How Photography Changed Philosophy
By analysing the philosophical lineage of notions of representation, time, being, light, exposure, image, and truth, this book argues that photography is the visual manifestation of the philosophical account of how humans encounter beings in the present.Daniel Rubinstein argues that traditional understandings of photography are determined by the notions of verisimilitude and representation, and this limits our understanding of photographic materiality. It is suggested that the photographic image must be closely read not for the objects, events and situations represented in it, but for the insights it affords into the structure of contemporary consciousness.The book will be of interest to scholars working in photography, media studies, philosophy, fine art, and art history.
Creative Face
Creative Face Magazine is a national quarterly magazine published by Creative Face Global Media, dedicated to fashion, music, art and youth culture. CF was founded by designer and art director Isaiah Brown in 2020.
Photography and Imagination
As the prototypical exemplar of modern visual technology, photography was once viewed as a way to enable vision to bypass imagination, producing more reliable representations of reality. But as an achievement of technological modernity, photography can also be seen as a way to realize a creation of the imagination more vividly than can painting or drawing. Photography and Imagination investigates, from diverse points of view focusing on both theory and practice, the relation between these two terms. The book explores their effect on photography's capacity, through various forms and modalities of imaginative investments and displacements, to affect even reality itself.
Photography and Ontology
This edited collection explores the complex ways in which photography is used and interpreted: as a record of evidence, as a form of communication, as a means of social and political provocation, as a mode of surveillance, as a narrative of the self, and as an art form. What makes photographic images unsettling and how do the re-uses and interpretations of photographic images unsettle the self-evident reality of the visual field? Taking up these themes, this book examines the role of photography as a revelatory medium underscored by its complex association with history, memory, experience and identity.
George Masa's Wild Vision
Winner of the Thomas Wolfe Award2023 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award FinalistGeorge Masa's Wild Vision recounts the incredible, overlooked life of the photographer George Masa.Self-taught photographer George Masa (born Masahara Iizuka in Osaka, Japan), arrived in Asheville, North Carolina at the turn of the twentieth century amid a period of great transition in the southern Appalachians.Masa's photographs from the 1920s and early 1930s are stunning windows into an era where railroads hauled out the remaining old-growth timber with impunity, new roads were blasted into hillsides, and an activist community emerged to fight for a new national park. Masa began photographing the nearby mountains and helping to map the Appalachian Trail, capturing this transition like no other photographer of his time. His images, along with his knowledge of the landscape, became a critical piece of the argument for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, compelling John D. Rockefeller to donate $5 million for initial land purchases. Despite being hailed as the "Ansel Adams of the Smokies," Masa died, destitute and unknown, in 1933.In George Masa's Wild Vision: A Japanese Immigrant Imagines Western North Carolina, poet and environmental organizer Brent Martin explores the locations Masa visited, using first-person narratives to contrast, lament, and exalt the condition of the landscape the photographer so loved and worked to interpret and protect. The book includes seventy-five of Masa's photographs, accompanied by Martin's reflections on Masa's life and work.
Old Gulf Coast Days
Unique images of Oman taken following the explosive development which began with the accession to power of Sultan Qaboos bin Said who replaced his father in a bloodless coup in 1970. Today the country has become a popular destination for cruise ships and tourists seeking escape from the northern winter. Most visitors find it fulfills their dream of "Old Araby" because in the process of progress, Oman has been careful to preserve its past. Historic buildings have been restored, local crafts encouraged and tribal traditions maintained. More recently Oman has acted as a mediator in conflicts in the Middle East. Sultan Qaboos (1940-2020).
