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Photography in 100 Words: Exploring the Art of Photography with Fifty of Its Greatest Masters
The question 'What is photography?' is not an easy one to answer. Many thousands of words have been written in an effort to do so, in academic journals and in books by cultural commentators such as Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes. If we acknowledge that it is impossible to provide a definitive answer, can we at least distil the meaning of photography into somewhat fewer words, and get to the very essence of the medium without diminishing its importance as an art form? This book aims to do just that. David C...
MPN: 4da27c49f6f73ff5a6c3325e495d1609
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Ship: A History in Art & Photography
Celebrate mankind's 3,000 years at sea with a spectacular record of 360 well-known ships in history and fiction. Each page offers the story of a famous (or in some cases, infamous) vessel, illustrated with a stunning photograph or painting, and complete with technical specifications of the ship's construction, size, crew, and tonnage. The drama of the high seas is brought to life: an arresting news photo of the "Torrey Canyon," broken in two on a reef in the English Channel, accompanies the story of the wor...
MPN: 6c52f2b4a29d492f2209428e3caa4a0f
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Encounters: Photography from the Sheldon Museum of Art
In this volume, the Sheldon Museum of Art presents more than one hundred examples from its distinguished photography collection, which contains nearly twenty-five hundred objects. Encompassing the full range of photographic history, "Encounters" showcases recognized masterpieces, recent acquisitions, and rarely seen treasures by a diverse range of artists, including Berenice Abbott, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Julia Margaret Cameron, Gertrude Kasebier, Andre Kertesz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Yinka Shonibare, Paul Str...
MPN: cbcfdd17506e9b2bdb94c765d9e0dfc8
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View from the Inside: Contemporary Arab Photography, Video and Mixed Media Art
View From the Inside "is an expansive presentation of contemporary Arab photography, video and mixed media from the Middle East and North Africa. The book shows the works of fifty leading Arab artists from fourteen countries. The works reflect the emergence of photographic, video and digital art as important forms of creative visual expression in the Arab world over the past twenty years. The artworks address a broad range of issues that the artists themselves have defined as important to the modern Arab ex...
MPN: 9d9cc7a75c077964332bf053efbc4c9d
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The Art of Engagement Portraits: Lighting, Posing, and Postproduction for Breathtaking Photography
Provides information on creating eye-catching engagement portraits, from conceptualization through postproduction, covering such topics as lighting, poses, and settings.
MPN: 6bb45ea65bfc59684f5990264cda9d5f
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The Art of Photography: An Approach to Personal Expression
This is a newly revised edition of the classic book The Art of Photography (first published in 1994) , which has often been described as the most readable, understandable, and comprehensive textbook on photography. In his accessible style, Barnbaum presents how-to techniques for both traditional and digital approaches. Yet he goes well beyond the technical as he delves deeply into the philosophical, expressive, and creative aspects of photography. This book is geared toward every level of photographer who s...
MPN: 997414295d018664c956cd32fb684902
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Digital Wedding Photography: Art, Business & Style
With more than 35 years as a top wedding photographer, Steve Sint knows the industry inside and out. That's why the first two editions of "Wedding Photography" were THE authoritative references to the profession. Now, Sint covers digital with the same skill and thoroughness, showing how photographers can take full advantage of its technical potential. He covers every aspect, from getting the job to taking the right shots to selling the albums, marketing your work, and making a profit-while keeping everyone ...
MPN: a69e7173b11bd23522bac9499a13b8a3
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Digital Image Transfer: Creating Art With Your Photography
Ellen G. Horovitz, an inspiring artist and teacher, guides readers through imaginative photo projects that transform cherished analog and digital images into works of art. Horovitz expands on traditional photo transfer, taking it to an entirely new level using digital software techniques and a wide array of innovative materials and methods, including cocoa powder, Citrasolve, copper, and packing tape. Starting with traditional photos, digital files, and instant photo emulsions, Horovitz fashions 2D and 3D a...
MPN: aa3f989ba49eec24a4dcb215d57e9706
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Faces: Photography and the Art of Portraiture
There is so much detail to be captured in a face. Cicero (106-43 BC) said: "The face is a picture of the mind as the eyes are its interpreter." To capture a person's personality, there are many things to keep in mind, and the authors of FACES show us how to match up a personality with lighting, posing, and composition. Portraiture is truly an art, and this book dives deep into the details so that you end up with a gorgeous portrait that both you and your subject love. Not only is this book the most comprehe...
MPN: 6c0cdfab394b4a6b60bce6899f8dffae
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Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography; The David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr, 2014, ISBN13 9780300208610, ISBN10 0300208618
MPN: 6185dceb666a22f4f836289b1f71051e
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Day Dreams, Night Thoughts: Fantasy and Surrealism in the Graphic Arts and Photography
Across more than 200 drawings, prints, photographs, books and magazines, ranging from the late Middle Ages to the heyday of Surrealism, this book follows the trail of the legendary and controversial show that Alfred H. Barr, founding director of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, organized in 1936, titled "Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism." Barr's show imaginatively juxtaposed works by contemporary Dada and Surrealist artists and authors with works by their predecessors, such as Hieronymus Bosch, Giuseppe A...
MPN: 30707f49d30640fa1929fbdedd1bf12f
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Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before
From the late 1970s onward, serious art photography began to be made at large scale and for the wall. Michael Fried argues that this immediately compelled photographers to grapple with issues centering on the relationship between the photograph and the viewer standing before it that until then had been the province only of painting. Fried further demonstrates that certain philosophically deep problems-associated with notions of theatricality, literalness, and objecthood, and touching on the role of original...
MPN: eb0f83d3f3fb5b6950eef9a1178a3808
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