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Benson: The Autobiography

Alan Goldsher · Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover

Over the span of his illustrious five-decade career George Benson has sold millions of records performed for hundreds of millions of fans and cut some of the most beloved jazz and soul tunes in music history But the guitaristvocalist is much more than This Masquerade On Broadway Turn Your...
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How To Use The GoPro Hero 4 Silver

Jordan Hetrick · Kaisanti Press
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback

FROM THE #1 AMAZON BEST SELLING AUTHOR ON GoPro CAMERAS. Specifically for the GoPro HERO 4 Silver Edition, this is the perfect guide book for anyone who wants to learn how to use a GoPro HERO 4 Silver camera to capture great videos and photos. Designed for an active lifestyle, travelers,...
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Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth: Inside the Creation of a Modern Fairy Tale

Mark Cotta Vaz · Harper Design
Pages: 153
Format: Print book

Discover the dark secrets of Guillermo del Toro's masterpiece, Pan's Labyrinth, in this thrilling exploration of the film's creation.Released in 2006, Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth was hailed as a dark, thrilling masterpiece and announced the filmmaker as a major...
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Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore

TERRY NEWMAN · Harper Design
Pages: 206
Format: Hardcover

"The most counterintuitive book of the summer thus far ... . [Newman's] surprisingly convincing thesis is that the sartorial choices authors make are deeply connected to the narrative choices they make - or, as Beckett put it, 'the fabric of language' they use." -Vanessa Friedman,...
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Cecil Beaton - Portraits and Profiles

Cecil Beaton · Frances Lincoln
Format: Hardcover

Cecil Beaton was a fashion, portrait and war photographer, a diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer. He is one of the most celebrated portrait photographers of the twentieth century and is renowned for his images of elegance, glamour...
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Picture This: How Pictures Work

Molly Bang · Chronicle
Pages: 152
Format: Print book

Molly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary. Bang's powerful ideas - about how the visual composition of images works to engage the emotions, and how the elements of an artwork can give it the power to tell a story...
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Labyrinth : the ultimate visual history

Paula M Block · Insight Editions Incredib
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

"Labyrinth: The Ultimate Visual History" is the definitive thirtieth-anniversary exploration of the beloved Jim Henson classic, featuring rare artwork, interviews, and on-set photos. Three decades after its release, "Labyrinth, " starring Jennifer Connelly and David...
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Ellsworth Kelly

Tricia Y Paik · Phaidon Press Limited
Pages: 375
Format: Print book

The definitive monograph, created in close collaboration with the artist (1923-2015) , a pioneer of abstract art, who influenced subsequent generations of artists such as Tauba Auerbach, Matt Connors and Alex Israel.This definitive monograph, and the last book to be created in close collaboration...
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Show and Tell: The New Book of Broadway Anecdotes

Ken Bloom · Oxford University Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Did you know that Frank Sinatra was nearly considered for the original production of Fiddler on the Roof? Or that Jerome Robbins never choreographed the famous "Dance at the Gym" in West Side Story? Or that Lin-Manuel Miranda called out an audience member on Twitter for texting...
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The Complete Singer-Songwriter: A Troubadour's Guide to Writing, Performing, Recording, and Business Second Edition

Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers · Backbeat Books
Pages: 236
Format: Print book

(Book) . The Complete Singer-Songwriter is the ultimate guide for the modern performer, chock-full of tips, tools, and inspiration for both aspiring troubadours and those looking to take their craft and career to the next level. Author Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers draws on firsthand interviews...
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Steven Universe: Art & Origins

Chris Mcdonnell · Abrams
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Steven Universe: Art & Origins is the first book to take fans behind the scenes of the groundbreaking and boundlessly creative Cartoon Network animated series Steven Universe. The eponymous Steven is a boy who - alongside his mentors, the Crystal Gems (Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl) - must...
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Looking Backward: A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

Michael Lesy · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

A transporting work of photographic history that offers a haunting vision of how Americans viewed the world at the dawn of the twentieth century.Pull the yellowed card from the box and slide it into the viewer. Two binocular images, nearly identical, reveal a scene from the past in vivid,...
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History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs

Greil Marcus · Yale University Press
Format: eBook

Unlike all previous versions of rock ’n’ roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points that everyone knows. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs recorded between 1956 and 2008, then proceeds...
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