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    A Photographic Memory by Rachel Elizabeth Seed

    A personal documentary film about a daughter's search for the mother she never knew through their shared love of photography.

    • 70% funded
    • $17,749 pledged
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    A personal documentary film about a daughter's search for the mother she never knew through their shared love of photography.

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    ARKYD: A Space Telescope for Everyone by Planetary Resources

    The first publicly accessible space telescope! Take amazing photos of space or have your photo displayed above the Earth.

    • 91% funded
    • $919,704 pledged
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    The first publicly accessible space telescope! Take amazing photos of space or have your photo displayed above the Earth.

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    All The Queens Men- Photography Book by katie murray

    All The Queens Men takes a look into the mysterious world of men; a part fact part fictional tale set in the magical and gritty Queens.

    • 52% funded
    • $2,877 pledged
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    All The Queens Men is a decade-long photography project by Katie Murray that navigates the psychology of men in Queens, New York, through landscape and portraiture. Soon to be a book.

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    Devil's Den by Harry Griffin and Eva O'Leary

    This July, photographers Harry Griffin and Eva O'Leary travel to Pennsylvania, where 15,000 people will come together to live in 1863.

    • 90% funded
    • $2,262 pledged
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    This July, photographers Harry Griffin and Eva O'Leary travel to Pennsylvania, where 15,000 people will come together to live in 1863.

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    The Nashville Community Darkroom by Nashville Community Darkroom

    Bringing the red light district back to Nashville. Join us and get prints, postcards, photography sessions and more!

    • 57% funded
    • $11,471 pledged
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    A Community Darkroom in Nashville, Tennessee.

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    One Year Performance: Walking, Silence by Gregory Hindy

    I’m going to take a vow of silence for one year, during which time I’ll walk across the country and photograph with a 4x5 field camera.

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    • 102% funded
    • $8,229 pledged
    • Funded
      Jun 18, 2013

    A year of silence, with a view camera.

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    South of The Ohio: A Queer Photo Documentary by Christian Hendricks

    A new photo documentary exploring contemporary queer culture in the American South.

    Successful!
    • 110% funded
    • $5,538 pledged
    • Funded
      Jun 05, 2013

    Christian Hendricks documents queer culture in the American South.

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    Fuck You Norman Rockwell's, "Alice in Wonderland" by alyssa miserendino

    Left of center, real-life childhood experiences shared by my community & recreated in photographic form.

    Successful!
    • 100% funded
    • $4,011 pledged
    • Funded
      May 31, 2013

    Alyssa Miserendino elaborately recreates childhood memories.

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    Big Silver Gelatin Prints by Digital Silver Imaging

    Creating real black & white silver gelatin prints up to 48" wide, using digital photographic laser technology.

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    • 112% funded
    • $50,761 pledged
    • Funded
      May 17, 2013

    Big. Silver. Gelatin. Prints.

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    Testify: A Visual Love Letter to Appalachia by Roger May

    Testify is a visual love letter to Appalachia, a rediscovery of home and place presented in a limited edition photobook.

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    • 117% funded
    • $11,125 pledged
    • Funded
      May 01, 2013

    Testify is a visual love letter to Appalachia, a rediscovery of home and place presented in a limited edition photobook by Roger May.

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    ~ TWO RIVERS ~ by Carolyn Drake

    A photo book chronicling the artist's six-year obsession with two Central Asian rivers, on a journey from the Aral Sea to western China

    Successful!
    • 160% funded
    • $24,148 pledged
    • Funded
      May 05, 2013

    A photobook chronicling Carolyn Drake's six-year obsession with two Central Asian rivers, on a journey from the Aral Sea to western China.

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    Say Hello To Farewell Books by Farewell Books

    A progressive bookshop and art gallery that specializes in new and used hard to find books in the city of Austin, Texas.

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    • 110% funded
    • $16,053 pledged
    • Funded
      Mar 09, 2013

    A progressive bookshop and art gallery that specializes in new and used hard to find books in the city of Austin, Texas. Formerly Domy Books.

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    Handcrafted Modern Europe: At Home with MidCentury Designers by Leslie Williamson

    An intimate look inside the homes of thirteen of the most important mid-twentieth century architects and designers in Europe.

