Mayer, Bernadette
Summary: "In July 1971, Bernadette Mayer embarked on an experiment: For one month she exposed a roll of 35mm film and kept a daily journal. The result was a conceptual work that investigates the nature of memory, its surfaces, textures and material. Memory is both monumental in scope (over 1100 photographs, two hundred pages of text and six hours of audio recording) and a groundbreaking work by a poet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Siglio
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Summary: "Hundreds of rarely seen images by legendary photographer Lynn Goldsmith offer an intimate portrait of rock 'n' roll icon Patti Smith during a transformative moment in her career. Images of Smith performing on stage combine with candid behind-the-scenes photographs and striking studio shoots to create a deeply personal look at the singer during her rise to fame. The photographs include Smith's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli
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Summary: "In sweeping tableaux, photographer Thomas R. Schiff presents, America's most important art museums, using breathtaking photographs that compels us to revisit historic and modern cultural institutions and their storied rooms in a genuinely new light. Schiff skillfully combines his love of photography and architecture and profiles museums of all sizes and stripes across the country, showcasing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli Electa 2019
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 708.13 SCHSummary: Using only the words of some of the great photographers, this program seeks to trace "the life-line of the species" (in the words of John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art, New York) Selecting their own favorite photos from contemporary works back to 1839, the producers of this program trace the lineage of photography as art and present a glorious parade of great photographs drawn from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This program looks at the results achieved when photographers were commissioned to reflect the world or certain aspects of it. It focuses on the Farm Security Administration (whose archives are held by the Library of Congress, Washington) which set out to document America in the 1930s. The program also visits the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, where photography forms an integral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: "Afro-Atlantic Histories" brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that express and analyze the ebbs and flows between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe. The book is motivated by the desire and need to draw parallels, frictions, and dialogues around the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DelMonico Books, ARTBOOK/D.A.P. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 704.03 AFRKlein, Laurie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quarry Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 770.28 KLESummary: From director Michael Apted, a revealing look at the art of filmmaking & photography. The documentary explores the relationship between the artisans who create camera lenses and the masters of light who use these lenses to capture their beloved art form.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kinonation 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BENSummary: Admittedly obsessed with war, photojournalist Isabel Ellsen has covered conflicts in Africa, the Balkans, and other centers of turmoil. She has also published both a memoir and a novel (later adapted into the film Harrison's Flowers) which describe emotional challenges that are bound up with war experiences. In this program, Ellsen shares personal stories about her adventures as a war...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Following the fast-paced world of Hollywood might seem like a dream job, but for Max Vadukul, photography doesn't end there. He also holds a top spot at the New Yorker and takes regular assignments from Conde Nast, GQ, and Mademoiselle, among others. This program evokes the honesty, vitality, and worldliness present in Vadukul's work, whether he's photographing a politician, movie star, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Born in Warsaw, Tomasz Tomaszewski started his photographic career with Polish magazines and worked with Solidarity Weekly. He has published numerous articles in National Geographic magazine, and his award-winning photos have also appeared in Stern, Paris Match, Geo, Time, and The New York Times. In this program, Tomaszewski shares his life and work as he presents a visual diary of the making...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Huskamp, Tracie Lyn.
Summary: A lovely nature-inspired art and journaling book, in a similar vein to Mixed-Media Nature Journals, but featuring the distinctive artwork, projects, journal pages, and unique techniques of artist Tracie Lyn Huskamp. Along with hints and tips for photographing nature, collecting, and preserving natural elements, the book will discuss ways to capture moments and create memories through simple...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quarry Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 HuskampSummary: The career of one of Britain's greatest painters tells us as much about his skill with a camera as his facility with a brush. In this program, David Hockney invites viewers on a journey of discovery that traces the evolution of his photographic work-from his initial experiments in the 1970s through the high point of his photo collage period, exemplified in Nude, featuring Theresa Russell, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: When setting up a shot, a photographer works with composition, lighting, and color to create a subliminal subtext that reinforces or even carries the meaning of his or her subject. This program illustrates how basic components of photography-line, shape, form, texture, balance, volume duality, point of view, depth of field, and perspective-contribute to an image's impact on the subconscious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: How do photographic images evoke meaning and emotion? To understand that, viewers first need to understand how the eyes and brain process input from the visual world. After an overview of the biomechanics of vision, this program explains how proximity, similarity, and continuity affect perception; what light is and how lighting types and angles alter an image; and how color theory operates....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Since the Civil War, portrait and snapshot photography have provided a visual history of life-and transformed society. This program explores how professional and amateur photographers capture the essence of people while considering the intensely personal nature of portraits and snapshots, their use as means of self-exploration and cultural narrative, and concerns involving their commodification...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program examines how photographers work with images to communicate stories and ideas and how viewers interpret those images. Message manipulation deriving from point of view, context, editing, superimposing, cropping, recoloring, and captioning are discussed. In addition, selective perception-seeing pictures through the filters of values and prejudices-is studied. Commentary is provided by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Heard, Wendy
Summary: When seventeen-year-old Veronica's photograph of her introverted girlfriend goes viral, they are sent into a spiral of fame and lethal danger as they navigate the turbulent waters of their relationship, secrets, acclaim, and the underground San Diego artscene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HEARosenblum, Naomi
Summary: From the camera lucida to the latest in digital image making and computer manipulation, photographic technology has dramatically changed throughout its nearly 200-year history, as succinctly explained and powerfully illustrated inA World History of Photography. Thanks to the unique immediacy with which photography captures perspective and history, the popularity and use of the camera spread...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abbeville Press Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 770.9 ROSSummary: Once strictly considered a visual recording device, the camera has expanded beyond its documentational niche and made places for itself in the worlds of fine art, advertising, and news media as well. This program describes existing and emerging genres in the photographic arts, including documentary photography, portraiture, still life, commercial photography, and photojournalism. Commentary is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Patton, Sharon F.
Summary: Discusses African American folk art, decorative art, photography, and fine arts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 PATBoynton, Graham
Summary: "Graham Boynton's Wild is the definitive biography of photographer Peter Beard, a larger-than-life icon who pushed the boundaries of art and scandalized international high society with his high-profile affairs. He was the original 20th century "enfant terrible" with the looks of a Greek god who blazed like a comet across the worlds of art, photography, and fame. The scion of several old WASP...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEARD, PETER BOYSummary: Get incredible highlight videos sent to your phone automatically with the HERO11 Black. Its large image sensor captures more of the scene with higher image quality, letting you instantlyshare shots to social media. HyperSmooth 5.0 video stabilization with AutoBoost and Horizon Lock built-in ensures smooth, stunning shots. Night effects let you get creative after dark and10-bit color brings all...
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: GoPro, Inc. 2021