Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Edward Curtis was dashing, charismatic, a passionate mountaineer, a famous photographer--the Annie Liebowitz of his time. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his great idea: He would try to capture on film the Native American nation before it disappeared. At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan's book tells the remarkable untold story behind Curtis's iconic photographs,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A renowned photographer tells her family's history in photos and words, after sorting through a box of old papers that revealed scandals, alcohol and domestic abuse, affairs, family land ownership, large amounts of money earned and lost and racial complications.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of the influential twentieth-century photographer to link the extraordinary arc of her experiences to her iconic images, exploring her role in shaping both photography and contemporary art while offering insights into the unique perspectives that drew her to her subjects.
Author
Language
English
Description
Hailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences: her childhood near Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution, a devastating accident at age eighteen that left her crippled and unable to bear children, her tempestuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera and intermittent...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Highlights the lives and achievements of such notable men as the writers Harold Acton and Jean Cocteau and the artists Balthus and Giacometti.
James Lord has created another series of spirited, witty, profoundly moving portraits. He begins with Harold Acton, the writer and aesthete whose greatest achievement was his own personality and whose later years were swallowed up in the maintenance of his parents' grand villa outside Florence. Lord takes...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
After the sexual revolution came the sexual explosion… The six years between 1968 and 1973 saw more sexual taboos challenged than ever before. Film, literature, and theater simultaneously broke through barriers previously unimagined, giving birth to what we still consider to be the height of sexual expression in our pop culture: Portnoy's Complaint, Myra Breckinridge, Hair, The Boys in the Band, Midnight Cowboy, Last Tango in Paris, and Deep Throat....