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Wanted: Historic County Jails of Texas (The Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series, No. 11)
Edward A., Jr. Blackburn Manufacturer: Texas A&M University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 1585443085 |
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Along with the settlement of the Texas frontier came rustlers, public drunks, gunfighters, and other outlaws. A jail in which to incarcerate the lawbreaker was thus often the first public building raised in a new town.Later, as government developed, public buildingsnotably county courthouses and jailsassumed not only practical but also symbolic importance. The architecture of these buildings in the nineteenth century reflected the power and status with which the community imbued the government; many of the same architects applied the aesthetic standards of the day to both. In later years, the safety and at least limited comfort of the prisoners became concerns and jails were remodeled or abandoned to other uses in favor of modern, more utilitarian structures.
In this heavily illustrated guide to the historic county jails of Texas, Edward A. Blackburn, Jr., takes readers to each of the 254 counties in the state, presenting brief histories of the counties and the structures that housed their criminals. He provides general information about the architecture and location of the buildings and, when possible, describes the present uses of those that have been decommissioned.
Interviews with local officials, historians, and newspaper publishers have yielded colorful anecdotes for many of the jails. Revealing photographs of many of the old jails have been gathered from local and archival sources, and Blackburn himself has taken pictures of extant buildings. Together, these words and images not only provide a survey of the way Texans have housed their criminals, but also, with the aid of thumbnail maps of county locations, offer residents and tourists throughout the state a guide to a fascinating aspect of architectural and cultural history.
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Corrections in Early Texas.......2006-05-07
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Portraits in Oil the Van Wyk Way
Helen Van Wyk Manufacturer: Art Instruction Associates ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0929552202 |
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Helen Van Wyk mastered the art of portraiture by using color, shadow and artistic expression to capture the personalities of her subjects. In her inspiring instructional style, she teaches artists of all abilities to paint portraits successfully.She breaks down the challenge of portrait painting into simple elements anyone can achieve. Using beautiful, full-color illustrations of her own work, as well as her trademark techniques and formulas, she teaches:
* color mixes for the five basic tones of flesh
* techniques for painting wet-in-wet and in loose strokes
* keys to painting eyes, hair, glasses and full poses
* tips for painting family and self portraiture
* how to capture expression and likeness.
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Helen is always a winner.......2007-03-30
Excellent reference book.......2006-06-30
Available copies not worth the Price.......2006-02-18
Informative Book.......2001-12-15
Master Oil Portraits.......2000-10-05
I would recommend this book not only for the techniques that she provides but also for the variety of illustrations that will help any level of oil painter improve their skills. From cover to cover, this book is a bargin to both the beginning painter and the master.
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A City Seen: Photographs from The George Gund Foundation Collection
John Szarkowski , Geoffrey Gund , Katharine Lee Reid , Nicholas Nixon , and Tom E. Hinson Manufacturer: The Cleveland Museum of Art ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0940717689 Release Date: 2002-09-02 |
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"Almost since it's beginings, photography has attempted to describe cities --I am not aware, however, of any such attempt that has been as open -minded -so philosophically generous-as that pursued by the George Gund Foundation" --John Szarkowski . Some of America's most renowned photographers are featured in this landmark project. Michael Book, Lois Conner, Judith Joy Ross, Dawoud Bey, Linda Butler, Lee Friedlander, Gregory Conniff, Frank Gohlke, Larry Fink, Douglas Lucak, Nicholas Nixon, and Barbara Bosworth explore Cleveland from the Cuyahoga River to Lake Erie, through local neighborhoods, public schools, arts institutions, and urban gardens.
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Xl Photography 2
Jean-Christophe Ammann , Philip-Lorca diCorcia , Roni Horn , Nicholas Nixon , and Erwin Wurm Manufacturer: Hatje Cantz Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 3775713581 Release Date: 2004-04-02 |
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The German Stock Exchange in Frankfurt, headquartered in Germany and Luxembourg, has significantly extended its collection of photographs in the last year, acquiring primarily large-format works by upcoming artists. Hence the necessity to produce XL Photography 2, sequel to the two-year-old XL Photography. This volume features photographers who employ an unparalleled range of modes of design and expression, spanning the rather classical black-and-white photographs of Nicholas Nixon and the cool color photographs of Stephen Shore, as well as the innovative One-Minute Sculptures of Erwin Wurm. Under the artistic guidance of Jean-Christophe Ammann, the photographic collection of the German Stock Exchange in Frankfurt places established artists such as Bernd & Hilla Becher, SebastiNo Selgado, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Rineke Dijkstra, Roni Horn, and Jrgen Teller next to younger, as yet-undiscovered talents. This luxuriously designed, large-scale picture book represents all significant positions taken by photography in the past ten years.
