Download or read book NONFICTION Photographs by Nubar Alexanian from the Film Sets of Errol Morris written by Nubar Alexanian and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What happens when a documentary photographer who has developed his own "fly on the wall" approach to his subjects is invited into the bizarre, disturbing, and humorous world of a filmmaker who tells true stories through the use of reenacted scenes? The result is NONFICTION, acclaimed photographer Nubar Alexanian's collection of more than seventy beautiful and unnerving black & white photographs from the sets of award winning filmmaker Errol Morris's Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control, Mr. Death, Standard Operating Procedure, and "First Person" Series. NONFICTION leaves you wondering where facts stop and fiction begins. Distinctions between reality and imagination are made irrelevant in the emotional impact of these often tender renderings of human violence, and in Alexanian's (and Morris's) own relationship with the oddity, gentleness, and incomprehensible nature of human creativity and destruction" --

Download or read book Art in America written by Frank Jewett Mather and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gloucester written by Nubar Alexanian and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1979 Nubar Alexanian stepped aboard the vessel Joseph and Lucia II for ten days of fishing on Georges Bank with the Brancaleone family of Gloucester, Massachusetts and their crew. More trips followed in 1980 and 1981, and the photographs taken on those voyages form the heart of this book. They show the photographer's intimate connection with his subjects, and with Gloucester itself.The sea gives and it takes; fishermen and their families look mortality in the face every working day. We cannot say what gives the people of Gloucester their determination and perseverance, but photographs capture the spirit when words cannot, and they can make time and tide stand still. When Alexanian was taking photographs aboard the Joseph and Lucia II, he was documenting a way of life that would soon slip away and never return. His photographs lay bare the heart of a city that literally and figuratively faces the sea, its most enduring ally and its nemesis. He has chronicled both life at sea and the upland rhythms of Gloucester in images taken over a period of four decades, weaving from Georges Bank through the streets and woods, beaches and baptisms, the granite and the granite-willed. In these images of day-to-day life, of rituals, celebrations, and the ever-changing landscape, people coexist with nature's bounties and uncertainties as they have for hundreds of years.Gloucester: When the Fish Came Fish is as much an invitation as a documentary work. Alexanian's photographs reveal the spirit of this place and the strength of her people. Complex and ruggedly beautiful, they honor Gloucester's enigmatic soul, her resilient spirit, and her hard-won character. Against all odds, this is a place that continues to believe in itself.

Download or read book This I Believe II written by Jay Allison and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection of inspiring personal philosophies from another noteworthy group of people This second collection of This I Believe essays gathers seventyfive essayists—ranging from famous to previously unknown—completing the thought that begins the book's title. With contributors who run the gamut from cellist Yo-Yo Ma to ordinary folks like a diner waitress, an Iraq War veteran, a farmer, a new husband, and many others, This I Believe II, like the first New York Times bestselling collection, showcases moving and irresistible essays. Included are Sister Helen Prejean writing about learning what she truly believes through watching her own actions, singer Jimmie Dale Gilmore writing about a hard-won wisdom based on being generous to others, and Robert Fulghum writing about dancing all the dances for as long as he can. Readers will also find wonderful and surprising essays about forgiveness, personal integrity, and honoring life and change. Here is a welcome, stirring, and provocative communion with the minds and hearts of a diverse, new group of people—whose beliefs and the remarkably varied ways in which they choose to express them reveal the American spirit at its best.

