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This is the third volume in the series of three 9"x11" black and white 1950's Disney picture books. It contains over 60 photos including: Richard Nixon receiving the key to Disneyland, Fess Parker, Rivers of America, the Monorail's construction, Skull Rock, the Matterhorn, and numerous photos of Walt Disney. Volume 1 " A Photographers Life With Disney Under Construction" & volume 2 "Disney Early Years Through the Eye of a Photographer" are also available. The all three volumes are a great historical documentation of this American icon. ... Read more

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On assignment for Newsweek, noted photojournalist John Annerino journeyed deep into one of the least hospitable spots on the planet — the scorched 4,100-square-mile "empty quarter" that straddles Mexico and Arizona. There he met four Mexican nationals determined to cross a 130-mile trail illegally to find work to feed their families. Dead in Their Tracks is the record of their experience. Annerino’s unflinching camera and sensitive text capture the lives of these men, along with the ranchers, Border Patrol trackers, and drug runners whose livelihoods also depend on this grim realm. Dead in Their Tracks’ unforgettable images of anonymous travelers who may survive, and the bleached bones of those who did not, show the ultimate price sometimes exacted by an unforgiving nature — and by those who make policy in this area. 70 photographs and maps are featured in this harrowing chronicle of the dangers and struggles fought for a better way of life. ... Read more

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Those who dare.
There are those who call themselves experts on the subject and those who are. John is the genuine expert.His points on the subject can only be done by being there and doing it.That is John, that is how he is.That is how he lives.A Master photographer, a Father, Journalist.His treatment on the border issue is a no-holds-barred trip into the unknown.He makes it known, he does it masterfully!When I read Dead in Their Tracks I found it to be the best publication on the subject.It should be required reading for those who are studying Hispanic Culture here at the University of Arizona! When one has the folks at ABC News and other News organizations beating on your door for your knowledge on the subject you know it is John Annerino. When you read a John Annerino book or see his imigaes you are guaranteed that you have exposed to the very best in subject treatment. Dead in Their Tracks will take you for a ride you won't soon forget.

Good immersion book
The photos in this book alone will move you.It was great to read about the author's journeys and firsthand experiences in the border desert of AZ.What I like most about the work is that we get a firsthand view of what it's like to cross those barren deserts just to get a job.It's amazing to hear those stories.

At one point in the book we read about his travels from the Mexican border to the I-8 in the US.Elsewhere we read about his week-long journey through those same deserts at the peak of summer, stopping at wells and water-holes along the way just to stay alive.

While John's text really disjointed, unorganized, and at times flat out confusing, he's not writing to impress-- but to take the reader to the places he's been and help them to feel the feelings he has.This work is a great exposition of something that happens in our southwestern deserts almost every day.

Another terrific work from Annerino
A story like this demands a great deal from an author. AlthoughAnnerino has obviously spent many hours researching the borderlands of the Southwest, the key to this monumental work is the extent to which he is willing to live the story he writes.He has taken immense risks, walking side by side through the desert with Mexican immigrants, and coming face to face with the coyotes and narcotraficantes and Border Patrol agents and ranchers of this volatile area.With Annerino's books, you always learn tons of local history, but never at the expense of that vivid sensation of dust and sweat and heat and imminent danger that keep it an interesting read.Highly recommended to anyone who wants to learn more about the little-known wilderness along the Mexican border and the human cost it extracts due to current immigration policies.

Compelling
This book, even though it was very short and hopped around a bit, was very compelling and absorbing.It really makes you understand and feel for those people looking for work across the Mexican-American border.Thoughthe book stressed certain things such as the desert heat and the poverty ofthe immigrants in order to persuade the reader, it was so absorbing that itwas easily forgivable, especially considering the subject matter... peoplebraving the elements and coming close to (and sometimes entering) death inorder to give their families and themselves a better life through a hardearned paycheck. We rarely hear about the deaths of people trying tocross the desert, partly because they are trying not to be noticed.

Ithink the author accomplished what he set out to achieve.This book wasnot written for literary credentials, but to make an impact on the peoplewho read it and to make them think, as well as raise awareness of thesubject.One line I'm sure summed up his reasoning for writing this book..it read something like "A Mexican life is more important than acelebrity's last stint in rehab."

