Matthew Leifheit: To Die Alive
Fire Island's gay communities, documented in a nocturnal erotic fever-dream by Matthew LeifheitFeaturing 77 color photographs and a faux leather cover, To Die Alive portrays Fire Island's world of desire and its layers of history: the Ice Palace bar's infamous underwear party; the men-only Belvedere Guesthouse; clandestine encounters in the Meat Rack; and landscapes in all seasons of the island's delicate maritime forest. The wide-ranging subjects of Matthew Leifheit's portraits reflect the intergenerational community who come to the island for refuge or employment, ranging from weekend visitors to sugar daddies to bartenders and sex workers. Tinged with sadness, the book's climax mixes feelings of pleasure with desperation and loss. As homosexuality gains mainstream acceptance, many queer Americans no longer need to go to geographic extremes like Fire Island, Provincetown, Palm Springs or Key West to express themselves. But what is the cost of assimilation? To Die Alive is both romantic and grotesque, challenging the sun-bleached history of homoerotic representation on this fragile island, which itself is under constant threat of erosion by the sea.Matthew Leifheit (born 1988) is an American photographer, magazine editor and professor born in Chicago and based in Brooklyn. A graduate of the Yale School of Art, he was formerly photo editor of Vice and is currently on faculty at Pratt Institute. Leifheit's photographic work has been exhibited internationally and is held in public collections. His photographs have appeared in publications such as the New York Times, the New Yorker, Aperture, Time and Artforum. Leifheit is editor-in-chief of Matte Magazine, a journal of emerging photography that he has edited and published since 2010.
Armenia
A remarkable view of how geopolitics affects ordinary people, this book documents, in words and pictures, the lives of Armenians in the last two decades. Based on intimate interviews with three hundred Armenians and featuring Jerry Berndt's superb photographs, it brings together firsthand testimony about the social, economic, and spiritual circumstances of Armenians during the 1980s and 1990s, when the country faced an earthquake, pogroms, and war. At times shocking and deeply emotional, Armenia: Portraits of Survival and Hope is a story of extreme suffering and hardship, a searching look at the fight for independence, and an exceptionally complex portrait of the human spirit. A companion to the Millers' highly acclaimed work Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide, which documented the genocide of 1915, this book focuses on four groups of people: survivors of the earthquakes that devastated northwestern Armenia in 1988; refugees from Azerbaijan who fled Baku and Sumgait because of pogroms against them; women, children, and soldiers who were affected by the war in Nagorno-Karabakh; and ordinary citizens who survived several winters without heat because of the blockade against Armenia by Turkey and Azerbaijan. The Millers' narrative situates these accounts contextually and thematically, but the voices of individuals remain paramount. The Millers also describe their personal experiences in repeated research trips, inviting us to look beyond the headlines and think beyond the circumstances of our own lives as they bring contemporary Armenia to life.
Shadowside
James Courtney, creator of the popular Kinky Coloring Books and The Burlesque Coloring Book, has been taking photographs of the San Francisco Bay Area's best Alternative models for over ten years. Check out this print collection of his fabulous erotic photographs of the past decade.
Like Mushrooms
Like Mushrooms blends the visual with the poetic image. Photos of mushrooms, mostly from the west coast of Canada are interspersed with poems about life and nature. Enjoy the juxtaposition of image and words.
Toronto Alight
With a series of photographs captured in and around Toronto, the reader is taken on a journey through the city, delving into places both big and small, where the spaces all around shout to be seen or quietly whisper their secrets. Toronto is a trove of unusual spaces nestled amongst (and sometimes hidden in plain sight within) the city.
Thailand
Dreaming of traveling? Then this book is for you. Walt Williams has put together a selection of his photography that will take you on a travel experience without leaving the comfort of your chair. The author has captured some great scenes of northern Thailand that is sure to have you dreaming of your own travels. As you page through the pages take time to imagine yourself behind the camera snapping these images and enjoying the experience of you on this journey experiencing all the world has to offer. Leave the fears behind and follow your dreams, some history, some modern and the people that make this a wonderful place to visit.
