Woman With A Leica
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The Girl With The Leica
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Author : Helena Janeczek
language : en
Publisher: Europa Editions
Release Date : 2019-10-08
The Girl With The Leica written by Helena Janeczek and has been published by Europa Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-08 with Fiction categories.
The life of a female war photographer killed in action is told by three of her friends in this biographical novel by the author of Bloody Cow. Gerda Taro was a German-Jewish war photographer, anti-fascist activist, artist, and innovator who, together with her partner, the Hungarian Endre Friedmann, was one half of the alias Robert Capa, widely considered to be the twentieth century’s greatest war and political photographer. She was killed while documenting the Spanish Civil War and tragically became the first female photojournalist to be killed on a battlefield. August 1, 1937, Paris. Taro’s twenty-seventh birthday, and her funeral. Friedmann leads the procession. He is devastated, but there are others, equally bereft, with him: Ruth Cerf, Taro’s old friend from Leipzig with whom she fled to Paris; Willy Chardack, ex-lover; Georg Kuritzkes, another lover and a key figure in the International Brigades. They have all known a different Gerda, and one who is at times radically at odds with the heroic anti-fascist figure being mourned by the multitudes . . . Another character in the novel is the era itself, the 1930s, with economic depression, the rise of Nazism, hostility towards refugees in France, the century’s ideological warfare, the cultural ferment, and the ascendency of photography as the age’s quintessential art form. Winner of the Strega Prize, The Girl with the Leica is a must-read for fans of historical fiction centered on extraordinary women’s lives. “A biography, a feminist parable, a declaration of love for photography, and a tableau of the 1930s: The Girl with the Leica is all this at once.” —Il Sole 24 Ore (Italy) “Janeczek creatively and seamlessly spotlights war photographer Gerda Pohorylle.” —Publishers Weekly
Woman With A Leica
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Author : Dimitrij Grcar
language : en
Publisher: novum pro Verlag
Release Date : 2019-07-02
Woman With A Leica written by Dimitrij Grcar and has been published by novum pro Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-02 with Fiction categories.
In 1955, Max Haffner, burdened with guilt, puts together a risky photo exhibition from the work of his long-time friend, Greta Anckermann, in the hopes that she will return from exile to Vienna. His 8-year-old daughter, Patrizia, takes in the glossy prints and listens to her father describe Greta, and her Leica camera, in mythical terms, becoming enchanted with her legend. Thirteen years later, in 1968, novice journalist Patrizia finds Greta, convincing her to tell her story. She hopes to reinvent Greta, remind the world that she existed; Greta hopes to expel her demons. As the incredible story unfolds, Patrizia hears shocking truths about Greta's role in history, and Max's role in Greta's life. Patrizia vows to get the truth out of Greta, but it may be more convoluted than she imagines.
Leica Woman
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Author : Galeria Asymetria
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Leica Woman written by Galeria Asymetria and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Photographers categories.
Women Street Photographers
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Author : Gulnara Samoilova
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2021-03-02
Women Street Photographers written by Gulnara Samoilova and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-02 with Photography categories.
With a rising number of women throughout the world picking up their cameras and capturing their surroundings, this book explores the work of 100 women and the experiences behind their greatest images. Traditionally a male-dominated field, street photography is increasingly becoming the domain of women. This fantastic collection of images reflects that shift, showcasing 100 contemporary women street photographers working around the world today, accompanied by personal statements about their work. Variously joyful, unsettling and unexpected, the photographs capture a wide range of extraordinary moments. The volume is curated by Gulnara Samoilova, founder of the Women Street Photographers project: a website, social media platform and annual exhibition. Photographer Melissa Breyer's introductory essay explores how the genre has intersected with gender throughout history, looking at how cultural changes in gender roles have overlapped with technological developments in the camera to allow key historical figures to emerge. Her text is complemented by a foreword by renowned photojournalist Ami Vitale, whose career as a war photographer and, later, global travels with National Geographic have allowed a unique insight into the realities of working as a woman photographer in different countries. In turns intimate and candid, the photographs featured in this book offer a kaleidoscopic glimpse of what happens when women across the world are behind the camera.
Leica M
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Author : Günter Osterloh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Leica M written by Günter Osterloh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Leica camera categories.
The ultimate Leica guide--written by the company's top technical expert--now includes the Leica MP. This classic source contains a goldmine of technical information and insider knowledge, and covers Leica's famed lenses plus every film model from the M1 through the MP--along with schematic diagrams and explanations of metering, focusing, flash systems, film advance, and more.
Taking Pictures Making Pictures
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Author : Alberto Venzago
language : en
Publisher: Steidl
Release Date : 2021-09
Taking Pictures Making Pictures written by Alberto Venzago and has been published by Steidl this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09 with categories.
