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The Most Beautiful Flowers by Kenji Toma brings the inner beauty and essence of the flower as seen through the eyes of the experienced photographer. From his careful selection of paper to how to present flowers in his photographs, Toma revives the concept of the botanical encyclopedia.
This photo series is Kenji Toma's homage to the botanical illustrations in Choix Des Plus Belles Fleurs by Pierre-Joseph Redouté, one of the most well-regarded flower encyclopedias of the nineteenth century. Back when color photography did not exist, these images were illustrated with the purpose of replicating the botanic subject as realistically as possible.
In The Most Beautiful Flowers, Toma is interested in doing the exact opposite with the photographic medium which, realistic by nature, can also be used to make a subject look unreal and artificial. The result makes The Most Beautiful Flowers a must have for anyone who loves flowers, photography and art.
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I've been waiting for this one! For the first time, in one place!
Before Lennon was a singer, a Beatle, or a music legend, he was an artist. Professionally trained, he attended the prestigious Liverpool Art Institute form 1957 to 1960.
Throughout the course of his career, John Lennon’s work as an artist expressed common societal themes from every epoch he witnessed. Until now, little of this work has been seen in one place. For the first time, John Lennon: The Collected Artwork offers a visually captivating history of Lennon’s art from his early childhood to his untimely death in 1980.
This captivating collection includes more than 200 images and features 25 never-before-published pieces from the archives of Yoko Ono.
Often surreal and extremely vibrant, Lennon’s drawings were widely considered some of the finest interpretive art of the era.
In 1969, Lennon began exhibiting selected drawings from a series entitled Bag One. This array, now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, was wildly popular and frequently censored due to its overt eroticism.
His peace-themed sketches have been used in antiwar movements since the 1970s. Selections from these and many other series are featured in this matchless collection, a beautiful showpiece and a timeless record of Lennon’s emotional, political, and imaginative spirit.
Lennon's artwork predated his success with The Beatles and remained a passion throughout his years as a music legend. During his lifetime, he produced numerous series of sketches and lithographs, which were published starting in the early 1960s.
Capturing his emotional, political, and imaginative energy, John Lennon: The Collected Artwork is a lavishly produced collection that will serve as a timeless record of John Lennon's creative spirit.
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You Can Draw Anything, Kim Gamble's popular picture-book shows kids how they can draw anything they want. Kids will learn that if they can write numbers and the letters A-Z, they can draw anything.
Considered one of Australia's best illustrators for children, Gamble provides step-by-step guidance, helpful tips, and flip pictures, showing how to draw animals, faces, bodies, people in action, buildings, machines, and anything else kids can think of. Topics covered include giving pictures depth, using perspective, and using light and shade.
By teaching how to look for simple geometric shapes when breaking down complex shapes and suggesting fun exercises to try on your own, anything from animals in action to human faces become easily manageable challenges.
Using reason and wit to explain and demonstrate visual concepts and good artistic methods, You Can Draw Anything is filled with plenty of stories, jokes, and examples making this approach to drawing intriguing, effective, and fun for that budding young artist in your household of any age.
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Kim Gamble is an artist and picture book illustrator. He is the illustrator of the Tashi series and the author of You Can Do Great Lettering.
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A painting is music you can see, and music is a painting you can hear.
— Miles Davis
Man, you should hear the painting in this incredible book! But what else would you expect from Miles Davis?
One of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century, Davis was a man of many talents. Around 1980, he turned to sketching and painting to, as he explained, keep his "mind occupied with something when [he was] not playing music."
This hobby quickly turned into a serious passion, and Davis approached it with the same obsessive creativity he applied to music. The result is an impressive archive of unique and evocative visual work showcasing the varied skill of this legendary artist.
Throughout the 1980s, Davis studied regularly with New York painter Jo Gelbard, developing a distinct graphic style. Incorporating bright colors and geometric shapes, his art is reminiscent of work by Pablo Picasso as well as African tribal art, the historical influences he cited during occasional interviews on the subject.
Author Scott Gutterman sat down with Miles Davis himself before he died in 1991, and the artist's own commentary accompanies this newly published, remarkable showcase of his work.
