Creative Face
Creative Face magazine is a seasonal, English-language cultured magazine that covers art, fashion, interviews and designer quotes. It was founded in 2020 by Isaiah Brown and is publish in New York.
Zora J Murff: True Colors (Or, Affirmations in a Crisis)
True Colors (or, Affirmations in a Crisis) is a chronicle of survival by trailblazing artist Zora J Murff. Murff constructs a manual for coming to terms with the historical and contemporary realities of America's divisive structures of privilege and caste. Since leaving social work to pursue photography over a decade ago, Murff's work has consistently grappled with the complicit entanglement of the medium in the histories of spectacle, commodification, and race, often contextualizing his own photographs with found and appropriated images and commissioned texts. True Colors continues that work, expanding to address the act of remembering and the politics of self, which Murff identifies as "the duality of Black patriotism and the challenges of finding belonging in places not made for me--of creating an affirmation in a moment of crisis as I learn to remake myself in my own image." Nuanced, challenging, and inspiring, True Colors (or, Affirmations in a Crisis) is a must-have monograph by a rising and standout artist. True Colors is the result of the inaugural Next Step Award, a partnership between Aperture and Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York, with the generous support of 7G Foundation.
Architecture+beauty
Architecture + Beauty is the second monograph by John Balsom combining the artist's main interests of history, documentary, casting and in the photographer's words, 'graphicness.' These concepts are explored through four distinct sections of the book focusing on pictures he took of public diving boards in New South Wales, Australia, The STS Kruzenshtern--a German ship that was surrendered to the USSR in 1946 as a war reparation, the MV Paul R. Tregurtha--the longest ship operating on the Great Lakes complex, and the Lusophony Games--the multinational, multisport event for athletes from Portuguese-speaking nation.
Celebrations
Aperture magazine presents "Celebrations," an issue that considers how photographs envision ceremonies, festivities' and allow us to discover euphoria in the everyday. Throughout the issue, photographers portray exuberance against a backdrop of political strife in Beirut, pursue the thrill of wanderlust, excavate family histories, and respond to the powerful, constant urge to gather. Whether in Kinshasa's vibrant nightlife of the 1950s and '60s or London's sweaty dance floors of our era, jubilation carries on, despite an ongoing, and unpredictable, pandemic. In "Celebrations," Lynne Tillman contributes a survey of landmark images of celebration through the years, by artists from Malick Sidib矇 and Peter Hujar to LaToya Ruby Frazier. Several profiles and essays--including Alistair O'Neill on Jamie Hawkesworth, Moeko Fuiji on Rinko Kawauchi, Tiana Reid on Shikeith, Mona El Tahawy on Miriam Boulos, and Anakwa Dwamena on Marilyn Nance's views of Lagos, Nigeria during FESTAC '77--reveal the celebratory gestures embedded in vibrant portraiture, serene slants of light, unbound queer desire, and joyous cross-cultural exchange.
Sunrise Sunset
The Same Vista, Never the Same SunOur days begin and end the same way: with the rising and setting of the sun. Sometimes brilliant and intense, other times subdued and shrouded in clouds-like life itself-the perspective may change even when the vantage point does not. In this celebration of life, a year's worth of stunning photographs capture nature at her most elemental and magnificent, and are matched with meditations, passages, poetry and contemplations from some of the best-known inspirational leaders of our time.Sunrise Sunset is a gentle reminder to begin each day with awe and wonder, and end with reflection and gratitude.
Hans Georg Berger: Discipline and Senses
Images of Italy, Laos and Iran from the past half centuryThis beautiful monograph surveys the sensual and rich black-and-white photographs of Hans Georg Berger (born 1951). These photographs, whether personal or cultural, strive for a sensitivity to the identity of the place or subject. Locations include Elba, Laos and Iran.
