Author: Gordon Parks
Publisher: Bulfinch Press
ISBN: 9780821225516
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Covers the author's photographic work with Life magazine
Half Past Autumn
Author: Gordon Parks
Publisher: Bulfinch Press
ISBN: 9780821225516
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Covers the author's photographic work with Life magazine
Publisher: Bulfinch Press
ISBN: 9780821225516
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Covers the author's photographic work with Life magazine
Billiards at Half-past Nine
Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140187243
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Robert Faehmel finds his structured life threatened by an old schoolmate and former Nazi
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140187243
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Robert Faehmel finds his structured life threatened by an old schoolmate and former Nazi
To Smile in Autumn
Author: Gordon Parks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780816665556
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Gordon Parks was born with, he says, "a stubborn need to be somebody." Though Parks is remembered most notably as a photographer and filmmaker, on his enthralling climb to fame between 1944 and 1978 he was successful in many pursuits, including journalism, poetry, and music. It was not always an easy journey, but by thirty-six he had overcome many obstacles to become a photographer and writer for Life magazine. To Smile in Autumn is a candid revelation of a man in the prime of his life and career. This autobiography, with a new foreword by Alexs Pate, is a testament to a person much attuned to the greater world and driven to leave his mark on it.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780816665556
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Gordon Parks was born with, he says, "a stubborn need to be somebody." Though Parks is remembered most notably as a photographer and filmmaker, on his enthralling climb to fame between 1944 and 1978 he was successful in many pursuits, including journalism, poetry, and music. It was not always an easy journey, but by thirty-six he had overcome many obstacles to become a photographer and writer for Life magazine. To Smile in Autumn is a candid revelation of a man in the prime of his life and career. This autobiography, with a new foreword by Alexs Pate, is a testament to a person much attuned to the greater world and driven to leave his mark on it.
A Hungry Heart
Author: Gordon Parks
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743269039
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Acclaimed photographer, filmmaker, composer, and author Gordon Parks reflects on his life achievements and the social and political events he has witnessed.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743269039
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Acclaimed photographer, filmmaker, composer, and author Gordon Parks reflects on his life achievements and the social and political events he has witnessed.
Voices In The Mirror
Author: Gordon Parks
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 0767922123
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The famed photographer, film director, writer, and composer recounts the dramatic story of his life, from his poor Kansas origins, through his breaking of racial barriers, to his triumph in America and abroad. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 0767922123
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The famed photographer, film director, writer, and composer recounts the dramatic story of his life, from his poor Kansas origins, through his breaking of racial barriers, to his triumph in America and abroad. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.
Half Past Autumn - Gordon Parks
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780821225035
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780821225035
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Half-Past Winter
Author: Nancy Hopkins Reily
Publisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 1611395070
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Nancy Hopkins Reily thought she knew everything she needed to know when she published I Am At An Age in 1990 at age fifty. She says, “I had compiled my life’s experiences with metaphors using the mountains as background. I approached my experiences as universal experiences that everyone recognized as their life. Six months after the book was published I realized I had more to learn: in-laws, sandwich generation, writing, over thirty-four years of journaling with selective excerpts, sixty-four lines of genealogy, laurels, my aging, and grandchildren. I knew I would have to write a sequel.” And here it is, twenty-two years later. She has eliminated most of the metaphors. Some themes continue although homes, clothes and make-up have changed. But her persona has remained the same. Nancy says, “My ancestors gave me gifts. I read that my great-great grandmother (born 1812 in South Carolina) rode to Texas in a carriage with silver trimmings after her husband had died on their Jackson, Mississippi plantation. And I also found out, after reading my mother’s journals that she was voted unanimously the Queen of the May Pageant at Texas Christian University in 1928. Her journals of her European trip also provided insight into her relationship with my father. These readings took on a life of their own as I used my years of notes, teenage diaries, and journals to form this gift to my descendants in this book. I hope you enjoy it.”
Publisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 1611395070
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Nancy Hopkins Reily thought she knew everything she needed to know when she published I Am At An Age in 1990 at age fifty. She says, “I had compiled my life’s experiences with metaphors using the mountains as background. I approached my experiences as universal experiences that everyone recognized as their life. Six months after the book was published I realized I had more to learn: in-laws, sandwich generation, writing, over thirty-four years of journaling with selective excerpts, sixty-four lines of genealogy, laurels, my aging, and grandchildren. I knew I would have to write a sequel.” And here it is, twenty-two years later. She has eliminated most of the metaphors. Some themes continue although homes, clothes and make-up have changed. But her persona has remained the same. Nancy says, “My ancestors gave me gifts. I read that my great-great grandmother (born 1812 in South Carolina) rode to Texas in a carriage with silver trimmings after her husband had died on their Jackson, Mississippi plantation. And I also found out, after reading my mother’s journals that she was voted unanimously the Queen of the May Pageant at Texas Christian University in 1928. Her journals of her European trip also provided insight into her relationship with my father. These readings took on a life of their own as I used my years of notes, teenage diaries, and journals to form this gift to my descendants in this book. I hope you enjoy it.”
Autumn Light
Author: Pico Iyer
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 045149394X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Returning to his longtime home in Japan after his father-in-law’s sudden death, Pico Iyer picks up the steadying patterns of his everyday rites: going to the post office and engaging in furious games of ping-pong every evening. But in a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honoring the dead, he comes to reflect on changelessness in ways that anyone can relate to: parents age, children scatter, and Iyer and his wife turn to whatever can sustain them as everything falls away. As the maple leaves begin to turn and the heat begins to soften, Iyer shows us a Japan we have seldom seen before, where the transparent and the mysterious are held in a delicate balance, and where autumn reminds us to take nothing for granted.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 045149394X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Returning to his longtime home in Japan after his father-in-law’s sudden death, Pico Iyer picks up the steadying patterns of his everyday rites: going to the post office and engaging in furious games of ping-pong every evening. But in a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honoring the dead, he comes to reflect on changelessness in ways that anyone can relate to: parents age, children scatter, and Iyer and his wife turn to whatever can sustain them as everything falls away. As the maple leaves begin to turn and the heat begins to soften, Iyer shows us a Japan we have seldom seen before, where the transparent and the mysterious are held in a delicate balance, and where autumn reminds us to take nothing for granted.
A Choice of Weapons
Author: Gordon Parks
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873517690
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
"Gordon Parks's spectacular rise from poverty, personal hardships, and outright racism is astounding and inspiring." --from the foreword by Wing Young Huie
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873517690
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
"Gordon Parks's spectacular rise from poverty, personal hardships, and outright racism is astounding and inspiring." --from the foreword by Wing Young Huie
Eyes with Winged Thoughts
Author: Gordon Parks
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416588574
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
In Eyes with Winged Thoughts, the forty-four photographs and fifty-eight poems, reflecting on his long and extraordinary life, offer a rare glimpse of his thoughts and feelings about everything from romantic love to the Iraq war and the passing of Pope John Paul II. He has done it all. Gordon Parks's life was an astonishing litany of firsts: in the 1940s he was the first African American photographer to work for the Farm Security Administration and for Vogue and Life magazines; in the 1960s he would become the first African American director of a major motion picture. A dominating figure in contemporary American culture, he was an artist of uncompromising vision and creativity. In 2002 Parks received the Jackie Robinson Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award and was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame, just a few in a series of honors that began when he received a prestigious Julius Rosenwald Fellowship in 1941 and which now includes an Emmy, a National Medal of the Arts, and over fifty honorary doctorates. In his nineties, he revealed the luminous photographs on display in Eyes with Winged Thoughts and the poems—some meditative and lyrical, some raw with emotion about the war in Iraq and the tragedy of the tsunami—show that he is still a true American Renaissance man.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416588574
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
In Eyes with Winged Thoughts, the forty-four photographs and fifty-eight poems, reflecting on his long and extraordinary life, offer a rare glimpse of his thoughts and feelings about everything from romantic love to the Iraq war and the passing of Pope John Paul II. He has done it all. Gordon Parks's life was an astonishing litany of firsts: in the 1940s he was the first African American photographer to work for the Farm Security Administration and for Vogue and Life magazines; in the 1960s he would become the first African American director of a major motion picture. A dominating figure in contemporary American culture, he was an artist of uncompromising vision and creativity. In 2002 Parks received the Jackie Robinson Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award and was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame, just a few in a series of honors that began when he received a prestigious Julius Rosenwald Fellowship in 1941 and which now includes an Emmy, a National Medal of the Arts, and over fifty honorary doctorates. In his nineties, he revealed the luminous photographs on display in Eyes with Winged Thoughts and the poems—some meditative and lyrical, some raw with emotion about the war in Iraq and the tragedy of the tsunami—show that he is still a true American Renaissance man.