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A wild life : a visual biography of photographer Michael Nichols / Melissa Harris.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Aperture, Aperture Foundation, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First editionDescription: 383 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781597112512
  • 1597112518
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • TR140.N4855 H37 2017
Contents:
Some girls -- My hometown -- Nick Danger -- Indiana Jones -- Brutal kinship -- Sita and Charger -- The last place on earth -- Peace, love, and photography -- Family ties -- The president and Parairie Creek -- Harvest -- You can't always get what you want -- Coda: The woods -- My back pages.
Summary: "Menaced by lizards in Indonesia, cuffed by a gorilla in Africa, stung by poisonous caterpillars in the world's deepest cave - so ran the lead to a 1985 article describing Michael Nick Nichols. A Wild Life is Nichols's story, told with passion and insight by author and photo-editor Melissa Harris. Nichols' story combines a life of adventure, with a conviction about how we can redeem the human race by protecting our wildlife. The book s two central characters are the photographer who journeys from the American South, via the photographers co-operative Magnum, to becoming lead wildlife photographer of National Geographic magazine and the author, who travels with the photographer on assignment in Africa, to gain intimate and deep insight into her subject. Harris's story also draws on meetings with some of the world s leading eco-scientists including legendary primatologist, Jane Goodall."-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 770.92 NIC Available T00628184
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A Wild Life is Michael "Nick" Nichols's story, told with passion and insight by author and photo-editor Melissa Harris. Nichols' story combines a life of adventure, with a conviction about how we can redeem the human race by protecting our wildlife. The book's two central characters are the photographer - who journeys from the American South, via the photographers' co-operative Magnum, to becoming lead wildlife photographer of National Geographic magazine - and the author, who travels with the photographer on assignment in Africa, to gain intimate and deep insight into her subject. Harris's story also draws on meetings with some of the world's leading eco-scientists - including legendary primatologist, Jane Goodall.

"On the occasion of the publication of A wild life, the exhibition Wild : Michael Nichols, organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, will be presented at the museum from June 27 to September 17, 2017"--Page 382.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 370-376) and index.

Some girls -- My hometown -- Nick Danger -- Indiana Jones -- Brutal kinship -- Sita and Charger -- The last place on earth -- Peace, love, and photography -- Family ties -- The president and Parairie Creek -- Harvest -- You can't always get what you want -- Coda: The woods -- My back pages.

"Menaced by lizards in Indonesia, cuffed by a gorilla in Africa, stung by poisonous caterpillars in the world's deepest cave - so ran the lead to a 1985 article describing Michael Nick Nichols. A Wild Life is Nichols's story, told with passion and insight by author and photo-editor Melissa Harris. Nichols' story combines a life of adventure, with a conviction about how we can redeem the human race by protecting our wildlife. The book s two central characters are the photographer who journeys from the American South, via the photographers co-operative Magnum, to becoming lead wildlife photographer of National Geographic magazine and the author, who travels with the photographer on assignment in Africa, to gain intimate and deep insight into her subject. Harris's story also draws on meetings with some of the world s leading eco-scientists including legendary primatologist, Jane Goodall."-- Provided by publisher.

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