Book by Paul Rezendes, Paulette Roy

Wetlands: The Web of Life

Paul Rezendes

Paulette Roy

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full-color photographs and over 65 recipes using infused oils and vinegars

A Passion for Flavor: Cooking with infused vinegar & oil

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Eve Plociennik

Rita Randazzo

Cooking by Ingredient

Sites Unseen is a collection of six moving photography and public art projects from different European cities merging images of the Holocaust with present-day scenes and places by well-known photographer and installation artist Shimon Attie. The work documents, in photographs, Attie's series of installation art projects which were done in Europe from 1991-1996. Using a variety of media, from on-location slide projection in Berlin's former Jewish quarter to underwater light boxes in a Copenhagen canal, his hauntingly beautiful installations reanimate sites with images of their own lost histories of the Holocaust and World War II.

Sites Unseen

Arts & Photography

Attie, Shimon

Photography & Video

Susan Baker's paintings are exquisite time capsules that document an era of art and hilarity in Provincetown. These interiors and landscapes - moody, whimsical, searing - have the intimate scale of still-life portraits and personal histories about a beguiling and renowned fringe society of famous artists, authors and spectacular nobodies. In these wholly original paintings, Baker shows us the wondrous connections people have to a place called "land's end." Throughout these gorgeous pages she has created a masterpiece of wit and poignancy. - Maria Flook, author of My Sister Life

The History of Provincetown

Baker, Susan

Each woman who is diagnosed with breast cancer is faced with her worst fears and a sense of hopelessness that pervades her every waking moment. Often, her anguish comes from the belief that she will no longer be attractive, or look or feel normal again. This brave and honest, groundbreaking book offers an answer to the confusion that arises from this diagnosis. 
An astonishingly beautiful, life-affirming and hopeful book, Reconstructing Aphrodite tells the stories of twenty-one women -- all of whom, facing breast cancer and mastectomy, chose simultaneous reconstruction. Through intimate first-person narrative, wedded to startlingly frank and revealing photographs, the women exude courage and confidence in the face of life-threatening disease. The stories these women tell will serve as the inspiration and solace for countless others whose lives are touched by this tragic illness. 
In her moving photographs, Terry Lorant has captured the spirit of beauty and wholeness each of these women possesses. Working in concert with Dr. Loren Eskenazi, one of the foremost breast reconstruction surgeons, Reconstructing Aphrodite is a unique combination of photographic and surgical artistry and the courageous stories of women whose lives have been transformed. 
The book was born out of the realization that combining reconstruction with the tragedy of mastectomy would all but eliminate the psychological trauma of breast cancer surgery. Dr. Eskenazi and her surgical partner and team have perfected the surgical techniques for these parallel operations. 
Reconstructing Aphrodite also contains detailed information about breast reconstruction, and resources to guide you, your mother, sister, wife or friend through the maze of medical decisions that must be made if one’s life has been touched by breast cancer. 
The women portrayed in Reconstructing Aphrodite have offered their most intimate stories as a gift so that no woman will ever have to face this illness alone.

Reconstructing Aphrodite

Ancient myth and state-of-the-art photography are interwoven in this arresting meditation on timeless female power. During an extraordinary eight-year project, Bettina WitteVeen took her camera to remote Southeast locales, including the jungles of Bali, Burma and Vietnam, to find the face of ancient myth in the peoples of today. Her epic series of photographs embraces dynamic themes from Greek mythology (the Three Fates, Amazons, Hecate and Medusa) and Buddhism (the cult of Tara). An elegant suite of pavilions for the exhibition has been designed by Robert Wilson, one of the major figures of the avant-garde, whose working process in this collaborative effort is documented in detail. Art historian and literary scholar Charles A. Riley II, Ph.D. traces the mythological and allegorical meanings of the work in an accessible essay written in close collaboration with the artist.

Sacred Sister

WitteVeen, Bettina

From Duke Ellington to the Jackson Five, here is a celebration of the unique and often outrageous style in music, dance and showmanship that shook, rattled, and rolled the whole wide world. More than 400 color illustrations.