Una investigacion documental seria - impactante!
HISTORIAS DE VIDA. JOHN ANNERINO. ENCUENTRA LA REALIDAD NEGADA. La Manda Que Se Hizo Reportaje. "...Con una investigacion documental seria, impactantes fotografias y comentarios propios, este texto es algo mas queuna denuncia, John lo define como: "Un testimonio de las personas quehan muerto al cruzar la frontera, es una memoria porque tambien vienen enel libro fechas, lugares y datos de como murieron." La fotografia dejode ser su forma de vida, se convirto en una necesidad de transmitar eldolor, el sufrimiento de los mexicanos y su valentia de cruzar hacia elotro lado: "Ellos son unos heroes para mi, pues buscan sacar adelantea sus familias y hacen trabajo pesado que los americanos rechazanhacer." Su voz cambio de tono, de nuevo su mirada de hizo clara, susmanos temblaron un tanto emocionadas, sus palabras reclamaron una repuesta:"Por que la vida es diferente para los personas? Todos somos iguales,la vida de una estrella de cine no es mas importante que un mexicano pobre.La prensa de Estados Unidos quiere estrellas de peliculas, de musica, depoliticos, matanzas en las escuelas, problemas en todos partes del mundo,pero cuando se trata de los mexicanos que mueren en terrenosestadounidenses, guarda silencio..." -El Independiente ... Read more

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New England was knocked to its knees on February 6th and 7th, 1978 by the incredible snow and wind referred to locally as "The Worst Storm of the Century!" Author Michael Tougias combines stunning photographs with riveting text to reawaken our communal memories of the event dubbed "The Blizzard of '78."

Tougias first chronicles the period before the storm, then follows it through its progression, as it caused commuter nightmares and wreaked devastation. From Cape Cod to Conecticut, from Rhode Island to Route 128, Tougias explains how people survived the storm by spending more than 48 hours in their cars, and how coastal homes were torn from their foundations and smashed to smithereens by the viscous surf.

The book records the brighter sides of the blizzard too, including neighborhood parties cross-country skiing down abandoned highways, and the many ways that people pitched in to help total strangers. Intriguing analysis also compares The Blizzard of '78 with The Great Blizzard of 1888.

Tougias' book will be cherished by anyone who survived the Blizzard of '78, as well as by those of us who have been spellbound by its legend. ... Read more

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Great Gift Idea!
"The Blizzard of '78" is an engaging and fun read. I loved the pictures, which brought back the innocence of that time, when there was no school for two weeks and everyone had to pull together to survive.

I think this makes a great gift and can start some wonderful conversations. Anyone in New England who lived through the great "Blizzard of '78" and has a story to tell, will enjoy this book as a keepsake and rememberance.

Fantastic layout and great text!!
I was surprised to receive a copy of a book called The Blizzard of '78 for Christmas. I had totally forgotten that the 25th anniversary was in February. The pictures and stories have brought back many memories. It's funny how many folks I talk to can tell me where they were, what they were doing, and how much snow was in their part of MA. This ain't a book for the scientific meteorologist folks. This is a scrapbook for those that were there, in The Blizz of '78. Thanks to the author Mike Tougias. Great job!

Brrrr.....
2 weeks without school, making money shoveling driveways, watching TV and (along with my sister) driving my mother crazy. I'll never forget the Blizzard of '78! Michael Tougias has done us all a service by putting this wonderful retrospective of the storm together. True to another reviewer's complaints, it is not a meteorological book. Nor is it a collection of remembrances. It's a photo book with good text that tells the story. It's a scrap book for everyone in New England who still wishes for two weeks off in a winter wonderland!

A Trip Down Memory Lane
This book is a great gift that will bring back many memories ! It is a quick read that will bring many people back to a simpler time. I've bought several copies for gifts and they were all well received.

