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Postcards from Rio

Author : Kátia da Costa Bezerra
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823276562
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Postcards from Rio written by Kátia da Costa Bezerra and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the analysis of a variety of favela-based visual cultural productions by young people and contemporary theorists, Postcards from Rio examines the complex relationship between citizenship and urban space in contemporary Rio de Janeiro. By analyzing videos and photographs, Kátia da Costa Bezerra illustrates how citizens of favelas are reshaping their sense of belonging as subjects and as a legitimate part of the city. A groundbreaking study that examines more deeply the relationship between urban space, citizenship, and imagery originating in the favelas, Postcards from Rio sheds crucial light on how contemporary lenses are defining and mediating the meanings of space and citizenship as strategies of empowerment. The city emerges as a political space where multiplicities of perspectives are intertwined with demands for more inclusive forms of governance.

Postcards from the Baja California Border

Author : Daniel D. Arreola
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816542554
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Postcards from the Baja California Border written by Daniel D. Arreola and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcards from the Baja California Border uses popular historical imagery--the vintage postcard--to tell a compelling, visually enriched geographical story about the border towns of Baja California.

Vik Muniz: Postcards from Nowhere

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Publisher : Aperture Direct
ISBN 13 : 9781683952176
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Vik Muniz: Postcards from Nowhere written by and published by Aperture Direct. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not so long ago, it was relatively easy to wake up overlooking Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong and go to sleep in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge; to travel from Venice to Istanbul in time for dinner. The international network of the art world, in particular, made it easy to slip through time and borders--with the right invitation and the right passport. You may never have been to Basel, Switzerland for the art fairs, but you might certainly feel as though you have, experiencing it exclusively through the spate of other people's images. Vik Muniz's series Postcards from Nowhere grapples with how, through photographs, we have come to "see" and understand distant yet iconic sites we may never actually view with our own eyes. "The images we hold in our heads are an assemblage," notes Muniz. "They are an amalgam of every image of those locations that we have ever seen." More critically, the series serves as an homage not just to the quasi-obsolete artifact of the picture postcard, but to a way of life that has now been put in sharp relief. Muniz's images--created out of collaged pieces of vintage postcards from the artist's personal collection--materialize the experience and longing of travel, triangulating between the traveler, a distant location, and the recipient who, increasingly, remains at home. Volume I presents thirty-two single postcards displaying each of the images in the series. Volume II presents a series of thirty-six postcards that, when assembled, can be viewed as a single, large-scale work of 30 x 40 inches. The process of assembling the larger, single image is akin to the original act of collage--or like that of assembling a mosaic crafted from disparate pieces that have traveled from afar, but when brought together, conjure something that is larger, more complete than any individual element could be on its own.

Mexican Postcards

Author : Carlos Monsivais
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9780860916048
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Mexican Postcards written by Carlos Monsivais and published by Verso. This book was released on 1997-05-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first translation in book form of his work, Latin American social commentator Carlos Monsivais presents an extraordinary chronicle of contemporary life south of the Rio Grande, ranging over subjects as various as Latino hip hop, Dolores del Rio, boleros, and melodrama. Monsivais's chronicles are laconic and satirical, taking as a constant theme the conflicts between Mexican and North American culture and between modern and traditional ways of life.

Postcards from the Río Bravo Border

Author : Daniel D. Arreola
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292752822
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Postcards from the Río Bravo Border written by Daniel D. Arreola and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history in postcards of Mexican tourist towns in the first half of the twentieth century, with nearly two hundred illustrations. Between 1900 and the late 1950s, Mexican border towns came of age both as tourist destinations—in some cases by luring Americans who wanted to escape Prohibition—and as emerging cities. Commercial photographers produced thousands of images of their streets, plazas, historic architecture, and tourist attractions, which were reproduced as photo postcards. Daniel Arreola has amassed one of the largest collections of these border town postcards, and in this book he uses this amazing visual archive to offer a new way of understanding how the border towns grew and transformed themselves in the first half of the twentieth century, as well as how they were pictured to attract American tourists. Postcards from the Río Bravo Border presents nearly two hundred images of five towns on the lower Río Bravo: Matamoros, Reynosa, Nuevo Laredo, Piedras Negras, and Villa Acuña. Using multiple images of sites within each city, Arreola tracks changes both within the cities as places and in the ways in which they’ve been pictured for tourist consumption. He also shows how postcard images, when systematically and chronologically arranged, can tell us a great deal about how Mexican border towns have been viewed over time. This innovative visual approach demonstrates that historical imagery, no less than text or maps, can be assembled to tell a fascinating geographical story. “This is masterful cultural geography with rich visual materials, delivered in a unique and compelling fashion.” —Journal of Latin American Geography

Villages of the Rio Grande

Author : Museum of New Mexico Press Staff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780890132685
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Villages of the Rio Grande written by Museum of New Mexico Press Staff and published by . This book was released on 1994-10-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each contains 30 detachable duotone postcards of treasured historical images from the Museum of New Mexico preeminent photo archives. All are 6 7/8 x 4 3/4.

Postcards from the Road

Author : Steve Rothery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780993558108
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (581 download)

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Download or read book Postcards from the Road written by Steve Rothery and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Postcard of Rio de Janeiro

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Postcard of Rio de Janeiro written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: Front has image of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Sent from Bob Brandhart, USS Louisville (CA-28) to Gerhart Lang, Maplewood, Missouri.

