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1) Sports
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Examines the equipment, rules, and background of many different team, target, and court sports, including soccer, rugby, Gaelic football, softball, cricket, ice hockey, table tennis, archery, and pool.
7) Humans
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Brandon Stanton's new book, Humans ... shows us the world. Brandon Stanton created Humans of New York in 2010. What began as a photographic census of life in New York City, soon evolved into a storytelling phenomenon. A global audience of millions began following HONY daily. Over the next several years, Stanton broadened his lens to include people from across the world. Traveling to more than forty countries, he conducted interviews across continents,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Summary: Traveling around the United States, the Guggenheim grant recipient spent 2012 chronicling 250 13 year olds, creating still portraits and video documentation of each. The resulting body of work creates a rich collective portrait of a group of Americans whose lives began at the turn of the millennium and who are coming of age now. 'To Be Thirteen' depicts all 250 portraits with brief quotations from the extended video interviews and an interview...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
This lush book of photography represents National Geographic's Photo Ark, a major cross-platform initiative and lifelong project by photographer Joel Sartore to make portraits of the world's animals-especially those that are endangered. His powerful message, conveyed with humor, compassion, and art: to know these animals is to save them. Sartore intends to photograph every animal in captivity in the world. He is circling the globe, visiting zoos...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
In 1875, after being acquitted for the murder of his wife's lover, Eadweard Muybridge spent a year photographing along the Central American Pacific Coast, particularly in Guatemala and Panam.̀ Upon his return to California in 1876, he published a very limited number of albums of the photographs (11 are known), each of which was unique in size and scope. In 2007, photographer Byron Wolfe (born 1967) tracked down and cataloged every known Muybridge...
13) Expired paper
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Divided into sections that represent the breadth of Alison Rossiters (born 1953) process and vision, Expired Paper offers a comprehensive look at the artists body of cameraless photo-art-Latent, Landscapes, Pools, Pours, Dips, Blurs, Fours and Collages.Art critic Leah Ollman has been contemplating Rossiters work for years, and her accompanying text serves as an ideal complement to the images: "All of the works pay homage to the rich idiosyncrasies...
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
From the publisher. In addition to countless millions of conventional film cameras, digital cameras will be found in one out of every two American households this year. This authoritative guide provides a handy, all-in-one reference for photographers using either medium (or both), combining the practical know-how of more than 50 outstanding professional photographers with National Geographic's world-renowned tradition of excellence and expertise....
17) Naked babies
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Description
In Naked Babies, Nick Kelsh and Anna Quindlen collaborate to produce a unique view of babies - one that owes nothing to tradition, sentimentality, or the cult of the cute. Unlike traditional baby photographs, Nick Kelsh's amazing black-and-white pictures focus on specific aspects of babies - the perfection of a hand, the swirls of a cowlick, the smoothness of skin on the neck - and all are honest, exquisite, and invitingly tactile. Anna Quindlen's...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Description
-- 100 Ways to Take Better Portrait Photographs Whether you’re earning a living as a professional portraitist or snapping informal social shots just for fun, this resource offers clearly presented advice on the many aspects of digital and film portraiture:Composition and posingOutdoor and studio portraitsFashion, glamour, and beauty shotsGroup portraits—family, social, corporate, and business
19) Tornadoes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
With winds that can reach speeds of three hundred miles an hour and funnel clouds that can measure a mile in diameter, tornadoes leave enormous damage in their wake. Now Seymour Simon examines these twisting columns of air and destruction. Simon explains how tornadoes are formed, why and when they are most likely to occur, how scientists classify and track them -- and what to do if one touches down. Full-color photographs show this powerful phenomenon...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Robin Bowman's five-year journey into the heart of teenage America created a series of 414 "collaborative portraits," wherein she shares her discoveries of a generation now coming of age. In searing and intimate photographs, presented alongside the young people's voices of passion, pride, embarrassment, lust, pain, bewilderment, anxiety, joy, uncertainty, and rage, the book charts the coming of age of the largest generation in America -77 million...
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