Photoshop: Old Photo Repair
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Golborne (Paperback) $18.49 This fascinating selection of 200 archive images, many previously unpublished, captures some of the changes and developments that have taken place in the former mining and textile town of Golborne during the last century. Each image is accompanied… |
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Those Who Save Us $10.07 Trudy and her mother escaped Nazi Germany with the help of an American soldier, who brought them to Minnesota. But Trudy knows there is more to the story. Once she is grown up, an old photograph impels her to begin an investigation into events tha… |
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Hallmark Entertainment Collector`s Set – 4 Films: Thicker Than Water / Angel In The Family / Ordinary Miracles / Fielder`s Choic $7.22 THICKER THAN WATER: This moving family drama stars Melissa Gilbert as Natalie Jones, a high-powered lawyer who stumbles onto an old photograph and decides to find out more about the life of her late father. Her investigation leads her first to a beauti… |
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Digital Restoration from Start to Finish (Paperback) $23.19 Digital Restoration: Start to Finish 2nd edition guides you step-by-step through the entire process of restoring old photographs and repairing new ones using Adobe Photoshop, Picture Window, and now Elements. Nothing is left out, from choosing the righ… |
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Photographs $44.69 The people in Mona Kuhn’s photographs are nude but not naked. Completely relaxed before the camera, they give the impression that nothing could clothe them better than their own skin. With a unique style, Kuhn’s intimate photographs of both young and old are sensual compositions of skin and wrinkles, light and shadow, gestures and gazes. She creates taughtly composed images and balance sharply rendered portraits against blurred backgrounds to lure the eye and provoke the imagination. |
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Old Photographs $3.94 Fourteen-year-old Phoebe Hecht is slowly making her way through the long boring days of summer vacation. It doesn’t help that her mom’s marriage to a wealthy heart surgeon means that they’ve left their old, comfortable lives behind–so much so that her mom now seems ashamed at the merest mention of their humble beginnings. Now they live in a fancy neighborhood where she doesn’t belong, and the only friend she made at her new school, Yuri Kimura, has gone back home to Tokyo for the summer. The only thing getting Pheobe through the summer is her obsession with Agatha Christie mysteries and her covert spying on Colin, her crush who works at the local grocery store. A chance meeting with a kind elderly neighbor named Mrs. Tomblin changes everything and brings all Phoebe’s interests together, as she and Colin try and solve the mystery of a break-in at Mrs. Tomblin’s house. Could Mrs. Tomblin’s collection of old photographs be at the centre of the puzzle? |
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Old Brooklyn in Early Photographs, 1865-1929 $15.91 157 photographs, many never before reprinted, show the vitality and variety of old Brooklyn, Manhattan’s first suburb: waterfront, Brooklyn Bridge, Fulton Street, Brooklyn Heights, Ebbets Field, Luna Park, Gravesend Race Track, Sheepshead Bay, Manhattan Beach Hotel, and more from the Long Island Historical Society collection. |
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Old New York in Early Photographs $18.73 New York City as it was 1853-1901, through 196 wonderful photographs: great blizzard, Lincoln’s funeral procession, great buildings, much more. |
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Poland in Old Photographs $80.5 No Synopsis Available |
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Around Derry in Old Photographs $24.41 No Synopsis Available |
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Islington; In Old Photographs $25.42 No Synopsis Available |
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Glasgow : In Old Photographs $25.42 No Synopsis Available |
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Warwickshire Railways in Old Photographs $30.52 No Synopsis Available |
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Liverpool in Old Photographs $25.42 No Synopsis Available |
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Bournemouth in Old Photographs $25.42 No Synopsis Available |
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Ely in Old Photographs $25.42 No Synopsis Available |
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Chorley in Old Photographs $25.42 No Synopsis Available |
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Blackpool : In Old Photographs $25.42 No Synopsis Available |
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Canterbury Cathedral In Old Photographs $25.42 No Synopsis Available |
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Loughborough in Old Photographs $25.42 No Synopsis Available |
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Cheshire Railways in Old Photographs $29.5 No Synopsis Available |
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The City of London in Old Photographs $25.42 No Synopsis Available |
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Lancaster & District in Old Photographs $20.78 No Synopsis Available |
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Venice in Old Photographs $34.99 This book is in Like New condition |
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Ireland in Old Photographs $5 This book is in Good Used condition |
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Fragile Dreams and Old Photographs $6.37 This book is in Good Used condition |
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Photographs and Memories $14.9 How many losses can Angela endure? When Angela finds out her alcoholic sister, Martha, is sponging off their aging parents in Florida and making herself a problem they are now far too old to deal with, Angela must persuade her husband to give up all they have in New York and move south to help out. Struggling with new jobs, a new climate and the impossible Martha, Angela and her husband, Kevin, find their nerves becoming more and more raw and their lives more and more strained. They never had to deal with anything like this in their peaceful life in New York. Suddenly and unexpectedly, Angela’s mother dies. Angela turns to her husband for support, but in the cruelest turn of fate, he too suddenly passes away. All alone, except for the helpless Martha, Angela must now gently coax her failing father into a nursing home. How does Angela cope? How will she fare when her need to act has passed and, alone, she must quietly face her losses? Photographs and Memories is a novel based on the author’s own experience with aging parents and with losing a parent and a husband. It is an emotional story and one that will ring true for anyone who has had similar losses in his or her life. |