Sadly, very few of his pieces were exhibited during Miles Davis's lifetime. Over the last two decades, the Estate of Miles Davis has worked with gallery owners and private parties to assemble a comprehensive collection of the musician's artwork.
Many celebrities are among the most adamant collectors, including Quincy Jones, who offers the Foreword to the book. Davis' daughter, Cheryl writer the Afterward.
In November, the City of Los Angeles presented members of Davis' family with a proclamation in recognition of Miles Davis: The Collected Artwork.
This long-overdue celebration is a treasure for art lovers as well as music aficionados who will appreciate the window into the life of this creative genius.
Listen to this great Tavis Smiley interview with Miles son, Erin, and his nephew, Vincent Wilburn, Jr. about Miles Davis: The Collected Artwork.
So. Very. Cool!
Be sure to scroll to the very bottom of this page and check out the review by James Neel, composer, musician, graduate of the University of North Texas' famous jazz school and a true Milesophile. Just a taste: "Over two hundred pages of gorgeous art, art, art, push Miles Davis further up and beyond his legendary perch overlooking his peers...The pages sing. They are structured improvisations."
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Quincy Jones is an American record producer, conductor, arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. He lives in Los Angeles.
Vince Wilburn, Jr. is the nephew of Miles Davis. He lives in Los Angeles. Erin Davis is Miles Davis' son and Cheryl Davis is Miles Davis' daughter. They live in Los Angeles and Henderson, NV, respectively.
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Since its first publication in 1937, The History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present has been hailed as the classic work on the subject of photography. The ability to relate the aesthetic evolution of the art of photography to its technical innovations with such an absorbing combination of clarity, scholarship and enthusiasm is no small task. Those that were 'forced' to buy this book for photography school or classes have said that it remains one of the most comprehensive, detailed and well written references on the history of photography and will forever be a part of their library.
With 287 black-and-white photos and 14 color illustrations, The History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present looks at the significant trends and developments in the medium since the first photographs were made in 1839. New selections added to this fifth edition include photographs made in color, from hand-tinted daguerreotypes of 1850 to turn-of-the-century autochromes by Edward Steichen, to works by contemporary masters such as Eliot Porter, Ernst Haas, William Eggleston, Stephen Shore and Joel Meyerowitz.
Through more than 300 works by such master photographers as William Henry Fox Talbot, Timothy O'Sullivan, Julia Margaret Cameron, Eugene Atget, Peter Henry Emerson, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Man Ray, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Ansel Adams, Brassai, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Harry Callahan, Minor White, Robert Frank and Diane Arbus, author Beaumont Newhall (see About the Author below) presents a fascinating, comprehensive study that continues to be THE reference book on the subject of photography today.
You don't have to be the next Richard Avedon or Annie Leibovitz to appreciate The History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present. If you're even remotely interested in photography and its development, this is a perfect way to begin your 'education'.
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In 1967, British photographer Gered Mankowitz had the opportunity to photograph the Jimi Hendrix Experience in two sessions at Mankowitz’s legendary Masons Yard studio. Hendrix had just recorded his BBC sessions, taking London by storm, and was on his way to establishing himself as the most influential and charismatic rock star of the decade.
Considered by many as the finest photographs ever taken of Hendrix and The Experience, these extraordinary images — both solo portraits of Hendrix as well as group shots —capture the musician and his band at the defining moment in their brief but spectacular career.
As a testimony to their enduring quality, Mankowitz’s images were selected as the covers for all of Jimi Hendrix’s classic recordings. The Experience: Jimi Hendrix at Masons Yard is the first complete collection of Mankowitz’s two Masons Yard sessions with Hendrix and The Experience.
Accompanied by essays from journalist rock historian Richie Unterberger, The Experience is a complete and necessary look at Hendrix during the peak of his revolutionary career.
AND, this book if from the original publisher, and has 16 more pages of incredible photos!
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Gered Mankowitz was born in London in 1946. In the fall of 1965, he toured the United States with the Rolling Stones as their official photographer. He produced several album covers for them, including December's Childrenand Between the Buttons.
