About Believing is Seeing • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (September 1, 2011) Academy Award-wining filmmaker Errol Morris investigates the hidden truths behind a series of documentary photographs. In Believing Is Seeing Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris turns his eye to the nature of truth in photography. In his inimitable style, Morris untangles […]
Archives for August 17, 2011
Jerome Groopman, MD, and Pamela Hartzband, MD, authors of Your Medical Mind, on tour September/October 2011
About Your Medical Mind • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (September 20, 2011) Making the right medical choices is harder than ever. Whether we’re deciding to take a cholesterol drug or choosing a cancer treatment, we are overwhelmed by information from all sides: our doctors’ recommendations, dissenting expert opinions, confusing statistics, conflicting media reports, […]
Susana Fortes, author of Waiting for Robert Capa, on tour September/October 2011
About Waiting for Robert Capa • Paperback: 208 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (September 27, 2011) Susana Fortes offers a gorgeously written, English Patient-style novel about the real-life romance between two photojournalists furiously in love: Robert Capa and Gerda Taro. During the Spanish Civil War, Capa and Taro risked everything documenting Francisco Franco’s Fascist uprising—even as they risked everything for […]