Universe, 1998. — 220 p. As the second Christian millennium closes and the Grand Jubilee approaches, millions of Christians will look to Rome and its spiritual leader, Pope John Paul II. This volume anticipates the celebrations and provides a guided tour through the Vatican with an intimate insiders' look at the daily life and activities of the Pope within the Holy See. While...
New York Graphic Society, 1980. — 226 p. — (The New Ansel Adams Photography Series / Book 1). This volume introduces my new series of technical books, The New Ansel Adams Photography Series. The concepts of the original Basic Photo Series which preceded it have been strengthened and clarified, and the information brought up to date in reference to current equipment and...
Penguin Press, 2015. — 251 p. War photographer Lynsey Addario’s memoir It’s What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life. What she does, with clarity, beauty, and candor, is to document, often in their most extreme moments, the complex lives of others. It’s her work, but...
Penguin Press, 2015. — 251 p. War photographer Lynsey Addario’s memoir It’s What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life. What she does, with clarity, beauty, and candor, is to document, often in their most extreme moments, the complex lives of others. It’s her work, but...
Penguin Press, 2015. — 251 p. War photographer Lynsey Addario’s memoir It’s What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life. What she does, with clarity, beauty, and candor, is to document, often in their most extreme moments, the complex lives of others. It’s her work, but...
Walter Foster, 2012. — 379 p. Designed for both the photography enthusiast and weekend warrior, this daily reader offers a broad look at life through the camera lens. From brief biographies of world-renowned photographers to techniques in fashion photography and trends, there is something for every reader inside. Packed full of inspiring images and stimulating information, this...
10-th ed. — Press, 2010. — 566 p. — ISBN10: 0240520378, ISBN13: 978-0240520377. The tenth edition of The Manual of Photography is an indispensable textbook for anyone who is serious about photography. It is ideal if you want to gain insight into the underlying scientific principles of photography and digital imaging, whether you are a professional photographer, lab technician,...
Richard C Owen Pub, 2006. — 40 p. Writing, taking photographs, and designing books for children is the most important work that I have ever done. I feel very happy to have gotten to know so many people and places. By sharing these experiences in my books, I think that I bring a bit of the world to children. Most of the pictures in this book were done with mirrors and with a...
Continuum, 1989. — 152 p. The American Woman features the 100 prize-winning photographs, accompanied by an inspiring introduction by Parade editor Waller Anderson, reflections by the judges on the unique qualities of the American Woman captured on film, and quotations from noted Americans celebrating the American Woman.
Continuum, 1990. — 148 p. This book of pictures serves many purposes. It presents a comprehensive image of American life today, depicting the people of the United Stales at home, at work and at play. It shows the many varied ways in which today's generation engages in that most basic of human enterprises, the pursuit ol happiness. On the purely technical side, these pictures —...
Parade Publications, 1992. — 148 p. Here are the 100 stunning photographs chosen by Parade magazine and Eastman Kodak as the best images of the freedom Americans cherish. Reflections by the judges--photographer Eddie Adams, psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers, the late Alex Haley, retired Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, and talk-show host Sally Jessy Raphael--make this a most...
Rutgers University Press, 2012. — 289 p. War Culture and the Contest of Images analyzes the relationships among contemporary war, documentary practices, and democratic ideals. Dora Apel examines a wide variety of images and cultural representations of war in the United States and the Middle East, including photography, performance art, video games, reenactment, and social media...
Course Technology PTR, 2011. — 268 p. New Image Frontiers: Defining the Future of Photography reveals past, present and future trends in photography. From hardware to software, aesthetics to documentation, this book discusses current advances in photography and predictions for the future, including comments from top photographers and others in the business. Addressing the...
3rd Edition. — McGraw-Hill Humanities, 1999. — 244 p. Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images is now in its third edition and it has become the standard in photo criticism and theory courses throughout the United States. The book contains an elegant pedagogical apparatus founded on the four critical activities that Terry Barrett so ably illuminates --...
2nd Edition. — Bloomsbury, 2016. — 312 p. Providing a thorough and comprehensive introduction to the study of photography, this second edition of Photography: The Key Concepts has been expanded and updated to cover more fully contemporary changes to photography. Photography is a part of everyday life; from news and advertisements, to data collection and surveillance, to the...
Berg, 2009. — 212 p. Over the last two hundred years photography has become part of everyday life, a position consolidated by the recent development of digital imaging and manipulation. Used to confirm identity, to sell products, to reshape the real, to visualise the news, to record and communicate the personal moment, and as an art form in its own right, photography is now one...
Penguin Books, 2013. — 240 p. — (Penguin Modern Classics) John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and W. Eugene Smith - and...
Bloomsbury, 2016. — 304 p. A new edition of John Berger and Jean Mohr's classic investigation into the nature of photography and what makes it so different from other art forms. In one of the most eloquent accounts of photography ever devised (originally published in 1982 and unavailable for many years), the writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr set out to...
Thames & Hudson, 1999. — 392 p. The life of Erwin Blumenfeld, one of the century's best-known photographers, was by no means conventional. By turns acerbic, self-mocking, playful, even absurd, his autobiography is a compelling, virtuoso account of an extraordinary man. All his subjects--his Jewish family, the Germans, the Vichy French, his models, New York publishers--are dealt...
Focal Press, 2014. — 280 p. An invaluable resource for photography educators, this volume is a survey of photographic education in the first decade of the 21st Century. Drawing upon her 25 years of teaching experience and her professional network, Michelle Bogre spoke with 47 photo educators from all over the world to compile this diverse set of interviews. The themes of these...
Focal Press, 2014. — 447 p. An invaluable resource for photography educators, this volume is a survey of photographic education in the first decade of the 21st Century. Drawing upon her 25 years of teaching experience and her professional network, Michelle Bogre spoke with 47 photo educators from all over the world to compile this diverse set of interviews. The themes of these...
National Geographic, 2010. — 364 p. This behind-the-scenes look at the lives of the recent Commanders in Chief features the images and recollections of the nine professionals who have served as official White House photographers, including Pete Souza, the Chief Official White House Photographer for President Obama and previously an Official White House Photographer for...
Commonwealth Editions, 2005. — 136 p. With virtually unlimited access to the city's leaders, the Boston Globe's society photographer has spent the past two years stitching together a beautiful portrait of Boston-not the bricks and buildings, but the people who make it move. There are celebrities aplenty here (from pols and pundits to actors and artists) but there are also...
Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, 2010. — 255 p. — ISBN: 0-203-86729-7. Photography explores the photograph in the twenty-first century and its importance as a media form. Stephen Bull considers our media-saturated society and the place of photography in everyday life, introducing the theories used to analyze photographs and exploring the impact of digital technology. The text is...
Macmillan Education UK, 1982. — 249 p. The essays in this book are contributions towards photography theory. I say 'towards' rather than 'to' as the theory does not yet exist; .nevertheless, as these essays indicate, some of its components may already be identified. The articles collected here are diverse in approach, the present state of underdevelopment of photography theory...
Ideals, 1991. — 168 p. Follow the footsteps of Jesus with specially commissioned maps of the Holy Land and contemporary photographs, complemented by an inspiring text composed of passages from the Bible. 80 full-color photographs.
