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America's  Fine  Art
American Masters gallery at AllPosters.com
  | Walter T. Foster® Art Books [est. 1922]
browse books at Walter Foster Store {returns 22 titles} on Amazon search books on keywords 'Walter+T.+Foster' {returns 130+ items} at Amazon Walter T.Foster Publng official website • Walter Foster, Junior official website entry at Wikipedia • blog essay "A Walter T. Foster Story" Oct 2011 |
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"The Work of Art In The Age of Mechanical Reproduction" [1936 classic] by Walter Benjamin "widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time" CreateSpace 36-page 8¼x5½ pb [8/2009] for $9.95 "The Work of Art In The Age of Its Technological Reproducibility & Other Writings On Media" Harvard University Belknap Press 9x6¼ pb [5/2008] for $12.89 |
  | "After The End of Art: Contemporary Art and The Pale of History" [1996 classic] by Arthur C. Danto based on his 1995 Mellon Lectures On The Fine Arts Princeton Univ Press 8½x6 pb [11/98] for $17.79 Princeton Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [11/96] out of print/used |
  | "Great Paintings of The Western World" [1997] by Alison Gallup, Gerhard Gruitrooy & Elizabeth M. Weisberg 300 color plates, each with concise and penetrating text Beaux Arts Edition 13x9¾ hardcover [1997] out of print/90+ used Beaux Arts Edition 13x10 hardcover [1998] out of print/used |
  | "Wall-to-Wall America: Post-Office Murals In The Great Depression" [2000] by Karal Ann Marling CAVEAT: the illustrations are in b&w Univ MN Press 9x6 pb [5/2000] for $25.00 |
  | "A More Abundant Life: New Deal Artists and Public Art In New Mexico" [2003] by Jacqueline Hoefer Sunstone Press 11x8¾ pb [7/2003] for $49.50 Sunstone Press 11½x8¾ hardcover [5/2003] for $47.74 |
  | "Walter Benjamin and Art" [2005] Edited by Andrew Benjamin Continuum 9x6 pb [1/2005] for $42.94 Continuum 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1/2005] for $150.00 |
  | "Priceless: How I Went Undercover To Rescue The World’s Stolen Treasures" [2010 bestseller] by Robert K. Wittman, with John Shiffman Memoir of the founder of the F.B.I.’s Art Crime Team; in his remarkable twenty-year career, he and his team rescued paintings by Monet, Picasso, Rembrandt & Rockwell, and irreplacable historical artifacts, catching art thieves, scammers & black market traders in Paris, Philadelphia, Rio de Janiero, Santa Fe, Miami, and Madrid. Crown 9¼x6½ hardcover [6/2010] for $16.50 |
  | "Modern Women: Women Artists At The Museum of Modern Art" [2010] Edited by Cornelia Butler & Alexandra Schwartz Museum of Modern Art, New York City 10¾x9¼ hardcover [6/2010] for $40.95 An important study on two levels: of how MoMA was pressured to address gender issues, and of the women instrumental in advancing the arts to where they are today. Topics & artists covered in 48 essays include Latin American artists, African-American artists & performance artists; photographers Diane Arbus, Julia Margaret Cameron & Nan Goldin; filmmaker Maya Deren; actress Lillian Gish; architect Zaha Hadid; and actress-director Ida Lupino |
  | "Youth and Beauty: Art of The American Twenties" [2011] by Teresa A. Carbone, Bonnie Costello, Randall Griffey & Sarah M. Lowe Over 200 illustrations; featuring 'iconic & surprising' paintings and photographs & sculpture by Stuart Davis, Aaron Douglas, Walker Evans, Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, Isamu Noguchi, Georgia O'Keeffe, Man Ray, Charles Sheeler, Alfred Stieglitz, and others. Skira Rizzoli & Brooklyn Museum pb [10/2011] out of print/used Skira Rizzoli & Brooklyn Museum 11&14x9¾ hardcover [10/2011] for $37.50 |
  | "Public Art and Architecture In New Mexico, 1933-1943: A Guide To The New Deal Legacy" [2012] by Kathryn A. Flynn Sunstone Press 9¾x7 pb [7/2012] for $26.06 Sunstone Press 10¼x7½ hardcover [7/2012] for $114.00 {sic} |
Art in America Magazine subscribe: 12 issues/year for $29.95 | American Artist Magazine subscribe: 12 issues/year for $19.95 |
The Artist's Magazine subscribe: 10 issues/year for $21.99 |
Southwest Art Magazine auto-renewal subscription via Amazon: 12 issues/year for $34.95 |
Art of The West Magazine subscribe: 6 issues/year for $25.00 |
Art Business News Magazine bimonthly print & digital subscribe directly: 6 issues/year for $20.00 |
Picturing America On Screen
  | The National Endowment for the Humanities funded the "Picturing America Initiative" which is now realized in the new video online and on-air companion called "Picturing America On Screen", produced by W.N.E.T. in New York City. The website (launched September 2011) provides 25 short online segments that are rich in information on The Arts of America, and so have been coded here and on the Spirit of America Bookstore pages that pertain to each subject. |
The Barnes Museum
Eccentric Dr. Albert Barnes [1872-1951] bequeathed his eclectic art collection – containing masterworks by
Cézanne, El Greco, Gauguin, Goya, Matisse, Monet, Picasso, Renoir, Utrillo, Van Gogh & others, and currently
worth $25-35 billion – to the failing Afro-American college Lincoln University. Economic concerns and terms of
the will erupted in controversy in the 1990s, with plans afoot to relocate the collection to Philadelphia's Museum
District; the new museum opened in May 2012, lovely but still controversial.