Treasured Lands
Give the gift of the National Parks with this beautiful coffee table book: the most complete photography book about all the 63 US National Parks, and the only one with location notes for each photograph. Winner of 12 national and international awards. Treasured Lands: A Photographic Odyssey Through America's National Parks pays tribute to the millions of acres of protected wilderness and historical heritage in all our country's 63 national parks, including the four designated since the award-winning first edition was published in 2016 and became an instant classic. Luong, who was honored with the National Parks Conservation Association's Robin W. Winks Award for Enhancing Public Understanding of National Parks and featured in Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan's documentary The National Parks: America's Best Idea, is the most prolific photographer working in the national parks and the only one to have made large-format photographs in each of them. In an odyssey that spanned more than a quarter century and 300 visits, Luong focused his lenses on iconic landscapes and rarely seen remote views, presenting his journey in this sumptuous array of more than 600 breathtaking images. Accompanying the collection of scenic masterpieces is a guide that includes maps of each park, as well as extended captions that detail where and how the photographs were made. Designed to inspire visitors to connect with the parks and invite photographers to re-create these landscapes, the guide also provides anecdotal observations that give context to the pictures and convey the sheer scope of Luong's extraordinary odyssey. Including a foreword by author and documentary filmmaker Dayton Duncan, Treasured Lands is a rich visual tour of the U.S. National Parks and an invaluable guide from a photographer who hiked-or paddled, dived, skied, snowshoed, and climbed-each park, shooting in all kinds of terrain, in all seasons, and at all times of day. QT Luong's timeless gallery of the nation's most revered landscapes beckons to nature lovers, armchair travelers, and photography enthusiasts alike, keeping America's natural wonders within reach.--QT Luong
From Soldier to Sojourner
"Soldier to Sojourner" is my photographic impression of North Asia in the 1970s. I spent over a year as an Officer in the U.S. Army in South Korea and close to two years travelling throughout Asia first as a backpacker and later as a freak. These photographs are a companion piece to my written travel journal, surprisingly also called "Soldier to Sojourner", but these images are not "comic book" illustrations of the written words. The people, places, and events I photographed "through a lens darkly" have an independent life of their own (My God, the Monster lives!) I have documented a time, the 1970s, before the all-pervading Western culture (Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll in Levi's) and The Economic Miracle changed Asia irrevocably. Each day in my journey brought new enchantments, incredible beauty, sordid ugliness, joy, and suffering that I tried to capture with my camera. The Asia of Conrad and Maughan is gone, and the war-torn Asia of Vietnam will also pass; every generation discovers a "new", exotic Asia: This is my snapshot vision of Asia. Enjoy!
Introduction to Drawing - Book Six
This book is the sixth book of a series of books on the introduction to drawing. This sixth book reviews principles of design and elements of design that artists must keep in mind when creating artworks. These design principles and design elements help artists to create better artistic and aesthetically pleasing artworks.
Introduction to Drawing Book Two
This book is the second book of a series of books on the introduction to drawing. This second book will teach beginner artists and intermediate artists how to draw and shade forms, heads and figures using charcoal in a logical way through various exercises and assignments. Teaching drawing in this manner will build the artists' technical, compositional and comprehensive drawing skills.
Capital Cities
Step into the beauty, culture, history, and lifestyle of capital cities around the world through photography and short story. In this ode to capital cities, the Travel is Life Creators showcase 118 cities from every continent, including Antarctica!The best way to begin traveling a country is from its capital city. You can get anywhere from the capital. Capital cities are the melting pots of countries that bring their culture and people together from all walks of life. They are where countries unite and history happens. Capital cities are often overlooked and underappreciated on travel itineraries. They become a placemark on a map to catch a connecting flight or a destination in which to spend a night recovering from jet lag after leaving one time zone and entering another. There are countless travel books about where to go after the capital city... like the beaches, mountains, pueblos, wonders of the world, and everything in between. And don't get me wrong -- I love visiting those places and reading those books too. However, I wanted to create a book that explored the capital cities themselves, which are equally special, but don't always get as much attention. This book is my ode to capital cities, but since I've only been to tens of capital cities myself, I asked for help from my friends. In this book, a group of professional travel bloggers and I, collectively called Travel is Life Creators, have showcased 118 capital cities from every continent in the world (including Antarctica). Our mission was not to create a travel guide, but instead, to capture the culture, history, and lifestyle of capital cities through photography and short story. I hope that reading this book will allow you to step into each capital city through the eyes and lens of each photographer and writer so that you can see, hear, touch, taste, smell, and experience that city, even if just for a brief moment, before traveling to the next page. Thank you to the contributors who made this book possible: Aga GoodmanAmy & Dave TullAndrea WadeTanya & Andy KortelingAnisa Alhilali & Russell WoodAnn S.Anna Deaki & Anthony RoyerBarbara BryanBonnie TruaxBruna VenturinelliCarol GutteryCassie TrinCharu GoyalClaire SummersDaniela KolevaDaphne HargroveDarcy VierowDeeptha DoshiDerek Hartman & Mike WalshDhara NargundkarEmma CreeseVeronika PrimmEmma ErichsenEmma HuffamErika Van 't VeldErin MushawayFiona Lawless & Jerry ScottHanna Thomas & Boyan OrtseHeather RaulersonHeather Wicksted & Matthew DawJacob LaboissonniereJessica FergenJoel MarrinanJulie CaoJulie Peters Kat & Chris ButlerKeri HedrickKesi IrvinKimberly DeCarreraLieze NevenLiz RichardsonMarcea CazelMary Jo ManzanaresMatěj HalouskaMenty YuMona MolayemNicky MackenzieOph矇lie SchaffarPamela DragerRachel Story & Sasha SavinovSage ScottSandra FoytSarah VanheelPatricia & Sergio SiglerSiori & Fermin LongcobSusan GleissnerTrina PhillipsVanessa Ball
