Polaroids From The Dead

Author : Douglas Coupland
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062105949
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Polaroids from the Dead written by Douglas Coupland and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling collection of takes on life and death in North America -- from his sweeping portrait of Grateful Dead culture to the deaths of Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe and the middle class. For years, Coupland's razor-sharp insights into what it means to be human in an age of technology have garnered the highest praise from fans and critics alike. At last, Coupland has assembled a wide variety of stories and personal "postcards" about pivotal people and places that have defined our modern lives. Polaroids from the Dead is a skillful combination of stories, fact and fiction -- keen outtakes on life in the late 20th century, exploring the recent past and a society obsessed with celebrity, crime and death. Princess Diana, Nicole Brown Simpson and Madonna are but some of the people scrutinized.

Author : Douglas Coupland
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780060987213
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Polaroids from the Dead written by Douglas Coupland and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1997-09-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling collection of takes on life and death in North America -- from his sweeping portrait of Grateful Dead culture to the deaths of Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe and the middle class. For years, Coupland's razor-sharp insights into what it means to be human in an age of technology have garnered the highest praise from fans and critics alike. At last, Coupland has assembled a wide variety of stories and personal "postcards" about pivotal people and places that have defined our modern lives. Polaroids from the Dead is a skillful combination of stories, fact and fiction -- keen outtakes on life in the late 20th century, exploring the recent past and a society obsessed with celebrity, crime and death. Princess Diana, Nicole Brown Simpson and Madonna are but some of the people scrutinized.

Author : Douglas Coupland
Publisher : HarperPerennial Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780006392514
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Polaroids from the Dead written by Douglas Coupland and published by HarperPerennial Canada. This book was released on 2003 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling collection of takes on life and death in North America -- from his sweeping portrait of Grateful Dead culture to the deaths of Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe and the middle class. For years, Coupland's razor-sharp insights into what it means to be human in an age of technology have garnered the highest praise from fans and critics alike.At last, Coupland has assembled a wide variety of stories and personal "postcards" about pivotal people and places that have defined our modern lives.Polaroids from the Dead is a skillful combination of stories, fact and fiction -- keen outtakes on life in the late 20th century, exploring the recent past and a society obsessed with celebrity, crime and death.Princess Diana, Nicole Brown Simpson and Madonna are but some of the people scrutinized.

Author : Coupland D
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9780006480693
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book POLAROIDS FROM DEAD CANADA ED written by Coupland D and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1998-01-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling collection of takes on life and death in North America -- from his sweeping portrait of Grateful Dead culture to the deaths of Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe and the middle class. For years, Coupland's razor-sharp insights into what it means to be human in an age of technology have garnered the highest praise from fans and critics alike. At last, Coupland has assembled a wide variety of stories and personal "postcards" about pivotal people and places that have defined our modern lives. Polaroids from the Dead is a skillful combination of stories, fact and fiction -- keen outtakes on life in the late 20th century, exploring the recent past and a society obsessed with celebrity, crime and death. Princess Diana, Nicole Brown Simpson and Madonna are but some of the people scrutinized.

Author : Andre Kertesz
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393065642
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Andre Kertesz the Polaroids written by Andre Kertesz and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful collection of the luminous last work by one of the true giants of twentieth-century photography. After the death of his wife, André Kertész consoled himself by taking up a new camera, the Polaroid SX70. As with earlier equipment, he mastered the camera and produced a provocative body of work that both honored his wife and lifted him out of depression. Here Kertész dips into his reserves one last time, tapping new people, ideas, and tools to generate a whole new body of work through which he transforms from a broken man into a youthful artist. Taken in his apartment just north of New York City’s Washington Square, many of these photographs were shot either from his window or in the windowsill. We see a fertile mind at work, combining personal objects into striking still lifes set against cityscape backgrounds, reflected and transformed in glass surfaces. Almost entirely unpublished work, these photographs are a testament to the genius of the photographer’s eye as manifested in the simple Polaroid.

