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Allan Tannenbaum to discuss John & Yoko book in NYC

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Allan Tannenbaum will deliver remarks and provide a photography projection of images from his latest book,
"John and Yoko: A New York Love Story," at
Barnes and Noble in New York City.

The event takes place Tuesday, February 5th at 7:00 p.m.

Barnes and Noble
97 Warren Street between West and Greenwich Streets.

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Allan Tannenbaum releases new John Lennon book

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Insight Editions has released a new book of photographs chronicling John Lennon and Yoko Ono by Allan Tannenbaum.

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Andrew Lichtenstein releases new book

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Andrew Lichtenstein will celebrate the release of his new book, "Never Coming Home," at the Bubble Lounge in New York City on Monday, October 29th, from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

The Bubble Lounges is located at 228 West Broadway, at the intersection of White Street.

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Yannis Kontos to present work from North Korea

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Yannis Kontos will show a number of photographs from his latest book, "Red Utopia," during a book-signing and talk at London's Frontline Club. Kontos, who turned to a variety of methods to evade government minders while documenting life inside North Korea, will address the difficulties inherent in documenting life inside a tightly-controlled regime during a discussion moderated by Colin Jacobson.

For more information, please visit the Frontline Club website.

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Yannis Kontos releases two new books

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Yannis Kontos has released two new books through Greek publisher, Kastaniotis Editions.

Possible/Impossible: Aporias chronicles a decade of Kontos’ photograpy with a forward by veteran editor John G. Morris. The book opens with a chronicling of the savage but calculated amputation of limbs of civilians in Sierra Leone. It closes with photographs of the mentally deranged victims of neglect in a Serbian hospital. Between these sections we are introduced to a world rife with aporias, an ancient Greek term defined as “a problem or difficulty arising from an awareness of opposing or incompatible views.”

In Red Utopia, Kontos' diligent eye probes life in North Korea, in extremely trying circumstances. Inside Asia's "hermit kingdom," photography is stricty limited to that which official minders permit to be captured on film. Smuggling illicit images out of the country, Kontos has succeeded at providing incites into everyday life in one of the world's last Stalinist holdouts.

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Stephen Shames releases Black Panthers book

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Aperture has released a collection of Stephen Shames' never-before-published photographs of one the most controversial organizations of the Civil Rights movement. The Black Panthers: Photographs By Stephen Shames, illustrates the way in which the group’s political agenda was tied to their aesthetic sense and includes essays by Black Panther Party founder Bobby Seale and Charles E. Jones, Chair of the African-American studies department at Georgia State University. For more information, visit: http://www.aperture.org/bpp/

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Sara Terry releases "Aftermath: Bosnia's Long Road to Peace"

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Since 2000, Sara Terry has documented the post-war period since fighting ended in Bosnia. Terry explores the exhumation and identification of some 30,000 victims of ethnic cleansing, the widows of Srebrenica and the refugee families who have returned to build new lives in a land devastated by the worst genocide since World War II. Aftermath: Bosnia's Long Road to Peace is scheduled for release on September 1, 2005.

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