PhotoBooks United States of America (USA)

Take a trip across the country-and through time-in this fun, funky tribute to the America of the 1940s, '50s, and '60s. Created with original slides taken by real tourists on vacations and road trips across the country, GOD BLESS AMERICANA is a delightful retro vacation tour of these United States.

Join the escapades that inspired a generation of unsuspecting camera-totin' tourists to snap and click their way across town and country. The tour kicks off in Los Angeles, California, and takes you on a vicarious vacation through Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, Dallas, Chicago, New Orleans, Miami Beach, New England, Washington, D.C., and beyond. Experience the "future" at the 1962 Seattle and 1964 New York World's Fairs. See America's heartland, classic roadside attractions, hotels, motels, restaurants, and bars. Drop in on "long-lost relatives" along the way. A vintage map clearly charts the course of the journey. Dedicated to those who blazed the trails and took the photos, GOD BLESS AMERICANA is a respectful, but tongue-in-cheek look at the American vacation of not-so-long-ago.

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What is the USA? This amazing visual odyssey attempts to find out, capturing the heart of American history, landscape, lifestyle, and architecture with awe-inspiring power, style, and color.

Four outstanding chapters present an exceptional overview of the United States and its land, traditions, and people. Over 900 stunning never-before-seen color photographs reflect its magnificent coasts, peaceful farmlands, massive mountain ranges, and cosmopolitan cities . . . capture the diversity of the American lifestyle through folksy arts and crafts, fabulous food, casual leisure activities, and popular sports events . . . and document its inspiring buildings and even the homey private interiors that reflect the personality of their owners. Enthralling text throughout describes the history, events, and other aspects of the USA that make it unlike any other place in the world. Photographer Jordi Miralles traveled across North America to capture the power of its people, places, and things with inspiring force. As a result, USA is a visual treat!

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Esther Chao has dedicated a year of her life to photographically documenting the patriotism in the United States. This book contains over 350 pages of beautiful photographs depicting all types of flags and patriotic symbols. Topics include military flags, the Navajo Code Talkers, diversity flags, the American flag and, of course, events from 9/11/01.

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America Wide: In God We Trust is a celebration of the diversity and natural splendor of a uniquely blessed land. Here- for the first timeever- is a selection of images from all fifty states in panoramic format: deserts and mountains, rivers and canyons, thundering waterfalls, ancient forests, rolling pastures and idyllic homesteads.

For award-winning Australian photographer Ken Duncan, the collection represents a three-year journey of discovery to many of America's most beautiful and awe-inspiring locations. From the deserts of arizona and the vast Alaskan wilderness to the dappled tranquility of a Massachusetts autumn and the sun-drenched beaches of Hawaii, Ken Dunkan's Panographs glow with light and color, delighting the eyes and inspiring the heart.

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This portrait of the tragic and triumphant events of September 11, 2001 contains a brief visual history of the building of the World Trade Center and Pentagon; a minute-by-minute illustrated account of the attacks; the evacuation and rescue attempts; the heroic efforts of firefighters, police officers, EMTs, search dogs, volunteers and everyday New Yorkers; the leadership response from President George W. Bush and New York City Mayor, Rudolph W. Giuliani; the candlelight vigils, prayer services, flag displays and patriotism in New York and around the world; and the victims, including sketches of some of those lost, who encompass many faiths, colours and nationalities. The book also features original essays by authors including Maya Angelou.

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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ansel Adams whose landmark early photographs of wild America, originally taken for the Works Progress Administration, fill the pages of this splendid volume. Adams' breathtaking images are accompanied by excerpts from the writings of Sierra Club founder John Muir, the renowned conservationist who devoted his life to celebrating and preserving the American wilderness.

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Last Stand takes readers from the tallgrass prairies of Kansas to the Arctic tundra of Alaska to the deserts of the Southwest and bears passionate witness to our last wildernesses, reminding us why they must be preserved.