Download or read book Standard Operating Procedure written by Errol Morris and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standard Operating Procedure is an utterly original collaboration by the writer Philip Gourevitch (We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families) and the film-maker Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War). They have produced the first full reckoning of what actually happened at Abu Ghraib. Standard Operating Procedure reveals the stories of the American soldiers who took and appeared in the haunting digital snapshots from Abu Ghraib prison that shocked the world – and simultaneously illuminates and alters forever our understanding of those images and the events they depict. Drawing on more than two hundred hours of Errol Morris’s startlingly frank and intimate interviews with Americans who served at Abu Ghraib and with some of their Iraqi prisoners, as well as on his own research, Philip Gourevitch has written a relentlessly surprising account of Iraq’s occupation from the inside-out – rendering vivid portraits of guards and prisoners ensnared in an appalling breakdown of command authority and moral order. Gourevitch and Morris have crafted a nonfiction morality play that stands to endure as essential reading long after the current war in Iraq passes from the headlines. By taking us deep into the voices and characters of the men and women who lived the horror of Abu Ghraib, the authors force us, whatever our politics, to re-examine the pat explanations in which we have been offered – or sought – refuge, and to see afresh this watershed episode. Instead of a ‘few bad apples’, we are confronted with disturbingly ordinary young American men and women who have been dropped into something out of Dante’s Inferno. This is a book that makes you think, and makes you see – an essential contribution from two of our finest nonfiction artists working at the peak of their powers.

Download or read book Stones in the Road written by Nubar Alexanian and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Where Music Comes from written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the last five years acclaimed American photographer Nubar Alexanian has accompanied a variety of musicians on their travels and into their lives. This book is the result. An extraordinary celebration of the spirit of music and a homage to those musicians who struggle to find and keep their own individual voice at a time when music is increasingly just about business. Includes Paul Simon, Winston Marsalis, Philip Glass, Junior Wells and many others. 101 photographs in full colour.

Download or read book Truth Prevails written by Beate Klarsfeld Foundation and published by Beate Klarsfeld Foundation. This book was released on 1990 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRUTH PREVAILS is the scientific, legal & historical denunciation of Holocaust denial. It provides a close-up investigative analysis of the worldwide Holocaust denial movement, the "Leuchter Report" & its fraudulent attempt to deny the gas chamber murders by the Nazis at Auschwitz-Birkenau & Majdanek. TRUTH PREVAILS provides scientific analysis by Jean-Claude Pressac, legal & historical analysis by lawyer Arthur Goodman & legal historian H. L. Silets. Philip Rubenstein reveals the role of British historian David Irving & his republication of the "Letuchter Report" which was denounced by the House of Commons as "the work of Hitler's heirs." Journalist Charles Allen exposes how some of the Media hyped a Holocaust denier. Noted as an invaluable vital work to uphold justice & dispel falsification Historian Dr. Robert G. Waite said TRUTH PREVAILS dispels even a little doubt about the mass killing at Auschwitz which might appear legitimate to some readers because it is couched in what is presented a scientific work by a specialist. Eli Rosenbaum, Principal Deputy Director for the OSI said "TRUTH PREVIALS.. is an extremely important & frequently shocking book that deserves the widest possible dissemination." TRUTH PREVAILS is called an invaluable aid in exposing the deceptive & faulty claims of the Nazi apoligists who persist in masking their true agenda under the guise of scholarship & indispensable for activists who need the facts to counter the deniers fiction. "TRUTH PREVAILS is the companion book to the internationally acclaimed Beate Klasfeld Foundation publication AUSCHWITZ: TECHNIQUE & OPERATION OF THE GAS CHAMBERS ($100.00) (ISBN 1-879437-01-5)

Download or read book Edison and the Electric Chair written by Mark Essig and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Edison stunned America in 1879 by unveiling a world-changing invention--the light bulb--and then launching the electrification of America's cities. A decade later, despite having been an avowed opponent of the death penalty, Edison threw his laboratory resources and reputation behind the creation of a very different sort of device--the electric chair. Deftly exploring this startling chapter in American history, Edison & the Electric Chair delivers both a vivid portrait of a nation on the cusp of modernity and a provocative new examination of Edison himself. Edison championed the electric chair for reasons that remain controversial to this day. Was Edison genuinely concerned about the suffering of the condemned? Was he waging a campaign to smear his rival George Westinghouse's alternating current and boost his own system? Or was he warning the public of real dangers posed by the high-voltage alternating wires that looped above hundreds of America's streets? Plumbing the fascinating history of electricity, Mark Essig explores America's love of technology and its fascination with violent death, capturing an era when the public was mesmerized and terrified by an invisible force that produced blazing light, powered streetcars, carried telephone conversations--and killed.

