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Andrew Phelps

Andrew Phelps is a photographer credited in 'The Nolan Variations' for production photography.

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CCCP

A 2011 photographic book by Frederic Chaubin documenting monumental Soviet Modernist architecture across the former USSR.

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David Hockney

David Hockney is a British painter known for his California paintings and his 'Secret Knowledge' thesis about optics in Old Master painting.

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Eastern Blocks

A 2017 photographic book by Zupagrafika documenting Soviet-era Brutalist housing estates across Eastern Europe.

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Edwin Land

American inventor and entrepreneur — founder of Polaroid Corporation — inventor of the Polaroid instant camera and polarizing film — one of Steve Jobs's primary inspirations for combining technology with liberal arts.

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Excellence Was Expected

Karl Ludvigsen's comprehensive multi-volume photographic and technical history of Porsche — covering every model from the 356 through the modern era — widely regarded as the definitive reference work on the marque.

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Frederic Chaubin

Frederic Chaubin is a French photographer whose 2011 book CCCP documented extraordinary Soviet Modernist and brutalist architecture.

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Jeff Sainlar

Photographer credited with the editorial portrait of Mark Zuckerberg used in Acquired's Chase Center live event promotion.

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Joe Folley

Photographer associated with the Modern Wisdom production and content ecosystem — specializing in portrait and documentary photography.

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John Reader

British journalist and author who has written extensively on Africa — Africa: A Biography of the Continent, Man on Earth, Missing Links — combining photojournalism and historical research to produce comprehensive accounts of African history and human evolution.

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Jordan Goldberg

Jordan Goldberg is a photographer and producer who documented the recording of Hans Zimmer's Interstellar score.

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Leonard Nimoy

American actor famous for playing Mr. Spock in Star Trek — the half-Vulcan science officer defined by the suppression of emotion in favor of pure logic — and who spent his career negotiating his relationship to this iconic role (I Am Not Spock, then I Am Spock).

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Paul Kranzler

Paul Kranzler is a photographer credited in 'The Nolan Variations' for production photography.

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Peter Chadwick

Peter Chadwick is a British photographer and designer who documented British Brutalist architecture in This Brutal World.

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Sherman Fairchild

American inventor, photographer, and investor who funded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 — being the largest individual shareholder of IBM (whose shares he inherited) — and whose willingness to fund the Traitorous Eight made the semiconductor revolution possible.

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Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was an American filmmaker who directed some of the most formally ambitious films in cinema history — '2001: A Space Odyssey', 'A Clockwork Orange', 'The Shining', 'Full Metal Jacket', 'Eyes Wide Shut' — working with total control and meticulous visual intelligence.

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Tacita Dean

Tacita Dean is a British artist known for film and photographic works exploring duration and memory, and a friend of Nolan's.

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This Brutal World

A 2016 photographic book by Peter Chadwick documenting British and international Brutalist architecture.

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