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Maria Alexandra Vettese, Stephanie Congdon Barnes
A Year of Mornings: 3191 Miles Apart
by Princeton Architectural Press (Paperback)
The morning hours before the hustle and bustle of the day commences is the perfect time to pause and enjoy a sense of renewal and vitality. On the morning of December 7, 2006, Maria Alexandra Vettese and Stephanie Congdon Barnes each took a digital photo of everyday objects randomly arranged on their kitchen tables and, unbeknownst to one another, uploaded them to the website Flickr. "A Year of Mornings" collects 236 images – always taken before 10AM without discussion between the two women – from this uniquely 21st-century artistic collaboration. The intimacy of these photographs – discarded clothing, a view of a snowy day from the window, a table cloth – combined with their striking similarities in color and composition defies the reality of their long-distance collaboration. While clearly kindred spirits, the two women have met in person only once. Their friendship is maintained solely online, sustained by a shared love for moments of serenity, solitude, and ...
Steven Dick, Robert Jacobs, Constance Moore, Bertram Ulrich
America In Space: NASA's First Fifty Years (Nasa)
by Abrams Books (Hardcover)
NASA launches a yearlong celebration of its 50th anniversary in the fall of 2007, and Abrams is privileged to publish this visual history of its many achievements in manned and unmanned space travel. Written and edited by a team of experienced NASA staffers, and illustrated with many unpublished and rare photographs from the voluminous NASA archives scattered across the country, America in Space offers an unparalleled vision of half a century of exploration and discovery. The story of America’s space age is told with more than 400 carefully selected images. The story begins in the 1950s with intrepid test pilots venturing ever faster and higher, and opens out into the now-legendary Mercury and Apollo missions of the 1960s that made astronauts into national heroes. The space shuttle era shows us what everyday space travel might look like, while grand vistas of the universe expand our sense of wonder. The large format of the book captures both the human drama and the vast scale ...
Robert Ballard
Titanic: The Last Great Images
by Running Press (Hardcover)
Dead men tell no tales. Dead ships, however, do. Over seventy years after the great ocean liner sank, marine geologist Robert Ballard discovered the wreck of the Titanic 12,500 feet beneath the surface of the icy North Atlantic. Now Ballard presents the world with an opportunity to live the story of the famous ship through his amazing last great images, before Titanic’s remains are gone forever. This is a story told in rusted, twisted metal and debris, but it is also a human story told in a porcelain doll’s face, an empty shoe, and an abandoned derby hat. Titanic: The Last Great Images maps the wreck of the ship from a variety of perspectives to give a completely new picture of the triumph and tragedy that was Titanic. This illustrated volume—and a National Geographic special—weave the strands of the ocean liner’s story together in renderings done by the ship’s original designers, charts of the debris field, and period illustrations. Robert Ballard provides the ...
Alberto Oliva, Norberto Angeletti
In Vogue: The Illustrated History of the World's Most Famous Fashion Magazine
by Rizzoli (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2006-09-22)
In Vogue is a fascinating look at the history of the world's most influential magazine. The complete compendium is illustrated with hundreds of covers and archival interiors of past Vogue editions, featuring the work of some of the twentieth century's most respected artists, cover illustrators, and photographers—from Edward Steichen, Toni Frissell, and Erwin Blumenfeld to Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, David Bailey, Helmut Newton, Annie Leibovitz, Mario Testino, Steven Klein, Bruce Webber, and Herb Ritts. In 1909, an entrepreneurial New Yorker named Condé Nast took charge of a struggling society journal and transformed it into the most glamorous fashion magazine of the twentieth century. In Vogue traces the history, development and influence of this media colossus—from its beginning as a social gazette in the late nineteenth century, to the exploration of modern fashion photography and new visuals in the mid-twentieth century, to its status as the top style magazine today. The ...
