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Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs
A celebrated photographer for 40 years, Ellen Graham has worked
with magazines across America, photographing some of the world's
most talked-about people: actors, artists, performers, socialites,
and the glitterati that we are all obsessed with. Graham's images
strike a balance between the glamour of a formal Hollywood photo
shoot and the intrigue of a tabloid expose for a true intimate look
at such legendary figures as Frank Sinatra, Natalie Wood, Warren
Beatty, and Carrie Fisher. Whether shooting actors, performers, or
European royalty, she redefines the resonating myths that have come
to surround these figures. Talking Pictures brings together over
200 images culled from Graham's work for such magazines as People
and Time, her personal archives, and her collection of family
photographs, accompanied by a personal narrative that takes you
behind the scenes of each celebrated image and breathes life into
the glamour of Hollywood's golden age.
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Angels
(Hardcover)
Joseph Condello
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R1,283
Discovery Miles 12 830
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Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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Can you spot the Big Dipper in the night sky? Or Orion's Belt? Or
Cassiopeia? Even in cities, and without the aid of a telescope,
these are a few of the easier constellations to find. In fact, a
great deal can be seen in the night sky with the naked eye - if you
know what you're looking for. Night Sky presents 200 colour
photographs of stunning nocturnal vistas all visible to the naked
eye. From the majesty of the Northern Lights (Aurora borealis) as
seen from Norway or Canada, and the Southern Lights (Aurora
australis) as seen from Australia, to seeing the clarity of the
Milky Way over an Italian forest, from witnessing a lunar eclipse
in Indonesia to charting the course of the International Space
Station across the Indian night, and from seeing a Geminid meteor
shower in New Mexico to recognizing the Great Bear (Ursa Major)
constellation over New England, the book is a feast of nocturnal
delights. Where necessary, additional inset photographs indicate
the formation of a constellation. Presented in a landscape format
and with 200 outstanding colour photographs supported by
fascinating captions, Night Sky is a stunning collection of images.
Andrew Feiler has been named Prix de la Photographie Paris 'Book
Photographer of the Year' 2022. Additionally, A Better Life for
Their Children has won the Gold medal for 'Documentary'. A Sarah
Mills Hodge Fund publication Born to Jewish immigrants, Julius
Rosenwald rose to lead Sears, Roebuck & Company and turn it
into the world's largest retailer. Born into slavery, Booker T.
Washington became the founding principal of Tuskegee Institute. In
1912 the two men launched an ambitious program to partner with
black communities across the segregated South to build public
schools for African American children. This watershed moment in the
history of philanthropy-one of the earliest collaborations between
Jews and African Americans-drove dramatic improvement in African
American educational attainment and fostered the generation who
became the leaders and foot soldiers of the civil rights movement.
Of the original 4,978 Rosenwald schools built between 1917 and 1937
across fifteen southern and border states, only about 500 survive.
While some have been repurposed and a handful remain active
schools, many remain unrestored and at risk of collapse. To tell
this story visually, Andrew Feiler drove more than twenty-five
thousand miles, photographed 105 schools, and interviewed dozens of
former students, teachers, preservationists, and community leaders
in all fifteen of the program states. A Better Life for their
Children includes eighty-five duotone images that capture interiors
and exteriors, schools restored and yet-to-be restored, and
portraits of people with unique, compelling connections to these
schools. Brief narratives written by Feiler accompany each
photograph, telling the stories of Rosenwald schools' connections
to the Trail of Tears, the Great Migration, the Tuskegee Airmen,
Brown v. Board of Education, embezzlement, murder, and more. Beyond
the photographic documentation, A Better Life for Their Children
includes essays from three prominent voices. Congressman John
Lewis, who attended a Rosenwald school in Alabama, provides an
introduction; preservationist Jeanne Cyriaque has penned a history
of the Rosenwald program; and Brent Leggs, director of African
American Cultural Heritage at the National Trust for Historic
Preservation, has written a plea for preservation that serves as an
afterword.
World War II is one of the first conflicts to be extensively
recorded in detail by both combatants and journalists, and many
iconic photos of the fighting and battlefields have been passed
down to us today. But how do these battlefields look now, following
the extensive rebuilding of the postwar era? Featuring 75
battlefield sites divided by wartime theatre, World War II
Battlefields allows the reader to explore well-known battle
locations today and compare them to images captured during the
height of the conflict. Examine the huge concrete bunker at Fort
Eben Emael, Belgium, captured by German glider troops in May 1940
and still intact today; see the beaches at Tarawa atoll, a scene of
fierce fighting between the US Marines and the Japanese defenders
in 1943; or the streets of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, the
centre of a bloody battle between the II SS Panzer Korps and the
Red Army; explore the Norman village of Villers-Bocage, where a few
German Tiger tanks halted the advance of the British 7th Armoured
Division a week after the D-Day landings; see the twin-medieval
towers of the bridge at Remagen on the Rhine river, made famous in
photos and movies; see the dozens of Japanese ships sunk in Truk
Lagoon following comprehensive American air attacks, and today a
popular dive site; and examine Monte Cassino monastery in Italy,
destroyed by Allied aerial bombing and since completely rebuilt as
a place of pilgrimage.
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