Polaroids from the Dead

Author: Douglas Coupland
Publisher: HarperPerennial Canada
ISBN: 9780006392514
Category : Deadheads (Music fans)
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling collection of takes on life and death in North America -- from his sweeping portrait of Grateful Dead culture to the deaths of Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe and the middle class. For years, Coupland's razor-sharp insights into what it means to be human in an age of technology have garnered the highest praise from fans and critics alike.At last, Coupland has assembled a wide variety of stories and personal "postcards" about pivotal people and places that have defined our modern lives.Polaroids from the Dead is a skillful combination of stories, fact and fiction -- keen outtakes on life in the late 20th century, exploring the recent past and a society obsessed with celebrity, crime and death.Princess Diana, Nicole Brown Simpson and Madonna are but some of the people scrutinized.

Polaroids from the Dead

Author: Douglas Coupland
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062105949
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling collection of takes on life and death in North America -- from his sweeping portrait of Grateful Dead culture to the deaths of Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe and the middle class. For years, Coupland's razor-sharp insights into what it means to be human in an age of technology have garnered the highest praise from fans and critics alike. At last, Coupland has assembled a wide variety of stories and personal "postcards" about pivotal people and places that have defined our modern lives. Polaroids from the Dead is a skillful combination of stories, fact and fiction -- keen outtakes on life in the late 20th century, exploring the recent past and a society obsessed with celebrity, crime and death. Princess Diana, Nicole Brown Simpson and Madonna are but some of the people scrutinized.

William Wegman Polaroids

Author: William Wegman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Gathers the best of the photographer's creative and often whimsical canine portraits as taken with a 20 x 24-inch Polaroid camera, in a treasury accompanied by an essay on his experiences with the camera and with his models.

Life After God

Author: Douglas Coupland
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 147110558X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215

Book Description
YOU ARE THE FIRST GENERATION RAISED WITHOUT RELIGION What happens if we are raised without religion or beliefs? As we grow older, the beauty and disenchantments of the world temper our souls. We all have spiritual impulses, yet where do these impulses flow in a world of commodities and consumerism? LIFE AFTER GOD is a compellingly innovative collection of stories responding to these themes. Douglas Coupland takes us into worlds we know exist but rarely see, finding rare grace amid our pre-millennium turmoil.

Living with the Dead

Author: Rock Scully
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0815411634
Category : Rock musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 412

Book Description
This memoir chronicles the Dead's seminal years: 1965-1985.

Polaroids from the Dead

Author: Douglas Coupland
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780060987213
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling collection of takes on life and death in North America -- from his sweeping portrait of Grateful Dead culture to the deaths of Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe and the middle class. For years, Coupland's razor-sharp insights into what it means to be human in an age of technology have garnered the highest praise from fans and critics alike. At last, Coupland has assembled a wide variety of stories and personal "postcards" about pivotal people and places that have defined our modern lives. Polaroids from the Dead is a skillful combination of stories, fact and fiction -- keen outtakes on life in the late 20th century, exploring the recent past and a society obsessed with celebrity, crime and death. Princess Diana, Nicole Brown Simpson and Madonna are but some of the people scrutinized.

Found Polaroids

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781944005139
Category : Found objects (Art)
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
stories of found polaroids

Microserfs

Author: Douglas Coupland
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062105965
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404

Book Description
From the era-defining author of Generation X comes a novel of overworked coders who escape the serfdom of Bill Gates to forge their own path. They are Microserfs—six code-crunching computer whizzes who spend upward of sixteen hours a day “coding” and eating “flat” foods (food which, like Kraft singles, can be passed underneath closed doors) as they fearfully scan company e-mail to learn whether the great Bill is going to “flame” one of them. But now there’s a chance to become innovators instead of cogs in the gargantuan Microsoft machine. The intrepid Microserfs are striking out on their own—living together in a shared digital flophouse as they desperately try to cultivate well-rounded lives and find love amid the dislocated, subhuman whir and buzz of their computer-driven world.

Instant Light

Author: Andreĭ A. Tarkovskiĭ
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500286142
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 135

Book Description
A volume of sixty Polaroid photographs of the late Russian filmmaker's friends and family consists of images taken between 1979 and 1984 in his native land and Italy, where he spent time in political exile. Original.

Polaroid Manipulations

Author: Kathleen Thormod Carr
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780817455552
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
In this comprehensive guide, the author of the highly successful "Polaroid Transfers" takes Polaroid techniques one step further with a complete visual guide to creating SX-70 manipulations, transfers, and digital prints. 250 color illustrations.