Hudson Hills Press, 1978. — 148 p. This book explores many of the exciting creative possibilities of still photography as seen by some of the world s leading photographers. It is written by Bryn Campbell in the belief that a better understanding of great photographs can make you more visually aware and in consequence a better photographer.
Allworth Press, 2011. — 205 p. Photographers now have the ideal resource to build a solid foundation for success. The Art and Business of Photography takes an honest approach to the photography profession and is a guide to the artistic and business skills that are the foundation of a career in photography. Professional photographer and former ASMP president, Susan Carr,...
Allworth Press, 2011. — 205 p. Photographers now have the ideal resource to build a solid foundation for success. The Art and Business of Photography takes an honest approach to the photography profession and is a guide to the artistic and business skills that are the foundation of a career in photography. Professional photographer and former ASMP president, Susan Carr,...
Bantam Books, 1964. — 218 p. Henri Cartier-Bresson, the world famous photographer, was actually present in China during the last five months of Chiang Kai-shek's government and during the first six months of Mao Tse-tung's new regime. He returned years later to complete his remarkable photographic record of this extraordinary nation in peace and war. Here is the old China — the...
Grossman, 1963. — 66 p. Over the last thirty years, the photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson has resulted in a body of work unique in the history of this craft, not alone in kind but in quality. Apart from the fact that he is responsible for more individual memorable images than any other photographer in his epoch, his attitude towards his art. for with him it is also and most...
Thames & Hudson, New York, 2004. — 230 p.: 249 illustrations, 212 in color. In the 21st century photography has come of age as a contemporary art form. Nearly two centuries after photographic technology was first invented, the art world has fully embraced it as a legitimate medium, equal in status to painting and sculpture. This book provides an introduction to contemporary...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004. — 353 p. In "Faking Death", Penny Cousineau-Levine examines the work of over 120 Canadian photographers, revealing important aspects of Canadian identity and imagination. Contrasting Canadian photography with American and European traditions, she shows that Canadian photographers are often preoccupied with a place that is 'elsewhere', a...
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2009. — 205 p. Photography shows us how to look at things from different perspectives, to reflect, to communicate and to express ourselves in a way that goes beyond words. The creative and introspective qualities of this accessible arts medium make it an ideal tool for use in therapeutic contexts. In this book, Claire Craig explores how...
Open Humanities Press, 2015. — 228 p. Digital Light brings together artists, curators, technologists and media archaeologists to study the historical evolution of digital light-based technologies. It provides a critical account of the capacities and limitations of contemporary digital light-based technologies and techniques by tracing their genealogies and comparing them with...
Graficki Zavod Hrvatske, 1969. — 166 p. For several older generations, and for a younger generation or two as well, Toso Dabac will remain a legend. He is best known by those who in his time followed his life and work occasionally or continuously. There are quite a few documents, and recorded and remembered information, about the events around him and about his doings, while...
Springer, 2006. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 1402048939, ISBN13: 978-1402048937. This book traces progress in photography since the first pinhole, or camera obscura, architecture. The authors describe innovations such as photogrammetry, and omnidirectional vision for robotic navigation. The text shows how new camera architectures create a need to master related projective geometries for...
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990. — 244 p. All photographs dated 1941 or 1942 are from the FSA Collection at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The photographs dated 1946 are from the collection of the General Archives of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in San Juan, Puerto Rico. All other photographs are from the photographer's own collection.
New Riders, 2011. — 272 p. When looking at a photograph, too often a conversation starts-and, unfortunately, ends-with a statement such as, “I like it.” The logical next question, “Why?”, often goes unasked and unanswered. As photographers, we frequently have difficulty speaking about images because, frankly, we don’t know how to think about them. And if we don’t know how to...
Second Edition. — New Riders, 2016. — 284 p. — ISBN: 978-0-134-28862-8. Through a heartfelt discussion about creating photographs of people, places, cultures, and the discovery of a personal point of view that makes those stories compelling and authentic, David teaches how to seek and serve your creative vision through the art of photography by highlighting images from his...
Routledge, 2013. — 296 p. — (Routledge Key Guides). A clear and concise survey of some of the most significant writers on photography who have played a major part in defining and influencing our understanding of the medium. It provides a succinct overview of writing on photography from a diverse range of disciplines and perspectives and examines the shifting perception of the...
Routledge, 2004. — 251 p. This innovative volume explores the idea that while photographs are images, they are also objects, and this materiality is integral to their meaning and use. The case studies presented focus on photographs active in different institutional, political, religious and domestic spheres, where physical properties, the nature of their use and the cultural...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 176 p. — (Very Short Introductions). Photographs are an integral part of our daily lives, from sensationalist images in tabloid papers, to personal family snapshots, to the art photography displayed in galleries and sold through international art markets. In this thought-provoking exploration of the subject, Steve Edwards provides a clear,...
Branden Press, 1983. — 100 p. I developed this technique in 1975 when I was seventy six years old. A friend of mine, who is in the advertising business, suggested to call these prints Egonegraphs. Considering that the transformation of a regular photograph into something different is accomplished in the darkroom, it could be called Darkroom Magic or Darkroom Manipulation. Such...
Penguin Books, 1980. — 356 p. Dust jacket notes: "Both as a collection of outstanding photographs and for its coverage of famous people and historic events by a single photographer, Witness to Our Time is unique in the history of book publishing. Originally issued in 1966, it was heralded as a major volume of photography, comparable in significance to The Family of Man, in...
Routledge, 2012. — 287 p. — ISBN: 978-0-203-15321-5. Photography: History and Theory introduces students to both the history of photography and critical theory.From its inception in the nineteenth century, photography has instigated a series of theoretical debates. In this new text, Jae Emerling therefore argues that the most insightful way to approach the histories of...
Steidl, 2006. — 388 p. This massive catalogue of the International Center of Photography's 2006 exhibition of contemporary African photography gives a thought-provoking introduction to how African artists have engaged with the international art world while sustaining their uniquely African points of view, whether they live at home or abroad. With artists hailing from South...
MIT Press, 2019. — 250 p. A concise and accessible guide to techniques for detecting doctored and fake images in photographs and digital media. Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Mussolini, and other dictators routinely doctored photographs so that the images aligned with their messages. They erased people who were there, added people who were not, and manipulated backgrounds. They knew if...
Dover Publications, 1983. — 148 p. It is in its widest sense that I use the word "art" in the title of this book and the following discussions. For it seems to me that, in the last analysis, everything made by human hands or conceived by the human mind has its roots in nature. To give only two examples: the prototype of the ball-and-socket joint is the hip; the principle...
Viking Press, 1975. — 186 p. I consider this volume the equivalent of the sketchbook of the artist — a random collection of observations, notations, impressions, conclusions, and thoughts. Readers who look for organization will probably be disappointed — there is very little. For this is not a book that has a beginning and an end, nor was it conceived to lead the viewer from...
Crown Publishers, 1956. — 188 p. Collecting his best nature photographs, Life photographer Andreas Feininger has used them to illustrate the theory that function shapes form--from whole valleys and rocks to feathers, bones or molecules. At the back is an illustrated section dealing with the special techniques used in nature photography. From Introduction: "It is the purpose of...