Along with Hendrix and the Stones, Mankowitz photographed many other famous musicians, including Traffic, the Yardbirds, Marianne Faithfull, Elton John, and George Harrison.
Richie Unterberger is a well-known music journalist who writes for Mojo, Record Collector, Rolling Stone, Oxford American, and No Depression.
Unterberger is also the author of the Rough Guide series including The Rough Guide to Jimi Hendrix as well as several volumes on music history such as Turn! Turn! Turn!: The ??s Folk-Rock Revolution, The Unreleased Beatles, Unknown Legends of Rock'n'Roll, and White Light/White Heat.
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With its incredible photos, stories and eight-track CD, this very collectible edition of Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz is like having your own legendary jazz club kit. Just add martinis!
Open Kathy Sloane's book, Keystone Korner, and you can smell the cigarette smoke. Put on the accompanying CD, and you can hear Bill Evans or Stan Getz playing this cramped room in North Beach 30 or 40 years ago.
—San Francisco Chronicle
Keystone Korner was the quintessential jazz club. With the down-home feeling of your favorite neighborhood watering hole and with the special spark of international artistic charisma that a knowledgeable jazz audience brings to any environment, the Keystone was a happy home to people of all persuasions.
— Wynton Marsalis
During the 1970s, when jazz clubs all over America were folding under the onslaught of rock and roll and disco, San Francisco’s Keystone Korner was an oasis for jazz musicians and patrons.
Tucked next to a police station in the city’s North Beach area, the Keystone became known as one of the most important jazz spots in the United States. It was so beloved by musicians that superstars McCoy Tyner, Freddie Hubbard, Ron Carter and Elvin Jones played a benefit concert just so the club could buy a liquor license.
Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club — with author Kathy Sloane's magnificent photographs gracing many of its 224 pages — can serve as a template for jazz club profiles.
The chapters are spliced together from interviews with two dozen individuals who were associated with or have firsthand knowledge of the club, including owner/impresario/musician Todd Barkan, producer Orrin Keepnews, publicist Terri Hinte, and club cook and artist manager Ora Harris, as well as musicians and others who offer moving memories of the club and the legendary artists who played there. And that Who's Who list included the likes of Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Stan Getz, Art Blakey, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Betty Carter, Dexter Gordon and Ornette Coleman.
And then there is the amazing CD!
"There just too much great music!" noted jazz author (and editor of this book) Sascha Feinstein exclaimed to Keystone Korner owner Tad Barkham when he started trying to pull together the track list for the book's CD.
The final list included eight tracks by Rahsaan Roland Kirk, McCoy Tyner, Woody Shaw, Dexter Gordon, Bill Evans, Stan Getz, Cedar Walton and Art Blakey. Man! (See Track List below)
With more than 100 intimate, black-and-white photographs, an engaging collage of oral histories AND a sweet Bonus CD, Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club is almost like being at the fabled club before it closed in 1983. Or as close as you can get today!
From the antics of the photo-laden backroom to the underground hype of Ora Harris' Keystone Kitchen, Sloane and fellow editor Sascha Feinstein leave no stone unturned. They examine the backstories of some of Keystone's most lovable characters... [Keystone Korner] is a delightful sensory overload definitive of the Keystone experience.
—Downbeat
I enjoy imagining jazz clubs as I listen to live recordings, and if those sessions took place at venues I've known, I find it downright difficult not to recreate (and sometimes relive) the setting...Like most East Coast jazz fans of my generation, I never had the opportunity to experience Keystone Korner, and until I met Kathy Sloane, I appreciated the club exclusively for its live recordings.
Some of my early LP purchases included Art Blakey's In This Korner, McCoy Tyner's Atlantis, and Stan Getz's The Dolphin. Later, I picked up astonishing Keystone recordings by Bill Evans, Dexter Gordon, Freddie Hubbard, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Tete Montoliu, Woody Shaw, Zoot Sims, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Mary Lou Williams, Denny Zeitlin and many others. Long before this project began, my Keystone collection swelled—not out of admiration for the club but for its musicians.