Jim Shaughnessy, Jeff Brouws
The Call of Trains: Railroad Photographs by Jim Shaughnessy
by W.W. Norton & Co. (Hardcover)
Jim Shaughnessy is a revered name among railway photographers. This collection, the best of his work over a forty-year career, features photographs taken between 1946 and 1988, with an emphasis on the American railroad culture of the fifties and sixties. Jeff Brouws - a railway authority and photo historian - has contributed a biographical essay that traces Shaughnessy's beginnings photographing steam locomotives in Troy, New York, to his documentation of the dramatic steam-to-diesel transition, with an emphasis on the northeastern United States and Canada, where the concentration of railway action and often deep snow resulted in beautiful and unusual images.Not just a compendium of photographs of locomotives, this book covers the whole railroad world - the sheds, tunnels, viaducts, station yards and more. It is a wonderful document of what is arguably railroading's most compelling era.
National Geographic
Visions of Paradise (National Geographic)
by National Geographic (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-10-21)
The photographers at National Geographicsome of the most peripatetic and adventurous people on Earthreveal wonders of nature so uniquely beautiful that we’re filled with hope and inspiration to celebrate and protect the world’s environments. Visions of Paradise is the magnificent result of their work. Through breathtaking images from across the globe, and stories as exquisite as the glance of a leopard seal, these men and women share the places they have personally found to be Heaven on Earth. Explore stunning re-naturalized habitats in New Zealand with Brian Skerry, share the thrilling sight of an undiscovered waterfall with Stephen Alvarez, enjoy the refreshing cover of a Congo jungle with Nick Nichols, and spot the most beautiful butterfly in Borneo with Tim Lamanto name just a few. Swim with penguins beneath Antarctic ice, rest on a leaf with a dragonfly, follow the tracks of dinosaurs…and know, that every beautiful sight that meets your eyes is a precious ...
Jon Stewart
Naked Pictures of Famous People
by William Morrow (Hardcover) (Release Date: 1998-09-16)
John Szarkowski
The Photographer's Eye
by The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Paperback) (Release Date: 2007-03-01)
The Photographer's Eye by John Szarkowski is a twentieth-century classic--an indispensable introduction to the visual language of photography. Based on a landmark exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in 1964, and originally published in 1966, the book has long been out of print. It is now available again to a new generation of photographers and lovers of photography in this duotone printing that closely follows the original. Szarkowski's compact text eloquently complements skillfully selected and sequenced groupings of 172 photographs drawn from the entire history and range of the medium. Celebrated works by such masters as Cartier-Bresson, Evans, Steichen, Strand, and Weston are juxtaposed with vernacular documents and even amateur snapshots to analyze the fundamental challenges and opportunities that all photographers have faced. Szarkowski, the legendary curator who worked at the Museum from 1962 to 1991, has published many influential books. But none more radically and ...
Julie Mooney, Editors of Ripley's Believe It or Not
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Encyclopedia of the Bizarre (Ripley's Believe It or Not!)
by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers (Hardcover)
AN ASTONISHING TOUR OF THE MOST BIZARRE AND AMAZING OCCURRENCES FROM AROUND THE GLOBE!Ripleys Believe It or Not! Encyclopedia of the Bizarre is the weirdest, wackiest, most outrageously srange collection of feats, stories, facts and records— all real and all recorded by the editors of Ripley's Believe It or Not!More than 6,000 mind boggling oddities!More than 1,400 eye-popping photographs, illustrations and cartoons! Covers every subject including Accidents and Disasters; Feats and Stunts, Prophecies, Coincidences, Animals, Human Anatomy, Sports, Weather, Architecture, Archaeology, the Unexplained and more! IMPOSSIBLE TO PUT DOWN! WHERE ELSE CAN YOU LEARN THAT:AN ESTIMATED 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 SNOWFLAKES HAVE FALLEN TO THE EARTH SINCE THE EARTH WAS FORMED!QUEEN ISABEAU OF BAVARIA USED A MIXTURE OF BOAR'S BRAINS, CROCODILE GLANDS, AND WOLF BLOOD AS SKIN LOTION!ALFRED LANGEVIN COULD SMOKE A PIPE, PLAY A RECORDER, SMOKE A CIGARETTE AND EVEN BLOW UP A ...
Barbara London, John Upton, Jim Stone, Ken Kobré, ...
Photography
by Prentice Hall (Paperback)