Mastering the Basic Math Facts in Multiplication and Division
The black and white photographs in the book were all made in an area less than half a mile square in Blackburn during 2019 and 2020. Working with a large-format wooden field camera, Easton spent long days and weeks in the neighbourhood talking to residents and sometimes making pictures. The project melds image and text -- Easton's portraiture and landscapes combined with poetry and an essay by Aziz Hafiz and with the testimonies of residents. This long-form collaboration acknowledges the issues and impacts of social deprivation, housing, unemployment, immigration and representation, as well as past and present foreign policy. The result is a collective and nuanced portrait of the town -- a sensitive response to the oversimplistic representation of such communities in both the media and by government, which deny the right of Bank Top to tell its own story
Abandoned Alberta II
In Abandoned Alberta II, Joe Chowaniec continues his travels in Wild Rose country, uncovering yet even more hidden gems. These extraordinary images provide a window into the past, stirring in us the emotions of wonder and curiosity about those who have gone before us and the lives they lived. Where others may see only decay and rot in these abandoned places, Chowaniec sees stunning beauty. From barns located in the rolling foothills of the Rocky Mountains to homesteads in the badlands around Drumheller, discover the rich history and untold stories of abandoned places. Visit the stone hall near Shandro, the ghost towns of southern Alberta, Ogilive Flour Mill in Medicine Hat and the Sunnyslope Sandstone Shelter near Three Hills, it is all here. This is a photographic journey that will take you from one corner of the province to the other. Come along for the ride. You will be glad you did.
What Can I Find at the Beach?
The book is for the beach walker who wonders about where sand comes from, how shells are formed, and what happened to them along the way. He would be able to find the life story of some broken shell: how did they died? Did they spend time buried in the mud?
Photography 101: Pocket Guide
Quickly learn the basics of exposure, composition, and your camera so you can capture great photos! Designed for photographers who haven't fully conquered their camera or the photographic fundamentals of exposure and composition, this handy and ultra-portable quick reference Pocket Guide helps you get the shot when you're out and about. - Confirm that your camera is set up properly with the pre-shoot checklist - Learn about the three key components of exposure--aperture, shutter speed, and ISO - Conquer the essential camera modes and settings you need to know - Understand lenses and focal length--and how they affect the look of your image - Use the most effective composition tips for framing your photo - Follow techniques for getting great shots in typical scenarios (portrait, landscape, freezing action, low light, etc.) TABLE OF CONTENTS 01: Pre-Shoot Checklist 02: Exposure Basics 03: Setting Up Your Camera 04: Lenses and Focal Length 05: Advanced Shooting Techniques 06: Composition Tips 07: Typical Shooting Scenarios
Nikon Z7 II: Pocket Guide
Designed for photographers who haven't memorized every button, dial, setting, and feature on their Nikon Z7 II, Rocky Nook's handy and ultra-portable quick reference Pocket Guide helps you get the shot when you're out and about. - Confirm that your camera is set up properly with the pre-shoot checklist - Identify every button and dial on your camera - Learn the essential modes and settings you need to know - Dive deeper with additional features of your camera - Execute step-by-step instructions for shooting multiple exposures, in-camera HDR, time-lapse movies, and more - Follow tips and techniques for getting great shots in typical scenarios (portrait, landscape, freezing action, low light, etc.)
The Road to Continental Heart
An artist walks across North America with a group of environmental activists, taking photos, raising ecological consciousness, learning the land first-hand. For each week of the nine-month walk, his friend, a poet, researches each upcoming leg of the walk-its geology and geography, its creatures and features, its social and natural history, its First Nation inhabitants-and sends a poem crafted from the research to that week's mail drop city.That's the premise and the promise of this book. The artist/photographer is George Lawrence; the poet is Steven Dale Davison; the poems map The Road to Continental Heart. Subtitled Befriending, and Defending, the Spirit of North America, this book is a bioregional meditation on the landscapes of North America expressed in images crafted through the poet's pen and the focused lens. It is an extended love poem for the land we inhabit and an invitation to a vibrant culture of place. And it is a celebration of friendship. Continental Heart is not just a book of poetry. Forty-one poems beat at its heart. But it also includes photographs, maps, essays, and excerpts from George and Steven's letters to each other. With its various elements, The Road to Continental Heart describes a four-dimensional journey: eastward across the country, up its mountains and down its valleys, inward toward deeper feelings for our country's majesty, and onward toward a renewed relationship with our homeland. Your journey awaits.
Robert Adams: The Plains, from Memory
To see a landscape in the grain of wood: enchanting new paintings from the great American photographerIn the spring of 2020, as he watched his country tested by the COVID-19 pandemic, Robert Adams (born 1937) discovered in his garage a small plank of wood that contained within its grains and textures a whole landscape of its own. This led to the creation, during a difficult time, of an unexpected series of works that drew upon Adams' long-buried fondness for certain aesthetic qualities of stillness and austerity. Over the next few months, using scrap wood from an old bookcase, hand tools that had belonged to his father and his grandfather, and block printing ink, Adams affirmed his own basis for hope beyond the pandemic in the beautiful 23 paintings that are gathered in this elegant volume.
