Extreme Beauty in Vogue
Title | Extreme Beauty in Vogue PDF eBook |
Author | Phyllis Posnick |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Beauty, Personal |
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Approximately one hundred prints explore cultural attitudes toward female beauty, appearance, and self-expression by such notable photographers as Edward Steichen, Annie Leibovitz, Steven Klein, and Helmut Newtown.
Extreme Beauty
Title | Extreme Beauty PDF eBook |
Author | Harold Koda |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | 170 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Aesthetics |
ISBN | 0300103123 |
Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 6 December 2001 - 3 March 2002.
Vogue Body and Beauty Book
Title | Vogue Body and Beauty Book PDF eBook |
Author | Bronwen Meredith |
Publisher | Lane, Allen |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Beauty, Personal |
ISBN | 9780713910360 |
At Home in the World
Title | At Home in the World PDF eBook |
Author | Joyce Maynard |
Publisher | Picador |
Total Pages | 395 |
Release | 2010-04-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1429977558 |
New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day With a New Preface When it was first published in 1998, At Home in the World set off a furor in the literary world and beyond. Joyce Maynard's memoir broke a silence concerning her relationship—at age eighteen—with J.D. Salinger, the famously reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye, then age fifty-three, who had read a story she wrote for The New York Times in her freshman year of college and sent her a letter that changed her life. Reviewers called her book "shameless" and "powerful" and its author was simultaneously reviled and cheered. With what some have viewed as shocking honesty, Maynard explores her coming of age in an alcoholic family, her mother's dream to mold her into a writer, her self-imposed exile from the world of her peers when she left Yale to live with Salinger, and her struggle to reclaim her sense of self in the crushing aftermath of his dismissal of her not long after her nineteenth birthday. A quarter of a century later—having become a writer, survived the end of her marriage and the deaths of her parents, and with an eighteen-year-old daughter of her own—Maynard pays a visit to the man who broke her heart. The story she tells—of the girl she was and the woman she became—is at once devastating, inspiring, and triumphant.
Sex and the City and Us
Title | Sex and the City and Us PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Keishin Armstrong |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2019-05-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 150116483X |
The bestselling author of Seinfeldia offers a fascinating retrospective of the iconic and award-winning television series, Sex and the City, in a “bubbly, yet fierce cultural dissection of the groundbreaking show” (Chicago Tribune). This is the story of how a columnist, two gay men, and a writers’ room full of women used their own poignant, hilarious, and humiliating stories to launch a cultural phenomenon. They endured shock, slut-shaming, and a slew of nasty reviews on their way to eventual—if still often begrudging—respect. The show wasn’t perfect, but it revolutionized television for women. When Candace Bushnell began writing for the New York Observer, she didn’t think anyone beyond the Upper East Side would care about her adventures among the Hamptons-hopping media elite. But her struggles with singlehood struck a chord. Beverly Hills, 90210 creator Darren Star brought her vision to an even wider audience when he adapted the column for HBO. Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha launched a barrage of trends, forever branded the actresses that took on the roles, redefined women’s relationship to sex and elevated the perception of singlehood. Featuring exclusive new interviews with the cast and writers, including star Sarah Jessica Parker, creator Darren Star, executive producer Michael Patrick King, and author Candace Bushnell, “Jennifer Keishin Armstrong brings readers inside the writers’ room and into the scribes’ lives…The writing is fizzy and funny, but she still manages an in-depth look at a show that’s been analyzed for decades, giving readers a retrospective as enjoyable as a $20 pink cocktail” (The Washington Post). Sex and the City and Us is both a critical and nostalgic behind-the-scenes look at a television series that changed the way women see themselves.
The Book of Mother
Title | The Book of Mother PDF eBook |
Author | Violaine Huisman |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2022-10-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1982108797 |
Longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize A New York Times Notable Book A Library Journal Best Book of 2021 A “marvelous…superbly effective” (The New Yorker) debut novel about a young woman coming of age with a dazzling yet damaged mother who lived and loved in extremes. Met by rave reviews in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and more, this stunning translation of Violaine Huisman’s “witty, immersive autofiction showcases a Parisian childhood with a charismatic, depressed parent” (Oprah Daily). Beautiful and magnetic, Catherine, a.k.a. “Maman,” smokes too much, drives too fast, laughs too hard, and loves too extravagantly, and her daughter Violaine wouldn’t have it any other way. But when Maman is hospitalized after a third divorce and a breakdown, everything changes. Even as Violaine and her sister long for their mother’s return, once she’s back Maman’s violent mood swings and flagrant disregard for personal boundaries soon turn their home into an emotional landmine. As the story of Catherine’s own traumatic childhood and adolescence unfolds, the pieces come together to form an indelible portrait of a mother as irresistible as she is impossible, as triumphant as she is transgressive. With spectacular ferocity of language, a streak of dark humor, and stunning emotional bravery, The Book of Mother is an exquisitely wrought story of a mother’s dizzying heights and devastating lows, and a daughter who must hold her memory close in order to surrender, and finally move on.
Hair
Title | Hair PDF eBook |
Author | Guido Palau |
Publisher | Rizzoli International Publications |
Total Pages | 157 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0847840832 |
Following his previous book, Heads, this is another sequence of head-shots showing Guido's expressive hairstyles.