The Swallows Of Monte Cassino
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Author : Frederika Randall
language : en
Publisher: New Acdemia+ORM
Release Date : 2013-10-14
The Swallows Of Monte Cassino written by Frederika Randall and has been published by New Acdemia+ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-14 with Fiction categories.
The Strega Prize–winning author of The Girl with a Leica delivers a novel that hinges on one of the bloodiest World War II battles and those who fought it. In this highly original novel, Janeczek retells the four-month-long Battle of Monte Cassino from the point of view of the Maori, Gurkha, Polish, North African, small-town American and other Allied foot soldiers who fought and died under German fire near that 6th century Benedictine abbey. Twined through the battle is another story, a memory of the drowned and the saved in Janeczek’s own family in wartime Eastern Europe, where Jews who did not go to Nazi death camps went to Soviet gulag camps, and sometimes survived, and even went on to fight at Monte Cassino. A powerful reflection on all the ways that rights can be taken from us. “Helena Janeczek’s novel is this: a tattoo etched on the skin, and not painlessly. A vast design that brings together threads from all the various lives that converged in that legendary battle. The beauty of her tale lies in its structure, the way opposites converge: the chaos of battle and the silence of the defeated, ordinariness and the heroism of the powerless, carefully guarded memory and impetuous youth, the past perpetually intertwined with the present.” —Roberto Saviano, author of Gomorrah
The Matryoshka Memoirs
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Author : Sasha Colby
language : en
Publisher: ECW Press
Release Date : 2023-09-12
The Matryoshka Memoirs written by Sasha Colby and has been published by ECW Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A granddaughter explores the story of her Ukrainian grandmother’s survival of Hitler’s forced labor camps Irina Nikifortchuk was 19 years old and a Ukrainian schoolteacher when she was abducted to be a forced laborer in the Leica camera factory in Nazi Germany. Eventually pulled from the camp hospital to work as a domestic in the Leica owners’ household, Irina survived the war and eventually found her way to Canada. Decades later Sasha Colby, Irina’s granddaughter, seeks out her grandmother’s story over a series of summer visits and gradually begins to interweave the as-told-to story with historical research. As she delves deeper into the history of the Leica factory and World War II forced labor, she discovers the parallel story of Elsie Kühn-Leitz, Irina’s rescuer and the factory heiress, later imprisoned and interrogated by the Gestapo on charges of “excessive humanity.” This is creative nonfiction at its best as the mystery of Irina’s life unspools skillfully and arrestingly. Despite the horrors that the story must tell, it is full of life, humor, food, and the joy of ordinary safety in Canada. The Matryoshka Memoirs takes us into a forgotten corner of history, weaving a rich and satisfying tapestry of survival and family ties and asking what we owe those who aid us.
Meanwhile Across The Mountain
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Author : Jens Olof Lasthein
language : en
Publisher: Bokförlaget Max Ström
Release Date : 2017-03-31
Meanwhile Across The Mountain written by Jens Olof Lasthein and has been published by Bokförlaget Max Ström this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-31 with categories.
The book is an intimate portrait of a part of the world that is seldom mentioned or recognised and the result of years of travelling in the area. Lasthein uses his panoramic camera as a means of both being in the middle of a situation and getting a wide-angle view of the scene. His pictures are often composed of multiple interacting actions. In the Caucasus the concept of borderland gets especially vivid. Here Europe meets Asia and Islam meets Christianity; a myriad nationalities, languages and cultures live side by side. In spite of the unresolved wars and conflicts since the fall of the Soviet Union, people of the new countries and republics are still emotionally tied together by their common history. Jens Olof Lasthein's pictures tell stories full of life from a region which is most often talked about only when bombs explode or border conflicts flare up anew.
The Woman In The Photograph
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Author : Dana Gynther
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2015-08-04
The Woman In The Photograph written by Dana Gynther and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-04 with Fiction categories.
Set in the romantic glow of 1920s Paris, a captivating novel of New York socialite and model Lee Miller, whose glamorous looks and joie de vivre caught the eye of Man Ray, one of the twentieth century’s defining photographers. 1929, Montparnasse. Model and woman about town Lee Miller moves to Paris determined to make herself known amidst the giddy circle of celebrated artists, authors, and photographers currently holding court in the city. She seeks out the charming, charismatic artist Man Ray to become his assistant but soon becomes much more than that: his model, his lover, his muse. Coming into her own more fully every day, Lee models, begins working on her own projects, and even stars in a film, provoking the jealousy of the older and possessive Man Ray. Drinking and carousing is the order of the day, but while hobnobbing with the likes of Picasso and Charlie Chaplin, she also falls in love with the art of photography and finds that her own vision can no longer come second to her mentor’s. The Woman in the Photograph is the richly drawn, tempestuous novel about a talented and fearless young woman caught up in one of the most fascinating times of the twentieth century.