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1	Visions of Paradise more books like this by National Geographic (Creator) add to wishlist "Visions of Paradise" is a panoply of experiences from the most peripatetic photographers on Earth - the photographers of "National Geographic Magazine". After all the stories and all the journeys, each man and each woman shares with us the place he or she found to be Heaven on Earth. The pictures come from all seven continents, from different ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.37! \| first editions \| SVS
2	National Geographic, the Photographs more books like this by Leah Bendavid-Val (Editor) add to wishlist "National Geographic: The Photographs" presents an amazing collection of award-winning "National Geographic" magazine photographs, the facts behind them, and the inside stories of the men and women who took them. The images capture rare moments in nature and the lives of animals, along with defining events in the lives of people everywhere. Many ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $10.16! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Through the Lens: National Geographic's Greatest Photographs more books like this by Leah Bendavid-Val (Editor) add to wishlist A collection of famous and lesser-known works of historical significance, culled from more than a century of photography, is divided into geographical regions and includes a special section on space exploration. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age more books like this by Sebastiao Salgado add to wishlist More than those of any living photographer, Sebastiao Salgado's images of the world's poor stand as icons of the human condition. His transforming photographs bestow dignity on the most isolated and neglected, from refugees in the famine-stricken Sahel, to the men who swarm the gold mines of Brazil. Now Saigado goes beyond icons to bring us a ... see all copies from $47.98! new only from $68.90! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The misfits more books like this by Arthur Miller add to wishlist Miller wrote this screenplay as a vehicle for his wife, Marilyn Monroe, a present for her after a miscarriage. In the drama, three cowboys are rounding up mustangs which are too small for riding, and therefore will be slaughtered for dog food--these horses are called "misfits". The cowboys use, instead of horses and lassos in the Western days of ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $20.36! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Reading American Photographs: Images as History-Mathew Brady to Walker Evans more books like this by Alan Trachtenberg add to wishlist Winner of the Charles C. Eldredge Prize. In this book, Alan Trachtenberg reinterprets some of America's most significant photographs, presenting them not as static images but rather as rich cultural texts suffused with meaning and historical content." Reading American Photographs" is lavishly illustrated with the work of such luminaries as Mathew ... see all copies from $6.07! new only from $12.63! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Witness: One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story more books like this by Ruth Gruber (Photographer), Richard Holbrooke (Foreword by) add to wishlist From the building of the Soviet gulags to the 1947 British attack of the "Exodus," a ship carrying Holocaust survivors, 94-year-old Ruth Gruber--adventurer, photographer, and international correspondent--tells her story in words and photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
8	Public relations more books like this by Garry Winogrand, Tod Papageorge (Introduction by) add to wishlist "[What Winogrand] has given us in these photographs is a unilateral report of how we behaved under pressure during a time of costumes and causes, and of how extravagantly, outrageously, and continuously we displayed what we wanted. --Tod Papageorge" "Public Relations" is a distillation of a photographic project begun by Garry Winogrand in 1969 ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $29.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	National Geographic: The Photographs more books like this by National Geographic Society, Leah Bendavid-Val (Editor) add to wishlist Photographs from the archives of "National Geographic" share an array of work reflecting the themes of The Land, Underwater, Science, The United States, and The World--by some of the world's finest photographers. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $55.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Life the Classic Collection more books like this by Life Magazine add to wishlist "Life" has, of course, visited its archives before - but never like this. This edition puts the photographs on display, not only as part of the page layout but as the page itself. The explanatory text will be out of the way, so that each image can be savoured. Moreover, prints will be included that are not just suitable for framing, but meant for ... see all copies from $10.25! new only from $16.49! \| SVS
11	Bare Witness: Photographs more books like this by Gordon Parks, Jr., Maren Stange add to wishlist Novelist, memoirist, poet, film director, choreographer, and musician, Gordon Parks (1912-2006) was renowned as a man of many talents. He is best known as a photographer, a career he took up in the 1930s. Starting with fashion and portraiture, he honed his skill and his passion for documenting social ills working for the New Deal's Farm Security ... see all copies from $22.54! new only from $22.54! \| first editions \| SVS
12	American Photography and the American Dream more books like this by James Guimond add to wishlist James Guimond's powerful study reveals how documentary photographers have expressed or contested the idea of the American Dream throughout the twentieth century. In Guimond's formulation issues like growth, equality, and national identity came under the rubric of the Dream as it has been used to measure how well the nation is living up to its ... see all copies from $9.46! new only from $65.48! \| first editions
