[PDF] The Picture Collection eBook

Author : Joshua Chuang
Publisher : Cahiers D'Art
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,86 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Cataloging of pictures
ISBN : 9782851173140

GET BOOK

Taryn Simon?s 'The Color of a Flea?s Eye' presents a history of the New York Public Library?s Picture Collection?a legendary trove of more than one million prints, photographs, postcards, posters and images from disused books and periodicals. Since its inception in 1915, the Picture Collection has been a vital resource for writers, historians, artists, filmmakers, fashion designers and advertising agencies.0In her work 'The Picture Collection' (2012-20), Simon (born 1975) highlighted the impulse to organize visual information, and pointed to the invisible hands behind seemingly neutral systems of image gathering. Each of Simon?s photographs is made up of an array of images selected from a given subject folder, such as Chiaroscuro, Handshaking, Haircombing, Express Highways, Financial Panics, Israel, and Beards and Mustaches. In artfully overlapped compositions, only slices of the individual images are visible, each fragment suggesting its whole. Simon sees this extensive archive of images as the precursor to internet search engines. Such an unlikely futurity in the past is at the core of the Picture Collection. The digital is foreshadowed in the analogue, at the same time that history?its classifications, its contents?seems the stuff of projection.

Author : Various
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 2002-10-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0060080949

GET BOOK

From early, beloved classics such as Goodnight Moon and Harold and the Purple Crayon to such recent treasures as If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and Pete's a Pizza, this collection assembles twelve of the greatest picture books ever published. Parents can share the joy of introducing young children to many timeless favorites that have already enchanted millions of readers. This volume offers a wonder-filled opportunity for preschoolers and families to own and share "the best of the best." All royalties for HarperCollins Treasury of Picture Book Classics: A Child's First Collection will be donated to First Book, a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to give children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their own new books. The primary goal of First Book is to work with existing literacy programs to distribute new books to children who, for economic reasons, have little or no access to books. In this way, First Book effectively leverages the heroic efforts of local tutoring, mentoring, and family literacy organizations as they work to reach children who need help the most. First Book distributes millions of books to hundreds of thousands of children nationwide each year. For more information on First Book, please visit www.firstbook.org.

Author : Anthony T Troncale
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 24,4 MB
Release : 2020-12-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781734640908

GET BOOK

Words on Pictures presents previously unpublished writings and interviews by Romana Javitz (1903-1980), revealing her remarkable understanding of the social impact of print and film media, especially photography and cinema.

Author : Jason Fulford
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,43 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Artists' books
ISBN : 9789081058469

GET BOOK

This publication reissues a beloved photobook classic--acknowledged as such by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger in the third volume of The Photobook: A History--that has been out of print since the hardcover edition was published in 2010. As photographer Jason Fulford (born 1973) recently learned firsthand, mushrooms have a way of growing and spreading wherever they touch ground. It all started when a friend of Fulford's gave him a box, found at a flea market, full of photos of mushrooms--unassuming pictures taken by an unknown but almost certainly amateur photographer, apparently as notes for some mycological studies. Fulford's art photographs (aside from his well-known book Dancing Pictures, which depicted people getting down to their favorite songs) are usually of staid, quasi-mute objects: a smashed Dorito chip overrun with ants, two bronzed doorknobs spooning, the blank back of a street sign. Yet these mushroom images got stuck in Fulford's mind, like a bad song sometimes does, and they started to grow in his own work. The Mushroom Collector combines some of the original flea-market mushroom pictures with his own images and text by the artist about the project.

Author : Frank Slocum
Publisher : Warner Books (NY)
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 14,46 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Baseball cards
ISBN : 9780446513470

GET BOOK

A collection of baseball cards organized by year with player statistics and information on teams. Includes quizzes on the sport and the cards.