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Nicholas Nixon: The Brown Sisters
Peter Galassi , and Nicholas Nixon Manufacturer: The Museum of Modern Art, New York ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0870700421 Release Date: 2002-07-02 |
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The Brown Sisters presents a photographic project as compelling in effect as it is simple in conception: four women, 25 years. Each year since 1975 photographer Nicholas Nixon has made a group portrait of his wife and her three sisters facing the camera in the same order: Heather, Mimi, Bebe, and Laurie. The series now measures a quarter century in the lives of the sisters, who in 1975 ranged in age from 15 to 25; each picture is dense with allusions to the year of experience that separates it from the one before.Customer Reviews:
An unpretentious masterpiece.......2000-05-01
Several years ago I saw two of the "Brown Sisters" and never forgot them. "I hope he keeps this up, but I doubt he can. Relationships change. People's goals change. People are vain." So I thought until I read the dedication and thanks in the front of this book years later.
This work ranks with Stieglitz's accidental portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe. Stieglitz, however, makes you want to know a beautiful and unique woman through his poetic intimatcy. Nixon makes you want to know someone as well as he knows the Brown sisters, perhaps as well as they know each other, through a simple directness that few of us have the courage to see or show to each other.
Photography is about time. The Brown Sisters remind us that the value of time is measured by the respect we give each other. This work is direct, primitive and undeniable. It has what Malraux called the sense of inevitability.
I suspect that the older you are the more you will get from this portrait. If you are young, yow will remember it it 10, 20, 30 and more years from now.
If this book doesn't move you, you are either in denial or you should seek some new line of work that doesn't require you to be alive.
Wake me when you're done.......2000-04-18
My inspiration.......2000-02-12
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FAMILY PICS PB (Photographers at Work)
NIXON NICHOLAS Manufacturer: Smithsonian ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1560980494 |
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Family pictures from angles you'd never consider.......2001-12-27
This book shows pictures of Mr Nixon's children and wife in everyday situations, incredibly direct, sincere, and humorous - you feel like you're there with them, only unseen, a ghost invading their family warmth.
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Home (Lodima Press Portfolio Books, Vol. 1)
Manufacturer: Lodima Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 1888899182 |
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Nicholas Nixon Pictures of People
Peter Galassi Manufacturer: Museum of Modern Art ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0870704389 |
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Nicholas Nixon: Photographs from One Year (Untitled)
Nicholas Nixon Manufacturer: Friends of Photography Bookstore ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0933286333 |
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Nicholas Nixon Photographs
Carlos Gollonet Manufacturer: tf. editores ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 8489162107 |
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Nixon's (1947, Detroit) revealing portraits of groups, families, old people, people with AIDS, couples and sisters, combined with his city views form a sensitive, seminal body of work. Printed on fine quality paper, two to a spread, bordered by white, the entire collection traces his whole career. Carlos Gollonet discusses each series in an extended foreword and a full biography and bibliography is included in the back.Customer Reviews:
a splurge ..........2004-03-27
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New Topographics. Photographs of a man-altered landscape. Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore, Henry Wessel, jr.
N/A Manufacturer: International Museum of Photography ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000LWD9WI |
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NEW TOPOGRAPHICS: PHOTOGRAPHS OF A MAN-ALTERED LANDSCAPE
William, Nicholas Nixon, Lewis Baltz, Robert Adams & Jorge Luis Borges Jenkins Manufacturer: International Museum of Photography ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000PIAQJC |
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Skeleton Key : Roots
Andi Watson Manufacturer: SLG Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0943151260 |
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Times are a changin' in Garfield. Tamsin begins to consider her future plans for college. Only there's one thing stadning in her way... her best friend Kitsune. How can she leave her behind when Kitty can't even shope for groceries on her own, Community college beckons, but is it really what Tamsin wants?Roots is a story about love, friendship and growing up from Eisner award nominee Andi watson.
Skeleton Key is a comic book series abot a young girl and her best friend who just happens to be a Japanese fox spirit.
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A different kind of 'Skeleton Key' story.......2001-03-29
'Roots' has none of the fantasy elements that were present in earlier volumes in the series--Tamsin refuses Kitsune's requests to go world-hopping with the Skeleton Key more than once, Mr. Racoon hardly does anything at all, and Kitsune all but gives up her magical nature and learns how to fit into the 'real' world of Garfield.
In some ways, the lack of magic makes 'Roots' a curious period at the end of the 'Skeleton Key' series. (I may be assuming too much, but this book felt like the *end* of the adventure.) On the other hand, it works nicely as a story about that stage we all have to face in our lives... the one where the kid stuff has to be set aside and we have to focus on finally mastering the skills we're going to need to survive outside "the nest," not to mention LEAVING the nest.
However, the kid stuff never fully leaves us, and we can always return to it when the time is right. So, maybe, Kitsune and Tamsin will have more adventures in the future.
