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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

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

Taylor, Maureen Alice.

Summary: This collection of images assigns faces to an un-illustrated war and tells the stories of our nation's Founding Fathers and Mothers. It is a much-needed contribution to the history of the American Revolution, the history of the early Republic, and the history of photography.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kent State University Press 2010

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2 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.373 Taylor Vol. 1
Call number: R GEN 929.373 Taylor Vol. 2

Van Sise, B. A.

Summary: "With this fascinating synthesis of word and image, internationally renowned photographer B.A. Van Sise offers a visually stimulating anthology that will enchant lovers of both poetry and photography. At times whimsical, surreal, challenging, enigmatic, joyful and sobering, these portraits--running adjacent to poems by each of their subjects--highlight some of the most influential poets of our...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Schaffner Press 2019

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.2 VAN

Baldwin, James

Summary: First published in 1963, James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America's so-called "Negro problem." As remarkable for its masterful prose as for its frank and personal account of the black experience in the United States, it is considered one of the most passionate and influential explorations of 1960s race relations, weaving thematic threads of love, faith, and family into...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Taschen 2019

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 305.8 BAL

Summary: A portrait of American photographer Tina Barney, who specialises in photographing the rarefied upper echelons of society in the US and Europe.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: IndiePix 2009

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TIN

Summary: Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger-than-life Polaroid Land 20x24 camera. For the next thirty-five years she captured the surfaces of those who visited her Massachusetts studio: families, Beat poets, rock stars, and Harvard notables.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC B

Hodgkins, Lisa

Summary: "In the last half of the 19th century, the women of America were beginning to develop their own sense of style. Although influenced by European fashions and the social and economic changes of the time, they made clothing choices based upon their personal aspirations and their practical everyday needs. Providing an overview of fashion influences for each decade from the 1860s to the end of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391.2 HOD

Panzer, Mary.

Format: text

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

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 770.92 PAN

Contents: Racial time, racial marks, racial metaphors / Coco Fusco -- Theoretical status of the concept of race / Howard Winant -- I. LOOKING UP/LOOKING DOWN -- Traffic in photographs / Allan Sekula -- Shadow and the substance: race, photography and the index / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- Looking for empire in the U.S. colonial archive / Javier Morillo-Alicea -- II. ASSIMILATE/IMPERSONATE -- Black bodies, white...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: International Center of Photography/Harry N. Abrams 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 779.2 ONL

Mark, Mary Ellen

Summary: Collects black-and-white photographs taken between 1963 and 1999, touching on issues of poverty, discrimination, and life in America.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aperture 1999

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.2 MAR

Summary: "Based on the popular and groundbreaking PBS multiplatform documentary project, this is an inspiring and striking photographic portrait that brilliantly captures the tumultuous, historic year that was 2020. American Portrait offers an intimate look at what it really means to be an American today, revealed through the stories of ordinary people and in their own voices. Told by people of all...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 779.2 AME

Summary: Focus on fashion and portraiture photographer, Richard Avedon.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV RIC

Summary: National Geographic follows Pete Souza, the President's photographer inside the Obama White House, aboard Air Force One, backstage at the State of the Union, and into the heart of the West Wing. It's a behind-the-scenes look at the everyday grit of the American presidency and a chance to see what it's like to cover the most powerful man in the world, for history. Features intimate interviews...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PRE

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