HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: FORT LAUDERDALE AND THE POSTWAR TOURISM BOOM. During the postwar decades, Fort Lauderdale developed a distinctive identity around its waterways, recreational boating, residential canals, and expanding tourist accommodations. The photographs capture several elements of this transformation, from Bahia Mar and the New River waterfront to residential developments along.....

San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1963. Photographs By Ansel Adams. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. This 1963 guide pairs vivid descriptions with Ansel Adams' famous black-and-white photographs to capture Yosemite’s stunning landscapes and ecological importance. With a practical layout that includes maps and location insights, the book serves as both a navigational.....

Durham: Duke University Press, 1989. By 1989, Helen Levitt was no longer a 'rediscovered' artist but an acknowledged master. This Duke University Press edition marks the moment her work transitioned from the world of fine-press rarities (like the 1981 Horizon edition) into the academic canon.Published in association with the Center.....

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE — PHOTOGRAPHY AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. The early 1900s marked a significant period in photographic history, bridging the era of professional studio photography and the coming expansion of amateur photography. Companies such as Andrew J. Lloyd & Company supplied the equipment and materials that allowed photographers.....

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE — DOCUMENTING THE HUMAN LANDSCAPE OF WAR.Beyond the Trenches — Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times.Unlike official military photography, vernacular photographs frequently preserve the ordinary realities of wartime life that formal documentation overlooked. These images record civilian labor, occupation, architecture, clothing, and local conditions in northern France while providing.....

Highlands North Carolina: Nantahala Foundation/Jonathan Williams, 1964. Limited Edition. Spiral-bound (Wire-O) pictorial stiff wrappers. Historical Significant --This volume is a high point of 1960s independent publishing and a landmark in American landscape photography. Art Sinsabaugh (1924–1983) re-imagined the 'Banquet Camera'—historically used for photographing large groups of people at dinners—to capture.....

Rio, Brazil: Engral, 1981. Photography by Ismael Nery. Near Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Brazilian art / Brazilian painting by the great historian Antonio Bento, one of the greatest scholars on the art of Ismael Nery.

USA: Easton Press / Simon and Schuster, 2009. A Fine Hardcover.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE —By the 1980s, concerns regarding environmental preservation and sustainable development had become increasingly important throughout Hawai'i. Cooke's photographs document landscapes that remain central to the island's ecological identity while providing a visual record of Moloka'i during a period of growing interest in conservation and cultural stewardship.Richard A. 'Rikki'.....

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE — GREAT BLACK MUSIC: ANCIENT TO THE FUTURE THE ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO AND THE AACM. Roscoe Mitchell helped shape the experimental jazz movement that emerged from Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) during the 1960s. As a founding member of the Art Ensemble of.....

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE — A NEW RHYTHMIC LANGUAGE FOR JAZZ FROM BRAZIL TO THE AMERICAN JAZZ STAGE. Airto Moreira became one of the leading percussionists of the jazz-fusion era, bringing Brazilian rhythms, unusual percussion instruments, and an adventurous improvisational style to American jazz. His collaborations with Miles Davis, Weather Report, and.....

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1905. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: DIALECT LITERATURE AND THE REPRESENTATION OF BLACK SOUTHERN LIFE. 'Banjo Talks' belongs to the popular tradition of American dialect literature that flourished around the turn of the twentieth century, particularly in the years following the success of Paul Laurence Dunbar and other writers.....

Canada: Firefly Books Ltd, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine Soft cover. 147 images of the child in photography, is a comprehensive examination in image and text, of the total world of the child as seen by the finest photographers of the past century and a half.