Jackie Nickerson Unseen Farm

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Steidl
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 395829894X

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Jackie Nickerson: Unseen Farm by Anonim Pdf

Unpublished images from Nickerson's classic depiction of African agricultural workers This book presents previously unpublished work from Jackie Nickerson's acclaimed Farm series. Farm was published by Random House in 2002 and features images made between 1997 and 2001 across Southern Africa. Unseen Farm is an exploration of the people working in agriculture in Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa, and includes 6×7 medium-format photographs shot on film, Polaroids and contact sheets from the artist's archive. Comparable to Walker Evans' and James Agee's influential account of US rural workers in the mid-1930s, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Nickerson's vision is celebratory and non-judgmental while aware of photography's limits in capturing the full depth of its subjects. In Edward K. Owusu-Ansah's words: "Nickerson registers everything about her subjects in minute detail, sincerely and without commentary, allowing them to live through her lens. The result is a display of dignity amidst want, pride in labor and perseverance in spite of limited resources."

Author : Jackie Nickerson
Publisher : Random House UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN : 0224062689

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Farm by Jackie Nickerson Pdf

After a career as a successful magazine photographer, Jackie Nickerson quit the commercial world, bought a truck and spent two and a half years travelling through Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe. She photographed in the small towns and on the corporate plantations making astonishing portraits of workers in their workplace. The result is the forging of a new visual language that creates a great sense of elegance, dignity and compassion in the face of daily toil. Farm has become a document for an agrarian culture in tatters and, in some places, on the brink of collapse. It is a view of Africa outside the language of photojournalism and the previous depictions of the glories of tribal culture.

Author : Jackie Nickerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : PHOTOGRAPHY
ISBN : 3735607551

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Jackie Nickerson: Salvage by Jackie Nickerson Pdf

Portraits that explore how environmental and economic circumstances shape people's lives American-born British artist Jackie Nickerson (born 1960) began photographing Zimbabwean farmworkers in 1996. Her first series of these portraits served to change the perception that those who work in African agriculture are disempowered, unmodern people by highlighting their individual personalities through their handmade clothing. Ever since, she has continued in the vein of portraiture as a tool for social awareness, with a particular emphasis on global labor practices and agriculture. Her recent series Salvageinterrogates the homogeneity of the artistic conventions, such as balance, likeness, proportion and scale, that characterize the portrait genre. In contrast to these expectations, Nickerson's photography engages both her subjects and her viewers with light, airy color palettes and nontraditional framing, sometimes obscuring her sitters' faces to imply anonymity within a larger system or otherwise photographing them from a low angle to emphasize their authority within the image's frame.

Author : Diane Chamberlain
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466839403

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The First Lie by Diane Chamberlain Pdf

An e-original short story that sets the stage for bestselling author Diane Chamberlain's novel Necessary Lies (September 2013). The First Lie gives readers an early glimpse into the life of thirteen-year-old Ivy Hart. It's 1958 in rural North Carolina, where Ivy lives with her grandmother and sister on a tobacco farm. As tenant farmers, Ivy and her family don't have much freedom, though she and her best friend, Henry, often sneak away in search of adventure...and their truest selves. But life on the farm takes a turn when Ivy's teenage sister gives birth—all the while maintaining her silence about the baby's father. Soon Ivy finds herself navigating the space between adolescence and adulthood as she tries to unravel a dark web of family secrets and make sense of her ever-evolving life in the segregated South. Advance praise for Diane Chamberlain's Necessary Lies: "It will steal your heart."—Katrina Kittle, author of The Blessings of the Animals "An emotional powerhouse." —Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of Beach House Memories "Enthralling...[it] transfixed me from the very first pages, and its vivid and sympathetic characters haunted me long after the last."—Christina Schwarz, New York Times bestselling author of Drowning Ruth

Author : Anthony J. Erskine,Nova Scotia Museum,Azor Vienneau
Publisher : Nimbus Pub Limited
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Atlas
ISBN : 1551090104

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Atlas of Breeding Birds of the Maritime Provinces by Anthony J. Erskine,Nova Scotia Museum,Azor Vienneau Pdf

The Atlas features over 200 maps that provide information on breeding distribution, population, and natural history, with a forecast of each species' prospects for the future.

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1190 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : UOM:39015079755636

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf

Author : Zhanna Slor
Publisher : Polis Books
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781951709549

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At the End of the World, Turn Left by Zhanna Slor Pdf

HONORABLE MENTION CRIMEREADS' THE BEST DEBUT NOVELS OF 2022 NAMED ONE OF THE "40 NEW BOOKS FOR SUMMER READING 2021" BY THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL A riveting debut novel from an unforgettable new voice that is literary, suspenseful, and a compelling story about identity and how you define “home”. Masha remembers her childhood in the former USSR, but found her life and heart in Israel. Anna was just an infant when her family fled, but yearns to find her roots. When Anna is contacted by a stranger from their homeland and then disappears, Masha is called home to Milwaukee to find her. In 2008, college student Anna feels stuck in Milwaukee, with no real connections and parents who stifle her artistic talents. She is eager to have a life beyond the heartland. When she’s contacted online by a stranger from their homeland—a girl claiming to be her long lost sister—Anna suspects a ruse or an attempt at extortion. But her desperate need to connect with her homeland convinces her to pursue the connection. At the same time, a handsome grifter comes into her life, luring her with the prospect of a nomadic lifestyle. Masha lives in Israel, where she went on Birthright and unexpectedly found home. When Anna disappears without a trace, Masha’s father calls her back to Milwaukee to help find Anna. In her former home, Masha immerses herself in her sister’s life—which forces her to recall the life she, too, had left behind, and to confront her own demons. What she finds in her search for Anna will change her life, and her family, forever.