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    • 112% funded
    • $46,129 pledged
    • Funded
      Mar 14, 2013

    Photography + mid-century modern design.

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    Exposures 2013 Summer Program on Pine Ridge Reservation by In-Sight Photography Project

    Exposures' Summer Program will bring together youth from diverse regions and backgrounds for three weeks of intensive arts programming.

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    • 107% funded
    • $17,229 pledged
    • Funded
      Mar 10, 2013

    Exposures' Summer Program will bring together youth from diverse regions and backgrounds for three weeks of intensive arts programming.

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    Beautiful Ramshackle Portland by Mark Marchesi

    Capturing time and place. A photo project celebrating Portland, Maine. Telling the story of this historic city seated by the sea.

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    • 159% funded
    • $5,597 pledged
    • Funded
      Mar 02, 2013

    Capturing time and place. A photo project celebrating Portland, Maine. Telling the story of this historic city seated by the sea.

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    Current Space Community Darkroom by Current Space

    Current Space Community Darkroom will include classes, workshops, lectures, photo club, critiques, field trips, and member exhibitions.

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    • 152% funded
    • $5,342 pledged
    • Funded
      Feb 24, 2013

    A community darkroom space in Baltimore, MD.

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    The Lomography Smartphone Film Scanner by Lomography

    The Smartphone Film Scanner Offers You a New Way to Instantly Scan and Share 35mm Films Using Your Smartphone.

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    • 537% funded
    • $268,702 pledged
    • Funded
      Feb 04, 2013

    Scan and share 35mm film using your smartphone—a new project by Lomography.

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    Find the Funds for Finding Trust by Annie Marie Musselman

    Kehrer Verlag is publishing Finding Trust ( Pictures from the Sarvey Wildlife Rehabilitation Center) in 2013, I need $15,000 to finish.

    Successful!
    • 113% funded
    • $17,007 pledged
    • Funded
      Jan 16, 2013

    A photobook project by Annie Marie Musselman, to be published in 2013 by Kehrer Verlag.

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    I Wish You Where Here by Luke Strosnider

    A book of photographs exploring the simultaneous experience of being a resident and a tourist.

    Successful!
    • 126% funded
    • $7,560 pledged
    • Funded
      Dec 01, 2012

    A book of photographs exploring the simultaneous experience of being a resident and a tourist, by Luke Strosnider.

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    Saturn V Relaunch by Paul Sahre

    A photography, design and video project documenting the restaging of a 40 year-old memory and a shot at dad redemption.

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    • 141% funded
    • $19,753 pledged
    • Funded
      Nov 15, 2012

    Paul Sahre's photo documentation and book of a public re-staging of his father's failed rocket launch.

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    Overnight Generation by Italo Morales

    Overnight Generation is a portrait of Sarajevo and a tribute to its young citizens, who had to grow overnight, while we were asleep.

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    • 104% funded
    • $15,707 pledged
    • Funded
      Nov 10, 2012

    Overnight Generation is a portrait of Sarajevo and a tribute to its young citizens, by Italo Morales.

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    Philly Photo Day 2012 by Philadelphia Photo Arts Center

    On October 26th, take a picture anywhere in Philadelphia. We'll print and exhibit it alongside hundreds of others.

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    • 102% funded
    • $5,130 pledged
    • Funded
      Oct 18, 2012

    On October 26th, take a picture anywhere in Philadelphia. It will be printed and exhibited alongside hundreds of others as part of Philly Photo Day 2012.

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    BIG RED SHINDIG by Big Red & Shiny

    Did you miss us? We're relaunching Boston's favorite online art journal and need your help.

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    • 133% funded
    • $12,037 pledged
    • Funded
      Oct 02, 2012

    Big Red & Shiny, an online publication for the Boston arts scene, is back and is looking to celebrate.

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    Robert Montgomery: Echoes of Voices in the High Towers by mono.kultur

    When poetry becomes light, when billboards talk about politics – our first artist book with the amazing Robert Montgomery.

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    • 489% funded
    • $24,461 pledged
    • Funded
      Sep 24, 2012

    Fund the making of a poetic artist book by Robert Montgomery.

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    'Hunters' a photography art book by David Chancellor. by INSTITUTE Projects

    Exploring the complex relationship that man has with animal in sub Saharan Africa, through the eyes of the tourist trophy hunter.