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American Photographs $34.75 Walker Evans’ "American Photographs" is widely deemed the most important photobook ever published. Originally conceived to be a catalogue to accompany his one-man show at The Museum of Modern Art in 1938 (the first solo show MoMA had given to a photographer), it quickly became a document so definitive of its era that curator John Szarkowski wrote that "it was difficult to know now whether Walker Evans recorded the America of his youth, or invented it." The book opens with images that cite photography, immediately establishing a tension between medium and message, although it is certainly for the message that Evans has become famous: "American Photographs" points over and over again to the unhappy lot of the poor and the dispossessed in 1930s America. Lincoln Kirstein’s accompanying essay (famous in its own right) declares: "What poet has said as much? Only newspapers, the writers of popular music, the technicians of advertising and radio have, in their blind energy accidentally, fortuitously, evoked for future historians such a powerful monument to our moment. And Evans’ work has, in addition, intention, logic, continuity, climax, sense and perfection." "American Photographs" continues to go out of print for long stretches of time, and the first edition of Errata’s 2009 spread-by-spread reprint followed suit. This revised edition of that volume presents the original 1938 edition with its 87 legendary black-and-white photographs (reproduced in full-page rather than quarter-page spreads), the classic Kirstein essay and a contemporary essay by Evans scholar John T. Hill. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Walker Evans (1903-1975) took up photography in 1928. His book collaboration with James Agee, "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" (1941), which portrayed the lives of three white tenant families in southern Alabama during the Depression, has become one of that era’s most defining documents. Evans joined the staff of "Time" magazine in 1945, and shortly after moved to "Fortune," where he stayed until 1965. That year, he became a professor of photography at the Yale University School of Art. Evans died at his home in Old Lyme, Connecticut, in 1975. |
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Old Queens, N.Y., in Early Photographs: 261 Prints $7.63 Rich harvest of rare photographs recalls "good old days" in Maspeth, Jamaica, Astoria, Jackson Heights, other areas. Vintage views include DeWitt Clinton mansion, hotel where Washington slept (1790), plus recent landmarks — Astoria Studios, 1939 World’s Fair, more. Captions. 261 prints. |
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Tourists Taking Photographs, at the Dome of the Rock, Old City, Jerusalem, Israel $19.99 Eitan Simanor Tourists Taking Photographs, at the Dome of the Rock, Old City, Jerusalem, Israel – Photographic Print |
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Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs 1839-1914 $19.42 215 rare vintage views — from first daguerreotype made in America (1839) to eve of World War I — capture the charm of yesteryear: panoramas, street scenes, landmarks, President-elect Lincoln’s visit, 1876 Centennial Exposition, much more. |
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Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs $12.99 Through 150 striking color photographs, Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs charts the road to Barack Obama’s nomination as the first African American to lead the presidential ticket of a major party. Announcing his campaign in Springfield, Illinois, on February 10, 2007, Obama stood on the grounds of the Old State Capitol, where Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous "House Divided" speech against slavery in 1858. During an eighteen-month campaign, from the snows of Iowa to the hunt for Democratic "superdelegates," this junior senator from Chicago confounded the party establishment and rewrote the playbook on modern presidential campaigning. This amazing collection of photographs captures the public and private moments of his journey, and offers a unique window into one of the great triumphs in American politics. |
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Photographs of the Past: Process and Preservation $36.26 In recent years, interest in old photographs has grown significantly among a broad public, from collectors, conservators, and archivists to amateurs seeking to preserve precious family albums. Although the medium of photography is barely 150 years old, its relatively brief history has witnessed the birth of a wide range of photographic processes, each of which poses unique conservation challenges. Photographs of the Past: Processes and Preservation provides a comprehensive introduction to the practice of photograph preservation, bringing together more information on photographic processes than any other single source. Introductory chapters cover issues of terminology; the rest of the book is divided into three parts: positives, negatives, and conservation. Each chapter focuses on a single process–daguerreotypes, albumen negatives, black-and-white prints, and so on–providing an overview of its history and materials and tracing the evolution of its technology. This book will serve as an irreplaceable reference work for conservators, curators, collectors, dealers, conservation students, and photographers, as well as those in the general public seeking information on preserving this ubiquitous form of cultural heritage. |
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Lyonel Feininger: Photographs, 1928-1939 $32.34 Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was 58 years old when he took up photography. He had been a professor at the Bauhaus for almost a decade, and had enjoyed widespread success as a comic artist and painter. Ever open to new pursuits, and inspired by the works of his photographer sons Lux and Andreas and the experimental photography of his Dessau neighbor Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Feininger took up the camera in 1928 and began to explore a variety of avant-garde techniques. This painter of crystalline architectures and landscapes left a legacy of fascinating unsettling images of shop window mannequins and reflections, nocturnal photographs using double exposures and other works. This is the first publication devoted to this little-known body of work. Examining about 70 original prints, it also relates Feininger’s photography to the rest of his extensive oeuvre. |
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How to Draw from Photographs $8.95 Picture-perfect drawings are a snap with the help of How to Draw from Photographs from Walter Foster’s Artist’s Library Series! Photographs are valuable reference tools that many artists employ instead of tangible subjects when drawing involves variables such as weather, movement, and lighting. Complex subjects such as children and animals are also easier to draw from photos since they rarely sit still when you want them to, making it much easier to draw them from photographs. However, many beginning artists aren’t confident in their picture-taking abilities, or they don’t know how to translate their photos into drawings. That’s where this innovative book comes in. In no time, beginning artists can learn to draw animals, people, landscapes, and still lifes that look so real you can almost reach out and touch them. Diane Cardaci was classically trained at the Art Students League of New York City, Parsons School of Design, and the School of Visual Arts. Her work has been published by the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, as well as by major textbook companies such as Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. Cardaci was also the director of her own art school, the Academy of Classical Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, for four years. She lives in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and spends her summers in Umbria, located in central Italy, where she furthers her studies of the Old Masters. Author — Diane Cardaci. Paperback. 64 pages. 6½" × 9½" (16 cm × 24 cm). |