Visions
Beautiful Creation. Unpolluted Environment. The vastness of the Universe.Sunrise to Sunset ...and beyond...Visions is a meditation comprising the beautiful Creation as shown here with stunning photographs of the natural world. Combined with poetic captions, these photographs symbolize the journey of the soul and gives a glimpse of beauty as seen through our eyes.Many images are unmarked with captions thus allowing you to chart your own spiritual journey...The Images were taken at the Lake Shore in Port Credit, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, with the help of a simple Samsung Galaxy S10 Telephone Camera.This collection displays the clarity and beauty of nature that so many of us are unable to fully appreciate due to our fast-paced lives. Taken during the early years of the Covid-19 pandemic, the photographs reflect the beauty and stillness of the environment around us. They are a spiritual journey, a visual representation of the meditation of birds, trees, leaves, waves and nature.
Farah Al Qasimi: Hello Future
A beautifully produced monograph on a rising star exploring postcolonialism and gender in photographyShortlisted for the Aperture-Paris Photo Photobook of the Year 2021, Hello Future is a culmination of Farah Al Qasimi's (born 1991) photographic, performance and film practice, unified within her keen focus on surface and texture, and the revealing visual influences of the splashy and florid. Al Qasimi examines postcolonial structures of power, gender and aesthetics in the Persian Gulf states and global cultural confluence and migration at large.
It's Who We Are
Bigotry, favoritism, inequity, injustice, homophobia, sexism, racism, fanaticism, and other types of discrimination are more prevalent as our world becomes smaller, and some people are forced to move from one corner of this planet to another to find a better life. How can we change the conversation to eradicate these words from our dictionary? What can each of us do personally to teach a new generation the beauty of "love" and the harm that "hatred" causes? Those two words are not born in us; we are taught by examples early in life."It's Who We Are" highlights a photographic tapestry of our diverse planet and provides the reader with a brief description of the region and the people featured in the photos. It takes us on a journey to over 30 destinations and shows how diverse we are yet similar. The images of people are simple, but they tell a story about the beauty of "love," and the harm "hatred" can cause. Stories and scenes that are not unlike what we see each day. This is a book for children and adults of all ages.
Martien Mulder: Interval
A photographic meditation on the empty spaces between time, inspired by Japanese aestheticsThe Dutch-born photographer Martien Mulder's (born 1971) new book of images springs from the Japanese concept of ma, which can be described as a pause in time, an interval, or emptiness in space. Teaming up with Amsterdam-based creatives Stef Bakker and Carsten Klein, Mulder embarked on an extensive quest to reveal the ma in her own images, editing from an archive of 25 years of photography. The images in this book are studies of the in-between; some center on details photographed at such close quarters that they lose their context, while others show only the negative space, inactivity or quiet nothingness. The viewing direction of the book is not dictated, nor is the beginning or the end, nor the pace: it can be opened to any page at any time, functioning as an object of contemplation.
ColoringByKitty
This book contains 20 illustrations (line art) and 2 bonus grayscale pages dedicated to Alice in Wonderland drawn in our dark and gothic style. The illustrations are drawn by Alexandra Chebunina and Evgenia Chebunina (ColoringByKitty).
One of a Kind
"It's likely that a book like this is the only way you might see many of these creatures for yourself." -- Amateur Photographer. This book of photographs puts the spotlight on a group of animals that is little-noticed, and undeservedly so: endemic species that exist only on their respective islands. Isolated from continents by the ocean, certain species have been able to evolve further and differently than their counterparts on the mainland, where they are subjected to far more threats such as predators and diseases. Over time, giants like the Indonesian Komodo dragon have evolved, which grows up to three meters long and weighs 70 kilos. The comet moth lives on Madagascar, and the odd King of Saxony bird-of-paradise flies around on New Guinea. The flightless cormorant on Galapagos, on the other hand, retracted its flight instruments over time because it had no need for them. Readers can expect a variety of animal beauty and extravagance. The following locations are included in the book: Island of Sainte Marie (Madagascar) Madagascar Philippines Lesser Sunda Islands (Indonesia) Aru Islands Regency (Indonesia) New Guinea Australia Tasmania (Australia) New Zealand Santa Catalina Island, Channel Islands (California, US) Cozumel (Mexico) Cuba Isla Escudo de Veraguas (Panama) Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) Falkland Islands Svalbard Archipelago. Text in English and German.