Barnes Foundation entry at Wikipedia
official Barnes Foundation website
Friends of the Barnes Foundation [est. 2004]
The Barnes Museum [opened May 2012] in Philadelphia, PA
  | "Great French Paintings From The Barnes Foundation: Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Early Modern" [1993]
Knopf 11½x9¾ pb [11/95] for $44.41 Knopf 11¾x9¾ hardcover [4/93] out of print/used |
  | "Art Held Hostage: The Battle Over The Barnes Collection" [2003] by John Anderson W.W. Norton & Co. hardcover [5/2003] for $16.77 |
  | "The Art of The Steal" documentary film [I.F.C./Sundance Selects Feb 2010] Chronicles the long and dramatic struggle for control of the Barnes Foundation, and its eclectic art collection, currently worth $25-35 billion. Directed by Don Argott M.P.I. Home Video widescreen color DVD [7/2010] for $16.61 full credits at IMDb • official movie site |
"The Devil and Dr. Barnes: Portrait of an American Art Collector [2/2006] by Howard Greenfeld
http://www.amazon.com/The-Devil-Dr-Barnes-Collector/dp/0940159929/
"The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks [5/2012] by Judith F. Dolkart
http://www.amazon.com/The-Barnes-Foundation-Judith-Dolkart/dp/0847838064/
"The Architecture of the Barnes Foundation: Gallery In A Garden, Garden In A Gallery" [Oct 2012] by Tod Williams
http://www.amazon.com/The-Architecture-Barnes-Foundation-Gallery/dp/0847838056/
"The Barnes Collection" TV special [P.B.S./WHYY-TV 7/2012]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2300140/
Popular Thomas Kinkade [1958-2012] was a no-talent hack,
and these American artists are so much better.
Spirit of America Bookstore's Artists of America Page
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artists A to Z  •  links  •  books
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Thomas Hart Benton [1889-1975] Art Page
Maynard Dixon [1875-1946] Art Page
who was married to photographer Dorothea Lange [1895-1965]
R.C. Gorman [1931-2005] Art Page
Edward Hopper [1882-1967] Art Page
Frida Kahlo [1907-54] Art Page
who was married to muralist Diego Rivera
Georgia O'Keeffe [1887-1986] Art Pages
who was married to photographer Alfred Stieglitz [1864-1946]
Frederic Remington [1861-1909] Art & Prose Page
Norman Rockwell [1894-1978] Art Pages
Charles M. Russell [1864-1926] Art Pages
Dr. Seuss {Theodor Geisel 1904-91} Page
Alberto Vargas [1896-1982] & 'Varga Girls' Art Pages
Artcyclopedia
National Museum of Women in the Arts
Americans For The Arts [est. 1996]
Distinguished Artists Links at Traditional Fine Arts
American Plains Artists [est. 1982]
Illustrators Biographies pages from Bud Plant
California Water Color website
Graphic Artists Guild - Directory of Illustrators
American Women Artists exhibit program [est. 1990]
ART: American Renaissance for the Twenty-First Century [est. 1992]
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art [opened Nov 2011] in Bentonville, Arkansas
I.S.E.A. / International Symposium on Electronic Art [est. 1990] based in the Netherlands
The Athenaeum artsite [est. 2000] - galleries of many artists
Foreign  Influences
"In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse, and The Birth of Modernist Art" [] by Sue Roe
a look at that early XXth-Century bohemian village atop a hillside overlooking Paris, France
Penguin Press, $29.95 hardcover, 9781594204951
American Architects & Architecture
main page • general books • architecture film festival • links
Googie architecture • natural materials • Craftsman, Mission & Prairie
Frank Lloyd Wright [1867-1959] Page
America's  Photographers
browse books on photography at Amazon.com
Bettman Archive photos at AllPosters
A History of Photography Timeline
Photographers' Gallery in Los Angeles, CA
New Mexico Photography Field School [est. 1986] in Santa Fe, NM