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Dallas Iconography: Photographs of Dallas $17.95 "Captures the special qualities of this sophisticated metropolis: twenty-first-century energy combined with spirited Texas tradition. The city has never looked more beautiful . . . a wonderful addition to a personal library or coffee table, the perfect gift for anyone interested in seeing Dallas through a master photographer’s lens." -Lea Lane, author, Solo Traveler: Tales and Tips for Great Trips From the gleaming facades of Fountain Place and the towering purple Plaza Tower to the always-intriguing Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas teems with unforgettable sights. Photographer Barry B. Doyle expertly captures the many sides of this city, making this elaborate guidebook an indispensable tome for Texans and tourists alike. Doyle divides the book into a series of "scapes," with each one devoted to a particular theme. He covers the architectural aspect of the city, including photographs of the Old Red Courthouse and Victory Plaza at American Airlines Center arena, which is home to the Dallas Mavericks and Dallas Stars. Doyle, exploring the art scene, features an image of the largest equestrian sculpture in the world, Mustangs of Las Colinas, located in Williams Square. The energy of the State Fair of Texas, vibrant flora from the Dallas Arboretum, and exotic animals from the Dallas Zoo are also included in this magnificent volume. Doyle provides a map to assist readers in locating each of the more than fifty mentioned sites. Notes, offering fun facts, and Web site links are resources for additional information. With stunning photographs, this tourist’s treasure is an exceptional way to discover the city of Dallas. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Photographer Barry B. Doyle is a former member of the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau Lone Star Customer Advisory Board. His community involvement and devotion to his family, earned him the honor of Volunteer of the Year, by the Dallas Independent School District in 2004. After earning a B.A. from Wheaton College in Illinois, Doyle moved to Dallas with his wife, where he enjoys cooking, blogging, and exploring the amenities of the city. |
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Red Cloud: Photographs of a Lakota Chief $51.34 In "Red Cloud: Photographs of a Lakota Chief, Red Cloud (1821-1909)," the famous Lakota leader, comes to life through a series of extraordinary photographs that trace his career in stunning detail. Arguably the most photographed Native American of the nineteenth century, Red Cloud posed before the camera some fifty times and appears in over one hundred photographs, rivaling the number taken of Abraham Lincoln. This is the first time that the majority of these photographs have been gathered together. These images reveal much about Red Cloud–from the height of his position as a tribal leader in the 1870s through his years as an effective and controversial statesman to his old age and death in the early twentieth century. Frank H. Goodyear III provides historical, biographical, and critical commentary that both illuminates the images and interrogates the motivations and attitudes of Red Cloud and his photographers. What does the succession of photographs reveal about the changing circumstances of Red Cloud’s life and those who photographed him? Why were photographers and the American public fascinated with the Lakota leader? Why did he choose to face the camera so many times? Goodyear provides a fully drawn portrait of the renowned Lakota leader and his relationships with outsiders, particularly those who continually attempted to capture his likeness with a camera. |
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World War II in Photographs $23.97 Features 900 comprehensively captioned images selected from a wide variety of sources. The images in this book depict not only the combatants and battlefields, the tanks and aircraft, war leaders and diplomats but the concentration camps and factories, the workers and refugees, the old people, women and children who were also targets on the ‘front line’. |
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Digital Restoration from Start to Finish: How to repair old and damaged photographs $32.89 Digital Restoration: Start to Finish 2nd edition guides you step-by-step through the entire process of restoring old photographs and repairing new ones using Adobe Photoshop Picture Window and now Elements. Nothing is left out from choosing the right hardware and software and getting the photographs into the computer to getting the finished photo out of the computer and preserving it for posterity. LEARN HOW TO: Scan faded and damaged prints or films Improve snapshots with Shadow/Highlight adjustment Correct uneven exposure Fix color and skin tones quickly with Curves plug-ins and Hue/Saturation adjustment layers Correct uneven exposure and do dodging and burning-in with adjustment layers Hand-tint your photographs easily Correct skin tones with airbrush layers Clean up dust and scratches speedily and effectively Repair small and large cracks with masks and filters Eliminate tarnish and silvered-out spots from a photograph in just a few steps Minimize unwanted print surface textures Erase mildew spots Eliminate dots from newspaper photographs Increase sharpness and fine detailand Maximize print quality * NEW Photoshop Elements included for those that don’t own Photoshop * NEW layout to make it easier for you to understand the step-by-steps * MORE solutions for you to solve the restoration problems you are facing |
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Old Washington, D.C. in Early Photographs, 1846-1932 $4.99 224 rare photos: Lincoln’s inauguration, Ford’s Theater in 1865, Frederick Douglass, Women’s Suffrage Parade, Georgetown in 1893, White House East Room in 1893 and more. Stunning views by Brady, Bishop, Peale, others. Pre-Civil War to modern era. |
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Genthe’s Photographs of San Francisco’s Old Chinatown $16.59 130 rare photos offer fascinating visual record of Chinatown before the great 1906 earthquake. Informative text traces history of Chinese in California. |
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Old Washington, D. C., in Early Photographs, 1846-1932 $11.21 This book is in New – Excellent condition |
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Digital Restoration from Start to Finish: How to Repair Old and Damaged Photographs $34.01 Digital Restoration: Start to Finish 2nd edition guides you step-by-step through the entire process of restoring old photographs and repairing new ones using Adobe Photoshop, plug-ins, Picture Window, and now Elements. Nothing is left out, from choosing the right hardware and software and getting the photographs into the computer, to getting the finished photo out of the computer and preserving it for posterity. With this book you will learn how to: *scan faded and damaged prints and films * improve snapshots with the Shadow/Highlight adjustment * correct uneven exposure and do dodging and burning-in with Curves adjustment layers * scan and recover nearly blank photograph * fix color with Curves and Hue/Saturation adjustment layers * fix skin tones with airbrush layers * hand-tint a photograph easily with masked layers * fix color with plug-ins * clean up dust and scratches * repair small and large cracks with masks and filter * eliminate tarnish and silvered-out spots from a photograph * minimize unwanted print surface textures * erase mildew spots * eliminate the dots from newspaper photographs * increase sharpness and fine detail in a photograph * NEW Photoshop Elements included for those that don’t own Photoshop * NEW layout to make it easier for you to understand the step-by-steps * MORE solutions for you to solve the restoration problems you are facing |
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Assignment: Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution $43.94 Shipping out to China in December 1947 with three ten-year-old German cameras and a plum assignment from "Life "magazine, Jack Birns was fulfilling a boyhood dream. The reality was something else: refugees and prostitutes, soldiers and beggars, street executions and urban protests photographed in difficult and often dangerous circumstances amidst the poverty, corruption, and chaos of an expanding civil war. By then the ruling Nationalist Party had been battling the Communist threat for more than two decades, and Birns focused his camera on the human drama unfolding as war pressed ever closer to the country’s financial, cultural, and commercial capital. His effort to show China’s misery up close ran afoul of Time-Life publisher Henry R. Luce’s fervent anti-communism, and for half a century many of these historic photographs lay unpublished in Time-Life’"s "archives. Printed here for the first time, they offer a graphic vision of a great city, Shanghai, poised on the precipice of political revolution. Seen through the lens of hindsight, Birns’s photographs give us a sense not only of what China was like more than fifty years ago, but also of why the warfare, weariness, and desperation of the time proved such fertile soil for communist revolution. Today these everyday scenes of ordinary people–pedicab drivers, street vendors, bar girls, police, politicians, prisoners–tell a story of national resilience and dignity in the midst of enveloping poverty, repression, and fear. Birns’s stark black and white photographs capture the dramatic end of an era, but they also look forward, letting us glimpse how Shanghai’s past prefigures the city’s commercial and cultural revival in the 1990s. |
