Collections category: 673 books
People Fishing
A Century of Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Although people have fished for food since the dawn of time, fishing today is one of the most popular pastimes in the world—an estimated 220 million people worldwide are recreational anglers, according to the World Bank. While many enjoy the Zen of waiting patiently for a strike in the great outdoors,...
A Countryside Camera
The Photographs of Roger Redfern
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Roger Redfern – author, writer and photographer – had been writing about his travels and exploration of different areas of Britain and abroad for over 50 years, most notably as a regular contributor to The Guardian newspaper’s Country Diary feature. He is the author of over 30 books and was...
The Exoteric Meaning in Raphael's Paintings
The Philosophy of Composition in The Disputa, The School of Athens, The Transfiguration
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
The seed of this book was planted in 1941, when Giorgio Spadaro first visited the Vatican Museums with his cousin, the painter Beppe Assenza. A second visit and further conversations in 1945 watered the seed, which germinated and grew over more than half a century. Now it has flowered, in the light of...
Kentucky by Design
The Decorative Arts and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The Index of American Design was one of the most significant undertakings of the Federal Art Project -- the visual arts arm of the Works Progress Administration. Part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, this ambitious initiative set out to discover and document an authentic American style...
by Tony Baker
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
From action-packed Model T racing in the 1930s to exotic sports car racing during the 1950s and 1960s, Images of America: Central Coast Motor Sports reveals the colorful history of motor sports and hot rodding in Central California. Sam Foose, one of the pioneers of West Coast car customizing, created...
by Jack Watson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In Beyond the Glamour Photograph, photographers Jack Watson and Andy McFarland start where other glamour photo books usually end. In addition to the mechanics of the glamour photography business, this book includes a companion DVD with a behind-the-scenes look at a live studio glamour shoot with Watson...
Reflections of a Culture Broker
A View from the Smithsonian
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Is culture brokered like stocks, real estate, or marriage? In this engaging book, Richard Kurin shows that cultures are also mediated and indeed brokered by countries, organizations, communities, and individuals -- all with their own vision of the truth and varying abilities to impose it on others....
Becoming Plural
A Tale of Two Sudans
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
In July 2011, Sudan officially 'became plural', as the country split in two; the unofficial north - south divide between the Arabdominated north and the more ethnically African south was formalised, after the people of Southern Sudan voted overwhelmingly to separate from the rest of the country. Becoming...
Alice Illustrated
120 Images from the Classic Tales of Lewis Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Few books of the past 200 years have captured the imagination of illustrators as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has. The original edition of Lewis Carroll's 1865 masterpiece featured 42 woodblock engravings by John Tenniel. Created in close collaboration with the author, Tenniel's visions of the...
Great Drawings of Nudes
45 Works
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
This volume offers an impressive sampling of life drawings by 45 of the art world's greatest masters. From Albrecht Dürer's 15th-century brush-and-ink drawing of Female Nude, Seen from the Back and Modigliani's mixed media presentation of Caryatid to splendid drawings by Raphael, Rubens, van Dyck,...
by Herb Allenger
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Come along on a 2-year photographic journey of Green Lake park with reflective, informative, and humorous commentary accompanying each image, creating a work that is both entertaining and captivating.
Feel the exhilaration the author feels when taking walks, and rejoice with him at nature’s...
by Annie Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
National Geographic Simply Beautiful Photographs takes readers on a spectacular visual journey through some of the most stunning photographs to be found in National Geographic’s famed Image Collection. Award-winning photographer Annie Griffiths culled the images to reflect the many variations on...
Burnsiana
Poems and Artworks Inspired by the Life and Legacy of Robert Burns
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
This unique reflection on the world of Robert Burns places a range of photographic artworks by celebrated Scottish artist Calum Colvin alongside poems written in response to each work by 'weel-kent' Scots poet Rab Wilson. Colvin's multi-referential artworks are concerned with the very process of...
by Jim Zuckerman
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Wildlife and nature can be close to you as your backyard or the nearest zoo. In The Professional Photographer's Guide to Shooting & Selling Nature & Wildlife Photos, a professional photographer shows how to take fabulous wildlife and nature photographs and how to reach the best markets. More...