The New Black West Hc
Featuring stunning full-color photographs by Gabriela Hasbun, The New Black West celebrates the modern Black cowboys of the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo and the community that comes together to witness their achievements year after year. A powerful symbol of self-reliance, strength, and determination, the Black cowboy is a figure commonly overlooked in the histories of the American West. Held annually in cities across the United States, the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo (BPIR) honors the historic accomplishments of Black cowboys and fosters a vibrant community dedicated to continuing that legacy. Bay Area photographer Gabriela Hasbun has spent more than a decade photographing this beloved event in the Oakland hills. Her images capture the joy and excitement of performers and audience members, showcasing the daring feats, spectacular outfits, and welcoming atmosphere that make the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo an unmissable experience. In addition to Hasbun's photographs, The New Black West features quotes and stories from the cowboys themselves and a foreword from the Oakland rodeo's regional manager, Jeff Douvel. A VIBRANT COMMUNITY: The Black rodeo in Oakland is the annual event at the heart of a vibrant community. Couples meet and fall in love at the arena, children eagerly anticipate their turn to compete in the different events--and people travel from all over the area and the country to participate. AN IMPORTANT LEGACY: Named after legendary cowboy and performer, the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo honors the often-overlooked legacy of Black cowboys in shaping the American West. Hasbun's book spotlights the contemporary riders and performers who carry on that legacy, inviting them to share their own stories with the world. A UNIQUE CELEBRATION: Hasbun has been photographing the Black rodeo in Oakland for a decade, and this collection of her work is a loving tribute to the community that kept her coming back year after year. Stories from her conversations with the cowboys and cowgirls bring her images to life, making The New Black West a heartwarming celebration of an iconic cultural event. Perfect for: - Black rodeo attendees, fans, and performers- History buffs and anyone interested in Western cowboy culture- Lovers of immersive fine-art photography books
From Photography to Fmri
Hysteria, a mysterious disease known since antiquity, is said to have ceased to exist. Challenging this commonly held view, this is the first cross-disciplinary study to examine the current functional neuroimaging research into hysteria and compare it to the nineteenth-century image-based research into the same disorder. Paula Muhr's central argument is that, both in the nineteenth-century and the current neurobiological research on hysteria, images have enabled researchers to generate new medical insights. Through detailed case studies, Muhr traces how different images, from photography to functional brain scans, have reshaped the historically situated medical understanding of this disorder that defies the mind-body dualism.
The American Amateur Photographer; Volume 3
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Beauty of Ukraine
"A book of photographs taken before February 2022 reveals formerly breathtaking landscapes that may never be the same." -- The New York Times "An illustrated ode to their home, it showcases the beauty and vulnerability of Ukraine beyond the daily horrors and photographs of war." -- Image (Ireland) "The book is an illustrated love letter to their homeland, created in the darkest of times..." -- Amateur PhotographyOn 24 February 2022, the invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops began. Since then, Russia's war of aggression has continued with increasing ferocity and destruction. Millions of Ukrainians have fled to neighbouring European countries. Ukraine is now a country caught between two stools: on the one hand, it is striving for rapprochement with NATO and the EU; on the other hand, good relations with Russia have also always been of fundamental importance to the country.This is a picture book about a landscape and its country, which is going through dark times and is currently moving the whole world. Here we take a look at the beauty and the integrity of Ukraine.The Ukrainian landscape is characterized by steppes, plateaus, lowlands and mountains. The Lemurian Lake in the south of Ukraine impresses with its pink color, as it has a higher salt content than the Dead Sea. The mountain ranges of the Carpathians in the west of Ukraine captivate with their wonderful wild beauty.The Ukrainian steppe is part of the great Eurasian steppe, which runs through several countries of Eastern Europe and used to be the home of the Cossacks. The country is also criss-crossed by numerous river courses, with the Dnieper, Donets and Dniester rivers, which flow into the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, being among the most significant.Unparalleled scale, out-of-this-world colors and unique landscape shots from above make this book a tribute to the beauty of the Ukrainian landscape. Text in English, German and Ukrainian.