Author : K. Daly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137414359

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Redressing Institutional Abuse of Children by K. Daly Pdf

Winner of the Christine M. Alder Book Prize in 2015 from the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Historical abuse of children is a worldwide phenomenon. This book assesses the enablers of abuse and the reasons it took so long for officials to respond. It analyzes redress for institutional abuse in two countries, Canada and Australia, using first-hand accounts of survivors' experiences.

Author : Charles H. Matthews,Ralph Brueggemann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317802099

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Charles H. Matthews,Ralph Brueggemann Pdf

This book presents a new model, the competency framework, for students, innovators, entrepreneurs, managers, and anyone who wants to better understand the dynamic world of innovation and entrepreneurship. Focused on both the individual and strategic organizational level, this book is about people and the competencies each person needs to learn to be successful in creating a more dynamic future. Matthews and Brueggemann’s framework for innovation and entrepreneurship competencies empowers individuals to excel at innovation and new venture creation. It provides a practical guide and clear and concise understanding of the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and experiences that are needed to increase imagination, creativity, innovation and new venture creation capability. Innovation and Entrepreneurship will be attractive for students of entrepreneurship, innovation, management and cross-disciplinary classes, such as design thinking. Presented in a modular format, Innovation & Entrepreneurship informs the future direction of people and technology, as well as the educational systems producing the next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs. Based on extensive academic research, this book is organized into two sections: Twelve innovation elements and twelve competency categories. The elements are the foundation and the competency categories are the building blocks that inform our path toward a more precise understanding of how innovation and entrepreneurship plays an important role in economic development and our daily lives.

Author : Claudine Burnett
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781665516785

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African Americans in Long Beach and Southern California: a History by Claudine Burnett Pdf

Racial discrimination and unrest are intertwined with the history of Long Beach and Southern California in Ms. Burnett’s latest book. African Americans in Long Beach and Southern California begins in the 1800s and continues to 1970, reaching into later years to describe what that history has led to today. Ms. Burnett spent over five years researching recently digitized African American newspapers which has allowed her access to the black perspective on issues rarely written about in the white press or by other authors. Personal stories, legislation, Southland history and possible solutions to decades old problems are presented, making for an interesting and informative read. It is a unique work, sure to open the eyes of many.

Author : Michele Knobel,Colin Lankshear
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 0820495239

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A New Literacies Sampler by Michele Knobel,Colin Lankshear Pdf

The study of new literacies is quickly emerging as a major research field. This book «samples» work in the broad area of new literacies research along two dimensions. First, it samples some typical examples of new literacies - video gaming, fan fiction writing, weblogging, role play gaming, using websites to participate in affinity practices, memes, and other social activities involving mobile technologies. Second, the studies collectively sample from a wide range of approaches potentially available for researching and studying new literacies from a sociocultural perspective. Readers will come away with a rich sense of what new literacies are, and a generous appreciation of how they are being researched.

Author : Diane F. Halpern
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Cognition
ISBN : 0805814949

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Thought and Knowledge by Diane F. Halpern Pdf

"Thought & Knowledge, Fourth Edition" is appropriate for use as a textbook in critical thinking courses offered in departments of psychology, philosophy, English, humanities, or as a supplement in any course where critical thinking is emphasized

Author : John Robert Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Cognition
ISBN : 071672085X

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Cognitive Psychology and Its Implications by John Robert Anderson Pdf

An updated, systematic introduction to the theoretical and experimental foundations of higher mental processes. The book constructs a coherent picture of human cognition, relating neural functions to mental processes, perception to abstraction, representation to meaning, and knowledge to skill.

Author : Jackie Nickerson
Publisher : Steidl
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Photography
ISBN : UOM:39015074219869

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Faith by Jackie Nickerson Pdf

"Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present 'Faith' Jackie Nickerson's second solo exhibition at the gallery. 'Faith' is a compelling portrayal of a hidden world, the Catholic religious orders of Ireland. Nickerson was granted unprecedented access to places that have never been seen before by outsiders. For two-and-a-half years, Nickerson photographed inside the churches, convents and abbeys of Ireland. 'Faith' juxtaposes gentle portraits with straightforward images of daily rituals and communal devotion - neatly swept wooden floors on long corridors, sunny libraries attended by Virgin Mary figurines - to suggest an austere existence grounded in optimism, strength and contentment."--Gallery website.

Author : Dr. Tony Brooks,Bob Welch
Publisher : Diversion Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1635767792

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Leave No Man Behind by Dr. Tony Brooks,Bob Welch Pdf

On June 28.2005, Turbine 33, carrying eight Navy SEALs and eight members of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, was struck by a rocket propelled grenade, careening the dual rotor Chinook toward the rugged peak of Sawtalo Sar. The result was the single deadliest incident in Special Operations history at the time. Commanders called on the largest element of US Special Forces, the 75th Ranger Regiment. The rescue mission: Operation Red Wings II. Author Tony Brooks gives a first-hand account of the daring recovery of Turbine 33 and the subsequent search for the remaining compromised Navy SEAL recon team--one of whom was Marcus Luttrell, the lone survivor.