Whatever happens, Andi Watson delivered another nice read, with characters as charming as ever.
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Front Row Seat: A Veteran Reporter Relives the Four Decades That Reshaped America
Murphy Martin Manufacturer: Eakin Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1571688137 |
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A lifetime of work watching history in the making........2004-01-29
Murphy has experienced what most of us have only read in the paper or viewed on television, he has had a true" A Front Row Seat to History"
A unique piece of history.......2004-01-20
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Beeing: Life, Motherhood, and 180,000 Honeybees
Rosanne Daryl Thomas Manufacturer: The Lyons Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 159228275X |
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Not just about bees.......2007-09-30
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Beeing: Life, Motherhood, and 180,000 Honey Bees
Rosanne Daryl Thomas Manufacturer: The Lyons Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1585747319 |
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Bees and life.......2004-02-26
Thomas' tales of learning the beekeeping trade from the bottom up are humorous, enlightening and presented in a conversational tone that kept me turning the pages. So much so that I finished the book in 1 day! She also throws in a few lessons about life and love, without being heavy handed or bogging down the story.
Even as someone who knew a little bit about beekeeping, I learned new stuff about the processes involved. For the gardener in me, it is great to learn a little more about how my garden helps bees to survive and thrive. My neighbor has a single hive on top of his garden shed and I can sit in my garden swing, watching their comings and goings. He makes sure we get some honey each year, too. Tasty! Even more so since part of it arose from my garden.
Several of my favorite books are based around the cycle of the year's passage. I think growing up on a farm certainly plays a part in this, but we all instinctively relate to the passing of the seasons in some way.
A HONEY OF A BOOK.......2003-01-29
There she met Farmer Tom; farmer being an unlikely sobriquet for a man with clean fingernails and a business card. Another unlikelihood was Ms. Thomas's out-of-nowhere comment that she might like to keep bees. At this, her daughter smiled, and Farmer Tom offered his land.
Smitten with the idea of having a mother who was a bee keeper, August "danced jubilantly about the house, composing beekeeping songs, drawing beekeeping pictures." Not wishing to disappoint her daughter, and just a little enthralled by the idea herself, Ms. Thomas began a task about which she knew "a teaspoonful more than absolutely nothing."
She visited a master beekeeper who introduced her to a hive body or deep super where bees live. Inside the deep super would be wax covered moveable frames where honey is made. . To her chagrin these did not come ready made, but had to be assembled - a daunting task for one who was not sure she owned a hammer. She bought three unassembled hives.
Another necessity was "The Outfit," first of all, gloves, elbow length cotton covered with yellow latex. Gloves did not come in a 7 ½; the smallest size in the white beesuit was a men's 42 regular. Finally, the hat. She was hoping for something in "a pale gold closely woven straw." Instead, she was handed "a hard white plastic pith helmet with ventilation grates at the temples."
There was no time for second thoughts as she had also ordered six living pounds of Italian honeybees. (According to the Bee Master Italian honeybees had the best dispositions). After many bruised fingers, considerable help from a friend, and countless visits to True Value, the hives were ready. Named Har, Jafenhar, and Thridi for the mythic trio who guard Valhalla, they were placed on Farmer Tom's land.
Weeks passed as Ms. Thomas tended her bees, sloshing through the field in Wellingtons bearing Ball jars of sugar water and toting other necessities in a lavender Bergdorf's shopping bag. With each visit she felt a deepening affinity for that spot of earth. Her respect for the natural world grew as she observed a blue heron seeking sustenance, and heavily laden black ants climbing ant mountains.
After a year the author had survived numerous stings and slings of fortune. She harvested her first crop with the observation that she had learned much but not enough.
Readers will find that they have learned much about bee keeping but not enough about Rosanne Daryl Thomas. "Beeing" is a memoir oddly lacking in emotional intimacy. Her marriage is dismissed with several lines, and there is scant reference to personal feelings. As "Motherhood" is found in the subtitle, one wonders what August's response was to the breakup of her home, and moving to a new community. Did Ms. Thomas ever address these issues with her daughter?
Practical matters also prove puzzling. With no apparent income how does one undertake a costly hobby that requires full time attention? Questions remain unanswered.
Nonetheless, "Being" is fluidly penned, at times lyric in descriptions of the changing seasons. And, there are lessons to be learned in this memoir, not the least of which is, "If you want to get honey, you have to be prepared to get stung."
There's no question at all about that.
- Gail Cooke
Completely Charmed by BEEING.......2003-01-14
Honey and Charm.......2002-12-31
Beeing.......2002-12-07
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Beeing: Life, Motherhood, and 180,000 Honeybees
Rosanne Daryl Thomas Manufacturer: Lyons Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000MQORGA |
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