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Haunted Realm 2009 Wall Calendar

Sir Simon Marsden

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

The best true collection of ghost stories ever published 5 out of 5 stars.
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i first picked this book up when i was 10 years old. I'm 16 now and i still can't put it down. This is, without a doubt, the most chilling collection of stories i have ever come across. The contents of this book are psycologically affecting as well imagination provoking. I truly cannot say enough great things about this book. If you havn't read it-PLEASE do yourself a favor, and get ahold of The Haunted Realm.

Editorial Review:

From the very beginning of recorded time all the great civilizations of our world have believed in the supernatural in some form or other. Simon Marsden's startlingly atmospheric black and white infrared photographs reveal this hidden world and his ghostly and beguiling images transport the reader to a different realm; a haunted realm. In The Haunted Realm 2009 wall calendar, each photograph is accompanied by accounts of the apparitions that have been reported at each site, and the strange and often macabre real-life events which are said to lie behind them. Simon Marsden is an internationally acclaimed photographer whose work can be found in the J. Paul Getty Museum in California and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. His books include This Spectred Isle, The Haunted Realm, Journal of a Ghosthunter and Twilight Hour.

Hollywood Glamor Portraits

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Images From A Bygone Era 3 out of 5 stars.
16 of 16 people found this review helpful.

Where to start? This is almost a wordless book filled with 145 glamour shots from the "Golden Age" of Hollywood. I would say that the book is a work of "art" and contains the work of many masters of still photography of the era. Some of the photos are truly stunning an deserve to be shown in the top Museums in world. The book uses high quality, acid-free paper and strong binding that enhances the book as a collectable. It would make a nice piece to anyone's collection of art books and you will page through it every so often. The reason that I did not give the book a higher rating is because it is quite short, it's a paperback and does contain many average works (in my opinion).

My personal favs were: Carole Lombard, Jean Harlow and Louise Brooks.

thank you for your time, David

Editorial Review:

145 photos capture the stars from 1926 to 1949 — Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Hedy Lamarr, Marlene Dietrich, Robert Montgomery, Marlon Brando, Veronica Lake — 94 stars in all. Portraits do not duplicate those found in Kobal’s Movie Star Portraits. Introduction. Captions.

Unseen Vogue: The Secret History of Fashion Photography

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A GREAT SURPRISE 5 out of 5 stars.
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The book is essentially the companion to one of the most fascinating shows that I ever stumbled upon. Last November in London, I went to the Design Museum[founded by Terrence Conran] to view an exhibit of aluminum[aluminium].

Coincidentally, there was this Vogue show. Having paid my admission to the museum, I viewed this exhibit as well. Now, I don't pretend to know much about fashion nor photography. And this show blew me away. And so does this book, but not as well as the show, of course.

An assemblage of insights into the culture and history of the twentieth century that I would never have encountered on my own. Not only does the story reveal how conde nast's money financed some of the more significant technical innovations in photography[which intrigued me since I try to follow the history of science and technology], but I was also fascinated to discover how it was that Vogue may have had the most energetic and brave war correspondent/photographer of WW2: and it was a beautiful and talented woman - Lee Miller. Do take the time to find out all you can about her.

And lastly, the photos are knock-outs. I wouldn't have done this show or this book deliberately, but having stumbled into the show, I have to pronounce it one of the most educational exhibitions that I have encountered.

Editorial Review:

Unseen Vogue goes beyond the cliches and often repeated "greatest hits" of fashion photography and tells a completely new story. Drawn from the archives of British Vogue, the book presents hundreds of images never seen before—the killed pictures, rejects, and outtakes—to form a fresh, new history of fashion photography. Features the first attempts of many now internationally famous photographers, great pictures by forgotten masters, outtakes from famous shoots, and many other extraordinary and sometimes controversial pictures. By showing contact sheets and unedited film Unseen Vogue opens up the process of making fashion images, previously the reserve of fashion's inner circle.

Avedon at Work: In the American West (HRHRC Imprint Series)

Laura Wilson

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"Laura Wilson shadowed the Shadower, and showed us as much as can be shown of how his work wasdone."

