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Author : Brandon Sanderson
Release : 2017-02-17
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 154/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Snapshot by : Brandon Sanderson
Download or read book Snapshot written by Brandon Sanderson. This book was released on 2017-02-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dan Korem
Release : 2015-02-25
Genre : Characters and characteristics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 812/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Snapshot by : Dan Korem
Download or read book Snapshot written by Dan Korem. This book was released on 2015-02-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snapshot is the real story of how to profile anyone so you can treat people right the first time.
Author : Catherine Zuromskis
Release : 2021-08-24
Genre : Photography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 113/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Snapshot Photography by : Catherine Zuromskis
Download or read book Snapshot Photography written by Catherine Zuromskis. This book was released on 2021-08-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the contradictions within a form of expression that is both public and private, specific and abstract, conventional and countercultural. Snapshots capture everyday occasions. Taken by amateur photographers with simple point-and-shoot cameras, snapshots often commemorate something that is private and personal; yet they also reflect widely held cultural conventions. The poses may be formulaic, but a photograph of loved ones can evoke a deep affective response. In Snapshot Photography, Catherine Zuromskis examines the development of a form of visual expression that is both public and private. Scholars of art and culture tend to discount snapshot photography; it is too ubiquitous, too unremarkable, too personal. Zuromskis argues for its significance. Snapshot photographers, she contends, are not so much creating spontaneous records of their lives as they are participating in a prescriptive cultural ritual. A snapshot is not only a record of interpersonal intimacy but also a means of linking private symbols of domestic harmony to public ideas of social conformity. Through a series of case studies, Zuromskis explores the social life of snapshot photography in the United States in the latter half of the twentieth century. She examines the treatment of snapshot photography in the 2002 film One Hour Photo and in the television crime drama Law and Order: Special Victims Unit; the growing interest of collectors and museum curators in “vintage” snapshots; and the “snapshot aesthetic” of Andy Warhol and Nan Goldin. She finds that Warhol’s photographs of the Factory community and Goldin’s intense and intimate photographs of friends and family use the conventions of the snapshot to celebrate an alternate version of “family values.” In today’s digital age, snapshot photography has become even more ubiquitous and ephemeral—and, significantly, more public. But buried within snapshot photography’s mythic construction, Zuromskis argues, is a site of democratic possibility.
Author : Eliot Parker
Release : 2020-02-04
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 146/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Snapshots by : Eliot Parker
Download or read book Snapshots written by Eliot Parker. This book was released on 2020-02-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each story within Snapshots places the characters in situations where their past behaviors will be changed in a moment that is like a snapshot picture: freezing in time who they are in a moment but facing new challenges that will alter that snapshot and create a new reality. Eudora Welty’s quote “A good snapshot keeps a moment from going away” is a theme that permeates all of the stories in Eliot Parker’s collection of short stories, Snapshots. These stories are set in West Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky. In the plots of the stories, the makeup of the characters is more interesting and important than the circumstances that the characters find themselves trying to manage. Each protagonist finds themselves in a complicated set of personal and professional relationships. By their nature, relationships are complicated. The protagonists in these stories are shaped by their backgrounds, life experiences, and expectations of other people. Conflicts arise for these protagonists when decisions and choices made by others alter the expectations and circumstances expected by the protagonists. In each of these stories, the lives, values, and beliefs held by the characters are deconstructed and each of them face a new reality brought on by an experience or situation that forces them to reexamine who they are and who they need to become. Each of these characters occupy a variety of professional spaces: cops, a rich, successful couple, convicted criminals, and others grieving the loss of a loved one and grieving the absence of love.
Author : Edith Hope Fine
Release : 2014-03-15
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 656/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Armando and the Blue Tarp School by : Edith Hope Fine
Download or read book Armando and the Blue Tarp School written by Edith Hope Fine. This book was released on 2014-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a young Mexican boy living in a colonia (trash dump community) who takes the first steps toward realizing his dream of getting an education.
