When she was in her early sixties, Leni Riefenstahl began traveling frequently to the African continent, where she has worked on various film and photography projects over the last half century. Her favorite destination was in Sudan, where she lived with and photographed the Nuba tribes people, learning their language and becoming their friend. The Nuba were a loving and peaceful people, who welcomed Riefenstahl as one of their own. Her images of the Nuba, as well as of the Dinka, Shilluk, Masai...
After booking herself a 'pilgrim package' tour to Lourdes, France in order to document in and around the religious sites, Tomlinson captured visitors to the site, its encompassing landscape, and the ex-voto, or religious offering left behind by worshipers and visitors. Often taking the form of a handwritten note, cross or picture and placed anonymously and out of sight of passerby, pilgrims leave ex-votos as displays of devotion and gratitude. What began as an interest in discovering more about...
American Indians are said to have named the first photographers they encountered "the shadow catchers". This book presents a selection of the work of these photographers, ranging from the pioneering work of John Alvin Anderson, to the increasingly sophisticated and sympathetic work of the Pictorialists such as Edward S. Curtis. It also includes lesser-known photographers, such as Sumner W. Matteson, George Wharton James and the Gerhard sisters. The authors have included many previously unpublish...
As an author, poet, actress, director, and civic leader, Maya Angelou has had a profound influence on the lives of millions around the world. One of those whose lives she touched, photographer Margaret Courtney-Clarke, offers a tribute in these pages - moving and revealing portraits of her friend. Taken over the course of a year, at bookstore signings, on stage, and at home,, Courtney-Clarke's photographs both celebrate and illuminate one of the great figures of our time. Supporting the visual s...
"In a film career spanning more than five decades, Frank Sinatra proved to be a roulette wheel of constantly spinning talent, the likes of which Hollywood has rarely seen. Film history is filled with stars created by the studio system. Occasionally, however, a performer emerged who, against all preconceived odds of what a star should be or look like, knocked down the walls of convention by becoming nothing other than what they already were. Frank Sinatra was the embodiment of this fundamental tr...
