The Gernsheim Collection (Harry Ransom Center Photography Series)

The Gernsheim Collection (Harry Ransom Center Photography Series)

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The Gernsheim Collection is one of the most important collections of photography in the world. Amassed by the renowned husband-and-wife team of Helmut and Alison Gernsheim between 1945 and 1963, it contains an unparalleled range of images, beginning with the world's earliest-known photograph from nature, made by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826. The Gernsheim Collection includes some 35,000 major and representative photographs from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; a research library of some 3,600 books, journals, and published articles; about 250 autographed letters and manuscripts; and more than 200 pieces of early photographic equipment. Its encyclopedic scope—as well as the expertise and taste with which the Gernsheims built the collection—makes the Gernsheim Collection one of the world's premier resources for the study and appreciation of the development of photography.

Published to coincide with a landmark exhibition staged by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, which owns the collection, this volume presents masterpieces of the Gernsheim Collection, along with lesser-known images of great historical significance. Arranged in chronological order, this selection effectively constitutes a visual history of photography from its beginnings to the mid-twentieth century. Each full-page image is accompanied by an extensive annotation in which Roy Flukinger describes the photograph's place in the evolution of photography and also within the Gernsheim Collection. Flukinger also provides an enlightening introduction in which he traces the Gernsheims' passionate careers as collectors and pioneering historians of photography, showing how their untiring efforts significantly contributed to the acceptance of photography as a fine art and as a field worthy of intellectual inquiry. Appreciations of the Gernsheim Collection by Alison Nordström and Mark Haworth-Booth confirm its singular importance as a collection of outstanding breadth and depth in the history of photography.

• Sales Rank: #207879 in Books
  
• Published on: 2010-09-01
• Original language:
  English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 13.31" h x
  10.35" w x
  1.48" l,
  6.48 pounds
  
• Binding: Hardcover
• 362 pages

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Debt is Slavery: and 9 Other Things I Wish My Dad Had Taught Me About Money

Debt is Slavery: and 9 Other Things I Wish My Dad Had Taught Me About Money

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Third printing, October 2010

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Michael's focus is definitely for anyone who is in debt and wants some no-nonsense simple systems to bail out of it.
-- Janine Bolon, founder of SmartCents Inc and author of 'Money...It's Not Just for Rich People' and 'Ditching Debt'

This book doesn't waste time making its points, and there are many very good points. Michael Mihalik is a good teacher, and Debt is Slavery is the kind of how-to manual that should be handed out like tracts at an airport.
-- MightyBargainHunter.com

Debt is Slavery is a great personal finance book, one of the best I've read.
-- GetRichSlowly.org

The book is lean and mean - it doesn't mince many words at all. If direct and clear advice is what you're looking for, you can't do much better than Debt is Slavery.
-- TheSimpleDollar.com

Debt is Slavery is packed full of content and it prompted me to action. This book made so much sense to me and I think it helped me realize my true priorities. Your book is making a huge positive difference in my life. Thank you.
-- BloggingAwayDebt.com

Book Description

In his book, Debt is Slavery, Michael Mihalik describes the 10 steps he personally used to gain control of his finances and pay off a large amount of debt.

The key to Mihalik's method is changing the way people think about money. Mihalik contends that people who do not change their perceptions about money will never succeed in improving how they handle their finances because all action is born from thought.

Mihalik's first technique is described in the title - equating debt with slavery. While this idea may seem extreme to some, people who are burdened with debt will definitely understand how borrowing money puts them in financial servitude to the lender. Successfully equating debt with slavery stops people from accumulating more debt, which is the first step towards recovery (similar to stopping the leak in a sinking boat prior to bailing out the water).

Mihalik goes on to describe other powerful ideas such as equating money with time (to eliminate unnecessary spending), evaluating the hidden cost of possessions, and avoiding the insidious influence of ubiquitous marketing. As the reader progresses through the book, their perceptions about money will transform until by Chapter 9, they will truly believe they can 'Save 50 Percent of Your Salary'. The book ends with an in-depth description of a simple way to plan your finances.

The author states in the introduction that because people are busy and do not want to be distracted by 'fluff', he has boiled the book down to the absolute basics. The result is a hard-hitting book that is 128 pages cover-to-cover. There is a gem on every page and even the busiest person can find time to read this powerful book.

• Sales Rank: #384224 in Books
  
• Published on: 2007-02-28
• Released on: 2007-02-28
• Original language:
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• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.33" h x
  5.47" w x
  .28" l,
  .35 pounds
  
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

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