Todd Barkan's taste in music fed my musical desires; my life would be truly diminished had he not had the vision to create this club and the intelligence to record the lasting music by the artists who passed through.
And now, thanks to Kathy's photographs and her hard-earned triumph of oral history, I experience Keystone Korner all the more intimately.
Sure, it's far-fetched to say that I can smell Ora's cooking when I hear the tunes, but, with ease, I can now place the sound within the psychedelic atmosphere: the tightly packed crowds awash in legal and illegal smoke, eyes focused on the musicians onstage beneath the dramatic mural.
Because of the stories of witness and beautiful visuals, I listen with new ears to introductions by such favorite artists as Dexter Gordon: "On our last European tour, we happened to visit Scotland," he announced on the first of three Keystone volumes. "We saw the—" and here he pauses with a typically long Dexter cadence, and in the background one can here the clink of glasses. Suddenly, I'm wondering if it's Helen Wray, struggling with one of those weighted trays and working hard to get the drinks out before the music begins. Then Dexter hits the punch line: "Loch Ness monster." There's laughter, and someone says "All right," as in, "Okay, if you say so." And I might as well be in the first row, looking up at this tenor genius beneath a halo of mural as he adds, "He made quite an impression..."
— Sascha Feinstein, All About Jazz, and Editor of Portrait of a Jazz Club
(See Tidbits below to read the rest of Sascha's story. You also definitely will want to check out the New York Times story, Summoning a West Coast Spirit, about how long-time Keystone owner Todd Barkan launched Keystone Korner Nights at New York's fabled Iridium jazz club earlier this year!)
If you like this Book and CD, check out our entire Music collection.
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Kathy Sloane began her professional life as a self-taught photographer in San Francisco’s Keystone Korner Jazz Club in 1976, drawn to the music of improvisation, beauty and resistance that was a metaphor for her of the civil rights struggles of the 1960's.
While continuing to document the music, she committed herself to photographing the life of the San Francisco Bay Area with an emphasis on the multicultural and multiethnic richness of the area. Her self-assigned task has been to understand and depict the myriad ways various communities, often voiceless in mainstream media, give meaning and value to all of our lives. Workers, children immigrants, activists and artists have all collaborated with her to make a photographic mosaic of Bay Area life.
Kathy Sloane has exhibited in New York, Oakland, Berkeley, and San Francisco California, and France and has won numerous awards for her still photographs, five of which were part of the Ken Burns' television mini-series “Jazz.”
Her work is in the permanent collections of the DeSaisset Museum in Santa Clara, CA, the Smithsonian Institution, Jazz Oral History Program, The East Bay Community Foundation, Alameda County Hospital and the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund.
She has also produced photo essays for UNICEF in Grenada, West Indies; Global Deaf Connection in Jamaica, West Indies; and Head Start in New York City.
In October of 2011, The University of Indiana Press published Sloane’s book: Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club, which consists of one hundred and nine photographs and oral histories from the legendary Keystone Korner. An excerpt of photos and text from her book appeared in the Spring 2009 edition of Brilliant Corners, A Journal of Jazz and Literature.
Sascha Feinstein (Editor) received the 2008 Pennsylvania's Governor's Award for Artist of the Year and the Hayden Carruth Award for his poetry collection Misterioso. Individual poems have appeared in such publications as American Poetry Review, North American Review, Ploughshares and The Penguin Book of the Sonnet.
Recent books include a memoir, Black Pearls: Improvisations on Recovered Memory, and a collection of interviews, Ask Me Now: Conversations on Jazz & Literature.
He is the author of two critical books, including Jazz Poetry: From the 1920s to the Present, and co-editor (with Yusef Komunyakaa) of The Jazz Poetry Anthology and its companion volume The Second Set. (Two other books—A Portrait of Hans Hofmann and The Jazz Fiction Anthology—are to be published soon.)
Individual essays have appeared in various publications, including The Southern Review, African American Review, The Wallace Stevens Journal, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. He is Professor of English at Lycoming College, where he co-directs the Creative Writing Program and edits Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz & Literature.
