American Photography

Let Jamie Beck transport you to the South of France with An American in Provence: part art book, part travelogue, part memoir, and part cookbook, and perfect for art lovers, Francophiles, and armchair travelers alike. An American in Provence is a beautiful collection of exquisite portrait...

This new biography—featuring over 150 archival images and full-color photographs printed throughout—introduces Julia Morgan as both a pioneering architect and a captivating individual. Julia Morgan was a lifelong trailblazer. She was the first woman admitted to study architecture at the...

Step into the remarkable world of postwar American design with this stunning visual journey through the revolution that forever changed how we live. Part of the bestselling American Pop series, this richly illustrated volume explores the dynamic period when American design came into its own and reshaped the everyday environments we still inhabit today. From the emergence of California modernism to the nationwide ranch house explosion, from atomic-age decorative motifs to the kitchen innovations that transformed family life, "American Pop: Living Modern" traces how the optimistic spirit of ...

The films, the stars, the filmmakers-all get their due in Hollywood Black, a sweeping overview of blacks in film from the silent era through Black Panther, with striking photos and an engrossing history by award-winning author Donald Bogle. The story opens in the silent film era, when white...

A riveting portrait of the Gold Rush, by the award-winning author of Down the Great Unknown and The Forger's Spell. In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold Fever!" as...

A different kind of Grand Canyon guidebook - literary, practical, and unforgettable. William Stanek’s Grand Canyon: A Literary Field Guide to Grand Canyon National Park is not a standard travel guide. It is a beautifully written, deeply useful companion to one of the world’s most extraordinary landscapes. Instead of reducing Grand Canyon to a list of sights, this book helps readers understand the park as a series of lived districts, thresholds, descents, overlooks, rim roads, basecamps, and return paths. It shows not only where to go, but how the canyon changes depending on light, ...

Grand Teton is a mountain-and-valley park of unusual structural clarity - and unusual depth. Too many park guides tell you what to see without helping you understand what you are looking at. They tell you where to go without helping you feel the shape of the place. They help you complete a trip, but not always remember it. William Stanek's Grand Teton: A Literary Field Guide was created to do something better. This book helps readers understand how Grand Teton actually works: the southern threshold at Moose and Mormon Row, the central waters at Jenny, String, and Leigh, the middle hinge at ...

Nine African American students made history when they defied a governor and integrated an Arkansas high school in 1957. It was the photo of one of the nine trying to enter the school a young girl being taunted, harassed, and threatened by an angry mob that grabbed the world's attention and kept its disapproving gaze on Little Rock, Arkansas.

"Candid, empathetic portraits of silenced men, women, and children." --Kirkus Widely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten--both urban and rural, blue state and red state--and indicts the elitists who've left them behind...

The great Alice McDermott returns with a sparkling, powerful new novel of one woman’s life, told in three remarkable acts. It is 1980 in New York City, and a young woman is perched on a radiator cover in a spacious SoHo loft. A famous photographer snaps her portrait for a full-page review of...

Fictional story based on events of the American Civil War. The Civil War broke out in April 1861 when secessionist forces from the Confederate States of the South attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina. The loyalists of the Union in the North faced secessionists of the Confederate States in the South, who advocated for states' rights in order to uphold slavery. Photography was still in its infancy. Our story follows the life of photographer Jim Hooker as he travels through the battlefields and headquarters of the Confederate States of America. Toward the end of the War, Confederate ...

Can the perfect picture reveal the truth before it’s too late? Photographer Amelia Harris has had enough of her aunts' meddling matchmaking. So when The Photographic Times commissions her to spend the summer on Mobile Bay taking portraits of the elite and capturing nature for penny postcards, Amelia happily accepts. But this job is not as simple as it appears, and Amelia must defend against naysayers if she’s to ever gain respect in a man's world. And that doesn't leave any room for romance. Point Clear Resort General Manager Titus Overton never wanted the position he inherited when his...

For several months, Patrick Scott Barnes photographed three Downtown Orlando nightspots. This book contains photos of attractive women and poetry.

Money and fame: in 1970s Los Angeles, everyone is fighting to reach the top, but very few have the talent, ambition, and luck to get there. Meet LA darling Evra Scott. The daughter of an Oscar-winning director and a Brazilian bombshell actress, Evra is the city’s reigning style queen. By day...

Have you always loved the idea of portraiture photography, and yet have never been able to make a portrait you were completely satisfied with? This book will walk you through each of these procedures step by step, and with time, practice, and patience, you'll learn how to make a stunning, successful portrait both you and your model will be very satisfied with.

"Narrators Dion Graham and Mychal-Bella Bowman's grand and lively performances will have young listeners eager to hear every story in this vibrant collection of African and African-American-inspired tales."—AudioFile From the New York Times bestselling authors of GLORY, Kahran and Regis...

Learn about the development of photography with iMindsJNR audio-learning series for younger minds. Before the photograph was invented, the best way to capture an image was by painting it. You can imagine how long that would take! In 1990, Kodak unveiled the first widely available digital camera. These days, through many advances in technology, we can store hundreds of images on a single camera, ready to print or upload onto a computer whenever we like. But how did we get from paintings to digital photography?

So many years ago, we used to joke that neither one of us could rattle the suitcases, because the other would say, “Let’s go!” Even when we first dated, Allen told me, “I’m not the marrying kind. I like to travel too much.” Our first trips were to Mexico, camping across the United States and Canada, and many shorter trips between. Once, I told Allen that I’d always wanted to travel around the Horn of South America. When I retired from teaching in 2008, he made this dream come true. This travel memoir allows you to travel along with us, enjoying poems, travel notes, and ...

A vibrant, bighearted coming-of-age story about a young woman caught between loving and leaving Oakland—the whiplash between trauma, dreams, and all the things that shape us below the surface. Anastasia Ān Xiá Huang is the third generation of her family to live in Oakland, but now, in her...

Jordan Williams never believed in fate. Or destiny. Or serendipity. Or whatever coincidental, supernatural occurrences you could name. He was a simple man working in The Floating City of Venice, Italy, who had his life ahead of him planned out. But when his own actions betrayed him, he found himself catching a glimpse of a beautiful young woman through the eyes of his own trusted camera. Everything changed from there. What once was a ridiculous myth for him was now a gift that he was thanking the heavens for—because at that random and surprisingly serendipitous moment, he found the one ...