Harry N. Abrams, 2000. — 148 p. Finn, who previously wrote How To Look at Photographs and How To Look at Sculpture, has broadened his scope in this delightful and personable book, which could well be used as a textbook for an art appreciation class. The subject of the book is "not what we look at, but how we can open our minds and hearts to see more than the literal image and...
Smithsonian Books, 2004. — 300 p. The Smithsonian holds more than 13 million images spanning over 150 years of taking and collecting photographs. This largely unknown body of photography (most never before published) represents nothing less than the Smithsonian's effort, in the name of all Americans, to describe and comprehend the world. Open anywhere in these pages to be...
Boston: The MIT Press, 2015. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 026252760X; ISBN13: 978-0262527606. As Hollis Frampton's photographs and celebrated experimental films were testing the boundaries of "the camera arts" in the 1960s and 1970s, his provocative and highly literate writings were attempting to establish an intellectually resonant form of discourse for these critically underexplored...
Ilex Press, 2012. — 192 p. Having already taught you how to compose and interpret great photos, Michael Freeman now continues his best-selling series by exploring the most successful methods for presenting photography meaningfully and in an engaging format. This is the critical “next step” that separates adequate image galleries from captivating collections – and disinterested...
3rd ed. — Focal Press, 2004. — 224 p. This third edition maintains the aim of providing a clear and comprehensive explanation of fundamental photographic techniques. Although the key focus of this update is bringing the digital content more in line with developments in this area, modifying the existing text to embrace digital capture and out-put more thoroughly. This...
Harry Abrams, 1999. — 420 p. Beauty, ugliness, joy, tragedy, humor, on and on, and on, Mr. Ginzburg trains his eye on a tiny slice of time and captures in only a few frames the moments, people and places that make New York one of the greatest cities in the world. This book should be in the cornerstone time capsules of all new buildings in New York, as well as an heirloom...
Viking Press, 1971. — 200 p. Photography, once a hobbyist's pastime, is today both an art form and big business. In The Photography Game Arthur Goldsmith, Director and President of the Famous Photographers School, discusses the many ways in which the camera has revolutionized modern communication and ways of seeing, and tells how the amateur photographer may make the long leap...
Rigby, 1966. — 300 p. In the world of books, this is a rare hybrid - an intensely personal vision of a young country that in the telling grants precedence to neither the art of photography nor of writing. Here, both are seen together, each illuminating the other. Four years in the making, the book brings together two remarkably different talents. Robert B. Goodman, a...
Rizzoli, 2002. — 368 p. This is a complete, beautifully photographed photographic history of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II from her coronation in 1952 to the Golden Jubilee this year. The photographs feature both the public pomp and circumstance and the elaborate preparations that go on behind the scenes. We see red carpets being swept, state carriages undergoing repairs,...
Gayle Grant, 2009. — 108 p. Description Not many 90 year olds write of a whole life and can tell you what to make of it; living in 2 great cities, New York City and San Diego, traveling to 92 countries, a career in art, 2 marriages and 3 children I had to learn to accept everything that came along. Sixty-six photographs grace 100 p., images include everything from my own art,...
Future, 2019. — 148 p. Enjoy a compilation of the very best articles featured in Professional Photography Magazine. From a sharp and honest interview with iconic photographer David Bailey to an interesting conversation between Martin Parr and Sir Don McCullin about McCullin’s career and passion for landscapes. Enjoy beautiful abstract still-life imagery from Paul Kenny, tribal...
Atria Books, 2016. — 310 p. In this rollicking account of fashion photography’s golden age, the New York Times bestselling author of Model and House of Outrageous Fortune, Michael Gross, brings to life the wild genius, ego, passion, and antics of the men (and a few women) behind the camera. Before Instagram was an art form, fashion photographers and the models they made famous...
Atria Books, 2016. — 416 p. In this rollicking account of fashion photography’s golden age, the New York Times bestselling author of Model and House of Outrageous Fortune, Michael Gross, brings to life the wild genius, ego, passion, and antics of the men (and a few women) behind the camera. Before Instagram was an art form, fashion photographers and the models they made famous...
Reaktion Books, 2007. — 176 p. Series: Exposures ISBN10: 1861893248 ISBN13: 978-1861893246 Can film capture what our eyes can’t see? There are many examples — both historical and contemporary — of photographs of spirits or ghosts. These images alternately have been derided as hoaxes or, at the other extreme, held up as irrefutable proof of the otherworld. Photography and Spirit...
Community Press, 1965. — 110 p. Originally published in 1965, this landmark book of photographs has long been out-of-print and highly sought by collectors. This edition, enlarged in format to that of Dave Heath's original design, has been updated with an introduction by Robert Frank. Eighty-three photographs exquisitely printed in the NovaTone process for a brilliant tonal scale.
Princeton Architectural Press, 2003. — 104 p. When it opened in 1889, just a few months before the Exposition Universelle for which it was commissioned, Parisians-from Dumas to de Maupassant-were appalled by the "useless and monstrous" tower Gustave Eiffel had planted in the heart of their beloved city. That enmity, however, was short-lived, and today the Eiffel Tower stands...
Ridge Press Book, 1963. — 96 p. I first saw Willie in a doorway on a aide street of New York's lower West Side. I had been photographing him for only a moment or two when I realized what marvelous freedom of expression and movement he had. I visited him on his block the next day, and on four other days during the next two months. Heyman Ken Edward J. Steichen says: "This is a...
Barnes & Noble, 2003. — 392 p. JFK and Jackie is a truly extraordinary book, one that documents through photographs the lives and careers of US President John Kennedy and his wife Jackie Bouvier Kennedy (later Onassis). It contains more than 400 (gray – scale) photographs, many of which take up a full, large-format page or parts of a two-page spread. Each chapter is introduced...
Light Work, 2005. — 66 p. The Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts (CEPA) in Buffalo, NY began in the 1970s, as many alternative artist spaces did. It was then, and still is, an entirely artist-run organization. This catalogue celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of CEPA, and the artists who have run it. It features not only work by eleven talented artists, but also...
Focal Press, 2016. — 264 p. The Photography Teacher’s Handbook is an educator’s resource for developing active, flipped learning environments in and out of the photo classroom, featuring ready-to-use methods to increase student engagement and motivation. Using the latest research on the cognitive science of effective learning, this book presents groundbreaking strategies to...
Arsenal Pulp Press, 2007. — 188 p. In this stunning book, photographer Brian Howell takes us into the world of celebrity impersonators — the faux famous people who make a living at pretending to be someone else. Taken at various impersonator conventions and stage shows throughout North America, the photographs are both startling and poignant — for all of the frivolity and...
LensWork Publishing, 2000. — 97 p. It is not a textbook on how your camera works, on which lens to buy, how to mix up a developer or make an exhibition enlargement. In fact, it is not technical at all. There are plenty of good books like that already on the market. But it is a how-to-do-it book in an unusual sense. Its purpose is to suggest how to look at photographs, how to...
Sprengel Museum Hannover, 1999. — 276 s. Ann und Jürgen Wilde sammeln seit nunmehr 30 Jahren künstlerische Fotografie. Sie sind damit Bestandteil des kleinen Kreises deutscher Sammler, die sich bereits Ende der 60er Jahre der Fotografie zuwandten. Erste Anregung und Leitfaden zum Sammeln war der Essay "Mechanismus und Ausdruck" von Franz Roh, der 1929 in "foto-auge" erschienen...
