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Marcus, Leonard S.

Summary: "A middle-grade nonfiction book about one of America's most historically resonant images, the circumstances surrounding its creation, and the larger story it tells about Abraham Lincoln's life"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 LIN

Bannos, Pamela

Summary: Who was Vivian Maier? Many people know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photographs, which were unseen until they were discovered in a seemingly abandoned storage locker. They revealed her to be an inadvertent master of twentieth-century American street photography. Not long after, the news broke that Maier had recently died and had no...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAIER, VIVIAN BAN

Gordon, Linda.

Summary: Dorothea Lange's photographs define how the American Depression is remembered; this evocative biography defines her creative struggles and enduring legacy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANGE, DOROTHEA GOR

Kelly, Scott

Summary: A collection of photographs taken by Commander Scott Kelly documenting his journey on the International Space Station, 250 miles above the earth. One's perspective shifts when one lives for an entire year, as Commander Scott Kelly has. His breathtaking collection of photos document his journey on the International Space Station ... and the unparalleled beauty of our own home planet. His...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A Knopf 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779 KEL

Panzer, Mary.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Portrait Gallery 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 770.92 PAN

Burgan, Michael

Summary: Discusses the life of the famous African American track and field star who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Blk Hist Sport Burgan

Smith-Llera, Danielle

Summary: "The final match of the 2001 U.S. Open featuring tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams was groundbreaking. It was first time siblings had squared off in the final match for more than 100 years. And it was the first time both players were black. The photo of the smiling Williams sisters holding their trophies after the tennis match appeared in newspapers around the globe. It captured two...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Blk Hist Sport Smith-Llera

Manseau, Peter

Summary: In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized Americas imagination. A "spirit photographer," William Mumler took portrait photographs that featured the ghostly presence of a lost loved one alongside the living subject. Mumler was a sensation: The affluent and influential came calling. Peter Manseau brilliantly captures a nation wracked with grief...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUMLER, WILLIAM MAN

Berger, Martin A.

Summary: Photographers shot millions of pictures of the black civil rights struggle between the close of World War II and the early 1970s, yet most Americans today can recall just a handful of images that look remarkably similar. In the popular imagination, the civil rights movement is remembered in dramatic photographs of protestors attacked with police dogs and fire hoses, firebombs and shotguns, tear...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University Of California 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.119 FRE

Bradley, James

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5426 BRA

Bradley, James

Summary: Chronicles one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, focusing on the men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 BRA

Marks, Ann

Summary: "The definitive and authorized biography that unlocks the remarkable story of Vivian Maier, the nanny who lived secretly as a world-class photographer, featuring nearly 400 of her images, many never seen before, placed for the first time in the context ofher life. Vivian Maier, the photographer nanny whose work was famously discovered in a Chicago storage locker, captured the imagination of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAIER, VIVIAN MAR

Kissinger, Meg

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness, as well as an incisive exploration of the systems that failed them and a testament to the love that sustained them. Growing up in the 1960s in the suburbs of Chicago, Meg Kissinger's family seemed to live a charmed life. With eight kids and two loving parents, the Kissingers radiated a warm,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KIS

Martin, Jacqueline Briggs.

Summary: A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BEN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB BENTLEY MAR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE 551.57 MAR

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MAR

Lange, Dorothea.

Summary: A collection of black-and-white photographs by early twentieth-century photographer Dorothea Lange, best known for her pictures of Depression-era America, featuring selections drawn from throughout her career; with an essay that provides information about Lange's life and work.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aperture 1982

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.092 LAN

Martin, Jacqueline Briggs.

Summary: A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009

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Winkler, Henry

Summary: The former star of "Happy Days" uses his trademark sense of humor to discuss the lessons he learned from family, fatherhood, and most importantly, fly fishing.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Insight Editions 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.12 WIN

Partridge, Elizabeth

Summary: "Legendary photographers Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams all photographed the Japanese American incarceration, but with different approaches-and different results. This nonfiction picture book for middle grade readers examines the Japanese-American incarceration-and the complexity of documenting it-through the work of these three photographers"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 PAR

Thomas, William G.

Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 THO

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