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Paris Changing: Revisiting Eugene Atget's Paris

Christopher Rauschenberg

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Reminds me how much I love Paris 5 out of 5 stars.
11 of 12 people found this review helpful.

Last summer I saw the Atget exhibit at the Bibliotheque Nationale, which was a marvelous passage through a lost time. This book matches some of those absorbing old photos with photos of the same location taken today. I think it's a fascinating book and I can lose myself in the nuances while comparing the photos. This pasttime may not be to everyone's taste, but I highly recommend the book to thoughtful people who enjoy looking at things.

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Between 1888 and 1927 Eugène Atget meticulously photographed Paris and its environments, capturing in thousands of photographs the city’s parks, streets, and buildings as well as its diverse inhabitants. Christopher Rauschenberg spent a year in the late 90s revisiting and re-photographing many of Atget’s locations. Paris Changing features seventy-four pairs of images beautifully reproduced in duotone. Each site is indicated on a map of the city, inviting readers to follow in the steps of Atget and Rauschenberg themselves. The book concludes with essays by Clark Worswick and Alison Nordstrom, an epilogue by Rosamond Bernier as well as a portfolio of other images of contemporary Paris by Rauschenberg.

Frommer's London 2001

Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince

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It's simple. The premier travel series from the leading guidebook publisher offers what no other travel books do: complete, easy-to-use, and up-to-date travel information. With their worldwide coverage and winning combination of features, Frommer's Complete Guides stand out from the crowd and help travelers discover the world in a whole new way. Following are those features that millions of readers have come to rely on: -- Detailed, candid reviews of a wide selection of hotels and restaurants in every price range -- from budget to luxury -- Opinionated, up-to-date coverage of sightseeing, outdoor activities, shopping, and nightlife -- both on and off the beaten path -- Unique "Best of the Destination" chapters offering top travel choices -- Dozens of accurate maps keyed to the text, plus complete information on how to get there and get around -- Giant full-color fold-out maps, plus a full-color map on the inside front cover of every guide; full indexes for easy navigation -- Expert trip-planning advice, including a detailed Online Travel Directory in every annual guide -- Spectacular photographic covers, plus 8 to 16 pages of compelling color photos in the top-selling guides -- Exact prices for every hotel, restaurant, and attraction Named one of the top ten foreign cities of 1999 by the readers of Conde Nast Traveler, London has once again become the hottest, hippest destination in Europe. In 2000, it expects to host a record-breaking 30 million visitors, including a bumper crop of Americans taking advantage of low-cost flights across the pond. This comprehensive guide offers: -- A wider selection of affordable and moderately priced hotels, great new ethni restaurants, and gastro-pubs -- A giant color fold-out map, plus 16 pages of color photos -- Lots of in-depth maps, including up-and-coming neighborhoods, theater-district dining, Central London shopping, and more -- Coverage of classic sights and special events, from Westminster Abbey to the Millennium Dome

A Very New York Christmas

Michael Storrings

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The experience of New York City at Christmas time has enthralled residents and visitors alike since Clement C. Moore wrote The Night Before Christmas in his house in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in 1823, inspiring tributes to the city in words and images. In A Very New York Christmas, Michael Storrings captures the magical landscape and excitement of the holiday season in dozens of watercolors, which since 2003 have been turned into bestselling Christmas ornaments. Sold in major retail venues across the country, his limited edition ornaments have a worldwide fan base and sell out performances in such stores as Saks, Bloomingdale's, and Bergdorf Goodman. This year a special ornament will be produced to coordinate with the book.  

Portraying both famous traditions like Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the lighting of the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Angel Tree to less well-known ones like the Christmas lights in Brooklyn’s Dyker Heights, the Boys Choir of Harlem, and the Holiday Train show at The New York Botanical Garden, A Very New York Christmas crisscrosses Manhattan and the four outer boroughs to bring us a Christmas for all New Yorkers--whether residents or just fans. 

Including a delightful foreword from Cynthia Nixon (Miranda from Sex and the City) this jewel-like book combines festive quotations from literature and popular culture with Storrings’s charming watercolors of forty cherished New York holiday scenes making this a perfect gift and yuletide keepsake.

The Most Beautiful Villages and Towns of California (Most Beautiful Villages)

Joan Tapper

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California's picturesque villages and small towns and its stunning landscape, from rugged sierras and fog-laced headlands to golden sand beaches and rolling oak-studded ranchland.

California is nicknamed "The Golden State," and though the name applies literally to the color of its state flower, the golden poppy, it is also a metaphor for the hopes and dreams that have lured generations of settlers. There are villages that grew up around the famed Spanish mission trail, and communities that boomed because of Gold Rush fever. There are places whose natural beauty nurtured artists and writers, and fertile valleys that were home to vintners and cattlemen.

