Images and Conversations

Images and Conversations
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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Total Pages : 116
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ISBN-10 : 0816508038
ISBN-13 : 9780816508037
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Images and Conversations by : Patricia Preciado Martin

Some Hispanic Americans living today can recall a time when barrio or ranch life was marked by a simplicity and neighborliness that has vanished with progress. These thirteen first-person accounts of southern Arizona residents capture a spirit evocative of the Hispanic presence in the Southwest—whether in San Antonio, Santa Fe, Pueblo, or Los Angeles—while striking photographs reflect the grace and dignity of these indomitable individuals.

Conversations on Conflict Photography

Conversations on Conflict Photography
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Total Pages : 377
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ISBN-10 : 9781350049185
ISBN-13 : 1350049182
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Conversations on Conflict Photography by : Lauren Walsh

In today's image-saturated culture, the visual documentation of suffering around the world is more prevalent than ever. Yet instead of always deepening the knowledge or compassion of viewers, conflict photography can result in fatigue or even inspire apathy. Given this tension between the genre's ostensible goals and its effects, what is the purpose behind taking and showing images of war and crisis? Conversations on Conflict Photography invites readers to think through these issues via conversations with award-winning photographers, as well as leading photo editors and key representatives of the major human rights and humanitarian organizations. Framed by critical-historical essays, these dialogues explore the complexities and ethical dilemmas of this line of work. The practitioners relate the struggles of their craft, from brushes with death on the frontlines to the battles for space, resources, and attention in our media-driven culture. Despite these obstacles, they remain true to a purpose, one that is palpable as they celebrate remarkable success stories: from changing the life of a single individual to raising broad awareness about human rights issues. Opening with an insightful foreword by the renowned Sebastian Junger and richly illustrated with challenging, painful, and sometimes beautiful images, Conversations offers a uniquely rounded examination of the value of conflict photography in today's world.

Conversations on Love

Conversations on Love
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9780593296585
ISBN-13 : 0593296583
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Conversations on Love by : Natasha Lunn

An investigation of love in all its forms, featuring conversations with Lisa Taddeo, Esther Perel, Emily Nagoski, Kate Bowler, Alain de Botton, Stephen Grosz, Roxane Gay and others Journalist Natasha Lunn was almost 30 when she realized that there was no map for understanding love. While she was used to watching friends fall in and out of love, the older she got the more she had to acknowledge: her friends' relationship struggles could no longer be chalked up to youth, and the more she learned about her parents, grandparents, work colleagues, and mentors the clearer it became that age had not brought any of them any closer to understanding this elusive, transformative, consuming emotion. One night during the months she found this realization settling over her, she sat up in bed and jotted three words in a notebook: conversations on love. In that moment, Lunn understood that she didn't want advice about love, she wasn't looking for the answers, or evergreen wisdom but she craved candid, wide-ranging, sometimes uncomfortable conversations about the parts of love that often don't make it into our everyday discussions of marriage, sibling relationships, friendships, or mother/daughter bonds. Conversations on Love started as an experiment aimed at interviewing experts about what love meant to them, in all of it's messiness, and quickly blossomed into a newsletter that attracted thousands of subscribers and a prestigious range of interviewees. It turns out that Lunn wasn't the only person ready to talk more openly and expansively about love. Interweaving personal essays and revealing interviews with some of the most sough-after experts on love, journalist Natasha Lunn guides us through the paradoxical heart of three key questions about love--How do we find love? How do we sustain it? And how do we survive when we lose it?--to deliver a book that is a solace, a beacon, a call to arms, a tool-kit. The real-life love stories in these pages will leave you hopeful and validated, while the insights from experts will transform the way you think about your relationships. Above all, Conversations on Love will remind you what love is: fragile, sturdy, mundane, beautiful, always worth fighting for.

Show Me a Story!

Show Me a Story!
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Publisher : Candlewick Press
Total Pages : 349
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ISBN-10 : 9780763667207
ISBN-13 : 076366720X
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Show Me a Story! by : Leonard S. Marcus

“Will inspire, inform, and delight those of any age who areengaged in—or by—the arts.” — The Horn Book Renowned children’s literature authority Leonard S. Marcus speaks with twenty-one of the world’s most celebrated illustrators of picture books, asking about their childhood, their inspiration, their creative choices, and more. Amplifying these richly entertaining and thought-provoking conversations are eighty-eight full- color plates revealing each illustrator’s artistic process in fascinating, behind- the-scenes detail. This inspiring collection confirms that picture books matter because they make a difference in our children’s lives.