Subvertising the Military Industrial Media Complex
D矇tournement (literally, diversion or hijacking), is the act of turning the expressions, both visual and literary, of the capitalist system and its mediatized military culture against itself. In Glen Rubsamen's War Series this d矇tournement is directed against an increasingly intrusive and instrumentalizing technocratic culture whose function is the manufacture of consent through the manipulation of symbols. In his works Rubsamen uses the visual language and rhetoric of military recruitment culture to critique that paradigm, encouraging idiosyncratic, unintended interpretations. Rubsamen's paintings warn us to beware of an invasive military media by exposing the subtle methods of its domination. His art raises our guard as we slide toward a world where young consumers will identify more with the media products they devour than with any notion of personal morality or socio-political ethics.
Environmental Catastrophes Top Ten And Other Abominations
In his series of paintings 'Environmental Catastrophes Top Ten And Other Abominations' Rubsamen pokes fun at our need to make lists and hierarchies to codify the bad and the good. If we Google 'Worst man-made environmental disasters in history' the screen fills with sites offering lists. If we toggle the images button on the top of the page, the lists become images. Finding a commemorative image of an ecological disaster, an environmental tragedy or a moral trauma involves a set of priorities both aesthetic as well as pragmatic. The image must carry the message and it must have the potential of timelessness. The image must be beautiful as well as horrific. In this important book Rubsamen and Skarli investigate, pictorially and theoretically, the new complexity evolving in the relationship between nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and globalization in the rituals of commemoration.
Gas Food Lodging
Gas, Food, and Lodging is a series of paintings by Glen Rubsamen from 2020. The book includes 19 color illustrations from this series and an essay explaining the social and political implications of the works by Iv獺n Aim矇 Valenciano. In these works, Valenciano explains, "Chain store signage is juxtaposed with telecommunications apparatus and vestiges of roadside architecture and vegetation. These disparate compositional elements fuse into a personal, local, and heterogeneous intimacy that is then re-embedded in the indigenous structure of the landscape. Rubsamen's paintings address the subterfuge of cultural imperialism and its local adaptation; they depict moments of systemic conflict: standardization, efficiency, calculability, predictability, the chaos of historic neglect and natural decay. The paintings are infused with an apocalyptic calm, as if caught in the temporary stillness of a hurricane's eye. They suggest a global post-pandemic society that roams about in cars looking for quick nutrition and the temporary safety of chain stores, motels, and gas stations. Gas, Food, and Lodging becomes a mantra of identity, a comfort zone, the way nationality used to be..."
Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue
A visual and conceptual conversation between two leading US photo-artists famed for their mutual explorations of race, class and powerDawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems met in New York in the late 1970s, and over the next 45 years these close friends and colleagues have each produced unique and influential bodies of work around shared interests and concerns. This publication brings together over 140 photographs and video art from the 1970s through the 2010s by two of our most notable and influential photo-based artists.Since first meeting at the Studio Museum in Harlem five decades ago, Bey and Weems have maintained spirited and supportive mutual engagement while exploring and addressing similar themes: race, class, representation, and systems of power. Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue brings their work together in five thematic groupings to shed light on their unique creative visions and trajectories, and their shared concerns and principles.Photographer Dawoud Bey (born 1953) had his first exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1979. Since then, his work has been presented internationally to critical and popular acclaim. Recent large-scale exhibitions of his photographs have been presented at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and Tate Modern, London. Bey's writings on his own and others' work are included in Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply and Dawoud Bey on Photographing People and Communities. He is a professor of art and Distinguished College Artist at Columbia College Chicago.Famed for her Kitchen Table Series, among other works, Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953) explores power, class, Black identity, womanhood, and the historical past and its resonance in the present moment. In addition to photography, Weems creates video, performance and works of public art, and organizes thematic gatherings which bring together creative thinkers across a broad array of disciplines. Her work has been exhibited across the world, at venues such as the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contempor獺neo and the American Academy in Rome.
