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In this dazzling book of visual wonders, National Geographic reveals a world very few will have the chance to see for themselves. Shot by some of the world's finest photographers, Rarely Seen features striking images of places, events, natural phenomena, and manmade heirlooms seldom seen by human eyes. It's all here: 30,000-year-old cave art sealed from the public; animals that are among the last of their species on Earth; volcanic lightning; giant...
8) Paul Strand
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"Paul Strand (born in New York, 1890; died in Orgeval, France, 1976) is one of photography's great modernist masters. Alongside Edward Weston and Alfred Stieglitz, he pushed the artistic potential of the medium to new heights. Strand's long career began as a student of Lewis Hine, and by 1917, he was already recognized as an important artist; the last issue of Stieglitz's Camera Work magazine was entirely devoted to his photographs, including many...
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"Academy Award-wining filmmaker Errol Morris investigates the hidden truths behind a series of documentary photographs. In Believing Is Seeing Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris turns his eye to the nature of truth in photography. In his inimitable style, Morris untangles the mysteries behind an eclectic range of documentary photographs, from the ambrotype of three children found clasped in the hands of an unknown soldier at Gettysburg to...
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"Edward Curtis was dashing, charismatic, a passionate mountaineer, a famous photographer, the Annie Liebowitz of his time. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his great idea: He would try to capture on film the Native American nation before it disappeared. At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, this book tells the untold story behind Curtis's iconic photographs, following...