Fantastic photos!
I didn't live in New England during this time, but I thoroughly recommend this book to those who have stories to tell of the blizzard and those who like me, love to hear those stories. The photos are numerous and cover every aspect of the storm and extensive cleanup. If you were there , you'll love to read it and reminisce and if you weren't you'll get a great feel for what it was like. ... Read more

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In words and images, The Seventies brings back the events, people, and ideas that characterized one of the most colorful and turbulent decades in American life. From Watergate to water bongs, from Kissinger to Kiss, from Saturday Night Live to Saturday Night Fever, from the birth of the P.C. to the birth of punk - it's all here in seventy insightful essays, one hundred evocative photographs, and a month-by-month timeline of the entire decade. ... Read more

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Life In The 70's
Rolling Stone magazine was founded in 1967 and born of the ideas of the counterculture. But the magazine hit its stride and became cultural significant in the 70's. This book is a great review of the decade detailing everything from Nixon to Springsteen to disco to All in The Family to the emergence of porn and casual sex. Writers from Rolling Stone like Hunter S. Thompson detailing how gonzo journalism was conceived (and in his words, never truly achieved), founder and editor Jann Wenner on the man behind the infamous Pentagon Papers and others are excellent, but it is the contributions for others not necessarily associated with the magazine that hit the mark. The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde was a student at Kent State and gives a first person of what happened when the National Guardsmen killed four students. Tom Wolfe expouses on radical chic and the stories about the emergence of Soul Train, the deaths at a Who concert in Cincinnati, the Saturday Night Fever and disco explosion, Bruce Springsteen and Al Trautwig's essay on Julius "Dr. J' Erving are all superb. The book's left-hand margin contains a running timeline that note important and relevant events of the decade in chronological order. This book is an immensely satisfying, enjoyable and informative read. ... Read more

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For more than fifty years an international jury has met in Holland under the auspices of the World Press Photo Foundation to choose the world's finest photographs. This is universally recognized as the definitive competition for photographic reporting, and photojournalists, newspapers, and magazines throughout the world submit thousands of images in the race to win.

The World Press Photo Competition 2005, the forty-eighth contest to date, brings together some 200 images. The best pictorial journalism from an eventful year, this selection brings us face to face with contemporary world events—an impressive visual record of social, political, cultural, scientific, and, above all, human milestones. 200 photographs, 80 in color ... Read more

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"I came to see the buildings as fossils of a time past. These buildings were used during the Civil War. The men were all dead, but the buildings were still here, left behind as the city grew around them....The passing of the buildings was for me a great event. It didn't matter so much whether they were of architectural importance. What mattered to me was that they were about to be destroyed. Whole blocks would disappear. An entire neighborhood. Its few last loft-occupying tenants were being evicted, and no place like it would ever be built again. The streets involved were among the oldest in New York and when sections of some were closed by the barriers of the demolition men, it meant they would never be opened again." (Danny Lyon).In 1967, Danny Lyon returned to New York City, having just finished The Bikeriders (Macmillan, 1968). He was twenty-five. Living in a loft on the corner of Beekman and Williams Streets in Downtown Manhattan, Lyon saw that half the buildings on Beekman Street were boarded up, about to be demolished. That year an incredible sixty acres of mostly nineteenth century buildings were slated for demolition, all below Chambers Street. The seven-acre site where the Twin Towers would eventually stand was being cleared, a new ramp added to the Brooklyn Bridge, Pace University expanded, and the Washington Market was being moved to the Bronx. Much of the Lower West Side was being turned into rubble. Lyon thought of the title The Destruction of Lower Manhattan first, and then made a record of each building before it was demolished. The book was released by Macmillan Publishers in 1969, and remaindered a few years later; the copies sold for one dollar each. It has been a collector's item ever since.Thirty-eight years after these photographs were made, many of them are the only record that survives of entire blocks of mainly nineteenth century buildings that once lined Fulton Street, and West Street along the Hudson. Because of the disaster that would strike the city a generation later, New Yorkers have taken on a renewed and fervent interest in the architecture of their city. This work is a major contribution to that new world. For Lyon, these buildings in their last days standing were the embodiment of a beauty and pathos that people walking by in the street seldom noticed at the time. Those feelings were preserved in the photographs that today survive exactly as the young author intended, as a memory and a record of what was. ... Read more

