Written when they were 18 years old, "Do Hard Things" is the Harris twins' revolutionary message in its purest and most compelling form, giving readers a tangible glimpse of what is possible for teens who actively resist cultural lies that limit their potential. Multnomah Publishers
As the baby-boomers reach retirement age, this timely book examines why millions of sixty-somethings are choosing to carry on working. The Baby Boomers - the generation born in the post-war years - are heading into their golden years. But instead of the old dream of 'freedom from work', increasing numbers are choosing the freedom to work - in new ...
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Evans Biography Award in 1990, "River of Traps is a portrait in words and photographs of three men and the mountain village in northern New Mexico that shaped their lives. It is now available in a paperback edition that maintains the oversize format and duotone printing. ""River of Traps is ...
If Garry Winogrand photographed everything, all the time, as he is famous for having done, then his pictures of airports convey, despite their dated hair styles and clothing, the many still very familiar sights and spaces and sensations attached to air travel. Arriving at an airport, checking baggage, watching other travelers amble, walk, and ...
Lengthy, revealing interviews by a noted child psychologist with men and women past the age of 70 who live alone. Over 40 pages of photographs by Alex Harris and Thomas Roma accompany the text, revealing the faces of age and experience.
This journey into contemporary Cuba by Alex Harris is a powerful and mysterious evocation of life on the island. In the foreground of Harris' photographs and text are some of the archetypes of contemporary Cuban life: the indomitable 1950s American car, the beautiful young woman, and the revered revolutionary hero, Jose Marti, a repeated icon in ...
"All over the city on streets and walks and walls the children . . . have established ancient, essential and ephemeral forms of art, have set forth in chalk and crayon the names and images of their pride, love, preying, scorn, desire. . . . "The Lady in this House is Nuts." . . . "Lois I have gone up the street." "Don't forget to bring your skates ...
Written when they were 18 years old, "Do Hard Things" is the Harris twins' revolutionary message in its purest and most compelling form, giving readers a tangible glimpse of what is possible for teens who actively resist cultural lies that limit their potential. Abridged. 3 CDs.
New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo mountains are a place where two cultures -- Hispanic and Anglo -- meet. They're also the place where three men meet: William deBuys, a young writer; Alex Harris, a young photographer; and Jacobo Romero, an old farmer. When Harris and deBuys move to New Mexico in the 1970s, Romero is the neighbor who befriends them and ...
The phrase that is the title of this book, Red White Blue and God Bless You, was inscribed above a doorway in a house whose magnificent decor epitomized the devotion to home and the sheer pleasure in using beautiful colors that makes the rooms and buildings depicted here so powerful. This surprising book introduces Harris' color work, which ...
In 1972, child psychologist Coles took the advice of friends and went to New Mexico. Told that if he wanted to understand the children there he would need to get to know the very old, he listened--and the results are the portraits in this book. The text is accompanied by photographs by Alex Harris.
For thirty years Alex Harris has lived part of each year in northern New Mexico, responding to the vernacular life of the Hispanic villages both as a photographer and writer, but also as a neighbor and friend. Like the novelist, John Berger, Harris draws his primary inspiration and unique vision from his immersion into the lives and experiences of ...
Rocks and hard places first-hand narrative of the authors attempts to reach the Seven Summits -- the highest point on each of the seven continents. It is a journey, punctuated by personal triumphs and bitter disappointments, that takes him from the sticky tropical forests of Irian Jaya to the biting, sub-zero temperatures of Mount Everest. The ...
Our notion of the American South, shaped by writers such as William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor, is overturned by this collection of stories and photographs by 10 contemporary writers of Southern fiction and Southern photographers.
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