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A monochromatic tribute to New York City that depicts all the shadings of this vital metropolis in glimpses that are sometimes gritty, sometimes elegant yet always true to life. Previously available only in paperback, this selection of images spans Elliott Erwitt's illustrious career.
83) New York
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"One photographer. One complete picture. We present 24 hours in the life of one of the world's most iconic cities. From sunrise to after sunset, from famous landmarks to lesser-known neighbourhoods, this celebration of New York is packed with local insights and visual stories to showcase what makes the city truly great."--
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"Curated from hundreds of thousands of photos from The New York Times' archives. Only in New York brings together memorable, poignant, and historic images of the Big Apple....This collection spans more than a century, providing a vivid chronicle of metropolitan life at its most vibrant."--Book jacket.
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From the Castro Valley in San Francisco to the conga-line of Christopher Street that cuts through New York's West Village the vanished world that the photos in Nicholas Blair's book revitalize have far less to do with capturing specific places than with freezing a unique time--one in which the very concept of "gay streets" had meanings and functions nowhere to be found in the modern world, queer or otherwise. In the era of these photos--between 1979...
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"High Mas explores Caribbean identity through photography, criticism, and personal narrative. Taking a sophisticated and unapologetically subjective Caribbean point of view, Browne delves into Mas as an emancipatory practice. The photographs and essays give the viewer an opportunity to see how performers are or wish to be perceived, as well as how the photographer is implicated in that dynamic. The resulting interplay encourages an informed, nuanced...
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"'Hey Mister, throw me some beads!' is a phrase that is iconic in New Orleans' Mardi Gras street argot. Strings of beads, doubloons, and other trinkets are passed out or thrown from the floats in the Mardi Gras parades to spectators lining the streets. In 1974, Bruce Gilden was a young photographer when he first went down to Mardi Gras to shoot his first personal essay away from his home city New York. But when Gilden first stepped foot in New Orleans,...
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Louisiana Medley celebrates the 30-year collaboration of photographers Keith Calhoun (born 1955) and Chandra McCormick (born 1957). Partners in life and work, the two have worked together to document African American life in and around their native New Orleans. Calhoun and McCormicks photographs show the artists in tune with each other as well as the rich complexity of Louisiana identity, from the local street culture and parades of their city to...
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"Diane Arbus (1923-1971) is one of the most distinctive and provocative artists of the twentieth century. Her photographs of children and eccentrics, couples and circus performers, female impersonators and nudists, are among the most recognizable images of our time. This book is the definitive study of the artist's first seven years of work, from 1956 to 1962. Drawn primarily from the rich holdings of the Metropolitan Museum's Diane Arbus Archive--a...
96) Brassaï
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This Brassai overview gathers outstanding prints of his finest and most popular photographs, drawing on the Estate Brassai in Paris and the collections of leading museums in France and the United States. The work is organized into 18 thematic groupings, such as Paris at Night, Portraits, Self-Portraits, Body of a Woman, Graffiti, Places and Things, Pleasures, and The Street, focusing throughout on his celebrated depictions of 1930s Paris.
97) Timeless
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"Kamoinge, from the Gikuyu language of Kenya, means a group of people acting together. ... In this most expansive Kamoinge collection to date, we share our timeless vision, lived and photographed by our members, from the founders to the young lions who are the next generation. ..."--Page 5.
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"The first African American photographer to be hired full time by Life magazine, Gordon Parks was often sent on assignments involving social issues that his white colleagues were not asked to cover. In 1950 he returned on one such assignment to his hometown of Fort Scott in southeastern Kansas: he was to provide photographs for a piece on segregated schools and their impact on black children in the years prior to Brown v. Board of Education. Parks...
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