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These
wonderful books include photographs, stories, reports and research by
and about women
around the world. (P.S. There are even more in the bibliography of Celebrating
Women.)
Women Who Light the Dark. Don’t miss it! Click here. Celebrating
Women. Color photographs of 17 festivals in 15
countries that celebrate women’s attributes and accomplishments.
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In
Her Hands, Craftswomen Changing the World, Paola
Gianturco’s first book, was created with Toby Tuttle. They
traveled to 28 villages on 4 continents to document the lives
of heroic women artisans living on less than $1 a day, who are
feeding and educating their children with the money they earn. |
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The cacophony of color that assaults you when you visit Guatemala is no accident. It’s a profound manifestation of the irrepressible vitality and valor of an indomitable people who have endured and gained strength from their difficulties, traditions, land, spiritual beliefs, and kinships. ¡Viva Colores! profiles forty-one everyday heroes who are shaping their nation's future. Photographs by Paola Gianturco, text by David Hill.
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Love.
The introduction was written by Kim Phuk, whom you will remember
seeing in the 1972 news photograph: a little Vietnamese girl running
naked down the road, her skin on
fire with napalm. The photographer who took
that picture rushed her to the hospital. Today, she lives in Canada
and is a good will ambassador for UNESCO. Love is brimming with
images taken all over the world, selected from the project titled
MILK (Moments of Intimacy, Laughter and Kinship) that has produced
photography exhibits, cards, and books in six languages. |
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Dogon
People of the Cliffs. Despite the pressures of the expansion
of Islam and |
| Tribes of the Great Rift Valley.Photojournalist
Elizabeth L. Gilbert’s traveled move than 3,000
Miles between Eritrea and Malawi to document
25 African ethnic groups. Her intimate black and
white photographs of endangered cultures feel,
Vogue comments, “urgent and essential.” MORE |
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In National Geographic’s
Eighth Atlas of the World is not only an invaluable
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 Women of the World. Claudia Demonte collected 174 pieces of art from as many countries, each an 8” x 8” answer to the question, “Who is woman, what is she?” MORE |
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African Ceremonies. Angela Fisher and Carol Beckwith have photographed Africa for
over three decades. This book took ten years. It covers sacred
ceremonies all over the continent, a visual journeys through the
meaning and power of traditional rituals. The book includes 43
ceremonies in 26 countries, now beautifully documented before
they disappear; it’s a two volume tour de force. |
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Penguin
Atlas of Women in the World is brimming with information-rich
maps created by Myriad Editions, UK to show patterns and problems
that depict women’s lives around the globe: their work, health,
education and personal freedom. Persepolis,
The Story of a Childhood is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny,
heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic
Revolution, a story she tells in black-and-white comic strips.
As the great granddaughter of one Iran's last emperors, her story
is a reminder of the human cost of war and political repression
— and a introduction to a loveable little girl. |
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Images
of the Spirit. In pictures taken of cultures in
her native Mexico, Graciela Iturbide perceives the surreal and the
marvelous: a mix of history, lyricism and portraiture, identity,
diversity and selfhood. |
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Ndebele.
For generations, Ndebele women have made rich ceremonial beadwork
and large murals on the exterior walls of their mud dwellings, but
Margaret Courtney-Clarke was the first to photograph this remarkable
artistry. |
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Women
in the Material World. Faith D'Alusio and a team of
female photojournalists visited 20 countries to create photo essays
about women’s hopes, dreams sorrows, and joys. |
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Women Photographers at National Geographic The magazine has employed many women as freelance photographers since 1953 when the first woman joined the photographic staff. This book features images by women who shoot for National Geographic all over the world. MORE
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Headwraps. Georgia
Scott left her job as an art director for the New York Times, stored
everything she owned, and spent a year photographing headwraps in
32 countries. |
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Wise
Women. Joyce Tenneson traveled throughout America to
photograph and interview women whose ages ranged from65 to 100.
Rather than the frail stereotypeof aging that North American
society has fostered in the past, she found accomplished women who
were vital, energetic, beautiful inside and out. |
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Eye
To Eye-Women. Features the words and worlds of women from
Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, as seen in photographs
and fiction by each region’s top women writers. |
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Tribe
of Women. Connie Bickman, a photojournalist who lives
in Minnesota, began her spiritual and physical travels in 1989.
Over ten years, she visited women in 18 countries. “Though
we may travel far and in many directions…every being is a
mirror to our own divine self,” she writes. |