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A Dangerously Curious Eye

Author : Barry Shapiro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979331497
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book A Dangerously Curious Eye written by Barry Shapiro and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far from the bridges and cable cars, hidden away behind the famous hills, there is another San Francisco Bay Area that most people never see. San Francisco's Hunter's Point and Fillmore District, West Oakland and Richmond's Iron Triangle -- in the 1970s these places on the edges of this great American metropolis offered Barry Shapiro an alternate reality where he pointed his lens. Although Barry made his reputation as a professional photographer with the 1972 publication of Handmade Houses: The Woodbutcher's Art, his day job as a teacher of remedial reading to adults gave him an entree into a world that white America only saw in the blaxploitation films of the day like "Shaft" and "Superfly." His curious eye brought him to many dangerous places, but with the trust he earned, he was able to not only hang out in this unique subculture, but be allowed to photograph their very intimate and sometimes dark moments. In these photos we see glimpses of tenderness that can explode into violence, tension that dissolves into laughter, kids showing off for the camera, and tough motorcycle gangs chilled out after a night of hard partying. What instantly captures the viewer's attention is that Barry, with the force of his energetic personality, established a trusting relationship with each of his subjects, whether that relationship lasted for years or only a few seconds. When Barry wasn't hanging out in these fringe neighborhoods, he was prowling the streets of the Bay Area with his stealth Leica shooting poignant black-and-white moments of street life through the windows of his VW bus. These images record an incredible slice of everyday urban life without any hint of his even being there. Barry captured what Henri Cartier-Bresson called "the decisive moment" over and over with a natural ability that only the best photographers have. Always a maverick, rarely inclined to shoot to spec and unwilling to compromise or cater to photographic fashion, Barry shot his black-and-white photographs with no thoughts of commercialism. Although his career as a photographer spanned more than forty years, and he spent the last sixteen years of his life as a high-school teacher and principal, he never stopped shooting. With a foreword by famed San Francisco rock photographer Jim Marshall and an introduction by best-selling novelist Mark Joseph, two of Barry's closest friends, A Dangerously Curious Eye will show you a very different side of the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Curious Eye

Author : Erin Webster
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198850190
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Curious Eye written by Erin Webster and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Curious Eye explores early modern debates over two related questions: what are the limits of human vision, and to what extent can these limits be overcome by technological enhancement? In our everyday lives, we rely on optical technology to provide us with information about visually remote spaces even as we question the efficacy and ethics of such pursuits. But the debates surrounding the subject of technologically mediated vision have their roots in a much older literary tradition in which the ability to see beyond the limits of natural human vision is associated with philosophical and spiritual insight as well as social and political control. The Curious Eye provides insight into the subject of optically-mediated vision by returning to the literature of the seventeenth century, the historical moment in which human visual capacity in the West was first extended through the application of optical technologies to the eye. Bringing imaginative literary works by Francis Bacon, John Milton, Margaret Cavendish, and Aphra Behn together with optical and philosophical treatises by Johannes Kepler, Rene Descartes, Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle, and Isaac Newton, the volume explores the social and intellectual impact of the new optical technologies of the seventeenth century on its literature. At the same time, it demonstrates that social, political, and literary concerns are not peripheral to the optical science of the period but, rather, an integral part of it, the legacy of which we continue to experience.

The Curious Eye

Author : Walden Leecing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Curious Eye written by Walden Leecing and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

I Never Thought of It That Way

Author : Mónica Guzmán
Publisher : BenBella Books
ISBN 13 : 1637740328
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book I Never Thought of It That Way written by Mónica Guzmán and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PORCHLIGHT BOOKS JUNE 2022 NONFICTION BESTSELLER “I can see this book helping estranged parties who are equally invested in bridging a gap—it could be assigned reading for fractured families aspiring to a harmonious Thanksgiving dinner.” —New York Times “Like all skills, these techniques take practice. But anyone who sincerely wants to bridge the gaps in understanding will appreciate this book. Guzmán is emphatic about making an effort to work on difficult conversations.” —Manhattan Book Review We think we have the answers, but we need to be asking a lot more questions. Journalist Mónica Guzmán is the loving liberal daughter of Mexican immigrants who voted—twice—for Donald Trump. When the country could no longer see straight across the political divide, Mónica set out to find what was blinding us and discovered the most eye-opening tool we’re not using: our own built-in curiosity. Partisanship is up, trust is down, and our social media feeds make us sure we’re right and everyone else is ignorant (or worse). But avoiding one another is hurting our relationships and our society. In this timely, personal guide, Mónica, the chief storyteller for the national cross-partisan depolarization organization Braver Angels, takes you to the real front lines of a crisis that threatens to grind America to a halt—broken conversations among confounded people. She shows you how to overcome the fear and certainty that surround us to finally do what only seems impossible: understand and even learn from people in your life whose whole worldview is different from or even opposed to yours. Drawing from cross-partisan conversations she’s had, organized, or witnessed everywhere from the echo chambers on social media to the wheat fields in Oregon to raw, unfiltered fights with her own family on election night, Mónica shows how you can put your natural sense of wonder to work for you immediately, finding the answers you need by talking with people—rather than about them—and asking the questions you want, curiously. In these pages, you’ll learn: How to ask what you really want to know (even if you’re afraid to) How to grow smarter from even the most tense interactions, online or off How to cross boundaries and find common ground—with anyone Whether you’re left, right, center, or not a fan of labels: If you’re ready to fight back against the confusion, heartbreak, and madness of our dangerously divided times—in your own life, at least—Mónica’s got the tools and fresh, surprising insights to prove that seeing where people are coming from isn’t just possible. It’s easier than you think.

