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Speaking out

queer youth in focus

Secrets to drawing realistic children

2008
Demonstrates techniques for making realistic drawings of children in pencil, discussing the challenges of drawing children, reviewing drawing tools and techniques, and covering facial proportion, facial features, light and shadow, clothing, and other topics.

Artists in their studios

images from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art
2007
Photographs and text profile the lives and studio space of more than seventy-five American artists, spanning the late nineteenth century and the twentieth century.

Moche portraits from ancient Peru

2004
Color-reproductions and text trace the history of Moche portraiture and its role in the development and preservation of Moche civilization.

Frida Kahlo

portraits of an icon
2002
A collection of portraits of painter Frida Kahlo by some of the most renowned photographers of the twentieth century.

Superstars

how they got famous
2013
Even the biggest supernovae of the celebrity universe -- stars like Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj, Justin Bieber, Zac Efron and the boys in One Direction -- all began small, dreaming big. Their stories will be the riveting subject of Superstars : how they got famous. Sure, diehard fans may know some of the facts, but Superstars! collects in one keepsake volume the treasured tales of these young stars' early beginnings, as well as show us fantastic up-to-the-minute pictures of their current looks and successes..

Edward S. Curtis

coming to light
2001

The Beatles conquer America

the photographic record of their first American tour
1985

Work

the world in photographs
2006

Vatos

2000
A collection of photographs profile Chicano men.

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