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A First Person Picture Book
This book is an illustrated compilation of brief (1-4 paragraph), first-person narratives by victims, family, and workers in the HIV/AIDS epidemic in southern Africa. There are more pages of photos than of text. Photos are well-done and powerful. The book does much to give the reader an insider's view of the AIDS tragedy and its impact at the personal and family level. It does not address the problem analytically at all; you'll need other books for that. This one is like sitting in the waiting room of the HIV clinic, or on the floor of the hut, and talking to the people about their stories.
Mike Blyth--pediatrician in Nigeria

A Broken Landscape
An indepth insight into HIV and AIDS in Africa and done in a way which highlights the positive responses and challenges perceptions of this terrible epedemic . This book is a must for anyone interested in learning more about this subject. ... Read more

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Hart Island is a very special and sacred island.
I want to be buried on Hart Island and cannot. So, I have to settle for the next best thing. The photography is outstanding and transports me right into each picture. The book is a fine historical tribute to all of the islands that surround Manhattan and have made it the city it is.

Haunting, beautiful and sublime.
If I was a better writer I would find better words than haunting, beautiful and sublime for this incredible book. If I could, I would PAY people to read it. (On the condition that they give me the money back if they agree that it's as good as I say it is!) It gives a lovely, painful and unforgetable look at how forgetable we can be. The shots of the bleachers from Ebbets Field! Broke my heart.

I can't stop looking at these images.

I can't stop trying to read the records of the people buried there that surround the photographs in the front. ... Read more

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The impact of photography, with its permutations and manipulations, has created incredible images of human hope and suffering throughout the 20th century. Inured as readers may be to the sights of our age, anyone who leafs through the astonishing chronicle that is Bruce Bernard's Century cannot fail to be impressed and moved by this vast visual document of the past 100 years. Weighing in at around 10 pounds and containing more than 1,000 photographs, this significant document of 100 years of human history displays Bernard's 30 years of experience as a picture editor with the Sunday Times Magazine.

Divided into six sections--1899-1914, High Hopes and Recklessness; 1914-33, Self-Inflicted Wounds Remain Infected; 1933-45, Rise and Fall of the Unspeakable; 1945-65, Atomic Truce Walks a Tightrope; 1965-85, Vietnam to the Moon to Soviet Collapse; and 1985-99, Chaos and Hope on a Burdened Planet--with accompanying text and quotations, Century presents an average of 10 images for each year, from the banal to the brilliant. In 1921 readers witness Claude Monet overseeing his glorious water-lily gardens. Next to that is an image of starving children in the Russian famine that followed the end of World War I. The young Princess Elizabeth walks her corgi in London's Hyde Park in 1934, while the facing page shows the moment of King Alexander I's assassination in Marseilles. American GIs laugh with girls on a German beach in 1946--a couple of pages on from the then recently revealed horrors of the concentration camp at Auschwitz. Three decades later, sees the Sex Pistols inaugurating the era of punk rock, while anti-apartheid leader Steve Biko lies murdered by police in his South African jail cell. By turns harrowing and humorous, Century is a magnificent photographic testament to 100 years of human advancement, futility, acts of heroism, and episodes of unspeakable cruelty. The book ends on a note of hope with a still from a 1999 German production of Beethoven's opera Fidelio, a triumph of goodness over evil. It is nonetheless difficult to erase the preceding image of refugees fleeing Kosovo in the same month and the same year--history's hour of darkness come round once more. --Catherine Taylor, Amazon.co.uk ... Read more

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No Without Error
This book has a lot of gruesome pictures and is not for those who wish to be shielded from the dark side of the last century. It certainly has a lot of images that makes one wish we could find a way to bring a stop to all of this horror, but this century is not off to a good start either.

I do wonder about the accuracy of this book after discovering an error. The picture on page 421 that purports to be of Nazis executing people somewhere in the baltic in 1942 is actually a picture of Nazi war criminals being executed in Poland in 1946. One wonders how many other pictures are mislabeled.

