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Snapshot
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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… |
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Afterimage of empire
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Zahid R. Chaudhary |
" Afterimage of Empire provides a philosophical and historical account of early photography in India that focuses on how aesthetic experiments in colonial photography changed the nature of perception… |
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Through amateur eyes
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Frances Guerin |
" We have seen the films of professionals and propagandists celebrate Adolf Hitler, his SS henchmen, and the Nazi Party. But what of the documentary films and photographs of amateurs, soldiers, and o… |
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Believing is seeing
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Errol Morris |
"Academy Award-wining filmmaker Errol Morris investigates the hidden truths behind a series of documentary photographs. In Believing Is Seeing Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris turns his ey… |
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Wartime kiss
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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… |
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National Geographic 125 years
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Mark Collins Jenkins |
"Featuring show-stopping imagery and thrilling behind-the-scenes tales, National Geographic 125 Years captures the heart of National Geographic's fascinating history, from its earliest days as a scie… |
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Capturing the Light
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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… |
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100 photographs
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Geoff Dyer,David von Drehle,Ben Goldberger |
"An exploration of the 100 photographs that shaped the human experience."--Page [4] cover. |
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Getting the picture
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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,… |
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