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Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Academy Award-wining filmmaker Errol Morris investigates the hidden truths behind a series of documentary photographs. In Believing Is Seeing Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris turns his eye to the nature of truth in photography. In his inimitable style, Morris untangles the mysteries behind an eclectic range of documentary photographs, from the ambrotype of three children found clasped in the hands of an unknown soldier at Gettysburg to...
Author
Publisher
Amherst Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Learn what it takes to shoot reportage-photojournalistic images-from developing an idea, to making travel plans, to gathering the requisite information about the subject/scene and locale, to packing the appropriate gear and nailing the technical aspects of the shoot. Success in photojournalism is predicated on having a firm understanding of the business. Conceiving of a suitable reportage concept and getting a technically sound image may seem a simple...
Author
Publisher
Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In The Documentary Filmmaking Guide, Betsy Chasse teaches readers everything they need to know to make a documentary: from preliminary research on topics and audiences, to developing a business plan and securing funding, to working with a production team and interviewees, to post-production, marketing, and distribution. This down-to-earth guide is truly an all-access pass to what goes on behind the camera"--
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"In 1909 the French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn launched a monumentally ambitious project to produce a color photographic record of human life on Earth. An internationalist and pacifist, Kahn believed that he could use the new autochrome - the world's first portable, true-color photographic process - to create a global photographic archive that would promote cross-cultural understanding and peace. Over the next twenty years, he sent a group...
Author
Publisher
Aperture
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
For almost sixty years Pirkle Jones has chronicled the people, politics, and landscape of Northern California-a "promised land" which has long held sway in the American cultural imagination. Within the confines of that locale, he has unearthed a universe of beauty and meaning, photographing everything from flea-market finds to some of the most important American social movements of the second half of the twentieth century. Operating primarily within...
Publisher
National geographic
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In this dazzling book of visual wonders, National Geographic reveals a world very few will have the chance to see for themselves. Shot by some of the world's finest photographers, Rarely Seen features striking images of places, events, natural phenomena, and manmade heirlooms seldom seen by human eyes. It's all here: 30,000-year-old cave art sealed from the public; animals that are among the last of their species on Earth; volcanic lightning; giant...
Author
Series
Sherlock files volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Xena and Xander Holmes, an American brother and sister spending a year in England, use clues in their ancestor Sherlock Holmes' casebook as they try to solve the mystery of a monster threatening a peaceful country village where a documentary film is being made.
Author
Series
Shark school volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When humans show up at Shark Point to film an underwater documentary, Harry Hammer is thrilled. He's sure he's meant for the spotlight, but will he end up with the starring role of his dreams, or stay in deep-sea oblivion?
11) Judenstaat
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
On April 4, 1948, the sovereign state of Judenstaat was created in the territory of Saxony bordering Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. Forty years later, Jewish historian Judit Klemmer is making a documentary film outlining the direction that Judenstaat has taken as a country on the world stage, from the Nazi atrocities of World War II to their liberation by Soviet troops. She is haunted by memories of her dead husband, who was shot by a sniper...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A zookeeper always on the fringe learns to go after her wildest dreams--including a certain television star--in this charming and laugh-out-loud romantic comedy by Kerry Rea, author of The Wedding Ringer. Lucy Rourke has two great loves in her life: the gorilla troop she cares for as a primatologist and the laundry list of reality TV shows she watches to escape the fact that her actual love life doesn't exist. And like a reality contestant gunning...
13) The lost village
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Blair Witch Project meets Midsommar in this brilliantly disturbing thriller from Camilla Sten, an electrifying new voice in suspense. Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed "The Lost Village," since she was a little girl. In 1959, her grandmother's entire family disappeared in this mysterious tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding the only two...
15) Parent swap
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Because his life is a bit of a mess, thirteen-year-old Danny Bell agrees to let ParentSwap try to match him with his ideal parents, but he soon realizes that the company is about more than giving adolescents a new start.
19) Z on location
Author
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Z's thrilled to be going on the road to help her mom film a documentary. She might even get to interview her vlogging idol, Winter Costello, at VidCon! Eager to share her summer adventure with her friends and vlog fans, Z keeps her phone and camera at the ready. But she finds that working on a real film set takes more focus than she expected. When her love of connecting online threatens to ruin her chances of connecting with her idol and fans in...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When future filmmaker Rosie, age twelve, decides to make a documentary about the miracles in her town in hopes of connecting with the father she never knew, she discovers what true magic is. Includes recipes.
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