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Author
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Describes the people and events of the U.S. Dust Bowl. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspectives of a farmer, a migrant worker, and a government photographer"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
"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, Egan's book tells the remarkable untold story behind Curtis's iconic photographs,...
Author
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
1000L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (64 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language
English
Description
It's one of the most famous sports images of all time. Former heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston is sprawled on his back in the boxing rim. Muhammad Ali stands over Liston, holding his right hand as if ready to throw another punch. The reigning world champion had just thrown a short, right-handed punch to the side of Liston's head. In a flash, Liston had gone down. The photo of the angry Ali standing over the fallen challenger was taken in an...
Author
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
1090L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (64 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Language
English
Description
The final match of the 2001 U.S. Open featuring tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams was groundbreaking. It was first time siblings had squared off in the final match for more than 100 years. And it was the first time both players were black. The photo of the smiling Williams sisters holding their trophies after the tennis match appeared in newspapers around the globe. It captured two athletes who fought, and would continue to fight, for a place...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
165 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
This book features photographs taken for the Farm Security Administration by ten renowned photographers, featuring scenes from regions throughout the United States.
Author
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
1080L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (64 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language
English
Description
Jesse Owens' gold-medal winning feats at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin struck a mighty propaganda blow against Adolf Hitler. The Nazi leader had planned to use the German games as a showcase of supposed Aryan superiority. Instead, there was American black athlete Owens on the podium being photographed by Hitler's personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann. In addition, Owens would figure prominently in the groundbreaking film Olympia by Hitler's favorite...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she is determined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.
Sam Sakamoto doesn't have space in her life for dreams. With the recent death of her mother, Sam's focus is the farm, which her...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
1020L
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Little boys, some as young as 6, spent their long days, not playing or studying, but sorting coal in dusty, loud, and dangerous conditions. Many of these breaker boys worked 10 hours a day, six days a week all for as little as 45 cents a day. Child labor was common in the United States in the 19th century. It took the compelling, heart breaking photographs of Lewis Hine and others to bring the harsh working conditions to light. Hine and his fellow...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xiv, 223 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this pioneering book, renowned photographic historian Deborah Willis and historian of slavery Barbara Krauthamer have amassed nearly 150 photographs--some never before published--from the antebellum days of the 1850s through the New Deal era of the 1930s. The authors vividly display the seismic impact of emancipation on African Americans born before and after the Proclamation, providing a perspective on freedom and slavery and a way to understand...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
160 pages : chiefly illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"The best-known images of the civil rights struggle show black Americans as nonthreatening victims of white aggression. Though this imagery helped garner the sympathy of liberal whites in the North for the plight of blacks, it did so by preserving a picture of whites as powerful and blacks as hapless victims. Freedom Now! showcases photographs rarely seen in the mainstream media, which depict the power wielded by black men, women and children in remaking...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by Deborah Willis's book Reflections in Black, Through a Lens Darkly casts a broad net that begins with filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris's family album. It considers the difference between black photographers who use the camera to define themselves, their people, and their culture and some white photographers who, historically, have demeaned African-Americans through racist imagery. The film embraces both historical material (African-Americans...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations, map ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Photographs capture the horrific conditions of this national disaster, the struggles of the people who stayed to save their land, and the sorrows of those who were forced to move as a result of this catastrophe.