Download or read book A Photo Journal written by Ruth Orkin and published by Avery. This book was released on 1981 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major retrospective of the author's work.
Download or read book Ruth Orkin written by Ruth Orkin and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ihr American Girl in Italy – die Straßenszene mit den pfeifenden Italienern – ist eine Ikone. Nun sind sensationelle Negative und Dias aus dem Archiv aufgetaucht, die eine wenig bekannte Seite von Ruth Orkin offenbaren: Die der feinfühligen, interessierten, geistreichen wie witzigen Chronistin der Frauen-Welt der 1940er- und 1950er-Jahre. Orkin dachte sich Editorials aus wie die augenzwinkernde Reportage Who works harder? über eine Hausfrau, die auf jeden Fall härter als ihr Mann arbeitet. Sie dokumentierte das illustre Treiben in Beauty-Salons und auf Cocktail-Partys, bei Hundeshows und am Set in Hollywood. Wir begegnen Lauren Bacall, Jane Russell, Joan Taylor oder Doris Day, aber auch Kellnerinnen, Stewardessen, Soldatinnen oder einfach beste Freundinnen. Was entsteht, ist ein Bild von Frauen im Aufbruch, Frauen, die beginnen, die ihnen auferlegten Konventionen abzustreifen, ihren eigenen Weg zu gehen, selbstbewusst, stylish, smart.
Download or read book A World Through My Window written by Ruth Orkin and published by . This book was released on 1980-10 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ruth Orkin written by Ruth Orkin and published by Howard Greenberg Gallery. This book was released on 1999 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects the black and white, New York photographs by distinguished photojournalist and filmmaker Ruth Orkin (1921-1985). Orkin was a frequent contributor to Look and Life magazines who told the stories of Manhattan life with both compassionate and dramatic images. Her numerous and now iconic photographs of celebrations, quiet moments, children at play, and the city streets have become defining images in the history of New York photography. Orkin was born in 1921 in Boston and grew up in Los Angeles before moving to New York in 1943, where she lived and worked for most of her life. Her work is in the collections of most major American museums including the Amon Carter Museum. Fort Worth; the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; the International Center of Photography, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Milwaukee Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; New Orleans Museum of Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; and the St.Louis Art Museum.
Download or read book More Pictures from My Window written by Ruth Orkin and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1983 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ruth Orkin written by Ruth Orkin and published by Estate of Ruth Orkin. This book was released on 1995 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Otherwise Known as the Human Condition written by Geoff Dyer and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism* *A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice* *A New York Times Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year, as selected by Dwight Garner* Geoff Dyer has earned the devotion of passionate fans on both sides of the Atlantic through his wildly inventive, romantic novels as well as several brilliant, uncategorizable works of nonfiction. All the while he has been writing some of the wittiest, most incisive criticism we have on an astonishing array of subjects—music, literature, photography, and travel journalism—that, in Dyer's expert hands, becomes a kind of irresistible self-reportage. Otherwise Known as the Human Condition collects twenty-five years of essays, reviews, and misadventures. Here he is pursuing the shadow of Camus in Algeria and remembering life on the dole in Brixton in the 1980s; reflecting on Richard Avedon and Ruth Orkin, on the status of jazz and the wonderous Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, on the sculptor ZadKine and the saxophonist David Murray (in the same essay), on his heroes Rebecca West and Ryszard Kapus ́cin ́ski, on haute couture and sex in hotels. Whatever he writes about, his responses never fail to surprise. For Dyer there is no division between the reflective work of the critic and the novelist's commitment to lived experience: they are mutually illuminating ways to sharpen our perceptions. His is the rare body of work that manages to both frame our world and enlarge it.
Download or read book Art for the Ladylike written by Whitney Otto and published by Mad Creek Books. This book was released on 2021 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the lives of eight pioneering women photographers to consider the struggles, perils, and rewards of being a woman artist.
Download or read book Eight Girls Taking Pictures written by Whitney Otto and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of "How to Make an American Quilt" comes a powerful tale inspired by the lives of famous 20th-century female photographers tracing the progression of feminism and photography in various world regions.