Remarkable Football Grounds
Shortlisted for the 2023 Illustrated Sports Book of the Year Remarkable Football Grounds is a collection of some of the most memorable places to watch and play football around the world.Ranging from the stellar stadiums of the Premier League to windswept islands in the Scottish Hebrides or the far-flung Pacific, including stadia that resemble flying saucers, a crocodile and an armadillo! Remarkable Football Grounds features a range of the oldest, biggest, highest, quirkiest and furthest flung stadia and the stories behind their existence. Italian Serie B team Venezia can be reached by canal, with moorings nearby; Bamburgh Castle football ground lies in the shadow of a Game of Thrones-scale fortress, while Estadio Silvestre is a full-size pitch on the roof of a building in Tenerife.Some of the oldest, storied stadiums are here, including Anfield for Liverpool, Fulham, which has a tunnel under the pitch and the two Dundee football clubs, that have sizeable grounds, Tannadice and Dens Park, just 183 metres (200 yards) apart.At the quirkier end of the scale, the Aveiro stadium in Portugal looks like a giant children's playset, while in Gangwon, South Korea, the football pitch doubles as a ski jump landing area.Many of the stadiums come with spectacular views. The Faroe Islands have produced some strong football teams in the past and many of their grounds are set in picture perfect landscapes. The same can be said of Norway's Lofoten Islands where flat land is at a premium and the pitch sides are used for drying fish. In Slovakia, the Janosovka football pitch has a narrow gauge railway that runs between the pitch and the grandstand.Others are located in some of the most dangerous parts of the world. Nobody loves the 'away' fixture at Coroico which entails tackling the 'Death Road'.Grounds include: the impressive new Qatari World Cup venues, Wembley Stadium, Camp Nou, Monaco, Old Trafford, Allianz Arena, Petrovsky (Zenit St.Petersburg), Trogir in Croatia, Longgang in China and the Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta.
The tales of Zeus the Sleuth
Zeus the Sleuth is a series of stories about a pony who works for the ESS (Equestrian Secret Service). In this first book you get to meet the main characters as Zeus moves to a new home with a new family in Cheshire, England. No one knows about Zeus's background as an agent, but he soon finds himself using his skills to solve some mysteries on and around the yard. You get a feeling for what's to come and get an idea of some of the other animals and humans personalities.
Faces of Homelessness
Homelessness takes many forms beyond liv-ing on the streets. Factors besides mental illness and addiction contribute to the prob-lem. There are homeless veterans; families who were evicted when their residences were foreclosed on; people with sudden medical expenses that insurance didn't cover. Job loss, divorce, death of a spouse or parent, domestic violence, discrimination based on sexual ori-entation, lack of affordable housing, etc., all drive homelessness. There are working poor who live in vehicles or tents and work full--time jobs. Most people experiencing homelessness are invisible, living doubled up with friends or family, in shelters, hospitals or Single Room Occupancy hotels. Jeffrey Wolin photographs and interviews a wide swath of this vulnerable population and includes their own words directly on their por-traits to dispel our firmly--held stereotypes.
Historic Catholic Churches Along the Rio Grande in New Mexico (Hardcover)
In this stunning collection, the photographer/author has fulfilled a long-term mission to photograph the captivating and evocative historic Catholic churches of the state of New Mexico. The mission became a journey that covered the highways, back roads, and SUV trails of the state, from north to south, east to west. He has driven these roads, photographing these churches that reflect New Mexico's complex history and beautiful landscapes, and talked to many people who attend, maintain, and love them. His descriptions of the churches reflect that complex beauty and provide enough information for the reader to find each of them. The photographs and descriptions also reflect an urgency: many small, rural, historic churches in New Mexico lack funds for maintenance as rural populations decline, and some of them are at risk of disappearing forever. This volume covers the churches along the Rio Grande, a transportation and trade corridor for millennia and home to many of New Mexico's oldest Catholic churches. The churches include famous and imposing ones like Holy Cross in Santa Cruz de la Ca簽ada, with its glorious artwork, and more-modest ones off the beaten track like San Antonio Mission Church in Alamillo. They include churches from near the Mexican border in the south to Taos County in the north, covering not only a geographic span but a time span from the early 1700s to the 20th century. The churches reflect the diversity of New Mexico's communities and history. Each is unique and each one claims the Land of Enchantment as home.
