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Chronicle of a CameraThe Arriflex 35 in North America, 1945-1972
This volume provides a history of the most consequential 35mm motion picture camera introduced in North America in the quarter century following the Second World War: the Arriflex 35. It traces the North American history of this camera from 1945 through 1972—when the first lightweight, self-blimped 35mm cameras became available. Chronicle of a Camera emphasizes theatrical film production, doc…
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- 9781628467888
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Bright FieldsThe Mastery of Marie Hull
Bright Fields is a comprehensive and deeply intimate exploration of the life and work of Mississippi-born artist Marie Hull (1890–1980). Her paintings reflect a nine-decade journey of search, thought, and growth. She produced some of the most memorable and iconic works ever created by a southern artist. This elegant and exquisitely detailed book contains over two hundred newly photographed re…
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- 9781496803443
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Parchman
Constructed in 1904, the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman covers 20, 000 acres, forty-six square miles, in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. Originally designed like a private plantation without walls or guard towers, the prison farm has been slowly transformed over the decades into a modern penitentiary. In 1994, photographer R. Kim Rushing was the first outside photographer in Par…
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The Artist's SketchA Biography of Painter Kate Freeman Clark
Artist Kate Freeman Clark (1875–1957) left behind over one thousand paintings now stored at a gallery bearing her name in her hometown of Holly Springs, Mississippi. But it was not until after her death in 1957 at the age of eighty-one that citizens even discovered that she was a painter of considerable stature. In her will, Clark left the city her family home, her paintings stored at a wareh…
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- 9781496810656
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Riding with DeathVodou Art and Urban Ecology in the Streets of Port-au-Prince
On the southern end of the Grand Rue, a major thoroughfare that runs through the center of Port-au-Prince, waits the Haitian capital's automobile repair district. This veritable junkyard of steel and rubber, recycled parts, old tires, and scrap metal might seem an unlikely foundry for art. Yet, on the street's opposite end thrives the Grand Rue Galerie, a working studio of assembled art and scu…
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- 9781496812759
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Live from the Mississippi Delta
Live from the Mississippi Delta showcases a rare collection of photographs and stories about musicians from Robert Plant, B. B. King, and ZZ Top to local guitarists playing gigs on the weekend. Panny Flautt Mayfield, a lifelong Delta resident from Tutwiler and an award-winning journalist, documents multiple decades of blues and gospel music in her native land. Her first book collects over two h…
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- 9781496813756
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Wolf TracksPopular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-Century Panama
How did a country whose past is intertwined with African slavery ignore its cultural legacies through much of history? And how did Blackness recently break through this amnesia so that nearly a third of Panamanians now self-identify as Afro-descendants? Wolf Tracks explores these and other related questions through the lens of Panamanian street culture. Popular art is a masculine and working-c…
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- 9781626744592
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Rolland GoldenLife, Love, and Art in the French Quarter
In the early twentieth century, the French Quarter had become home to a vibrant community of working artists attracted to the atmosphere, architecture, and colorful individuals who populated the scene (and who also became some of its first preservationists). Louisiana native Rolland Golden was one of these artists to live, work, and raise a family in this most storied corner of New Orleans. Wit…
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- 9781626743816
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The Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd Revised EditionA Century of Japanese Animation
"Impressive, exhaustive, labyrinthine, and obsessive— The Anime Encyclopedia is an astonishing piece of work." —Neil Gaiman With over 10, 000 entries nothing comes close... from classics to hidden gems, all the anime you love is finally at your fingertips. This 3rd edition of The Anime Encyclopedia brings the landmark reference work up to date with six additional years of information on…
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At the Lightning Field
Walter De Maria's "Lightning Field" is 400 stainless steel poles, positioned 220 feet apart, in the desert of central New Mexico. Over the course of several visits, it becomes, for Raicovich, a site for confounding and revealing perceptions of time, space, duration, and light; how changeable they are, while staying the same.
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