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The Andy Warhol Diaries
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Hackett
Now in trade paperback, the sensational national bestseller that turns the spotlight on one of the most influential and controversial figures of our time. These pages are filled with previously undisclosed facts about the lives and loves of the irch and famous--from royalty to movie and music stars to renowned artists.
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Blood and Champagne: The Life and Times of Robert Capa
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Alex Kershaw
This title looks at the life of one of the most extraordinary photographers of our time, Robert Capa. A Hungarian, he was driven from his country by political oppression and became the greatest war photographer of his generation with his work during the Spanish Civil War. His work during Wolrd War II made him a legend as he covered many of the ...
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Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography
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Meryle Secrest
This biography focuses on Wright's family history, personal adventures and colourful friends and family. The author had unprecedented access to an archive of over 100,000 of Wright's letters, photographs, drawings and books, and she also interviewed surviving devotees, students and relatives.
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Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life
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Richard Meryman
This biography of the American artist, Andrew Wyeth, covers the complex facets of his personal and professional life. It tracks his childhood of personal home tutors and the nuturing of his artistic talent under the watchful eye of his father, the children's book illustrator, N.C. Wyeth. Andrew Wyeth produced a substantial body of impressive works ...
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A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
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Witold Rybczynski
Known above all for his design of New York City's Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) contributed to the American urban landscape with a number of notable projects. He also wrote journalistic pieces on slavery and other current issues, and felt strongly about maintaining the country's national park system. Witold Rybczynski, author of ...
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Andy Warhol
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Wayne Koestenbaum
Wayne Koestenbaum's illuminating life of Warhol links the painter's life with his art in novel ways.
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Robert Kennedy&his Times
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Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr.
This portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and long-time Kennedy family confidante, traces the life of Robert F. Kennedy and includes his role as brother and advisor to President John F. Kennedy, his achievements as U.S. senator, and Kennedy's own personal quest as advocate for many liberal causes of the '60s. It also provides a ...
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A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century
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Witold Rybczynski
Known above all for his design of New York City's Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) contributed to the American urban landscape with a number of notable projects. He also wrote journalistic pieces on slavery and other current issues, and felt strongly about maintaining the country's national park system. Witold Rybczynski, author of ...
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Edward Weston: His Life
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Ben Maddow, Edward Weston (Photographer)
One of modern photography's greatest pioneers, Edward Weston awakened his viewers to the sensuous qualities of organic forms. In this biography Ben Maddow draws heavily on Weston's uncut journals and letters and on the reminiscences and written accounts of his closest friends and family to reveal the man behind the opaque formalism of the ...
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No Time on My Hands
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Grace Snyder, Nellie Snyder Yost
'Snyder's lengthy narrative is filled with humorous incidents, and she rarely fails to see a light side to even the most dreary event. Still the pathos comes through...We realize Snyder's importance as a folk artist, an outstanding quilter whose work was shown all over the country' - "Denver Post". When Grace Snyder, the matriarch of a pioneer ...
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Popism: The Warhol Sixties
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Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett
One of the most important figures in the art world of the 1960s, Andy Warhol was arguably the first celebrity artist. POPISM is Warhol's memoir of the time, and contains a number of different, often contradictory definitions of Pop art, a movement Warhol helped make famous as one of its most flamboyant leaders. Marked by a fascination with popular ...
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The Law (In Plain English) for Photographers
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Leonard D DuBoff
The revised edition of a guide that explains aspects of U.S. law applicable to the practice of professional photography. Legislative and case law is explained in the areas of intellectual property, defamation and libel, rights of privacy and publicity, censorship and obscenity, restrictions of photo
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Diane Arbus: A Biography
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Patricia Bosworth
Tied in to a major retrospective of the artist's work, this illustrated study details the ups and downs, vision, and work of the influential and controversial photographer, drawing precise correspondence between the life and the work. Reprint.
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Ruth Bernhard: Between Art and Life
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Margaretta K Mitchell, Chronicle Books
Hailed by Ansel Adams as "the greatest photographer of the nude," Ruth Bernhard is an icon in the photographic world. As told by Ruth in countless conversations with close friend and biographer Margaretta Mitchell, this thoughtful, illustrated memoir is a true tribute to the legendary artist. Reminiscent of a personal scrapbook, the engaging text ...
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Margaret Bourke White
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Susan Goldman Rubin, Margaret Bourke-White
This dramatic life story of internationally acclaimed photographer Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) traces the accomplishments of a remarkable woman, the first female to make a name for herself as a photojournalist. The book explores her artistic development and chronicles the assignments for Fortune and Life magazines that took her all over the ...
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Edward Sheriff Curtis
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Joanna Cohen Scherer (Editor)
This volume - investigating the work of a particular photographer, in this case, Edward Sheriff Curtis - comprises a 4000-word essay by an expert in th e field, 55 photographs presented chronologically, each with a commentary, and a biography of the featured photographer.
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Mary Colter: Builder Upon the Red Earth
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Virginia L Grattan
On the south rim of the Grand Canyon are stone buildings, resembling the ancient structures left by the tribes that inhabited this region long before Columbus. They are the work of Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter. This tells the story of an extraordinary woman.
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Andre Kertesz
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Noel Bourcier
Andre Kertesz (1894-1985) is one of the greatest photographers of twentieth-century modernism. His long and productive working life ensured that he was not only able to witness the beginnings of hand-held photography and shape the development of the medium, but to also have a lasting influence on contemporary photographers' work. A mentor to ...
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Norman Rockwell: A Life
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Laura Claridge
This study of Normal Rockwell stresses the painter's humanity, both in his life and in his art, and assesses his strengths and his weaknesses as a chronicler of American society.
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Ansel Adams: Letters, 1916 - 1984
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Mary Street Alinder (Editor), Andrea G Stillman (Editor), Wallace Earle Stegner (Foreword by)
In his early years in Yosemite, Adams formed the habit of writing letters at every opportunity. His correspondence, therefore, provides virtually the full record of his life. Throughout the years, wherever he went, from Southwest to Maine to Alaska, he wrote literally thousands of letters and postcards. Among the family, friends, fellow ...
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Marcel Breuer, Architect: The Career and the Buildings
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Isabelle Hyman
During the course of an illustrious 50-year career that took him from the Bauhaus to New York, architect Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) generated a huge, influential and varied body of work. This is a comprehensive study of his oeuvre, looking at both Breuer's built and unbuilt work. He was a master of concrete technology and produced hundreds of ...
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Twenty-Five Under Twenty-Five
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Iris Tillman Hill (Editor), Lauren Greenfield (Foreword by), Tom Rankin (Introduction by)
"25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers showcases the work of twenty-five of America's most promising photographers under twenty-five years old or younger. Illuminating and sometimes startling, the collection introduces work by an emerging generation of photographers at the start of their careers.
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Who's Who in American Art
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Marquis Who's Who (Editor)
Comprehensive, current information on the individuals involved in contemporary arts Quickly locate artists, critics, curators, administrators, librarians, historians, collectors, conservators, educators, dealers -- everyone who's anyone in the visual arts in the United States. Revised and updated with over 11,600 entries -- some 500 new to this ...
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A Hungry Heart
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Gordon Parks, Jr.
A legendary American photographer, composer, filmmaker, and author of both fiction and nonfiction reflects upon his amazing achievements, both personal and professional.
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Black Angel: The Life of Arshile Gorky
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Nouritza Matossian
Arshile Gorky is one of the most mysterious 20th century artists. Born Armenian, he adopted the cover of a famous Russian name and helped to change the course of American art. This powerfully revealing biography sheds crucial light on Gorky's passionate life and monumental legacy. 47 illustrations, 16 in color.
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