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In
Remembrance...
During the three months that the
September 11 Photo Project was on display
at a donated gallery in New York City's
SoHo neighborhood, more that forty
thousand people visited the space to view
the photos and read the words of the
project's contributors. The photos in this
book, selected from the submissions of
more than five hundred photographers,
young and old, amateur and professional,
give a permanent voice to those who made
the September 11 Photo Project what it is:
an attempt to build new understanding from
the ashes of what has been.
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Available for
the first time...
The handsome volume Lewis Carroll,
Photographer displays for the first
time the extensive collection of photos
from the Princeton University Library.
Unlike most of the other amateurs in his
circle, he persevered to become a
dedicated, prolific, and remarkably gifted
photographer, creating approximately 3,000
images during his twenty-five years of
photographic activity. The author of
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
photographed his Victorian world, leaving
behind carefully constructed notebooks of
portraits, gorgeously reproduced here and
accompanied by readable essays and careful
documentation.
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Excellent
Photography!
In 1990, inhabitants of the USSR got
their first taste of democracy. In the
following three years, photographer
Shepard Sherbell traveled the country and
documented the face of Russia with
haunting black-and-white photographs of a
nation in transition. Soviets: Pictures
from the End of the USSR delivers
supermarket shelves predictably bare,
giant industrial gas tanks converted into
cozy dwellings, the irrepressible Hill of
Crosses in Lithuania, and most of all the
stalwart faces of Mother Russia's
children.
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Earth from
above...
Earth from Above: 365 Days
presents a resplendent view of our complex
home. Each new day reveals another
breathtaking, and sometimes heartbreaking,
image from the sky: an endless field of
Kenyan flamingos, the crowded streets of
Tokyo, the crisscrossing highways of Los
Angeles, or a misty blue lagoon in
Iceland. Descriptions of nature's bounty
and wrath, along with human impact both
good and bad, run throughout. Against the
immensity of life on earth, each of us can
sometimes feel so very small.
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The great wide
open...
A Note from the Curators: Claudia
Bohn-Spector and I first conceived of the
idea for The Great Wide Open: Panoramic
Photographs of the American West in
1998 following our collaboration on
another show at the Huntington Library.
Panoramic photography had long held our
interest, particularly in its historic use
in documenting and explaining the vast
reaches of the American West. Our initial
research revealed that few exhibits had
dealt exclusively with the medium, despite
its long-standing popularity.
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Ansel Adams at
100...
Oversized, bound in a natural linen
cloth with matching slipcase, designed by
the award-winning J. Abbott Miller of
Pentagram, and featuring 114 tritone and
23 duotone illustrations (the package also
includes a framable reproduction print of
an Adams image), the brand-new Ansel Adams
at 100 is arresting. A showcase of 114 of
Adams's finest photographs chosen by
legendary photographer and curator John
Szarkowski, this volume's importance to
understanding Adams's profound
contribution to American art is
unparalleled.
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