Heart & Soul (A Celebration of Black Music Style in America 1930-1975)

Bob Merlis

Music

Art enthusiasts and lovers of American art have long considered collecting art a hobby reserved solely for the wealthy. "Collecting African American Art: Works on Paper and Canvas" (Revised Second Edition) effectively dispels this misconception. In these pages, lavishly illustrated with almost two hundred works by a wide range of artists, readers will find practical guidelines for becoming an informed colector, including specific criteria for working with dealers. By providing succinct advice on framing, insurance, and tax and estate planning, as well as pointers on how to care for one's collection, author Halima Taha makes collecting an enjoyable-and affordable-pastime for everyone. Combining a rich and diverse blend of aesthetic traditions from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States, African American art has emerged as the most actively collected art in the marketplace. This guide presents both new and established artists and identifies dealers throughout the nation specializing in the field. Insightful and accessible, it is the first book to define the role of the collector of African American art. The result is a unique and essential guide to developing a meaningful and rewarding collection.

Collecting African American Art: Works on Paper and Canvas (Revised Second Printing)

Politics & Social Sciences

Halima Taha

Social Sciences

This book is an in-depth exploration of the worldwide phenomenon of Elvis impersonators. There are believed to be between 10,000 and 30,000 people who say they are Elvis impersonators from among the over 10,000,000 fans in every city in America, and every country in the world. For more than ten years, Chicago based photographer Patty Carroll has traveled across the globe to photograph over 300 impersonators. The fruit of the singular obsession of this self-described “normal person” is a fabulously funny, totally engrossing portrayal of a slice of life of consuming interest to millions of people throughout the world. The book will be a vivid, exciting, richly colorful series of portraits of Elvis impersonators in full costume- ready in every way to have their fifteen minutes of fame- fully believing that they have been recreated as “The King.” The portraits are presented together with commentaries and written responses about themselves and their relation to Elvis drawn from interviews by the photographer. A brief personal history of each of the impersonators will describe their lives; including their day job, how long they have been impersonating Elvis and their hopes and ambitions for the future. The book represents the ultimate realization of years of research, photography, interviewing, talking, listening, hanging out, observing, and being totally immersed in the world of Elvis impersonators for more than ten years. There is no end in sight for this amazing culture - it continues to expand too fast to ever really document them all. The impersonators are a diverse, unregulated, self-obsessed and self-promoting group of people who all have the same fantasy of being Elvis. These men, women, and children range in age, size, girth, nationality, race, religion and profession, and include every type of person imaginable! Impersonators are at the core of a worldwide phenomenon in which Elvis Presley continues to be adored, admired, and imitated since his death in 1977.

Living the Life: The World of Elvis Tribute Artists

Patty Carroll

This book, the first monograph on the art of Peter Schwarzburg, includes a selection of thirty-two of his works, spanning an artistic life of some sixty years. In an engaging and provocative essay, Neil Chassman weaves in vignette format a mesmerizing account of Peter’s painting, drawing and, in particular, his unforgettable use of line and color, invariably resulting in a powerfully poetic composition and inner structure. Set in the backdrop of New York and its famous art museums and galleries, restaurants and cafes, and Central Park; the alluring Lake George region of New York state; the breathtaking landscapes of Montauk and City Island; and the memorable mountains and meadows of Virginia’s Blue Ridge – one cannot read this book without becoming thoroughly engaged by the fascinating mind and intellect of a “pure genius,” within the milieu of a great creative friendship. What happens when two highly intellectual minds strike up a sustained forty-three year long friendship, begun in 1959, and center it around art, thought, and food? One is an art historian and art theorist; the other, his professor of philosophy and psychology, a ”Renaissance man” and an extraordinary artist. The result is "Pure Genius: The Art and Mind of Peter Schwarzburg."

Pure Genius: The Art and Mind of Peter Schwarzburg

Neil A. Chassman

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