Best Photography Book I Have Ever Read
Glancing through once is usually enough for most photo books.Not for this one.It is because what this book reveals is not just the image, the outer appearance, but the soul, the hidden driving force for all the tragedies and joys of human life.

As readers will find out, in this book the dark side of the human soul is disclosed much more than the bright side.This is why some people do not feel comfortable about it.However, more than one hundred million people were killed by the same species over the last century, which absolutely deserves our thought and memory. If there is anything can be benefited from the great sufferings, it is that seeing them can recall our conscience and concern for our fellow people's well being.

Shortly before his death, editor Bruce Bernard wrote in the Preface that "I hope that this book... will encourage younger people to dispise as well as hate and fear war and violence and any kind of exploitation or persecution of man or woman by woman or man".I salute to him for his wonderful gift to us.

The book quoted Woody Allen's words in 1980: "More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads.One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness.The other, to total extinction.Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly."I hope this becomes a true joke because there has been, and will be people on this planet like Bruce Bernard.

A nice addition to any collection...
The photography in this book is very provocative.And there is sooo much, so unless you are satisfied just flipping through a book before leaving it for dead, you can count on working on this book for awhile!Yes, a lot of it focuses on war, but unfortunately, wars have become the significant milestones of the past 100+ years of history.It is still very exciting to get to see so much "up close and personal" thanks to the photographers who took the time to take the shots!

My only complaint about the book is that I found some of the captions to be excessively slanted, politically.Obviously captions are necessary to explain what we are seeing, but I felt that some of them they were also saturated in judgement that was simply not called for, even for a photojournalism book.Not quite enough to be obnoxious, but enough for me to give it 4 instead of 5 stars.

the 20th century in pictures
the scope of the book and its presntation make it earn a 5 rating. one could always argue the editing of a book of this size. there is plenty here to look at and learn about. sometimes when looking at a familiar event--you might wonder why the editor chose a particular photo over one most promimently used before but that might be the reason why this book is a added addition to ones library

Wonderful gift - to yourself!
I found this book at a museum shop when I was looking for something for my mother, who was born at the beginning of the century.It seemed like the perfect gift, paralleling her life.

I expected to see some of the classic photographs that we know so well - Hitler dancing at the news that Paris was burning, the Spanish Civil War soldier at the moment of death, Dorothea Lange's classic of the Dust Bowl mother...To my great surprise, not one of those was included in the book.I was a little disappointed at first, but then realized that because all the pictures are unfamiliar, and in some cases, depict events we may not have considered newsworthy, this book forces you to turn each page.You can't skip over the images because each one carries information, either in the picture or in the description, that may be new.This is NOT a collection of "the best of LIFE," and, as much as I loved that magazine in its heyday, I'm glad.

The book is organized in what some may consider a quirky way, with wildly divergent images juxtaposed.But there's method in this madness, and as you page through it, you start to see the theme emerge.

The pictures are on blank pages, with no writing at all.The explanations are grouped separately for each section.At first I was frustrated at having to page back and forth between the image and the description, but I quickly came to appreciate the visual impact of a picture - nothing else - on an otherwise blank page.

This is a powerful book, in the images that were included, in the information they convey, and in the care and thoughtfulness that it demands from the "reader."

I strongly recommend this book as a serious gift to someone you care about - or yourself.(Mom, by the way, loved it, but complained that it took up all her spare time for weeks, as she paged through it and studied each image carefully.When she died, I reclaimed it from her house and find myself doing the same thing.) ... Read more

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Placing her hands gently on either side of her daughter's face, a Himba woman rolls down the thick brown coil of her ceremonial ekori headdress. Eyes closed in the darkness of their hut in northwestern Namibia, both mother and daughter register the gravity of this moment, shortly before the girl's wedding. The headdress insures that she looks only into the future that awaits her as a married woman and not grieve over leaving her family.

During courtship season in southwestern Ethiopia, a lanky Surma youth whose own body is covered with an intricate pattern from biceps to thighs uses all 10 fingers to drag wavy lines of white pigment over the belly of another boy scowling with concentration.

