Architects Photographers category: 3350 books
by Lucy Lelens
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Are photographers the artists with the camera as they would imagine themselves to be, or are they indeed nothing more than glorified photocopiers?
This question was posed to me recently and I felt it worthy of discussion.
In this age of high tech equipment and equally high tech software, are we photographers merely photocopiers?
It is an interesting question.
Light and Air
The Photography of Bayard Wootten
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
A trailblazer for women photographers in the South, North Carolina's Bayard Wootten (1875-1959) overcame economic hardship, gender discrimination, and the obscurity of a small-town upbringing to become the state's most significant early female photographer. This advocate of equality for women combined...
Passenger Seat
Creating a Photographic Project from Conception through Execution in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
In her long career as Product Evangelist for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, Julieanne Kost has taught thousands of digital photographers how to get the most out of Adobe's digital imaging software, in seminars, presentations, and blog posts ranging from nuts-and-bolts tips and tricks to inspirational...
Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects
Illustrated - Biographies of the Greatest Artists of Renaissance, Including Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Titian, Giotto, Raphael, Brunelleschi & Donatello
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older literature of art", "some of...
The Man in the Glass House
Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
A "smoothly written and fair-minded" (Wall Street Journal) biography of architect Philip Johnson--a finalist for the National Book Critic's Circle Award
When Philip Johnson died in 2005 at the age of 98, he was still one of the most recognizable--and influential--figures on the American...
Till We Have Built Jerusalem
Architects of a New City
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
A biographical excavation of one of the world’s great, troubled cities
A remarkable view of one of the world’s most beloved and troubled cities, Adina Hoffman’s Till We Have Built Jerusalem is a gripping and intimate journey into the very different lives of three architects who helped...
Bruce Goff
Architecture of Discipline in Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Renowned today as one of the most important architects of the twentieth century, Bruce Goff (1904–1982) was only twelve years old when a Tulsa architectural firm took him on as an apprentice. Throughout his career he defied expectations, not only as a designer of innovative buildings but also as...
The Accidental Millionaire
How to Succeed in Life Without Really Trying
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
An entrepreneur’s rags-to-riches story reveals that sometimes not knowing where you’re going is the best way to get there . . .
A first-generation Chinese-American, Gary Fong was raised in one of Los Angeles’ least-desirable neighborhoods and was forced to deal—in his own quirky and...
by Edna Woolman Chase, Ilka Chase
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Vogue was a newly formed weekly society magazine when Edna Woolman Chase arrived on its staff in 1895 at the young age of 18. Alongside its second owner, Condé Nast, she went on to remodel it into the institution we know today. Just a few days before he died, Condé wrote to Edna to express his deepest...
by Paul G Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Our two Immortals editions detail some of the most enduring and famous names in photography, all of whom are no longer with us. Great photographs can elicit thoughts, feelings, and emotions when words simply will not suffice. Throughout history, there have been many important people in...
by Donna Lee Harper
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
She was acknowledged as the most beautiful woman in the world but she wanted more than accolades from artists and photographers. She soon became the mistress of Edward Albert, prince of Wales and future king of England, then turned her talents to acting, her ultimate triumph. At first people came...
by Weegee
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Weegee not only captured the gritty underbelly of New York City in his explosive photographs, but he lived it as well. This long out-of-print autobiography, brought back as an ebook with complete and unabridged text by Devault-Graves Digital Editions, was written toward the end of Weegee’s life...
by Paul G Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
In this we profile the lives and explore the legacies of some of the biggest photography luminaries to have ever lived and worked on the planet. The precursors of fashion photography go back to the 18th century, when images of fashionable clothes were printed in magazines and often hand-coloured....
Diane Arbus
Portrait of a Photographer
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
The definitive biography of the beguiling Diane Arbus, one of the most influential and important photographers of the twentieth century, a brilliant and absorbing exposition that links the extraordinary arc of her life to her iconic photographs.
Diane Arbus brings to life the full story of...