Download or read book Images written by Eileen J. Southern and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated book brings together for the first time a significant body of imagery devoted to the traditional culture of the African-American slave.

Download or read book Bassman Family Genealogy written by M. Goldstein et. al. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researching Barak Bassman’s maternal and paternal ancestors takes us back nearly 300 years to small villages in Poland and in the Russian Empire, where these men and women struggled to eke out a living, to live a Jewish life, and to endure the perils of anti-Semitism. Later we track the family’s emigration to the “Golden Land” of America, as well as the horrible deaths of those who remained in Europe and perished in the Holocaust. A close look into some family members’ archival documents from America reveals the tragic consequences of the abject poverty in which they lived. Yet throughout, our research of Barak Bassman’s ancestors has documented their tenacity to survive and make a better life for their children and future generations.

Download or read book Big Box USA written by Bart Elmore and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Box USA presents a new look at how the big box retail store has dramatically reshaped the US economy and its ecosystems in the last half century. From the rural South to the frigid North, from inside stores to ecologies far beyond, this book examines the relationships that make up one of the most visible features of late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century American life. The rise of big box retail since the 1960s has transformed environments on both local and global scales. Almost everyone has explored the aisles of big box stores. The allure of “everyday low prices” and brightly colored products of every kind connect shoppers with a global marketplace. Contributors join a growing conversation between business and environmental history, addressing the ways American retail institutions have affected physical and cultural ecologies around the world. Essays on Walmart, Target, Cabela’s, REI, and Bass Pro Shops assess the “bigness” of these superstores from “smokestacks to coat racks” and contend that their ecological impacts are not limited to the footprints of parking lots and manufacturing but also play a didactic role in educating consumers about their relationships with the environment. A model for historians seeking to bring business and environmental histories together in their analyses of merchant capital’s role in the landscapes of everyday life and how it has remade human relationships with nature, Big Box USA is a must-read for students and scholars of the environment, business, sustainability, retail professionals, and a general audience.

Download or read book Lingerie written by Lillian Bassman and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stunning images of women in intimate apparel from the artist heralded as “among the most important fashion photographers of the twentieth century” (The New York Times). Through the 1950s and the early 1960s, working with that era’s supermodels, fashion photographer Lillian Bassman created the quintessential modern feminine image of women in their lingerie. As Ginia Bellafante put it in the New York Times recently, “In place of heavyset women constraining themselves in what was essentially equipment, Ms. Bassman deployed immeasurably lithe models, conveying a world in which women seemed to linger in the pleasures of their own sensuality.” Fifty years later, these images have lost none of their allure, and the enormous cultural impact of the TV show Mad Men has given them new currency. “For more than half a century, Lillian Bassman’s lingerie-themed photographs have seduced the viewer, with their stark contrast, stunningly graceful figure lines, and vivid texture.” —Vanity Fair

Download or read book American Photo written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Shadow of a Bass Man written by Anne Walsh and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After riding the rollercoaster to phenomenal success never seen before in the music industry, The Beatles world suddenly changed in the fall of 1966. Their most popular bass player and songwriter, Paul McCartney, was missing for five days in early November. When his band mates were told Paul died in a car accident, John Lennon knew there was more to the untold story. Behind the scene of Beatlemania, Paul lived a private and mysterious life that led to his death. Now his best mates are left to search for the truth that forever changed their lives and the lives of all who knew him. Was his death a car accident or a homicide? What really happened to Beatle James Paul McCartney, M.B.E? Paul's light shone on all that knew him. Now we are left to carry his torch and shine his light on the truth once again so the Shadow of Paul can rest in peace.

Download or read book Saul Bass written by Jan-Christopher Horak and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food is a significant part of our daily lives and can be one of the most telling records of a time and place. Our meals -- from what we eat, to how we prepare it, to how we consume it -- illuminate our culture and history. As a result, cookbooks present a unique opportunity to analyze changing foodways and can yield surprising discoveries about society's tastes and priorities. In Kentucky's Cookbook Heritage, John van Willigen explores the state's history through its changing food culture, beginning with Lettice Bryan's The Kentucky Housewife (originally published in 1839). Considered one of the earliest regional cookbooks, The Kentucky Housewife includes pre--Civil War recipes intended for use by a household staff instead of an individual cook, along with instructions for serving the family. Van Willigen also shares the story of the original Aunt Jemima -- the advertising persona of Nancy Green, born in Montgomery County, Kentucky -- who was one of many African American voices in Kentucky culinary history. Kentucky's Cookbook Heritage is a journey through the history of the commonwealth, showcasing the shifting priorities and innovations of the times. Analyzing the historical importance of a wide range of publications, from the nonprofit and charity cookbooks that flourished at the end of the twentieth century to the contemporary cookbook that emphasizes local ingredients, van Willigen provides a valuable perspective on the state's social history.

Download or read book In the Know written by Nancy MacDonell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate crash course for every woman who wants to be "cool" presents an entertaining, fact-filled guide on how to navigate life with style and flair, offering practical advice on everything from knowing why Jackson Pollock is important to which handbag can get you upgraded at the airport. Original. 40,000 first printing.

