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Photography
Resources at the South Lake Tahoe Branch Library
The art of photography
by Shirley Glubok. Macmillan, 1977. Photography, Artistic—Juvenile literature.
A survey of photography as a fine art from the 1830's to the present, focusing
on outstanding photographers and their work.
The secret books
by Sean Kernan. Leetes Island Books, 1999. Photography, Artistic—Books and
Reading in Art.
This collection of three stories and numerous poems of Jorge Luis Borges is
complemented by extraordinary, original photographs that give this book great
visual appeal.
Georgia O'Keeffe at Ghost Ranch: A Photo Essay
by John Loengard. te Neues, 1998. Photography, Artistic—Portrait photography/New
Mexico/Abiquiu.
The American artist Georgia O'Keeffe had been living alone on the Ghost Ranch in
New Mexico for seventeen years when photographer John Loengard, on assignment
for Life magazine, visited her there in 1966. Even in that vast, windswept
landscape, O'Keeffe's was an imposing presence. Adamant about her privacy and
about the parts of her life she consented to have photographed, O'Keeffe, then
eighty years old, proved a challenging but rewarding subject.
Berenice
Abbott: Masters of Photography/Aperature
by Bernice Abbot. Aperture Foundation, 1997, 1988. Photography, Artistic.
Photographs by Berenice Abbott Essay by Julia Van Haaften Berenice Abbott has
said of photography, "If it is to be utterly honest and direct, it should be
related to the pulse of the times--the pulse of today." In pioneering scientific
images and photographs of the fast-changing landscape, Abbott captured the tempo
of her times in work of enduring significance. While living in Paris during the
1920's, Abbott began working as a darkroom assistant in Man Ray's portrait
business. Soon she was independent and was able to establish her own studio. Her
portraits of well-known Parisian figures were critically acclaimed. Returning
from France in 1929, Abbott began her study of New York's rapidly changing
architectural profile. She felt it was urgent that it be preserved at least
photographically. She began her famed Changing New York series, which shows the
heart of old New York, documents midtown Manhattan springing up, and
memorializes landmarks such as the George Washington Bridge and Trinity Church.
Between the late 1940's and the early 1960's, Abbott completed an extraordinary
body of work depicting complex scientific phenomena. In uniquely informative and
elegant photographs, many of which were only possible after inventing new
equipment necessary to make the pictures, she shared the phenomena of science in
a way understandable to everyone. During the 1950's, Abbott made a group of
photographs while traveling along Route 1 through the rural areas from Florida
to Maine, where she later settled. As her last project, Abbot portrayed the
native people of Maine, from a kindred point of view, without pretense. In this
selection of her wide-ranging work, Aperture acknowledges the contribution
Berenice Abbott has made to photography.
Jerry Uelsmann: Photo Synthesis
by Jerry Uelsmann. University Press of Florida, 1992. Photography, Artistic.
The images in this book were selected from the ones that represent, the
strongest work of Jerry Uelsmann career. Also the guiding principle was to
present a record of the expression of his changing identity over the years as an
individual and as a photographer.
Ansel Adams: Images of the American West
by Ansel Adams. Smithmark, 1992. Photography,
Artistic—Indians
of North America, West (U.S.).
The wonder of flowers
by Sh¯oji Yoshida. Graphic-sha Pub. Co., 1990. Photography, Artistic,
Photography of Plants.
The Right Picture
by Ken Heymen and John Durniak. AMPHOTO, 1986.
Photography, Artistic,
Documentary photography.
J. E. Stimson, photographer of the West
by Mark Junge. University of Nebraska Press, 1985. Photography, Artistic, West
(U.S.).
Ansel Adams
: the eloquent light, his photographs and the classic biography by
Nancy
Wynne Newhall. Aperture, 1980. Photography, Artistic, U.S. Photographers,
Biography.
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