The Scenic Route
The Scenic Route is an inspirational collection of concise, easy to read quotes accompanied by beautiful nature photographs. This book, comprised of thoughts on change, forgiveness, success, relationships, and much more, encourages readers to contemplate life and the many possibilities that lay before them.
Intimate Isolation
Intimate Isolation: A Photographic Journey Through Nature is a collection of the best photos and their stories from the first 5 years of photography from award-winning nature photographer Jeremy Janus. Jeremy adventured and traveled all over the globe to capture intimate moments in nature and share them with the world. From a photography portfolio of over 65,000 photos, Jeremy dwindled down his 50 favorite shots to create this colorful and vibrant nature photography book. These photos span the seasons of winter, spring, summer, and fall. Some of the locations featured in this book include his home state of Colorado, Utah, California, Hawaii, Canada, and New Zealand. Jeremy also shares his dynamic range of photography and love for nature by utilizing his shots of lightning, mountains, sunsets, waterfalls, forests, and wildlife. Jeremy suffered through years of depression, anxiety, and suicide contemplation during his latter adolescence. He found his white space and place of healing through hiking in nature, and many years later, through painting. He was able to combine nature and art in 2016 when he picked up his first camera. This book is a result of many years spent in the darkness that he is now able to use as a light for the world around him.
Crime Scenery in Postwar Film and Photography
This book offers a rare and innovative consideration of an enduring tendency in postwar art to explore places devoid of human agents in the wake of violent encounters. To see the scenery together with the crime elicits a double interrogation, not merely of a physical site but also of its formation as an aesthetic artefact, and ultimately of our own acts of looking and imagining. Closely engaging with a vast array of works made by artists, filmmakers and photographers, each who has forged a distinct vantage point on the aftermath of crime and conflict, the study selectively maps the afterlife of landscape in search of the political and ethical agency of the image. By way of a thoroughly interdisciplinary approach, Crime Scenery in Postwar Film and Photography brings landscape studies into close dialogue with contemporary theory by paying sustained attention to how the gesture of retracing past events facilitates new configurations of the present and future.
Typologia
Typologia presents more or less graphically Frederic Goudy's work in type design and describes his own methods of type production. His remarks on type legibility and fine printing, as presented in the body of the book, present the conclusions of a craftsman intensely interested in every phase of typography. The book itself, which Goudy was asked by the University of California Press to write, plan, and supervise, has been set in a type designed by Goudy and and first employed for the exclusive use of the University-University of California Old Style.
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.
Joel Meyerowitz: Redheads
An expanded edition of Meyerowitz's acclaimed study of the many shades and styles of red hairPhotographer Joel Meyerowitz (born 1938) began photographing redheads in 1978 against the contrasting blue backdrop of Cape Cod. The portraits from this period are collected in this new edition of Meyerowitz's 1991 photobook Redheads, featuring 16 additional images. After running an ad in the Provincetown Advocate, Meyerowitz began collecting the experiences of people who grew up with red hair, in addition to photographing them. Making up only two or three percent of the world's population, their stories of schoolyard bullying and self-acceptance illustrate a broader narrative of growth and beauty.Despite cultural and racial distinctions between redheads, the phenotypic association between the subjects brings a sense of familiality to the collection of portraits.Meyerowitz describes how red hair and its reaction to light evokes a sense of the color film process. He is known for his transition to color film during a period of resistance to color photography. "My way of making portraits is not by getting down on my hands and knees, nor climbing high on a ladder, nor getting into bed with a celebrity," Meyerowitz writes, "but simply standing eye to eye with anyone who has found their way to me, young or old. I need only one or two sheets of film and the patience to see it through." This hardcover edition includes previously unseen portraits.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 Five
This book is the fifth book of a series of books on the introduction to drawing. This fifth book will teach beginner artists and intermediate artists how to draw still life, landscapes, portraitures and animals using pastels in a logical way and help them transition from drawing to painting through various exercises and assignments. Teaching drawing in this manner will build the artists' technical, compositional and comprehensive drawing skills.
