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Book The Dark Room

Download or read book The Dark Room written by Rachel Seiffert and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2002 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of 20th century Germany as experienced by three ordinary Germans.

Book In the Darkroom

Download or read book In the Darkroom written by Susan Faludi and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash, comes In the Darkroom, an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father and the larger riddle of identity consuming our age. “In the summer of 2004 I set out to investigate someone I scarcely knew, my father. The project began with a grievance, the grievance of a daughter whose parent had absconded from her life. I was in pursuit of a scofflaw, an artful dodger who had skipped out on so many things—obligation, affection, culpability, contrition. I was preparing an indictment, amassing discovery for a trial. But somewhere along the line, the prosecutor became a witness.” So begins Susan Faludi’s extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of identity in the modern world and in her own haunted family saga. When the feminist writer learned that her 76-year-old father—long estranged and living in Hungary—had undergone sex reassignment surgery, that investigation would turn personal and urgent. How was this new parent who identified as “a complete woman now” connected to the silent, explosive, and ultimately violent father she had known, the photographer who’d built his career on the alteration of images? Faludi chases that mystery into the recesses of her suburban childhood and her father’s many previous incarnations: American dad, Alpine mountaineer, swashbuckling adventurer in the Amazon outback, Jewish fugitive in Holocaust Budapest. When the author travels to Hungary to reunite with her father, she drops into a labyrinth of dark histories and dangerous politics in a country hell-bent on repressing its past and constructing a fanciful—and virulent—nationhood. The search for identity that has transfixed our century was proving as treacherous for nations as for individuals. Faludi’s struggle to come to grips with her father’s metamorphosis takes her across borders—historical, political, religious, sexual--to bring her face to face with the question of the age: Is identity something you “choose,” or is it the very thing you can’t escape?

Book The Dark Room

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  • Author : Lisa Gray
  • Publisher : Thomas & Mercer
  • Release : 2022-10-25
  • ISBN : 9781542035354
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Dark Room written by Lisa Gray and published by Thomas & Mercer. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All's fair in love and revenge in this taut thriller from bestselling author Lisa Gray. Ex-crime reporter Leonard Blaylock spends his days on an unusual hobby, developing strangers' forgotten and discarded rolls of film. He loves the small mysteries the photographs reveal to him. Then Leonard finds something no one would ever expect, or want, to see captured on film--the murder of a young woman. But that's impossible, because the woman is already dead. Leonard was there when it happened five years earlier. He has never been able to shake his guilt from that terrible night. It cost Leonard everything: his career, his fiancée, his future. But if the woman didn't really die, then what actually happened?

Book The Dark Room

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  • Author : Minette Walters
  • Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
  • Release : 2009-03-12
  • ISBN : 030749473X
  • Pages : 451 pages

Download or read book The Dark Room written by Minette Walters and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this acclaimed psychological mystery, Jinx Kingsley, a prominent photographer and millionaire’s daughter, wakes up in an exclusive hospital suffering from amnesia. Not only can she not remember the car accident that caused her memory loss, but she doesn’t remember that her impending wedding has been called off or that her former fiancé and his girlfriend have been brutally murdered in the same way her first husband had been ten years before. Now she must try to piece together her memories in order to determine her innocence. With deft psychological explorations and shocking twists, Walters brings the story to an awe-inspiring conclusion.

Book In a Dark  Dark Room and Other Scary Stories

Download or read book In a Dark Dark Room and Other Scary Stories written by Alvin Schwartz and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1985-10-02 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creak... Crash... BOO! Shivering skeletons, ghostly pirates, chattering corpses, and haunted graveyards...all to chill your bones! Share these seven spine-tingling stories in a dark, dark room.

