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44) Tracing your ancestors through family photographs: a complete guide for family and local historians
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Jayne Shrimpton's complete guide to dating, analysing and understanding family photographs is essential reading and reference for anyone undertaking genealogical and local history research. Using over 150 old photographs as examples, she shows how such images can give a direct insight into the past and into the lives of the individuals who are portrayed in them. Almost every family and local historian works with photographs, but often the fascinating...
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Go beyond the birthday snapshot and learn how to take inspired and un-posed family photographs that capture the ages and stages of family life. Real Life Family Photography puts an end to awkward family photos, encouraging you to take inspiration from the everyday details, while offering tips on fundamental techniques such as exposure, composition, lighting and focus. Discover how to get baby pictures that you'll treasure for decades, capture evocative...
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This volume contains a collection of more than 200 color and black-and-white photographs that spans the first 20 years of work by American portrait photographer, Annie Leibovitz (b. 1949). Her early photographs describe her family, entertainment celebrities and their fans, and even simple, non-famous subjects. From the playful magic of Whoopi Goldberg in a bath of milk, Bette Midler under a blanket of roses and Sting baked in mud, this book shows...
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Rainbow Revolution' is a collection of vibrant portraits that celebrate the expanding spectrum of queer identity and visibility. Starting with an empty white box, renowned photographer Magnus Hastings invites members of the LGBTQIA+ community to creatively envision the space. Funny, political, personal, racy, magical, and matter-of-fact-each individual presents themselves as they would like to be seen.
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"'A photograph is worth a thousand words' has never been more fitting than in this thought-provoking title! Photographs serve as snapshots of time, capturing the emotions, humanity, and history of a specific moment. Since the camera's invention, photographs have captured pivotal moments that defined and shaped American history. This book for young readers features a variety of photographs for readers to examine as primary sources. Readers will investigate...
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The first definitive monograph of color photographs by American street photographer Vivian Maier Photographer Vivian Maier's allure endures even though many details of her life continue to remain a mystery. Her story-the secretive nanny-photographer who became a pioneer photographer-has only been pieced together from the thousands of images she made and the handful of facts that have surfaced about her life. Vivian Maier: The Color Work is the largest...
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A beautiful and fascinating portrait of what it looks like to be over 100 years old, this book invites us to look into the face of a century of life experience. Aging Gracefully compiles 52 portraits of centenarians captured by the compassionate, almost reverently minimalist lens of photographer Karsten Thormaehlen. Each portrait is accompanied by a short bio with quotes and wisdom on life, love, food, health and old age.
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The Selby Is in Your Place was conceived when fashion and interiors photographer Todd Selby began taking portraits of dynamic and creative people-authors, musicians, artists, and designers-in their home environments and posting them on his web site. Nosy by nature, he wanted to see how personal style was reflected in private spaces. Lucky for us, he found his answer in the color-rich and eclectic quarters of a diverse group of subjects, including...
56) Goodnight selfie
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After a young girl learns how to take photos of herself on a cell phone, she takes selfies all day, while brushing her teeth, skateboarding to school, and visiting her Grandma Joe.
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