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1 review
Richard Whelan, Tom Wesselmann

Aperture, 2005

"Must" reading for all serious students of photography.
Alfred Stieglitz is legendary in the annals of American photography. In Stieglitz On Photography: His Selected Essays And Notes, Richard Whelan has compiled and annotated the best of Stieglitz's commentaries regarding the power and beauty of the photograph as an artistic and interpretative medium. Drawing from Stieglitz's exhibition reviews, travel pieces, technical articles, and various ...

The SAGES Manual of Perioperative Care in Minimally Invasive Surgery

Springer, 2005

The SAGES Manual of Peri-Operative Care in Minimally Invasive Surgery is SAGES' second clinical manual, following their bestseller The SAGES Manual: Fundamentals of Laparoscopy and GI Endoscopy. This pocket- sized, portable text provides the practicing surgeon and trainee with comprehensive, authoritative coverage of the pre-operative evaluation of laparoscopic patients, intraoperative strategies and minimization of complications, and ...

Alfred Stieglitz: A Biography

1 review
Richard Whelan

Da Capo Pr, 1997

American photography and art in New York early 1900's
A very interesting read on photography and modern art in America. It builds a foundation of knowledge on this subject. So many famous names of that era are mentioned and how they got involved in the art world. With out this man the art world would have been so different. The author does a good job of describing Alfred's life and all the exhibits in room 291 and 303.The beginning of great ...

Robert Capa: The Definitive Collection

4 reviews
Richard Whelan

Phaidon Press, 2004

Incredible
Some of the best war photography. Includes all of Capa's most famous photos, and gives some biographical info. I found it inspiring -- it's more important to be close than to have fancy equipment. Courage and preparation win out.

Cornell Capa: Jfk For President
Richard Whelan

Steidl/ICP, 2004

Cornell Capa began the 1960 campaign season as a stalwart Adlai Stevenson supporter, having closely covered Stevenson's 1952 and 1956 presidential bids for Life magazine. Then, during the Wisconsin Primary, while working on a story for Life magazine on the nature of American politics, Capa encountered John F. Kennedy. The two men immediately gained mutual respect for each other, and, after Kennedy secured his party's nomination at the Democratic ...

Robert Capa At Work: This is War
Richard Whelan

Steidl/ICP, 2007

At the heart of the great Magnum photographer Robert Capa's life's work are his photojournalistic images of war. This collection examines in detail six of the most important moments he covered as a young man: the falling soldier (a single image from the Spanish Civil War made in 1936), Chinese resistance to the Japanese invasion (1938), the end of the Spanish Civil War in Catalonia (November 1938-January 1939), D-Day (1944), the U.S. paratroop ...

Slightly Out of Focus (Modern Library War)

11 reviews
Robert Capa

Modern Library, 2001

The Incorrigible Capa
Slightly Out of Focus, the autobiography by legendary photographer Robert Capa, chronicles his experiences as a photographer for Collier's and Life magazines during World War II. Capa's adventure takes him from his comfortable bed in New York, across the Atlantic, into the African desert, to the beaches of Normandy and the liberation of Paris, through Germany, and finally to a posh London ...

The Barefoot Book of PIRATES

5 reviews
Richard Walker

Barefoot Books, 1998

It's about time!
This gorgeously illustrated collection of Pirate lore from around the world is a refreshing switch from violence-glorification usually found in Pirate stories. The focus in these stories is on adventure rather than gore. I have younger kids, and although this book is aged for 9+, it was perfectly suitable for them.

Self-Reliance: The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson as Inspiration for Daily Living

5 reviews

Harmony/Bell Tower, 1991

Totally inspiring...
I cannot pick up this book without feeling encouraged and inspired. The editor has gone through and picked out some of the best passages from Emerson's works, thus saving us the trouble of wading through hundreds of pages of prose for the really good stuff. Everyone needs a copy of this book.

The Book of Rainbows: Art Literature, Science & Mythology
Richard Whelan

First Glance Books, 1997

Cornell Capa
Cornell Capa, Richard Whelan, ...

Peter Fetterman Gallery, 2002

Cornell Capa the photographer has long been overshadowed by Cornell Capa the founder and director of the International Center of Photography, New York, and by Cornell Capa the brother of Robert Capa. This beautiful cloth-bound book, filled with 27 of his most intelligent, compassionate, formally striking images, promises to bring the photographer his due. He once told "Camera" magazine, "Single photographs are not what I do best. My most ...

Drawing the Line: The Korean War, 1950-1953

2 reviews
Richard Whelan

Little Brown & Co (T), 1991

Just the right amount of depth and breadth...
Mr. Whelan succeeds in describing the important aspects of the Korean War without succumbing to the usual bug-a-boo of war books - losing the non-military reader in an avalanche of military unit designations and troop movements. What he does do is provide an excellent recounting of how we as a nation stumbled into something we were not prepared for by exploring the reasons behind the "a loss to ...

Robert Capa: Photographs (Aperture Monograph)

4 reviews
Richard Whelan

Aperture, 2005

Pure empathy
Ordinary people caught under extraordinary circumstances are what give these images the power that they have and elicit pure empathy from the viewer. Robert Capa earned his place in photographic history and left behind a body of work for us to consider...

Robert Capa: A Biog

1 review
Richard Whelan

Knopf, 1985

Good read
Capa was a star. I'd love to meet the guy.

Heart of Spain: Robert Capa's Photographs of the Spanish Civil War

8 reviews
Robert Capa, Esperanza Aguirre Gil de Biedma, ...

Aperture, 2003

Unbelievably Potent Photographs of Spain's Civil War
Capa is considered one of the fathers of modern combat photography. These photographs clearly verify that fact. The modern combat photographers that have come after were all aware of Capa's work and if they didn't overtly copy his style, they certainly used it as a foundation. The potency of these photographs is not so much the action they sometimes capture, but in the faces set in the ...

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