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This volume - investigating the work of a particular photographer, in this case, Mathew Brady - comprises a 4000-word essay by an expert in the field, 55 photographs presented chronologically, each with a commentary, and a biography of the featured photographer.

No photographer had a more serious and deeply felt response to the political and cultural impact of the 1960s and early 1970s than Richard Avedon, whose iconic portraits of key figures of the era influenced the course of photography in the decades that followed. In four monumental photographic murals (reproduced in large gatefolds) and many related portraits, he portrayed Andy Warhol's gender-bending Factory, with Viva and Candy Darling, Abbie...

Die Besteigung des Thrones durch Maria Tudor war das erstaunlichste und überraschendste Ereignis in der englischen Geschichte des 16. Jahrhunderts. Aus der unehelich gemachten und ins Abseits gedrängten Tochter Heinrich VIII. wurde die erste regierende und gekrönte Königin Englands. Jahrhundertelang erinnerte England die katholische Maria Tudor nur als »Bloody Mary«, denn der Tenor der englischen Geschichtsschreibung war protestantisch. Auch s...

How did we arrive at such a place in this countrys higher education system where the first University-sponsored conversation about male-female intimacy is often "put the condom on before the penis touches" any of the three openings to the female body? Why are we having this kind of conversation, not just with college students, but with 11-year-olds, many of whom have not yet reached puberty? Readers of The War on Intimacy will be surprised to ...

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Modern memory of the Civil War owes much to the lens of Mathew Brady, one of the most famous and paradoxical figures in American photography. During a career that spanned the 1840s to the 1890s, Mathew Brady consciously set out to capture the pivotal moments of the second half of the nineteenth century. The best of his brilliant work is here, including his famous portraits of President Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, the Union dead...