The state is known for reinventing itself, yet a surprising number of its towns and villages still offer charming glimpses into its history and heritage. Their architecture may be quaint, historic, or gracious and their physical settings may take the breath away, but they are also vital communities, prized for their small-town values, their lifestyle, food, and wine. This book showcases the most beautiful villages and towns of California in Nik Wheeler's stunning photography and Joan Tapper's perceptive commentaries. These evoke not just historic houses, but also streetscapes, parks, and physical surroundings.

The book is divided into four regions: Northern California Coast, Northern California Mountains and Valleys, Central and Southern California Coast, and Central and Southern California Mountains and Valleys. In addition, there are photographic essays on the wine country, missions, and ghost towns, plus essential information for tourists on places to stay and to eat. 323 color photographs.

The Complete Route 66 Lost & Found

Russell A. Olsen

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Now Russell Olsen’s best-selling collections featuring Route 66 filling stations, main streets, motor courts, cafés, campgrounds, honky-tonks, truck stops, and barbecue joints as they appeared both in their heyday and today is available in one package.

For more than 30 years, Route 66 was America’s main east-west artery, pointing the nation toward all the promise that California represented. To serve these travelers, Route 66 boasted bustling commercial hubs, many of which remain today, many more of which crumbled long ago. All of the sites included here—150 in all—are shown both during their mid-century heydays and as they appear today. Taken together, the marvelous visual and descriptive elements assembled here—period postcards and imagery, specially commissioned maps, and Olsen’s own photography and capsule histories of the sites featured—comprise a unique, state-by-state look back at America’s Main Street.

Revelations: Latin American Wisdom for Every Day (Offerings for Humanity)

Olivier Follmi

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Such beauty. 5 out of 5 stars.
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Danielle and Olivier Follmi have created several books that I absolutely love. With wonderful photographs and thoughtful quotes from a variety of thinkers on every page, the Follmis reveal the beauty and genius of humanity that we sometimes lose sight of, or that so much of the media obscures. I already owned "OFFERINGS: Buddhist Wisdom for Every Day," "WISDOM: Thoughts from Indian Masters," and "ORIGINS: African Wisdom for Every Day." Now with "REVELATIONS: Latin American Wisdom for Every Day," the Follmis once again have created an extraordinary compilation of images and ideas that I will learn from and delight in for the rest of my life. They've also provided another gift idea for the next round of birthdays or other occasions, as I so enjoy passing these books along to others.
I hope people in the media start giving these photographers the publicity they deserve. Maybe Oprah Winfrey will consider them for her book club, or other Amazon customers will review these treasures.
I don't have the words to do these books justice; but I feel like if they find their way to the classrooms, coffee tables and nightstands of more people, the world would be a more joyful, respectful and insightful place.

"REVELATIONS" has quotes from a variety of sources including Octavio Paz, Violeta Parra, Paulo Coelho, Pablo Neruda, the Popol Vuh, and various oral traditions. One of the quotes from Carlos Fuentes is "If we do not recognize our humanity in others, we shall not recognize it in ourselves." That's what "REVELATIONS" and the Follmi's other books do so masterfully - they help us to recognize our common humanity, and to remember the holy parts of our nature.
I can't imagine a greater gift we can share with each other.

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A cradle of Nobel Prize winners and a font of ancient wisdom, Latin America provides a wealth of sublime source material for the husband-and-wife creative team of Danielle and Olivier Föllmi. In the latest installment in their Offerings for Humanity series, the authors draw nuggets of written wisdom from the Andean plains to the Mexican desert. Set against the stunning visual backdrop of 365 photographs, taken all across the continent by Olivier, these quotations come from both world-renowned Latin American writers (including Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, and Carlos Fuentes) and traditional Indian spiritual teachings, demonstrating the subtle interweaving of ancestral belief and contemporary thought in one of the world’s most intellectually fertile regions.

Like their previous explorations of Buddhist, Indian, and African wisdom, this new volume will surprise, enlighten, and nourish the soul.

365 Days in Spain Calendar 2009 (Picture-A-Day Wall Calendars)

Penelope Casas

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Calendar of Spain 5 out of 5 stars.
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Having lived in Spain, I fell in love with this calendar the first year I saw it and I have now used it for several years. The photography is exceptional and the calendar itself very useful. The spaces are large and the finish has permitted the use of a variety of pens/pencils.