Coastlines
A wanderlust-inspiring photography collection of the world's most stunning waterways and coastlines from the premier online curator of travel photography, Tiny Atlas Quarterly. From tropical beaches in Hawai'i and icy fjords in Greenland to lush mangrove swamps in the Cuban Cayos and forested islands in Vietnam, coastlines and waterways are some of the world's most beloved places and most precious habitats. With hundreds of awe-inspiring photos from locations far and wide, Coastlines is a visual tour of these magical watery places and a treasure trove of curated travel information. Water lovers, beach bums, and armchair travelers will enjoy this tranquil exploration of the world's many vast and varied shores.
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
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The Lay of the Land
A spiritually uplifting and beautiful designed visual memoir by the hugely popular photographer on Instagram, Joe Greer, combining thoughtful essays and more than 100 gorgeous landscape photos--half fan favorites, and half never-before-seen."Each photograph really does come down to a split second when you decide to freeze that moment in time. . . . You ask yourself what the story is that you want to tell, and let the rest unfold: Click."--from the introductionJoe Greer never imagined he would become a photographer. Raised in Florida by an aunt and uncle after his mother's death when he was four, Joe had a seemingly normal childhood, spending summers at church camp and dreaming of going to college. But nearly fifteen years later, the ground shifted beneath his feet when he discovered a family secret that would impact the rest of his life.Trying to make sense of that revelation and what it meant for his future, Greer set his sights on becoming a pastor at Spokane's Moody Bible Institute. There, he discovered Instagram--and a passion for photography. His pictures of the lush, wild beauty of the Pacific Northwest landscape attracted a large following that has grown to more than three quarters of a millions fans and continues to expand. The Lay of the Land is Joe's story in words and pictures. In this stunning compendium, he reflects on the trauma of his early life and what photography has taught him: how to find his light; how to slow down; how to appreciate the world around him, a reverence for the nature world that that both nurtures and amplifies his creativity and faith; how to love--his photography led him to his wife, Madison--and how to heal. For Joe, photography--from sweeping travel photography to intimate portraits--has been a way to find purpose, better understand his faith, and express himself. Though he began with landscapes, meeting his wife sparked a new love of portraiture, and he turned to making photos of street scenes that explored his complicated feelings about family. A love letter to the natural world, to faith, and to finding your calling in the most unexpected places, The Lay of the Land is a window into the beautiful mind and heart of one of the internet's favorite photographers. Moving and inspiring, it is a creative and spiritual journey that offers lessons on life and living, making it a must-read for fans of inspirational memoirs. As Greer reminds us all, whatever it is you want, it's up to you to make the moment (and the photograph). This unique story of healing and artistry explores: A Healing Journey: How a devastating family secret and the trauma of loss became the catalyst for finding a new path through the lens of a camera.From Pastor to Photographer: The unexpected discovery of Instagram while at Moody Bible Institute, and the pivot from a life in the ministry to a celebrated career in photography.Finding Your Calling: Joe's story of trading the security of a planned future for the uncertainty of a creative passion, inspiring readers to find their own purpose in unexpected places.The Art of Seeing: More than just a collection of beautiful images, this book offers a look into how photography can teach us to slow down, appreciate the natural world, and find light in the darkness.
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.
Street Unicorns
Award-winning photographer Robbie Quinn's Street Unicorns showcases fashion and wisdom from style rebels in New York City and beyond. In a world where stores, clothes, and trends have become increasingly standardized, fashion is one of the most powerful ways to explore and express our personalities, identities, and individuality. For years, renowned photographer Robbie Quinn has come across style rebels and bold expressionists on the streets of NYC and the world's largest cities, stopping them for impromptu photoshoots and testimonials. He's even given these eccentric lovers of style a name: Street Unicorns. In these pages, Quinn shares the portraits, viewpoints, and aspirations of more than 250 Street Unicorns with the hopes of inspiring readers to rediscover the most authentic parts of themselves. A vibrant declaration against ageism, racism, homophobia, and all other discriminations, this book is a love letter to those who aren't afraid to stand out, embrace nonconformity, and share who they are with the world.