Book The Darkroom of Damocles

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  • Author : Willem Frederik Hermans
  • Publisher : ABRAMS
  • Release : 2009-10-27
  • ISBN : 1468303996
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book The Darkroom of Damocles written by Willem Frederik Hermans and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the acclaimed Dutch author of Beyond Sleep: a thriller set in Nazi occupied Holland: “fast-moving, frighteningly real yet verging on the incredible” (Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being). During the German occupation of Holland, tobacconist Henri Osewoudt is visited by a mysterious man named Dorbeck—a man who bears a strangely striking resemblance to Osewoudt himself. Dorbeck recruits him to perform simple, but top-secret missions on orders from London. But as the assignments keep coming, they get increasingly dangerous. Soon Osewoudt is being asked to commit murder in the name of Gestapo resistance. After the war, Osewoudt is taken for a traitor and captured. To prove his sacrifices for the Resistance, he must find the untraceable doppelgänger in an existential thriller “crackling with tension . . . bringing to mind Camus and the Sartre of Les Chemins de la Liberté” (The Telegraph). “Striking, suspenseful . . . Brilliant.” —The Observer

Book The Dark Room

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  • Author : R. K. Narayan
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2012-07-25
  • ISBN : 0345803817
  • Pages : 153 pages

Download or read book The Dark Room written by R. K. Narayan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. K. Narayan (1906—2001) witnessed nearly a century of change in his native India and captured it in fiction of uncommon warmth and vibrancy. In The Dark Room, Narayan’s portrait of aggrieved domesticity, the docile and obedient Savitri, like many Malgudi women, is torn between submitting to her husband’s humiliations and trying to escape them. Written during British rule, this novel brings colonial India into intimate focus through the narrative gifts of this master of literary realism.

Book The Darkroom

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  • Author : Marguerite Duras
  • Publisher : Contra Mundum Press
  • Release : 2021-04-04
  • ISBN : 9781940625447
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book The Darkroom written by Marguerite Duras and published by Contra Mundum Press. This book was released on 2021-04-04 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE DARKROOM contains the script for Duras' 1977 radically experimental film Le camion (The Truck), as well as four manifesto-like propositions in which Duras protests that most movies "beat the imagination to death" because they "are the same every time they are played." She also accuses the gatekeepers of traditional cinema of treating intelligence as if it were a "class phenomenon" and distinguishes her own approach: a cinema based on ideas and sensory experience. In the dialogue with Michelle Porte at the end of the book, Duras further describes her filmmaking style, discussing everything from her biography to her critique of Marxism. Much of the film consists of the sounds and images of a truck rumbling through an industrial landscape dotted with dilapidated, immigrant shantytowns. Periodically, the images of the truck are interrupted by cutaways of Duras and Gérard Depardieu sitting in Duras' living room, reading from a script that includes a dialogue between a staunchly communist truck driver and an anonymous, ethnically-unidentifiable woman who stands in as an alter-ego for Duras and at the same time is a substitute for "everyone." Neither of the characters are ever shown on-screen. Via an afterimage effect, the juxtaposed voice-over text and cutaways help the film's audience members project their own images of the truck driver and hitchhiker onto the screen. The truck driver quickly decides the hitchhiker is "a reactionary" suffering from some kind of "mental disturbance." Using the "mad," uneducated woman (who, is, nevertheless, interested in everything from the position of the earth in the universe to politics to such august personalities as Proust, Corneille, and Marx), Duras criticizes the invasion of Prague by the Soviets in 1968 and its support by the French Communist Party. Between the images of the truck, juxtaposed voice-overs, and cutaways to Duras and Depardieu, the art of film becomes the art of opening audience members to the possibility of engaging multiple faculties-not only the visual and the aural, but also memory, imagination, and desire.

Book Build Your Own Home Darkroom

Download or read book Build Your Own Home Darkroom written by Lista Duren and published by Amherst Media. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering every aspect from design to full operation, this clear and detailed book is perfect for photographers at all levels. It includes information on darkroom design, woodworking for the novice, lightproofing, ventilation, worktables, building enlarger baseboards, light boxes, water supply panels, print drying racks, darkroom sinks, and much more.

Book Darkroom

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  • Author : Lila Quintero Weaver
  • Publisher : University of Alabama Press
  • Release : 2012-03
  • ISBN : 0817357149
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Darkroom written by Lila Quintero Weaver and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author tells her story of being a Latina in the Jim Crow South.

