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1	Wisconsin death trip more books like this by Michael Lesy add to wishlist This book is about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 1910. Against these are juxtaposed excerpts from the Badger State Banner, from the Mendota State (asylum) Record Book, and occasionally quotations from the writings of Hamlin Garland and Glenway Wescott. see all copies from $12.50! new only from $24.87! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties more books like this by Michael Lesy add to wishlist Michael Lesy's portrait of a gruesome era could be fiction - but it's not. "Things began as they usually did: Someone shot someone else." So begins a chapter of Lesy's disturbingly satisfying account of Chicago in the 1920s, the epicentre of murder in America. A city where daily newspapers fell over each other to cover the latest mayhem. A city ... see all copies from $3.27! new only from $5.52! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Dreamland: America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century more books like this by Michael Lesy add to wishlist At the beginning of the 20th century, a pioneering postcard company sent renowned photographer William Henry Jackson across the United States to document the changing nation. Eventually the photographs were deposited in the Library of Congress. Collected here are 208 of these photographs, providing a breathtakingly original view of the beginning ... see all copies from $7.95! new only from $14.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Forbidden Zone more books like this by Michael Lesy add to wishlist As Michael Lesy visits an undertaker and a slaughterhouse, an AIDS hospice and Death Row, he not only satisfies our fascination with the business of contemporary death, he also questions our communal refusal to recognize the limits of life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Angel's World: The New York Photographs of Angelo Rizzuto more books like this by Michael Lesy, Angelo Rizzuto (Photographer) add to wishlist In this profound and disturbing book, noted photo historian Michael Lesy is in search of a man who left a strange archive of sixty thousand images to the Library of Congress. We learn that he was Angelo Rizzuto, but he called himself "the little Angel". He lived in a single room in a run-down hotel. We learn that every day he left at 2.00pm to ... see all copies from $5.52! new only from $7.19! \| first editions
6	Real Life: Louisville in the Twenties more books like this by Michael Lesy add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $140.98! \| first editions
7	Rescues more books like this by Michael Lesy add to wishlist Michael Lesy's book ponders the question, "Why does someone risk his or her life for another?" In order to understand the nature of heroic acts, Lesy examines the extraordinary deeds on nine seemingly ordinary people. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.00! \| first editions
8	Long Time Coming: A Photographic Portrait of America, 1935-1943 more books like this by Michael Lesy add to wishlist "Long Time Coming" is derived from the 145,000 photographs taken between 1935 and 1943 in America by a team of photographers employed by the Farm Security Administration, including Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans. Despite the iconic images of poverty that are usually associated with the project, the agency's mission went well beyond photographing ... see all copies from $30.00! new only from $52.04! \| first editions
9	Visible Light more books like this by Michael Lesy add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
10	Bearing Witness: A Photographic Chronicle of American Life, 1860-1945 more books like this by Michael Lesy add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
11	Bearing Witness more books like this by Michael Lesy add to wishlist see all copies from $3.98! first editions
12	Rescues: The Lives of Heroes by Michael Lesy add to wishlist see all copies from $2.05! new only from $23.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13	Time Frames: The Meaning of Family Pictures more books like this by Michael Lesy add to wishlist see all copies from $5.94! first editions
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