Norman Parkinson


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A celebration of Norman Parkinson's 'moving pictures taken with a still camera', this book celebrates the unrivalled portfolio of one of the 20th century's greatest fashion photographers.




Sisters Under the Skin


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Norman Parkinson


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This title is a comprehensive monograph covering all seven decades of Parkinson's work. Author Louise Baring takes us on a journey through Parkinson's life, from his early studio days to his pioneering location work in which he shot fashion 'stories' in such daring and adventurous places as Red Square and the Grand Canyon.




Parkinson


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For more than 50 years, Norman Parkinson was one of Britain's leading exponents of fashion and portrait photography. A reappraisal of his work, this book covers his early ground-breaking fashion work for Harper's Bazaar in the 1930s, his coverage for Vogue in rural wartime England and internationally in the 1950s, his exuberant view of London in the 1960s, through to his later work for Town and Country in the United States, as well as a selection of his many portraits. This retrospective contains both famous and unfamiliar photographs, having been drawn from Parkinson's extensive archive.




Ending Parkinson's Disease


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In this "must-read" guide (Lonnie Ali), four leading doctors and advocates offer a bold action plan to prevent, care for, and treat Parkinson's disease-one of the great health challenges of our time. Brain diseases are now the world's leading source of disability. The fastest growing of these is Parkinson's: the number of impacted patients has doubled to more than six million over the last twenty-five years and is projected to double again by 2040. Harmful pesticides that increase the risk of Parkinson's continue to proliferate, many people remain undiagnosed and untreated, research funding stagnates, and the most effective treatment is now a half century old. In Ending Parkinson's Disease, four top experts provide a plan to help prevent Parkinson's, improve care and treatment, and end the silence associated with this devastating disease.




Would You Let Your Daughter?


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Art, sensuality, and drama are blended together in a collection of photographic portraits, fashions, and fantasies from the work of the award-winning photographer of "Vogue" and "Town and Country" magazines




The Brain's Way of Healing


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Based on astonishing case studies, this is a brilliant and beautifully written follow-up to Dr Doidge’s record-breaking bestseller The Brain That Changes Itself. In his first book, Norman Doidge described the most important development in our understanding of the brain in four hundred years: the discovery that the brain can change its own structure and function in response to mental experience — what we call neuroplasticity. Now The Brain’s Way of Healing shows how this amazing discovery really works, significantly broadening the field from traumatic brain injury to all manner of diseases and conditions in which brain functioning is a factor — including multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, and dementia. He describes how patients have retrained their brains and learned to walk, speak, or hear, while others have reset the brain’s energy patterns and circuits to overcome or reduce chronic pain or alleviate anxiety, trauma, learning disorders, and many other impairing syndromes. As he did so lucidly in The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge presents exciting, cutting-edge science with practical real-world applications, and illustrates how anyone can apply the principles of neuroplasticity to improve their brain’s performance.




Lisa Fonssagrives


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Swedish by birth, Parisian by inclination, and American following her marriage to Irving Penn in 1950. Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn (1911-1992) was the most sought-after model in the history of international fashion photography for three decades and the most famous face in such magazines as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. During her long career, she posed for all the prominent photographers of her day: George Hoyningen-Huene, Man Ray, Horst, Erwin Blumenfeld, George Platt Lynes, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Norman Parkinson and Richard Avedon, among others. Of special importance was her work with Fernand Fonssagrives, her first husband; with Horst, with whom she shared a common fate as a European immigrant; and of course with Irving Penn, her second husband. Lisa Fonssagrives was obviously more than just a model for photographers - she was both their muse and inspiration. Many of them made their most beautiful and noteworthy fashion photographs in cooperation with her. Among these is a surprisingly large number which rank among the absolute classics in the history of fashion photography of our century. This volume was compiled and arranged by David Seidner, a talented fashion photographer of the new generation who unearthed an undiscovered collection of photographs which once belonged to Lisa Fonssagrives. The British photo historian Martin Harrison wrote the accompanying biographical essay.




Spit On A Canvas


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Norman Greenstein, also known to friends, family, and fans as, 'The Parkinson's Painter', is an American artist, writer, and public speaker who has led a life of service, experience and inspiration on his way to fulfilling his lifelong dream of becoming an artist. Throughout Norman's career as veteran of the USAF, a social worker, and as a fundraiser to help Jewish communities in need, Norman always looked to benefit society and family above himself. Having been told that he would never make it as an artist throughout his whole life, and having dedicated his life to supporting his family, Norman flirted with his passion for art over the years, only to have reality and responsibilities come crashing down over and over again on his hopes of following a path of creativity and expression. When Norman was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease in 2008, and then forced into early retirement in 2012 at the age of 69, he managed to find the positive side of his affliction and turned his tragedy into the opportunity to finally live out his life's ambition and embark on his second career as a painter.




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