University of Chicago Press, 2017. — 170 p. Photography is often associated with the psychic effects of trauma: the automatic nature of the process, wide-open camera lens, and light-sensitive film record chance details unnoticed by the photographer similar to what happens when a traumatic event bypasses consciousness and lodges deeply in the unconscious mind. Photography,...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984. — 132 p. Both photographers have been collecting and selecting views of Pittsburgh for many years. Lynn Johnson is a Pittsburgh native, educated in photojournalism at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She has worked as a photojournalist for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle and the Times-Union, and for seven years for the Pittsburgh...
Museum of Modern Art, 1966. — 64 p. Forty-four photographs by Frances B. Johnston from an album of Hampton Institute with an introduction and a note on the photographer by Lincoln Kirstein. These photographs were originally made for the Paris Exposition of 1900 by Frances Benjamin Johnston as a part of an exhibition demonstrating contemporary life of the American Negro.Founded...
Litle, Brown and Company, 1983. — 198 p. An amazing book of portraits of great personalities of the world brought to life with his magical light. Each and every picture illustrates the unique charactor and personalities of the poser. A great master who was blessed with the idea to photograph the great people of the world is called the lucky man - Karsh. Excellent photographs...
Belknap Press, 2015. — 419 p. Photography has a unique relationship to chance. Anyone who has wielded a camera has taken a picture ruined by an ill-timed blink or enhanced by an unexpected gesture or expression. Although this proneness to chance may amuse the casual photographer, Robin Kelsey points out that historically it has been a mixed blessing for those seeking to make...
Die Gestalten Verlag, 2006. — 164 p. The Great Escape is a stunning compilation of the very latest inspiring and breathtaking illustration, photography, graphic design and fine art from around the world. Focusing on escapism, elusiveness and the eluding it builds on themes introduced in dgv's well-received titles Romantik and Wonderland.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2009. — 512 p. — (Aperture Ideas). Words Without Pictures was originally conceived by curator Charlotte Cotton as a means of creating spaces for discourse around current issues in photography. Every month for a year, beginning in November 2007, an artist, educator, critic or curator was invited to contribute a short unillustrated essay about an...
Texas A&M University Press, 2017. — 163 p. — (Charles and Elizabeth Prothro Texas photography series; no. 10). — ISBN: 9781623494933. Fresno Ranch, an abandoned horse and mule operation located in a remote stretch of the Rio Grande River bordering Mexico, gives evidence of a human presence spanning centuries. The ranch saw a period of entrepreneurial mule breeding and ranching,...
Viking Studio, 2008. — 226 p. Depending upon your perspective, the Ultimate Fighting Championship organization, aka the UFC, is brash, beautiful, or brutal -- and as in your face as the fighters' blows. Fighters take down their opponents with an arsenal of moves, using a unique blend of martial arts, including jujitsu, wrestling, judo, and kickboxing. In Fighter: The Fighters...
Focal Press, 2005. — 281 p. If you want to understand the key debates in photography and learn how to apply the fascinating issues raised by critical theory to your own practical work, this is the book for you! This accessible book cuts through often difficult and intimidating academic language to deliver understandable, stimulating discussion and summaries of the original...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. — 365 p. Making a connection between photography and memory is almost automatic. Should it be? In Scissors, Paper, Stone Martha Langford explores the nature of memory and art. She challenges the conventional emphasis on the camera as a tool of perception by arguing that photographic works are products of the mind - picturing memory is,...
Lark Crafts, 2010. — 180 p. The first book in a brand-new photographic series — shot mostly by amateurs — about seeing the world from a brand-new perspective! Amateurs, by definition, work for love alone — so what subject could be more fitting for the first entry in a brand-new series focusing on the art of the amateur photographer than that potent symbol of love: the heart?...
Lark Crafts, 2010. — 180 p. Just look closely-and creative doors will open! This second book in the successful FOCUS series unlocks a doorway to the imagination, with a collection of approximately 250 photographs of passages of all kinds, captured by amateur photographers. Doors are rich in meaning: they literally allow us to move from one place to the other, but also symbolize...
Links, 1973. — 68 p. These arresting photographs may delight you. Perhaps the will offend you. They will almost certainly inspire you to ask questions about yourself and your sexuality. They will not leave you cold. The Halloween glamour of the transvestite world is captured in these 55 superb photographs by Gilles Larrain. And, beneath the glitter and the pose, you will see...
Historic Pullman Foundation, 1981. — 88 p. The photographs in this book capture the heart of an urban neighborhood, one that has been through 100 years of success and strife and still has managed to thrive, due to the determination of its residents. Primarily, the town of Pullman reflects the diverse dreams and goals of strong individuals.
Norton, 1970. — 132 p. A great photographer combines her professional skill with her pastime of collecting classic quotations to present a unique collection of pictures and captions. In dealing with an extraordinary variety of human situations, the book combines joy and sorrow — is, in short, a commentary on the modern and timeless human condition. Nina Leen, a Life magazine...
Pantheon, 1983. — 148 p. Star photographer of Rolling Stone , Vanity Fair , and numerous other magazines since the Seventies, Leibovitz here offers a retrospective that shows how far she has come. The early photographs have a documentary feel, even recalling Evans's Depression-era photography or Arbus's sense of the grotesque. They can seem cluttered, but in fact present the...
Turnip Press, 1973. — 236 p. Il may seem somewhat curious and unfortunate that a book dealing with a visual art form is, in the words of Edward Dahlbert, "Word-Sick and Place Crazy." It would also seem that a book- of words cannot really contain the wonder of photography; as Harold Jones said in another time and place, "how photographs dance." But contrary to external...
The University of Chicago Press, 2010. — 341 p. In "The Cruel Radiance", Susie Linfield challenges the idea that photographs of political violence exploit their subjects and pander to the voyeuristic tendencies of their viewers. Instead she argues passionately that looking at such images - and learning to see the people in them - is an ethically and politically necessary act...
Amphoto, 1987. — 184 p. Accompanying more than eighty superbly reproduced photographs is Loengard's insightful commentary, describing his reactions to many of the legendary personalities of our time, from Buckminster Fuller to the Beatles, Margaret Mead to Louis Armstrong, Georgia O'Keeffe to Bill Cosby. These engaging observations reveal the working methods and artistic...
Routledge, London, 2009. — 192 p. — ISBN: 0415477069, 0415477077. Over the past twenty-five years, photography has moved to centre-stage in the study of visual culture and has established itself in numerous disciplines. This trend has brought with it a diversification in approaches to the study of the photographic image. This book offers exciting perspectives on photography...
Intellect, 2013. — 398 p. — (Critical photography series). Based on a 2012 symposium on Perfection, held at the Whitechapel Gallery in East London, this book explores the ways in which artists engage with ideas of perfection, drawing on screenings, performances, and discussions. The symposium featured the work of an eclectic group of artists and writers, who use photographic...
Chronicle Books, 1995. — 48 p. An essay on how to look at photographs by John F. Kennedy's personal photographer, including work by all the greats of the medium as well as some of Lowe's images. In the century and a half since photography developed as a popular art form, we have been exposed to more images ot people, from all corners of the globe, than in all the preceding...