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Download or read book Lillian Bassman written by Lillian Bassman and published by . This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lilliam Bassman is a beloved figure in the pantheon of fashion photographers. Her signature style offers a sensuous and intimate vision of modern women. In New York in the 1950s and 1960s, where sophisticated women were expanding the scope of their lives while being forced into traditional feminine roles, Bassman sought, as she put it, "to photograph fashion with a woman's eye for a woman's intimate feelings." As art historian and critic Deborah Solomon says in her introduction, "The women who appear in her photographs tend to be tall and attractive, and they have a kind of seductive expression that comes from keeping secrets."" "Like her contemporaries Richard Avedon and Irving Penn, Bassman exploited the medium of fashion photography to capture a dream world of cool repose. So strong is the pull of this vision that it has influenced the fashion designers themselves: John Galliano of Dior has said of Bassman's photographs, with their "painterly strokes of light," that "it was this technique and spirit that I wanted to capture in the dressmaking process." The most desirable models of her time loved to work with her, and even agreed to pose in lingerie and in the nude, because they wanted to see themselves as she would see them. Bassman turned away from fashion photography from the end of the 1960s until 1994 when she began to accept new fashion assignments and to reprint her earlier photographs with an artist's eye for emotional and formal expression, essentially creating the body of work for which she is famous today." "With more than 150 of her best images reproduced in stunning tritone, including many never published before and others not seen since they appeared in the pages of the legendary Harper's Bazaar of the 1950s, Lillian Bassman: Women provides a retrospective view of an extraordinary career in photography." --Book Jacket.

Download or read book Images of Kin written by Michael S. Harper and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Harper's poetry is not limited by color or attitude. In Images of Kin, Harper amazes with his keen sense of political and personal histories, his breadth of expression. This collection fixes Harper as one of the dominant poetic voices of his generation" -- Chicago Sun-Times "It is Mr. Harper's achievement to have projected his most difficult and complex insights and feelings through the epical manner, yet at the same time carried us along to identify with him." -- New York Times Book Review

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Download or read book The Socialite who Killed a Nazi with Her Bare Hands written by William McDonald and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the famous, including Steve Jobs and Mona Simpson, to the not-so-famous, including Arch West, the inventor of the Dorito, this riveting collection of the 164 best obituaries from The New York Times, written by top journalists, is organized chronologically. Original.

Download or read book Memory Metaphor and Aby Warburg s Atlas of Images written by Christopher D. Johnson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of German cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg (1866-1929) has had a lasting effect on how we think about images. This book is the first in English to focus on his last project, the encyclopedic Atlas of Images: Mnemosyne. Begun in earnest in 1927, and left unfinished at the time of Warburg's death in 1929, the Atlas consisted of sixty-three large wooden panels covered with black cloth. On these panels Warburg carefully, intuitively arranged some thousand black-and-white photographs of classical and Renaissance art objects, as well as of astrological and astronomical images ranging from ancient Babylon to Weimar Germany. Here and there, he also included maps, manuscript pages, and contemporary images taken from newspapers. Trying through these constellations of images to make visible the many polarities that fueled antiquity's afterlife, Warburg envisioned the Atlas as a vital form of metaphoric thought. While the nondiscursive, frequently digressive character of the Atlas complicates any linear narrative of its themes and contents, Christopher D. Johnson traces several thematic sequences in the panels. By drawing on Warburg's published and unpublished writings and by attending to Warburg's cardinal idea that "pathos formulas" structure the West's cultural memory, Johnson maps numerous tensions between word and image in the Atlas. In addition to examining the work itself, he considers the literary, philosophical, and intellectual-historical implications of the Atlas. As Johnson demonstrates, the Atlas is not simply the culmination of Warburg's lifelong study of Renaissance culture but the ultimate expression of his now literal, now metaphoric search for syncretic solutions to the urgent problems posed by the history of art and culture.

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Download or read book Forensic Anthropology written by Rebecca Stefoff and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes young readers inside this fast-growing field, showing them how crime scene investigators and forensic specialists gather evidence, solve crimes, and even liberate innocent people who have been mistakenly imprisoned.

Download or read book Black Men in College written by Robert T. Palmer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Men in College provides vital information about how to effectively support, retain, and graduate Black male undergraduates. This edited collection centers on the notion that Black male collegians are not a homogenous group; rather, they are representative of rarely acknowledged differences that exist among them. This valuable text suggests that understanding these differences is critical to making true in-roads in serving Black men. Chapter contributors describe the diverse challenges Black men in HBCUs face and discuss how to support and retain high-achieving men, gay men, academically unprepared men, low-income men, men in STEM, American immigrants, millennials, collegiate fathers, those affiliated with Greek organizations, and athletes. Recommendations for policy and practice to encourage retention and persistence to degree completion are grounded in extant theory and research. This text is a must-read for all higher education faculty, researchers, and student affairs practitioners interested in addressing the contemporary college experiences of Black men in postsecondary institutions.