Download or read book My Life in Politics written by Tim Davis and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first in-depth publication of photographer Tim Davis's work dissects the disenchantment and dissociation that have come to dominate American civil life. It is Davis's treatise on the state of contemporary politics, politics as an aestheticized banality abstracted from real issues of power. He finds freedom of expression exhibited at its most casual and cursory, with political, commercial and populist signage jostling for space and attention in the social landscape: His documentation of that landscape, as Peter Eeley of Friezemagazine interprets it, asks, "What if campaign signs, badges, bumper stickers and flags aren't simply the ephemera of Americans' political lives, but their substance as well?" My Life in Politicsrepresents photographic seeing at its finest and most subtle. Davis continues Stephen Shore's colorist tradition, meshing the careful management of a quotidian palette with an incisive eye for those points at which light bends and refracts, becoming something other than mere illumination.

Download or read book The Avant garde in Exhibition written by Bruce Altshuler and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Scholarly, sympathetic, lucid--and filled with fascinating detail--The Avant-Garde in Exhibition is as valuable as a reference as it is exciting as a narrative."--Arthur Danto

Download or read book Soft Maniacs written by Maggie Estep and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Estep follows her first novel, "Diary of An Emotional Idiot, " with a set of linked stories that glimpses two women through the eyes of the men in their lives.

Download or read book Tim Davis My Life in Politics Signed Edition written by Tim Davis and published by Aperture Direct. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first in-depth publication of photographer Tim Davis's work dissects the disenchantment and dissociation that have come to dominate American civil life. It is Davis's treatise on the state of contemporary politics, politics as an aestheticized banality abstracted from real issues of power. He finds freedom of expression exhibited at its most casual and cursory, with political, commercial and populist signage jostling for space and attention in the social landscape: His documentation of that landscape, as Peter Eeley of "Frieze" magazine interprets it, asks, "What if campaign signs, badges, bumper stickers and flags aren't simply the ephemera of Americans' political lives, but their substance as well?" "My Life in Politics" represents photographic seeing at its finest and most subtle. Davis continues Stephen Shore's colorist tradition, meshing the careful management of a quotidian palette with an incisive eye for those points at which light bends and refracts, becoming something other than mere illumination.

Download or read book Man Or Mango written by Lucy Ellmann and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the author of Ducks, Newburyport, shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize, Goldsmiths Prize and Saltire Fiction Book of the Year AwardEloise is a wreck: jobless, friendless, burdened by Damaging Encounters with milkmen. She proclaims herself a hermit, and reduces her contact with the outside world to written communication with the Queen and manufacturers of toilet-roll holders. Yet she yearns hopelessly for roguish American poet George. Freed from the ties of marriage and lettuce soup, George has just arrived in England with the vague intention of finding Eloise, but has been waylaid by pinball. Fierce and funny, Man or Mango? is a seething, searing, rollicking reflection on love, death, sex, men - and mangoes.

Download or read book Naked Pueblo written by Mark Poirier and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sad, funny and perverse - the characters in these short stories are as diverse as the face of modern America. Set in Arizona, the trailer-park dwellers, crystal-reading gurus and disaffected teenagers show that Arizonians have their own way of coping with the emotional connections that shape lives.

Download or read book Harold s End written by J. T. LeRoy and published by Last Gasp. This book was released on 2004 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harold's end is a street hustler power ballad from San Francisco novelist JT Leroy. A young boy finds solace in a gift from an older, seemingly compassionate man. As with other Leroy stories, it goes from dark to incomprehensibly black. Internationally renowned Australiam artist Cherry Hood has created eight unique watercolour paintings based on the character descriptions in the story.

Download or read book The Philadelphia Ten written by Page Talbott and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: