Pictures and People: A Search for Visual Truth and Social Justice - Softcover

Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932043713 ISBN 13: 9781932043716

Publisher: Penfield Books, 2011

Synopsis

Over 130 black and white photographs and text, highlight the years from 1951, to images of Monet''s garden taken in 2007. Joan has photographed Martin Luther King in 1962, and President Barack Obama during his campaign in 2007. Her images document the people who have worked for civil rights in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in the 1960s, as well as many photographs showing women''s roles during the last half of the twentieth century. At age 22, Joan photographed the birth of her first son. Initially the photographs were rejected nationwide by magazines as unfit to print, although the only medically graphic image was her baby with the umbilical cord still attached. The Des Moines Register''s Picture Magazine published the photographic series as subsequently LOOK magazine used the essay, and LIFE used one photograph. This series is in the autobiography, called one of the outstanding photographic essays of the 1950s. Two of her photographs, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, are in the book. They are of Nan Wood Graham, model for the painting American Gothic (1975) and one of the Junior League Christmas Party (1962). As a photographer for The Des Moines Register and The Iowan, Joan covered Iowa''s ethnic groups and farm life in four states for children''s educational books showing Iowa cornbelt farming, Wisconsin dairy farming, Texas cotton farming, and apple growers in Washington. Her sixty-plus-year career as a photographer gives insight into her three marriages and family background.

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Her photographs of women and men, long before gender and aging became national issues, were not only groundbreaking, they were photographs on a par with the best work of more nationally recognized photographers...They were sensitive studies of human character and emotion. --Robert Dana, former poet laureate of Iowa ----Robert Dana, former poet laureate of Iowa

WOW JOAN! Your autobiography came this evening. What an awesome work you have done. It is just tremendous. Your sense of humor is there and it is so interesting. I love your photos and the text is great. Thanks Joan. A great book. Am so glad you did it. A really great read--your interesting life--a life lived well. -- --Karen Tripp, Houston attorney

Dear Joan, Your autobiography arrived yesterday. I have enjoyed reading it from cover to cover. Outstanding job throughout -- from photographs and to text telling your fascinating story, to copy editing and production. Congratulations all! Thank you. --Jean Strong

I also started reading that and couldn't put it down. Hal will wonder what I have been doing all day, as none of the overly ripe garden tomatoes that need to be dealt with, have moved off the counter. I know he will understand. I, of course, picked up the book and it opened right up to my beloved Dad! Wonderful reading. Hal said he is dying to find time to start digging in, too. Again, thank you so much for BOTH books. --Barb

Dear Joan, Your autobiography arrived yesterday. I have enjoyed reading it from cover to cover. Outstanding job throughout -- from photographs and to text telling your fascinating story, to copy editing and production. Congratulations all! Thank you. --Jean Strong

USA Book News, the premier online magazine and review website for mainstream and independent publishing houses, announced the winners and finalists of THE USA BEST BOOKS 2011 AWARDS on November 1, 2011. Over 500 winners and finalists were announced in over 140 categories covering print, e-books, and audio books. Awards were presented for titles published in 2010 and 2011. Jeffrey Keen, President and CEO of USA Book News, said this year s contest yielded an unprecedented number of entries, which were then narrowed down to over 500 winners and finalists. Simon & Schuster, St. Martins Press, Random House, Penguin, Harper Collins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill, John Wiley & Sons and hundreds of Independent Houses contributed to this year s Outstanding Competition! Pictures and People: A Search for Visual Truth and Social Justice, published by Penfield Books in Iowa City, has been selected as a finalist in the autobiography/memoir category. For a full list of all award winning titles, visit USAbooknews online. Pictures and People has over 130 black and white photographs and includes text and highlights from the years 1951, to images of Monet s garden taken in 2007. Joan has photographed Martin Luther King in 1962, President Reagan in the 1980s, and President Barack Obama during his campaign in 2007. Her images documented the people who have worked for civil rights in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in the 1960s, as well as many photographs showing women s roles during the last half of the twentieth century. At age 22, Joan photographed the birth of her first son. Initially the photographs were rejected nationwide by magazines as unfit to print, although the only medically graphic image was her baby with the umbilical cord still attached. The Des Moines Register s Picture Magazine published the photographic series as subsequently LOOK magazine used the essay, and LIFE used one photograph. This series is in the autobiography, called one of the outstanding photographic essays of the 1950s. Two of her photographs, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, are in the book. They are of Nan Wood Graham, model for the painting American Gothic (1975) and one of the Junior League Christmas Party (1962). As a photographer for The Des Moines Register and The Iowan, Joan covered Iowa s ethnic groups and farm life in four states for children s educational books showing Iowa cornbelt farming, Wisconsin dairy farming, Texas cotton farming, and apple growers in Washington. Her sixty-plus-year career as a photographer gives insight into her three marriages and family background. --USA Book News

Dear Joan, Your autobiography arrived yesterday. I have enjoyed reading it from cover to cover. Outstanding job throughout -- from photographs and to text telling your fascinating story, to copy editing and production. Congratulations all! Thank you. --Jean Strong

Edition details

• Publisher: Penfield Books
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1932043713
• ISBN 13: 9781932043716
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret
• Number of pages: 136
• Editor: Deb Schense, David Wright, Sean Ulmer, Mary Bennett