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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Snapshot Snapshot Elizabeth Wynne Easton "The advent of the Kodak camera in 1888 made photography accessible to amateurs as well as to professionals. Artists were not immune to its allure, and many began experimenting with the camera as a m… OL15941486W
Wartime kiss Wartime kiss Alexander Nemerov "Wartime Kiss is a personal meditation on the haunting power of American photographs and films from World War II and the later 1940s. Starting with a powerful reinterpretation of one of the most famo… OL16704955W
Capturing the Light Capturing the Light Roger Watson,Helen Rappaport An intimate look at the journeys of two men -- a gentleman scientist and a visionary artist -- as they struggled to capture the world around them, and in the process invented modern photography. Duri… OL16811574W
100 photographs 100 photographs Geoff Dyer,David von Drehle,Ben Goldberger "An exploration of the 100 photographs that shaped the human experience."--Page [4] cover. OL17921210W
Getting the picture Getting the picture Vanessa R. Schwartz,Jason Hill "Powerful and often controversial, news pictures promise to make the world at once immediate and knowable. Yet while many great writers and thinkers have evaluated photographs of atrocity and crisis,… OL20015750W