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Author
Publisher
PowerHouse Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
268 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This follow-up to the bestselling Advanced Style features more senior street style and inspiration from all over the globe. Similar in format to the original, with dozens of portraits from cities all over the world, this book also features 22 short essays by some of the portrait subjects, distilling the wisdom and lifestyle secrets of some of Cohen's favorite Advanced Style ladies.
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson, in partnership with Imperial War Museum
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
223 pages : illustrations (chiefly black and white) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Lee Miller photographed innumerable women during her career, first as a fashion photographer and then as a journalist during the Second World War, documenting the social consequences of the conflict, particularly the impact of the war on women across Europe. Her work as a war photographer is perhaps that for which she is best remembered; in fact she was among the 20th century's most important photographers on the subject. Published to coincide with...
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
509 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
This powerful photography collection, drawn from the celebrated National Geographic archive, reveals the lives of women from around the globe, accompanied by revelatory new interviews and portraits of contemporary trailblazers including Oprah Winfrey, Jane Goodall, and Christiane Amanpour.
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of essays accompanied by beautiful black-and-white photography from a diverse group of women on the moment they realized they were ready to fight for themselves--including Gloria Steinem, Lena Waithe, Joanna Gaines, Brandi Carlile, Beanie Feldstein, Cynthia Erivo, and Billie Jean King, among others.
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
157 p. : col. ill. ; 24 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forty-eight women who have served in combat zones in the Iraq and the Afghanistan wars discuss their experiences with loss, injuries, difficult choices, and sacrifice, in a text that includes photographic portraits of each woman.
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Crown Publishing Group, a divison of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Noroc has journeyed through more than fifty countries to celebrate the diversity of this fascinating world. This volume contains photographs of five hundred women, from tribes, conservative communities, and modern cities. Most were struggling and working hard, and were facing discrimination as women. But through it all they were shining with dignity, strength, and beauty.
11) Advanced style
Author
Publisher
PowerHouse Books
Pub. Date
2012, ©2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
238 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Advanced Style is Ari Seth Cohen's blog-based ode to the confidence, beauty, and fashion that can only be achieved through the experience of a life lived glamorously. It is a collection of street fashion unlike any seen before - focused on the over-60 set in the world's most stylish locales. The (mostly) ladies of Advanced Style are enjoying their later years with grace and panache, marching to the beat of their own drummer. These timeless images...
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
509 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
This powerful photography collection, drawn from the celebrated National Geographic archive, reveals the lives of women from around the globe, accompanied by revelatory new interviews and portraits of contemporary trailblazers including Oprah Winfrey, Jane Goodall, and Christiane Amanpour.
Publisher
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xiii, 272 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The work of contemporary artist Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953) hits hard with a powerful mix of lived life and social commentary. Since the late 1970s, her photographs, films, and installations have become known for presenting realistic and authentic images of African Americans while confronting themes of race, gender, and class. This book, the first major survey of Weems's career, traces the artist's commitment to addressing issues of social justice...
Author
Publisher
Fundación MAPFRE
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First English-language edition.
Physical Desc
283 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"One of the most influential American artists working today, Carrie Mae Weems has investigated narratives around family, race, gender, sexism, class and the consequences of power for more than 40 years. Her complex oeuvre-always ahead of its time, and profoundly formative for younger generations of artists-has employed photography (for which she is best known), fabric, text, audio, digital images, installation and video. Writing in the New York Times,...
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