—Larry McMurtry, from the Foreword

Internationally acclaimed for his portraits of powerful and accomplished people and women of great beauty, Richard Avedon was one of the twentieth century's greatest photographers—but perhaps not the most obvious choice to create a portrait of ordinary people of the American West. Yet in 1979, the Amon Carter Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, daringly commissioned him to do just that.

The resulting 1985 exhibition and book, In the American West, was a milestone in American photography and Avedon's most important body of work. His unflinching portraits of oilfield and slaughterhouse workers, miners, waitresses, drifters, mental patients, teenagers, and others captured the unknown and often-ignored people who work at hard, uncelebrated jobs. Making no apologies for shattering stereotypes of the West and Westerners, Avedon said, "I'm looking for a new definition of a photographic portrait. I'm looking for people who are surprising—heartbreaking—or beautiful in a terrifying way. Beauty that might scare you to death until you acknowledge it as part of yourself."

Photographer Laura Wilson worked with Avedon during the six years he was making In the American West. In Avedon at Work, she presents a unique photographic record of his creation of this masterwork—the first time a major photographer has been documented in great depth over an extended period of time. She combines images she made during the photographic sessions with entries from her journal to show Avedon's working methods, his choice of subjects, his creative process, and even his experiments and failures. Also included are a number of Avedon's finished portraits, as well as his own comments and letters from some of the subjects.

Avedon at Work adds a new dimension to our understanding of one of the twentieth century's most significant series of portraits. For everyone interested in the creative process it confirms that, in Laura Wilson's words, "much as all these photographs may appear to be moments that just occurred, they are finally, in varying degrees, works of the imagination."

Civil War Battlefields Then and Now (Compact) (Then and Now)

James Campi

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Editorial Review:

Although more than 140 years have passed since Confederate guns first fired on Fort Sumter, our fascination with the American Civil War has not faded. With the advent of photography, the Civil War was the first time images captured the devastation of war in all of its brutal truth. Now you can see the infamous battlefields of the Civil War as they were then — and how they are today — in this fascinating new compact edition of Civil War Battlefields Then and Now.

• Witness the unfolding of the greatest conflict in U.S. history through incredible archival images, many of which were taken by Mathew Brady, the most celebrated photographer of the day.
• This unique book pairs archival photos with contemporary images of the Civil War’s most hallowed locations, like Fort Sumter, S.C., where the Confederate Stars and Bars flag was first unfurled after a siege.
• Explore some of the bloodiest battlefields, including Manassas, Harpers Ferry, Fredericksburg, Bull Run and other sacred ground.
• Visit Old Hagerstown Pike and Bloody Lane in Antietam, Maryland, site of the bloodiest day in American history. Striking images of the casualties are shocking even today.

Animals in Motion

Eadweard Muybridge

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Indispensible Reference for Artists 5 out of 5 stars.
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Muybridges momumental work photographing animals in all different gates and poses and tests of ability. Using sometimes up to 100 cameras for a single set up to gain what is now the definitive guide for animators in understanding the motion of animals. It all started with a $25,000 bet: Eadweard Muybridge and a friend argued whether all four of the horses hooves leave the ground completely at any point during a gallop. Being funded for the project, Muybridge proved to be the winner in saying that horses do in fact leave the ground for a momentary second in their strides. The book begins with an anlaysis of locomotion, going over the walk, the amble, the trot, the rack (or pace), the canter, the transverse-gallop, the rotary-gallop, and the richochet, along with the leap and buck and kick. There are roughly 4,000 photos in this collection which claims to be the largest collection of animals in motion. It features not only horses but lions, deers, oxen, elephants, birds and kangaroos. From this development, Muybridge not only discovered that horses gallop with no feet touching the ground, but his discovery led to motion pictures, in which his photos is a very crude version of cinema today. Later he designed a viewer called a Zoogyroscope (or Zoopraxiscope) which, similar to a Zoetrope, was a carousel with slits which you look through while it is spinning to give the illusion of motion (or persistence of vision). Today these pictures are looked at for a couple of reasons, mostly as nastolgia for one to have wonder and excitement of this simple cinema, but it also is a great reference for modern animators. In fact, for those looking at animation, I can tell you that if you ask for an application to Walt Disney Animation Studios, they will give you their requirements and texts, this will be on the list. Highly reccomended for the artist, graphic, fine arts or animation or anything else you can dream of.