San Francisco. Portrait of a City
Starting with an early picture of a gang of badass gold prospectors who put this beautiful Northern California city on the map, this ambitious and immersive photographic history of San Francisco takes a winding tour through the city from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Enjoy eye-catching views of the city's most enduring landmarks and symbols: the Golden Gate Bridge, Chinatown, the picturesque trams that wind up and down the famously steep hills, the popular waterfront, its beautiful bay, and its spectacular cityscapes and vistas. San Francisco's counterculture movements that shaped our collective consciousness are also featured prominently: the beats of North Beach, the hippies of Haight-Ashbury, the gay communities of Castro, and the Black Panthers of neighboring Oakland. Some of the city's most famous residents also make appearances: Robin Williams, The Grateful Dead, Angela Davis, Janis Joplin, Sylvester, and Allen Ginsberg, among others. This book features hundreds of newly found images from dozens of archives including museums, universities, libraries, galleries, private collections, and historical societies, from 19th-century daguerreotypes to mid-century Kodachromes to 21st-century digital pictures. Master photographers include, among others: Stephen Shore, Imogen Cunningham, Fred Lyon, Steve Schapiro, Minor White, Dorothea Lange, Albert Watson, Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, William Claxton, Fred Herzog, Ansel Adams, Jim Marshall, and many local shooters. Also includes introductory essays and captions by Bay Area-based author Richie Unterberger and a "Best of San Francisco" books, music, and movies section and biographies of the photographers. Tony Bennett famously sang, "I left my heart in San Francisco," and this meticulously researched and conceived portrait will equally inspire and make you fall in love with the spirit of the City by the Bay.
Exposing Mississippi
Internationally known as a writer, Eudora Welty has as well been spotlighted as a talented photographer. The prevalent idea remains that Welty simply took snapshots before she found her true calling as a renowned fiction writer. But who was Welty as a photographer? What did she see? How and why did she photograph? And what did Welty know about modern photography? In Exposing Mississippi: Eudora Welty's Photographic Reflections, Annette Trefzer elucidates Welty's photographic vision and answers these questions by exploring her photographic archive and writings on photography. The photographs Welty took in the 1930s and '40s frame her visual response to the cultural landscapes of the segregated South during the Depression. The photobook One Time, One Place, which was selected, curated, and shaped into a visual narrative by Welty herself, serves as a starting point and guide for the chapters on her spatial hermeneutic. The book is divided into sections by locations and offers how the framing of these areas reveals Welty's radical commentary of the spaces her camera captured. There are over eighty images in Exposing Mississippi, including some never-before-seen archival photographs, and sections of the book draw on over three hundred more. The chapters on institutional, leisure, and memorial landscapes address how Welty's photographs contribute to, reflect on, and intervene in customary visual constructions of the Depression-era South.
Exposing Mississippi
Internationally known as a writer, Eudora Welty has as well been spotlighted as a talented photographer. The prevalent idea remains that Welty simply took snapshots before she found her true calling as a renowned fiction writer. But who was Welty as a photographer? What did she see? How and why did she photograph? And what did Welty know about modern photography? In Exposing Mississippi: Eudora Welty's Photographic Reflections, Annette Trefzer elucidates Welty's photographic vision and answers these questions by exploring her photographic archive and writings on photography. The photographs Welty took in the 1930s and '40s frame her visual response to the cultural landscapes of the segregated South during the Depression. The photobook One Time, One Place, which was selected, curated, and shaped into a visual narrative by Welty herself, serves as a starting point and guide for the chapters on her spatial hermeneutic. The book is divided into sections by locations and offers how the framing of these areas reveals Welty's radical commentary of the spaces her camera captured. There are over eighty images in Exposing Mississippi, including some never-before-seen archival photographs, and sections of the book draw on over three hundred more. The chapters on institutional, leisure, and memorial landscapes address how Welty's photographs contribute to, reflect on, and intervene in customary visual constructions of the Depression-era South.