Download or read book The Black Church written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. “Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again “Engaging. . . . In Gates’s telling, the Black church shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth—as it is in heaven.” —Jon Meacham, New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road and The Black Box, and one of our most important voices on the African American experience, comes a powerful new history of the Black church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in America. For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity—an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today’s political landscape. At road’s end, and after Gates’s distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative—as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a crucible for working through the Black community’s most critical personal and social issues. In a country that has historically afforded its citizens from the African diaspora tragically few safe spaces, the Black Church has always been more than a sanctuary. This fact was never lost on white supremacists: from the earliest days of slavery, when enslaved people were allowed to worship at all, their meetinghouses were subject to surveillance and destruction. Long after slavery’s formal eradication, church burnings and bombings by anti-Black racists continued, a hallmark of the violent effort to suppress the African American struggle for equality. The past often isn’t even past—Dylann Roof committed his slaughter in the Mother Emanuel AME Church 193 years after it was first burned down by white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, following a thwarted slave rebellion. But as Gates brilliantly shows, the Black church has never been only one thing. Its story lies at the heart of the Black political struggle, and it has produced many of the Black community’s most notable leaders. At the same time, some churches and denominations have eschewed political engagement and exemplified practices of exclusion and intolerance that have caused polarization and pain. Those tensions remain today, as a rising generation demands freedom and dignity for all within and beyond their communities, regardless of race, sex, or gender. Still, as a source of faith and refuge, spiritual sustenance and struggle against society’s darkest forces, the Black Church has been central, as this enthralling history makes vividly clear.
Download or read book From street photography to filmmaking written by Stefan Cornic and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All Hail the Queen written by Jennifer Orkin Lewis and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover twenty true stories of royal intrigue, power, and passion, brought to life through the gorgeous illustrations of Jennifer Orkin Lewis and the witty words of Shweta Jha. From Cleopatra to Empress Wu Zetian, Marie Antoinette to Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii, these extraordinary female monarchs from all over the world have captured imaginations throughout the ages. With a deluxe foil-spangled two-piece case, this elegant and diverse celebration of women in charge makes the perfect Mother's Day or girlfriend go-to gift for the queen in our lives.
Download or read book Working the Room written by Geoff Dyer and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alive with insight, wit and Dyer's characteristic irreverence, this collection of essays offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography and music. Besides exploring what it is that makes great art great, Working the Room ventures into more personal territory with extensive autobiographical pieces - 'On Being an Only Child', 'Sacked' and 'Reader's Block', among other gems. Dyer's breadth of vision and generosity of spirit combine to form a manual for ways of being in - and seeing - the world today.
Download or read book Notable American Women written by Susan Ware and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest volume brings the project up to date, with entries on almost 500 women whose death dates fall between 1976 and 1999. You will find here stars of the golden ages of radio, film, dance, and television; scientists and scholars; civil rights activists and religious leaders; Native American craftspeople and world-renowned artists. For each subject, the volume offers a biographical essay by a distinguished authority that integrates the woman's personal life with her professional achievements set in the context of larger historical developments.
Download or read book On Photographs written by David Campany and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate meditation on photography for the ages, curated around 120 epochal photographs. In On Photographs, curator and writer David Campany presents an exploration of photography in 120 photographs. Proceeding not by chronology or genre or photographer, Campany's eclectic selection unfolds according to its own logic. We see work by Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Eggleston, Helen Levitt, Garry Winogrand, Yves Louise Lawler, Andreas Gursky, and Rineke Dijkstra. There is fashion photography by William Klein, one of Vivian Maier's contact sheets, and a carefully staged scene by Gregory Crewdson, as well as images culled from magazines and advertisements. Each of the 120 photographs is accompanied by Campany's lucid and incisive commentary.
Download or read book Photographers on Photography written by Nathan Lyons and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1966 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Windows on Central Park written by Betsy Pinover Schiff and published by Schiffer Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique perspectives on New York's 843-acre Central Park viewed exclusively from windows and terraces surrounding it. One hundred forty-three photographs range from intimate fourth-floor scenes to sweeping vistas from 64 stories above the Park. The principal photographer of six books on gardens and landscape architecture, the author concentrates on the landscape of Central Park, revealing its beauty from above during all four seasons, from early morning to night. The photographer's journey took her to more than 100 apartments, offices, hotels, and museums over the course of five years. This book includes quotes by sixteen notable individuals about their experiences of looking down from their windows to the Park, including Giorgio Armani, Candice Bergen, Paul Goldberger, Evelyn Lauder, Donald Trump, and Elie Wiesel. Windows on Central Park will strengthen one's sense of the grandeur and beauty of America's most visited park, and reveal the Park as a towering example of both urban ecology and landscape architecture.