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"Sometimes Breathtaking. Sometimes Horrific. Each photo has the power to inspire." Many of the photos on Photos that Changed the World will be familiar to readers, but judging from the slew of comments left for each one, they are still powerful and controversial. The photos are oddly stretched to fit the boxes on the main page but click on the thumbnails to get the the full size images, which are proportioned correctly. One new photo is added every week. (VF) From This is True for 12 April 2009 Suggestions for further reading:
 by John Szarkowski Amazon Price: $26.37 Customer Review: I also came to know of this book from Mike Johnston's "The Online Photographer" blog. Reading this book is like having a personal non-hurried guided tour of 100 significant works at MOMA by an expert curator. The subjects of the discu...  by Russell A. Olsen Amazon Price: $16.50 Customer Review: "Well if you ever plan to motor west, Just take my way, that's the highway that's the best. Get your kicks on Route sixty-six. Well it winds from Chicago to LA More than two-thousand miles all the way. Get your ki...  by Ulrich Keller Amazon Price: $10.36 Customer Review: This book gave a comprehensive narrative and pictorial overview of the building of the Panama Canal. I learned many interesting facts about this project that I had somehow missed in school.  by Heino Engel Amazon Price: $14.93 Customer Review: The book, taken from the larger volume "The Japanese House: A Tradition for Contemporary Architecture", describes exhaustively how the traditional Japanese house is built. Every topic from plan layout down to shoji or tokonoma proportions is co...  by Paolo Rubino Amazon Price: $23.10 Customer Review: This large format collection of photos offers wide open vistas of the Amalfi coast and its environs. Aerial and street-level perspectives, as well as close-up attention to the arts of Pompeii are included. A little heavy on the saturation levels, w... Newsfeed display by CaRP |
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