The Ultimate Burn (Special Edition)
The third in the Safe Little World Monograph series, The Ultimate Burn is a collaboration between Andrew Killick and Dean Ellery (aka Receive) that investigates the element of fire.Primarily documenting, via 32 full colour photographs, a burn performed by Dean in June 2017, the book expands into a wider mediation and exploration of an archetypal metaphor that appears and reappears in the human imagination. The photographs are overlaid by motifs and symbols designed by Dean, and the resulting images are supported by original writing and a collection of quotes.An encounter with the wonder of fire.
Ubiquity
From its invention to the internet age, photography has been considered universal, pervasive, and omnipresent. This anthology of essays posits how the question of when photography came to be everywhere shapes our understanding of all manner of photographic media. Whether looking at a portrait image on the polished silver surface of the daguerreotype, or a viral image on the reflective glass of the smartphone, the experience of looking at photographs and thinking with photography is inseparable from the idea of ubiquity--that is, the apparent ability to be everywhere at once. While photography's distribution across cultures today is undeniable, the insidious logics and pervasive myths that have governed its spread demand our critical attention, now more than ever.Free ebook available at OAPEN Library, JSTOR and Project MuseContributors: Kate Palmer Albers (Whittier College), Ariella A簿sha Azoulay (Brown University), Maura Coughlin (Bryant University), Niharika Dinkar (Boise State University), Michelle Henning (University of Liverpool), Jacob W. Lewis (University of Rochester), Mohammadreza Mirzaei (University of California, Santa Barbara), Joseph Moore (independent artist), Derek Conrad Murray (University of California, Santa Cruz), Kyle Parry (University of California, Santa Cruz), Annie Rudd (University of Calgary), Mette Sandbye (University of Copenhagen), Catherine Zuromskis (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Nostalgic Journeys
A unique cultural history of travel in the 19th and 20th centuriesPhotographs certain to arouse feelings of nostalgia and a yearning for faraway placesMarvelous historical (celebrity) photographs to enjoyRevised new edition in a handy formatThe seaside or the mountains? Today's most important vacation planning question never came up in days long past. Both seemed unappealing and nearly inaccessible. It wasn't until the invention of the railroad that previously sparsely visited and overlooked areas opened up, and Thomas Cook, the tour operator and founder of modern tourism, was born. Fishing villages became sophisticated seaside resorts, remote mountain areas became destinations for hiking and skiing enthusiasts, and inns became grand hotels. Nostalgic Journeys takes you on a journey back in time, through the last two centuries: Ride the Orient Express to the East, cross the Atlantic on huge ocean liners, travel Route 66 through the United States, and break the sound barrier aboard the Concorde. As you browse through the pages of this book, you will get the idea that traveling was, and can be, more than just being stuck in a traffic jam or passing through numerous security checks. It can be a stylish and sometimes adventurous way to explore the world and return home feeling transformed by your many and varied experiences. Bon Voyage! Text in English and German.
Beauty in Decay
Join us on a journey through the zone . . . The aim of this photo book is to show the desolate and haunting beauty found in the decaying ruins of Chernobyl, which nature is slowly reclaiming. It consists of three hundred carefully selected photos, taken by the authors on two trips to the zone of alienation in the summer of 2018 and autumn of 2020. Also included are numerous interesting facts related to the various locales explored within.
25th Anniversary of Bangladesh in Trafalgar Square
2021 is the 50th year of Bangladesh and as such the Bangladeshi community in UK are celebrating the 50th anniversary through various projects. The celebrations and festivities are subdued because of the Covid 19 pandemic and the lockdown restrictions; but nevertheless various events have taken place. 25 years ago on 14th April 1996, as a younger man I was in Trafalgar Square, London, taking photos of the event that took place, under the Nelson's column and the Gallery. There I was impressionable and a photography enthusiast attending and taking photos. This event was before digital photography, using 35mm film negatives. While I wasn't in the politics but as a photojournalist, it was a setting to capture memorable shots. We know that so much has changed and also so many people in the photos are no longer with us. Though they are not my relations I look at the photos memorably; as we once shared the same space in our lives; where we crossed paths. So, as they will live in my memories, I want to share them with those who, it will mean something to them.
What Kind of Island in What Kind of Sea?
The dignity of cognitively disabled people and the ethics of representing their lives are at the heart of an extraordinary yet little-known book first published in the former German Democratic Republic. Was f羹r eine Insel in was f羹r einem Meer, or What Kind of Island in What Kind of Sea (Rostock, Hinstorff, 1986) depicts residents of a church-run institution for people with cognitive disabilities in astonishing black-and-white photographs by Dietmar Riemann and in a probing, poignant essay by esteemed German writer Franz F羹hmann. This important text, which moved from a medical model to a historical and cultural view of disability as an aspect of human identity and experience, is translated into English for the first time by Elizabeth Hamilton and includes reflections on the book and its impact. As fuller, global histories of disability are now being written, What Kind of Island in What Kind of Sea opens an essential window onto a formerly shuttered world, demonstrating the power of the arts to hone our capacity to perceive and appreciate human difference.