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Timeless Mexico: The Photographs of Hugo Brehme $49.02 Hugo Brehme created an idyllic vision of Mexico that influenced photography, film, and literature for a hundred years. His beautifully composed, timeless images of lo mexicano–cacti and pyramids, Indian children and marketplaces, colonial buildings and snow-capped volcanoes and peaks–were widely distributed and acclaimed both in Mexico and internationally. Noted critic Olivier Debroise characterized Brehme as "both the first modern photographer of Mexico and the last representative of its old guard and of a certain nineteenth-century vision." Working in Mexico from 1905 until his death in 1954, he was an early mentor to Mexico’s most famous photographer, Manuel alvarez Bravo, and a significant influence on Golden Age filmmakers Gabriel Figueroa and Emilio "El Indio" Fernandez. Brehme-esque imagery even appears in the work of American filmmaker John Ford and Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.Timeless Mexico presents an outstanding selection of Hugo Brehme’s photographs, ranging from imagery of the Mexican Revolution to scenic landscapes, colonial architecture, and the everyday life of indigenous peoples. Susan Toomey Frost, who has collected Brehme’s photography for many years, provides an illuminating introduction to his life and work. She also describes his practice of printing and distributing his photographs as collectible postcards–a practice that, together with publication in countless books, magazines, and tourist brochures, gave Brehme’s work the wide circulation that made his images of Mexico iconic. Art historian Stella de Sa Rego authoritatively discusses Brehme’s place in the history of Mexican photography, especially within Pictorialism, as she reveals how a man from Eisenach, Germany, came to create an enduring visual mythology of the essence of Mexico. |
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Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke $45.86 Wind, water, and molten rock constantly tear apart and resculpt the natural world we live in, and people have always struggled to create structures that will permanently establish their existence on the land. Frank Golhke has committed his camera lens to documenting that fraught relationship between people and place, and this retrospective collection of his work by John Rohrbach reveals how people carve out their living spaces in the face of constant natural disruption. An acclaimed master of landscape photography, Golhke explores in "Accommodating Nature" how people configure the places where they live, work, and commune, both on an everyday level and in the aftermath of catastrophic destruction. Whether a ranch house anchored fast on an endless Texas plain, the shattered buildings and whipped trees left by a category 5 tornado, or the jagged cliffs of ash and rock created by the volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens, the photographs unearth the ways in which new homes and lives emerge from the fragments of the old. Thought-provoking essays by Rebecca Solnit, Frank Gohlke, and John Rohrbach expand upon the issues raised by the images, contemplating the complexities of human and cultural geography and the relationships we have with our respective place. An arresting and vibrant visual essay combining magnificent vistas with intimate emotional detail, "Accommodating Nature" exposes the intricate threads that bind our lives to the land surrounding us. |
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Instamatic Karma: Photographs of John Lennon $5.43 "There were times I was a bit reticent in taking out my camera, like when some ‘old friends’ stopped by to hang out. I didn’t want to intrude on these moments, but John insisted. He felt that I captured him in ways that no one else did because of his comfort level with me…For years, only my closest friends got to see these photos–which were literally tucked away in a shoebox in my closet. They were surprised that these images did not convey the John that was portrayed in the press during our time together. In fact, they saw a side of John seldom seen."–From INSTAMATIC KARMA John Lennon is the most famously photographed Beatle–everyone from Iain MacMillian to Annie Lebowitz took iconic images of him–but there have never been pictures of him like these taken by May Pang, Lennon’s girlfriend from 1973 to 1975. In INSTAMATIC KARMA, they’re collected for the first time. With very few exceptions, these photos are that rare thing: never-before-seen images of an icon. The photos here show Lennon in a variety of settings: at work, at play, at home, and away. They show a playful Lennon, a casual, unguarded Lennon; they’re the kind of photos one lover takes of another. May has written rich captions to accompany her photos–taken together, they tell a simple story of the time May and Lennon spent together; a time, according to legend, when Lennon was unhappy and unproductive, estranged from his family and bandmates. Pang’s photos clearly tell another story–they show Lennon clowning around, working on his hit album "Walls and Bridges," embracing old friends and family, hanging out in their apartment on Manhattan’s East 52nd Street, relaxing in the country in upstate New York or spendingpeaceful days swimming in the waters of Long Island. The photographs in INSTAMATIC KARMA are both color and black & white, casual Polaroids and more composed shots. Each one is an intimate glimpse into a fascinating time in John Lennon’s life. |
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Forever Young: Photographs of Bob Dylan $18.94 In August 1964, twenty-one-year-old photographer Douglas R. Gilbert, on assignment for "Look" magazine, photographed an up-and-coming folk singer named Bob Dylan. Just twenty-three years old, Dylan had already composed a striking body of work, including "Blowin’ in the Wind," yet he himself was still relatively unknown. All that was about to change. For more than a week, Gilbert photographed a surprisingly open Bob Dylan, smiling and relaxed among friends like musician John Sebastian and poet Allen Ginsberg. To Gilbert’s dismay, "Look" deemed Dylan’s appearance "too scruffy" for a family magazine, and the images remained unpublished and unseen, until now. Featuring veteran music journalist Dave Marsh’s insightful text, "Forever Young" unforgettably captures a pivotal time in Bob Dylan’s extraordinary career–the time when he began transforming not just folk but all of popular music. |
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Carolina: Photographs from the First State University $30.31 Like a leisurely stroll along the oak-shaded paths of campus, this vibrant collection of photographs captures the heart and soul of the community that is the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From move-in day to graduation, two hundred images trace a year in the life of Carolina students, faculty, and staff, at work and at play, in the campus environment that has helped make Chapel Hill the "southern part of heaven." A foreword by beloved professor and novelist Doris Betts muses on her own experiences of the University as a compelling place at the literal and figurative heart of the state. The photographs are accompanied by captions that reveal the history and lore of notable campus places, the rituals and traditions of University life, and the wisdom and appreciation of those who have passed through the nation’s first state university. Academics, arts, politics, clubs, and athletics–these pages are filled with the memory-making moments of life at Carolina, evoking the timeless present recognizable to Tar Heels young and old. This is everyone’s Carolina, to treasure and to share. |
