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The Celebrity Exposures of Markus and Indrani
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Markus Klinko and Indrani-the hottest team in celebrity and fashion photography-have produced album covers for Beyonce, Mariah Carey, and David Bowie, and shot everyone from Lady Gaga to KateWinslet, Jay-Z, Lindsay Lohan, and Naomi Campbell. As former stars of the Bravo series Double Exposure and...
by Paul G Roberts, Heidi Wellington
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY - IMMORTALS We have recently witnessed the passing of an era. Several of the greatest image makes of all time have passed away, as Helmut Newton, Corinne Day, Herb Ritts, Norman Parkinson, Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Horst P Horst and Richard Bailey are sadly no longer...
Photography on the Color Line
W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2004
Through a rich interpretation of the remarkable photographs W. E. B. Du Bois compiled for the American Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition, Shawn Michelle Smith reveals the visual dimension of the color line that Du Bois famously called “the problem of the twentieth century.” Du Bois’s...
The Camera Does the Rest
How Polaroid Changed Photography
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
In a world where nearly everyone has a cellphone camera capable of zapping countless instant photos, it can be a challenge to remember just how special and transformative Polaroid photography was in its day. And yet, there’s still something magical for those of us who recall waiting for a Polaroid...
by Global Travel Writers
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2010
Unlike many other books on travel writing, the Global Travel Writers E-book “Travel Writing and Photography – from Dreams to Hard Reality” makes no promises of riches and/or a glamor-filled lifestyle. Instead, the 14 professional contributors to this E-book deliver down-to-earth, highly practical advice, drawing on a combined total of over 200 years experience in travel journalism.
Robert Frank's 'The Americans'
The Art of Documentary Photography
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
In the mid 50s, Swiss-born New Yorker Robert Frank embarked on a ten-thousand-mile road trip across post-war America, capturing thousands of photographs of all levels of a rapidly changing society. The resultant photo-book, The Americans, represents a seminal moment in both photography and in America’s...
by Frank Gohlke
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2009
Frank Gohlke has been a leading figure in American landscape photography for over thirty years. He has photographed grain silos in Minnesota, the aftermath of a tornado in Texas, the destruction and rebirth of the land after the Mount St. Helens eruption in Washington, and a river's quiet course in Massachusetts....
The Seasons of Madeline Island: A Camera's Eye View
The Photography of Sheelagh Dalziel
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
A collection of photographs showing the varied and beautiful aspects of Madeline Island over all 4 seasons of the year. Photos were taken during the period from April 2014 through November 2015. Includes inspirational and descriptive text. All photos were taken with a Kodak EasyShare 1015 camera.
The Best Camera Is The One That's With You
iPhone Photography by Chase Jarvis
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
A beacon of creativity with boundless energy, Chase Jarvis is well known as a visionary photographer, director, and social artist. In The Best Camera Is The One That’s With You, Chase reimagines, examines, and redefines the intersection of art and popular culture through images shot with his iPhone....
Thomas Annan of Glasgow
Pioneer of the Documentary Photograph
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
In the wake of Glasgow’s transformation in the nineteenth-century into an industrial powerhouse, the "Second City of the Empire,” a substantial part of the old town of Adam Smith degenerated into an overcrowded and disease-ridden slum. The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow, Thomas Annan’s...
Rediscovering Jacob Riis
Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Before publishing his pioneering book How the Other Half Lives—a photojournalistic investigation into the poverty of New York’s tenement houses, home to three quarters of the city’s population—Jacob Riis (1849-1914) spent his first years in the United States as an immigrant and itinerant laborer,...
Commercial Photography Handbook
Business Techniques for Professional Digital Photographers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Targeting new and experienced commercial photographers alike, this invaluable guide explores the different aspects and challenges of succeeding in the industry. Approaching the subject systematically, the topics begin with determining what kind of commercial photography to pursue and how to get the training...
Making Photographs
Planning, Developing and Creating Original Photography
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Highlighting the distinction between 'making,' rather than 'taking' photographs, Making Photographs introduces a structured way of developing creative solutions to the work you want to make, fusing personal ideas with knowledge, compositional elements and practical skills.
Simmons explores...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
People have gone to extremes to photograph nude women. In the 1950s a medical doctor in Hatfield, Pennsylvania risked his professional career on a nude modeling business. A chemical plant manager and his wife teamed with him in this risky endeavor. Aside from this incident I have profiled cases of...