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While living in the red light district of Calcutta, documenting life in the brothels, New York-based photographer Zana Briski embarked on a project by which she gave cameras to the children of prostitutes and taught them photography, awakening within them hidden talent and creativity and giving them a means to transform their lives.
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Catherine Cookson collection volume 1
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English
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"On a summer afternoon in 1854, rag and bone lady Aggie Winkowski rescues 10-year old Millie Forester from the streets as the pretty child's unfortunate mother is hauled off to jail. Aggie fully expects to be rid of her amusing but talkative little charge by morning. But the child's tragic circumstances and vulnerability soften the old woman's heart, and the two develop a relationship that changes Aggie's life and shapes Millie's destiny"--Container....
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עברית
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Or, a pretty and popular Tel Aviv high school student, works nights at a neighborhood restaurant while taking her first tentative steps out of innocence and into first love. But her real full-time job is looking after her mother who has worked as a street prostitute for 20 years. The daughter must make a choice between taking care of her mother's bottomless needs or having an uncorrupted life of her own.
Language
English
Description
While living in thered light district of Calcutta, documenting life in the brothels, New York-based photographer Zana Briski embarked on a project by which she gave cameras to the children of prostitutes and taught them photography, awakening within them hidden talent and creativity and giving them a means to transform their lives.
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English
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Rebel without a cause (1955): The adolescent son of a well-to-do family gets into trouble with other kids and the police.
East of Eden (1955): A wayward Salinas Valley youth vies for the affection of his hardened father with his favored brother.
Cat on a hot tin roof (1958): A drama of the problems of a wealthy but decadent family in the South.
A streetcar named Desire (1951): Set in the steamy squalor of New Orleans, the story of a neurotic woman's...
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