Dslr
Did you recently buy a new dslr camera, but have no clue how to use it?Have you owned a dslr camera for quite some time and still find yourself shooting in auto mode?If you answered yes to any of these questions, this book is for you. Author discusses everything dslr related to help you breakdown that awful communication barrier between you and the language of your dslr camera. Start learning manual mode for the best results by discovering: - Learn the dslr photography techniques of the professionals.- How to master composition to tell stories with your camera.- Understand the fundamental rules of photography including the rule of thirds.- Details on the essential equipment you need on the field.- Tips for a complete beginner of dslr photography.- Tips to find interesting subjects and take sharp pictures.If you are a bit overwhelmed by all of the settings on your new dslr camera this is the book that will teach you everything you need to know.All you need to get started is this book and a good dslr camera; you can always acquire lenses and other equipment as you progress.
The Parliament Literary Journal Winter 22
The Parliament Literary Journal is a gathering for writers and artists, melding the world of literature with psychology. Our themes are meant to provoke and encourage our contributors to dig deep.
Kathmandu - Signs From The Past
A photographic collection of Kathmandu's iconic hand-painted store & street signsThis coffee table book is a snapshot in time of a Kathmandu many will recognise if they've walked the city's fabled streets in the past. Hand-painted street signs of all shapes, colours, and wording have long decorated the rustic stores they represent. In recent years they have been vanishing. Replaced by generic plastic signage and gaudy lights. This unique part of Kathmandu's heritage has been overlooked. This book, by the author David Ways, captures the street signs before they vanish forever. With over a decade of experience writing guidebooks about Nepal and creating the world's number one website about traveling to Nepal www.thelongestwayhome.com David has created a wonderful photographic collection of a part of Nepal which is so memorable yet never before documented.Kathmandu is a sensory overload that many find challenging to take notice of in detail when avoiding traffic, bicycles, people, and the odd cow. All that charm and character lives on here in this book which can now adorn your coffee table or bookcase. Browse through the photographs. Raise an eyebrow at some of the sign's misspellings, smile at the quirkiness of many, admire all the artwork, chuckle at a few of the terms. These signs come from a different place in the world. A place that seemed to hold onto time for a little while longer than anywhere else.This book honors the artistry, efforts, and characters of all these signs from the past in Kathmandu.
Amazing Cats and Dogs for Framing
AMAZING CATS AND DOGS FOR FRAMING - HardbackAmazing pet photos, funny dogs and cats to frameIn the book we have selected beautiful photos of dogs and cats in the most special moments. If you want to decorate your home, your study or even your bedroom, then you're in the right place!You can choose from dozens and dozens of photos of dogs and cats, all without spending large sums of money in posters.Your low budget collection is here, ready to be purchased with a simple click.You can also gift this wonderful book of pets to your loved ones, for birthday parties, Christmas, and special events.Those who receive it will always have your memory in front of their eyes, and will hardly forget you and your amazing gift.Characteristics of the bookWide Size 8,5"x11Quality PrintTop Quality PaperEasy to Framing38 Funny PicturesHardcoverEnjoy the moment, don't hesitate yet! Buy it now!
Amazing Cats and Dogs for Framing
AMAZING CATS AND DOGS FOR FRAMINGAmazing pet photos, funny dogs and cats to frameIn the book we have selected beautiful photos of dogs and cats in the most special moments. If you want to decorate your home, your study or even your bedroom, then you're in the right place!You can choose from dozens and dozens of photos of dogs and cats, all without spending large sums of money in posters.Your low budget collection is here, ready to be purchased with a simple click.You can also gift this wonderful book of pets to your loved ones, for birthday parties, Christmas, and special events.Those who receive it will always have your memory in front of their eyes, and will hardly forget you and your amazing gift.Characteristics of the bookWide Size 8,5"x11Quality PrintTop Quality PaperEasy to Framing38 Funny PicturesEnjoy the moment, don't hesitate yet! Buy it now!
