Photography category: 18580 books
Searching for Mary Schäffer
Women Wilderness Photography
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Mary Schäffer was a photographer, writer, botanical painter, and mapmaker from Philadelphia, well known for her travels in the Canadian Rockies and Jasper at the turn of the twentieth century. In Searching for Mary Schäffer, Colleen Skidmore takes up Schäffer’s own resonant themes—women and...
Tao of Photography
Seeing Beyond Seeing
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This provocative, visually stunning volume draws upon Taoist teachings to explore the creative and spiritual dimensions of the art of photography. Excerpts from the Taoist classic the Chuang-tzu and the writings of Western aesthetes are complemented by over 60 photographs from the work of such canonical...
Capturing the Light
The Birth of Photography, a True Story of Genius and Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
An intimate look at the journeys of two men—a gentleman scientist and a visionary artist—as they struggled to capture the world around them, and in the process invented modern photography
During the 1830s, in an atmosphere of intense scientific enquiry fostered by the industrial revolution,...
Documenting the World
Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Imagine the twentieth century without photography and film. Its history would be absent of images that define historical moments and generations: the death camps of Auschwitz, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Apollo lunar landing. It would be a history, in other words, of just artists’...
by Pamela Hall
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Traveling is something people do on a regular basis. However, if you are not sure how to take great travel digital pictures, you stand a good chance of missing out on some great memories of the trip that you might never get a second chance to recover!
In this book you will learn how to master digital...
Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare
Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
In Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare, Leigh Raiford argues that over the past one hundred years, activists in the black freedom struggle have used photographic imagery both to gain political recognition and to develop a different visual vocabulary about black lives. Offering readings of the use of photography...
Refracted Visions
Popular Photography and National Modernity in Java
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
A young couple poses before a painted backdrop depicting a modern building set in a volcanic landscape; a college student grabs his camera as he heads to a political demonstration; a man poses stiffly for his identity photograph; amateur photographers look for picturesque images in a rural village;...
Extraordinary Everyday Photography
Awaken Your Vision to Create Stunning Images Wherever You Are
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Through accessible discussions and exercises, readers learn to use composition, available light, color, and point of view to create stunning photographs in any environment.
Photographers are born travelers. They’ll go any distance to capture the right light, beautiful landscapes, wildlife,...
by Steve Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2006
Photographs are an integral part of our daily lives from sensationalist images in tabloid papers and snapshots, to art photograpy displayed in galleries and sold through international art markets. In this thought-provoking exploration of the subject, Edwards combines a sense of the historical development...
The View from Above
The Science of Social Space
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
The role of aerial photography in the evolution of the concept of social space”and its impact on French urban planning in the mid-twentieth century.
In mid-twentieth century France, the term “social space” (l'espace social)—the idea that spatial form and social life are inextricably...
The Disciplinary Frame
Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2009
Photography can seem to capture reality and the eye like no other medium, commanding belief and wielding the power of proof. In some cases, a photograph itself is attributed the force of the real. How can a piece of chemically discolored paper have such potency? How does the meaning of a photograph...
The Flash of Recognition
Photography and the Emergence of Indigenous Rights
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Inspired by the shocking photograph of two Aboriginal men in neck-chains on the cover of Charles Rowley’s 1970 classic, The Destruction of Aboriginal Society, this original and highly illustrated book uses photography to tell the bigger story of the struggle for Aboriginal rights in Australia....
by James Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
A comprehensive look at all aspects of photographing sports teams-from selecting and using equipment to processing and presenting the images while building a client base-this reference proves indispensable to any photographer looking to expand their repertoire or branch out into a new profession. Professional...
by Devin Elnick
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
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