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In seven years exploring and backpacking O'Keeffe country Varjabedian retraces the artist's footsteps, reinterpreting Ghost Ranch's iconic scenery in 110 breathtaking black-and-white photographs.
— New Mexico Magazine
Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby handsomely reproduces [Varjabedian's] black and white photographs that portray the parched New Mexican soil under tumultuous skies that spoke to and so captured Georgia O'Keeffe's creative imagination.
— Journal of the Print World
The remarkable photographs by Craig Varjabedian are not only beautiful, but also extremely valuable documents of architecture, culture and lifestyle. From intimate portraits to expansive landscapes, Varjabedian's images, made primarily in black and white, celebrate the drama ad potency inherent in each subject's relationship to the photographer.
— Beaumont Newhall, preeminent 20th-century photographic historian and author of History of Photography: 1939 to the Present
Ghost Ranch is perhaps best known as the longtime home of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe, who captured some of the its most stunning scenery in her paintings. For more than twenty years, award-winning, fine art photographer Craig Varjabedian has explored and captured the red cliffs and sweeping plains of this fabled 21,000-acre area in northern New Mexico. In Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby, he shares over 90 new duotone photographs capturing its evanescent light.
These images reach beyond familiar ideas associated with the Ranch — such as its renown as a site of personal renewal and transformation — into Varjabedian's singular vision of his subject and its ties to ideas of identity, place, and perception.
The name of photographic treasure comes from one of O’Keeffe’s famous paintings, From the Faraway, Nearby. In O’Keeffe wrote in 1976 that the Far Away was “a beautiful, untouched lonely-feeling place.”
Elaborating on his choice of book titles, Varjabedian said: "What she found in the West, and at Ghost Ranch, was a place where the open possibility of the landscape became one with what she felt inside herself, where depth and focus at once conflated the spatial orientation of the objects she painted, and pulled her nearer to her creative source.”
To further illuminate the experience of Ghost Ranch, Varjabedian gathered an "appreciation" of Ghost Ranch, written by Georgia O'Keeffe, and essays written to accompany his photographs. These include an evocative introduction by photographer Jay Packer, an essay by writer Marin Sardy examining the place's natural features and social history, and topical essays by theological studies professor Belden C. Lane, arts writer Douglas A. Fairfield, and former Ghost Ranch executive director Rob Craig. Also included are forewords by Cathy L. Wright, director of the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, and Debra Hepler, executive director of Ghost Ranch. (See About the Author below)
The Back Story
While walking home on a snowy Michigan day in 1970 after taking pictures for his high school newspaper, fourteen-year-old Craig Varjabedian passed by an art gallery. Inside he saw a man with a thick white beard hanging pictures on the wall of a gallery. The teenager was awestruck by images of sky and stone, mountains and rivers, trees and thunderclouds. Seeing the young onlooker, the old man invited him in. Soon they were talking about cameras and photography.
The white-haired man was Ansel Adams; and this chance meeting sealed Varjabedian’s future.
After studying art and photography at the University of Michigan and Rochester Institute of Technology, Varjabedian went to New Mexico to finish his thesis. There, a friend took him to see Ghost Ranch, an inspirational mecca for artists, poets, painters, and photographers, including Ansel Adams, who was a frequent visitor, and Georgia O’Keeffe, who lived and painted there for more than fifty years.
“It is an almost mythic land located in northern New Mexico, and when I first saw it over twenty years ago, it took my breath away,” says Varjabedian, who has been photographing the majestic landscape ever since. “I remember driving up the road and cresting the top of a hill where the whole Ghost Ranch valley opens up and felt like I had come home. Since that time, it has been a quest to make images that were consonant with the feelings the place evoked in me.”
I know exactly how he feels! I had the good fortune to be introduced to the mesmerizing beauty of northern New Mexico as a child, and if I don't get to visit several times a year to soak in its gentle grandeur and recharge my soul, well, let's just say I get a bit cranky. And, because Georgia O'Keeffe lived in and began to develop her unique style near my hometown in the Texas Panhandle, I was introduced to her work through the local museum at a young age.
