Download or read book A Time of Youth written by William Gedney and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Time of Youth brings together 89 of the more than 2000 photographs William Gedney took in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood between October, 1966 and January, 1967, documenting the restless and intertwined lives of the disenchanted youth who flocked to what became the epicenter of 1960s counterculture.
Download or read book What was True written by William Gedney and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2000-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of photographs is complemented by notes and excerpts from the journals and correspondence of the late photographer
Download or read book William Gedney written by Gilles Mora and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mysterious, introspective, fiercely private, and self-taught, street photographer William Gedney (1932–1989) produced impressive series of images focused on people whose lives were overlooked, hidden, or reduced to stereotypes. He was convinced that photography was a means of expression as efficient as literature, and his images were accompanied by writings, essays, excerpts from books, and aphorisms. Gedney avoided self-promotion, and his underrepresented work was largely unknown during his short lifetime. He died at the age of fifty-six from AIDS. William Gedney: Only the Lonely, 1955–1984 is the first comprehensive retrospective of his photography. It presents images from all of his major series, including eastern Kentucky, where Gedney lived with and photographed the family of laid-off coal miner Willie Cornett; San Francisco and Haight-Ashbury, where he attached himself to a group of disaffected youth, photographing them as they drifted from one vacant apartment to the next during the “Summer of Love”; early photo-reportage of gay pride parades in the eighties; Benares, India, Gedney’s first trip abroad, during which he obsessively chronicled the concurrent difficulty and beauty of daily life; and night scenes that, in the absence of people and movement, evoke a profound universal loneliness. The most complete overview of Gedney’s work to date, this volume reveals the undeniable beauty of a major American photographer.
Download or read book Counter Space written by Juliet Kinchin and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2011 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sept. 15, 2010-May 2, 2011.
Download or read book Where We Find Ourselves written by Margaret Sartor and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-taught photographer Hugh Mangum was born in 1877 in Durham, North Carolina, as its burgeoning tobacco economy put the frontier-like boomtown on the map. As an itinerant portraitist working primarily in North Carolina and Virginia during the rise of Jim Crow, Mangum welcomed into his temporary studios a clientele that was both racially and economically diverse. After his death in 1922, his glass plate negatives remained stored in his darkroom, a tobacco barn, for fifty years. Slated for demolition in the 1970s, the barn was saved at the last moment--and with it, this surprising and unparalleled document of life at the turn of the twentieth century, a turbulent time in the history of the American South. Hugh Mangum's multiple-image, glass plate negatives reveal the open-door policy of his studio to show us lives marked both by notable affluence and hard work, all imbued with a strong sense of individuality, self-creation, and often joy. Seen and experienced in the present, the portraits hint at unexpected relationships and histories and also confirm how historical photographs have the power to subvert familiar narratives. Mangum's photographs are not only images; they are objects that have survived a history of their own and exist within the larger political and cultural history of the American South, demonstrating the unpredictable alchemy that often characterizes the best art--its ability over time to evolve with and absorb life and meaning beyond the intentions or expectations of the artist.
Download or read book The Ongoing Moment written by Geoff Dyer and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2005 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his most ambitious work to date, the acclaimed author of "Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It" offers an irresistibly idiosyncratic look at what viewers see when they look at photographs. in color.
Download or read book The Black Man His Antecedents His Genius And His Achievements written by William Wells Brown and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 378 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 432 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 Palladio Londinensis written by William Salmon and published by . This book was released on 1767 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Private Lives of Public Birds written by Jack Gedney and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2022-05-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book to help the ordinary birdwatcher appreciate the fascinating songs, stories, and science of common birds Jack Gedney's studies of birds provide resonant, affirming answers to the questions: Who is this bird? In what way is it beautiful? Why does it matter? Masterfully linking an abundance of poetic references with up-to-date biological science, Gedney shares his devotion to everyday Western birds in fifteen essays. Each essay illuminates the life of a single species and its relationship to humans, and how these species can help us understand birds in general. A dedicated birdwatcher and teacher, Gedney finds wonder not only in the speed and glistening beauty of the Anna's hummingbird, but also in her nest building. He acclaims the turkey vulture's and red-tailed hawk's roles in our ecosystem, and he venerates the inimitable California scrub jay's work planting acorns. Knowing that we hear birds much more often than we see them, Gedney offers his expert's ear to help us not only identify bird songs and calls but also understand what the birds are saying. The crowd at the suet feeder will never look quite the same again. Join Gedney in the enchanted world of these not-so-ordinary birds, each enlivened by a hand-drawn portrait by artist Anna Kus Park.
Download or read book Anglo English Attitudes written by Geoff Dyer and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most original and talented writers of his generation' Independent on Sunday.
Download or read book The Tale of Khun Chang Khun Phaen written by Chris Baker and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Siam's great folk epic of love & war"--Back cover.
