Picturing Men

Picturing Men
Author: John Ibson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Male friendship
ISBN: 9780226368580

These photographs, spanning from before the Civil War to the 1950s, reveal a lost world. Rather than imposing contemporary notions of sexuality by assuming the images only illustrate a portion of the gay past, Ibson returns them to their own time to examine what they meant to the subjects. His perspective unearths a hidden aspect of American men's history. 140 photos.

Picturing Men and Women in the Dutch Golden Age

Picturing Men and Women in the Dutch Golden Age
Author: Muizelaar Klaske
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300098174

Taking as their premiss the subjective experience of art, the authors look at how paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer & other masters were displayed & comprehended in the 17th century.

Men In This Town

Men In This Town
Author: Giuseppe Santamaria
Publisher: Hardie Grant
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-09-02
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9781742707815

From five distinct cities around the world - New York, Tokyo, Milan, London and Sydney - photographer, art director and blogger Giuseppe Santamaria brings together a unique photographic collection showcasing the styles of the modern man. Giuseppe seeks out the everyday man in each city whose dress sense speaks volumes about who they are. Alongside striking images captured from the streets, Giuseppe has chosen a handful of men from each city with a particular, distinct style and photographed them in their various attire, as well as profiled them about their particular approach to fashion and their sense of the menswear scene today.

Hot Dudes Reading

Hot Dudes Reading
Author: Hot Dudes Reading
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2016-04-26
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1501127543

Humans of New York meets Porn for Women in this collection of candid photos, clever captions, and hilarious hashtags about one of the most important subjects of our time: hot dudes reading. Based on the viral Instagram account of the same name, Hot Dudes Reading takes its readers on a ride through all five boroughs of New York City, with each section covering a different subway line. Using their expert photography skills (covert iPhone shots) and journalistic ethics (#NoKindles), the authors capture the most beautiful bibliophiles in all of New York—and take a few detours to interview some of the most popular hot dudes from the early days of the Instagram account. Fun, irreverent, and wittily-observed, this book is tailor-made for book lovers in search of their own happy endings—and those who just want to get lost between the covers for a while.

X-Men Ultimate Picture Book

X-Men Ultimate Picture Book
Author: Kathleen Duey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: X-Men (Fictitious characters)
ISBN: 9781929945245

Mutants are being born with strange powers. Afraid and intolerant, governments build gigantic robots to detect and destroy them. The evil Magneto is convinced that normal humans must die. His brother, Professor Charles Xavier, believes mutants and normal humans can live in peace. Struggling with loyalty, ideals and their strange powers, the X-Men must fight to save the world for all of humanity.

Three Wise Men

Three Wise Men
Author: Beau Wise
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2021-01-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1250253454

From Beau Wise and Tom Sileo comes Three Wise Men, an incredible memoir of family, service and sacrifice by a Marine who lost both his brothers in combat—becoming the only "Sole Survivor" during the war in Afghanistan. Three Wise Men details the fate of three brothers intertwined when they voluntarily enlisted in defending their homeland after the devastating 9/11 attacks. Their extraordinary tale unfurls the severe toll of the Afghan war, particularly on a single family, underscoring the profound significance of the sacrifice and the indomitable resilience of a family's courage. While serving in Afghanistan, US Navy SEAL veteran and CIA contractor Jeremy Wise was killed in an al Qaeda suicide bombing that devastated the US intelligence community. Less than three years later, US Army Green Beret sniper Ben Wise was fatally wounded after volunteering for a dangerous assignment during a firefight with the Taliban. Ben was posthumously awarded the Silver Star, while Jeremy received the Intelligence Star—one of the rarest awards bestowed by the U.S. government—and also a star on the CIA’s Memorial Wall. The legacy of their sacrifice lives on in Beau Wise's account, the only “Sole Survivor” pulled from the battlefield, forging an enduring testament to the value of loyalty, service, and familial bonds.

Picturing Political Power

Picturing Political Power
Author: Allison K. Lange
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2021-09-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226815846

"For as long as American women have battled for equitable political representation, those battles have been defined by images--whether drawn, etched, photographed, or filmed. Some of these have been flattering, many of them have been condescending, and some have been scabrous. They have drawn upon prevailing cultural tropes about the perceived nature of women's roles and abilities, and they have circulated both with and without conscious political objectives. Allison K. Lange takes a systematic look at American women's efforts to control the production and dissemination of images of them in the long battle for representation, from the mid-nineteenth-century onward"--

Mark Twain and Male Friendship

Mark Twain and Male Friendship
Author: Peter Messent
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2009-10-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199736804

This book explores male friendship in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through Mark Twain and the relationships he had with William Dean Howells, Joseph Twichell, and Henry H. Rogers.

Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives

Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives
Author: Martha Moffitt Peacock
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2020-11-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9004432159

A novel and female empowering interpretive approach to these artistic archetypes in her analysis of Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age.