Quarry Books, 2000. — 152 p. This book presents an absolutely stunning collection of work--hauntingly beautiful landscapes, intriguing still lifes, and tender portraits--by 104 contemporary artists. Individually, the photographs are fresh, exquisite, and often startling. As a whole, the book stands as an impressive, often breathtaking portfolio of the finest of contemporary...
Prentice-Hall, 1966. — 196 p. This anthology has been prepared to afford a closer study of critical source material by photographers from the turn of the century to the present. Surveying approximately one hundred years of the literature of photography, it presents points of view which have contributed to the development of contemporary photographic expression. The book is...
Yale University Art Gallery, 2003. — 184 p. In response to the tragic events of September 11, photographer Nathan Lyons — known for his honest and often questioning depictions of American culture — has created a poignant portfolio of images. Photographing in small towns and large cities, Lyons has captured the extreme and often confusing variety of responses — from deep...
Stonehill Pub, 1977. — 112 p. With the publication of with his seminal 1977 book, White Trash, Christopher Makos burst on to the photography scene and made a name for himself as the first photographer to record the convergence of the "uptown" and "downtown" worlds, as Debbie Harry fondly remembers. This raw, beautiful volume chronicled the punk scene as it came of age on the...
Shoerue Press, 1986. — 80 p. Photographic and written mediums do not always complement each other. Photography's preciseness often challenges word imagery whereas words label and can thereby limit photographic scope. This book is designed to produce a balanced Photo-Graphic mix. An attempt has been made to separate, then combine, the two mediums. The photography is presented...
University of Michigan Press, 2003. — 196 p. War is overwhelmingly a male occupation. Yet its victims are often civilians -- many among them women and children. In Women and War Jenny Matthews gives a voice to this silent majority of casualties through a series of deeply moving -- sometimes disturbing -- photographs of human subjects in the midst of war and conflict wherever...
Cassell, 1979. — 152 p. Patients, photographers, friends and lovers have banded together to produce a moving photodocumentary. Subjects as varied as gay life, sex, prisons, hospitals and children are portrayed with intensity, imagination and beauty.
Stemmer House, 1982. — 111 p. The author's revealing photographs of the famous Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, taken during the last years of his life are combined with reminiscences of her friendship with him.
Princeton Architectural Press, 2016. — 214 p. The blind photographer cannot see a butterfly perched perfectly still on a flower, a bowl of sweet-smelling fruit, or a child's rattle on a darkened floor, but the mind's eye is sharply focused. How then, do blind or partially sighted people capture such extraordinary images? The photographs in this revelatory book suggest a deeper...
Princeton Architectural Press, 2017. — 192 p. They left in the middle of the night — often carrying little more than the knowledge to follow the North Star. Between 1830 and the end of the Civil War in 1865, an estimated one hundred thousand slaves became passengers on the Underground Railroad, a journey of untold hardship, in search of freedom. In Through Darkness to Light:...
Reintree, 2009. — 40 p. — (Culture in Action). What is a camera obscura? When did the first camera go on sale? How do newspapers receive photographs from reporters around the world? The varied titles in the Culture in Action series build up into a comprehensive library, covering a range of arts topics. Each book contains activities with easy-to-follow instructions, designed to...
UCL Press, 2017. — 238 p. Since the growth of social media, human communication has become much more visual. This book presents a scholarly analysis of the images people post on a regular basis to Facebook. By including hundreds of examples, readers can see for themselves the differences between postings from a village north of London, and those from a small town in Trinidad....
New World Library, 2004. — 136 p. This intimate collection of portraits reveals both writer and subject in fifty inspired pairings. Novelist Susan Orlean compares notes with Joan Didion, Orna Feldman marvels at Fresh Air's Terry Gross, Elizabeth Hardwick rediscovers Zelda Fitzgerald, and dozens more are memorably revealed. Each piece is accompanied by a lush, full-page duotone...
New World Library, 2001. — 132 p. Rendered by women artists and writers, these portraits illuminate the most influential women of our time. Liv Ullman marvels at Anne Frank’s faith in the face of atrocity. Claudia Roth Pierpont explores how Virginia Woolf’s atypical persona informed literature for the next hundred years. Camille Paglia champions Amelia Earhart as a pioneer who...
Ridge Press, 1958. — 196 p. Created by a photographer in the community of Orinda, California who, over many years, took photographs of his own children (2 daughters and 2 sons) and other children in the community. It's a record of children growing and changing in various settings, and most of the photos are candid vs. posed. I really feel lucky to own this book. 1950s suburban...
CreateSpace, 2008. — 264 p. A brief run through of Linda's movies, a very brief biography and a compilation of beautiful photos taken of Miss Darnell throughout her career.
Chicago: Paul Theobald, 1947. — 383 c. "This book is written for the artist and the layman, for everyone interested in his relationship to our existing civilization. It is an extension of my previous book, "The New Vision". But while "The New Vision" gave mainly particulars about the educational methods of the old Bauhaus, "Vision in Motion" concentrates on the work of the...
Greeley Tribune, 2001. — 228 p. Friends and Celebrities is a photographic essay of life being lived. Some of the photographs capture the moment. Others capture the person. Together, they make a collection that reflects my perspective on life - as a photographer and as a fascinated observer wandering through the world. These people are real. Famous or not, each is unique.
Leonardo arte, 1996. — 327 p. Henri Cartier-Bresson è uno dei mostri sacri della fotografia mondiale. Nato a Chanteloup nel 1908 si è dedicato dapprima alla pittura e al disegno. Assistente cinematografico di [ean Renoir; fondò nel 1947 insieme a Robert Capa, David Seymour e George Rodger la mitica agenzia fotografica Magnum. Sempre fedele a una visione veloce e alla ricerca...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. — 207 p. African photography has emerged as a significant focus of research and scholarship over the last twenty years, the result of a growing interest in postcolonial societies and cultures and a turn towards visual evidence across the humanities and social sciences. At the same time, many rich and fascinating photographic collections have come to...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. — 207 p. African photography has emerged as a significant focus of research and scholarship over the last twenty years, the result of a growing interest in postcolonial societies and cultures and a turn towards visual evidence across the humanities and social sciences. At the same time, many rich and fascinating photographic collections have come to...
An electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal progressive movements. London: Chapman & Hall, LD., 1899. - 282 p. "The dry plate's most spectacular early use was by Eadweard Muybridge." — Life "A really marvelous series of plates." — Nature (London) "These photographs have resolved many complicated questions." — Art Journal Here is the largest, most...
45 Classic photographic sequences. — Dover Publications Inc., New York, 1985. — 52 p. Dover has selected the best of Muybridge's animal photographs for this edition. It brings an unsurpassed pictorial reference within reach of artists, photographers, animators, zoologists, and anyone interested in the precise dynamics of how an animal moves. Taken at speeds up to 1/2,000 of a...
London: Chapman & Hall, LD., 1907. — 146 p. Eadweard James Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904, birth name Edward James Muggeridge) was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. The photographs in this definitive selection show the human figure — models dressed and undraped —...
Amphoto, 1978. — 116 p. Arnold Newman is one of the most widely exhibited and collected photographers working today. He studied art at the University of Miami in 1937-38, began photography in Philadelphia in 1939, and established his own studio in New York City in 1945. Over the past three decades, his work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, and he...