Dedicated conservationist and acclaimed novelist Barbara Kingsolver teams with National Geographic photographer Annie Griffiths Belt to capture the essence of America’s endangered virgin lands. In her moving introduction and int he essays opening each chapter, Kingsolver deftly explores the ways of the wilderness, the threats against it, and what it needs to survive. Griffiths Belt’s accompanying hand-tinted infrared photographs breathtakingly evoke the spirit and beauty of these diverse bioregions.

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America On My Mind is a tribute to the nation celebrating all that is unique about America with awe-inspiring photos and memorable quotes from the people and places that make this country special. This book includes over 200 full color photographs and an introduction by Jimmy Carter. (10 x 13, 160 pages, color photos)

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If David Muench's photographs of U.S. parks and monuments fail to take your breath away, you may want to check your pulse. If they fail to inspire you to visit Canyonlands, Acadia, Big Bend, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you have something to answer for. Muench has inspired a whole generation of landscape photographers with his images, which border on the mystical; he in turn takes his inspiration from the "primal beauty" of these treasures, which are places of worship to him. Muench makes it evident in an afterword that he is not a verbal communicator; perhaps that is to our advantage, for it forces him to express himself with the camera.

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The tradition of aerial photography arose from a keen nineteenth-century desire to see "the world in motion." Starting with Nadar's photographic balloon trips, airborne experimentation with landscapes and cityscapes continued through great photographers from Steichen to Burkhardt. With Alex MacLean, we enter a different world. For thirty years, this committed photographer has portrayed the history and evolution of the American land, from great desert spaces to agricultural patterns to city grids. A trained architect who is closely involved in landscape heritage protection issues, MacLean has set out to create a series of pictures that show and explain the universal history of town and countryside. What he has to say may be invigorating or alarming, but it always raises the issue of the landscape's future.

This new collection of exemplary photographs taken across the American landscape reflects MacLean's passionate interest in the effects of time, geological movements, shifting landscapes, redeployment, pollution, urban sprawl, and the overlapping of surfaces and activities. More than 400 color photographs reveal in a unique way the physical splendor of America: both the beauty of the ongoing inhabiting of the land and the potential for modern planning to create spectacular environments.

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A photograpic survey of 20th century American cars and the icons of roadside America, including neon-drenched diners, drive-in movies, last-chance gas stations and the attractions of route 66.

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An unparalleled enterprise, unrivaled in scope and ambition, thousands of photographers both professional and amateur will span out all across the country to document every slice of American life in the largest photographic publishing event in U.S. history. This visual time capsule celebrates the richness of our lives, reminding us of our dreams while not overlooking our failures, capturing our pride, and presenting an honest look at the faces and facades of our people. Encapsulating in one week, the essence of what makes the U.S. great, this volume documents the diversity of its people and cultures, from the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes to the beaches of the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean -- and everywhere in between.

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Whether exploring the reclusive communities of the Amish and Hutterites, probing the gritty existence of the American cowboy, or revealing the quiet beauty of the Minnesota lakes, William Albert Allard has helped define America in all its diversity. From rodeos to blues singers, from William Faulkner’s Mississippi to minor league baseball, Allard has turned his camera toward parts of our heritage that are often overlooked.

Portraits of America features 165 of Allard’s finest photographs, many of which have never been published before. Presented in chronological order, with incisive introductions to each section written by Allard himself, these photographs show the creative development of a remarkably gifted artist. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ford contributes a foreword that places Allard’s photography within the context of the American experience. Art aficionados and lovers of Americana alike will delight in this beautifully designed and thoughtful collection from a man who has become a legend in the world photographic community.

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Renowned photographers such as Lewis Hine and Jacob Riis and other unknown artists contribute to this remarkable collection of photographs that traces America's history in pictures. Journal entries, letters and diaries accompany the photographs, taking the reader from the plantations of the South to the battlefields of the American Civil War, to the migrant camps of the Depression, revealing the role played by children in America.

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Photographs and interviews create an indelible image of noteworthy African American women.

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