American Snapshots
Title | American Snapshots PDF eBook |
Author | Ken Graves |
Publisher | |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Photography |
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"Collection of pictures gathered by the authors during a two-year search in which they canvassed neighborhoods and knocked on people's doors, asking to see people's dusty albums and yellowing scrapbooks."--From jacket flap
Who We Were
Title | Who We Were PDF eBook |
Author | Michael F. Williams |
Publisher | |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
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From the sod houses of South Dakota to the skyscrapers of New York City, these personal photographs form the first people's photo history of America.
Artists Unframed
Title | Artists Unframed PDF eBook |
Author | Merry A. Foresta |
Publisher | Chronicle Books |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2015-05-19 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 1616894431 |
Tucked away among the letters, diaries, and other ephemera in the Smithsonian's archives lies a trove of rarely seen snapshots of some of the twentieth century's most celebrated artists. Unlike the familiar official portraits and genius-at-work shots, these humble snaps capture creative giants with their guard down, in the moment, living life. Pablo Picasso stands proudly on a balcony with young daughter Maya—a tiny, meticulously inked annotation penned by an unknown hand proclaims that "he's very much in love." Jackson Pollock morosely carves a turkey while his mother, Stella, and wife, Lee Krasner, look on. A young Andy Warhol clowns for the camera with college friend Philip Pearlstein, and in a later shot more closely resembles his famously enigmatic public self at a gallery opening with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
Snapshot Chronicles
Title | Snapshot Chronicles PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Levine |
Publisher | Princeton Architectural Press |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2006-01-19 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 1568985576 |
'Snapshot Chronicles' is a visual exploration of the creative outpouring made possible by the camera.
TV Snapshots
Title | TV Snapshots PDF eBook |
Author | Lynn Spigel |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2022-04-08 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1478022892 |
In TV Snapshots, Lynn Spigel explores snapshots of people posing in front of their television sets in the 1950s through the early 1970s. Like today’s selfies, TV snapshots were a popular photographic practice through which people visualized their lives in an increasingly mediated culture. Drawing on her collection of over 5,000 TV snapshots, Spigel shows that people did not just watch TV: women used the TV set as a backdrop for fashion and glamour poses; people dressed in drag in front of the screen; and in pinup poses, people even turned the TV setting into a space for erotic display. While the television industry promoted on-screen images of white nuclear families in suburban homes, the snapshots depict a broad range of people across racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds that do not always conform to the reigning middle-class nuclear family ideal. Showing how the television set became a central presence in the home that exceeded its mass entertainment function, Spigel highlights how TV snapshots complicate understandings of the significance of television in everyday life.
Armando and the Blue Tarp School
Title | Armando and the Blue Tarp School PDF eBook |
Author | Edith Hope Fine |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014-03-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781620141656 |
The story of a young Mexican boy living in a colonia (trash dump community) who takes the first steps toward realizing his dream of getting an education.
The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978
Title | The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978 PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Greenough |
Publisher | |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Photography |
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'The Art of the American Snapshot' examines the evolution of this most common form of photography. The book shows that among the countless snapshots taken by American amateurs, some works, through intention or accident, continue to resonate long after their intimate context and original meaning have been lost.