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  Redeeming Vision - A Christian...

  Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt

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  Christianity Today 2024 Award of Merit (Culture and the Arts) 
   
  The Gospel Coalition 2023 Book Award (Arts & Culture) 
   
  We are formed by the images we view. From classical art to advertisements and from news photos to social media, the images we look at mold our ideas of race, gender, and class. They shape how we love God and our neighbor. 
   
  This practical guide helps us look closely at and understand how a wide variety of images make meaning as aesthetic and cultural objects. Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt teaches us how to learn from art rather than critique it and how to respond to images in Christian ways, allowing them to positively transform us and how we love. 
   
  The book includes twenty-three images, most in full color, that range from classical European paintings to Central African sculpture, from Chinese ink painting to political propaganda, and from stark anthropological photographs to unconventional installations.

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  Capturing Light - The Epic...

  David Sartore, Joel Taylor

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  Capturing Light: The Epic Journey of Photograph 
  Introducing "The History of Photography: A Picture of Innovation." Witness the development of a medium that has captured the human experience in its most fleeting moments and grand historical sweeps. 
  Uncover the layers of this visual saga with: 
  📸 Pioneering Perspectives: Explore the origins of photography and the geniuses whose visions gave rise to a new form of art and documentation. 
  🔍 Technological Evolution: Trace the advancements from the first grainy images to the high-definition clarity of contemporary cameras, understanding the science that made it possible. 
  🎨 Artistic Revolution: Delve into the ways photography has reshaped our approach to art, from candid street snapshots to the curated expressions of the gallery wall. 
  🌐 Cultural Impact: Examine the role of photography in shaping our social history, politics, and collective memory, proving itself as a tool of both truth and manipulation. 
  Each chapter develops an understanding of how every snapshot is a frame in the reel of history—to educate, to inspire, and to provoke reflection on this powerful form of human expression. 
  Are you ready to focus on the milestones of photographic ingenuity? To zoom in on the moments that have changed the way we see the world? To appreciate the breadth and depth of photography's impact on society? 
  Open "The History of Photography" and immerse yourself in the story of how we have come to picture our reality, one shutter click at a time. 📚📸🌐

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  Black Oak - Odes Celebrating...

  Harold Green III

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  As he did for Black women in Black Roses, Harold Green III, poet and founder of the music collective Flowers for the Living, now honors the Black men he most admires—groundbreakers including Tyler Perry, Barry Jenkins, Billy Porter, Chance the Rapper, LeBron James, Colin Kaepernick, and John Legend—and celebrates their achievements which are transforming lives and making history. 
  Black men are changing society and the world through mastery, innovation, and inspiration at a pace never seen before. In awe of the myriad ways in which Black men are using their vision and power to remake culture and society, spoken word artist Harold Green began writing odes recognizing the extraordinary accomplishments of a series of Black men, which he shared on his Instagram account—tributes that went viral and became a social media sensation. Black Oak brings together many of these popular odes with original works written for this collection. 
  Divided into five sections—bravehearts, champions, dreamers, guardians, and humanitarians—Black Oak features iconic men who are spearheading movements, fighting for equality, challenging the status quo, embracing fatherhood, providing a transformative model of masculinity for our children, inspiring a new generation of creators, and more. Through these beautifully written verses, Harold does not simply place the Black men in this book on a pedestal, he transcends even the most positive stereotypes to view these men and their accomplishments in a new light, and creates meaningful connections between these beloved figures and the lives and experiences of readers of all backgrounds.  
  Black Oak includes odes to Barry Jenkins, Big K.R.I.T, Billy Porter, Black Thought, Chance the Rapper, Charles Booker, Colin Kaepernick, Dwyane Wade, Edmund Graham III, Eric Hale, Excell Hardy Jr., Harold Green III, Harold Green Jr., Harold Green Sr., Hebru Brantley, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Jamaal Bowman, Jason Reynolds, Jericho Brown, John Legend, Kehinde Wiley, Kerry James Marshall, Kevin Fredricks, Killer Mike, Kyler Broadus, LeBron James, Mahershala Ali, Marc Lamont Hill, Matthew Cherry, Orlando Cooper, Pharrell, Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III, Rev. Dr. William Barber II, Ryan Coogler, Swizz Beatz, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Theaster Gates, Tobe Nwigwe, Tristan Walker, and Tyler Perry. 
  The audiobook edition of Black Oak also includes an exclusive interview between Green, his father, and grandfather about the making of the collection.