Intimate moments like these, sensitively captured in Passages by veteran photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher, give Westerners an unusual feeling of kinship with rites of passage among African peoples in different parts of the continent. Even large-scale ritual scenes have a striking immediacy and a refreshing straightforwardness that emphasizes the human, rather than the exotic. These images are the result of long periods of contact between the photographers and their subjects, whose traditional celebrations offer only a few glimpses of the inroads of contemporary culture (T-shirts worn by men watching a funeral parade in Ghana, a Tuareg nomad's wire-rimmed sunglasses).

The 89 memorable images in this large-format paperback were selected from the 850 color photographs in the photographers' popular two-volume African Ceremonies. (They are also on view at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York through September 24, 2000.) --Cathy Curtis ... Read more

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Passages:Photographs in Africa
Great large format whole page images, some of which were presented in the two volume hardback "Ceremonies". Beautiful people, cultures and images for a great price. I hope the traditions of our world never never leave us. A beautiful book. ... Read more

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Following the success of The New York Times bestseller America 24/7, DK is publishing 50 books that showcase the best photographs from each state - all to be published on the same day. Each individual book includes 95% new photography and is a unique peronal expression of state pride. ... Read more

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The usual Life Magazine outstanding photos
Every year I get the Life end of year album. The photography as always is the best there is. I wish they would stop fooling around with the title of this book - every year it seems to change. I believe Time Life thinks they're trying to simplify the title, i.e. is this a book of year 2001 photos or 2002 photos? They have only succeeded in [messing] the title up further. Nonetheless, whatever they call it, this is a great review of photos of the past year - definitely a "keeper". Someday they'll even settle on a name for the book!!!! ... Read more

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Once isolated from the modern world in the heights of the Andean mountains, the indigenous communities of Ecuador now send migrants to New York City as readily as they celebrate festivals whose roots reach back to the pre-Columbian past. Fascinated by this blending of old and new and eager to make a record of traditional customs and rituals before they disappear entirely, photographer-journalist Judy Blankenship spent several years in Caar, Ecuador, photographing the local people in their daily lives and conducting photography workshops to enable them to preserve their own visions of their culture. In this engaging book, Blankenship combines her sensitively observed photographs with an inviting text to tell the story of the most recent year she and her husband Michael spent living and working among the people of Caar.Very much a personal account of a community undergoing change, Caar documents such activities as plantings and harvests, religious processions, a traditional wedding, healing ceremonies, a death and funeral, and a home birth with a native midwife. Along the way, Blankenship describes how she and Michael went from being outsiders only warily accepted in the community to becoming neighbors and even godparents to some of the local children. She also explains how outside forces, from Ecuador's failing economy to globalization, are disrupting the traditional lifeways of the Caari as economic migration virtually empties highland communities of young people. Blankenship's words and photographs create a moving, intimate portrait of a people trying to balance the demands of the twenty-first century with the traditions that have formed their identity for centuries. ... Read more

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"Everything in the world must be shown and people around the world must have an idea of what's happening to the other people around the world. I believe this is a function of the vector that the documentary photographer must have, to show one person's existence to another."—Sebastião Salgado

Illustrated with a compelling image from each photographer, Witness in Our Time traces the recent history of social documentary photography in the words of twenty-two of the genre's best photographers, editors, and curators, showing that the profession remains vital, innovative, and committed to social change. Featuring interviews with Hansel Mieth, Walter Rosenblum, Michelle Vignes, Wayne Miller, Peter Magubane, Matt Herron, Jill Freedman, Mary Ellen Mark, Earl Dotter, Eugene Richards, Susan Meiselas, Sebastião Salgado, Graciela Iturbide, Antonin Kratochvil, Donna Ferrato, Joseph Rodriguez, Dayanita Singh, Fazal Sheikh, Gifford Hampshire, Peter Howe, Colin Jacobson, and Ann Wilkes Tucker ... Read more

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Brief
Covers many famous photojournalists but each coverage is very light and the details are not interesting enough.

I need a new copy
This will be the second time I'm buying this book. I've lent it out to one of my staff and somewhere down the line it's disappeared. I think that's says a lot about this book. It's nice to have around to read through on a Saturday morning with a mug of coffee or flip through for inspiration.