Photography and the Arts
Photography, both in the form of contemporary practice and that of historical material, now occupies a significant place in the citadels of Western art culture. It has an institutional network of its own, embedded within the broader art world, with its own specialists including academics, critics, curators, collectors, dealers and conservators. All of this cultural activity consolidates an artistic practice and critical discourse of photography that distinguishes what is increasingly termed 'art photography' from its commercial, scientific and amateur guises. But this long-awaited recognition of photography as high art brings new challenges. How will photography's newly privileged place in the art world affect how the history of creative photography is written? Modernist claims for the medium as having an aesthetic often turned on precedents from painting. Postmodernism challenged a cultural hierarchy organized around painting. Nineteenth-century photographs move between the symbolic spaces of the gallery wall and the archive: de-contextualised for art and re-contextualised for history. But what of the contemporary writings, images, and practices that negotiated an aesthetic status for 'the photographic'? Photography and the Arts revisits practices both celebrated and elided by the modernist and postmodernist grand narratives of art and photographic history in order to open up new critical spaces. Written by leading scholars in the fields of photography, art and literature, the essays examine the metaphorical as well as the material exchanges between photography and the fine, graphic, reproductive and sculptural arts.
Sex With The Sun
Do NOT read this book if the idea of a sensual, sexually liberated woman frightens you.This book reveals the beautiful truth of how deeply a woman can love and desire a man and the struggle of being unapologetically open about that truth. In this book of haiku and prose, Sex Doula and Spirit Goddess Inńana Ros癡 exposes herself, literarily and physically, to express the depth of love, lust and passion that burns within her spirit. Filled with full color erotic images and fearless verses this book is a cathartic expression that will relay to all who read it to always be open and honest with yourself about the desire of the heart, body and spirit Ashe.
Reflections of D.I.A.
All photos Tim Lavis United car driver 1993 2010
Memories of South Sudan
In 2011 Norway decided to give funding for a South Sudan National Archives (SSNA) building as Norway's independence gift to South Sudan, . This was in the recognition of the need to preserve the nation's history for its people and future generations. The independence gift triggered the idea of collecting archive-worthy film and photo material in Norway of interest for South Sudan' National Archive. A working group of persons with interest for such a project was established under Support group for Sudan and South Sudan (SFS), Sudansupport.no . All were well aware of the state of the archive material in Juba, thus wanted the project to be in line with the Rift Valley Institute (RVI) project Sudan Open Archive, https: //sudanarchive.net. Free digital searchable collections with open access, has been an inspirational model for the project, e.g. photo collections of the The digital museum(s) in Norway, www.digitaltmuseum.no. In order for photos to be archive-worthy, the quality of a photo has to be of a minimum required standard. To be searchable in an archive, information (metadata) about each item has to be recorded and stored in a database. Aust-Agder Museum and Archives (AAma) has supported the project with technical advice and digitization. Without this support, the project would never have reached international archive standards More than 2000 photos are selected and registered in the database and several hundred more remains to be tagged with metadata. More than 20 photographers have shared their slides and paper copies. In addition Norwegian Church Aid and Norwegian People's Aid have shared their archive photos with us. In this catalogue/album we have only had room for a bit more than 100 photos from 12 photographers. For each photo there is a reference to the database, indicating title, photographer, location, and year. The next step is to make the database available to the South Sudan National Archives and establish a searchable web version for the public domain with the license CC BY-SA. AAma will in the meantime secure the masterfile of the database.Oslo September 2021 Linda Thu Photo and film archive working group: Kristen Fl繪gstad, Arthur H繪yen Tomm Kristiansen Kjell-H疇kon Salicath Henrik Stabell Linda Thu (chair) Digitization: Hannele Fors, Aust-Agder Museum and Archives (AAma) Cover front: 2008 - Children in Terekeka - Photo: Henrik Stabell - SFS.NPA.HS.0672 Cover back:: 2008-Inspecting the field in Yei - Photo: Henrik Stabell - SFS.NPA.HS.0596
The Friedman Archives Guide to Sony's A7 IV (B&W Edition)
Congratulations, you bought one of the most sophisticated cameras available! But now what? You need a friend to help walk you through the myriad of features. Someone who knows the camera inside-out and can explain things clearly, without being condescending. That's Gary Friedman, the person photographers have turned to to understand their amazing cameras for more than 15 years. In this book Gary not only explains every feature, but also lets you know why and when each feature might be useful. He also explains his own personal camera setup, and provides setting suggestions for different shooting situations. Get the most out of your investment with the best-selling author for Sony cameras!
