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Shelter Dogs in a Photo Booth

Guinnevere Shuster · Andrews Mcmeel
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Man's best friend! What better way to showcase adoptable dogs than by letting their true personalities shine in a photo booth! In the tradition of the best-selling dog photography book, Underwater Dogs, Shelter Dogs in a Photo Booth wins the heart of all dog lovers.Often seen as sad,...
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The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World

Anthony M. Amore · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 284
Format: Print book

Art scams are today so numerous that the specter of a lawsuit arising from a mistaken attribution has scared a number of experts away from the business of authentication and forgery, and with good reason. Art scams are increasingly convincing and involve incredible sums of money. The cons...
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One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band

Alan Paul · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 438
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Best seller!One Way Out is the powerful biography of The Allman Brothers Band, an oral history written with the band's participation and filled with original, never-before-published interviews as well as personal letters and correspondence. This is the most in-depth...
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Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter's Eye

Mary Morton · University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover

Though largely out of the public eye for more than a century, Gustave Caillebotte (1848-94) has come to be recognized as one of the most dynamic and original artists of the impressionist movement in Paris. His paintings are favorites of museum-goers, and recent restoration of his work has revealed...
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Becoming By Cindy Crawford: By Cindy Crawford with Katherine O' Leary

Cindy Crawford · Rizzoli, 2015.
Pages: 255
Format: Print book

International supermodel Cindy Crawford chronicles her life and career, sharing stories and lessons learned, and featuring her most memorable images in this New York Times bestseller. ?Cindy Crawford was the cornerstone of the golden age of the supermodel in the 1990s. She blazed a trail...
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Jane Austen Cover to Cover: 200 Years of Classic Book Covers

Margaret C. Sullivan · Quirk Books
Format: Hardcover

Jane Austen never goes out of style. Since the first publication of her six novels in the 19th century, she has delighted generations of fans with classic stories that have never changed—and countless covers that have. Jane Austen Cover to Cover compiles two centuries...
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Legal Photography: A Complete Reference for Documenting Scenes, Situations, and Evidence for Civil Cases

Stan Sholik · Amherst Media
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

While the number of assignments available in many photographic specialties is decreasing, there are still relatively untapped growth areas for still photographers and videographers. One of these specialty fields is legal photography.Legal photography involves working closely with lawyers...
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Gauguin: Metamorphoses

Elizabeth Childs · The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Format: Hardcover

Gauguin: Metamorphoses explores the remarkable relationship between Paul Gauguin's rare and extraordinary prints and transfer drawings, and his better-known paintings and sculptures in wood and ceramic. Created in several discrete bursts of activity from 1889 until his death in 1903,...
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Radical Love

Toni Greaves · Chronicle Books
Pages: 159
Format: Print book

The sudden revelation of a powerful religious calling was an entirely unexpected event in the life of a college student named Lauren. But when it became clear to her that she had a spiritual vocation, she made the exceptional decision to dedicate her life to God. Drawing upon many visits...
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All The Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr · Thorndike Pr
Pages: 771
Format: Large Print Hardcover

The multiple prize-winning author of Memory Wall A blind child, Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo....
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Still Lives: Death, Desire, and the Portrait of the Old Master

Maria H. Loh · Princeton University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover

Michelangelo was one of the biggest international art stars of his time, but being Michelangelo was no easy thing: he was stalked by fans, lauded and lambasted by critics, and depicted in unauthorized portraits. Still Lives traces the process by which artists such as Michelangelo, Dürer,...
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