Author: Tal Ilan Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004511032 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 232
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Queen Berenice, a Jewish queen of the 1st century, witnessed the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, socialized most important people of her day - Philo the Philosopher, Paul the Apostle, Josephus the Historian and became Flavius Titus’ lover.
Author: Terri Weissman Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520266757 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 258
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The Realisms of Berenice Abbott provides the first in-depth consideration of the work of photographer Berenice Abbott. Though best known for her 1930s documentary images of New York City, this book examines a broad range of Abbott’s work—including portraits from the 1920s, little known and uncompleted projects from the 1930s, and experimental science photography from the 1950s. It argues that Abbott consistently relied on realism as the theoretical armature for her work, even as her understanding of that term changed over time and in relation to specific historical circumstances. But as Weissman demonstrates, Abbott’s unflinching commitment to “realist” aesthetics led her to develop a critical theory of documentary that recognizes the complexity of representation without excluding or obscuring a connection between art and engagement in the political public sphere. In telling Abbott’s story, The Realisms of Berenice Abbott reveals insights into the politics and social context of documentary production and presents a thoughtful analysis of why documentary remains a compelling artistic strategy today.
Author: Daniel Canals Flores Publisher: Babelcube Inc. ISBN: 1071537482 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 115
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Deferred Divorce II Berenice's dream is part of the Deferred Divorce saga. This book can be read independently from the rest of the books. Do you want to meet the Maltons? Who is that woman with unforgettable blue eyes? Will Good triumph over Evil? Get ready to enter a unique and special world. A special mother in search of her daughter and a cursed family will cross their destinies because of...
Author: Julia Van Haaften Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393292797 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 959
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The comprehensive biography of the iconic twentieth-century American photographer Berenice Abbott, a trailblazing documentary modernist, author, and inventor. Berenice Abbott is to American photography as Georgia O’Keeffe is to painting or Willa Cather to letters. She was a photographer of astounding innovation and artistry, a pioneer in both her personal and professional life. Abbott’s sixty-year career established her not only as a master of American photography, but also as a teacher, writer, archivist, and inventor. Famously reticent in public, Abbott’s fascinating life has long remained a mystery—until now. In Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography, author, archivist, and curator Julia Van Haaften brings this iconic public figure to life alongside outlandish, familiar characters from artist Man Ray to cybernetics founder Norbert Wiener. A teenage rebel from Ohio, Abbott escaped first to Greenwich Village and then to Paris—photographing, in Sylvia Beach’s words, "everyone who was anyone." As the Roaring Twenties ended, Abbott returned to New York, where she soon fell in love with art critic Elizabeth McCausland, with whom she would spend thirty years. In the 1930s, Abbott began her best-known work, Changing New York, in which she fearlessly documented the city’s metamorphosis. When warned by an older male supervisor that "nice girls" avoid the Bowery—then Manhattan’s skid row—Abbott shot back, "I’m not a nice girl. I’m a photographer…I go anywhere." This bold, feminist attitude would characterize all Abbott’s accomplishments, including imaging techniques she invented in her influential, space race–era science photography and her tenure as The New School’s first photography teacher. With more than ninety stunning photos, this sweeping, cinematic biography secures Berenice Abbott’s place in the histories of photography and modern art, while framing her incredible accomplishments as a female artist and entrepreneur.
Author: Berenice Abbott Publisher: ISBN: Category : Art and science Languages : en Pages : 186
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Berenice Abbott was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white photography of New York City architecture and urban design of the 1930s. Abbott's style of straight photography helped her make important contributions to scientific photography, as shown in this book.
Author: George Sullivan Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780618440269 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 188
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A biography of Berenice Abbott, who was a pioneer in the field of professional photography and is particularly acclaimed for her photographs of the streets and buildings of New York City before they were replaced by skyscrapers during a building boom in the 1920s and early 1930s.
Author: James B. Twitchell Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 9780822307891 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 236
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In his Preface to The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature, James Twitchell writes that he is not interested in the current generation of vampires, which he finds "rude, boring and hopelessly adolescent. However, they have not always been this way. In fact, a century ago they were often quite sophisticated, used by artists varied as Blake, Poe, Coleridge, the Brontes, Shelley, and Keats, to explain aspects of interpersonal relations. However vulgar the vampire has since become, it is important to remember that along with the Frankenstein monster, the vampire is one of the major mythic figures bequeathed to us by the English Romantics. Simply in terms of cultural influence and currency, the vampire is far more important than any other nineteenth-century archetypes; in fact, he is probably the most enduring and prolific mythic figure we have. This book traces the vampire out of folklore into serious art until he stabilizes early in this century into the character we all too easily recognize.
Author: Marjorie Lightman Publisher: Infobase Publishing ISBN: 1438107943 Category : Electronic books Languages : en Pages : 433
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Presents a biographical dictionary profiling more than 500 important ancient Greek and Roman women, including when and where they lived, and notable accomplishments.
Author: George Saoulidis Publisher: Mythography Studios ISBN: 8829538035 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 14
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Berenice only wanted one thing: to become a famous model for her magnificent hair. Will she sacrifice her health, her dignity and her only friend to do it? For more tidbits and stories like this one, visit https://cyberpinktournament.com
Author: Douglas Levere Publisher: ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 200
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In 1935 the renowned photographer Berenice Abbott set out on a five-year, WPA-funded project to document New York's transformation from a nineteenth-century city into a modern metropolis of towering skyscrapers. The result was the landmark publication Changing New York, a milestone in the history of photography that stands as an indispensable record of the Depression-era city. More than sixty years later, New York is an even denser city of steel-and-glass and restless energy. Guided by Abbott's voice and vision, New York photographer Douglas Levere has revisited the sites of 100 of Abbott's photographs, meticulously duplicating her compositions with exacting detail; each shot is taken at the same time of day, at the same time of year, and with the same type of camera. New York Changing pairs Levere's and Abbott's images, resulting in a remarkable commentary on the evolution of a metropolis known for constantly reinventing itself.
Author: Tal Ilan
Author: Terri Weissman
Author: Daniel Canals Flores
Author: Julia Van Haaften
Author: Berenice Abbott
Author: George Sullivan
Author: James B. Twitchell
Author: Marjorie Lightman
Author: George Saoulidis
Author: Douglas Levere