Editorial Review:

Definitive selection of 3,919 photographs, plus author's observations on animals' movements. Incredible true-action shots cover 34 different animals and birds in 132 characteristic motions. Horses, goats, cats, gnus, eagles, gazelles, sloths, camels, many others shown walking, running, flying, leaping, more.

The Civil Contract of Photography

Ariella Azoulay

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In this groundbreaking work, Ariella Azoulay provides a compelling rethinking of the political and ethical status of photography. In her extraordinary account of the "civil contract" of photography, she thoroughly revises our understanding of the power relations that sustain and make possible photographic meanings. Photography, she insists, must be thought of and understood in its inseparability from the many catastrophes of recent history.

Azoulay argues that photography is a particular set of relations between individuals to the power that governs them, and, at the same time, a form of relations among equal individuals that constrains this power. Her book shows how anyone, even a stateless person, who addresses others through photographs or occupies the position of a photograph's addressee, is or can become a citizen in the citizenry of photography. The civil contract of photography enables him or her to share with others the claim made or addressed by the photograph.

But the crucial arguments of the book concern two groups whose vulnerability and flawed citizenship have been rendered invisible due to their state of exception: the Palestinian noncitizens of Israel and women in Western societies. What they share is an exposure to injuries of various kinds and the impossibility of photographic statements of their plight from ever becoming claims of emergency and calls for protection. Thus one of her leading questions is the following: Under what legal, political or cultural conditions does it become possible to see and to show disaster that befalls those flawed citizens in states of exception?

The book brilliantly examines key texts in the history of modern citizenship, such as the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, together with relevant works by Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Olympe de Gouges, and Jean-François Lyotard; it rigorously analyzes Israeli photographs of violent episodes in the Occupied Territories—work by Miki Kratsman, Michal Heiman, and Aïm Deüelle Lüski—and it interpretively engages photographs of women from those of Muybridge to recent images from Abu Ghraib prison. At the same time Azoulay provides new critical perspectives on well-known texts such as Susan Sontag's Regarding the Pain of Others and Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida.

The Civil Contract of Photography is an essential work for anyone seeking to understand the disasters of recent history and the consequences of how these events and their victims have been represented. Azoulay charts new intellectual and political pathways in this unprecedented exploration of the visual field of catastrophe, injustice, and suffering in our time.

The Illustrated Alamo 1836: A Photographic Journey

Mark Lemon

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The most iconic historic place in America may also be the most misunderstood.For more than 170 years, the true nature and appearance of the Alamo, the cradle of Texas liberty, has eluded historians and artists alike. Partially demolished soon after the famous battle, the mission/fortress' appearance grew more and more indistinct. Even more recently, Hollywood has itself compounded the problem by redesigning the place to suit the artistic purposes of the dramatic script.But the truth was lurking all along, in old sketches, plats, diagrams, and later archeological digs. Now for the first time, all of the available sources have been meticulously consulted and brought together to create the most accurate illustrated book on the true appearance of the Alamo in 1836 ever produced.The reader is taken through the entire compound, inside and out, room to room, and shown areas never before depicted. For clarity, the compound is divided into sectors, each chapter covering a sector, which is then explored in detail. Through extremely realistic photo illustrations, as well as dramatic original artwork with explanatory text, the author breathes new life into the 1836 Alamo, and makes it real.Scholars, students, artists, and readers of history all will find this a fascinating journey back in time.

Life: World War 2: History's Greatest Conflict in Pictures

Richard B. Stolley

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Contains some stunning photographs... 4 out of 5 stars.
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This coffee table sized book contains some stunning and horrific photographs of World War II. Many of the photographs are in color, and many of the pictures are previously unpublished in other works. Accompanying the photos are text captions explaining the event depicted.

I gave this book four stars instead of five simply because I believe two of the most significant events of the war are barely mentioned: the Holocaust, and the dropping of the Atomic bombs. In a book of this size and scope, I felt that more space should have been given to these seminal events. Regardless, this book is captivating and would make a great gift for any history buff.