Texas Photographic Society [est. 1985]
The International Los Angeles Photographic Art Exposition [Jan 2010 = #19]
F.J.S. International Film & Digital Cinema Marketplace in Hollywood, Florida
  Can Stock Photo [est. 2004] is based in Halifax, Canada
Cinematography Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
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    framed photographs from LIFE Magazine archives |
"The Decisive Moment: Photography by Henri Cartier-Bresson" classic book [France 1952]
French title "Images ŕ la Sauvette (Images On The Run)"
out of print/scarce; other books by/about Cartier-Bresson
"On Photography" 1977 classic by Susan Sontag
http://www.amazon.com/History-Photography-Beaumont-Newhall/dp/0870703811/
http://www.amazon.com/History-Photography-dOrsay-Collection-1839-1925/dp/208030092X/
http://www.amazon.com/World-History-Photography-Naomi-Rosenblum/dp/0789209373/
http://www.amazon.com/History-Photography-Present-Eastman-Collection/dp/3822847771/
  | "Camera Lucida: Reflections On Photography" [1981] by Roland Barthes [1915-80] Hill & Wang 8x5½ pb [5/82] for $10.40 Hill & Wang hardcover [1981] out of print/used |
  | "Henri Cartier-Bresson: In India" [1988] Introduction by Yves Vequaud, Foreword by Satyajit Ray Henri Cartier-Bresson [1908-2004] was perhaps the greatest photographer of the XXth Century; in a career lasting over sixty years, he used his camera to capture the vagaries of human behavior, and produced some of the most memorable & compelling photographs ever published Thames & Hudson pb [4/2006] for $21.86 Thames & Hudson Ltd. 10½x9¾ hardcover [1/88] out of print/used |
  | "Contesting Images: Photography and The World's Columbian Exposition" [1994] by Julie K. Brown The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 was a major opportunity for expansion of the new technology of photography: stereopticon and motion pictures were taken at the Fair and shown around the world, Eastman Kodak and other manufacturers displayed their latest products, and photographs from France and other countries were offered as art. Univ Arizona Press 11x8½ pb [2/94] out of print/60+ used Univ Arizona Press 11¼x9 hardcover [2/94] out of print/used |
  | "An American Century of Photography: From Dry Plate To Digital" [1995] by Keith F. Davis, from The Hallmark Photographic Collection Hallmark Cards 2nd edition 8½x5&grac34 pb [3/99] out of print/used Harry N. Abrams 2nd edition 12¼x10 hardcover [3/99] out of print/used Harry N. Abrams 12¼x10 hardcover [3/95] out of print/used |
  | "LIFE: The Platinum Anniversary Collection - 70 Years of Extraordinary Photography" [2006] from LIFE Magazine
Life 13½x11 hardcover [10/2006] for $19.77 |
  | "Camera: A History of Photography From Daguerreotype To Digital" [2009] by Todd Gustavson Sterling Innovation 11½x10 hardcover [10/2009] for $28.35 |
  | "25 Lessons I’ve Learned About Amazon bestseller by Lorenzo Domínguez Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [12/2009] for 99˘ {sic} CreateSpace 8x5 pb [2/2011] for $9.99 CreateSpace 8½x5½ pb [2/2011] for $19.99 official booksite |
  | "LIFE Guide To Digital Photography: Everything You Need To Shoot Like The Pros" [2010] by Joe McNally, Foreword by John Loengard
LIFE Books 9x8 pb [10/2010] for $17.53 |
  | "Fundamentals of Photography" from National Geographic [2012] 24 engaging lectures by Joel Sartore Great Courses Teaching Co. color DVD set only [10/2012] out of prodn/used Great Courses Teaching Co. 8½x6 pb 'transcript book' only [10/2012] out of print/used Amazon Instant Video [10/2012] purchase: episode $2.99 each, 24 lessons $59.99 |
  | "Masters of Photography" from National Geographic [2014]