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The African Photographs of Isaac Schapera: Picturing a Colonial Past $34.29 This volume presents for the first time the selected photographs of the renowned British anthropologist Isaac Schapera (1905-2003). Taken between 1929 and 1934, largely during his earliest work among the Kgatla peoples of Bechuanaland (now Botswana), the 136 images in this selection reveal an emotional engagement and aesthetic impulse that Schapera seldom expressed in his writings. Covering a broad spectrum of daily activities, they include depictions of everything from pot making, thatching, and cattle herding to village architecture, vernacular medicine, and rainmaking ceremonies. Visually fascinating and of exceptional quality, these images capture the uniqueness of an African people in a particular time and place. They are contexualized and their significance explained in Jean and John Comaroff’s insightful introduction, while Adam Kuper’s illuminating biographical sketch of Schapera provides new insight into the life of the photographer. "Picturing a Colonial Past" reveals not only a rare side of old Botswana, but also of one of the most famous anthropologist who worked there. |
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Black and Gold: Four Decades of the Boston Bruins in Photographs $26.42 A history of the Boston Bruins in pictures, newly revised and updated to cover the spectacular 2010-2011 Stanley Cup-Winning Season A pictorial history of the Boston Bruins, "Black and Gold" is a tribute to one of the NHL’s Original Six teams and hockey’s most popular franchises. A storied team with a long and rich history spanning almost ninety years, the Bruins have been home to some of the greatest names in the sport, including legends like Ray Bourque, Cam Neely, Terry O’Reilly, Don Cherry, Bobby Orr, and Joe Thornton. Featuring four decades of pictures from long-time team photographer Steve Babineau, and accompanying text by broadcaster Rob Simpson, "Black and Gold" documents the six-time Stanley Cup winning team, including magic moments from the past, star players and coaches, Bruins goalies, grinders, and the old Boston Garden.Revised to commemorate the 2011 Winter Classic and the team’s epic Stanley Cup victoryPacked with 32 all-new pages of iconic images and insightful commentaryIncludes a Foreword by hockey great Don Cherry This epic collection, featuring many never-before-seen photographs, is guaranteed to bring back memories for every Bruins fan who bleeds black and gold. |
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North Carolina on My Mind: The Best of North Carolina in Words and Photographs $3.94 The natural splendor, historic cities, and warmhearted people of North Carolina come alive in this outstanding collection of color photographs. With the turn of a page, you can feel the tension as you witness a Civil War reenactment. You can smell the sea breeze as you stroll the beach at Cape Hatteras. You can hear the old-time fiddlers as they entertain crowds at a folk festival. And you can glimpse the vivid hues of autumn foliage as you drive the Blue Ridge Parkway. The photographs are complemented by the words and wisdom of perspective North Carolinians. |
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Yellowstone and the Biology of Time: Photographs Across a Century $19.66 Established in 1872, Yellowstone National Park is the oldest and one of the largest national parks in the world. In this remarkable book, scientists Mary Meagher and Douglas B. Houston present 100 sets of photographs that compare the Yellowstone of old with the park of today. Most of the photo sets include three pictures — not the usual two — with many of the original views dating back to the 1870s and 1880s. From the same photo points used by early photographers, Meagher and Houston rephotographed the scenes in the 1970s, and then, following the great fires of 1988, again in the 1990s. The result is an illuminating record of Yellowstone’s dynamic ecosystem and its changes over time. Through close analysis of the photos and reference to the vast amount of available data, Meagher and Houston describe changes in vegetation, growth of wildlife populations, the effect of beaver occupancy on wetland areas, and geothermal and elevational shifts. At the same time they point out the extent to which many sites have not changed-despite important switches in park policy and an increase in human activity. Yellowstone National Park has long been the focus of major ecological debates. Should managers allow wildfires to burn? Should the elk and bison populations be controlled? Are too many people visiting the park? Yellowstone and the Biology of Time offers a wealth of information to help us answer these questions. A visual treasure, this book will be of value to scientists from various disciplines as well as to the many people who care about Yellowstone and other protected wilderness areas around the world. |
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Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs PhotosObama: The Historic Campaign in Photos $26.99 Through 150 striking color photographs Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs charts the road to Barack Obamas nomination as the first African American to lead the presidential ticket of a major party. Announcing his campaign in Springfield Illinois on February 10 2007 Obama stood on the grounds of the Old State Capitol where Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous "House Divided" speech against slavery in 1858. During an eighteen-month campaign from the snows of Iowa to the hunt for Democratic "superdelegates " this junior senator from Chicago confounded the party establishment and rewrote the playbook on modern presidential campaigning. This amazing collection of photographs captures the public and private moments of his journey and offers a unique window into one of the great triumphs in American politics. |
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The Big Show: Charles M. Conlon’s Golden Age Baseball Photographs $30.32 Charles M. Conlon created iconic images of baseball’s glorious heyday, taking about 30,000 photographs of the sport from 1904 to 1942. In "The Big Show: Charles M. Conlon’s Golden Age Baseball Photographs," soulful, striking shots of Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, and hundreds of other major leaguers are paired with captions meticulously based on contemporary reports and quotes from the players themselves. In their own words, colorful characters spill the beans about famous scandals, divulge quirky characteristics, and tell little-known stories. In 1993, Abrams’ acclaimed "Baseball’s Golden Age "first celebrated Conlon’s photographs. Research in the Conlon Collection of the "Sporting News "later uncovered a cache of brilliant, rare photographs. Showcasing this windfall, the book–a must-have for baseball fans young and old–is the definitive collection of America’s best baseball photographer’s work, offering a moving depiction of past baseball greats. Praise for "The Big Show" "With "The Big Show: Charles M. Conlon’s Golden Age Baseball Photographs," edited by Neal and Constance McCabe, the photographer gets a well deserved day in the sun. The more than 200 portraits here capture the soul of the early game–whether the subjects be stars or . . . something less. The players have been long forgotten. Conlon’s photographs should not be."–"Sports Illustrated" "In 1993, Neal and Constance McCabe] produced "Baseball’s Golden Age: The Photographs of Charles M. Conlon "(Abrams). The book was a revelation in black and white, a time machine to the era of wooden ballparks, legal spitballs and manual typewriters . . . Nearly two decades later, Neal and Constance McCabe have teamed on a worthy and riveting sequel titled "The Big Show: Charles M. Conlon’s Golden Age of Baseball Photographs" (Abrams). The book features more than 200 photos (this time digitally produced from the glass negatives), as well as Neal McCabe’s fascinating captions."–"Los Angeles"" Times" "This beautifully rendered study from the McCabes–the brother/sister writing team who produced "Baseball’s Golden Age"–offers a superb range of photos and intelligent prose, covering the many forgotten men of baseball, as well as some giants."–"Publishers Weekly" "The captions by Neal and Constance McCabe are revelations in themselves."–"Washington"" Post" "This is one beautiful baseball book." –"New York Post" |