Albofa Press, 1999. — 170 p. A book of 145 duotone photographs of children from 12 different countries in Africa, south of the Sahara. It celebrates the lives of ordinary children and their every day life: how they are nurtured and reared, the games they play, their adolescence and growing up years, their education and their role within their families and immediate environment....
New Riders, 2009. — 304 p. A great photograph has the potential to transcend verbal and written language. But how do you create these photographs? It’s not the how that’s important, but the who and the what. Who you are as a person has a direct impact on what you capture as a photographer. Whether you are an amateur or professional, architect or acupuncturist, physician or...
University of California Press, 2012. — 209 p. Human civilizations' longest lasting artifacts are not the great Pyramids of Giza, nor the cave paintings at Lascaux, but the communications satellites that circle our planet. In a stationary orbit above the equator, the satellites that broadcast our TV signals, route our phone calls, and process our credit card transactions...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 232 p. Photography and Collaboration offers a fresh perspective on existing debates in art photography and on the act of photography in general. Unlike conventional accounts that celebrate individual photographers and their personal visions, this book investigates the idea that authorship in photography is often more complex and multiple than we...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 232 p. Photography and Collaboration offers a fresh perspective on existing debates in art photography and on the act of photography in general. Unlike conventional accounts that celebrate individual photographers and their personal visions, this book investigates the idea that authorship in photography is often more complex and multiple than we...
Ipso Facto, 2001. — 184 p. Stella was born in 1930 in New York. She died in 1988 in Paris. Constantly traveling across the Atlantic, she embodied the high expectations of haute couture. What was it like to be a top model in the the 1950s between Paris and New York? How did the fashion world differ from today's? Through photography by Willy Maywald, the Harcourt Studio, Sam...
Key Porter Books, 2003. — 200 p. Freeman Patterson has traveled the globe to photograph the wonders of the natural world. In this book, Patterson turns his camera towards the garden in his own backyard. Hear the whisper of wind through a canopy of trees. Inhale the sweet fragrances of ferns and grasses. Observe the vibrant colors of delphiniums, forget-me-nots, poppies,...
Key Porter Books, 2001. — 168 p. In Photo Impressionism and the Subjective Image the authors show how photographs can be used to alter physical reality to express the photographer's personal response to specific subject matter. The "impressionist" photographer deliberately abandons physical exactitude to convey the reality of feelings more effectively. This book explains how to...
Akashic Books, 2015. — 160 p. One of the Huffington Post's Best Art Books of 2015 "[Peaches] has teamed up with her longtime tour photographer Holger Talinski to look back at a brazen career that has captured the attention of outsider artists and massive pop stars alike, ranging from Michael Stipe to PJ Harvey to Iggy Pop…Along with Holger's uncompromising, often raw imagery,...
TOR, 1996. — 244 p. A stunning & definitive collection of photographs of more than one hundred of today s top fantasy writers. With each fascinating frame - coupled with insightful personal statements from the authors themselves - Perret takes us on an amazing journey into the hearts, minds, & souls of the people who form the very foundation of modern fantasy.
Country Beautiful, 1973. — 200 p. Over the Jong ages, man has been fascinated with his own life cycle, and sought to find meaning and purpose in the individual and collective human experience. This anthology can be read merely for the sheer beauty of its words and photographs: it is a treasury of some of the world's outstanding thought and literature relating to the various...
Ava Publishing, 2010. — 200 p. — ISBN: 2940411131 The Fundamentals of Creative Photography offers a comprehensive introduction to the world of applied creative photography. It explores the basic principles that underpin photography, and guides the reader though the practical considerations involved in executing the perfect shot. The book is concerned with photography in a...
Fairchild Books, 2010. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 2940411042, ISBN13: 978-2940411047. The Visual Dictionary of Photography provides clear definitions of key terms and concepts, backed up by hundreds of illustrative examples. Covering practical terms such as Lens Hood and Sheet Film as well as movements and styles such as Pictorialism and the Photosecession, it deals with the...
Hamish Hamilton, 1985. — 168 p. Prince Andrew's first book has three main purposes. It is intended to entertain. Then, in a sense, it is a small slice of autobiography. But, perhaps most important of all, it has a real educational value. He hopes that it can convey some of the learning process which he underwent during his comparatively recent relationship with the camera. In...
Focal Press, 2006 — 378 p. Finally, a book for you teachers! Because making great photographs does not always translate into an ability to teach effectively. Teaching Photography will show you how to help your students expand their knowledge and abilities in the techniques, the aesthetics, and the way photography fits into a greater world of knowledge, by providing ideas for...
W.W.Norton & Company, 1997. — 184 p. Noted Magnum photographer Eli Reed's provocative and often poignant portrait of black life in America. Eli Reed has been documenting the black experience in America from the first time he began taking pictures. Now a member of Magnum, the prestigious photojournalist's cooperative, he is known for his unflinching coverage of events both large...
Hill and Wang, 1967. — 80 p. — (A terra magica book). Photos of animals by the creater of "Children of Many Lands". A Terra Magica Book of photographs in blank and white.
Hill and Wang, 1964. — 92 p. — (A terra magica book). Photos and sayings of Mothers and their Children from all over the World. Includes images by Thomas Hopker, Leonard Freed, Nell Dorr, Fulvio Roiter, and others. Edited by Hanns Reich.
Hill and Wang, 1958. — 136 p. — (Terra Magica Book). Black and white photos of children all around the globe. Really lovely, very human, without much of the exoticism/colonialist lens I might have feared from a collection of midcentury images.
Hill and Wang, 1973. — 76 p. — (Terra magica). The donkey was the first member of the horse family to be thousands of years. But, somehow, in spite of his gentle and appealing manner, his primary characteristics are thought to be obstinacy and stupidity, to the extent that the word "ass" is now a synonym for fool. Since the donkey is actually quite an intelligent animal, one...
Hill and Wang, 1967. — 88 p. — (A terra magica book). Photographers cannot produce humor, wit, or comedy. They have to track it down in real life. The cartoonist depends on inspiration, the photographer on chance. Comic elements often congeal into a funny optical figuration; a similarity between a man and an animal, the proximity of like objects, the meeting of unlike objects,...
Hill and Wang, 1966. — 120 p. — (A Terra Magica Book). Our century's vision of reality has acquired many new aspects. Microphotography has revealed galleries of structural forms that were never examined before. Aerial pictures have added a new dimension to sight and knowledge. Aided by the sensitive feelers of modern instruments, we can peer into a world that no one lias as yet...
Amherst Media Inc., 2006. — 129 p. From shooting basics to image editing, this textbook is an all encompassing reference that can be used by students in any level of photography class as well as those studying to complete the Certified Professional Photographer program. Beginning with an overview of camera choices and basic camera functions, this guide outlines the fundamentals...
Vis-a-Vis, 1988. — 76 S. Italien - Licht - Sonne - Lebensfülle. Diese Begriffe gehören für viele zusammen. Doch Italien hat auch andere Seiten, dunkle Tiefen voller Melancholie. Dieses Buch führt durch ein Venedig, in dem sich Einsamkeit und Trauer widerspiegeln. Die Lichtstrahlen konzentrieren sich im Brennpunkt einer Linse, dies entspricht der Idee des Künstlers Bernd Riehm....