Growing up in that ocean of land and sky, O'Keeffe's art was not abstract to me in any way - she was just trying to get people to see the beauty - often small, simple and taken for granted - that surrounds us daily.
Ghost Ranch is located 14 miles north of the village of Abiquiu, which is about 50 miles northwest of Santa Fe. The vast landscape is absolutely stunning at any time of day, in any season. And that is why I am so proud to offer Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby in my shop! Craig Varjabedian's rich, engrossing black-and-white photographs help you do what Georgia O'Keeffe wanted people to do - see, really see...
Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
So, take the time to slow down, breath deeply and see, really see the beauty of Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby.
And if you want to savor some Georgia O'Keeffe at the same time, then you will want the must-have and newly published Georgia O'Keeffe Words l Works, Volume 1, that is in our Art & Photography Collection.
Want to get up close and personal, then also check out Day Hikes in the Santa Fe Area in our Places Collection.
Awards
2010 winner of prestigious Wrangler Award for Outstanding Photography Book from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
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I like the artist standing up for himself—believing in his own word no matter what...
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Craig Varjabedian’s photographs of the American West would be the perfect illustrations to a Cormac McCarthy book. They have a surreal beauty and poetic emptiness that border on the fictional. It’s as if this isn’t the real West, but the West of tall tales and American dreams.
— Claire O’Neille, NPR: The Picture Show
[Craig Varjabedian] relies almost exclusively on a large-format Ebony field view camera, wet darkroom chemicals, and an array of handcrafted Carl Zeiss Protar lenses . . . that have bubbles visibly trapped inside the glass. Besides capturing an extreme degree of detail on his 5"x7" negatives, Varjabedian's equipment--particularly his seemingly imperfect lenses--enable him to translate onto silver-gelatin photographic paper the particular quality of the light in New Mexico.
— Photo District News
2013 Best Art Book Award given to Landscape Dreams, A New Mexico Portrait
— New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards
Landscape Dreams, A New Mexico Portrait presents a selection of Craig Varjabedian’s photographs, made over the nearly three decades that he has lived and worked in New Mexico, range over all the image-making forms—landscape, portrait, and still life—to offer a remarkably complete, varied, and original portrait of what many call the “Land of Enchantment.”
White sand desert, cloud-capped peaks, ancient adobe ruins, groves of autumn cottonwoods—all find their place here. Intimate, personal, and yet iconic, the photographs capture a land and its people in a collection that will be warmly welcomed by those who already love New Mexico but serve also as an inviting introduction for newcomers to its diverse and captivating uniqueness.
Fittingly, the photographs, all beautifully presented in elegant duotone reproductions, celebrate the hundred years of New Mexico’s statehood begun in 1912.
Here, paired with images of Native American sites that go back to earlier millennia, such as the ruins at Bandelier National Monument, are artifacts of the modern world, like the familiar outline of a pumpjack in an oil patch and a lowrider Cadillac outside the wall that protects the Santuario de Chimayo.
Complementing the eloquent photographs are three essays by New Mexico writers whose intimacy with and affection for the land are no less deep than the photographer’s.
Jeanetta Calhoun Mish offers a poet’s special insights into the particular character of Varjabedian’s photographs.
Marin Sardy writes knowledgably of the history and culture of the state.
Hampton Sides, a New York Times best-selling author, offers an appreciation of Craig Varjabedian’s true gifts and urges the reader/viewer to “Take time to savor this careful distillation of the real New Mexico.”
And if you like Landscape Dreams, A New Mexico Portrait and the Land of Enchantment , you will want to check out more of Craig Varjabedian's work in Ghost Ranch - The Faraway Nearby. And we also have a wonderful new book about Georgia O'Keeffe and the No. 1 source for day hikes in the Santa Fe area.
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People is one in a series of MoMA Art Basics for Kids books that introduces young readers and their parents to six visual building blocks--Lines, Shapes, Colors, People, Places and Stories--via an assortment of the great masterpieces of twentieth century art. People explores how people are depicted by artists and how they help to convey the meaning in art.
