Artists, Architects, Photographers
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Dorothea Lange: A Photographer’s Life
$24.95 Add to cartDorothea Lange’s depression-era photographs became mythic symbols in their time and are exhibited worldwide as standards of classic photography. In this first biography of Lange, Milton Meltzer docume… [more below]
- Author: Meltzer, Milton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: February 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0815606222
- Language: English
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Popism: The Warhol Sixties
$16.99 Add to cartAnecdotal, funny, frank, POPism is Warhol’s personal view of the Pop phenomenon in New York in the 1960s.
A cultural storm swept through the 1960s–Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies–… [more below]
- Author: Warhol, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 05 2006
- ISBN10: 0156031116
- Language: English
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The Last of His Kind: The Life and Adventures of Bradford Washburn, America’s Boldest Mountaineer
$19.99 Add to cart“Stunning and stirring.”
—Boston Globe
In The Last of His Kind, renowned adventure writer David Roberts gives readers a spellbinding history of mountain climbing in the twentieth century as told throu
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 15, 2010
- ISBN10: 0061560952
- Language: English
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The Witch’s Door: Oddities and Tales from the Esoteric to the Extreme
$30.00 Add to cartIn this spellbinding and entertaining memoir, Regina and Ryan Cohn, founders of Oddities Flea Market, take us on a fascinating and specially curated tour of their most macabre and mysterious objects, … [more below]
- Author: Cohn, Ryan Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1797229583
- Language: English
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Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger’s Life
$26.95 Add to cartThe gripping true story of a life-long forger working for the French Resistance and clandestine organizations, told to his daughter.
- Author: Kaminsky, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 0997003472
- Language: English
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Garth Williams, American Illustrator: A Life
$26.95 Read moreOpen the pages of so many children’s classics and get a glimpse into the life of Garth Williams, the artist that sparked the imagination of generations.
Stuart Little, Charlotte’s Web, The Rescuers, a- Author: Wallace, Elizabeth K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: June 13 2016
- ISBN10: 0825307953
- Language: English
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Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi
$28.00 Add to cartA master of what he called “the sculpturing of space,” Isamu Noguchi was a vital figure for modern public art. Born to an American mother and a Japanese father, Noguchi never felt like he belonged any
- Author: Herrera, Hayden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0374535981
- Language: English
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Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life
$20.99 Add to cartThe Addams Family is creepy and kooky, but wait till you see what their creator had in his apartment.
In Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life, meet the legendary cartoonist behind the altogether ooky A
- Author: Davis, Linda H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1684426898
- Language: English
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The Great Clivette
$53.27 Add to cartMerton Clivette once dominated the 1920s and 1930s art world. He ruled the Orpheum Circuit as a magician, shadowgraphist, mindreader, and acrobat. He performed in the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show. Cliv
- Author: MacBride, Michael David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: June 08 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987939314
- Language: English
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Scab Vendor: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist
$23.99 Add to cart– Huge Network of Influencers: Born as the son of jazz legend Artie Shaw and Hollywood actress Doris Dowling, author Jonathan Shaw has a rich matrix of connections, from Johnny Depp to Debbie Harry to… [more below]
- Series: Scab Vendor #1
- Author: Shaw, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 1681629151
- Language: English
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A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
$19.99 Add to cartIn a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Now I Sit Me Down, illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted’s role as a major cultural figure at the epi… [more below]
- Author: Rybczynski, Witold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0684865750
- Language: English
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Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall: Revised and Illustrated Edition
$30.00 Read moreIn this fully revised and richly illustrated edition, author and journalist Will Ellsworth-Jones pieces together a complete picture of the life and work of Banksy, perhaps the most iconic, enigmatic a… [more below]
- Author: Ellsworth-Jones, Will
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0711264325
- Language: English
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Giorgio de Chirico: Life and Paintings
$55.00 Read moreThis is the most comprehensive volume probing the life and work of the modern art icon Giorgio de Chirico.
Giorgio de Chirico was one of the most controversial and consequential artists of the twentie- Author: Benzi, Fabio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 555
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0847872386
- Language: English
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Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris
$30.00 Read moreIn freewheeling 1920s Paris, Kiki de Montparnasse captivated as a nightclub performer, sold out gallery showings of her paintings, starred in Surrealist films, and shared drinks and ideas with the lik
- Author: Braude, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1324006013
- Language: English
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Light on the Prairie: Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska’s Pioneer Days
$21.95 Add to cartOnce President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act of 1862, which granted 160 acres of free land to anyone with the grit to farm it for five years, the rush to the Great Plains was on. Solomon D. Butcher
- Author: Plain, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0803235208
- Language: English
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Hell on Color, Sweet on Song: Jacob Wrey Mould and the Artful Beauty of Central Park
$39.95 Add to cartWINNER, VICTORIAN SOCIETY IN AMERICA BOOK AWARD
Reveals new and previously unknown biographical material about an impor
WINNER, 2024 PUBLICATION PRIZE, FRIENDS OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE HISTORIC DISTRICTS- Author: Kowsky, Francis R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1531502571
- Language: English
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I Always Knew: A Memoir
$42.00 Add to cartThe extraordinary life story of the celebrated artist and writer, as told through four decades of intimate letters to her beloved mother
Barbara Chase-Riboud has led a remarkable life. After graduatin- Author: Chase-Riboud, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0691234272
- Language: English
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A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety
$18.00 Add to cartFormer poet laureate of the United States Donald Hall’s final collection of essays, from the vantage point of very old age, once again “alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny.”*
*(New York Time… [more below]- Author: Hall, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 0358056144
- Language: English
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Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard
$19.95 Add to cartRon Padgett remembers the life and times of his friend, the brilliant artist Joe Brainard.
- Author: Padgett, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1566891590
- Language: English
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Everyday Matters
$15.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Persepolis, In the Shadow of No Towers, and Our Cancer Year, an illustrated memoir of remarkable depth, power, and beauty Danny Gregory and his wife, Patti, hadn’t been married lon… [more below]
- Author: Gregory, Danny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 1401307957
- Language: English
