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Bowie
Steve Schapiro - Powerhouse Books
Format: Print book
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David Bowie's unexpected death has invited intense scrutiny over the rich and complex imagery and signifiers in the videos released for Blackstar, his last, enigmatic album. At press time for this book, a Bowie superfan alerted us to the remarkable similarities between these videos,... |
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A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War
Ronald K. Fierstein - Ankerwycke
Format: Hardcover
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Apple founder Steve Jobs once hailed Edwin Land the founder of Polaroid and the father of instant photography as quota national treasurequot and once confessed to a reporter that meeting Land was quotlike visiting a shrinequot By his own admission Jobs modeled much of his own career after... |
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Author: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan
Michael Leahy - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover
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A beautiful and moving collection of photographs by Beowulf Sheehan, whose work captures the essence of 200 of our most prominent writers, historians, journalists, playwrights, and poets. Beowulf Sheehan is considered to be his generation's foremost literary portrait photographer, having... |
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The Making of Gone With The Wind
Steve Wilson - University of Texas Press
Format: Hardcover
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Gone With The Wind is one of the most popular movies of all time. To commemorate its seventy-fifth anniversary in 2014, The Making of Gone With The Wind presents more than 600 items from the archives of David O. Selznick, the films producer, and his business partner John Hay Jock Whitney,... |
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Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, The Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin
Paul Hockenos - The New Press
Format: Print book
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An exhilarating journey through the subcultures, occupied squats, and late-night scenes in the anarchic first few years of Berlin after the fall of the wallBerlin Calling is a gripping account of the 1989 "peaceful revolution" in East Germany that upended communism and the tumultuous... |
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Not to be Missed: Fifty-four Favorites from a Lifetime of Film
Kenneth Turan - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The images and memories that matter most are those that are unshakeable, unforgettable. Kenneth Turan's fifty-four favorite films embrace a century of the world's most satisfying romances and funniest comedies, the most heart-stopping dramas and chilling thrillers.Turan discovered... |
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