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A photojournalist bored with daily newspaper work, Dianne Hagaman set out to do a project that would be freer and more complete. She began by photographing alcoholics on the Seattle streets, then moved to the missions where they seek food and shelter and to the churches whose members volunteer to work in the missions. Hagaman's understanding of her subjects grew more complicated as she started to reconsider the nature of religion in America more generally...

Born in New York in 1923, Richard Avedon dropped out of high school and joined the Merchant Marine's photographic section. Returning in 1944, he found a job as a photographer in a department store, was 'discovered' and began working for Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Look, and other magazines. Although making his living in advertising, his real passion was portraiture. Avedon's portraits are well lit, minimalist, and free, resulting in images of intimate...

Internationally recognized photographer, Betty Hahn, discusses her introduction to the world of non-silver printing by her mentor Henry Holmes Smith. She describes in detail the production of some of her works.

In 1989, on the floor of Congress, Senator Jesse Helms implored America to "Look at the pictures," while denouncing the controversial art of Robert Mapplethorpe, whose photographs pushed social boundaries with their frank depictions of nudity, sexuality and fetishism - and ignited a culture war that rages to this day. More than 25 years later, the HBO Documentary Films presentation Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures does just that, taking an unflinching,...

"Thirty-eight of the most important and influential figures of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus and André Kertész to Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe and Alfred Stieglitz, are profiled in bold and compelling detail."--flyleaf.

Assembled from public and private collections the world over, the extraordinary images presented in this volume reflect the work of 73 women photographers from the mid-19th century to the present. They range from such early Victorian pioneers as Lady Clementina Hawarden to the recent work of Cindy Sherman, reconstructing a virtual pantheon. As well as encompassing the photographs of important early figures in the art--Julia Margaret Cameron, Gertrude...

This volume weaves together biographical, historical, and artistic strands to present a colorful tapestry of the American photographer Alfred Stieglitz's (1864-1946) early life and work, concentrating on his formative years and photographic works before 1917. This work includes photographs Stieglitz took in Europe, his first works in the United States, and Katherine Hoffman's new photographs of important sites in young Stieglitz's life. The author...

After a slump in the '80s, Carlin comes back with a vengeance, reaching new heights - and new audiences - with another reinvention that highlights his prescient political commentary and sharply honed observations about the state of America and the world. Following his death in 2008, fellow comics reflect on his enduring legacy.

Chesley Bonestell was an architect and painter who worked on the Golden Gate Bridge and the Chrysler Building. He worked on famous movies like Citizen Kane as a matte artist, and his mesmerizing paintings of planets and star systems helped inspire America's space program.