Postcards From Rio: Master of Her Innocence / To Play with Fire / A Taste of Desire

Author : Chantelle Shaw
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 1474095283
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Postcards From Rio: Master of Her Innocence / To Play with Fire / A Taste of Desire written by Chantelle Shaw and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unforgettable Brazilian nights

The Walkabout Orchestra

Author : Chloé Perarnau
Publisher : Wide Eyed Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781786030795
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Walkabout Orchestra written by Chloé Perarnau and published by Wide Eyed Editions. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The orchestra have an important concert to play… but all the musicians have gone walkabout! Can you help the Maestro and his faithful assistant to track them down using clues from their postcards? Take a trip from Reykjavik to Rio, through Greek islands, Venetian canals and Egyptian pyramids in this search-and-find tour of the world and learn all the instruments of the orchestra as you work your way through this spotting extravaganza.

Postcards From Surfers

Author : Helen Garner
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0857960423
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book Postcards From Surfers written by Helen Garner and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short shot of brilliant storytelling one of the most celebrated modern Australian short stories is now available to read by itself, wherever you are. A young woman from Melbourne visits her parents, and Auntie Lorna, in Surfers Paradise. As she stays with them, and writes postcard after postcard home, she thinks back on relationships that have shaped her. Helen Garner's collection Postcards from Surfers heralded a new generation of Australian writing, and her beautifully detailed, honest and evocative prose is on perfect display in this the title story.

Postcard with Several Photos of Rio de Janeiro

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Postcard with Several Photos of Rio de Janeiro written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: Postcard with several photos of Rio de Janeiro. "Rio de Janeiro Av. Rio Branco." Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The Book of Rio

Author : Cesar Cardoso
Publisher : Comma Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Rio written by Cesar Cardoso and published by Comma Press. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s the city the rest of the world descends on to party…. whether for the spectacular annual Carnival, the sun-kissed beaches, the World Cup, or, in 2016, the Olympics. It’s also a place that’s sadly become synonymous with some of the excesses of partying, the dark underbelly that accompanies any urban hedonist’s destination. But these are just two images of Rio. There are countless others: opulent seat of two former empires; stronghold of brutal, twentieth-century dictatorships; sprawling metropolis stretched between stunning mountain tops and equally stunningeconomic extremes – from the affluence of neighbourhoods like Leblon and Ipanema, to the overcrowded slums in the foothills, the favelas. This anthology brings together ten short stories that go beyond the postcards and snapshots, and introduce us to real residents of Rio – the cariocas: young hopefuls training to be the next stars of samba, exhausted labourers press-ganged into meeting an impossible construction deadline (the nation’s pride being at stake), bored call-girls, nostalgic drag queens, married couples having petty middle-class domestics…. These are characters who’ve developed a deep understanding of Rio’s contradictions, a way of living with the grey areas – between the grime and the glitz – that make Rio the ‘marvellous city’ it is.

Mies Van Der Rohe's Farnsworth House

Author : Paul Clemence
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Mies Van Der Rohe's Farnsworth House written by Paul Clemence and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographer Paul Clemence celebrates a revered icon of modern architecture, the Farnsworth House, located near Plano, Illinois, and designed in 1951 by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Striking architetural details are captured in 20 eye-catching B & W postcards. Whether mailing or framing the stunning images, this book is a must-have for devotees of architecture, design, Modernism, the Bauhaus, Mies van der Rohe, and photography.

Postcards from the Sonora Border

Author : Daniel D. Arreola
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816534322
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Postcards from the Sonora Border written by Daniel D. Arreola and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Postcards from the Sonora Border: Visualizing Place through a Popular Lens, 1900s-1950s examines the urban landscapes of Mexican border cities through picture postcards. This volume aims to capture the evolution of Sonora border towns over time, and create a sense of visual "time travel" for the reader by relying on Arreola's personal collection of postcards"--Provided by publisher.

If We Were Villains

Author : M. L. Rio
Publisher : Flatiron Books
ISBN 13 : 1250095301
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book If We Were Villains written by M. L. Rio and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Much like Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, M. L. Rio’s sparkling debut is a richly layered story of love, friendship, and obsession...will keep you riveted through its final, electrifying moments.” —Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author of The Nest "Nerdily (and winningly) in love with Shakespeare...Readable, smart.” —New York Times Book Review On the day Oliver Marks is released from jail, the man who put him there is waiting at the door. Detective Colborne wants to know the truth, and after ten years, Oliver is finally ready to tell it. A decade ago: Oliver is one of seven young Shakespearean actors at Dellecher Classical Conservatory, a place of keen ambition and fierce competition. In this secluded world of firelight and leather-bound books, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress, ingénue, extras. But in their fourth and final year, good-natured rivalries turn ugly, and on opening night real violence invades the students’ world of make-believe. In the morning, the fourth-years find themselves facing their very own tragedy, and their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, each other, and themselves that they are innocent. If We Were Villains was named one of Bustle's Best Thriller Novels of the Year, and Mystery Scene says, "A well-written and gripping ode to the stage...A fascinating, unorthodox take on rivalry, friendship, and truth."

The Salton Sea

Author : Karl Anderson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738574554
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book The Salton Sea written by Karl Anderson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Salton Sea was an accident of man created when heavy rainfall caused the Rio Colorado to swell and breach an Imperial Valley dike in 1905. For two years, water flowed into the Salton Sink and ancient Lake Cahuilla. Today, the sea is 227 feet below sea level, covers approximately 376 square miles, and is California's largest lake. During the early 1900s, it became an important bird and waterfowl refuge. When many species of fish were introduced, the Salton Sea also became popular for boating, fishing, hunting, and camping activities. Motels, yacht clubs, and marinas developed around Salton City and North Shore. During recent decades, the sea has become polluted from agricultural runoff, creating a doubtful future for the Salton Sea. However, it remains a sanctuary for anyone who enjoys bird watching, desert landscapes, or beautiful farmlands.