Being You: A First Conversation About Gender

Being You: A First Conversation About Gender
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 39
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ISBN-10 : 9780593521878
ISBN-13 : 0593521870
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Being You: A First Conversation About Gender by : Megan Madison

A picture book edition of the bestselling board book about gender, offering adults the opportunity to begin important conversations with young children in an informed, safe, and supported way. Developed by experts in the fields of early childhood and activism against injustice, this topic-driven board book offers clear, concrete language and beautiful imagery that young children can grasp and adults can leverage for further discussion. While young children are avid observers and questioners of their world, adults often shut down or postpone conversations on complicated topics because it's hard to know where to begin. Research shows that talking about issues like race and gender from the age of two not only helps children understand what they see, but also increases self-awareness, self-esteem, and allows them to recognize and confront things that are unfair, like discrimination and prejudice. This second book in the series begins the conversation on gender, with a supportive approach that considers both the child and the adult. Stunning art accompanies the simple and interactive text, and the backmatter offers additional resources and ideas for extending this discussion.

The Logic of Images

The Logic of Images
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Publisher : Faber & Faber
Total Pages : 113
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ISBN-10 : 0571165176
ISBN-13 : 9780571165179
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis The Logic of Images by : Wim Wenders

This book is the companion volume to Emotion Pictures. In the book Wenders moves from a contemplation of pure cinema, to a consideration and analysis of his own films. Beginning with the question: Why do you make films?, Wenders expresses his own unique approach to cinema.

Along Some Rivers

Along Some Rivers
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Total Pages : 102
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015064349643
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Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Along Some Rivers by : Robert Adams

Robert Adams, one of America's foremost living photographers, has spent decades considering and documenting the landscape of the American West and the ways it has been altered, disturbed, or destroyed by the hand of man. A professor of English before turning to photography, Adams is also a skilled writer and acute thinker on aesthetic questions. Aperture's previous bestselling collections of his essays, Beauty in Photography and Why People Photograph, assembled his thoughts on a range of subjects, including writing, teaching, photography's place in the arts and a host of fellow photographers. Along Some Rivers collects Adams's correspondence and conversations--some of which have never been published before--with writers and curators including William McEwan, Constance Sullivan and Thomas Weski. In so doing, it provides another point of entry, offering a portrait of the artist in debate and elucidating his thoughts on a number of his now legendary projects, including Cottonwoods and What We Bought. Adams also expounds on why, in his view, Marcel Duchamp has not been a helpful guide for art, and he discusses which filmmakers and painters have influenced him, which cameras he prefers and how he approaches printing his pictures. Along Some Rivers also includes a selection of 28 unpublished landscapes.

Conversations with Nature

Conversations with Nature
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 202
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ISBN-10 : 1732034516
ISBN-13 : 9781732034518
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Conversations with Nature by : Kevin Macpherson

Conversations with Nature is designed to be an illuminating guide to a classic medium and the most popular, universal subject: landscape painting. Most importantly, this book will teach you how to see as an artist. You'll learn to create alluring landscapes bathed with light, engulfed in air, and presented from nature's own shapes, patterns,and colors. Plein air paintingImpressionismOil PaintingLandscape paintingOil painting suppliesKevin MacphersonNatureArtistFine ArtistLandscapesArt BookInstructional Art Book

Conversations with the Dead

Conversations with the Dead
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Publisher : Phaidon Press
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 071487051X
ISBN-13 : 9780714870519
Rating : 4/5 (1X Downloads)

Synopsis Conversations with the Dead by :

A digitally remastered facsimile edition of Danny Lyon's seminal 1971 photobook, highly influential in the history of documentary photography. Conversations with the Dead provides an extraordinary photographic record of life inside six Texas prisons and the relationships Lyon built with the inmates. Revolutionary at the time of publication, it was one of the first photobooks to include ephemera. This new edition has been updated with an afterward by Lyon himself detailing what happened to the inmates in the 40 years since the book was first published. It also offers new, unseen material including outtake images, audio recordings and newly commissioned texts on a specially created microsite as a free ibook edition of this landmark publication. Features: - A new afterward by Danny Lyon

Conversations with Contemporary Photographers

Conversations with Contemporary Photographers
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015069324641
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Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Conversations with Contemporary Photographers by : Nan Richardson

"Conversations is a landmark series in photography, featuring extensive interviews by major international critics with living masters on aesthetics, craft, and culture. The book traces the heritage of the medium in fascinating, informal discourses on topics ranging from the personal to the political, covering intimate detail and theoretical background alike. Complete with biographies, bibliographies, and self-portraits of each featured artist, it is both a vital record of contemporary photography and an engaging read."--BOOK JACKET.