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No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy 2 reviews
Robert Hariman, John Louis Lucaites
University Of Chicago Press, 2007
Looking at the ways iconic photographs matter in this country
+ Superb Study of Photojournalism and Democratic Culture
This summer I have been having to constantly update the section of content pages in my Pop Culture class dealing with the "Media Lolitas," and I was thinking of just forgetting about trying to keep up with the escapades of Britney, Lindsay, and Paris and just have "before" and "after" photographs. ...
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Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq 11 reviews
Thorne Anderson, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, ...
Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2005
A story of Iraqis under US occupation.
+ A look into the stupendously dangerous life of the "unilateral"
+ response to Linda Bergin
+ A Must Read for Everyone
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New York September 11 56 reviews
Magnum Photographers
powerHouse Books, 2001
Why Bush and Giuliani are not in this book
+ What amazing photographs!
+ Awesome
+ Pictures are worth a thousand words
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Portraits of America3 reviews
National Geographic Insight Publishing, 2001
An intimate look at America
+ Truly one of the greats.
+ Great American Photographer
Bill Allard's vision of America is that of intimacy and affection, it is evident that Bill has connected himself with his subjects, showing the warmth and joys as well as the pain and sorrow of his subject, Bill's strength is his ability to earn the trust of his subject from The Amish to baseball ...
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The World's Top Photographers: Photojournalism: And the Stories Behind Their Greatest Images (World's Top ... 2 reviews
Andy Steel
Rotovision, 2006
Excellent
This is a great, highly recommended book of photos with captions of some of the best photojournalists of the past twenty years. The bios have great descriptions of how each photographer got into the business, and also what type of gear they use. A great glimpse into this powerful art form.
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Vanishing Giants: Elephants of Asia
Editions Didier Millet, 2008
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Beijing 360 Degrees
ZeMin Yu - Author/Contributor, Tamas D. Varga - Author/Photographer
360 Art Ltd, 2008
The author would like with this photo album to acquaint visitors with the capital of China and reacquaint the citizens who already know the city well with some famous sites. Since not all of them have the making of a good scene for panoramic photograph, his album does not follow the common and perhaps expected themes of similar endeavors. That s why there are some lesser known details and ...
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Life: Photography Exposed: The Story Behind the Image (Life)1 review
EDITORS OF TIME LIFE
Life, 2005
amazing photographs and equally amazing stories
Great photos often have great stories behind them and you'll learn about them in this book. The photos themselves are great to look at, but the stories behind them are equally inspiring. They cover almost 200 years of photographs and encompass a huge variety of things. This is a great book of ...
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2/15: The Day the World Said NO to War5 reviews
AK Press, 2003
A moving tribute to the day we marched for peace
+ An international cry for peace!
+ It's All About Impressions
+ Visually stunning...
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Inside China 2 reviews
National Geographic
National Geographic, 2007
China uncensored...
The book opens with the question: How does one get inside China? In 272 pages, Inside China, featuring an expansive collection of photographs from an equally impressive list of photographers and essays by six experts on Chinese culture, politics, history, and economy, makes an earnest attempt to ...
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Eyes of the Storm: Hurricane Katrina and Rita The Photographic Story7 reviews
The Dallas Morning News
Taylor Trade Publishing, 2006
Eyes of the Storm, a review by Deborah Kossich, Fort Dearborn-Chicago Photo Forum
+ about the product and the service
+ Nice Book
+ The Ring (and Sting) of Truth
+ eyes of the storm
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War11 reviews
Ashley Gilbertson
University Of Chicago Press, 2007
OUTSTANDING IMAGES OF IRAQ!
+ You Are There
+ Still the best photographic work on the Iraq conflict
+ Print quality of photos not particularly good
+ Astounding
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One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression1 review
Eudora Welty
University Press of Mississippi, 1996
Great photographs, but you can do better ...
Before Eudora Welty was a published writer, she was a semi-professional photographer. The "snapshots" (her term) in this book are eloquent images in themselves; Welty's accompanying essay, though brief, is excellent. Ordinarily this would be more than enough for me to recommend the book. But in ...
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America 24/741 reviews
DK ADULT, 2003
America 24/7
+ Great Gift
We were aware of the content prior to ordering, so we knew what we were getting. However, two of the four covers were torn. Since all were for gifts, we were disappointed that they were damaged.
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Life: The Platinum Anniversary Collection: 70 Years of Extraordinary Photography23 reviews
Editors of Life Magazine
Life, 2007
Great Pictures
+ Great gift
+ Life: The Platinum Anniversary Cooection: 70 Years of Extraordinary Photography
+ Life 70 Years.Platinum Edition
+ Excellent Photo's and Stories of Our History
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The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-682 reviews
Steven Kasher
Abbeville Press, 1996
Stunning compilation of photos with eloquent text
+ 'photographic history'
This book was singularly instrumental in putting me deep into the heart of the Civil Rights Movement. Being born in the early sixties, I was not old enough to have seen the daily television and newspaper images of what was happening to an oppressed segment of people. This book fills that void ...
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Life: Heaven on Earth: 100 Places to See in Your Lifetime (Life)6 reviews
Editors of Life Magazine
Life, 2006
Great Travel Ideas, Beautiful Photos
+ Beautiful pictures
+ Beautiful
I bought this book to get travel ideas. I was not disappointed. It included several terrific places that I've already gone to such as Paris and Cartagena, Colombia, several places I've already planned to go to such as Guilin, China and Kauai and dozens of beautiful places I had never known about ...
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A Camera, Two Kids, and a Camel: My Journey in Photographs6 reviews
National Geographic, 2008
Stunning photos, with stories to match
+ A Coffee-table necessity!
+ inspiring
+ Amazing!!
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Curse Of The Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta1 review
powerHouse Books, 2008
Great book!
I just returned from working in Port Harcourt for several months. This is a very graphic book from people who were able to penetrate the heart of the Niger Delta with pictures that very few people would otherwise be able to see.
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Travel Notes: 22 Thousand Miles Across the Americas2 reviews
Christoph Bangert
powerHouse Books, 2007
The World from a Window
+ A mind-bending insight into a life changing journey
This is a refreshing deviation from the usual travelogue. In terms of format, it reminds one of a travel scrapbook, each page containing photos, journal notes, and the odd ticket stub, carnet, or repair part receipt (hey, bound to need some parts driving a Land Rover for 22k miles!). Christoph ...
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