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Robert Frank’s and Todd Webb’s parallel 1955 projects to
photograph America are considered in the context of
mid-twentieth-century American culture In 1955 two
photographers were awarded grants from the John Simon Guggenheim
Foundation to embark on trips across the United States. Robert
Frank (1924–2019) drove coast to coast, photographing the
highways, bars, and people that formed the basis for his widely
admired publication The Americans (1958). Todd Webb (1905–2000)
walked across the country, searching for “vanishing Americana and
what is taking its place.” Unaware of each other’s
work, the photographers produced strikingly similar images of the
highway, parades, and dim, smoky barrooms. Yet while Frank’s
grainy, off-kilter style revealed many inequities of American life,
Webb’s carefully composed images embraced clear detail and
celebrated the individual oddities of Americans and their locales.
This revelatory book is the first to publish Webb’s 1955
photographs and connects these parallel projects for the first
time. More than one hundred images accompany text illuminating
Frank’s and Webb’s different perspectives and approaches to
similar subjects and places; the difference in reception of
Frank’s iconic work and Webb’s relatively unknown series; and
the place of the road trip in shaping American identity at
midcentury. Published in association with the Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston Exhibition Schedule: Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston (October 8, 2023–January 7, 2024)
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover,
Massachusetts (February 10–July 30, 2024)
Brandywine Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania (February
8–May 4, 2025)
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Mecca (Paperback)
Susan Straight
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Little Women (Paperback)
Louisa May Alcott; Introduction by Regina Barreca; Afterword by Susan Straight
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No Easy Way (Hardcover)
Arthur L. Littleworth; Foreword by V.P. Franklin; Introduction by Susan Straight
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R754
Discovery Miles 7 540
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From National Book Award finalist Susan Straight comes a haunting
historical novel about a Louisiana slave girl's perilous journey to
freedom.
Daughter of an African mother and a white father she never knew,
Moinette is a house maid on a plantation south of New Orleans. At
fourteen she is sold, separated from her mother without a chance to
say goodbye. Bright, imaginative and well aware of everything she
risks, Moinette at once begins to prepare for an opportunity to
escape. Inspired by a true story, "A Million Nightingales" portrays
Moinette's experience-and the treacherous world she must
navigate-with uncommon richness, intricacy, and drama.
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Little Women (Paperback)
Louisa May Alcott; Introduction by Regina Barreca; Afterword by Susan Straight
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Louisa May Alcott shares the innocence of girlhood in this classic
coming of age story about four sisters-Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. In
picturesque nineteenth-century New England, tomboyish Jo, beautiful
Meg, fragile Beth, and romantic Amy are responsible for keeping a
home while their father is off to war. At the same time, they must
come to terms with their individual personalities-and make the
transition from girlhood to womanhood. It can all be quite a
challenge. But the March sisters, however different, are nurtured
by their wise and beloved Marmee, bound by their love for each
other and the feminine strength they share. Readers of all ages
have fallen instantly in love with these Little Women. Their story
transcends time-making this novel endure as a classic piece of
American literature that has captivated generations of readers with
their charm, innocence, and wistful insights. This Signet Classics
edition contains Little Women in its entirety, including Parts I
and II. With an Introduction by Regina Barecca and an Afterword by
Susan Straight
A "WASHINGTON POST" BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
From the author of "A Million Nightingales" ("a writer of
exceptional gifts and grace"--Joyce Carol Oates) comes a luminous
new novel about the forces that tear families apart and the ties
that bind them together.
Fantine Antoine is a travel writer, a profession that keeps her
happily away from her Southern California home. When she returns to
mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of her closest childhood
friend, Glorette, she finds herself pulled into the tumultuous life
of Glorette's twenty-two-year-old son--and Fantine's
godson--Victor. After getting involved in a shooting, Victor has
fled to New Orleans. Together with her father, Fantine follows
Victor, determined to help him avoid the criminal future that he
suddenly seems destined for. On this journey her father will reveal
the wrenching secrets of his past, and Fantine will be compelled to
question the most essential choices she's made in her life.
Susan Straight's most powerful novel yet is framed by two race riots: the little known Tulsa riots of the 1920s, in which white Tulsa burned down the town's black enclave; and the notorious L. A. riots of the 1990s.
Straight's brilliant story of the effects of violence in America on three generations of a family is told through the lives of the Thompsons, a large clan who live in Treetown, above downtown Rio Seco, California, and operate a car towing and repair business. Patriarch Hosea is a proud man, and a hardened one, whose father was killed in the violence that erupted in Tulsa many years earlier. All Hosea's memories come flooding black with ferocious force when the bodies of two white women are found engulfed in flames in an abandoned car on his property. These are the first signs that someone wants Hosea off his land; it is up to his son Marcus, the only one of the six children of Hosea and his half-Mexican wife who can negotiate with the white world, to help the family hold on to their home and their livelihood.
But it is only when Marcus' nephew Motrice-a young man infatuated with guns and the power that they bring- comes back to Rio Seco from gang-ridden Los Angeles that the real secrets of the bodies found on Thompson land are revealed, as Rio Seco erupts in the same wave of trashing and looting that has engulfed the nearby metropolis.
The Gettin Place is a powerful portrait of a family struggling to defend its turf in a changing world, to hold on to the gettin place, the source from which they derive the tools for survival.
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