Author : William Wegman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Wegman Polaroids written by William Wegman and published by . This book was released on 2002-10-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers the best of the photographer's creative and often whimsical canine portraits as taken with a 20 x 24-inch Polaroid camera, in a treasury accompanied by an essay on his experiences with the camera and with his models.

Author : Neil Campbell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803217836
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rhizomatic West written by Neil Campbell and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the American West in Sergio Leone?s ?spaghetti westerns? the same American West we find in Douglas Coupland?s Generation X? In Jim Jarmusch?s movies? In Calexico?s music? Or is the American West, as this book tells us, a constantly moving, mutating idea within a complex global culture? And what, precisely (or better yet, imprecisely) does it mean? ø Using Gilles Deleuze and Fälix Guattari?s concept of the rhizome, Neil Campbell shows how the West (or west-ness) continually breaks away from a mainstream notion of American ?rootedness? and renews and transforms itself in various cultural forms. A region long traversed by various transient peoples (from tribes and conquerors to immigrants, traders, and trappers), the West reflects a mythic quest for settlement, permanence, and synthesis?even notions of a national or global identity?at odds with its rootless history, culture, and nature. Crossing the concept of ?roots? with ?routes,? this book shows how notions of the West?in representations ranging from literature and film to photography, music, and architectural theory?give expression to ideas about identity, nationhood, and belonging in a world increasingly defined by movement across time and borders. The Rhizomatic West offers a new vision of the American West as a hybrid, performative space, a staging place for myriad intersecting and constantly changing identities.

Author : Douglas Coupland
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147110558X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life After God written by Douglas Coupland and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YOU ARE THE FIRST GENERATION RAISED WITHOUT RELIGION What happens if we are raised without religion or beliefs? As we grow older, the beauty and disenchantments of the world temper our souls. We all have spiritual impulses, yet where do these impulses flow in a world of commodities and consumerism? LIFE AFTER GOD is a compellingly innovative collection of stories responding to these themes. Douglas Coupland takes us into worlds we know exist but rarely see, finding rare grace amid our pre-millennium turmoil.

Author : Sarah Hill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501368427
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One-Hit Wonders written by Sarah Hill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The one-hit wonder has a long and storied history in popular music, exhorting listeners to dance, to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, to ponder mortality, to get a job, to bask in the sunshine, or just to get up and dance again. Catchy, memorable, irritating, or simply ubiquitous, one-hit wonders capture something of the mood of a time. This collection provides a series of short, sharp chapters focusing on one-hit wonders from the 1950s to the present day, with a view toward understanding both the mechanics of success and the socio-musical contexts within which such songs became hits. Some artists included here might have aspired to success but only managed one hit, while others enjoyed lengthy, if unremarkable, careers after their initial chart success. Put together, these chapters provide not only a capsule history of popular music tastes, but also ruminations on the changing nature of the music industry and the mechanics of fame.

Author : Peter Buse
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022617638X
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Camera Does the Rest written by Peter Buse and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes Polaroid photography stand out? Since its invention by Edwin Land in 1947, how has it crept into our common culture in the ways we witness today? Writing in the context of the two bankruptcies of Polaroid Corporation and the decline and obsolescence of its film, Peter Buse argues that Polaroid photography is distinguished by its process. The fact that, as the "New York Times" put it, the camera does the rest, encouraged distinctive practices by the camera s users, including its most famous use: as a party camera. Polaroid was often dismissed as a toy, but this book takes its status as a toy seriously, considering the way it opened up photographic play while simultaneously lowering its own cultural value. Drawing on unprecedented access to the archives of the Polaroid Corporation, Buse paints Polaroid as an intimate form, where the photographer, photograph, and photographed are in close proximity in time and space. This has profound implications for the photographic practices Polaroid cameras permit and encourage, such as the sexual Polaroid, evidence of which the author pulls from literature, film, and pop culture, or Polaroid as a form of play, a fun technology, an ice breaker that can make things happen. Buse also tells the story of Polaroid s response as a company to developments in digital imaging and its ultimately doomed hard-copy wager in the face of them. Pushing further, he explores the continuities and discontinuities between Polaroid and digital snapshot practices, reflecting on what Polaroid can tell us about digital photography today. "