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    • 155% funded
    • $31,129 pledged
    • Funded
      Sep 10, 2012

    The first of three books documenting the industry behind the wildlife in sub Saharan Africa, David Chancellor's "Hunters" explores the complex relationship that man has with animal through the eyes of the tourist trophy hunter.

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    South of Here: Photographs of Louisiana and the Gulf Coast by M.Wesley Ham

    A long term photography/video project based in SOUTHERN LOUISIANA. Focusing on people and the landscape that define this unique place.

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    • 129% funded
    • $5,164 pledged
    • Funded
      Aug 17, 2012

    A long term photography and video project based in Southern Louisiana, by M. Wesley Ham.

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    some (w) here :: a photo book by andres gonzalez

    Dreaming in pictures.

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    • 134% funded
    • $20,226 pledged
    • Funded
      Aug 12, 2012

    Andres Gonzalez's dreamy photobook project exploring memory and place. Gonzalez worked with Light Work to scan and edit images from this project in preparation for the publication.

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    A Photography Book About Vinyl Collectors - Dust & Grooves. by Eilon

    Dust & Grooves is a photo and interview project documenting vinyl collectors in their most intimate environment: their record room.

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    • 153% funded
    • $41,375 pledged
    • Funded
      Aug 10, 2012

    A photography book project that explores the world of vinyl collectors, by Eilon Paz.

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    Invisible Cities | Photo Exhibition by Danielle Ezzo

    Visible Cities, a sublime photo exhibit that uses the arcane process of salt printing and explores how people connect.

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    • 101% funded
    • $3,335 pledged
    • Funded
      Jul 27, 2012

    Visible Cities, a sublime photo exhibit by Danielle Ezzo that uses the arcane process of salt printing and explores how people connect.

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    There Is Nothing Beautiful Around Here by Paccarik Orue

    An art book about unexpected beauty in a complex place.

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    • 104% funded
    • $5,100 pledged
    • Funded
      Jul 28, 2012

    Paccarik Orue's book project about finding beauty in the struggling city of Richmond, California.

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    canTeens issue 6: Writing and art by Harlem 7th-graders by canteen magazine

    Our Harlem 7th-graders have worked hard all year to improve their writing—help them publish their work!

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    • 100% funded
    • $5,024 pledged
    • Funded
      Jul 27, 2012

    The authors and editors behind Canteen magazine teach writing to underserved Harlem 7th-graders every year. canTeens, a beautifully designed print publication, presents the students' best work.

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    Permanence - Book Project (2003 - 2012) by Kris Graves by Kris Graves

    A collection of 70 photographs & accompanying written reflections from across the world, created to preserve my memory of those places.

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    • 111% funded
    • $16,683 pledged
    • Funded
      Jul 27, 2012

    Kris Graves' photography book explores memory and landscape.

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    The Portrait Machine Project Book by Carlo

    A book of full color polaroid aura portraits, camera print-outs and contributed texts from The Portrait Machine by Carlo Van de Roer.

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    • 100% funded
    • $16,935 pledged
    • Funded
      Jul 15, 2012

    Carlo Van de Roer seeks to make a book of his full-color Polaroid "aura portraits."

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    The Fortieth Parallel by Bruce Myren

    Photographs from the intersection of the N 40° latitude with each degree of longitude across the United States. From New Jersey to California.

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    • 178% funded
    • $17,860 pledged
    • Funded
      Jul 14, 2012

    Bruce Myren's ambitious Fortieth Parallel project takes him across the US.

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    Picturing the South, A Photobook by Shane Lavalette

    A limited-edition photobook by Shane Lavalette to follow the High Museum's "Picturing the South" exhibition in Atlanta, GA.

    Successful!
    • 150% funded
    • $24,152 pledged
    • Funded
      Jun 22, 2012

    Light Work's own Shane Lavalette is looking to publish his first photobook to follow the exhibition "Picturing the South" at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.

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    My White Friends by Myra Greene

    A photographic book project by Myra Greene which explores the challenges of describing whiteness and assumptions about social circles.

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    • 126% funded
    • $15,213 pledged
    • Funded
      Jun 15, 2012

    Support Myra Greene's "My White Friends" book project, a 10-year exploration into photography’s description of race.