It has definitely helped not only the way I see the world, but with my own photography.

Exploring the views/mindsets of prominent photojournalists
This is a great book. If you are at all interested in documentary photography/photojournalism, then you will not be able to put this book down!

It is jam-packed with a collection of personal essays by the worlds most prominent documentary photographers. They speak about why and how they do what they do, their path in life and their experiences seeing the world up close and personal.

The book has at least one black and white image example per photographer, but it's not a coffee table photography book. It's a relatively small size and can be carried with you in a bag quite easily.

I'm going to go back and read this book again. It is full of reasonings and inspirations and as a published photographer, it makes me want to grab my Leica and hit the streets with some black and white film...

A Unique and Valuable Resource
Witness in Our Time gives readers a rare glimpse into the minds of some of the most talented contemporary documentary photographer. Editor Ken Light offers a valuable resource to any professional or student photographer, or anyone with an interest in documentary photography. Witness in Our Time provides personal accounts by photographers such as Sebastião Salgado, Mary Ellen Mark and Eugene Richards of how each has made it in the challenging field of documentary photography. Witness in Our Time offers an inspirational and sometimes sobering view of the past, present and future of this important field. ... Read more

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Following the success of The New York Times bestseller America 24/7, DK is publishing 50 books that showcase the best photographs from each state - all to be published on the same day. Each individual book includes 95% new photography and is a unique peronal expression of state pride. ... Read more

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"A great photograph often reveals the city to the people who share its life." Thus does Pete Hamill introduce this marvelous collection of photographs from the unparalleled archives of the New York Daily News. This American newspaper, the first to truly understand and use the power of photography, has created an unforgettable and indelible portrait of New York and New Yorkers in pictures.

Here--spanning the years 1920 to 1999--are images that capture the heart and guts of the city: crammed sports stadiums, hushed morgues, glamorous nightclubs, and mean streets. Including a keen text by best-selling author Pete Hamill, who has tabloid journalism in his blood, New York Exposed is an incomparable visual record of the city over eight decades--full of surprise, drama, and sheer unalloyed fun. ... Read more

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An Excellent New York Photo Documentary
As the grandson of NY Daily News photographer Charles Hoff, this book offered much insight in to family (as well as New York) history. Only a hint at the tremendous photographic contribution of the NYDN can be addressed in one book, even in a volume this large. Still, it reveals fascinating insight in to the last eighty years of New York visual history through stunningly beautiful photographs. The quality is only enhanced by the fact that the book was published just prior to the tragic events of September, 2001 -- the book closes with a wonderfful photograph of the World Trade Center, as well as text by Shawn O'Sullivan that in retrospect is perfectly appropriate -- that the picture press remains vigilant in a constantly changing city.

new york in photos
a compilation of photos from the daily news photographers
incredible collection here. my only disappoitment, which is a slight one, is that the 90's section does not seem to have the same feel as the other decades do

The dailiness of New York life.
The New York Daily News was always the largest circulation tabloid in America and as Pete Hamill says in his excellent twenty page essay 'The Daily News was possessed of a quality derived from the city itself: energy. The tone was brash, sarcastic, irreverent.' All successful tabloid papers have two things in common, the headlines and the photos and this beautifuuly produced book has hundreds of the latter.

To get great photos the paper had always invested in its photo department, which by the fifties had two planes, ten radio cars, a brigade of motorcycle couriers and a staff of sixty-three to insure no story was missed. This book shows the benefits of this investment. Eight chapters are devoted to a photo record of the decades from the twenties thru the nineties and as the News was a tabloid, the rough and tumble of daily is revealed, politicians, celebrities, sport, crime (some of these predictably stark) the everyday and when appropriate, the weather. Each photo has very detailed captions and thankfully, the photographer's name.

