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Publisher
Aperture
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Photography Changes Everything offers a provocative rethinking of photography's impact on our culture and our daily lives. Compiling hundreds of images and responses from leading authorities on photography, it offers a brilliant, reader-friendly exploration of the many ways in which photographs package information and values, demand and hold attention, and shape our knowledge of and experience in the world. The volume draws on the extraordinary visual...
Author
Publisher
Penny de Guerre
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The greater Sedona area is famous for the red rock formations found nowhere else on earth. From grand landmarks like Thunder Mountain and Cathedral Rock to the smallest heart-shaped treasures, the red rocks define the landscape. Below your feet you'll find wild streams and hidden hiking trails, and high above you'll see skies of fierce, ever changing color. Red Rock Radiance celebrates the magic of this ancient high desert of Sedona."--Back cover....
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Publisher
Sedona Shadow Chasers Company LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In this retrospective of intriguing and mysterious shadows captured by photographer Diann Kincaid, is a time capsule of Sedona, Arizona: a glimpse of its past. The images bring back a time when life was simpler, allowing the reader to take the time and reflect on Sedona's history and relive it."--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
A photographic tribute to the American cowboy captures the hardships and loneliness of this vanishing way of life and reveals the spectacular natural beauty of the WestThe magnificent photographs of cowboys and the West, sensitive, lonely, beautiful and real, rare superbly matched with short anecdotal material that makes wonderful reading.
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Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Through intimate and compelling photographs taken by her husband Paul Child, a gifted photographer, France is a Feast documents how Julia Child first discovered French cooking and the French way of life. Paul and Julia moved to Paris in 1948 where he was cultural attaché for the US Information Service, and in this role he met Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Brassai, and other leading lights of the photography world. As Julia recalled: "Paris...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Language
English
Description
-Madrid, 1957- Under the oppressive dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into Spain under the welcoming promise of sunshine and wine. Among them is eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson, the son of an oil tycoon, who arrives in Madrid with his parents hoping to connect with the country of his mother's birth through the lens of his camera. Photography - and fate - introduce...
Author
Publisher
SF Design
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Archaeoastronomy is a relatively new field of study that examines the astronomical knowledge of prehistoric peoples.These sophisticated sky-watchers cannily created observatories to help them understand the turning points in the year. Knowing when spring began, when to plant and harvest crops, and when winter was turning had an overwhelming significance in their lives. Steve Mulligan has applied his large-format camera skills to his most recent fifteen-year-long...
15) Yavapai County
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Series
Language
English
Description
In 1864, Arizona was divided into four counties named after the local Indian communities: Yavapai, Yuma, Mohave, and Pima. Believed to have been the largest county ever created in the lower 48 states at the time, Yavapai encompassed over 65,000 square miles until 1891, when the state was divided into additional counties. Yavapai finally settled to 8,125 square miles. While still a US territory in 1900, Yavapai County had a population just under 13,800...
Author
Publisher
Aperture
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
To celebrate the centennial of America's National Park Service, "Picturing America's National Parks" brings together some of the finest landscape photography in the history of the medium, from America's most magnificent and sacred environments. Photography has played an integral role in both the formation of the National Parks and in the depiction of America itself, through this natural resource. From Yosemite to the most recent 2013 addition of Pinnacles...