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Product Description: A CDS Book 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers, Volume 2 showcases 25 more of America’s most promising photographers, 25 years old and younger. Illuminating and sometimes startling, the collection presents work by an emerging generation of photographers at the start of their careers...read more
By Sylvia Plachy (compiler)

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9781576874394 | 1 edition (Power House Books, May 1, 2008), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A CDS Book 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers, Volume 2 showcases 25 more of America’s most promising photographers, 25 years old and younger.

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Product Description: The legendary photographer Richard Avedon wrote of Sylvia Plachy: “She makes me laugh and she breaks my heart. She is moral. She is everything a photographer should be.”Plachy’s poetic and visually stunning work brilliantly combines memoir and wry observation in this major retrospective collection of images ranging over forty years...read more
By Sylvia Plachy (photographer)

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9781884167928 | Umbrage Editions Inc, April 1, 2008, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The legendary photographer Richard Avedon wrote of Sylvia Plachy: “She makes me laugh and she breaks my heart.

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Product Description: Sylvia Plachy was the first photographer ever to be assigned to shoot the opening picture of the essential Goings On About Town section of The New Yorker. She did so for more than a year, in conjunction with the legendary magazine's front section redesign of 2005...read more
By Elisabeth Biondi (other contributor), Sylvia Plachy (photographer) and Mark Singer (foreword by)

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9781597110518 | Aperture, October 1, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Sylvia Plachy was the first photographer ever to be assigned to shoot the opening picture of the essential Goings On About Town section of The New Yorker.

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A poignant visual study of the innocent victims of war brings together stunning images by renowned photographers with a collection of first-person narratives and letters that recount women's courageous struggle to rebuild their lives, families, and communities in the face of the horrors and suffering of war. 30,000 first printing.

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9780792262114 | Natl Geographic Society, September 19, 2006, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: A poignant visual study of the innocent victims of war brings together stunning images by renowned photographers with a collection of first-person narratives and letters that recount women's courageous struggle to rebuild their lives, families, and communities in the face of the horrors and suffering of war.

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Product Description: In this, Plachy's most complex and personal book to date, we are asked to reconsider ideas of self-portraiture and going home again. In 1956, in the wake of the Hungarian Revolution, Plachy and her parents escaped into Austria carrying only a small valise...read more

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9781931788434 | Aperture, September 1, 2004, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: In this, Plachy's most complex and personal book to date, we are asked to reconsider ideas of self-portraiture and going home again.

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Combining exercise, body-mind practices, intuition, and psychotherapy, this unique program for achieving inner peace and self-healing reveals how to unblock stored memory and emotions. Reprint. (view table of contents)
By Sylvia Plachy (illustrator), Ilana Rubenfeld and Anne Kent Rush (illustrator)

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9780553111446 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, October 1, 2000, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Combining exercise, body-mind practices, intuition, and psychotherapy, this unique program for achieving inner peace and self-healing reveals how to unblock stored memory and emotions.

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9780553379839 | Reprint edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, October 2, 2001), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Combining exercise, body-mind practices, intuition, and psychotherapy, this unique program for achieving inner peace and self-healing reveals how to unblock stored memory and emotions.

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Product Description: Signs & Relics is an exploration of the world from a photographer's point of view -- in this case, noted Village Voice photographer Sylvia Plachy. Her engaging images -- some light and humorous, some somber -- show particular people and places at precise moments of synchronicity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Sylvia Plachy and Wim Wenders (foreword by)

Hardcover:

9781580930574 | Monacelli Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Signs & Relics is an exploration of the world from a photographer's point of view -- in this case, noted Village Voice photographer Sylvia Plachy.
9781576870464 | Power House Books, April 1, 1999, cover price $35.00

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Product Description: Every day thousands of ordinary people go to work in an industry whose busines is sex. Red Light showcases the work of photographer Sylvia Plachy and journalist James Ridgeway, who uncover this world through the eyes of the people who work in it, revealing a story of "sex in America" from a new and honest point of view...read more
By Sylvia Plachy (photographer) and James Ridgeway

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9781576870013 | Limited edition (Power House Books, October 1, 1996), cover price $225.00 | About this edition: Every day thousands of ordinary people go to work in an industry whose busines is sex.

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Explores the lives of people involved in America's sex industry, examining pornography, sex rituals, the world of go-go dancers, and prostitution (view table of contents)
By Sylvia Plachy (photographer) and James Ridgeway

Hardcover:

9781576870006 | Power House Books, June 1, 1996, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Explores the lives of people involved in America's sex industry, examining pornography, sex rituals, the world of go-go dancers, and prostitution

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Product Description: Reports on the dramatic and subtle changes in the author's city during the 1980s and 1990s. This title charts the city's history with the people who made it. It captures fragile moments in the life of a place or an individual.
By Sylvia Plachy (photographer) and Guy Trebay

Hardcover:

9781566392785 | Temple Univ Pr, October 1, 1994, cover price $77.50 | About this edition: In this collection of spirited essays, Trebay reports on the dramatic and subtle changes in his city during the 1980s and 1990s.

Paperback:

9781566392082 | Temple Univ Pr, November 8, 1994, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Reports on the dramatic and subtle changes in the author's city during the 1980s and 1990s.

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By Cornerhouse (other contributor), Minneapolis Institute of Arts (corporate author), Sylvia Plachy and Tom Waits

Paperback:

9780893814311 | Reprint edition (Aperture, December 1, 1991), cover price $29.95

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Photographs, letters, and essays record the rise, decline, and restoration of Ellis Island
By Shirley C. Burden, Larry Fink (photographer), Norman Kotker (editor) and Sylvia Plachy (photographer)

Paperback:

9780893813970 | Reprint edition (Aperture, September 1, 1991), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Photographs, letters, and essays record the rise, decline, and restoration of Ellis Island

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Product Description: Sylvia Plachy's photographs have freshness and spontaneity, ocnveying drama one moment and prompting laughter the next. Now available in paperback, this first published collection of her images invites a wider audience to join her Unguided Tour of people and places...read more

Hardcover:

9780893813932 | Aperture, September 1, 1990, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Sylvia Plachy's photographs have freshness and spontaneity, ocnveying drama one moment and prompting laughter the next.

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Photographs, letters, and essays record the rise, decline, and restoration of Ellis Island
By Shirley C. Burden, Larry Fink (photographer), Charles Hagen, Norman Kotker (editor), Sylvia Plachy (photographer) and Robert Twombly

Hardcover:

9780893813963 | Reprint edition (Aperture, November 1, 1989), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Photographs, letters, and essays record the rise, decline, and restoration of Ellis Island

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