Hearts in Abundance
When going about daily life, I saw random objects. Not often, but enough to wonder if other people witnessed sightings of strange or different items. I saw hearts mostly. All made from different materials and in some off the wall places. However, when I went through a divorce, a dark time in my life, hearts no longer presented themselves to me. Or, quite frankly, had I forced myself to forget about them?;Fast forward 4 years: I met and fell in love with a man named Will. To my surprise the hearts started to show up again. This time in abundance. At every turn there was another object in the shape of a heart. I decided to start capturing them with my phone to prove I wasn't seeing things.In my opinion the outward sign of constant heart sightings was approval from God that Will was right for me. Not only did I see hearts of all shapes and sizes almost everywhere I went, Will grew 3 hearts on his body. Photos of them are included in this book. That's when I really knew...Wow! This is true love.The hearts inside the pages are all 100% legitimate and natural. None were made up for a photo opp. Each one was seen through my eyes, which see love in all things. I owe it all to faith, love and a man named Will.I hope you appreciate and enjoy our journey of hearts as much as we have.Kim and Will
Full Bleed: New York City Skateboard Photography
"This book is dedicated to those that kept skating alive. It is a testament to the perseverance and talents of a rare breed, the ones that kept at it against all odds and paved the way for generations to come." - Tony Hawk FULL BLEED: New York City Skateboard Photography captures over 40 years of skateboarding in New York City with seminal work from 90 legendary photographers. The new 10th Anniversay Edition of FULL BLEED features an extra 96 pages of photography and a new foreword from skatebording icon Tony Hawk. Featuring the work of: Spike Jonze, Larry Clark, Willaim Strobeck, Ed Templeton, Atiba Jefferson, Neck Face, Alex Corporan, Kenneth Cappello, Charlie Samuels, Patrick O'Dell, Tobin Yelland, Jessica Bard, Ted Newsome, Zephyr, Ivory Serra and more. The skaters in FULL BLEED include Kids star and late skateboarding hero Harold Hunter, the original Supreme skate team, "the godfather of modern street skateboarding" Mark Gonzales, Jason Dill, the late Dylan Rieder, Kareem Campbell, Keith Hufnagel, Zoo York co-founder Rodney Smith, Andy Kessler, Leo Fitzpatrick (Kids, The Wire), Mike Vallely and Alex Corporan. From unknown teenage skaters to trailblazers like Jaime Reyes and a double-page spread taken during the filming of KIDS in Washington Square Park. FULL BLEED was edited by Ivory Serra, Andre Razo and Alex Corporan. Alex is a pro-skateboarder, photographer and native New Yorker. In the mid-90s Alex managed Supreme's first skate shop for 10 years when it was their only location. Supreme would go on to become a two billion-dollar streetwear brand. Around the same time Alex appeared as himself in Larry Clark's 1995 cult classic film Kids. Larry would later contribute photos to FULL BLEED. Today Alex is revered as the virtuosic photographer, skateboarder and curator who co-created, then updated the only truly definitive, essential photobook of New York City skateboarding - the scene that shook youth culture, fashion, streetwear, film, music and art. "Captures the beautiful grit of New York City's skateboard culture" - GQ "The photographs take us to hotspots like Brooklyn Banks and introduce the characters who would personify and capture a culture." - The New Yorker
An American in Provence
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Let Jamie Beck transport you to the South of France with An American in Provence: part art book, part travelogue, part memoir, and part cookbook, and perfect for art lovers, Francophiles, and armchair travelers alike. An American in Provence is a beautiful collection of exquisite portrait, scenic, and still-life photography from wildly popular and award-winning photographer Jamie Beck. Looking to slow down from her fast-paced life in New York City, Beck moved to the French countryside documenting her life as "An American in Provence." What started as a one-year getaway became five as she continues to chronicle her life there through her photography on Instagram @JamieBeck.co, including the birth of her daughter, Eloise, all in the most breathtaking way. In An American in Provence, Beck shares her tips and techniques for creating incredible photos and details her transformational journey as an artist and woman. Beck also includes farm-to-table recipes she's learned along the way, including Braised Beef Stew, Spring Chicken with Herbs de Provence, Fresh Tagliatelle Pasta with Spring Asparagus, and Lemon Meringue Tart. This stunning visual journey is sure to delight anyone who wishes to escape reality and immerse themselves in life in Provence.