Culture Power45 Vol. 1 - 6 Collectors Version
A Magazine detailing the introduction of Culture Power45 Records. Culture Power 45 is a source grounded in providing culturally based sound to a worldwide audience via the limited and collectible 45 format. We believe in our mission of empowering the people through music so the people can power the culture!
Companion to the Robert and Kerstin Adams Photography Collection at the Denver Art Museum
This publication highlights photographs given by Robert and Kerstin Adams to the Denver Art Museum. Throughout his own career, Robert Adams has documented and explored the complexities of the American West. He and his wife, Kerstin, began collecting photographs by others--from the early 1900s to today--that testify to lifelong interests, friendships, and unexpected surprises. Essays by museum staff and photographers represented in the collection accompany each photograph and explore moments of familiarity, humor, masterful skill, and awe. Contributions by Robert Adams, Linda Gammell, Frank Gohlke, Edward Ranney, Kimberly Roberts, and Terri Weifenbach.
The Vintage Journal General Grant Sequoia, Kings Canyon National Park
The Vintage Journal General Grant Sequoia, Kings Canyon National Park pocket journal features a travel poster illustration of a balck and white photograpg of the giant Sequoia tree. This journal has full color decorative vintage art on the cover, and is the perfect companion for your next trip, writing project, to-do list, or any occasion where a handy notebook is needed. Found Image Press Vintage Journals feature vintage art that celebrates your favorite places, hobbies and interests. The front cover design features a classic piece of art from the Found Image Press collection of over 60,000 pictures. - 4 x 6 inches - 100 lined opaque pages - Soft matte finish
The Vintage Journal Sequoia National Park
The Vintage Journal Sequoia National Park pocket journal features a travel poster illustration of a photograph of the Sequoia National Park and the giant trees. This journal has full color decorative vintage art on the cover, and is the perfect companion for your next trip, writing project, to-do list, or any occasion where a handy notebook is needed. Found Image Press Vintage Journals feature vintage art that celebrates your favorite places, hobbies and interests. The front cover design features a classic piece of art from the Found Image Press collection of over 60,000 pictures. - 4 x 6 inches - 100 lined opaque pages - Soft matte finish
Dining Alone
DIning Alone: In the Company of Solitude is a fine art photography book that highlights the experience of being alone in public. Scherl uses peopled restaurant interiors as a metaphor to explore the complexities of the subject of solitude. The subtle nuances of her lone diners visually define their experience. This long-term project spanning three decades, culminated during the Covid-19 pandemic. --Nancy Scherl
Retratos / Portraits
Portraits in black and white of my friends, family, colleagues and students. Funny and beautiful, mostly brazilians people.
Retratos Coloridos
Portraits of my friends, family, colleagues and students. Funny and beautiful, mostly brazilians people.
Cinza/Gray
A book full of great urban pictures of different places and cities from places like S瓊o Paulo, Ouro Preto in Brazil or San Francisco, New York.
Thoughts on This and That
A Collection of Uplifting Nature Photography With Words of Wisdom to Inspire Your Own Thoughts on This and That.Celebrating a significant milestone or just needing some positive words to start your day? Reflect on the artistry of nature, along with quotes to make you ponder-an excellent gift for a graduation, birthday, and to brighten someone's day. Or sympathy to someone experiencing grief, depression, or self-doubt. Soothing, reassuring poetry enhanced by pictures. This book utilizes OpenDyslexic3, a unique font from the OpenDyslexic type family. It makes it easier for both dyslexic and non-dyslexic readers to process. Since 1 in 5 people are dyslexic, the author promotes dyslexia awareness to bring attention to a learning difference that can cause depression and anxiety.
Analog Photography
Photography on analog film has simply put received a recent renaissance. In our digital age, I guess a romantic veil surrounds the analog approach to photography. Even when shooting digital cameras, we do postprocessing to simulate the look of analog film. We talk about the specific and beloved look of certain films, and how their sensitivity and grain add a charm to the image. Delving deeper, a reason for the analog renaissance might be our growing desire to slow down; to immerse ourselves and sharpen our creative senses by restraining the means with which we photograph. Where the digital camera is soon so perfect that we as photographers can sometimes feel redundant, the analog camera requires our undivided presence. These cameras are subject to the same limitations as they were in the dawn of photography. You must visualize what you want to create beforehand, and you cannot rely on an lcd to feed you the result. Thus, in analog photography we are forced to slow down, plan, create the right circumstances, and capture the wanted picture at the decisive moment.