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Japan 1945: A U.S. Marine’s Photographs from Ground Zero $29.88 In September 1945 Joe O’Donnell was a twenty-three-year-old Marine Corps photographer wading ashore in Japan, then under American occupation. His orders were to document the aftermath of U.S. bombing raids in Japanese cities, including not only Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but also cities such as Sasebo, one of the more than sixty Japanese cities firebombed before the atomic blasts. "The people I met," he now recalls, "the suffering I witnessed, and the scenes of incredible devastation taken by my camera caused me to question every belief I had previously held about my so-called enemies." In addition to the official photographs he turned over to his superiors, OaDonnell recorded some three hundred images for himself, but following his discharge from the Marines he could not bear to look at them. He put the negatives in a trunk that remained unopened until 1989, when he finally felt compelled to confront once more what he had he had seen through his lens during his seven months in postwar Japan. Now, for this remarkable book, seventy-four of these photographs have been assembled. The images of destructionaa panorama of Ground Zero at Nagasaki, a lone building still standing near the Aioi Bridge at Hiroshima, a fourteen-year-old burn victim lying in a comaaare, of course, wrenching beyond words. But the book includes hopeful images as well, and these are equally affectingachildren playing on a road, young girls carrying their infant siblings on their backs as they go about everyday routines, geishas performing a traditional dance, Marine boots mingled with Japanese sandals outside a church entrance. Exhibited in Europe and Japan during the 1990s, O’Donnellas photographs were first published in book form in a 1995 Japanese edition. This edition, the first to appear in the United States, includes an additional twenty photographs and will bring O’Donnellas eloquent testament to the horrors of war to an even wider audience. |
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Tucson: The Old Pueblo $6.68 A native Tucsonan’s guide. 140 color photographs. |
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Stones of the Sur: Poetry by Robinson Jeffers, Photographs by Morley Baer $27.94 The precipitous cliffs, rolling headlands, and rocky inlets of the Big Sur coast of California were alive for Robinson Jeffers, and throughout his long career as a poet, he extolled their wild beauty. His vivid descriptions inspired the best work of other artists who lived nearby, including such noted photographers as Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, and their younger contemporary Morley Baer. Before he died in 1995, Baer was planning a volume that would bring together a group of his landscape photographs of the Big Sur area with a selection of poems that expressed Jeffers’s mystical experience of stone. Jeffers believed that stone is alive, perhaps even conscious in some way. Baer wanted to create a visual and literary meditation on the life-experience of stone. James Karman was invited by Baer to serve as his collaborator, and has brought the project to completion–more than 50 of Baer’s photographs paired with poems by Jeffers (some complete, others excerpted). "Stones of the Sur" is in five parts, each of which takes its title from a poem. Part I, "Tor House," contains photographs and poems about Jeffers’s home, ever the locus of his inspiration. Part II, "Continent’s End," begins with a panoramic view of the coastline and is followed by visual and textual images that become progressively narrower in scope as Baer and Jeffers focus on the mountains, cliffs, beaches, boulders, rocks, and pebbles of the Big Sur. The inward progression continues in Part III, "Oh Lovely Rock," where Baer trains his lens on close surfaces–revealing his sensibilities at their most abstract. From the middle of Part III on, the spiral is reversed and the view begins to open. Part IV, "Credo," expands outwardly from the pebbles and rocks of the Big Sur back to the beaches, cliffs, and mountains. Part V, "The Old Stone-Mason," concludes the book with a return to Tor House. |
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Mel Bochner: Photographs and Not Photographs $36.17 A hugely influential presence in postwar American art, Mel Bochner (born 1940) coined some of Postminimalist and Conceptual art’s most characteristic strategies-the gallery as subject, language as material, the photo documentation of works as the work itself, the appropriation of ephemeral materials by other artists-and directed those strategies towards a radical excavation of all that had been rendered peripheral to art’s proper content. In the mid- to late 1960s, Bochner became deeply involved with photography, producing a groundbreaking group of photographs that hover tantalizingly between painting and photography. "Mel Bochner: Photographs and Not Photographs" presents superb reproductions of these early works, as well as the artist’s classic 1970 essay "Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography)" and a selection of wall drawings and paintings, culminating in "NO," painted in 2010. Also included is an essay by Jeffrey Weiss, curator of the Panza collection at the Guggenheim Museum of Art, which traces the evolution of Bochner’s work from the 1960s to the present. Bochner has collaborated closely on the design of this beautifully produced volume, the cover of which is made of sturdy plexiglas. |
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Western North Carolina:: A Visual Journey Through Stereo Views and Photographs $21.45 Few places in the United States can compare to the natural beauty and grace of Western North Carolina, a combination of picturesque mountain ranges, rolling foothills, and lush valleys. At the turn of the century, the visual splendor of the Appalachians and clean mountain air drew thousands upon thousands of visitors, including a large number of photographers, to the regionas many health resorts, hotels, hiking trails, and small towns. Like explorers of old, these photographers went out into the North Carolina wilderness carrying their bulky photographic contraptions and glass-plate negatives in hopes of sharing its spectacular scenes with the rest of the nation. Using cameras equipped with twin lenses mounted about 2.5 inches apart, which created almost identical images, these photographers created stereoscopic views, or stereo viewsadouble images placed on a rigid cardawhich were then viewed through a hand-held stereoscope and resulted in the person experiencing a three-dimensional effect. In Western North Carolina: A Visual Journey Through Stereo Views and Photographs, you will see these professional photographersa hard work, a wonderful collection of images capturing the unspoiled beauty of the region, such as pictures of waterfalls, rivers, forests, and mountain ranges; views of local people at work and at play; snapshots of early railroad construction; and panoramas of the growing mountain communities, such as Bakersville, Hot Springs, Lenoir, Old Fort, Hendersonville, and Asheville. |
