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Books on Biography & Autobiography > Artists, Architects, Photographers
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Paul O Keeffe
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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Haydon's first attempt at suicide ended when the low calibre bullet fired from his pistol fractured his skull but failed to penetrate his brain. His second attempt also failed: a deep slash across his throat left a large pool of blood at the entrance to his studio, but he was... more
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Andy Warhol
[Paperback 1977]
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In his autobiography, published in 1975, the private Andy Warhol talks about love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, money, success; about New York and America; about himself - his childhood in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, good times and bad times in the Big Apple, the explosion of his career in the Sixties,... more
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Fritjof Capra
[Paperback 2008]
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Enhanced with 50 sepia-toned illustrations and drawing on an examination of over 6,000 pages of Leonardo Da Vincis surviving notebooks, "The Science of Leonardo" explains that Da Vinci approached scientific knowledge through the eyes of an artist. Leonardo da Vinci's pioneering scientific work was virtually unknown during his lifetime. Now... more
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Catherine Mc Dermott ,
Nicola White ,
Carlton Books
[Hardbound 2000]
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Ansel Adams
[Paperback 1996]
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Reproductions of some of his most beloved images, chosen to reflect the changing seasons. Reproduced on high-quality paper. Spiral-bound desk calendar, featuring photos of the American wilderness. Printed on high-quality paper. Ansel Adams sublime photographs of trees are the subject of this beautiful and elegant homage to the most graceful... more
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N John Hall
[Hardbound 2002]
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C Raja Raja Varma ,
Erwin Neumayer ,
Christine Schelberger
[Hardcover 2005]
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The Diary of C. Raja Raja Verma, a journal kept by Raja Ravi Verma's brother, is one of the most important and authentic source materials on the last ten years of the life of the artist, Raja Ravi Verma.... more
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Letizia Argenteri
[Hardcover 2003]
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A charismatic stage and screen actress. A model whose beauty inspired some of the most arresting images of the twentieth century. A visionary photographer. A revolutionary with deep commitments to communism. A woman whose life, loves, and death were controversial. Tina Modotti (1896-1942) was all of these. Her life was... more
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June Newton
[Hardcover 2004]
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"It was during dinner one evening just before the first publication of my photographs that Helmut asked me what name I intended to use. Jean Seberg and her Spanish boyfriend, Ricardo, were among the guests and Ricardo...asked for an atlas which I produced. He opened it to the map of... more
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Lauren Goldstein Crowe
[Paperback 2011]
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An extraordinary biography of Isabella Blow, whose pedigree, wild style, and outrageous antics catapulted her onto the London social scene and made her a fashion icon. In 2007, the news of Isabella Blow’s suicide at the age of 48 made headlines around the world—but there is more to the story of Isabella than her tragic... more
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Angela Thirlwell
[Hardbound 2003]
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Delia Gaze
[Hardcover 1997]
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This remarkable book profiles some 550 painters, sculptors, photographers, and women in all areas of the arts. Each illustrated entry includes a biography of the artist, a bibliography and a signed interpretive essay by one of 300 contributors from 20 countries. Essays concentrate on the artist's work, discussing specific pieces... more
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Dave Navarro ,
Neil Strauss
[Paperback 2005]
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This collection of black-and-white photo-strips was compiled by rock star Dave Navarro, who placed a photo booth in his home and opened his doors. Accompanying the photo-strips are hilarious stories, tell-all anecdotes and other rare glimpses into the lives of the strippers, drug dealers, cleaning ladies, and celebrities who entered... more
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Milton Meltzer ,
Dorthea Lange
[Paperback 1999]
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Steven Watson
[Hardcover 2003]
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Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties is a fascinating look at the avant-garde group that came together--from 1964 to 1968--as Andy Warhol's Silver Factory, a cast that included Lou Reed, Nico, Edie Sedgwick, Gerard Malanga, Paul Morrissey, Joe Dallesandro, Billy Name, Candy Darling, Baby Jane Holzer, Brigid Berlin, Ultra Violet,... more
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Harry Francis Mallgrave
[Hardcover 1996]
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During an adventurous life, the German architect, scholar, and political revolutionary Gottfried Semper (1803-79) experienced early fame, political exile from his homeland, international prominence, and the exhilaration of seeing European architecture transformed by his influential body of ideas. In this engrossing biography of Semper - the first written on this... more
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Howard Hibbard ,
Shirley G Hibbard
[Paperback 1985, 2nd Edition]
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In this masterly, Howard Hibbard relates Michelangelo's art to his life and to the times in which he lived, relying on the earliest biographies and the latest scholarly research as well as on Michelangelo's own letters and poems. What emerges is both a perspective appraisal of his work and a... more
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Floyd Sonnier ,
Trent Angers
[Hardcover 2002]
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This 190-page hardcover book is the autobiography of pen-and-ink artist Floyd Sonnier (1933-2002) of Lafayette, La. Written and illustrated by Mr. Sonnier, the book tells the story of growing up as a French-speaking Cajun in rural south Louisiana in the 1940s and '50s. It is also a testament to his... more
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George Lois
[Hardcover 2003]
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American adman and image-maker George Lois was a leader of the Creative Revolution of the 1960's and is the mind behind an astonishing array of branding campaigns and unforgettable magazine covers featured in this new volume. To be featured in Vanity Fair February 2003.... more
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