Two lessons each from twelve National Geographic photographers: William Albert Allard, Stephen Alvarez, Ira Block, Jodi Cobb, Annie Griffiths, Ed Kashi, Michael Melford, Cory Richards, Jim Richardson, Joel Sartore, Steve Winter & Michael Yamashita Great Courses Teaching Co. color DVD set [10/2014] for $49.95 Amazon Instant Video [10/2014] purchase: episode $2.99 each, 24 lessons $59.99 |
  | "Fundamentals of Photography II" from National Geographic [2015] 24 engaging lectures by Joel Sartore Great Courses Teaching Co. color DVD set only [11/2015] for $59.95 Amazon Instant Video [11/2015] purchase: episode $2.99 each, 24 lessons $59.99 |
Ansel Adams [1902-84]
posters •
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Amazon A.A. Boutique •
PBS bio •
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Wikipedia
Ansel Adams Gallery [est. 1902 as Best's Studio] inside Yosemite Park
http://www.amazon.com/Ansel-Adams-400-Photographs/dp/0316117722/
http://www.amazon.com/Ansel-Adams-Color-Andrea-Stillman/dp/0316056413/
  | "Ansel Adams At Manzanar" [2006] by Anne Hammond Honolulu Academy of Arts hardcover [1/2006] out of print/used |
"Ansel Adams In The National Parks" [] by Andrea Stillman
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Diane Arbus [1923-71]
all books •
Artcyclopedia •
Wikipedia
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"Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus" [Pressman/Picturehouse Nov 2006] Directed by Steven Shainberg; screenplay by Erin Cressida Wilson, adapted from Patricia Bosworth's book; starring Nicole Kidman, Robert Downey Jr, Ty Burrell, Harris Yulin, Jane Alexander, Emmy Clarke & Genevieve McCarthy New Line Home Video widescreen color DVD [5/2007] for $19.99 full credits at IMDb • official movie site "Diane Arbus: A Biography" [1984] by Patricia Bosworth
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Richard Avedon [1923-2004]
posters •
Artcyclopedia •
Wikipedia
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Clay Blackmore of Rockville, Maryland
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Matthew Brady []
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Edward S. Curtis [1868-1952]
Wikipedia
"The North American Indian" in 20-volumes []
"The Short Nights of The Shadow-Catcher" [Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012] by Timothy Egan
Prize-winning writer Egan tells the riveting story behind the most famous photographs in Native American history; Edward Curtis was charismatic and a passionate mountaineer; he was 32 years old in 1900 when he gave everything up to pursue his Great Idea: to capture on film the continent's original inhabitants before the old ways disappeared.
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Michael Disfarmer [1884-1959] of Arkansas
browse books •
official website •
Disfarmer Project fansite
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portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman [b. 1937] of Cambridge, Massachusetts
official website •
entry at Wikipedia
"The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography" 
[Neon Releasing June 2017]
  | Portrait photographer Dorfman is still making 20-inch-by-24-inch portraits using a large-format Polaroid® camera, even though Polaroid shut down its factory in Netherlands in 2008 • Directed by Errol Morris
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available credits at IMDb • watch 4/2017 official trailer [2:08] at YouTube |
Walker Evans [1903-75]
posters • browse books • Artcyclopedia • Wikipedia
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Arthur 'Weegee' Fellig [1899-1968]
posters •
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Wikipedia
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photographer & filmmaker
Robert Frank [b. 1924]
"Although he has made 27 films, the work is largely a well-kept secret."
