Greater American Camera

Author : Monica Bravo
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300253634

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Greater American Camera by Monica Bravo Pdf

An engaging investigation of how the relationships between four U.S. photographers and Mexican artists forged new developments in modernism Photographers Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, Paul Strand, and Helen Levitt were among the U.S. artists who traveled to Mexico during the interwar period seeking a community more receptive to the radical premises of modern art. Looking closely at the work produced by these four artists in Mexico, this book examines the vital role of exchanges between the expatriates and their Mexican contemporaries in forging a new photographic style. Monica Bravo offers fresh insights concerning Weston’s friendship with Diego Rivera; Modotti’s images of labor, which she published alongside the writings of the Stridentists; Strand’s engagement with folk themes and the work of composer Carlos Chávez; and the influence of Manuel Álvarez Bravo on Levitt’s contributions to a New World surrealism. Exploring how these dialogues resulted in a distinct kind of modernism characterized by inter-American interests, the book reveals the ways in which cross-border collaboration shaped a new “greater American” aesthetic.

Author : Staci Greason
Publisher : Booktango
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468911527

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The Last Great American Housewife by Staci Greason Pdf

Kate Miller may be the last great American housewife left in Van Nuys. But as she sails toward forty on a wave of a pretty good (albeit somewhat boring) life with her husband and two kids, the death of her dysfunctional mother sends Kate out on a ledge and straight up a tree. Surveying her life from atop an endangered tree near the Fashion Square Plaza Mall, Kate learns more than how to fight for a cause. She learns how one frightened woman can actually discover her true self, one branch at a time and right down the street from her own backyard.

Author : John Grafton
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486847597

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100 Great American Short Stories by John Grafton Pdf

Includes "The Eyes of the Panther," Ambrose Bierce; "The Locket," Kate Chopin; "Out of Season," Ernest Hemingway; "The Black Cat," Edgar Allan Poe; "Luck," Mark Twain; "The Dilettante," Edith Wharton; more.

Author : Maya Rao
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610396479

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Great American Outpost by Maya Rao Pdf

A surreal, lyrical work of narrative nonfiction that portrays how the largest domestic oil discovery in half a century transformed a forgotten corner of the American West into a crucible of breakneck capitalism. As North Dakota became the nation's second-largest oil producer, Maya Rao set out in steel-toe boots to join a wave of drifters, dreamers, entrepreneurs, and criminals. With an eye for the dark, absurd, and humorous, Rao fearlessly immersed herself in their world to chronicle this modern-day gold rush, from its heady beginnings to OPEC's price war against the US oil industry. She rode shotgun with a surfer-turned-truck driver braving toxic fumes and dangerous roads, dined with businessmen disgraced during the financial crisis, and reported on everyone in between--including an ex-con YouTube celebrity, a trophy wife mired in scandal, and a hard-drinking British Ponzi schemer--in a social scene so rife with intrigue that one investor called the oilfield Peyton Place on steroids. As the boom receded, a culture of greed and recklessness left troubling consequences for investors and longtime residents. Empty trailers and idle oil equipment littered the fields like abandoned farmsteads, leaving the pioneers who built this unlikely civilization to reckon with their legacy. Part Barbara Ehrenreich, part Upton Sinclair, Great American Outpost is a sobering exploration of twenty-first-century America that reads like a frontier novel.

Author : Dennis Drabelle
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250015051

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The Great American Railroad War by Dennis Drabelle Pdf

How two of America's greatest authors took on the Central Railroad monopoly The notorious Central Pacific Railroad riveted the attention of two great American writers: Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris. In The Great American Railroad War, Dennis Drabelle tells a classic story of corporate greed vs. the power of the pen. The Central Pacific Railroad accepted US Government loans; but, when the loans fell due, the last surviving founder of the railroad avoided repayment. Bierce, at the behest of his boss William Randolph Hearst, swung into action writing over sixty stinging articles that became a signal achievement in American journalism. Later, Norris focused the first volume of his trilogy, The Octopus, on the freight cars of a thinly disguised version of the Central Pacific. The Great American Railroad War is a lively chapter of US history pitting two of America's greatest writers against one of America's most powerful corporations. "Readers with interests in western American history or the origins of today’s political quagmires will find much to relish. " - Publishers Weekly

Author : Mike Scott
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-04
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781456760441

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Great American Youth by Mike Scott Pdf

Based on actual events, this soul-gripping tale is an account of survival in the urban jungle of Chicago, in the 1980s. While embarked on his own street-journey, Michael Scott enters a world in which a band of brothers are locked in a desperate engagement, an Alamo-like siege of their hood. Amidst turbulent conditions, the narrator gives us all a ticket to ride next to him on this roller coaster ride, with its twist and turns of horror and frustration, suspense and humor. Following in the tradition of profound gang tales such as "The Outsiders" and "West Side Story," this must-read book goes beneath the hardcore surface to show the struggle of the human spirit.