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Lynching Photographs $24.78 Why do we look at lynching photographs? What is the basis for our curiosity, rage, indignation, or revulsion? Beginning in the late nineteenth century, nearly five thousand blacks were put to death at the hands of lynch mobs throughout America. In many communities it was a public event, to be witnessed, recorded, and made available by means of photographs. In this book, the art historian Dora Apel and the American Studies scholar Shawn Michelle Smith examine lynching photographs as a way of analyzing photography’s historical role in promoting and resisting racial violence. They further suggest how these photographs continue to affect the politics of spectatorship. In clear prose, and with carefully chosen images, the authors chart the history of lynching photographs–their meanings, uses, and controversial display–and offer terms in which to understand our responsibilities as viewers and citizens. |
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Old Bridge $8.15 Old Bridge Township, located in Middlesex County, was originally part of South Amboy from the time of its first settlement in 1685 to its secession in 1869. It began its independence as Madison Township, a name it retained until the 1970s, when it was changed to Old Bridge. Its large size and geographic diversity have led to the formation of numerous villages, ranging from bayside fishing hamlets to interior farming communities. Some of these villages, including Laurence Harbor, Cliffwood Beach, and Browntown, are still widely known, but others exist only in the memories of the township’s oldest residents. With hundreds of vintage photographs and postcards, Old Bridge illustrates the development of this township-from isolated farmlands dotted with villages to a modern suburbia of more than 50,000 people. It also traces the rise and fall of the vacation industry on the Raritan Bay and the discovery of Old Bridge by land developers after World War II. |
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The Nature of Photographs $35.72 A photo diary of the American photographer’s road trip across America in the early 1970′s. It features unpublished photographs from Shore’s influential work that has been widely exhibited in the US but never captured in a book for the general public. |
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Freemasonry: Unlocking the 1000-Year-Old Mysteries of the Brotherhood: the Masonic Rituals, Codes, Signs and Symbols Explained With over 300 Photographs and Ill $14.15 No Synopsis Available |
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Photographs from California $39.99 Photographs from California – Giclee Print |
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Bedroom with Photographs on Display $24.99 Bedroom with Photographs on Display – Photographic Print |
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Writers: Photographs $4.11 Here are more than a hundred wonderful and sensitive duotone portraits of our major novelists, poets, and playwrights. Paired with the photographs are fascinating texts from each writer on writing–thoughts on the craft, recollections of significant moments from their personal history, meditations on the civic importance of writing, and so forth. Some of these photographs are well known–Bellow, Mailer, Cheever, and Capote–and others have never before been published. Many were taken on location, from Muriel Spark in Tuscany and James Baldwin in Provence to Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Mexico City. All are strikingly fresh and authentic. The pithy and idiosyncratic thoughts on writing are a perfect complement to the superb portraits; often words and pictures seem to exist in a magical rapport. For all of us who care about the American literary scene, Nancy Crampton’s gift is an intimate look at our literary heroes, our "Writers," 104 duotone photographs. |
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Looking at Photographs $30.25 Originally published in 1973, this marvelous collection of photographs with accompanying texts by the revered late Museum of Modern Art photography curator John Szarkowski has long been recognized as a classic. Reissued in 1999-with new digital duotones-this volume is now available to a new generation of readers. This is a picture book, and its first purpose is to provide the material for simple delectation," says Szarkowski in his introduction to this first survey of The Museum of Modern Art’s photography collection. A visually splendid album, the book is both a treasury of remarkable photographs and a lively introduction to the aesthetics and the historical development of photography. Since 1930, when the Museum accessioned its first photograph, it has assembled an extraordinary and wide-ranging collection of pictures for preservation, study and exhibition. Among the outstanding figures represented here are Hill and Adamson, Cameron, O’Sullivan, Atget, Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand, Weston, Kertesz, Evans, Cartier-Bresson, Lange, Brassai, Ansel Adams, Shomei Tomatsu, Frank, Arbus and Friedlander. Some of these photographs are classics, familiar and well-loved favorites, many are surprising, little-known works by the masters of the art." |
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A Step-By-Step Guide to Shiatsu: A Simple Introduction to the Ancient Therapy of Pressure and Nurturing Touch, with 170 Easy-To-Follow Photographs $4.49 A simple introduction to the ancient therapy of pressure and nurturing touch, with 170 easy-to-follow photographs. Discover this age-old means of enhancing your well-being. Improve your physical and mental health with straightforward routines and stretches. Treat your partner or a friend to a shiatsu treatment – you will feel the benefits of shiatsu both as a giver and a receiver. Expert instruction and clear step-by-step photography will guide you gently through each routine. |
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Popular: Photographs $61.69 New from high-profile fashion photographer Thierry Le Goues comes a lavish artist’s book, "Popular" — an earthy, luring tome of the rarely shown Havana social scene. In Le Goues’ provocative duotone and sensuous four-color photographs, we’re seduced by a culture of great joy amongst great poverty: raucous, heat-soaked street parties; spirited sparring matches in crumbling gymnasiums; voluptuous nudes plying their wares in derelict mansions; wizened balladeers savoring impossibly large Cohibas… |
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Savannah, 1733 to 2000:: Photographs from the Collection of the Georgia Historical Society $21.38 Covering just less than two-and-a-half square miles, Savannah’s Historic District is a steadfast remnant of the Old South-even in times marked by fast-paced technology and bustling growth. The city air is still sweetened by the scent of tea olives and jasmine, her streets are still lined with the rich palettes of azaleas and camellias, and her people are generous and welcoming. Savannah has enchanted residents and visitors alike for more than two-and-a-half centuries with a rich architectural heritage and a remarkable natural beauty. Founded on February 12, 1733, by Gen. James E. Oglethorpe, Savannah has played an active role on the American stage, in times of war and hardship, as well as in times of peace and prosperity. The city’s location at the mouth of the Savannah River created one of the largest seaports on the east coast, and her history is as colorful and varied as the numerous industries that made their way to her banks. Within these pages readers will visit Savannah’s signature squares and parks, including Forsyth Park and Colonial Park Cemetery, as well as buildings long since vanished from the city’s landscape, such as the old DeSoto Hotel and the City Market. Also showcased are some of Savannah’s private homes and public buildings, such as the Telfair Museum of Art, the Chatham County Courthouses, and Christ Church, and such memorable events as the fire of 1889. |