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  The Hartford Circus Fire -...

  Michael Skidgell

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  Through firsthand accounts and interviews with survivors, author Michael Skidgell attempts to make sense of one of Hartford's worst tragedies. 
   
   
   
  Almost 7,000 fans eagerly packed into the Ringling Brothers big top on July 6, 1944. With a single careless act, an afternoon at the "Greatest Show on Earth" quickly became one of terror and tragedy as the paraffin-coated circus tent caught fire. Panicked crowds rushed for the few exits, but in minutes, the tent collapsed on those still struggling to escape below. A total of 168 lives were lost, many of them children, with many more injured and forever scarred by the events. Hartford and the surrounding communities reeled in the aftermath as investigators searched for the source of the fire and the responsible parties.

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  Nadja

  André Breton

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  In Paris, during the fall of 1926, André Breton met a young woman from the provinces who called herself Nadja because, she said, "in Russian it's the beginning of the word for hope, and because it's only the beginning." Their love affair was brief, intense, and intensely self-conscious. They both talked exuberantly of the book that Breton would make out of their days and nights. And indeed a year later (after Nadja was institutionalized and Breton had moved on to other love affairs) he began to write Nadja—a book of memory and analysis taking its cue in part from Freud's case studies, but also a book of ingeniously intercut images, drawing on Surrealist ideas to portray a soul whose very way of being approaches, in Breton's words, "the extreme limit of the Surrealist aspiration."In this, the first new translation of Nadja in more than sixty years, Mark Polizzotti captures the youthful excitement, the abiding strangeness, and above all the freshness of Breton's prose. He also provides an illuminating introduction about the fate of the real Nadja, whose identity remained jealously guarded until the twenty-first century. A gripping tale of infatuation and a meditation on the surrealism of everyday life, Nadja is still a thing of convulsive beauty, impossible to pin or put down, a precursor to works of Julien Gracq, Julio Cortázar, and W. G. Sebald.

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  Tell Them It's A Dream Sequence:...

  John Gaspard

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  Is it your dream to make feature films? 
  Get advice on how to do that by some of the best in the business!  
  It’s like going to film school without ever leaving home. 
  Valuable Lessons on Making a Successful Feature Film.  
  Includes great tips and ideas from: Steven Soderbergh (“sex, lies & videotape”)Roger Corman (“Little Shop of Horrors”)Jon Favreau (“Swingers”)Rebecca Miller (“Personal Velocity”)Kenneth Lonergan (“You Can Count on Me”)Henry Jaglom (“Venice/Venice”)Miranda July (“Me and You and Everyone We Know”)Bob Odenkirk (“Melvin Goes to Dinner”)Dan O'Bannon (“Dark Star”)Whit Stillman (“Metropolitan”)Jonathan Lynn (“My Cousin Vinny”)Carol Littleton (“The Big Chill”)Dan Futterman (“Capote”)Joan Micklin Silver (“Hester Street”)Griffin Dunne (“Lisa Picard is Famous”)Stuart Gordon (“Re-Animator”)Kasi Lemmons (“Eve’s Bayou”)George Romero (“Martin”)Tom Noonan (“What Happened Was…”)Daniel Myrick (“The Blair Witch Project”) 
  And many more! 
  Topics covered include getting started, scripting, pre-production, production, post-production and distribution.

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