browse books at Amazon • Artcyclopedia •
IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
  | "The Americans" [1958] Photographs by Robert Frank; Introduction by Jack Kerouac considered to be Robert Frank's masterpiece Scalo Verlag 9½x8½ pb [9/93] out of print/used Random House/Pantheon 9¾x9 pb [1/86] out of print/used Steidl Verlag 8½x7½ hardcover [8/2005] out of print/used Scalo Verlag 8¾x9½ hardcover [5/98] out of print/used |
"Frank Films" book [] by Robert Frank
http://www.amazon.com/Frank-Films-Film-Video-Robert/dp/3865218156/
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Helen K. Garber of Venice, California
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Charles 'Teenie' Harris [1908-98] of Pittsburgh
Wikipedia
Teenie Harris Archive at Carnegie Museum of Art
"One Shot Harris: The Photographs of Charles 'Teenie; Harris" [Harry N. Abrams 2002]
by Stanley Crouch & Deborah Willis ISBN 0-8109-3272-5
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Magic Lantern's
cinematographer James Wong Howe [1899-1976] Page
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glamour photographer George Hurrell, Sr. [1904-92]
credits at IMDb •
Artcyclopedia •
Wikipedia
official George Hurrell website
George Hurrell portfolio site
EJK's George Hurrell fansite
article on Hurrell in July 2007 Atlantic Monthly
  | "Hurrell's Hollywood Portraits" [1997] by Mark A. Vieira Harry N. Abrams 12¼x9¼ hardcover [2/97] for $26.37 |
"George Hurrell's Hollywood: Glamour Portraits 1925-1992" [Running Press, 11/2013] by Mark A. Vieira
http://www.amazon.com/George-Hurrells-Hollywood-Portraits-1925-1992/dp/0762450398/
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portrait photographer Yousef Karsh [1908-2002]
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Dorothea Lange [1895-1965]
posters • browse books • Artcyclopedia • Wikipedia
was married to painter Maynard Dixon [1875-1946]
  | "Impounded: Dorothea Lange and The Censored Images of Japanese American Internment" [2006] Edited by Linda Gordon & Gary Y. Okihiro W.W. Norton 11x7 pb [2/2008] for $12.89 W.W. Norton 9¼x7¼ hardcover [11/2006] for $22.76 |
W.N.E.T.'s "Picturing America on Screen" Project [2011]
Dorothea Lange: Migrant Mother, 1936 [4:30]
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Earl Leaf
"Marilyn Monroe" pb [8/98] • Earl Leaf archive
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O. Winston Link [1914-2001]
browse books by O. Winston Link •
official website
O. Winston Link photo posters at AllPosters.com
http://www.amazon.com/Steam-Steel-Stars-Americas-Railroad/dp/0810981858/
http://www.amazon.com/O-Winston-Link-Photographic-Portrait/dp/1419703722/
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Steam-Railroad-America/dp/0810982013/
http://www.amazon.com/Following-OWLs-Footsteps-guidebook-photographed/dp/1470068044/
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Vivian Dorothea Maier [1926-2009]
An obscure street photographer in Chicago, Illinois whose lifelong hobby created a legacy of 100,000 photographs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Maier
"Finding Vivian Maier" documentary [2013] /tt2714900/
http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/finding-vivian-maier
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photography pioneer Eadweard Muybridge [1830-1904] Page
at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
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fashion photographer Helmut Newton [1920-2004]
"Helmut Newton (Photofile)" []
http://www.amazon.com/Helmut-Newton-Photofile/dp/0500410690/
"The Best of Helmut Newton" []
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Helmut-Newton/dp/1560251352/
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Timothy O'Sullivan []
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Laurence Parent of Wimberley, Texas
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U.S. fashion photographer Irving Penn [1917-2009]
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Man Ray [1890-1976]
{ real name Emmanuel Radnitzky }
browse books (by & about) • Artcyclopedia • Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/Man-Ray-Artists-20th-Century/dp/B00019G8C4/
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"American Masters: Man Ray - Prophet of The Avant-Garde" [P.B.S. April 1997] Co-produced & directed by Mel Stuart; written by Neil Baldwin; narrated by Stockard Channing Winstar color DVD [2/2000] out of prodn/used Winstar color VHS [2/2000] out of prodn/used credits at IMDb |
Arthur Rothstein [1915-85]
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Artcyclopedia •
Wikipedia
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Edward Steichen [1879-1973]
book "Edward Steichen In High Fashion"
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Alfred Stieglitz [1864-1946]
posters • browse books • Artcyclopedia • Wikipedia
was married to painter Georgia O'Keeffe [1887-1986]
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"American Masters: Alfred Stieglitz - The Eloquent Eye" [P.B.S. 2001] Directed by Perry Miller Adato; featuring Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Steichen & John Marin Winstar color DVD [7/2001] out of prodn/used Winstar color VHS [7/2001] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb |
Jim Stimson of Crowley Lake, CA
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Paul Strand [1890-1976]
"Strand: Under The Dark Cloth" [1989]
Strand's influence on the history of photography has been nothing short of profound, yet he remains
a curiously shrouded and paradoxical figure; 88-minute docufilm directed by John Walker
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Kristen Westlake of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
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Edward Weston [1886-1958]
posters • browse books • Artcyclopedia • Wikipedia
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Bunny Yeager: official website • Wikipedia
America's  Music
Hawaiian Slack Key, Ragtime, Rock 'n' Roll, Classical and Country/Hillbilly/Folk
... as well as artists in many categories
now on a separate Music Page
Bluegrass Music Page
Traditional Jazz & Dixieland Music Page
Pin-Up Art & Artists
new page created mid-2013
America's Cartoonists
are on separate pages
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