RAY'S A LAUGH.
Title | RAY'S A LAUGH. PDF eBook |
Author | RICHARD. BILLINGHAM |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781915743329 |
Ray's a Laugh
Title | Ray's a Laugh PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Billingham |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Alcoholics in art |
ISBN | 9781935004356 |
Richard Billingham's Ray's a Laugh is considered one of the most important contemporary photobooks from Britain. Centered around Billingham's working-class family who live in a cramped Birmingham high-rise tenement apartment and his father Ray - a chronic alcoholic - these candid snapshots describe their daily lives in a visual diary that is raw, intimate, touching and often uncomfortably humorous. Books on Books #18 contains every page spread from this classic book including a contemporary essay by Charlotte Cotton.--Publisher.
The Essential New Art Examiner
Title | The Essential New Art Examiner PDF eBook |
Author | Terri Griffith |
Publisher | Northern Illinois University Press |
Total Pages | 364 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Each section of the book begins with a new essay by the original editor of the pieces therein that reconsiders the era and larger issues at play in the art world when they were first published. The result is a fascinating portrait of the individuals who ran the New Art Examiner and an inside look at the artistic trends and aesthetic agendas that guided it. Derek Guthrie and Jane Addams Allen, for instance, had their own renegade style. James Yood never shied away from a good fight. And Ann Wiens was heralded for embracing technologies and design. The story of the New Art Examiner is the story of a constantly evolving publication, shaped by talented editors and the times in which it was printed.
For Every Minute You are Angry You Lose Sixty Seconds of Happiness
Title | For Every Minute You are Angry You Lose Sixty Seconds of Happiness PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 80 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN |
"I met Charles Albert Lucien Snelling on a Saturday in April, 1992. He lived in a typical two-up, two-down terraced house amongst many other two-up, two-down terraced houses... it was yellow and orange. In that respect it was totally different from every other house on the street. Charlie was a simple, gentle man. He loved flowers and the names of flowers. He loved color and surrounded himself with color. He loved his wife. Without ever trying or intending to, he showed me that the most important things in life cost nothing at all. He was my antidote to modern living." Over eight years, photographer Julian Germain documented Charlie, an elderly man living alone on England's Southern Coast, unfettered by the misplaced aspirations of the modern world; instead he spent the last years of his life absorbed in memories of his family, his love for flowers, music and the quotidian pleasures of the crossword. Germain's charming photographs are a beautiful, gentle portrait of a gentleman in his twilight years.
The Sun Does Shine
Title | The Sun Does Shine PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Ray Hinton |
Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | 270 |
Release | 2018-03-27 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1250124719 |
"A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit"--
Stevie Ray's Medium-Sized Book of Comedy
Title | Stevie Ray's Medium-Sized Book of Comedy PDF eBook |
Author | Stevie Ray |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 300 |
Release | 1999-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780967178608 |
Focuses on why we laugh, what we laugh at, and who we laugh at.
Delayed Rays of a Star
Title | Delayed Rays of a Star PDF eBook |
Author | Amanda Lee Koe |
Publisher | Anchor |
Total Pages | 400 |
Release | 2019-07-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0385544359 |
An NPR Best Book of the Year A dazzling debut novel following the lives of three groundbreaking women--Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Leni Riefenstahl--cinema legends who lit up the twentieth century At a chance encounter at a Berlin soirée in 1928, the photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captures three very different women together in one frame: up-and-coming German actress Marlene Dietrich, who would wend her way into Hollywood as one of its lasting icons; Anna May Wong, the world's first Chinese American star, playing bit parts while dreaming of breaking away from her father's modest laundry; and Leni Riefenstahl, whose work as a director of propaganda art films would first make her famous--then, infamous. From this curious point of intersection, Delayed Rays of a Star lets loose the trajectories of these women's lives. From Weimar Berlin to LA's Chinatown, from a bucolic village in the Bavarian Alps to a luxury apartment on the Champs-Élysées, the different settings they inhabit are as richly textured as the roles they play: siren, victim, predator, or lover, each one a carefully calibrated performance. And in the orbit of each star live secondary players--a Chinese immigrant housemaid, a German soldier on leave from North Africa, a pompous Hollywood director--whose voices and viewpoints reveal the legacy each woman left in her own time, as well as in ours. Amanda Lee Koe's playful, wry prose guides the reader dexterously around murky questions of identity, complicity, desire, and difference. Intimate and clear-eyed, Delayed Rays of a Star is a visceral depiction of womanhood--its particular hungers, its oblique calculations, and its eventual betrayals--and announces a bold new literary voice.