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Teardrop Traveler: A Visual Tour of America with Mandy Lea & Her Teardrop Trailer

MANDY LEA · Amherst Media
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

After a 17-year career in photography stores, photographer Mandy Lea realized that her wanderlust had become overwhelming -- so she left her secure job, hit the road out with her teardrop camper (now her full-time home) , and set out to pursue freelance photography and maybe learn a thing...
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The World of the Battleship: The Design and Careers of Capital Ships of the World's Navies, 1880-1900

Bruce Taylor · Naval Institute Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

This new volume is intended to present a global vision of the development of the world's battleships. In a collection of chapters by international, the design, building, and career of a significant battleship from each of the world's navies is explored that illuminates not just...
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Creative WaterColor A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners--Create with Paints, Inks, Markers, Glitter, and More!

ANA VICTORIA CALDERON · Quarry Books
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Creative Watercolor offers beginners a fun, modern, and practical approach to a timeless medium with instructions on how to paint simple motifs and lettering and embellish projects beautifully. In Creative Watercolor, popular watercolor artist and instructor Ana Victoria Calderon shares...
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Gordon Parks: The New Tide: Early Work 1940–1950

GORDON PARKS · Steidl/Gordon Parks Foundation/National Gallery of Art
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The emergence of a social conscience in rarely seen images from Parks' formative yearsFocusing on new research and access to forgotten pictures, The New Tide, Early Work 1940-1950 documents the importance of these years in shaping Gordon Parks' passionate vision. The book brings...
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Orlando: Photography

Rod Hamilton · Hatje Cantz
Pages: 348
Format: Hardcover

Orlando Suero (born 1925) started taking photos in 1939, at the age of 14, using a Kodak Jiffy given him by his father. He later attended New York Institute of Photography and worked at camera shops and photo labs, including Compo Photo Color where he printed the images for Edward Steichen's...
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Dolly on Dolly: Interviews and Encounters with Dolly Parton

Randy L. Schmidt · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 436
Format: Hardcover

"Nobody knows Dolly like Dolly," declares Dolly Parton. Dolly's is a rags-to-riches tale like no other. A dirt-poor Smoky Mountain childhood paved the way for the buxom blonde butterfly's metamorphosis from singer-songwriter to international music superstar....
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Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism

Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley · University of Texas Press
Pages: 216
Format: eBook

Making headlines when it was launched in 2015, Omise'eke Tinsley's undergraduate course "Beyoncé Feminism, Rihanna Womanism" has inspired students from all walks of life. In Beyoncé in Formation, Tinsley now takes her rich observations beyond the classroom, using the blockbuster...
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Understanding Photography: Master Your Digital Camera and Capture That Perfect Photo

SEAN T MCHUGH · No Starch Press
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback

Comprehensive, heavily illustrated volume introduces the concepts and techniques of digital image capture, including exposure, composition, histograms, depth of field, advanced lighting, lens filters, shutter speed, and autofocus.Understanding Photography will teach you the core concepts...
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It's Saturday Morning!: Celebrating the Golden Era of Cartoons 1960s - 1990s

Joe Garner · becker&mayer! Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

With concept art, archival images, and all-new interviews, It's Saturday Morning! celebrates the shows, characters, songs, and commercials that made Saturday mornings a pop culture event. Broadcasting into family living rooms from the 1960s to the 1990s, this wildly creative art form...
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Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life

Eric Klinenberg · Crown
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

An eminent sociologist and bestselling author offers an inspiring blueprint for rebuilding our fractured society. We are living in a time of deep divisions. Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, and cultural lines, leading to a level of polarization that the country...
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