Shawn O'Sullivan, who works on the paper, writes in a short essay titled 'Photography at the Daily News' 'In making this book, we sought to show the images in all of their original beauty, as the photographer originally witnessed the scene....' I think this was a mistake, newspaper photographers don't know how a photo is going to be used on the page and they try to take plenty of shots, so that Photo Editors will have lots of choice. I have a book published in 1979 celebrating fifty years of the News and it has many of the same photos as this latest book but in the earlier book the photos are handled in a much tighter way and sensibly trimmed to get the best from the image.

Apart from some of the photo trimming I enjoyed New York Exposed, a photographic book that captures the dailiness of New York life. If you lived in the city it will be a stimulating reminder of the last eighty years.

The Way We Were
New York Exposed is photographic journey down memory lane.
I won this book about a month ago and was so taken by the photography and the history of the photos that I have since purchased it as a gift for my Dad. The book consists of photos of NYC from 1919 until the year 2000. Each photograph includes a descriptive caption.
The skyline changed so many times throughout the time span that the book takes us through, although there are no photos of that dreaded day in September.
From air disasters to a traffic accident circa the early 1930's, from J. Edgar Hoover in a Mickey Mouse mask at the Stork Club in the 30's to the Yankee's World Series win in 1999. New York Exposed is a wonderful book for those of us who grew up in the greatest city in the world.
A reminder of the way we were..

Book Review on "New York Exposed"
I lived in Upstate New York for most of my life. Several years ago my wife and I decided to relocate to Arizona. After September 11th, 2001 I like so many other Americans watched what unfolded before our eyes. Most of my family lives in the North East. I heard about this book on TV and was interested. I thought this would be a great book for my father.

When this book first arrived, we only had to skim over it to see it was trash. Yes, this book is an honest picture of the madness that is present in many large cities, but we were outraged by the contents: Graphic pictures of accidents, murders, shootings, Prostitution, etc. I thought this would be a book about the good in New York.

Normally when I get a book I do not care for I would donate it to the library, but in this case I am going to return it. My first choise was to burn it. Thank God my parents did not read any of this book. I am disappointed in the day time national television station that promoted this book on the air.

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Book Description

A remarkable view of how geopolitics affects ordinary people, this book documents, in words and pictures, the lives of Armenians in the last two decades. Based on intimate interviews with three hundred Armenians and featuring Jerry Berndt's superb photographs, it brings together firsthand testimony about the social, economic, and spiritual circumstances of Armenians during the 1980s and 1990s, when the country faced an earthquake, pogroms, and war. At times shocking and deeply emotional, Armenia: Portraits of Survival and Hope is a story of extreme suffering and hardship, a searching look at the fight for independence, and an exceptionally complex portrait of the human spirit.

A companion to the Millers' highly acclaimed work Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide, which documented the genocide of 1915, this book focuses on four groups of people: survivors of the earthquakes that devastated northwestern Armenia in 1988; refugees from Azerbaijan who fled Baku and Sumgait because of pogroms against them; women, children, and soldiers who were affected by the war in Nagorno-Karabakh; and ordinary citizens who survived several winters without heat because of the blockade against Armenia by Turkey and Azerbaijan. The Millers' narrative situates these accounts contextually and thematically, but the voices of individuals remain paramount. The Millers also describe their personal experiences in repeated research trips, inviting us to look beyond the headlines and think beyond the circumstances of our own lives as they bring contemporary Armenia to life. ... Read more

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The first 20th century holocaust was against Armenians
The first 20th century holocaust was against the thousands of innocent Armenians massacred by Turkish troops in the First World War. No soon as that war was over than most Armenians, if they were not forced under Turkish rule, became Soviet citizens. Then when they finally got their independence back after the end of the USSR, they found themselves involved in a bloody war with Azerbaijan. Few peoples have suffered as much as the Armenians in the past 20 years and a book like this is absolutely essential reading if we are to understand the people of the oldest continually Christian country in the world. Buy this book and then give all your friends this book as a present for Christmas. Christopher Catherwood, author of CHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS AND ISLAMIC RAGE (Zondervan, 2003) ... Read more

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An in depth pictorial on the greatest film of all time.
A great book that offers a rare glimpse at Fellini's creative proccess through a stunning collection of photographs. Visually informative, as well as verbally. A must for fans of Fellini, Tazio, or films in general. ... Read more