13 view cover	Aftermath: Unseen 9/11 Photos by a New York City Cop more books like this by John Botte (Photographer) add to wishlist Breathtaking photographs of September 11 and its aftermath by a renowned photographer and former police officer who was given unprecedented access to Ground Zero in the hours following the tragedy are a haunting reminder of the world-altering tragedy. see all copies from $3.12! new only from $3.12! \| SVS
14 view cover	America at Home: A Close-Up Look at How We Live more books like this by Jennifer Erwitt (Creator), Rick Smolan (Creator) add to wishlist The week of September 17, 2007, marked the largest collaborative project in Internet history as 100 of the top photojournalists and millions of Americans documented the concept of home. The result-which included several million photos-is the most extensive record of American home life at the beginning of the 21st century. Now the powerhouse team ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Bystander: A History of Street Photography more books like this by Colin Westerbeck, Joel Meyerowitz add to wishlist Street photography is spontaneous, a moment captured by the camera. "Bystander" chronicles the development of a photographic genre created from the chaotic energy and chance juxtapositions of everyday street life. The setting might be a crowded city pavement, a country lane, a park, an underground station or cinema lobby - any public place where ... see all copies from $60.00! new only from $149.99! \| first editions
16 view cover	Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime more books like this by Dorothea Lange (Notes by), Therese Heyman (Afterword by), Dr. Robert Coles (Text by) add to wishlist Throughout her long working life, Dorothea Lange was an exceptional, often brilliant photographer. In the historic decade of the thirties, she was more - a pioneer, a shaper of the medium, and a motivator of the national conscience. Lange's direct, compelling studies of people forced from the land are both a faithful chronicle and a landmark of ... see all copies from $46.88! new only from $46.88! \| first editions
17 view cover	Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-Of-The-Century New York more books like this by Bonnie Yochelson, Daniel Czitrom add to wishlist A provocative new illustrated history of the famed early chronicler of New York's immigrant poor, seen here as an opportunistic, camera-toting social reformer whose legacy lives on. ""I don't remember my mother or my aunts and uncles talking of their father as a photographer....In his letters--I have read most of them--he never mentions a camera. ... see all copies from $20.82! new only from $20.82! \| SVS
18	A World Unsuspected: Portraits of Southern Childhood more books like this by Alex Harris (Editor), Sheila Bosworth (Photographer) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	The Misfits more books like this by Serge Toubiana, Arthur Miller add to wishlist Miller wrote this screenplay as a vehicle for his wife, Marilyn Monroe, a present for her after a miscarriage. In the drama, three cowboys are rounding up mustangs which are too small for riding, and therefore will be slaughtered for dog food--these horses are called "misfits". The cowboys use, instead of horses and lassos in the Western days of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.47! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Larry Fink more books like this by Laurie Dahlberg, Larry Fink (Photographer) add to wishlist American photographer Larry Fink (b.1941) is the Jack Kerouac of photography. This accessible monograph reviews his 40-year career as a photographer, during which he celebrated the expressiveness of the human body and its colourful and energetic sensuality. A strong supporter of social values and grassroots activism, Fink has never shied away from ... see all copies from $9.60! new only from $12.95! \| first editions
21 view cover	Photographs of Dorothea Lange more books like this by Keith F Davis, Kelle A Botkin, Dorothea Lange add to wishlist A collection of the photographs of one of the most eloquent and influential photographers in American history. see all copies from $23.50! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
22	Portrait of a Decade: Roy Stryker and the Development of Documentary Photography in the Thirties more books like this by F Jack Hurley add to wishlist see all copies from $17.00! first editions
23	The Camera at war : a history of war photography from 1848 to the present day more books like this by Jorge Lewinski add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.32! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Let Truth Be the Prejudice: W. Eugene Smith, His Life and Photographs more books like this by W Eugene Smith (Photographer), Ben Maddow, John G Morris (Afterword by) add to wishlist Photographs by W. Eugene Smith Illustrated biography by Ben Maddow Afterword by John G. Morris Here is the definitive book on Smith's life and work, containing his major photo-essays, the portrait work, and spanning his brilliant career from his days aboard an aircraft carrier, through the breadth of Pittsburgh, to the human suffering explicit in ... see all copies from $50.00! new only from $119.95! \| first editions
25 view cover	Paul Fusco: RFK more books like this by Edward Kennedy, Vicki Goldberg, Norman Mailer add to wishlist Introduction by Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Text by Norman Mailer, Evan Thomas, Vicki Goldberg. see all copies from $24.98! new only from $34.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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