Aperture, 1990. — 184 p. — (Writers and Artists on Photography). This book is intended to provoke discussion, both among those who work professionally with photography and those whose primary experience of photography is as a reader, and between these groups. It was written in appreciation of the important historical juncture at which we stand, just before the widespread...
Lars Muller, 1997. — 136 p. With thoughtful whimsy, this book collects a series of photographs of the fanciful, sad, laughing, and shouting faces that can be found in functional everyday objects such as light switches, old-fashioned cameras, doorknobs, and bottle openers. As the authors Francois and Jean Robert state in their epilogue, "Years ago, we saw a padlock gazing at us...
Reaktion Books, 2013. — 202 p. With its lush and diverse landscapes, ancient ruins, and stunning architecture, China is a photographer’s dream. Exploring this visually rich and evocative country, Photography and China highlights Chinese photographers and subjects from the inception of photography to the present day. Drawing on works in museums, and archival and private...
Columbia University Press, 2014. — 232 p. — (Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts). Theorists critique photography for "objectifying" its subjects and manipulating appearances for the sake of art. In this bold counterargument, John Roberts recasts photography's violating powers of disclosure and aesthetic technique as part of a complex "social ontology"...
Global Media, 2007. — 168 p. — ISBN: 8189940287. A photographer is a person who takes a photograph using a camera. This person is generally considered the artist, because he or she constructed the appearance of the product in the same way as any other visual artists. One may be an amateur photographer or a professional photographer if he or she uses photography to make a...
Rocky Nook, 2017. — 289 p. It is a compendium of practical advice and information covering the photographic process — from idea cultivation through execution. The guidance in this book is written with an understanding of the nature of artists at their core and explores the science of how ideas are born, the conditions that facilitate the productive creation of art, and the...
Rocky Nook, 2017. — 289 p. It is a compendium of practical advice and information covering the photographic process — from idea cultivation through execution. The guidance in this book is written with an understanding of the nature of artists at their core and explores the science of how ideas are born, the conditions that facilitate the productive creation of art, and the...
Rocky Nook, 2017. — 289 p. — ISBN: 978-1-68198-198-7. It is a compendium of practical advice and information covering the photographic process — from idea cultivation through execution. The guidance in this book is written with an understanding of the nature of artists at their core and explores the science of how ideas are born, the conditions that facilitate the productive...
Andrews and McMeel, 1997. — 152 p. A heartwarming photographic anthology that illustrates the quiet and powerful ties among women. Sixty-five engaging black-and-white photographs, spanning two centuries, portray the many moods and faces of female friendship, from childhood through old age. Commentary from diaries, autobiographies, journals, poetry, and works of fiction...
Rocky Nook, 2010. — 80 p. Zen and the Magic of Photography is geared toward helping photographers develop their visual awareness, sensitivity, and intuition. It is designed to improve the quality of your photography by helping you to discover, create, and capture the points of intersection and merging between photography and Zen; between camera and "real moments"; between...
Rocky Nook, 2010. — 104 p. Zen and the Magic of Photography is geared toward helping photographers develop their visual awareness, sensitivity, and intuition. It is designed to improve the quality of your photography by helping you to discover, create, and capture the points of intersection and merging between photography and Zen; between camera and "real moments"; between...
The University of Chicago Press, 1997. — 302 p. Photography has transformed the way we picture ourselves. Although photographs seem to "prove" our existence at a given point in time, they also demonstrate the impossibility of framing our multiple and fragmented selves. As Linda Haverty Rugg convincingly shows, photography's double take on self-image mirrors the concerns of...
Entrepreneurial Management, 1992. — 104 p. The family. It is our oldest, most studied, least understood and most important human institution. Despite predictions of its demise as old as the nation itself, the family endures and remains the place where most of us long to be. The images in this book, culled from every era of our history since die first photograph was taken more...
Pacific Photographic Press, 1992. — 128 p. In b&w photographs, each accompanied by a capsule biography, Shatz portrays 50 accomplished women of the San Francisco Bay area, in recognition of their achievements and of what he believes is an improved career environment for women. His subjects include such widely known figures as writers Jessica Mitford, Maxine Hong Kingston and...
Vantage Point Press, 2003. — 148 p. A compelling collage of images and words portraying the simple idea that every member of the human race is connected in a way that transcends boundaries and bloodlines. Over BW photos represent + years of work, accompanied by original poetry. His Children will do more than make your heart soar it will change the way you view the world.
Brill, 2019. — 181 p. Picturing America argues that photography is a prevalent practice of making places, determining how we situate ourselves in the world. As a prime site of knowledge and change, it enacts our perception as well as transformative conception of American environments.
Amphoto, 1983. — 264 p. If you really want to know how to take better pictures, ask the experts — the people who do it for a living. Unlike the amateur photographer, the professional cannot simply take pictures he likes when he sees them. Instead he has to be able to take top quality pictures day in and day out, come rain or come shine. Often the subjects are not ones the...
Atria Books, 2010. — 200 p. Words and images come together in this inspiring collaboration between renowned poet Ntozake Shange and Kamoinge Inc., a group of acclaimed photographers whose work documents and celebrates the African-American experience. Collaborations between writers and photographers have provided African Americans with important focus for issues of identity and...
Kendall Hunt, 2009. — 368 p. Photography how-to books and websites often provide their readers with rules or tips for making good pictures. These simplified guidelines generally list accepted conventions used by photographers and other visual artists to create pleasant compositions and balanced tonal or color amalgamations. These guides even suggest the kind of content...
Amherst Media, 2001. — 132 p. From identifying the qualities of a perfect photograph to understanding the most important criteria for selecting and editing saleable images, this book guides photographers through the process of turning a profit from their art. In addition to explanations of visual and financial considerations in editing photographs, a series of quizzes is...
Countryside Books, 2013. — 192 p. For those engaged in family research there is nothing more frustrating than an early photograph without any label to help identify the subject or the setting. But there are always visual clues, and the strongest of these come from what our ancestors are wearing. Our ancestors dressed up for the camera and their clothes offer us a wealth of...
Focal Press, 2017. — 312 p. This ground-breaking book situates research at the heart of photographic practice, asking the key question: What does research mean for photographers? Illuminating the nature and scope of research and its practical application to photography, the book explores how research provides a critical framework to help develop awareness, extend subject...
Focal Press, 2017. — 312 p. This ground-breaking book situates research at the heart of photographic practice, asking the key question: What does research mean for photographers? Illuminating the nature and scope of research and its practical application to photography, the book explores how research provides a critical framework to help develop awareness, extend subject...
Duke University Press, 2017. — 409 p. Photography is one of the principal filters through which we engage the world. The contributors to this volume focus on Walter Benjamin's concept of the optical unconscious to investigate how photography has shaped history, modernity, perception, lived experience, politics, race, and human agency. In essays that range from examinations of...
Sotheby's Foundation, 1990. — 104 p. The Original Photographic Works of Art from The Indomitable Spirit... Proceeds to Benefit the American Foundation for AIDS Research... and the National Community AIDS Partnership (NCAP) : Auction, October 14, 1990, New York, Sotheby's.
