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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Robert Mapplethorpe was one of the most famous and controversial figures in the contemporary art world. Some of his photographs were praised for their startlingly beautiful composition, others condemned for their explicit sexuality. He was an artistic enigma. In 1989, three months after Mapplethorpe's death at forty-two, the Corcoran Gallery of Art canceled a show of his work, igniting a fierce battle over federal funding of "objectionable" art. When...
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A biography of James Van Der Zee, innovative and celebrated African American photographer of the Harlem Renaissance. Includes an afterword, photos, and author's sources"--Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the Civil War photographer, Mathew Brady, and the band of field photographers he hired to travel with the troops and record images of the time.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Text and accompanying photographs show the use of children as industrial workers, interwoven with the story of Lewis W. Hine who took these photographs and whose life work made significant difference in the lives of others.