Stephanie Byram was an active, athletic young woman entering the prime of her life. But a few short weeks after her thirtieth birthday she was diagnosed with a highly aggressive form of breast cancer - Stage IIIb infiltrative ductal carcinoma. Within two months she underwent a double mastectomy. Doctors gave her a 50 percent chance of surviving ...
I found out yesterday. I took an $8 pregnancy test, which involved sticking a plastic strip between my legs and peeing on it. The strip had two pink lines: pregnant . . . I blinked and blinked, hoping for it to fade, but it didn’t . . . So begins Jennifer Matesa’s atypical account of a typical pregnancy -- one where the mother-to-be ...
"Evocative images, eloquent testimony-a frank and often inspiring exploration of the experience of mental illness."-Peter D. Kramer, author of "Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind" and "Listening to Prozac" A tree's bare limbs against a grey sky, a young woman's vintage slip, the view beneath a bridge's span. Charlee Brodsky's stark black-and-white ...
In 1986, the USX Homestead Works closed, with the loss of thousands of jobs. This book looks at the people of Homestead and how they dealt with the trauma that affected them, detailing the modifications and revisions of domestic strategies in a public crisis.
Each photograph by Brodsky is rendered into a poem by Daniels. There is a special edition of the hardcover that sells exclusively from the publisher for $50, signed by poet and photographer with a print of their work.
In the 1890s, Pittsburgh's catastrophic natural disasters, violent labour disputes, spectacular mills, and smoky atmosphere attracted photographers from all over the world. This text presents 111 photographs of Pittsburgh dating back to 1850.
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