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Spain is the second-most-visited tourist destination in the world—and little wonder. With its tapestry of cultures, cutting-edge spirit combined with a deep reverance for the past, España is dynamic and ever-surprising. Sunbathing on a dazzling white Baleares beach. Grapes ripe for harvest. Madrid's Parque del Buen Retiro. A pan of paella valenciana, Bilbao's Guggenheim, the castles of Castile, sheep grazing in a bucolic mountain meadow. Featuring hundreds of fabulous full-color photographs, and text by Penelope Casas, America's foremost writer on Spanish food and culture, 365 Days in Spain is a tribute to the land's vibrant soul.

Life: America the Beautiful: A Photographic Journey, Coast to Coast-and Beyond (Life (Life Books))

Editors of Life Magazine

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AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL - AMEN 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book was purchased for a friend who is in the early to mid stages of Alzheimers. He and his wife sit and look at the pictures and remember when they say the places photographed. It is an exercise for his brain and a delight for her to be able to share it with him.

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We are living in a land rich with beauty and wonders. "Life" is fortunate that these stunning settings have attracted many of the country's - indeed, the world's - most talented scenic photographers. From the awe- inspiring work of Ansel Adams to the jaw-dropping photography of Galen Rowell to the serene pastorals of Joel Meyerowitz and Michael Melford, this is art of a high order. And their subjects are incomparable: the Grand Canyon, Big Sur, Yosemite, Yellowstone, sublime Nantucket island, the San Francisco skyline, the Amish country of Pennsylvania and Ohio - 100 beautiful sites in all. In words and pictures, "Life" takes you there.As a special bonus, "America the Beautiful" includes a print of one of Ansel Adams' finest scenic photos, suitable for framing. This is a rich and beautiful book about a beautiful land.

Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa

Hans Silvester

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An unprecedented series of images showing the Omo people's imaginative body decoration and embellishments.

The scene of tribal conflicts and guerrilla incursions, Ethiopia's Omo Valley is also home to fascinating rites and traditions that have survived for thousands of years. The nomadic peoples who inhabit this valley share a gift for body painting and elaborate adornments borrowed from nature, and Hans Silvester has captured the results in a series of photographs made over the course of numerous trips.

In this region of East Africa, the rivers that run through the dry savannas are home to abundant flowers, papyrus, and wild fruit trees, and this luxuriance becomes an invitation to creativity and spectacle. Within hand's reach, a multitude of plants inspire fanciful and ephemeral self-decoration, and the Omo react spontaneously: a leaf, root, seed pod, or flower is quickly transformed into an accessory. As in the West one might don a hat, people create caps from tufts of grass. As one would knot a tie or scarf, they ornament themselves with banana leaves or a stem laden with flowers. These decorations are embellished with butterfly wings, buffalo horns, boar's teeth, colorful feathers, and the like, and are further enhanced by body painting with pigments made from powdered stone, plants, berries, and river mud.

Here is a priceless record of a unique and increasingly fragile way of life, one threatened by conflict, climate change, and tourism. 160 color illustrations.

Iceland: Land of the Sagas

Jon Krakauer, David Roberts

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"We raised our fists and cheered. . . . With the sagas in our heads, with Iceland at its wildest beneath our boots, it would not have been impossible to see Bárdr clumping along the summit ridge, prodding the glacier with his staff, ready to show us the way down."

Iceland is a pictorial classic on one of the last "undiscovered" countries in Europe--reissued for the first time in paperback.
        Iceland is often thought to be covered by ice, but in fact it is gloriously green. Lush meadows, wildflower fields, and miles of rich tundra cover a landscape of remarkable variety: deep lakes, bubbling hot springs, tumbling waterfalls, snow-capped mountains. It's also a landscape amazingly alive with massive lava flows and enormous glaciers. The human story of Iceland goes back more than eleven thousand years, and its heritage is told here in a treasury of riveting sagas of real-life heroes and all manner of supernatural beings.
        Both the land and the people of one of Europe's most gorgeous countries come to life in this colorful account of the authors' adventures as they walk, climb, and photograph their way through Iceland and connect to the bone-chilling sagas and the unfamiliar terrain. With breathtaking photographs from critically acclaimed writer and journalist Jon Krakauer, author of the international bestsellers Into Thin Air and Into the Wild, and a penetrating narrative from Outside contributing editor and travel writer David Roberts, Iceland splendidly captures the spirit of this enigmatic country.
        Circumnavigating Iceland in summer and winter, Krakauer and Roberts encounter tales of monks and Vikings, outlaws and adventurers, trolls and witches. While touring and photographing, they discover the myths and legends of Iceland's stirring history. Numerous other feats--including a hazardous winter climb to the summit of one of Iceland's tallest mountains--round out a fascinating introduction to this unique and beautiful land.