Another Such Victory: The Story of the American Defeat at Guilford Courthouse that Helped Win the War for Independence

Baker, Thomas E.

Eastern National

The Story of the Liberty Bell

History

Kimball, David

Americas

Roebling's Delaware & Hudson Canal Aqueducts

Robert M Vogel

The Battle of Fredericksburg (Civil War Series)

William Marvel

Paperback: 56 pages Publisher: Eastern National (1995) Language: English

The Battle of Chancellorsville (National Park Civil War Series)

Gary W. Gallagher

TOLD THROUGH THEIR OWN WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHS;;' 189 PAGES FULL OF PHOTOS

Wind and Sand : The Story of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk

Wescott, Lynanne, and Paula Degan

Oliver Jensen (fwd.)

National Parks on the Great Lakes

Breun, Raymond L

Greater Washington National Parks

National Park Service

Based on a personal journaling format, Meaningful Interpretation uses questions, text, exercises, and the insights of colleagues to explore the relationship of tangible resources to their intangible meanings, the role and purpose of interpretation, and the responsibilities of professionalism.

Meaningful Interpretation: How to Connect Hearts and Minds to Places, Objects, and Other Resources

David L. Larsen

Not since 1929 has there been a biography of Edward Steichen, photographer, painter, and a pivotal yet enigmatic figure in twentieth-century art and culture on two continents. Steichen, who died just short of his ninety-fourth birthday, was fifty and internationally famous when Steichen the Photographer was written by his brother-in-law, the poet and biographer Carl Sandburg. Now Penelope Niven, whose highly acclaimed biography of Sandburg appeared in 1991, has written the first comprehensive biography of Steichen. Here, she illuminates the full story of Steichen's avant-garde life in Paris and New York and his roles in introducing modern art to the American audience, in shaping aerial reconnaissance photography in World War I and navy photography in World War II, in revolutionizing American fashion and portrait photography through his years as chief of photography at Vanity Fair and Vogue, and in creating the unprecedented photographic exhibition The Family of Man, which has touched a global audience of millions since it opened in 1955. Searching the world over for Steichen's letters, paintings, and photographs, Niven has reconstructed his major, pioneering achievements. Steichen's enduring contributions to the fine art of photography have not been fully recognized because they have not, until now, been fully documented and placed within the context of his times and his turbulent, romantic, and often tragic personal life. With the help of public and private papers and interviews, Niven builds a compelling portrait of the charismatic, complex, very human man behind the camera. We explore Steichen's gardens and his artful love of nature, manifested in his obsessive achievementsas a master breeder of delphinium. We step inside his intimate, private world--and view his passionate attachment to his mother, his sister, and his two daughters; the heartrending battles of his first marriage; and his alleged and actual love affairs. This biography also explores Steichen's catalytic relationships with August Rodin, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Alfred Stieglitz, Gertrude and Leo Stein, and Carl and Lilian Steichen Sandburg. "Steichen was a rebel, stubbornly independent and largely self-taught, who also believed passionately in the fundamental intersections of art and life, " Penelope Niven writes. As this biography reveals, Edward Steichen's life, like his art, was brilliantly original, dramatic, and unforgettable.

Steichen: A Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Niven, Penelope

Arts & Literature

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