Ebook, 2015. — 201 p. 21-year-old fine art and fashion photographer Morey Spellman is not one for sitting still. Known as Ptolemy on Flickr, he set out last summer to interview conceptual artists he met on the site and through the community. “The Fine Art of Photography” featuring twenty two interviews, selected works from the artists, and a diary of his travels.
Daylight Books, 2012. — 102 p. Photographs Not Taken is a collection of photographers’ essays about failed attempts to make a picture. Editor Will Steacy asked each photographer to abandon the conventional tools needed to make a photograph — camera, lens, film — and instead make a photograph using words, to capture the image (and its attendant memories) that never made it...
Daylight Books, 2012. — 102 p. Photographs Not Taken is a collection of photographers’ essays about failed attempts to make a picture. Editor Will Steacy asked each photographer to abandon the conventional tools needed to make a photograph — camera, lens, film — and instead make a photograph using words, to capture the image (and its attendant memories) that never made it...
Bulfinch Press Book, 1999. — 438 p. This is an unparalleled look back at one hundred extraordinary years. Selected from the photographic archives of Life and other major collections, these spellbinding images bring alive the people and events that shaped the twentieth century. Included are classic images as well as virtually unknown pictures taken moments before and after their...
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2007. — 157 p. The Photographer's Eye by John Szarkowski is a twentieth-century classic--an indispensable introduction to the visual language of photography. Based on a landmark exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in 1964, and originally published in 1966, the book has long been out of print. It is now available again to a new generation...
Rodopi, 2009. — 206 p. — ( Faux Titre (Book 335)). The Paradox of Photography analyzes the discourse on photography by four of the most important modern French poets and theorists (Baudelaire, Breton, Barthes and Valéry). It stresses in particular the importance of this visual language for the development of both new forms of narrative and original critical studies on issues of...
Springer Netherlands, 2016. — 112 p. — (SpringerBriefs in Education). This work considers the potential of photographs for orienting in a critical direction the scope, questions and interests of the disciplinary conventions of the field of educational inquiry. Visual objects may help illuminate broader socio-historical events and logics that are deeply entwined with education...
Family Tree Books, 2013. — 176 p. Historical family photos are cherished heirlooms that offer a glimpse into the lives of our ancestors. But the images, and the stories behind them, often fade away as decades pass - the who, when, where and why behind the photos are lost. In this book, photo identification expert and genealogist Maureen A. Taylor shows you how to study the...
Little, Brown and Co., 2002. — 148 p. In ancient times older women were the keepers of primal mysteries and were revered for their special wisdom: today there is a feeling that our culture is reawakening to the power of our elders. Joyce Tenneson presents 80 portraits of women aged 65 to 100, who comment on their experiences of ageing.
World Wide Art Books., January 3, 2013. — 310 p. This is the first volume of a new series of books of ours devoted exclusively to the art of photography. Our purpose with International Masters of Photography is also similar to that of our other series: to create an annual chronicle of what is happening in the art of photography all over the world, by featuring the work of...
World Wide Art Books., January 3, 2013. — 241 p. This is the second volume of a new series of books of ours devoted exclusively to the art of photography. Our purpose with International Masters of Photography is also similar to that of our other series: to create an annual chronicle of what is happening in the art of photography all over the world, by featuring the work of...
Sidgwick & Jackson, 1982. — 204 p. Picasso declared that every photographer wanted to be a painter. But what is certainly true is that many artists - painters, sculptors and others - have been committed photographers. Marina Vaizey traces this special aspect of the interrelationship between art and photography. How, and to what purpose, artists from Thomas Eakins to Andy...
Daylight Books, 2015. — 112 p. Harvey Wang explores the shift from film to digital through a collection of portraits and interviews with more than forty prominent photographers. From Darkroom to Daylight is "at once an homage to the analog world of film photography, a capsule history of the medium's digital revolution, and an engaging conversation with noted photographers about...
American West Pub, 1974. — 120 p. There is a strange mystique about the Spanish Missions ol California that seems to be nearly as old as the Adobe compounds themselves. They were still in their heyday when Alfred Robinson and Richard Henry Dana visited them and were moved to tell the world of what they saw. One of these visitors was professional photographer Marvin Wax. who...
5th Edition. — Routledge, 2015. — 442 p. Photography: A Critical Introduction was the first introductory textbook to examine key debates in photographic theory and place them in their social and political contexts, and is now established as one of the leading textbooks in its field. Written especially for students in higher education and for introductory college courses, this...
2nd Edition. — Globe Pequot Press, 1981. — 148 p. The first edition was a sell-out. And nearly a third of the original favorites were chosen for this dynamic, expanded edition, which offers 70 new shots, too!.. All filled with the sense of wonder and humor that has delighted reviewers of Ulrike Welsch's work for years.
New Leaf, 2000. – 80 p. Whitaker, a photographer of breathtaking skill, strives to show us that God is present even in the seemingly ordinary events of our lives. The starkly beautiful photographs in these "glimpses" celebrate the love between mothers and children, fathers and children, whole families, friends, spouses, and the respect we have for God's beautiful creation.
American Photographic Book, 1959. — 128 p. In the entire history of photographs there lias never I wen a picture book like this one. Starting on page 16 is a portfolio of pictures made by the Polaroid Land process. There are 165 pictures and every one of them was made with Polaroid Land films, by the picture-in-a-minute process. A picture-in-a-minute paper print or film...
Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003. — 209 p. e-Book. Language: English The Photography Handbook provides an introduction to the principles of photographic practice and theory and offers guidelines for the systematic study of photographic media. It explores the history of lens-based picture-making and examines the medium’s characteristics, scope and limitations. The book equips...
Stan Corwin Productions, 1994. — 86 p. Curvaceous, friendly and wholesome-looking, Playboy pinup Betty Page was the perfect complement to the still-innocent fantasies of young men during the Eisenhower years. Betty Page Confidential includes a biography of the reclusive goddess, an official Betty Page trivia quiz and 100 photos. Betty Page Confidential is the ultimate book on...
Secker & Warburg, 1981. — 200 p. Poems and photographs of the famous Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko. The first time I was inspired by the muse of photography was in 1957 at the American Exhibition in Moscow. To be honest, a lot of Moscow's young people had gone along not to look at the exhibits but to taste the mysterious beverage known as Pepsi Cola. The satirical magazine...
Light Impressions, 1980. — 166 p. Photographers traditionally like to talk about photography, but they often get hung up on technique and can't think of anything else to dwell on. Richard Zakia's book provides a whole raft of new things to talk about in the context of photography. Though the quotes often fail to mention hotography as such, a connection can be made by the...
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2017. — 267 p. — ISBN10: 0262037025; ISBN13: 978-0262037020. Today, in the age of CCTV, drones, medical body scans, and satellite images, photography is increasingly decoupled from human agency and human vision. In Nonhuman Photography, Joanna Zylinska offers a new philosophy of photography, going beyond the human-centric view to consider imaging...
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2017. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0262037025; ISBN13: 978-0262037020 Today, in the age of CCTV, drones, medical body scans, and satellite images, photography is increasingly decoupled from human agency and human vision. In Nonhuman Photography, Joanna Zylinska offers a new philosophy of photography, going beyond the human-centric view to consider imaging...
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