Bacalaitos & Fireworks

Bacalaitos & Fireworks
Author: Arlene Gottfried
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2011
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1576875660

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New York is famed for its Puerto Rican population, developed through migration beginning in the 1900s and booming in the 1950s. As Puerto Ricans settled in New York over the years, they have the city with their infectious culture, indelibly altering neighbourhoods such as the Bronx, the Lower East Side, Williamsburg and Brooklyn with their rhythm, style, flavour, art, language and Latin cuisine. A native New Yorker of Puerto Rican descent, Gottfried presents an ode to Nuyorican life and style, from the 1970s to the present, shot with an unfailingly lyrical eye.

Sometimes Overwhelming

Sometimes Overwhelming
Author: Arlene Gottfried
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-09-04
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781576879047

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A reprint, now in paperback, of one of Arlene's best books. Gone but never forgotten, Arlene was beloved by many and her work deserves a larger audience. Start here. Before gentrification, New York City was a gritty and inspiring place. And in its midst was Arlene Gottfried, whose eye for the sublime caught it all. Sometimes Overwhelming, her second powerHouse Book, is a manic yet romantic ode to the people of New York City in the 1970s and 80s. From Coney Island to a Hasid at Riis Beach's nude bay to the disco nights of sexual abandon and the children in the original Village Halloween parade, Sometimes Overwhelming is a delightfully lighthearted look at the most outrageous people you might ever see.

Mommie

Mommie
Author:
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781576877449

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Mommieis a remarkable photographic portrait of three generations of women in the family of photographer Arlene Gottfried and an intimate story of the inevitable passage of time and aging. Pictured within, we are introduced to Gottfried's 100 year old immigrant grandmother, fragile mother, and reluctant sister over the breathtaking course of 35 years. An artist turning their eye on their own immediate family is a well explored theme, but Gottfried has achieved the sublime with a multi-decade long commitment to document the intimate lives of her nearest kin. Gottfried succeeds in creating a complete twentieth century portrait of four lives inextricably interwoven through relation, sickness, need, love, and the absence of her father-who passed away while Arlene was still young. Living as many mid-century Jewish New York families did, the Gottfrieds were not wealthy and lacked any trappings of luxury. Close examination of their world on Avenue A in Manhattan's Lower East Side reveals a dimly lit small apartment, cartons of budget saltines and groceries, chipped paint, damaged floor tiles, guarded loose change, and well worn clothes - details natural to the lives of many families of immigrants in New York. Mommieis testament to the passage of time, changes in the generations, losing loved ones and a familial experience at once both similar and unique to all.

Aloud

Aloud
Author: Miguel Algarin
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 540
Release: 1994-08-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0805032576

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A multicultural selection of contemporary poems by Puerto Rican and other poets who meet at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City.

Primordial Landscapes

Primordial Landscapes
Author: Feodor Pitcairn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2015-07-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578613857

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Primordial Landscapes:Iceland Revealed elegantly explores the diverse and raw beauty of Iceland's extraordinary landscapes through striking images by photographer and naturalist Feodor Pitcairn and the inspired words of geophysicist, author and poet Ari Trausti Gudmundsson.This collection illuminates topographical phenomenon shaped and crafted by the most powerful natural forces on earth: rain and glacier melt from thunderous waterfalls and rivers that carve at the earth's surface; arctic snow and ice peppering teh land and sea with striking shapes and patterns, feeding the climate and water cycles; lava flows from active volcanos, that build vast textured landforms where life can begin and take hold. These are the beautiful and extraordinary results of our planet's most fundamental geological processes.

A Beautiful Catastrophe

A Beautiful Catastrophe
Author: Bruce Gilden
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: New York (N.Y.)
ISBN: 9781576872383

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New York City, the unique metropolis that Le Corbusier has called a beautiful catastrophe,' is a natural home to Bruce Gilden. Since 1981, Gilden has been roaming the streets of the city, capturing its characters and eccentricities with hsi confrontational, highly energetic style and exuberant vision. In this new opus, A Beautiful Catastrophe, Magnum photographer Bruce Gilden celebrates a trademark style with abandon, firmly ensconsing him in the pantheon of New York City photographic poets.'

Edith Bouvier Beale of Grey Gardens

Edith Bouvier Beale of Grey Gardens
Author: Eva Marie Beale
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-10-15
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9782916954066

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Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale (1917-2002) is best known for her appearance in the critically acclaimed 1975 film Grey Gardens, a documentary by Albert and David Maysles that explored the reclusive lives of Beale and her mother "Big Edie," the first cousin and aunt of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, respectfully. Over the past three decades, the film and its eccentric stars have become cult icons, inspiring fashion tributes by the likes of Phillip Lim and John Galliano, a hit Broadway musical adaptation that swept up three Tony Awards in 2007, and an upcoming HBO movie starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange as the famed odd couple. Edith Bouvier Beale of Grey Gardens: A Life in Pictures, the latest installment in a series that includes photo-biographies of John F. Kennedy, Pope John Paul II, Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, and others, presents the most in-depth look at the life of Little Edie since the Maysles' film vaulted her into the public consciousness. Conceived by members of the Beale family, the book traces a line from Edie's childhood through her heady days as a young socialite and her later years at Grey Gardens, the decrepit East Hampton estate where she and her mother lived in near-total isolation for decades. Featuring over 150 newly uncovered photographs and letters, Edith Bouvier Beale of Grey Gardens offers unprecedented access to the personal history of this twentieth-century woman of mystery.

Midnight

Midnight
Author: Arlene Gottfried
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2003
Genre: Photography
ISBN:

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"The photographs make me sad because I know what a warm, gentle, intelligent soul Midnight is, and I also know how he suffered."

I Love Fast Cars

I Love Fast Cars
Author:
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Automobile racing
ISBN: 9781576870594

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Novel fashion photographer Craig McDean -- he of the blazing Jil Sander and Calvin Klein campaigns -- has a hankering for hot wheels and muscle cars, the kind built in back yards and driveways across America. He also loves to see them drag race, in quasi-formal circuits known as bracket racing.

Jackie

Jackie
Author: Yann-Brice Dherbier
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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This iconic volume features the most exquisite photographs ever taken of America's legendary First Lady. A sumptuous, oversized edition, this 272-page book includes more than 250 glamorous, dramatic and intimate images taken throughout her life, many never published before. Bringing readers into her exclusive and priveleged world, Jackie: a Life in Pictures begins with her upper class upbrining in the '30s and '40s and goes on to cover her courtship and marriage to JFK in 1953 and life as a politician's wife, through to her post-JFK days as the wife of Aristotle Onassis.