Author Philip Yenawine (see About the Author below) has created an "ABC of art" whereby both parents and teachers can play a key role in the learning process by asking questions like, "Can you find buildings? And roofs?" while looking at a Picasso study. By looking at 'people' and discussing their various characteristics, adults encourage children to develop creative thinking skills. People highlights works by Balthus, Degas, Freud, Cezanne, Neel and Rivera.
For other books in the MoMA Art Basics for Kids series, check out Shapes and Places in our About Art collection.
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Philip Yenawine, the longtime Director of Education at The Museum of Modern Art, is currently co-director of Visual Understanding in Education, a developmentally based education research organization.
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Seen Art? begins very innocently. The wonderfully unexpected journey all started "...when I told my friend Art that I would meet him on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street. I didn't see him so I asked a lady walking up the avenue, 'Have you seen Art?" The lady responded, "MoMA? Just down Fifty-Third Street here. In a beautiful new building. You can't miss it".
At that moment, looking for a friend has never been such an eye-opening experience. As the friend searches for 'Art', the reader is introduced to well-known pieces of art such as Van Gogh's The Starry Night, Matisse's The Red Studio, as well as works by Picasso, Klee, Lichtenstein and others.
Seen Art? combines comical text and playful illustrations alongside full-color reproductions of the artwork. Authors/illustrators Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith (see About the Authors below) give readers the perfect companion for a visit to MoMA, and an introduction to some of the world's best works of modern art.
Just what is art? People have been trying to figure this out for centuries. Seen Art? introduces the eternal question to children as our innocent hero just wants to find his friend Art, but everyone keeps showing him a new room in the museum. A great find for all ages!
If you like this book, check out our entire About Art collection.
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Jon Scieszka is an American author of children's literature. He is also a nationally recognized reading advocate, and the founder of Guys Read – a web-based literacy program for boys whose mission is "to help boys become self-motivated, lifelong readers." In 2008, Scieszka was named the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature by the Librarian of Congress.
Lane Smith is the author and/or illustrator of several award-winning books for children. A two-time winner of the Caldecott Honor for Grandpa Green (2012) and The Stinky Cheese Man, Smith has had four of his books win the prestigious New York Times Best Illustrated Book Award (1993).
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Shapes is one in a series of MoMA Art Basics for Kids books that introduces young readers and their parents to six visual building blocks--Lines, Shapes, Colors, People, Places and Stories--via an assortment of the great masterpieces of twentieth century art. Shapes isolates shapes to show how they are used by artists an how they contribute to the meaning of art.
Author Philip Yenawine (see About the Author below) has created an "ABC of art" whereby both parents and teachers can play a key role in the learning process by asking questions like, "Can you find buildings? And roofs?" while looking at a Picasso study. By looking at 'shapes' and discussing what ideas and feelings they suggest, adults encourage children to develop creative thinking skills. Other Shapes artists include Seurat, Gauguin, Malevich, Mondrian, Arp, Klee, Smith and Dali.
For other books in the MoMA Art Basics for Kids series, check out Places and People in our About Art collection.
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Philip Yenawine, the longtime Director of Education at The Museum of Modern Art, is currently co-director of Visual Understanding in Education, a developmentally based education research organization.
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Places is one in a series of MoMA Art Basics for Kids books that introduces young readers and their parents to six visual building blocks--Lines, Shapes, Colors, People, Places and Stories — via an assortment of the great masterpieces of twentieth century art. Places isolates the elements of place to show how they are used by artists an how they help to convey the meaning in art.
Author Philip Yenawine (see About the Author below) has created an "ABC of art" whereby both parents and teachers can play a key role in the learning process by asking questions like, "Can you find buildings? And roofs?" while looking at a Picasso study. By looking at 'places' and discussing what ideas and feelings they suggest, adults encourage children to develop creative thinking skills. Places includes 21 artworks by artists such as Hopper, Munch, Klimt, and Bonnard.
For other books in the MoMA Art Basics for Kids series, check out Shapes and People in our About Art collection.
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Philip Yenawine, the longtime Director of Education at The Museum of Modern Art, is currently co-director of Visual Understanding in Education, a developmentally based education research organization.
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