Good News* *Always Read the Fine Print
The disarmingly clear-eyed landscapes and cityscapes of Jordi Bernado reveal a photographer with an uncanny ability to sidestep all cliches and re-invent the genre. Photography here is conceived as a dense text whose meaning is to be found in overall comprehension, yet which contains subtle data if we read between the lines -- if we read, that is, the fine print to which the title's asterisk refers. Bernado lays out his photographs in pairs, and thus suggests a way to perhaps a third, unseen image. The unique format of the book, its horizontal length and careful design, make the book a sublimely effective work. Whether of Atlanta, Vancouver, Tokyo, Tenerife, desert roads or sea coasts, these images drift into one's consciousness.
The Other Palestine
The other defines us while we define ourselves--sometimes we try to control this by defining the other. So Matei Glass proposes through the photographic journal he began when he first visited Israel 29 years ago, at the age of 14. The son of Holocaust survivors, whose support for a Jewish state could be nothing less than unquestioning, Glass has long felt the need to fill in the blanks in his personal and collective memory. It was this impetus that brought him and his camera to Palestine again and again, to photograph the other and thereby help define himself. Over the years, through the rolls of film, he began to know much more of Israel's "forgotten twin," more of that other considered by some but no longer by him as an enemy, a danger, a terrorist.
Andy Modeling Portfolio Makos
World-renowned photographer Christopher Makos brings to light an entirely new dimension of artist Andy Warhol's early life and career. Featuring bold never-before-seen images of Warhol's early foray into modeling when he first moved to New York City Andy Modeling Portfolio Makos offers us an intimate look at a household name before he became well-known. The electric collaboration between these confidants is showcased in photographs that will captivate readers with their stunning amount of personality and dynamicity. This work reveals not only the close relationship between Makos and Warhol as artists and friends but a new dimension to Warhol in his more formative years trying to forge a name and a career for himself.
Amir Zaki, Building and Becoming
Hyperrealist photographer Amir Zaki's new monograph covers 20+ years of photographic work, following his widely reviewed book California Concrete: A Landscape of Skateparks. Includes an essay and interview.A double gatefold sculptural monograph with no singular entry or exit and three spines, Amir Zaki, Building + Becoming opens to a full width of roughly 40 inches and brings multiple series into focus: suspended landscapes, rocks, carvings, and hyper-realist California beach architecture, which like his skateparks (also included), are uncannily quiet and devoid of people. "I am looking for a kind of strangeness within the commonplace ... where something familiar and unfamiliar is initially welcoming yet alienating, using digital technology as a means to an end."Literary critics Walter Benn Michaels and Jennifer Ashton discuss Zaki's manipulation of space through evenness, which is accomplished by creating a perfectly technically focused object: "The point is not that the pictures overcome physical limits, but that they violate the logic of our eyesight." Referencing the history of landscape and modern photography in California (Edward Weston, Ansel Adams), Michaels and Ashton show that Zaki's insistence on marrying technology seamlessly with this tradition results in continuity, an "addition through subtraction" of the third-dimension. Zaki has been interviewed for NPR online and featured or reviewed in the New York Times, Art in America, Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, as well as having been interviewed in Dezeen, Wallpaper, The New Order, Elle Decor, Hypebeast, GUP Magazine, and Aramco World. His last book, California Concrete is in the top 50 in Skateboarding books and top 150 in Individual Photographer books on Amazon.
Selfie Aesthetics
In Selfie Aesthetics Nicole Erin Morse examines how trans feminine artists use selfies and self-representational art to explore transition, selfhood, and relationality. Morse contends that rather than being understood as shallow emblems of a narcissistic age, selfies can produce politically meaningful encounters between creators and viewers. Through close readings of selfies and other digital artworks by trans feminist artists, Morse details a set of formal strategies they call selfie aesthetics: doubling, improvisation, seriality, and nonlinear temporality. Morse traces these strategies in the work of Zackary Drucker, Vivek Shraya, Tourmaline, Alok Vaid-Menon, Zinnia Jones, and Natalie Wynn, showing how these artists present improvisational identities and new modes of performative resistance by conveying the materialities of trans life. Morse shows how the interaction between selfie creators and viewers constructs collective modes of being and belonging in ways that envision trans feminist futures. By demonstrating the aesthetic depth and political potential of selfie creation, distribution, and reception, Morse deepens understandings of gender performativity and trans experience.