The Curious Eye

Author : Royal Scottish Academy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780905783093
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Curious Eye written by Royal Scottish Academy and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Crystal Force

Author : Joe Ducie
Publisher : Hot Key Books
ISBN 13 : 1471404544
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Crystal Force written by Joe Ducie and published by Hot Key Books. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With enemies on all sides, who can Drake really trust? On the run after escaping from what was supposed to be the world's most secure juvenile facility (and blowing it up in the process), Will Drake knows it's only a matter of time before the sinister Alliance catches up with him. But Drake is in need of an alliance of his own - knowing who to trust is becoming increasingly difficult, and after having been exposed to the highly unstable (and potentially deadly) Crystal-X whilst fleeing from the Rig, it looks like time might be running out for him all together. His arm has started to mutate into an impenetrable black crystal, and although it gives him a superhuman-like ability to fight, it might also be causing him to lose his mind. Surrounded by enemies and desperate for help, Drake and his escapee comrades are forced to form an uneasy partnership with a mysterious group who also claim to have been exposed to Crystal-X. They say they know how to use its powers for good - but can Drake really keep running forever? And who should he trust more - his supposed friends, or the voices in his head...?

A Dangerous Guest

Author : Henry Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dangerous Guest written by Henry Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Downcast Eyes

Author : Martin Jay
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520081544
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Downcast Eyes written by Martin Jay and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long considered "the noblest of the senses," vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. These critics of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged its allegedly superior capacity to provide access to the world. They have also criticized its supposed complicity with political and social oppression through the promulgation of spectacle and surveillance. Martin Jay turns to this discourse surrounding vision and explores its often contradictory implications in the work of such influential figures as Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, Guy Debord, Luce Irigaray, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida. Jay begins with a discussion of the theory of vision from Plato to Descartes, then considers its role in the French Enlightenment before turning to its status in the culture of modernity. From consideration of French Impressionism to analysis of Georges Bataille and the Surrealists, Roland Barthes's writings on photography, and the film theory of Christian Metz, Jay provides lucid and fair-minded accounts of thinkers and ideas widely known for their difficulty. His book examines the myriad links between the interrogation of vision and the pervasive antihumanist, antimodernist, and counter-enlightenment tenor of much recent French thought. Refusing, however, to defend the dominant visual order, he calls instead for a plurality of "scopic regimes." Certain to generate controversy and discussion throughout the humanities and social sciences, Downcast Eyes will consolidate Jay's reputation as one of today's premier cultural and intellectual historians.

Dangerous Skies

Author : Suzanne Fisher Staples
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466813571
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Skies written by Suzanne Fisher Staples and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2006-08-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Season of Change Along the Virginia shoreline where their families have lived for generations, Buck and Tunes Smith defy tradition. Raised together like brother and sister, they are bound by surname, but not by skin color. And just as Buck has come to rely on Tunes, Tunes has come to trust that even in a place where race can mean so much, their friendship will remain as dependable as the tides. But then the horrifying events of one spring afternoon tear them apart -- and change their world forever. Desperate to hang on to the thing that he values most, Buck struggles to uphold their friendship -- without realizing that his efforts are pushing Tunes farther and farther away. From a Newbury Honor -- winning author, this is a powerfully moving story of friendship in the face of racism, and betrayal in the name of loyalty.

