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'Cuba Cars and Cigars' is full of glorious colour images of the
rare and varied Cuban-owned 1950s American and European
automobiles, trucks, and station wagons that were imported before
1961. Among the famous Marques that feature are Cadillacs, Chevies,
Buick, Dodge, Oldsmobile, Ford, Packard, De Soto, Pontiac,
Plymouth, Edsel, Mercury and Metropolitan, Hillman, Singer and
Austin, Nash Sedans, a Lloyd 600 German 2-cylinder/4-stroke 596cc
car, Ramblers and SAABs, Mercs, Humber, Standard Vanguard, Ford
Consul/Zephyr, Hillman Husky and Minx, Singer Gazelle and Austin.
Most of these vehicles are still in running order, and are passed
down from generation to generation. Trucks include Fords, a Fargo,
Dodges and Chevys, not forgetting cigars, street urchins, and the
lovely ladies of Havana. All of these are uniquely photographed,
written and compiled by 'our man in Havana'.
The term Panzergrenadier was introduced in 1942 and applied equally
to the infantry component of Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe and later
Waffen-SS Panzergrenadiere divisions. As this classic new Images of
War book describes, these elite divisions fought as mechanized
infantry and escort for and in close cooperation with panzers and
other armoured fighting vehicles. Trained to fight both mounted and
on foot, their priority was to maintain the fast momentum of
armoured troops on the battlefield. Using a wealth of rare, often
unpublished, photographs with detailed captions and text, the
author charts the fighting record of the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe
Panzergrenadiertruppe units. This includes their initial successes
on the Eastern Front. But as defeat approached, they were forced on
the defensive on all fronts including the bitter fighting in Italy
and the Western Front. As well as describing their many actions,
the book details the vehicles and weapons used and main
personalities.
In the summer of 1936, writer James Agee and photographer Walker
Evans, on assignment
for "Fortune" magazine, went to central Alabama to document the
lives of three white
sharecropper families. Agee's editors killed the article, and
after a torturous five-year
struggle to do artistic justice to the material, the author
finally published it in book form
as "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," only to see it sink with barely
a ripple. The posthumous
revival of Agee's literary fortunes led to the work's reissue in
1960, its adoption as an unofficial
bible by civil rights workers, and its enshrinement as an American
classic. It has
remained in print ever since.
In this, the third volume in The Works of James Agee series,
editor Hugh Davis not
only offers a thoroughly annotated edition of the Agee-Evans
masterpiece, featuring invaluable
explanatory notes as well as notes comparing the published work to
extant copies of the
original manuscript, but also supplements that text with a wealth
of additional material: an
insightful critical essay, variant versions of key sections,
unused chapters, correspondence
between Agee and others involved in the book's publication
(notably Houghton Mifflin editor
Robert Linscott), generous selections from the author's notebooks,
and much more. This
volume opens with the original gallery of Evans's thirty-one
photographs from the 1941
edition and also includes, as part of the supplementary material,
the expanded gallery of
sixty-two photos that appeared in the 1960 edition. Here as well
is the text of the rejected
"Fortune" article, "Cotton Tenants," fully annotated for the first
time.
Informed by Agee's love of his subjects, his acute observational
skills, and his poetic,
passionate, raging voice--not to mention the stark artistry of
Evan's black and white photography
"Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" is a book that to this day defies
easy classification.
This volume recaptures the aesthetic impact of the original,
corrects errors from earlier
editions, and, most important, illuminates the difficult process
that spawned its creation.
Largely isolated from the world for more than four decades, Myanmar
has made a remarkable return to the global stage following a
political transformation that represents a watershed moment in the
country's history. Now, for the first time ever, the rich culture,
stunning landscapes and diverse peoples of the country are
presented in a unique visual time capsule. Here is the new Myanmar
as seen over a single week by a team of thirty famous photographers
from eleven different countries. Their mission? To capture the life
and spirit of Myanmar from every angle in every corner of the
country.
Gary Otte accompanied the Aga Khan as a photographer for more than
thirty years, and gained unique access to the archives of the
Prince at Aiglemont in France. Presented for the first time in one
volume, these images offer a narrative of the Aga Khan's life and
work as a public figure and private citizen. More than 200 photos,
each with a caption, span eight decades and forty-eight different
countries, and include the work of Gary Otte and fifty other
photographers. From his childhood years in Nairobi, Kenya, to his
education at Harvard and his numerous visits to various countries
all over the world, the photographs above all illustrate the Aga
Khan's numerous achievements in the areas such as economic
development, education, international diplomacy, humanitarian aid,
and architecture in Islamic countries, especially through the
actions of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN). This
unprecedented collection of images is certain to interest anyone
curious about the life of a man who has straddled the globe in more
ways than one.
Yo Soy Fidel follows the cortege of Fidel Castro, former Cuban
revolutionary and politician, over a period of several days in late
2016. Michael Christopher Brown leaned out a rear passenger window
of his passing vehicle in order to photograph Cubans waiting
alongside the highway for Fidel's military convoy, carrying his
cremated remains from Havana to Santiago, to pass. The route
mirrored Fidel's post-revolution journey from Santiago to Havana in
1959, which helped solidify his hero and legend. In Yo Soy Fidel ,
fragments of this initial image have survived his death though
perhaps inevitably lead to a question of what is to come. A country
largely seen for half a century as a symbol of dignity and hope in
the fight against imperialism, Cuba has a choice - stay true to
Fidel's revolutionary path or succumb to globalization and all it
entails.
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