Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Great Photography and Pivotal Days in History Captured for Posterity

A Day in the Life of Israel by David Cohen and Lee Liberman (Project Directors)

A Day in the Life of China by David Cohen (Project Director)

A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union by David Cohen and Rick Smolan (Project Directors)

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I stumbled across this series in a thrift store and picked up a couple because I love photojournalism and concept books like this. The Day in the Life series was apparently a big hit in the late 1980s/early 1990s, which passed me by completely somehow (in fairness to myself, I was either not born or a baby during this time). For each book, they would send a bunch of the world’s top photojournalists, as well as the best photographers from the host country, out on […]

Great Documentary Photography of American Teenagers

It's Complicated: The American Teenager by Robin Bowman

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I really enjoyed this book of portraits and interviews with American teenagers. The portraits were taken over the course of four years, and each one has a short chunk of the interview Bowman did with her subjects. I love this kind of blend of photo and explanatory text instead a book of just solely photographs, so this was right up my alley. I also am always rooting for teenagers, as I feel that they are unfairly denigrated in our culture, so it was nice to […]

I wolfed this down

Artie and the Wolf Moon by Olivia Stephens

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“Do I want to read Artie and the Wolf Moon by Olivia Stephens” has been on my mind since I first saw it “advertised” as a reader online copy, when it came out and finally when I saw it on the shelf of the library a few days ago. And the answer was always no until I saw it at the library. It was not like I didn’t have four other books in hand, or have a ton at home, but my gut said, “Get […]

Unapologetic Style

Stepping Out: The Unapologetic Style of African Americans over Fifty  by Connie Briscoe

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I am not a fashion person. But I love good art. And this book is not just fashion but it is art as well. However, I do like history and this book also gives you the history of several subjects and areas. This book needs at least three readings. The first read is so that you look at the fantastic photographs. Savory them. The colors, the art, the funky and fun styles. The second read is for reading the text. There is a lot more […]

A Brief Collection of Great Photographs

The Photo Essay: Photographs by Mary Ellen Mark by Mary Ellen Mark

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CBR15Bingo: Africa (contains images and information about the Ethiopian famine of 1985) I love photojournalism / photo stories so I was interested to get this book of Mary Ellen Mark’s work. This is a series of books that the Smithsonian did of “photographers at work,” with this volume containing an interview with Mark and a variety of her photographs. I am a big Mary Ellen Mark fan so I was excited to get more insight into her process and how she approaches photography. The selection […]

Say milkbone

The Best Dog: Hilarious to Heartwarming Portraits of the Pups We Love by Aliza Eliazarov and Edward Doty

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Full disclosure: I did not read every page of The Best Dog: Hilarious to Heartwarming Portraits of the Pups We Love but did read the majority. The book is a nice art/coffee table book. It is a good gift for the dog lover. A few lines to a paragraph accompany each of the dogs and their photograph. The stories range from “this dog likes parmesan cheese on their food” to “this dog, that I rescued two days ago, alerted me to the fact the farms […]



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