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Countless mothers of brides and grooms have asked Peggy Post for a wedding planner just for them. Here it is! Whether you're helping a little or a lot, or-like most moms-are serving as combination coach, diplomat, and troubleshooter, this planner is packed with useful ideas, including:
• Planning lists especially for moms
• Questions to ask before hiring wedding professionals
• Times when a mother's tactful advice is most helpful
• A Resources...
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An area of natural beauty comprised of undulating river valleys, waterfalls, dense woodland and mountain summits, the Brecon Beacons National Park covers some 520 square miles of South and Mid Wales and includes parts of Powys, Carmarthenshire, Monmouthshire, Rhondda and Merthyr Tydfil. In this collection of landscape images Nick Jenkins showcases the remote yet accessible attraction of this ever-popular visitor location.
3) Every Bend
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In Every Bend, Gail Butensky's photography from a variety of colorful venues is on display, as are intimate photos the artist shot outside of the music scene that she has documented for decades. This collection of photographs sequenced by Butensky to resemble a road trip with diary entries for each encampment that is presented here. A fascinating journey and a feast for the eyes.
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"Mensajes al poblador rural. Más de setenta años en el aire de la Patagonia" es sin duda el mejor ensayo fotográfico que he visto en mucho tiempo. Una idea original, una edición impecable y una construcción del mensaje sin igual. Sólo alguien paciente y observador como Jorge puede encontrar y conjugar estas dos piezas clave para construir el relato. Por un lado, los mensajes de cientos de pobladores patagónicos que, aislados de todo, se conectan...
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Wave watchers around the world know that no two waves are the same. Yet each and every wave that rises, peaks, and crashes onto the beach is generated by a much larger force originating thousands of miles away. Surf journalist team Evan Slater and Peter Taras capture the essence of waves and the swells that produce them in this breathtaking collection of wave photography.
Slater characterizes four distinct swells from different corners of the globe...
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Traveling in Wonder is not your typical travel journal turned book-it's not even a travel guide. Instead, Traveling in Wonder: A Travel Photographer's Tales of Wanderlust reads like a letter from Autumn to the many countries she's visited, first as a student traveling abroad, then as a flight attendant, a travel agent, and more recently, a travel photographer.
With a gift for storytelling, Autumn invites the reader into what she was experiencing...
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Esta obra de la artista argentina Matilde Marín lleva a los lectores, a través de las imágenes de los faros, a transitar espacios y recuperar distintos tiempos. Marín en las fotografías ha registrado con sutileza los faros y sus luces, aguas, tierra y cielo. Quienes vean/lean el libro accederán a esos mundos, para conocerlos y explorarlos, en un viaje imaginario con diez estaciones.
Pharus. Del hemisferio Sur al Norte testimonia la materialidad...
10) Prairie Gothic
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George Webber's poignant black-and-white photographs transport us into the forgotten, unknowable communities of the Canadian prairies. Throughout the journey, we're confronted by the mysterious particulars of life, death, landscape and faith. Intimate portraits and the hard facts of the place are woven together to create a body of work that is by turns inspiring, consoling and sometimes achingly sad. Individually, these works startle and challenge....
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The renowned photographer reveals the stories behind his iconic images in this definitive collection of portraits and personal reflections.
Portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh captured some of the twentieth century's most influential personalities-from Winston Churchill to Muhammad Ali, Albert Einstein, Mother Theresa, and many others-in photographs that became as recognizable as their subjects. Karsh: Beyond the Camera presents a chronological overview...
12) Just Passing Through: A Seven-Decade Roman Holiday: The Diaries and Photographs of Milton Gendel
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A never-before-seen treasure trove of photos and diary entries from celebrated photographer Milton Gendel that bring Rome's midcentury heyday life.
“I'm just passing through,” Milton Gendel liked to say whenever anybody asked him what he was doing in Rome. Even after seven decades in the Eternal City, from his arrival as a Fulbright Scholar in 1949 until his death in 2018 at the age of ninety-nine, he refused to be pigeonholed. He was always...
13) Tulsa
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When it first appeared in 1971, Larry Clark's groundbreaking book Tulsa sparked immediate controversy across the nation. Its graphic depictions of sex, violence, and drug abuse in the youth culture of Oklahoma were acclaimed by critics for stripping bare the myth that Middle America had been immune to the social convulsions that rocked America in the 1960s. The raw, haunting images taken in 1963, 1968, and 1971 document a youth culture progressively...
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Witness to War presents a compelling visual record of a young American man's venture in Mexico as the country veered into revolution in the early 1900s. Walter Elias Hadsell, a skilled photographer who had recently graduated as a mining engineer, documented a critical period of foreign investment in Mexico's mining industry and, in the process, captured scenes of Mexican life in other cities.
Susan Toomey Frost draws from an extensive collection...
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Sammy Davis, Jr. will forever be remembered as one of America's finest entertainers. An all–around performer who could sing, dance, and act, Davis broke racial barriers in the entertainment world and became the only non–white member of the Rat Pack. Only now, however, is Davis's talent as a photographer finally being recognized. In this previously unpublished collection of black and white photography, readers will be fascinated by Davis's portrayals...
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This volume honors those who experienced the Vietnam War through striking portraits and personal accounts of the conflict and its repercussions.
This book offers a uniquely human perspective on the Vietnam War through portraits and stories of American veterans, southern Vietnamese veterans, and civilians. The surreal imagery of Thomas Sanders' photography encourages the viewer to take a closer look at those who experienced the war. These images...
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Explore the Black history of the San Francisco Bay Area through the work of the region's first Black professional photographer.
From 1927 until his death in 1979, Oakland's E.F. Joseph documented the daily lives of African Americans in the Bay Area. His images were printed in the Pittsburgh Courier and the Chicago Defender but not widely published in his home community. A graduate of the American School of Photography in Illinois, Joseph photographed...
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