Photo Essays

The Blue and Gray in Black and White: A History of Civil War Photography

The first complete narrative history of Civil War photography, this work brings together the remarkable experiences of M.B. Brady, Alexander Gardner, George S. Cook, and other photographers, many of whom had careers stretching back more than two decades to the dawn of American photography in 1839. Step by step throughout the war, American photographers, North and South, advanced their craft to new heights, acting independently, but seemingly as if part of one great team, moved to act by a spirit in their feet. With their wet plate cameras, they produced many firsts, including the first combat action photographs, the first photo essays of news events as they happened, and the first photos deemed so controversial that they were censored by the federal government. Zeller also examines the impact of photography on average Americans.

Wired: Musicians' Home Studios

Advances in recording technology have changed the rules of the road, putting musicians in the driver's seat. Wired peers into the personalities of artists/producers with profiles, photo essays and comprehensive descriptions of their home studios. Stark conceptual photography will reflect the personas of artists such as No Doubt, Sonic Youth, Snoop Dogg, Korn, and more as they are connected to their home studios and surroundings. By bringing profiles, images, and technical data together in one package, both fans and mainstream producers will find themselves interested in a visually stunning and educational book.

My Pet Fish

The All About Pets books are much more than pet-care handbooks. This series of photo essays explores relationships between children and their pets. With first-person narrative and full-color photographs on every page, each book tells the story of a child and his or her pet from the child's point of view Sidebars take readers deeper into the specifics of pet care.

Rebuild: Kosovo 6 Years Later

Rebuild is a collection of photo essays and articles by students who participated in a journalism workshop in Kosovo. With guidance by Associated Press Special Correspondent Mort Rosenblum and Gary Knight, a renowned photojournalist from VII Photo Agency and author of Evidence: The Case Against Milosevic (de.MO), students documented various issues facing a country coping with the repercussions of war. From photo essays on orphans enjoying themselves at a summer camp and religious cooperation between Albanian Muslims and Orthodox Serbs, to reportage on fashion designers and Gypsy minorities, Rebuild explores facets of Kosovo that have gone unexamined six years after the war.

A Diary of Indignities

Diary of Indignities first foisted itself on an unsuspecting public as a popular blog. Now, complete with humiliating full-color photo essays, the author guides readers past good taste, sense, and even logic into that magical, mayhem-ridden world known as his life.

Remodeling a Basement: Taunton's Build Like a Pro: Expert Advice from Start to Finish

Finishing a basement is one of the fastest and most cost-effective ways to increase living space in a home. This book helps readers visualize the vast possibilities that exist for this challenging space, and go about the remodeling process in an organized and efficient way. Includes step-by-step photo essays.

No Man's Land

This is photographer and journalist Larry Towell's documentary account of the Palestinians. It reveals the landscape of a scarred and battered no man's land -neither fully Palestinian nor Israeli-and the daily life of the people who live there. Photographed over 10 years and completed with the support of the prestigious Henri Cartier-Bresson Award (with Towell its first recipient, in 2003), this is Towell's most important body of work to date and a landmark of photographic art and journalism. Towell describes the physical and psychological walls that divide Palestinians from Israelis and a land divided against itself in black and white photographs-many of them epic panoramas-that are simultaneously sad, haunting, breathtaking and beautiful. Larry Towell lives in rural Ontario, Canada, where he was born in 1953. He studied visual arts at York University in Toronto before beginning to use photography while working as a volunteer in Calcutta in 1976. Concentrating on long, intimate photo essays that combine historical and social concerns with sublime visual poetry, his series on El Salvador, the Mennonites and his own family are widely regarded as the best of contemporary photojournalism. His work on the Palestinians is his fourth major body of work. Towell has exhibited widely throughout the world, and his honors are a roll call of the world's leading photography awards, including World Press Photo of the Year, the POY Picture of the Year, the W. Eugene Smith Award, the Oskar Barnak, the Roloff Beny and the Eisie Award. His photographs have been published in books and magazines throughout the world, and he is a member of Magnum Photos.

Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing

Completely revised, this student-friendly, succinct yet thorough text focuses on what''s most important in psychiatric-mental health nursing, from core concepts to nursing care for specific disorders. This edition has brand-new chapters on evidence-based practice, the multidisciplinary team, family therapies, and sleep disorders, plus new information on psychopharmacology, childhood autism, and mental retardation. New features include multidisciplinary care photo essays, Challenging Behavior boxes, NIC/NOC boxes, and critical thinking questions. The improved art program features more photography and illustrations of neuroscience and psychopharmacology concepts. A front-of-book CD-ROM contains study guides, movie viewing guides, psychiatric drug information, and Clinical Simulations. Ancillaries include an Instructor''s Resource CD-ROM and Test Generator.

Things as They Are: Photojournalism in Context Since 1955

This paperback edition of the bestselling and award-winning survey, Things as They Are presents the story of photojournalism over 50 years, from 1955 until today. It takes us from the golden era of the illustrated press--the heyday of Life and Picture Post magazines and the moment of The Museum of Modern Art's defining Family of Man exhibition--to the explosion of digital media in the twenty-first century. This history is told through the presentation of 125 photojournalistic features shot and published around the world. The stories are presented in context--reproduced from the pages of the newspapers and magazines where they originally appeared, as their contemporary public would have experienced them. In this way, Things as They Are reveals how the events of the world, the fine art of photography, and the interests of publishers and the press converged on the printed page. It traces how photojournalism has developed over time alongside changing technology, media, fashions in photography--and a changing world. Includes landmark photo-essays by W. Eugene Smith, Sebastiao Salgado, Mary Ellen Mark and James Nachtwey, among others, each accompanied by expert commentary.

Gordon Parks: Bare Witness

Novelist, memoirist, poet, film director, choreographer, and musician, Gordon Parks (1912-2006) was renowned as a man of many talents. He is best known as a photographer, a career he took up in the 1930s. Starting with fashion and portraiture, he honed his skill and his passion for documenting social ills working for the New Deal's Farm Security Administration. During World War II he became the first black photographer employed by the War Office of Information. After the war, he became Life magazine's first black staff photographer and established an international reputation publishing images and photo-essays that helped transform and liberalize American society by informing Americans about the plight of the urban poor. Maren Stange, an authority on documentary photography, provides an introduction to his work, surveying his career and analyzing the distinguished qualities of his compelling images. This catalog accompanies the traveling exhibition organized by the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University.