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    STATEN ISLAND : NOTES FROM WEST BRIGHTON by Christine Osinski

    In the early 1980s I walked across Staten Island, N.Y. with a large camera, exploring and recording life in the "forgotten borough".

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    • 100% funded
    • $14,006 pledged
    • Funded
      Jun 13, 2012

    2008 Light Work Artist-in-Residence Christine Osinski seeks to publish her black and white photographs of life in Staten Island in the '80s.

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    PHOTOVILLE - coming to Brooklyn Bridge Park - June 22/July 1 by United Photo Industries

    Photoville is a unique photo village built from shipping containers in the heart of Brooklyn Bridge Park. Help us make it a FREE event!

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    • 103% funded
    • $31,090 pledged
    • Funded
      Jun 10, 2012

    Help bring a free photography event to Brooklyn Bridge Park this summer!

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    Photo Studio project / London by Caroll Taveras

    Photo Studio! Where everyone big or small can have their portrait taken. Documenting communities around the world with my 4x5 camera.

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    • 102% funded
    • $8,701 pledged
    • Funded
      Jun 07, 2012

    Caroll Taveras' large-format portrait studio hopes to travel the world!

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    Joe's Junk Yard by Lisa Kereszi

    A personal narrative photo book, spanning 3 generations, exploring 1 family's failure of the American Dream. Funds needed to complete.

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    • 145% funded
    • $7,288 pledged
    • Funded
      Apr 30, 2012

    Lisa Kereszi's "Joe’s Junk Yard" is a personal narrative photo book, spanning more than fifty years and three generations, that explores one family's achievement and subsequent demise of the American Dream.

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    The American Drive-in Movie Theater by Carl Weese

    Photographic road trip to capture Drive-in Movie Theaters before the cost of digital conversion darkens their screens forever.

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    • 196% funded
    • $17,292 pledged
    • Funded
      Apr 26, 2012

    Carl Weese documents American drive-in movie theaters as they are quickly disappearing.

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    Canaries by Thilde Jensen

    An insider's photographic account of Environmental Illness as a human cost of progress. To be published as a powerful book.

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    • 105% funded
    • $10,530 pledged
    • Funded
      Mar 18, 2012

    Light Work exhibiting artist Thilde Jensen is looking to set out to finish photographing for her Canaries project, as well as produce a monograph of her powerful work.

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    Family Run by david gremp

    This book is a photographic document of small family-owned-and-operated businesses in America, circa 1976.

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    • 168% funded
    • $3,361 pledged
    • Funded
      May 01, 2012

    Small family-owned-and-operated businesses, photographed since 1976. A simple and touching documentary photo project by David Gremp.

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    Conveyor Magazine by Conveyor Arts

    Conveyor Magazine is a semi-annual publication dedicated to eliminating the hierarchy between emerging and established artists.

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    • 101% funded
    • $12,200 pledged
    • Funded
      Nov 16, 2011

    Support our friends at Conveyer in their brilliant publishing pursuit!

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    Singular Beauty: Inside the World of Cosmetic Surgery by Cara Phillips

    Singular Beauty is a book project featuring the photographs of artist Cara Phillips and it is designed and published by Hans Gremmen

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    • 108% funded
    • $17,079 pledged
    • Funded
      Jan 20, 2012

    Photographer Cara Phillips' personal exploration of the beauty industry, as a book designed and published by Hans Gremmen / Fw:.

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    DAMP PATCHES - A Book Project by April Gertler

    DAMP PATCHES, an artist book which connects photographic details of a city with collages and drawings of the female form.

    Successful!
    • 112% funded
    • $3,822 pledged
    • Funded
      Apr 24, 2011

    An unique artist book by April Gertler.

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    Happy Inside by Amy Lombard

    Happy Inside is a book project by artist Amy Lombard of photographs made in the showroom of IKEA.

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    • 129% funded
    • $6,451 pledged
    • Funded
      Mar 09, 2012

    An interesting book of photographs made in the showrooms of IKEA, by photographer Amy Lombard.

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    Love Ever After by Lauren Fleishman

    An inspiring photo book by photographer Lauren Fleishman that will share the stories of couples married over five decades.

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    • 172% funded
    • $25,847 pledged
    • Funded
      Mar 08, 2012

    Love Ever After will be a book that share's the love stories of couples who have been married for at least 50 years.