How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis's classic is an open window into a world unknown to most. Originally published in 1890, this classic inditement of slum life remains an outstanding example of the value of investigative journalism and its potential to change the world for the better. Riis was one of the earliest "muck-rakers," which President Theodore Roosevelt defined as, "taking the rake to uncover the most unpleasant conditions in American society." In the case of Riis, the issue at hand was the dire predicament of thousands of immigrants living and working in horrendous conditions in the tenements of New York City in the late 1800s. How the Other Half Lives is a well thought out non-fiction work documenting the filth of the tenements, injustices of the sweatshops, and perils of child labor (among other wrongs) personally witnessed by Riis. Jacob Riis, a Danish immigrant from the city of Ribe, was one of fifteen children. Upon reaching adulthood, Riis first apprenticed as a carpenter in the city of Copenhagen. Discouraged by the lack of employment available, he immigrated to the United States in 1870 at the youthful age of 21. In New York, he eventually found his way to a career in journalism. After accepting a position with The New York News Association, he started writing articles that covered both the wealthy and the impoverished. Riis' career, and platform from which he could campaign for change, took a big step up when he took a job at the New York Tribune. In his new position, he began writing articles with the intent of enlightening the public on How the Other Half Lives. He decided to make it his purpose to explore and photograph this sad reality, hoping the exposure would help alleviate the terrible living and working conditions of the penniless. Riis did just that by illuminating the filthy and revolting conditions of the "lower" classes to those in the upper and middle class best suited to make a difference. Riis' work was not in vain. His book led to decades of housing, sewer, and garbage collection improvements in the Lower East Side of New York City. This edition, which is illustrated with the photos he used, brings to life the experience of Jacob Riis as he uncovered the truth of How the Other Half Lives.
Muybridge and Mobility
A cultural geographer and an art historian offer fresh interpretations of Muybridge's famous motion studies through the lenses of mobility and race. In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge successfully photographed horses in motion, proving that all four hooves leave the ground at once for a split second during full gallop. This was the beginning of Muybridge's decades-long investigation into instantaneous photography, culminating in his masterpiece Animal Locomotion. Muybridge became one of the most influential photographers of his time, and his stop-motion technique helped pave the way for the motion-picture industry, born a short decade later. Coauthored by cultural geographer Tim Cresswell and art historian John Ott, this book reexamines the motion studies as historical forms of "mobility," in which specific forms of motion are given extraordinary significance and accrued value. Through a lively, interdisciplinary exchange, the authors explore how mobility is contextualized within the transformations of movement that marked the nineteenth century and how mobility represents the possibilities of social movement for African Americans. Together, these complementary essays look to Muybridge's works as interventions in knowledge and experience and as opportunities to investigate larger social ramifications and possibilities.
Mona Kuhn: 835 Kings Road
Mona Kuhn's lyrical and formally daring portrait of the iconic Schindler House in Los Angeles, supplemented with letters, blueprints and moreIn Kings Road, Californian photographer Mona Kuhn (born 1969) reconsiders the realms of time and space within the architectural elements of the Schindler House in Los Angeles. Built by Austrian architect Rudolph M. Schindler in 1922, the house was both a social and design experiment and an avant-garde hub for intellectuals and artists in the 1920s and 1930s. For this project Kuhn collaborated with the Department of History of Art and Architecture at UC Santa Barbara, and gained access to Schindler's private archives including blueprints, letters and notes. Alongside reproducing some of these for the first time in this book, Kuhn reinterprets the dichotomy between memory and record in a series of color photos, and solarized gelatin silver prints, a technique favored by the surrealists. The enigmatic subject of her solarized pictures is a fictional, ethereal figure inspired by a letter from Schindler to a mysterious woman. Kuhn's impressionistic photos render this female presence physical, even as it seems to be dematerializing: fleeting images that question the very nature of photography as record.