Editorial Review:

Mining the extensive LIFE archives and the finest photo collections, this is a picture history of unparalleled depth and power. Included are remarkable unpublished images, like photos of Hitler taken by his personal photographer, alongside the classic LIFE coverage that brought the war home. From the escalating tensions of the pre-war world to the German blitzkrieg, the shock of Pearl Harbor, the fighting on land, sea, and air, D-Day, the atom bombs, and the wars historic aftermath, legendary journalist Richard B. Stolley takes a fresh look at the most important global event of the 20th century.

Exploring the Unexplained: The World's Greatest Marvels, Mysteries and Myths

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Understanding Myths & Marvels 5 out of 5 stars.
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" Adjust your aura and fasten your seatbelt for a marvelous journey into the unknown: Bigfoot to the Bermuda Triangle, Aliens to Yetis, dowsing to the Da Vinci Code, telepathy to crop circles, Exploring the Unexplained separates truth from rumor and fiction from fable. The book features fresh reports from worlds we are only beginning to explore, including new findings on twins and synchronicity, mind-and-body studies and scientists' attempts to quantify accounts on the power of prayer."
The book is divided into multiple `mysteries', all including various sub-topics on extreme paranormal activity, hoaxes, and myths. The sections are based on marvels in History, Nature, Space, Mind and Matter, Spirit, and the World Beyond. From the stories of Atlantis and the Amityville Horror, Stigmata and Demonic Possession, Roswell and Crop Circles, Stonehenge to Easter Island, the book clearly demonstrates truth behind speculation. After reading the book, I quickly scanned over my favorite sections to re-read the parts that I could not engorge enough of. Hearing about most of these stories in my life at sometime in my life, I was thrilled to find a book that covered so many of them. Written and published by the editors of Time magazine, this book is definitely legitimate.

"It is curious to note the old sea-margins
of human though. Each subsiding century reveals some
new mystery; we build where monsters used to hid themselves..."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Section one covers the `Mysteries of the Past'. Beginning with Plato and his story of Atlantis, the book quickly escalates to legends of King Arthur, King Tut, the Oracle of Delphi, and Newgrange. Seeing the remarkable photos to go along with the stories inside allows the reader to become invoked with a mystical and magical realm of surrealism.
Section two is about the `Mysteries of Nature'. This section is all about the Loch Ness Monster, Dowsing, the Fate of Dinosaurs, Bigfoot, Feng Shui, and Auras. The book depicts the story of the hoaxes behind Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster, but also fails to explain the Bermuda Triangle and Auras. `Mysteries of Nature' is by far the most interesting section in the book.

" I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"
- Carl Sagan
Thoroughly covered in the `Mysteries of Space', Editor Kelly Kuaner unravels the famous story behind Area 51, and Roswell, New Mexico. Eight pages are dedicated to aliens, UFOs, and dozens of pictures of those infamous little green men. The section also explains mysteries on Mars: the Martian Face, water on Mars, and the Martian Canals.
The last three sections cover Mind and Matter, Sprits, and Ghostly Experiences. All three share similar interests with one another, and could all be combined into one category. Angels, Faith Leaning, Nostradamus, Seers and Psychics, Vampires and Zombies, Miracles and Saints are all very interesting topics found in the late part of the book.
To conclude, (and being a student in a Pseudo-Science course), I strongly recommend this book as a teaching companion for teachers, students, and those who have a heart for the unexplained. This book does an amazing job at drawing the unfinished line of many marvels, myths, and legends if one cannot determine definite answers alone. The reader learns when read cover-to-cover, enlightenment in many scientific areas.

Editorial Review:

This richly illustrated volume will take readers on a marvellous journey into the unknown. From Bigfoot to the Bermuda Triangle, aliens to yetis, dowsing to the "Da Vinci Code", telepathy to "Crossing Over", "Time" will separate truth from rumour and fact from fantasy: The book includes new scientific reports from worlds we are only beginning to understand, including new findings on twins and telepathy; mind and body studies, and the surprising power of prayer.