Documentary-Collection

Canticle Of The Earth: The Words Of Francis Of Assisi is wonderfully enhanced by landscape photographers David Muench and Marc Muench and presents a hauntingly beautiful and spiritual celebration of life, love, nature's beauty, and God effectively showcasing the devotional words of Saint Francis of Assisi through wondrous, full-color images of natural landscapes. Every page features an inspirational and captivating glimpse of natural splendor paired with a short phrase from Assisi's text. An inspirational, beautiful, and unforgettable volume of meditation, Canticle Of The Earth is a most enthusiastically recommended and memorable volume.

If you love Nepal, Tibet and it's beautifull people, you'll love this book. The stunning pictures tell a great story. About the people in the Dolpho region. They trade salt against food. But to do so, they have to travel hard miles trough a stunning but barren country, with incredible moutains, lakes and of course a caravan of yaks. The author lived with these people and you'll see in his picture the love he has for this region. He knows how to tell a story and how to make the picture to encounter the beauty of it.

The movie CARAVAN tells the same story but then the pictures move (haha) As you can read I'm not used to write in English, but my message is this one ... buy it and go see the picture, you won't be disapointed !

This gorgeous book is about the centuries-long process of destroying a body of rock. Every picture shows a landscape or an interior white with the dust of Carrara's exceptionally pure marble; stonecutters white with the dust; even some pictures where you can't tell whether it's fog or dust in the air, or whether it's snow or dust on the rooftops. Carrara is the source of marble for some of the most revered works of sculpture in the Western canon: Michelangelo's David and the Pieta; Bernini's busts, St. Teresa, and hundreds more. To see it all as essentially an industrial process, and to see the people who have given their lives to quarrying this rock, is beautiful, bitter, and moving. There's also a great essay at the back by an Australian anthropologist, which is well worth the read.

Bruce Davidson's "Central Park" is a compelling look at one of the world's most unique urban places. Unlike "Brooklyn Gang" or "Portraits," Davidson shoots his subjects here with a wide-angle panoramic camera. The result is fascinating as the images meld odd angles, distorted bodies and expansive views, and at no point does it come across as cliched or gimmicky. Instead, the photographs are hopeful, intimate, and revealing. Davidson shows us some of the park's secret places, but mostly he has discovered, through his visual explorations, the secret of what makes Central Park an essential part of New York life.

Well, several books were published in recent years reviewing the Satmar community. However, this splendid work was a job well done. The photos are so meaningful, and there is a whole lot of them. It shows the Satmar community in a light, rarely seen in the major media. Reviews about their costumes, holidays, and family life, portrays them as law abiding citizens, as well as, well educated pious Jews. Those of you who are interested in learning about Satmar, will get a sure bet by purchasing a copy of this outstanding book.

This book deals with "the big picture". I got a sense of viewing customs through time. The many cultures shown are contrasted in an exciting way. Stunning photographs showing rituals surrounding birth, death, marriage, etc. are accompanied by intelligent, inspiring copy. A beautiful and thought provoking book.

If you love baseball, you must own Classic Baseball. This is a superb collection of baseball photographs by the legendary sports photographer Walter Iooss, Jr. with commentary by Dave Anderson, a winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Everyone is here, all the greats from Maris and Mantle to McGwire and Bonds, along with a host of lesser known players. The photos are simply breathtaking and make you feel you are at the ballpark. All you need is an ice cold beer and a bag of peanuts and you'll feel right at home. A great book and a great gift idea for anyone who loves the game of baseball.

I gave this to my girlfriend as a gag gift for her birthday and she said that she loved it..........I really wouldn't know....but anyway.......anyone who buys it, enjoy it like she did......

In this book by Karl Lagerfeld you can find the favorite pictures of Claudia Schiffer. Included are various shots of Chanel advertising campaigns. Forword by Claudia Schiffer.

Dr Anne maxwell is justifiably regarded as a world authority on this new and thought-provoking field. With brilliant use of rare photographs and research into old exhibitions, she illustrates her argument; that the various colonial powers of this and last century made clever, political use of pictures and exhibitions. These were propaganda to convince people at home of their own superiority; that it was the duty of "civilised" people to assist faraway savages by subjugating them. Usually industrial interests -- such as the colonial sugar barons -- were the real beneficiaries of this subjugating process.

Dr Maxwell is a senior lecturer at Melbourne University. But her research for this volume stretches far beyond Australia's troubled Aboriginal issue. She looks at how exotic images from the lenses of Victorian photographers stylised and romanticised colonial races. The process included the Hawaiians, the American Indians, the New Zealand Maori, Philipinos and much of Polynesia and Micronesia. She spares us none of the cruelty perpetrated in the name of such questionable progress. Her descriptions of how "primitives" were dragged off to suffer the London winter in grass skirts -- for the amusement of smug Victorian exhibition-gawpers -- make heart-breaking reading. Even the king of Hawaii was exhibited as a curiosity in an American circus!

The photographs, gleaned from museum archives all over the world, are this book's greatest strength. Even the most clinical academic must feel the mute woe in the eyes of the "noble savages" whose tragedy has been frozen, black-and-white, in time.

A must-have for any serious student of Post-Colonial study and for photography buffs.