Download or read book MARIA PB written by and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1992 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I learned when I was a young photographer, thank goodness, that the world was the most interesting place to photograph. And then I got married and had a family and there was another little world within the big world to photograph. ..." Lee Friedlander
Download or read book Our Lady of Fatima written by William T. Walsh and published by Image. This book was released on 1954-10-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The future of our civilization, our liberties, our very existence may depend upon the acceptance of her commands." --William Thomas Walsh This was the conclusion reached by William Thomas Walsh, distinguished author, historian, and teacher, after he had thorougly investigated the miracle of Fatima. Here is the whole remarkable story of the appearance of the Blessed Virgin Mary to three simple children at an obscure Portuguese village in 1917. Her prophecies of World War II and the rise of communism, her plea to humanity to do penance, her promise that world peace and the conversion of Russia would take place if her messages were heeded -- these are some of the dramatic events in this fascinating account of a modern miracle. Our Lady of Fatima is a magnificent re-creation of an event whose effects are still reverberating throughout the world -- the appearance in person of the Mother of God with a "peace plan from heaven."
Download or read book Theft is Vision written by Robert Nickas and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gathering essays and interviews from 1995 to today, this book offers both an insight into Nickas' vision of contemporary art and a portrait of the American art scene over the last few decades. structured like a novel, this publication traces recent art production to Pop and appropriation art; reflects on the importance of Warhol, On Kawara, and Punk in contemporary culture; and pays homage to overlooked figures such as Cady Noland, Jamie Reid, and Steven Parrino."--p. 4 of cover
Download or read book New York at Night written by Norma Stevens and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Byron and James Van Der Zee to Henri Cartier-Bresson, Diane Arbus, Elliott Erwitt, Larry Fink, Nan Goldin, Stanley Kubrick, Ryan McGinley, Bruce Davidson and many more of the best photographers to ever capture New York City when the sun goes down and the bright lights come on are collected here! New York at Night: Photography after Dark, showcases images of New York City's legendary nightlife by the leading photographers of the 20th and 21st centuries, from Joseph Byron and James Van Der Zee to Henri Cartier-Bresson, Diane Arbus, Elliott Erwitt, Larry Fink, and more. As diverse and complicated as the city itself, New York's nightlife is glamorous and grungy, lonely and dangerous, highbrow and lowbrow. These images are complimented by writing from some of New York's most respected contemporary authors, adding depth, context, and personal stories of their own experiences to those presented by the photographers. This engaging book captures the energy of the New York night and the city's evolving hotspots, building a history of how New Yorkers play after dark and how that helps make this city a cultural and entertainment powerhouse. Photographers featured within the book include: Berenice Abbott, Apeda Studio, Amy Arbus, Diane Arbus, Eve Arnold, Richard Avedon, John Baeder, Frank Bauman, Guy Bourdin, Bonnie Briant, Paul Brissman, Rene Burri, Joseph Byron, Cornell Capa, Drew Carolan, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bob Colacello, John Cohen, Ted Croner, Bruce Davidson, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, Louis Faurer, Donna Ferrato, Larry Fink, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Paul Fusco, Ron Galella, William Gedney, Bruce Gilden, Burt Glinn, Nan Goldin, William P. Gottlieb, Samuel H. Gottscho, Charles Harbutt, Phillip Harrington, Paul B. Haviland, Thomas Hoepker, Evelyn Hofer, Jenny Holzer, Peter Hujar, Douglas Jones, Sid Kaplan, William Klein, Stanley Kubrick, Collin LaFleche, Elliott Landy, Annie Leibovitz, Joan Liftin, Peter Lindbergh, Roxanne Lowit, Alex Majoli, Fred McDarrah, Ryan McGinley, Susan Meiselas, Lisette Model, Inge Morath, Helmut Newton, Toby Old, Paolo Pellegrin, Iriving Penn, Gilles Peress, Anton Perich, Hy Peskin, Jean Pigozzi, Sylvia Plachy, Robin Platzer, Eli Reed, Jacob Riis, Arthur Rothstein, Damien Saatdjian, Lise Sarfati, Paule Saviano, Norman Seeff, Neil Selkirk, Sam Shaw, Aaron Siskind, Dennis Stock, Erika Stone, Christopher Thomas, Peter Van Agtmael, James Van Der Zee, Weegee, and Garry Winogrand.
Download or read book The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand written by Geoff Dyer and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-03-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garry Winogrand—along with Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander—was one of the most important photographers of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as one of the world’s foremost street photographers. Award-winning writer Geoff Dyer has admired Winogrand’s work for many years. Modeled on John Szarkowski’s classic book Atget, The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand is a masterfully curated selection of one hundred photographs from the Winogrand archive at the Center for Creative Photography, with each image accompanied by an original essay. Dyer takes the viewer/reader on a wildly original journey through both iconic and unseen images from the archive, including eighteen previously unpublished color photographs. The book encompasses most of Winogrand’s themes and subjects and remains broadly faithful to the chronological and geographical facts of his life, but Dyer’s responses to the photographs are unorthodox, eye-opening, and often hilarious. This inimitable combination of photographer and writer, images and text, itself offers what Dyer claims for Winogrand’s photography—an education in seeing.