Dangerous to Hold

Author : Elizabeth Thornton
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553574795
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Dangerous to Hold written by Elizabeth Thornton and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1996-04-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Once again, Elizabeth Thornton has taken the perfect ingredients—tight plotting, strong conflict, and smooth characters, and sewn them into a seamless romp!”—Literary Times Searching for his missing wife but finding instead her look-alike, fiery-tempered Catherine Courtnay, Marcus Lytton, the Earl of Wrotham, asks Catherine Courtnay to pose as his wife in order to help his investigation. “A major, major talent . . . a genre superstar.”—Rave Reviews

A Dangerous Faith

Author : James Lund
Publisher : WaterBrook
ISBN 13 : 0307499073
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book A Dangerous Faith written by James Lund and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2010-05-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where did we get this idea that God wants us to be complacent? What if we were called to forfeit our comfortable lifestyles? Meet the called: mountain climbers, deep-sea divers, fighter pilots, and jungle missionaries who follow God into the adventure of a lifetime. Dangerous Faith tells their dramatic true stories, revealing incredible truths only risk can inspire. Each of these trailblazers rejects security to reach for a perilous place few Christ-followers dare. Their stories will thrill and amaze you. What they discover just might revolutionize your life–because He’s calling you, too, into a life of risk. Adventure. Passion. Freedom. Truth. Are you prepared for a Dangerous Faith?

A Dangerous Infatuation

Author : Chantelle Shaw
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1459219287
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (592 download)

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Download or read book A Dangerous Infatuation written by Chantelle Shaw and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rocco D'Angelo doesn't do needy women—and he certainly doesn't do commitment! But the spark notorious playboy Rocco feels with his beloved grandmother's nurse, Emma Marchant, is more than the usual thrill-of-the-chase adrenaline! Never in her wildest dreams did cautious Emma imagine she would be swept from a sleepy English village to the exotic climes of the Italian Riviera—especially by a man as disreputable as Rocco. Emma could be the one to tame the untamable—unless her infatuation is more dangerous than she imagined….

Beholder's Eye

Author : Julie E. Czerneda
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1101165677
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Beholder's Eye written by Julie E. Czerneda and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United in their natural form they are one, sharing all their memories, experiences, and lives. Apart they are six, the only existing members of their ancient race, a species with the ability to assume any form once they understand its essence. Their continued survival in a universe filled with races ready to destroy anyone perceived as different is based on the Rules. And first among those Rules is: Never reveal your true nature to another being. But when the youngest among them, Esen-alit-Quar, receives her first independent assignment to a world considered safe to explore, she stumbles into a trap no one could have anticipated. Her only means of escape lies in violating the First Rule. She reveals herself to a fellow captive―a human being/ While this mistake might not ordinarily prove fatal, the timing of the event could not be worse. For something new has finally made its way into the Universe, the Enemy of the Web, bringer of death to all forms of life. And the hunt it about to begin.

The Christian Poet; Or, Selections in Verse on Sacred Subjects

Author : James Montgomery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1058 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Christian Poet; Or, Selections in Verse on Sacred Subjects written by James Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Variable Man

Author : Hugh Walter Nelms
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462837751
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book The Variable Man written by Hugh Walter Nelms and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-03-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driving home in the night, Hubert is surprised to see a mysterious light hovering over his car. Scared, he pulls up in his driveway and sees the light beaming down on his garden, irradiating it. Through this light the Prime Matter People direct Hubert to eat a midnight meal of collards cooked with greasy ham hocks whereby he is given supernatural powers enabling him to become invisible or the man or monster of choice, a black or white skeleton. Borrowing from an armored truck so he can fight crime from a Harlem town house, he applies his powers for good, mischievously.

Coco's Nuts

Author : Tyler Colins
Publisher : Next Chapter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Coco's Nuts written by Tyler Colins and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2021-12-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rookie private eyes JJ, Rey and Linda stumbled and bumbled through their previous assignments with stellar results. Now the trio, proud owners of the Triple Threat Investigation Agency, have yet another multi-murder mystery to solve. Who set up their client, socialite-turned-trucker Buddy Feuer, to take the rap? And where is nutty Coco Person, who has been MIA since the murders went down? In their detecting travels, they meet up with former acquaintances, some of who may not be all that they seem. Add bombs and debt collectors to the list of ingredients, and you have one explosive recipe.

Voyage of the Slaves

Author : Brian Jacques
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 0142412465
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Voyage of the Slaves written by Brian Jacques and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2008-09-18 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the writer of the immensely succesful and imaginative Redwall series. Adrift in the Mediterranean, Ben and his loyal dog Ned -- cursed by an avenging angel to roam the earth foreve -- fall into the clutches of a slaver, and have no one to rely on but each other in their quest for freedom.