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"What the eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity." -- Berenice Abbott
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May is National Photography Month
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Berenice Abbott : a Life in Photography
by Julia Van Haaften
A portrait of the iconic 20th-century American photographer, documentary modernist, author and inventor traces her rebellious coming-of-age in Ohio, early artistic ventures in Paris and long-term relationship with critic Elizabeth McCausland, offering particular coverage of Abbott's 1930s "Changing New York" series and her documentation of the 1950s space race.
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Humans of New York : Stories
by Brandon Stanton
A follow-up to the best-selling Humans of New York shares the frank and intimate human stories of some of the individuals depicted in the author's acclaimed photographic census.
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Hold Still : a Memoir with Photographs
by Sally Mann
A renowned photographer tells her family's history in photos and words, after sorting through a box of old papers that revealed scandals, alcohol and domestic abuse, affairs, family land ownership, large amounts of money earned and lost and racial complications.
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Instant : the Story of Polaroid
by Christopher Bonanos
""Instant photography at the push of a button!" During the 1960s and '70s, Polaroid was the coolest technology company on earth. Like Apple, it was an innovation machine that cranked out one must-have product after another. Led by its own visionary genius founder, Edwin Land, Polaroid grew from a 1937 garage start-up into a billion-dollar pop-culture phenomenon. Instant tells the remarkable tale of Land's one-of-a-kind invention-from Polaroid's first instant camera to hit the market in 1948, to its meteoric rise in popularity and adoption by artists such as Ansel Adams, Andy Warhol, and Chuck Close, to the company's dramatic decline into bankruptcy in the late '90s and its unlikely resurrection in the digital age. Instant is both an inspiring tale of American ingenuity and a cautionary business tale about the perils of companies that lose their creative edge."
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The Tao of Photography : Seeing Beyond Seeing
by Philippe L. Gross
This provocative, visually stunning volume draws upon Taoist teachings to explore the creative and spiritual dimensions of the art of photography. Excerpts from the Taoist classic the Chuang-tzu and the writings of Western aesthetes are complemented by over 60 photographs from the work of such canonical photographers as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alfred Stieglitz, and Dorothea Lange. Lucid instructional text and enlightening exercises assure that photographers of all levels will be able to incorporate the lessons of the Tao into their own work.
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Fashion Climbing
by Bill Cunningham
The iconic New York Times photographer and creative force behind the columns "On the Street" and "Evening Hours" presents a sophisticated, visual account of his early education in New York City's high-fashion circles.
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May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
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The Wangs vs. the World
by Jade Chang
A wealthy but fractured Chinese family loses everything in the financial crisis before embarking on a haphazard but ultimately redemptive journey across America as part of an effort to reclaim ancestral lands in China.
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The Valley of Amazement
by Amy Tan
Violet Minturn, a half-Chinese/half-American courtesan who deals in seduction and illusion in Shanghai, struggles to find her place in the world, while her mother, Lucia, tries to make sense of the choices she has made and the men who have shaped her.
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A Little Life : a Novel
by Hanya Yanagihara
Moving to New York to pursue creative ambitions, four former classmates share decades marked by love, loss, addiction and haunting elements from a brutal childhood. By the author of The People in the Trees.
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The World We Found : a Novel
by Thrity N. Umrigar
The author of The Space Between Us describes four friends who met as university students in Bombay in the late 1970s as they struggle to reconnect and reunite at the deathbed of one of their group.
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Everything I Never Told You
by Celeste Ng
A story of the divisions between cultures and the rifts within a family explores the fallout of the drowning death of Lydia Lee, the favorite daughter of a Chinese-American family in 1970s Ohio.
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