Selfie Aesthetics
In Selfie Aesthetics Nicole Erin Morse examines how trans feminine artists use selfies and self-representational art to explore transition, selfhood, and relationality. Morse contends that rather than being understood as shallow emblems of a narcissistic age, selfies can produce politically meaningful encounters between creators and viewers. Through close readings of selfies and other digital artworks by trans feminist artists, Morse details a set of formal strategies they call selfie aesthetics: doubling, improvisation, seriality, and nonlinear temporality. Morse traces these strategies in the work of Zackary Drucker, Vivek Shraya, Tourmaline, Alok Vaid-Menon, Zinnia Jones, and Natalie Wynn, showing how these artists present improvisational identities and new modes of performative resistance by conveying the materialities of trans life. Morse shows how the interaction between selfie creators and viewers constructs collective modes of being and belonging in ways that envision trans feminist futures. By demonstrating the aesthetic depth and political potential of selfie creation, distribution, and reception, Morse deepens understandings of gender performativity and trans experience.
Clark Little
Instagram sensation Clark Little shares his most remarkable photographs from inside the breaking wave, with a foreword by world surfing champion Kelly Slater. "One of the world's most amazing water photographers . . . Now we get to experience up-close these moments of bliss."--Jack Johnson, musician and environmentalist Surfer and photographer Clark Little creates deceptively peaceful pictures of waves by placing himself under the deadly lip as it is about to hit the sand. "Clark's view" is a rare and dangerous perspective of waves from the inside out. Thanks to his uncanny ability to get the perfect shot--and live to share it--Little has garnered a devout audience, been the subject of award-winning documentaries, and become one of the world's most recognizable wave photographers. Clark Little: The Art of Waves compiles over 150 of his images, including crystalline breaking waves, the diverse marine life of Hawaii, and mind-blowing aerial photography. This collection features his most beloved pictures, as well as work that has never been published in book form, with Little's stories and insights throughout. Journalist Jamie Brisick contributes essays on how Clark gets the shot, how waves are created, swimming with sharks, and more. With a foreword by eleven-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater and an afterword by the author on his photographic practice and technique, Clark Little: The Art of Waves offers a rare view of the wave for us to enjoy from the safety of land.
Modernist Magazines and the Social Ideal
The new photo-illustrated magazines of the 1920s traded in images of an ideal modernity, promising motorised leisure, scientific progress, and social and sexual emancipation. Modernist Magazines and the Social Ideal is a pioneering history of these periodicals, focusing on two of the leading European titles: the German monthly UHU, and the French news weekly VU, taken as representative of the broad class of popular titles launched in the 1920s. The book is the first major study of UHU, and the first scholarly work on VU in English. Modernist Magazines explores, in particular, the striking use of regularity and repetition in photographs of modernity, reading these repetitious images as symbolic of modernist ideals of social order in the aftermath of the First World War. Introducing a novel methodology, pattern theory, the book argues for a critical return to the Gestalt tradition in visual studies. Alongside the UHU and VU case studies, Modernist Magazines offers an essential primer to interwar magazine culture in Europe. Accounts of rival titles are woven into the book's thematic chapters, which trace the evolution of the two magazines' photography and graphic design in the tumultuous years up to 1933.
Picturing Migrants
As time passes, personal memories of the Great Depression die with those who lived through the desperate 1930s. In the absence of firsthand knowledge, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and the photographs produced for the New Deal's Farm Security Administration (FSA) now provide most of the images that come to mind when we think of the 1930s. That novel and those photographs, as this book shows, share a history. Fully exploring this complex connection for the first time, Picturing Migrants offers new insight into Steinbeck's novel and the FSA's photography--and into the circumstances that have made them enduring icons of the Depression. Looking at the work of Dorothea Lange, Horace Bristol, Arthur Rothstein, and Russell Lee, it is easy to imagine that these images came straight out of the pages of The Grapes of Wrath. This should be no surprise, James R. Swensen tells us, because Steinbeck explicitly turned to photographs of the period to create his visceral narrative of hope and loss among Okie migrants in search of a better life in California. When the novel became an instant best seller upon its release in April 1939, some dismissed its imagery as pure fantasy. Lee knew better and traveled to Oklahoma for proof. The documentary pictures he produced are nothing short of a photographic illustration of the hard lives and desperate reality that Steinbeck so vividly portrayed. In Picturing Migrants, Swensen sets these lesser-known images alongside the more familiar work of Lange and others, giving us a clearer understanding of the FSA's work to publicize the plight of the migrant in the wake of the novel and John Ford's award-winning film adaptation. A new perspective on an era whose hardships and lessons resonate to this day, Picturing Migrants lets us see as never before how a novel and a series of documentary photographs have kept the Great Depression unforgettably real for generation after generation.
Fountain’s Edit: Disziplin
A photographic treatment of the concept of disciplineThe Vienna-based photo collective Fountain's Edit explores the concept of discipline across six photographic series and an accompanying glossary. This paperback volume underlines and emphasizes their different photographic styles by using a different kind of paper for each series.