Author : Brent D. Glass
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781451682038

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50 Great American Places by Brent D. Glass Pdf

A one-of-a-kind guide to fifty of the most important cultural and historic sites in the United States guaranteed to fascinate, educate, and entertain—selected and described by the former director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. From Massachusetts to Florida to Washington to California, 50 Great American Places takes you on a journey through our nation’s history. Sharing the inside stories of sites as old as Mesa Verde (Colorado) and Cahokia (Illinois) and as recent as Silicon Valley (California) and the Mall of America (Minnesota), each essay provides the historical context for places that represent fundamental American themes: the compelling story of democracy and self-government; the dramatic impact of military conflict; the powerful role of innovation and enterprise; the inspiring achievements of diverse cultural traditions; and the defining influence of the land and its resources. Expert historian Brent D. Glass explores these themes by connecting places, people, and events and reveals a national narrative that is often surprising, sometimes tragic, and always engaging—complete with photographs, websites for more information, and suggestions for other places nearby worth visiting. Sites you would expect to read about—in Boston, New York, and Washington, DC—are here, as well as plenty of surprises, such as the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, or Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, or the Village Green in Hudson, Ohio; less obvious places that, together with the more well-known destinations, collectively tell the story of America. For families who want to take a trip that is both educational and entertaining, for history enthusiasts, or anyone curious about our country’s greatest places, this book is the perfect guide.

Author : Lamar Underwood
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493035175

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Great American Treasure Hunting Stories by Lamar Underwood Pdf

Two of mankind’s most persistent quests—“get rich quick” and “something for nothing”—provide the power driving these tales of treasure-seekers in action. Renowned storytellers like Louis L’Amour and Jack London join real-life adventurers risking their lives for riches they think are worth the dangers. Buried treasure, creeks glittering with gold nuggets, sunken galleons filled with Spanish doubloons—the mother lodes are as varied as the men pursuing them. Some of the seekers will be rewarded; others face tragedy in remote places, lost among the jungles, mountains, and oceans. In both fiction and non-fiction, these stories make treasure hunting a real-life experience, in gripping prose that makes the reader of these stories part of the hunt itself.

Author : Trish Berg
Publisher : David C Cook
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0781443881

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The Great American Supper Swap by Trish Berg Pdf

Berg outlines the steps for forming a supper-swapping group and includes recipes, meal planning, and scheduling ideas that can help make mealtimes more fun and much more meaningful.

Author : John Sellers
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780557601981

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Adventur-Cation™ The Great American Adventure© by John Sellers Pdf

The Great American Adventure covers Visually and textually over 450 years of American history with continuity in only 66 pages. It is a wonderful primer to help learn and remember American History. It gives its reader a visual context of American history that brings it to life, and helps to remember when and where American History events occured in time. I highly recommend this book to American History Teachers and Students who want to experience a new way of learning American History. There is also an ebook edition that has an interactive web-based learning system which is highly engaging and provides web-based tests for readers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1550 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Photography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015542181

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U.S. Camera and Travel by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Trademarks
ISBN : PSU:000066189008

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Photography
ISBN : PRNC:32101040483107

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Photographic Times and American Photographer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Adam Begley
Publisher : Crown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101902622

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The Great Nadar by Adam Begley Pdf

A dazzling, stylish biography of a fabled Parisian photographer, adventurer, and pioneer. A recent French biography begins, Who doesn't know Nadar? In France, that's a rhetorical question. Of all of the legendary figures who thrived in mid-19th-century Paris—a cohort that includes Victor Hugo, Baudelaire, Gustave Courbet, and Alexandre Dumas—Nadar was perhaps the most innovative, the most restless, the most modern. The first great portrait photographer, a pioneering balloonist, the first person to take an aerial photograph, and the prime mover behind the first airmail service, Nadar was one of the original celebrity artist-entrepreneurs. A kind of 19th-century Andy Warhol, he knew everyone worth knowing and photographed them all, conferring on posterity psychologically compelling portraits of Manet, Sarah Bernhardt, Delacroix, Daumier and countless others—a priceless panorama of Parisian celebrity. Born Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, he adopted the pseudonym Nadar as a young bohemian, when he was a budding writer and cartoonist. Later he affixed the name Nadar to the façade of his opulent photographic studio in giant script, the illuminated letters ten feet tall, the whole sign fifty feet long, a garish red beacon on the boulevard. Nadar became known to all of Europe and even across the Atlantic when he launched "The Giant," a gas balloon the size of a twelve-story building, the largest of its time. With his daring exploits aboard his humongous balloon (including a catastrophic crash that made headlines around the world), he gave his friend Jules Verne the model for one of his most dynamic heroes. The Great Nadar is a brilliant, lavishly illustrated biography of a larger-than-life figure, a visionary whose outsized talent and canny self-promotion put him way ahead of his time.

Author : Ellen Spolsky
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780838755426

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Iconotropism by Ellen Spolsky Pdf

"The essays in this collection expand the boundaries of inter-art studies, claiming that human beings have evolved to draw nourishment from pictures. Ellen Spolsky argues in a polemical introduction that the recognition of our embodied need for pictures, that is, our human iconotropism, provides a fresh way of understanding the relationship of works of art to their historical contexts."--Jacket.