Girl with a Camera


Book Description

The daring and passionate life of photographer Margaret Bourke-White — the first female war photojournalist in World War II and the first female photographer for Life magazine — is captured in this historical novel. Growing up, Margaret Bourke-White intended to become a herpetologist, but while she was still in college, her interest in nature changed to a fascination with photography. As her skill with a camera grew, her focus widened from landscapes architecture to shots of factories, trains, and bridges. Her artist's eye sharpened to see patterns and harsh beauty where others saw only chaos and ugliness. Totally dedicated to her work, and driven by her ambition to succeed, she eventually became a well-known and sought after photographer, traveling all over the United States and Europe. A comprehensive author's note provides additional information to round out readers' understanding of this fascinating and inspiring historical figure.




Rebecca: Lights, Camera, Rebecca!


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For her tenth birthday, Rebecca is invited to visit her cousin Max's movie studio! When the cameras begin to roll, she finds herself unexpectedly presented with a part to play. Rebecca doesn't have the courage to tell her family, but is it wrong to keep such a big secret? Later that summer, on a visit to the factory where her uncle and cousin work, Rebecca is horrified. Is this the life that's in store for cousin Ana? There must be a way to improve conditions at the factory, and Rebecca is determined to do her part - even if it means marching straight into danger.




Camera Girl


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A moving and inspiring memoir of Doreen Spooner. Struggling to hold her head high through the disintegration of her family through alcoholism, she began a career as Fleet Street's first female photographer. While the love and family life she'd always dreamed of fell apart, Doreen walked into the frantic world of a national newspaper. Determined to save her family from crippling debt, she captured the Swinging Sixties through political scandals, glamorous stars, and cultural icons, while her home life spiraled further out of control. The two sides of this story take you through a touching and emotional love story, coupled with a hugely enjoyable portrait of post-war Britain.




Lights, Camera . . .


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Nancy has a part in a film reenactment of the heist that gave her town its name. When the cameras start rolling trouble begins.




Ruthie and the (Not So) Teeny Tiny Lie


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Ruthie loves tiny things and when she finds a tiny camera on the playground she is very happy, but after she lies and says the camera belongs to her, nothing seems to go right. 25,000 first printing.




Lights, Camera, Girl Power!


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Friends Andrea, Emma, Mia, Stephanie, and Olivia compete to appear on the popular television show "Girl Power" by showcasing their appreciation of Heartlake City.




A Camera, Two Kids, and a Camel


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Features 150 photographs by an award-winning photographer for National Geographic, offering a revealing portrait of the people and places she encountered during the three decades that she and her family traveled all over the world.




Hold Still


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This National Book Award finalist is a revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her. Sorting through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs she finds more than she bargained for: "deceit and scandal, alcohol, domestic abuse, car crashes, bogeymen, clandestine affairs, dearly loved and disputed family land . . . racial complications, vast sums of money made and lost, the return of the prodigal son, and maybe even bloody murder." In lyrical prose and startlingly revealing photographs, she crafts a totally original form of personal history that has the page-turning drama of a great novel but is firmly rooted in the fertile soil of her own life.




A girl, a stolen camera and a borrowed bike


Book Description

Sonali, a gleeful and cheerful medical graduate is on her trip to Goa with some friends when she discovers a camera; a camera that redefines her life and reshapes her journey. The camera revamps her journey in pursuit of ‘someone’ that the pictures talk of. The tale of a journey is an account of Sonali’s expedition to the one the camera beholds and intrigues her about. The book is a narrative of the girl’s exploration of Jai Singh Koranga and the stories that pass by on the borrowed bike. What is it in the camera that intrigues Sonali? Who is Jai Singh Koranga? Is her journey a quest in itself? Is it a quest to know about Jai or a quest to discover her own self?




The Photographs of Margaret Bourke-White


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More than 200 black and white photographs.