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Author
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to your very own Figure Drawing Studio, where artist Butch Krieger guides you through the fundamentals of learning to draw and paint the human form using photographs taken of live art models posing as they would for an art class. Innovative step-by-step exercises based on these images, from the popular Art Models series, will boost your skills and prepare you to draw from life. A companion disk features more than 1,500 high-resolution full-color...
Publisher
North Light Books
Pub. Date
1978
Language
English
Description
Indicates names, addresses, people to contact, types of pictures to submit, and pay rates for magazine, book, greeting card, and calendar publishers, advertising and public-relations agencies, and audio-visual firms; and discusses business and technical matters
Author
Language
English
Description
"Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years--a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II--an experience Eva remembers well--and the search to reunite people...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Earth From Space is a groundbreaking two-hour special that reveals a spectacular new space-based vision of our planet. Produced in extensive consultation with NASA scientists, this special takes data from earth-observing satellites and transforms them into dazzling visual sequences, each one exposing the intricate and surprising web of forces that sustain life on earth.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a 1980s Amish community, three sisters face a time of transition in their family, and each searches for a way to define her own future"--
With the passing of their widowed mother, Eva's older brother Menno plans to move his growing family into the Eden Valley farmhouse. Surely, Menno reasons, at least one of his three sisters will marry this coming wedding season. Eva does hope to marry, but she isn't sure she wants to give up her sweet shop...
Author
Publisher
Gallic Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Parisian archivist H?l?ne knows very little about her mother, Nathalie, who died when she was four. In the hope of learning more, she places a newspaper advert calling for information on Nathalie and two unknown men pictured with her at a tennis tournament in 1971. Against the odds, she receives a response from St?phane, a Swiss biologist: his father is one of the people in the photo. More letters, and more photos, pass between them, in an attempt...
Author
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling master of mystery Phillip Margolin transcends his traditional territory in this haunting new contemporary thriller inspired by an unforgettable photograph. Visiting an art museum displaying a retrospective of acclaimed photographer Kathy Moran's work, aspiring novelist Stacey Kim is stunned by the photo at the center of the show--the famous "Woman with a Gun" which won a Pulitzer Prize and launched the photographer's career....
Author
Series
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"... Approximately 100 images, some single and some multiple portraits, edited from the almost 800 large-format glass-plate negatives and thousands of individual portraits made by Durham-born and self-taught photographer Hugh Mangum and currently housed at Duke University's Rubenstein Special Collections library"--
Author
Publisher
Late Harvest Editions
Pub. Date
2013, copyright 2013
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Composed of 71 portraits and 15 still life images photographed from January to December of 2012, this collection of portraits provides an intimate view into the artist on their home ground. Captured in honest moments, Mr. Halper's visual insight offers the chance at a deeper understanding of the artistic temperament. In their transformation from the creators of art, to portrait subjects, the seers, who make the art and are the subjects of my portraiture,...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In July 2022, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope released its first images, looking further back in time than ever before to show the universe in stunningly beautiful detail. But that was just the beginning. With tons of new data and spectacular images flooding in, Webb is allowing scientists to peer deep in time to try to answer some of astronomy's biggest questions. When--and how--did the first stars and galaxies form? And can we see the fingerprints...
Author
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The delightful photography of people knitting, from the 1860s to 1960s, showcases everyone from Hollywood starlets to the farm wives of the Shetland Islands. People Knitting is a quirky and fascinating gift for the knitter in your life--a charming tribute in photographs and colorful printed ephemera to this ever-popular and sometimes all-consuming craft.
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