Midnight Modern

Author : Tom Blachford
Publisher : powerHouse Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1576878341

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Midnight Modern by Tom Blachford Pdf

Midnight Modern brings into focus a view of Palm Springs and its internationally renowned modernist houses never before shown, shot entirely by the light of the full moon. Created over the course of three years by Australian photographer Tom Blachford, the surreal images function as portals in time, with the homes, cars, and beautiful scenery appearing almost exactly as it all did 60 years ago. The crisp moonlight adds a new dimension to the famous mecca of desert modernism and shows a contrasting side of a town famous for its sunshine, cocktails, and hedonism. Working closely with the Palm Springs community, Blachford gained remarkable access to some of the most coveted architectural jewels in the area, including the Kaufmann Desert House, Edris House, Frey House II, Frank Sinatra Twin Palms Estate, and dozens of restored Alexander tract homes in the valley. Blachford's work builds on the famous documentary and lifestyle approaches of Julius Shulman and Slim Aarons, but injects a signature mystery. His cinematic aesthetic acts as a stage for an untold narrative, inviting the viewer to script their own drama going on behind the walls of these historic homes. This original, lush work is a rich contribution to the record for those midcentury architecture and design lovers fascinated by Palm Springs.

Author : Charles King
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393245783

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Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul by Charles King Pdf

“Timely . . . brilliant . . . hugely enjoyable, magnificently researched and deeply absorbing.”—Jason Goodwin, New York Times Book Review At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time ever, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock. Yet in Istanbul—an ancient crossroads and Turkey's largest city—people were looking toward an uncertain future. Never purely Turkish, Istanbul was home to generations of Greeks, Armenians, and Jews, as well as Muslims. It welcomed White Russian nobles ousted by the Russian Revolution, Bolshevik assassins on the trail of the exiled Leon Trotsky, German professors, British diplomats, and American entrepreneurs—a multicultural panoply of performers and poets, do-gooders and ne’er-do-wells. During the Second World War, thousands of Jews fleeing occupied Europe found passage through Istanbul, some with the help of the future Pope John XXIII. At the Pera Palace, Istanbul's most luxurious hotel, so many spies mingled in the lobby that the manager posted a sign asking them to relinquish their seats to paying guests. In beguiling prose and rich character portraits, Charles King brings to life a remarkable era when a storied city stumbled into the modern world and reshaped the meaning of cosmopolitanism.

Author : Suchitra Vijayan
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612198590

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Midnight's Borders by Suchitra Vijayan Pdf

A Booklist "Top 10 History Book of 2022" The first true people's history of modern India, told through a seven-year, 9,000-mile journey along its many contested borders Sharing borders with six countries and spanning a geography that extends from Pakistan to Myanmar, India is the world's largest democracy and second most populous country. It is also the site of the world's biggest crisis of statelessness, as it strips citizenship from hundreds of thousands of its people--especially those living in disputed border regions. Suchitra Vijayan traveled India's vast land border to explore how these populations live, and document how even places just few miles apart can feel like entirely different countries. In this stunning work of narrative reportage--featuring over 40 original photographs--we hear from those whose stories are never told: from children playing a cricket match in no-man's-land, to an elderly man living in complete darkness after sealing off his home from the floodlit border; from a woman who fought to keep a military bunker off of her land, to those living abroad who can no longer find their family history in India. With profound empathy and a novelistic eye for detail, Vijayan brings us face to face with the brutal legacy of colonialism, state violence, and government corruption. The result is a gripping, urgent dispatch from a modern India in crisis, and the full and vivid portrait of the country we've long been missing.

Author : Bruce Lincoln
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786730896

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Sunlight at Midnight by Bruce Lincoln Pdf

For Russians, St. Petersburg has embodied power, heroism, and fortitude. It has encompassed all the things that the Russians are and that they hope to become. Opulence and artistic brilliance blended with images of suffering on a monumental scale make up the historic persona of the late W. Bruce Lincoln's lavish "biography" of this mysterious, complex city. Climate and comfort were not what Tsar Peter the Great had in mind when, in the spring of 1703, he decided to build a new capital in the muddy marshes of the Neva River delta. Located 500 miles below the Arctic Circle, this area, with its foul weather, bad water, and sodden soil, was so unattractive that only a handful of Finnish fisherman had ever settled there. Bathed in sunlight at midnight in the summer, it brooded in darkness at noon in the winter, and its canals froze solid at least five months out of every year. Yet to the Tsar, the place he named Sankt Pieter Burkh had the makings of a "paradise." His vision was soon borne out: though St. Petersburg was closer to London, Paris, and Vienna than to Russia's far-off eastern lands, it quickly became the political, cultural, and economic center of an empire that stretched across more than a dozen time zones and over three continents. In this book, revolutionaries and laborers brush shoulders with tsars, and builders, soldiers, and statesmen share pride of place with poets. For only the entire historical experience of this magnificent and mysterious city can reveal the wealth of human and natural forces that shaped the modern history of it and the nation it represents.

Author : British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Broadsides
ISBN : UOM:39015024852827

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Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum by British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings Pdf

Author : Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Publisher : Landmark Books Pte Ltd
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9789814189385

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Midnight Fisherman by Yoshihiro Tatsumi Pdf

From the mangaka who told his life story in A Drifting Life, and gave you Abandon the Old in Tokyo and The Push Man and Other Stories, comes this collection of gekiga of the 1970s which have never before been translated into English. Personally selected for publication exclusively by Landmark Books by Tatsumi, the stories strip away the gloss of the Japanese Economic Miracle to reveal the stresses, desires and angst of the millions of young people who flocked to the cities where life was not what it was promised to be. Compared to Tatsumi’s earlier stories, this collection paints a much more pessimistic world. The stories run on a different beat. The banality of modern life and its values bleed through.

Author : British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Broadsides
ISBN : WISC:89056199318

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Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: pt. I. March 28, 1734 to c. 1750. pt. II. 1751 to c. 1760 by British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Gardening
ISBN : HARVARD:FL2UV5

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includes "On modern gardening" by Anonim Pdf

Author : Patrick Carman
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780316088800

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Thirteen Days to Midnight by Patrick Carman Pdf

You are indestructible. Three whispered words transfer an astonishing power to Jacob Fielding that changes everything. At first, Jacob is hesitant to use the power, unsure of its implications. But there's something addictive about testing the limits of fear. Then Ophelia James, the beautiful and daring new girl in town, suggests that they use the power to do good, to save others. But with every heroic act, the power grows into the specter of a curse. How to decide who lives and who dies? In this nail-biting novel of mystery and dark intrigue, Jacob must walk the razor thin line between right and wrong, good and evil, and life and death. And time is running out. Because the Grim Reaper doesn't disappear. . . . He catches up.

Author : Neil ten Kortenaar
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773571501

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Self, Nation, Text in Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" by Neil ten Kortenaar Pdf

Many non-Indian readers find the historical and cultural references in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children demanding. In his close reading of the novel, Neil ten Kortenaar offers post-colonial literary strategies for understanding Midnight's Children that also challenge some of the prevailing interpretations of the novel. Using hybridity, mimicry, national allegory, and cosmopolitanism, all key critical concepts of postcolonial theory, ten Kortenaar reads Midnight's Children as an allegory of history, as a Bildungsroman and psychological study of a burgeoning national consciousness, and as a representation of the nation. He shows that the hybridity of Rushdie's fictional India is not created by different elements forming a whole but by the relationship among them. Self, Nation, Text in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children also makes an original argument about how nation-states are imagined and how national consciousness is formed in the citizen. The protagonist, Saleem Sinai, heroically identifies himself with the state, but this identification is beaten out of him until, in the end, he sees himself as the Common Man at the mercy of the state. Ten Kortenaar reveals Rushdie's India to be more self-conscious than many communal identities based on language: it is an India haunted by a dark twin called Pakistan; a nation in the way England is a nation but imagined against England. Mistrusting the openness of Tagore's Hindu India, it is both cosmopolitan and a specific subjective location.

Author : Austin Dobson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Artists
ISBN : HARVARD:FL2SZ2

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William Hogarth by Austin Dobson Pdf

Author : Cam Johns
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798650670636

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Midnight Princess by Cam Johns Pdf

After the untimely death of her grandparents, Cynthia was propelled into becoming a guardian to her younger half-sisters, Penelope and Charmaine. As they all lived under the tyrannical rule of their drunken mother, she constantly felt that this wasn't the life that she was meant to lead. She dreamed of one day her mother becoming sober enough for her to remember that she once loved her children. Unfortunately, that day would never come, and her heart would harden with each cruel comment from her mother.It wasn't until her freshman year in college that she would find someone who did love her, as she deserved. Who would liquefy her hardened heart, to find the giving soul that has been hiding from her mother's tirades. It was then that Cynthia would investigate her mother's past, to find answers to who her mother has become. The answers that would come in the dead of night. Midnight Princess.A standalone, opposites attract romance that will have you ready to turn the next page.

Author : David Neil Lee
Publisher : Poplar Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Brainwashing
ISBN : 1894987969

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The Midnight Games by David Neil Lee Pdf

When Nate sneaks into Ivor Wynne Stadium to check out the midnight games that are keeping his neighborhood up at night, he knew something wasn't right, but he had no idea how strange--and deadly--things would be. He has stumbled upon one of the rituals of the Resurrection Church of the Ancients, and soon his days and nights are dogged by ancient books, giant centipedes, and geometric curses that bring death down upon you in the form of glowing hounds. In this thrilling young adult novel, set in gritty, postindustrial Hamilton, David Neil Lee blends the rich horror of H. P. Lovecraft with the pace of a modern mystery.

Author : Lucinda Riley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476703572

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The Midnight Rose by Lucinda Riley Pdf

"From #1 internationally bestselling author Lucinda Riley, an epic story of family secrets, love, and betrayal set in Imperial India, a magnificent English country house in the 1920s, and that same house today"--

Author : William Hogarth,John Ireland,John Nichols
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032045580

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Hogarth's Works by William Hogarth,John Ireland,John Nichols Pdf