Author: Anne Tucker
Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts (Houston)
ISBN: 9780300177381
Category : Photography, Artistic
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Contains primary source material.
War/photography
Author: Anne Tucker
Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts (Houston)
ISBN: 9780300177381
Category : Photography, Artistic
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Contains primary source material.
Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts (Houston)
ISBN: 9780300177381
Category : Photography, Artistic
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Contains primary source material.
War is Beautiful - The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict
Author: David Shields
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1576879496
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Bestselling author David Shields analyzed over a decade's worth of front-page war photographs fromTheNew York Timesand came to a shocking conclusion: the photo-editing process ofthe "paper of record,"by way of pretty, heroic, and lavishly aesthetic image selection, pullsthe woolover the eyes of its readers; Shields forces us to face not only the the media's complicity in dubious and catastrophic military campaigns but our own as well.This powerful media mouthpiece, the mightyTimes, far from being a check on governmental power, is in reality a massive amplifier for its dark forces by virtue of the way it aestheticizeswarfare. Anyone baffled by the willful American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan can't help but see in this book how eagerly and invariably theTimesled the way in making the case for these wars through the manipulation of its visuals. Shields forces the reader to weigh the consequences of our own passivity in the face of these images' opiatic numbing. The photographs gathered inWar Is Beautiful, often beautiful and always artful, are filters of reality rather than the documentary journalism they purport to be.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1576879496
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Bestselling author David Shields analyzed over a decade's worth of front-page war photographs fromTheNew York Timesand came to a shocking conclusion: the photo-editing process ofthe "paper of record,"by way of pretty, heroic, and lavishly aesthetic image selection, pullsthe woolover the eyes of its readers; Shields forces us to face not only the the media's complicity in dubious and catastrophic military campaigns but our own as well.This powerful media mouthpiece, the mightyTimes, far from being a check on governmental power, is in reality a massive amplifier for its dark forces by virtue of the way it aestheticizeswarfare. Anyone baffled by the willful American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan can't help but see in this book how eagerly and invariably theTimesled the way in making the case for these wars through the manipulation of its visuals. Shields forces the reader to weigh the consequences of our own passivity in the face of these images' opiatic numbing. The photographs gathered inWar Is Beautiful, often beautiful and always artful, are filters of reality rather than the documentary journalism they purport to be.
Great Photographs of World War II
Author: Neil Kagan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Oxmoor House Great Photographs of World War II (Collectors Edition) The most evocative collection of World War II photographs ever published. Selected by Time Life editors from thousands of images from museums and collections around the world, these photographs tell the haunting story of the war's heroes and horrors. Famous images from LIFE magazine are juxtaposed with rare photographs to give us a unique glimpse of war through the eyes of soldiers and civilians caught up in the most destructive conflict of all time. The editors have assembled over 280 gripping images into 25 chronological photo essays. Here, the most cataclysmic events of the war, from the Battle of Britain and the attack on Pearl Harbor to D-Day and the fall of the Third Reich, are defined by some of the most dramatic photographs of the 20th century. February 2004280+ photos 304 pages1 0 1/2" x 10 1/4" Hardcover with jacket Carton 6, Item 130057 ISBN 0-8487-2818-1 $39.95 US UPC 7-49075-30057-7
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Oxmoor House Great Photographs of World War II (Collectors Edition) The most evocative collection of World War II photographs ever published. Selected by Time Life editors from thousands of images from museums and collections around the world, these photographs tell the haunting story of the war's heroes and horrors. Famous images from LIFE magazine are juxtaposed with rare photographs to give us a unique glimpse of war through the eyes of soldiers and civilians caught up in the most destructive conflict of all time. The editors have assembled over 280 gripping images into 25 chronological photo essays. Here, the most cataclysmic events of the war, from the Battle of Britain and the attack on Pearl Harbor to D-Day and the fall of the Third Reich, are defined by some of the most dramatic photographs of the 20th century. February 2004280+ photos 304 pages1 0 1/2" x 10 1/4" Hardcover with jacket Carton 6, Item 130057 ISBN 0-8487-2818-1 $39.95 US UPC 7-49075-30057-7
Civil War in Pictures
Author: Fletcher Pratt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781494062316
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1955 edition.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781494062316
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1955 edition.
War Pictures from the South
Author: Bela Estvàn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Prang's Civil War Pictures
Author: Louis Prang
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 9780823221189
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Holzer (vice president of communications, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City) has produced a complete account of the creation by Prang, a printer known as the "father of the Christmas card," of a series of chromolithographs of Civil War scenes. Holzer's lengthy introduction describes in detail the process involved in creating the prints, setting the project in the larger context of Prang's print business in late 19th-century Boston. The extensive texts that originally accompanied the prints are included, along with good- quality color reproductions of the prints. c. Book News Inc.
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 9780823221189
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Holzer (vice president of communications, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City) has produced a complete account of the creation by Prang, a printer known as the "father of the Christmas card," of a series of chromolithographs of Civil War scenes. Holzer's lengthy introduction describes in detail the process involved in creating the prints, setting the project in the larger context of Prang's print business in late 19th-century Boston. The extensive texts that originally accompanied the prints are included, along with good- quality color reproductions of the prints. c. Book News Inc.
Russell's Civil War Photographs
Author: Andrew J. Russell
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Gathers photos of arsenals, barracks, stables, railroad depots, prisons, forts, pontoon bridges, blockhouses, and Alexandria, Richmond, and Washington.
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Gathers photos of arsenals, barracks, stables, railroad depots, prisons, forts, pontoon bridges, blockhouses, and Alexandria, Richmond, and Washington.
The First World War in Photographs
Author: Richard Holmes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781844423194
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Military history is now a best-selling publishing category, and in recent years there has been a spate of enormously successful books, films and television programmes devoted to it. The First World War in Photographs showcases 400 of the best images from the Imperial War Museum's superb photographic archive, many never before published. Written by leading military historian Richard Holmes, the book presents the photographs in year-by-year chapters, covering all the great battles of the war and every theatre of operations. Dramatic, hard hitting and intensely moving, this book is a unique visual testament to the many millions of men and women who lost their lives in the war.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781844423194
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Military history is now a best-selling publishing category, and in recent years there has been a spate of enormously successful books, films and television programmes devoted to it. The First World War in Photographs showcases 400 of the best images from the Imperial War Museum's superb photographic archive, many never before published. Written by leading military historian Richard Holmes, the book presents the photographs in year-by-year chapters, covering all the great battles of the war and every theatre of operations. Dramatic, hard hitting and intensely moving, this book is a unique visual testament to the many millions of men and women who lost their lives in the war.
Photography and the American Civil War
Author: Jeff L. Rosenheim
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0300191804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Published to coincide with the 150th anniverary of the battle of Gettysburg, features both familiar and rarely seen Civil War images from such photographers as George Barnard, Mathew Brady, and Timothy O'Sullivan.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0300191804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Published to coincide with the 150th anniverary of the battle of Gettysburg, features both familiar and rarely seen Civil War images from such photographers as George Barnard, Mathew Brady, and Timothy O'Sullivan.
Photo by Brady
Author: Jennifer Armstrong
Publisher: Atheneum
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Retells the Civil War through the eyes of photographer Mathew Brady and other field photographers as they record a brutal and deadly time.
Publisher: Atheneum
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Retells the Civil War through the eyes of photographer Mathew Brady and other field photographers as they record a brutal and deadly time.