Book In a Dark  Dark Room and Other Scary Stories

Download or read book In a Dark Dark Room and Other Scary Stories written by Alvin Schwartz and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a dark, dark room, in a soft, soft voice, tell a scary story! Newly reillustrated, this classic I Can Read full of spooky stories is perfect for beginning readers who love a bit of a scare. Victor Rivas’s silly and spooky art will introduce a new generation to stories inspired by traditional folktales like “The Teeth,” “In the Graveyard,” “The Green Ribbon,” “In A Dark, Dark Room,” “The Night It Rained,” “The Pirate,” and “The Ghost of John.” The original edition has won many state awards and is an ALA Notable Children’s Book. In a Dark, Dark Room is a Level Two I Can Read book, geared for kids who read on their own but still need a little help.

Book Into Your Darkroom Step by Step

Download or read book Into Your Darkroom Step by Step written by Dennis P. Curtin and published by Amherst Media, Inc. This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoroughly illustrated guide for beginners, this book explains everything from setting up a darkroom to evaluating and improving final prints.

Book Darkroom

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  • Author : Jill Christman
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780820324449
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Darkroom written by Jill Christman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author reveals the pains and pleasures of her first thirty years of life, from childhood sexual abuse to her experiences with love, literature, and mind-altering experiences. Winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction. (Biography)

Book The Dark Room

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  • Author : Julia Cameron
  • Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780786705641
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book The Dark Room written by Julia Cameron and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 1998 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A homicide detective on the trail of a rapist-killer comes face to face with his own past

Book In the Dark Room

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  • Author : Brian Dillon
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-02-26
  • ISBN : 9781910695722
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book In the Dark Room written by Brian Dillon and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lucid and delicate exploration of memory and grief from the author of Essayism.

Book The Darkroom Cookbook

Download or read book The Darkroom Cookbook written by Steve Anchell and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art of darkroom developing and printing will never go out of style. Master darkroom specialist Steve Anchell is back to prove it in this long-awaited third edition of his enormously successful Darkroom Cookbook. Packed with over 200 "recipes," some common and others rare gems, you'll discover something new every time you open this guide, whether you're new to the darkroom or have been making your own prints for years. In addition to the formulas, you'll find tons of useful information on developers, push-processing, where to get darkroom equipment, how to set up your own darkroom, how to work and play in your darkroom safely, and much more. This handy guide will become a constant companion for every darkroom enthusiast creating prints at home or in the studio. In addition to complete updates throughout to reflect changes in the availability of chemicals and equipment, this third edition contains all new information on: *Reversal processing *Enlarged negatives *Pyro formulas *Plus expanded sections on printing, pyro, and toning prints Also included for the first time are special technique contributions as well as stunning black and white imagery by Bruce Barnbaum, Rod Dresser, Jay Dusard, Patrick Gainer, Richard Garrod, Henry Gilpin, Gordon Hutchings, Sandy King, Les McLean, Saïd Nuseibeh, France Scully Osterman, Mark Osterman, Tim Rudman, Ryuijie, John Sexton, and John Wimberly. Be sure to visit www.darkroomcookbook.com to find useful links, an interactive user forum, and more! Steve Anchell is a photographer and author of The Variable Contrast Printing Manual, and co-author of The Film Developing Cookbook. He has been teaching darkroom and photography workshops since 1979. Steve is a member of the Freestyle Advisory Board of Photographic Professionals. "With its unrivalled collection of photographic formulae and easy to understand explanations of photographic processes, The Darkroom Cookbook has long been a favorite with darkroom workers everywhere. Now, with further additions to its formulary, more topics, and contributions by renowned darkroom experts, this new edition promises to be an indispensable Aladdin's Cave resource to darkroom enthusiasts of all levels. -Tim Rudman, photographer and author "The Darkroom Cookbook is an essential compendium of photographic information for anyone interested in high-quality darkroom work. -John Sexton, photographer

Book The Darkroom Handbook

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  • Author : Michael John Langford
  • Publisher : Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN : 0394724682
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book The Darkroom Handbook written by Michael John Langford and published by Alfred a Knopf Incorporated. This book was released on 1984 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a complete guide for all photographers to necessary equipment and set-up procedures for a darkroom and explains how to process film, make prints and slides, and perform other essential functions