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5) Kennedy through the lens: how photography and television revealed and shaped an extraordinary leader
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Provides insight into how JFK used the new medium of television and the advances in color photography to further his ambitious agenda.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Photographs capture the horrific conditions of this national disaster, the struggles of the people who stayed to save their land, and the sorrows of those who were forced to move as a result of this catastrophe.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Formats
Description
"Edward Curtis was dashing, charismatic, a passionate mountaineer, a famous photographer--the Annie Liebowitz of his time. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his great idea: He would try to capture on film the Native American nation before it disappeared. At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan's book tells the remarkable untold story behind Curtis's iconic photographs,...
8) The apparitionists: a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized Americas imagination. A "spirit photographer, " William Mumler took portrait photographs that featured the ghostly presence of a lost loved one alongside the living subject. Mumler was a sensation: The affluent and influential came calling. Peter Manseau brilliantly captures a nation wracked with grief and hungry for proof of the existence of ghosts and for...
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Now considered one of the 20th century's greatest street photographers, Vivian Maier was a mysterious nanny who secretly took over 100,000 photographs that went unseen during her lifetime. Vivian's strange and riveting life and art are revealed through never-before-seen photos, films, and interviews with dozens who thought they knew her.
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