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Old Ironsides $8.4 - One of few series that covers a broad range of major events throughout U.S. history – Primary source materials, including quotes – Informative sidebars highlight areas of interest. – Includes expanded subject coverage, subheadings, glossary terms, additional resources, and index – Attractive new design and dramatic photographs. – Core-curriculum subjects – Timelines |
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At Scotland Yard, Photographs $79.99 At Scotland Yard, Photographs – Premium Photographic Print |
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Anna Rosenberg Looking at Photographs $79.99 Anna Rosenberg Looking at Photographs – Premium Photographic Print |
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Hope Photographs $3.94 Even without uttering the word, hope is with us as an instinct, a feeling, an impulse, as an insistent human reflex in the face of negativism and despair. The photographs in this collection were assembled to make hope more than a reflex; in the face of these wonderful testaments to human optimism and nobility, our sense of hope manifests itself in all its marvelous power. A belief that we have value, that humanity has nobility, was the guiding principle in assembling these photographs. Focusing on images from the second half of the twentieth century, this collection includes work by some of the most distinguished photographers of our era. Here are photographs that record the innocent optimism of childhood as a mother combs her daughter’s hair in preparation for her first communion, or children gather at an idyllic swimming hole. Others record hope as the great motivator, from the cosmic, in an extraordinary image of Apollo II blasting into space, to the individual, as a Mexican family gazes across the border as they await an opportunity to run to California. And here too is unforgettable evidence of hope in the most desperate of circumstances: a family resolutely gathers its personal belongings after a flood; a Rwandan tailor intently pursues his routine amidst a scene of utter devastation. And we see hope even in our biological essence, in Lennart Nilssons’ astonishing photograph of a sperm meeting an egg. More than one hundred photographers have contributed to this compelling portrait of this thing, this urge, this hope that gets us out of bed in the morning, that makes us believe we can do the most mundane and the most impossible of tasks. |
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Protest Photographs $44.22 Chauncey Hare does not define himself as a photographer, but rather as an engineer, a family therapist and, above all, a protester. In his fast-paced introduction to this volume, Hare recounts a life devoted to protest. He describes his keen identification with the people whose homes he photographed throughout the late 60s and early 70s, and his refusal to betray them by selling his photography. He tells of his struggles to have his photographs accepted by the art world, and relates his abusive childhood, and the difficulties of his work life as an engineer at a major oil company and at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. "Protest Photographs" contains twice as many images as his two earlier books, "Interior America" (1977) and "This Was Corporate America" (1984). |
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Natural Gardening: The Old-Fashioned Way $9.99 Timeless techniques for the ecological gardener with more than 280 inspirational color photographs. |
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The Tree in Photographs $19.63 Visual artists as well as writers have long extolled the presence of the tree. From the origins of photography to the present day, photographers have considered the tree, with its strong graphic form and evocative power, to be a popular subject. Through the works of artists such as Robert Adams, Eugene Atget, Anne Brigman, William Eggleston, P. H. Emerson, Gustave Le Gray, Eliot Porter, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, William Henry Fox Talbot, and Carleton Watkins, this book spans the history of photography from the mid-nineteenth to early-twenty-first century to address the image of the tree in its many connotations–as graphic form, symbolic icon, and role model for the beauty of nature. The selection of eighty-one images carefully culled from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s permanent collection of photographs and reproduced in color presents the tree in various contexts: the single tree; trees in the urban landscape; uses of trees; tree reflections and shadows; and details, abstractions, and conceptual views of trees as conceived by contemporary artists. |
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Old Testament Illustrations $4.05 This is the illustrations volume which accompanies the Old Testament series of the Cambridge Bible Commentary. It is arranged on the same general plan as Mr Jones’s successful companion volume on the New Testament. It contains 201 photographs, maps and drawings arranged in groups with a connected commentary which describes each picture in detail, explaining its significance. The whole collection provides a background study of the Old Testament lands and peoples. The sections deal with the geographical setting, the archaeology of the region, the periods of Old Testament history from the earliest times to the Hellenistic period, the social background, the Old Testament books as literary productions, the background of Jewish religious life. Maps are skilfully simplified to give only the information relevant to understanding the Old Testament itself The diagrams explain technical subjects. The photographs, of scenes, buildings and works of art, and the continuing tradition of Jewish religious practice, give life and visible confirmation to the study of the Scriptures. |
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In and Out of the Old Missions of California $33.59 A historical and pictorial account of the Franciscan Missions, with 142 illustrations from photographs. This work is the culmination of nearly twenty-five years of the author making pilgrimages to the Old Missions. He venerated them and with his own camera delved into every nook and cranny. Thousands of photographs and mental images were the result of these journeys. In this volume, he shares some of them for others to enjoy. |
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Sharkwater: The Photographs $7.99 For filmmaker Rob Stewart, exploring sharks began as an underwater adventure. What it turned into was a beautiful and dangerous life journey into the balance of life on earth. Driven by passion fed from a lifelong fascination with sharks, Stewart debunks historical stereotypes and media depictions of sharks as bloodthirsty, man-eating monsters, and reveals the reality of sharks as pillars in the evolution of the seas. This visually stunning companion volume to the film of the same name provides a portrait of sharks and the underwater ecosystem in which they live, taking you into the most shark-rich waters of the world. More than 200 photographs revel in the beauty of this remarkable animal and expose the exploitation and corruption surrounding the world`s shark populations in the marine reserves of Cocos Island, Costa Rica, and the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. The filmmaker tells the story of his effort to protect sharks, teaming up with renegade conservationist Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Their unbelievable adventure together starts with a battle between Sea Shepherd and shark poachers in Guatemala, resulting in pirate boat rammings, gunboat chases, mafia espionage, corrupt court systems and attempted murder charges, forcing them to flee for their lives. Through it all, Stewart discovers these magnificent creatures have gone from predator to prey, and how, despite surviving the earth’s history of mass extinctions, they could easily be wiped out within a few years due to human greed. Stewart’s remarkable journey of courage and determination changes from a mission to save the world`s sharks, into a fight for his life, and that of humankind. |
