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Country Music Broke My Brain: A Behind-the-Microphone Peek at Nashville's Famous and Fabulous Stars

Gerry House · Benbella Books
Pages: 327
Format: Hardcover

Nashville is filled with stars and lovers and writers and dreamers. Nashville is also teeming with lunatics and grifters and dip wads and moochers. Gerry House fits easily into at least half of those categories. Someone would probably have to be brain-damaged or really damn talented to try to entertain...
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Mom in the Movies: The Iconic Screen Mothers You Love

Turner Classic Movies Inc. · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 231
Format: Hardcover

Turner Classic Movies and film historian Richard Corliss present Mom in the Movies: The Iconic Screen Mothers You Love (and a Few You Love to Hate) , the definitive, fully illustrated book that shares the many ways Hollywood has celebrated, vilified and otherwise memorialized dear old Mom.With...
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Boston Irish

Bill Brett; Carol Beggy; David G McCullough · Three Bean Press
Pages: 304
Format:  Print book : English

Acclaimed Boston photographer Bill Brett returns with Boston, Irish, a collection of more than 260 black-and-white photographs of the people and the city he loves. It is his most personal book yet. Building on his four previous books, Boston, Irish turns the lens on Bill's own community,...
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The Weegee Guide to New York: Roaming the City with its Greatest Tabloid Photographer

Philomena Mariani · Prestel
Format: Hardcover

Take a walk with Weegee and discover New York City through the eyes of its most unflinching chronicler. During his storied career as the quintessential New York photojournalist, Weegee explored the citys least glamorous pockets, depicting brutal crimes, horrific accidents, tenement dwellers,...
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The Photographer's Handbook: Be your best photographer

Michael Freeman · Ilex Press
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

To take photos you need to get your settings right.To take good photos you need to understand how your camera works.To take great photos, you need to think about what you're shooting.This book will show you how to master all three.Divided into three definitive sections; Technology &...
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The North American Indian: The Complete Portfolios

Edward Sheriff Curtis · Taschen
Pages: 768
Format: Hardcover

In search of a lost time: The complete portfolios by Edward S. Curtis on Native Americans At the turn of the 20th century, the American photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) started on his 30-year project to produce a monumental study of North American Indians. Using an approach...
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Digital Photography: An Introduction, 5th Edition

Tom Ang · DK
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Learn how to capture, enhance, and transform your digital photographs taken with any camera, from phones to DLSRs with renowned photographer and teacher Tom Ang.This comprehensive photography companion shows you everything you need to do to start taking exquisite photographs with digital...
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Stand Out: Design a personal brand. Build a killer portfolio. Find a great design job.

Denise Anderson · Peachpit Press
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback

The design marketplace has never been more competitive, or demanded more from emerging talent. To succeed, you must navigate the transition from learner to professional with purpose and precision. In Stand Out: Building Your Design Portfolio, Denise Anderson offers a hands-on, three-step,...
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Daniel Radcliffe: The Biography

Sue Blackhall · John Blake
Format: Hardcover

The true story of the Half-Blood Prince who has become a fullblooded actor and level-headed young adult Danielle Radcliffe went from shy schoolboy to the worlds most famous boy wizard overnight. Just 10 when he won the iconic role of Harry Potter, Daniel has often had to beat his own demons...
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Area 51 - Black Jets: A History of the Aircraft Developed at Groom Lake, America's Secret Aviation Base

Bill Yenne · Motorbooks Intl
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Area 51's most important military aviation developments are profiled in an illustrated format. When most of us think of Area 51, we think of aliens, UFOs, and controversial government cover-ups. It's easy to forget that, since the mid-1950s, the United States' famed extension...
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Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971

Julia Bryan-Wilson · The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Slp edition
Format: Hardcover

Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971 examines the beginnings of Ono's career, demonstrating her pioneering role in visual art, performance and music during the 1960s and early 1970s. It begins in New York in December 1960, where Ono initiated a performance series with La Monte Young...
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A Bowl of Olives: On Food and Memory

Sara Midda · Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the international bestseller In and Out of the Garden and the wondrous sketchbook Sara Midda’s South of France comes a long-awaited treasure of a book. Drawn from the artist’s wealth of impressions and memories, it is a book for lovers of food and art and fine...
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Artists Unframed: Snapshots from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art

Merry A. Foresta · Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Hardcover

Tucked away among the letters, diaries, and other ephemera in the Smithsonian's archives lies a trove of rarely seen snapshots of some of the twentieth century's most celebrated artists. Unlike the familiar official portraits and genius-at-work shots, these humble snaps capture...
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Palm Springs Paradise

Peter Moruzzi · Gibbs Smith
Format: Hardcover

This book collects more than two hundred fascinating and rarely seen historical photographs of Palm Springs, newly digitized from the Palm Springs Historical Societys expansive archive. Featured are many Hollywood celebrities, including Sinatra and the Rat Pack, who vacationed there, the early...
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