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Pub. Date
©1996
Description
This lively collection of 154 outstanding photographs, selected from more than five million in the picture library of The New York Times, spans the twentieth century. Here, as in the Times itself, photography's gaze is omnivorous. Included are vivid pictures of both world wars; of presidents, mayors, dictators, and celebrities; of Beatles fans and Halley's comet; of victims and perpetrators, riots and disasters; of Bill Bradley on the court and Willie...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Targeted to fans of Simply Beautiful Photographs, the 2014 offering in National Geographic's iconic line of large-format photo books illuminates the power of photography to witness, reveal, persuade, celebrate, explore and change the way we see the world. Capturing the moment in which a firecracker explodes into a burst of electric energy or the last rays of the sun as it stretches across a red-rock valley, certain special photos offer an unrivaled...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough." –Robert Capa
Robert Capa and Gerda Taro were young Jewish refugees, idealistic and in love. As photographers in the 1930s, they set off to capture their generation's most important struggle-the fight against fascism. Among the first to depict modern warfare, Capa, Taro, and their friend Chim took powerful photographs of the Spanish Civil War that went straight from the action to news...
28) Mexico
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Description
The Mexico photography book is a perfect way to escape the urban city, cold weather and everyday life by simply flipping through its colourful pages. Take a mini vacation and endure each page of this visual story. Each page shows you a unique representation of the culture, beauty and people of Mexico.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Buzz Bumble, widely admired for his flying ability, resents having to watch the cute new baby when he should be practicing for an important visitor, but only he can rescue Baby when she takes a misstep into a Venus fly trap.
33) Elixir
Author
Series
Elixir series volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Clea Raymond, a talented young photojournalist who has spent her life in the spotlight, and her best friends, Rayna and Ben, travel the globe trying to unravel a centuries-old mystery that could reveal her soulmate's identity and the secret of her father's disappearance.
Author
Series
Lilly Hawkins mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
A follow-up to "A Bad Day's Work" finds news photographer Lilly Hawkins covering what she believes will be the biggest story of her career before learning about the suspicious death of a girl she met years earlier whose recent reputation is inconsistent with the person Lilly knew.
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
Watching the evening news offers constant evidence of atrocity--a daily commonplace in our "society of spectacle." But are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the daily depiction of cruelty and horror? Is the viewer's perception of reality eroded by the universal availability of imagery intended to shock? In this investigation of the role of imagery in our culture, Susan Sontag cuts through circular arguments about how pictures can inspire...
Author
Series
Flirt volume 2
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Description
Alexa plans to do a photo-shoot on horseback in Central Park, but things get in her way--her own nature and sabotage by a fellow intern.
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