustained gay rights organization in the country, early 20th-century wagon-train settlers in Dodger Stadium area, a late 20th-century DTLA traffic tie-up that becomes a kind...
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Paperback LA is a casual anthology of tales and riffs, of words and pictures. It's like having a friend who tells you about this great book or article they just read and then sends you some good bits so you don't have to wait to get the flavor. You can read it by the pool if you're staying in a motel, and talk to your friends in between selections. You can put it on your nightstand and read a little to get your mind moving in a different direction...
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Paperback LA Book 2 continues the engaging "Casual Anthology" series with genre-crossing writing gems, vibrant photo essays, and more. Memoirs, magazine articles, and magic realism all make an appearance. Contributors include Baby Peggy on Holly wood, Ray Bradbury on Venice Beach, Karen Tei Yamashita on freeways, Preston Lerner on auto racing, Naomi Hirahara on Terminal Island, Gina B. Nahai on the Persian Jewish diaspora, Ann Summa on urban cyclists,...
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No other artist working in mid-century pulp fiction created work as twisted as Lee Brown Coye. By the 1970s, after surviving a life-threatening illness, Coye would outdo himself, creating lurid illustrations exclusive to rare privately published books and fanzines. With nearly one hundred gloriously rendered Coye-penned images, Pulp Macabre showcases Coye's final and darkest era, containing some of the most passionately ghoulish artwork ever made....
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Treize écrivains et trois photographes réveillent en nous le sentiment que Bruxelles sommeille dans les plis de nos cœurs.
Une ville singulière et énigmatique que l'on aime ou que l'on rejette car elle est insaisissable, mais bien présente en nous.
Un ensemble de textes tendres, ironiques, intimistes, pour entrer en empathie avec une ville unique !
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J'aime Bruxelles et son grand corps mystérieux traversé par un cours d'eau qu'on...
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Before Brooklyn rose to international fame there existed a vibrant borough of neighborhoods rich with connections and traditions. During the 1970s and 1980s, photographer Larry Racioppo, a South Brooklynite with roots three generations deep, recorded Brooklyn on the cusp of being the trendy borough we know today.
In Brooklyn Before Racioppo lets us see the vitality of his native Brooklyn, stretching from historic Park Slope to the beginnings of Windsor...
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