Muybridge and Mobility
A cultural geographer and an art historian offer fresh interpretations of Muybridge's famous motion studies through the lenses of mobility and race. In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge successfully photographed horses in motion, proving that all four hooves leave the ground at once for a split second during full gallop. This was the beginning of Muybridge's decades-long investigation into instantaneous photography, culminating in his masterpiece Animal Locomotion. Muybridge became one of the most influential photographers of his time, and his stop-motion technique helped pave the way for the motion-picture industry, born a short decade later. Coauthored by cultural geographer Tim Cresswell and art historian John Ott, this book reexamines the motion studies as historical forms of "mobility," in which specific forms of motion are given extraordinary significance and accrued value. Through a lively, interdisciplinary exchange, the authors explore how mobility is contextualized within the transformations of movement that marked the nineteenth century and how mobility represents the possibilities of social movement for African Americans. Together, these complementary essays look to Muybridge's works as interventions in knowledge and experience and as opportunities to investigate larger social ramifications and possibilities.
Scott B. Davis: Sonora
Landscape photography between representation and abstraction: new adventures in print and tonality from scott b. davisCalifornian photographer scott b. davis' (born 1971) recent work uses combinations of in-camera palladium paper negatives and traditional film-based platinum/palladium prints. The images explore the boundaries of visibility in the darkness and overwhelming light of the Sonoran Desert, creating pictures of landscapes that are both literal and abstract. The light and space found in the open desert are felt in these uniquely rendered images comprised of diptychs, triptychs and occasional works that include as many as 10 or 12 unique images in a series.By using exposure to intense UV light, davis has pioneered a process that captures images invisible to the naked eye, creating prints rich in contrast to push the boundaries of the visible spectrum and the perceptual limits of human vision. His prints invite closer, deeper looking at landscapes that seem familiar to us in the daylight but evolve into something altogether different when rendered as abstract records of place. The aim is not to represent the desert as we think we know it, but to evoke an intimate connection with the desert through new perspectives.
Erotic Nude Art Photography 1
Daniel Bauer portrays the beauty and seductive expression of young women in artistic nude photographs. And when his amateur models allow him to make their zest for life visible and tangible in images, to reveal their very personal, intimate sensuality, their joy in their own bodies, in their desire freed from taboos, moral concepts and social rules, then "erotic nude art photography" can arise.While he stayed true to his style of simplicity and authenticity (and also to his unmistakable preference for naturalness and unshaven pubic hair and body hair), in recent years his images have become clearer, more open, in a certain sense more "shameless", but also more courageous and honest.
My London (Walking alone in London)
A trip to the iconic city of London with images from Martin Sotelano and the wisdom of Charles Dickens Featuring more than 100 exclusive and original images.
Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape
2024 Nebraska Book Award Winner In Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape Dana Fritz traces the evolution of the Bessey Ranger District and Nursery of the Nebraska National Forest and Grasslands. Fritz's contemporary photographs of this unique ecosystem, with provocative environmental essays, maps, and historical photographs from the U.S. Forest Service archives, illuminate the complex environmental and natural history of the site, especially as it relates to built environments, land use, and climate change. The Nebraska National Forest at Halsey, as it is known colloquially, is the largest hand-planted forest in the Western Hemisphere, and formerly in the world. This hybrid landscape of a conifer forest overlaid onto a semiarid grassland just west of the one-hundredth meridian was an ambitious late nineteenth-century idea to create a timber industry, to reclaim a landscape considered disordered and unproductive, and to change the local climate in northcentral Nebraska. While the planners seemed not to appreciate the native grasslands that form the ecosystem of the Nebraska Sandhills, they did recognize the reliable water from the Dismal and Middle Loup Rivers that border the site. In 1902 the first federal nursery was established as part of the Dismal River Forest Reserve to produce seedlings for plains homesteads and the adjacent treeless tract of land. At that time tree planting was not used for carbon sequestration but to mitigate the wind and evaporation of moisture. The Bessey Nursery now produces replacement seedlings for burned and beetle-damaged forests in the Rocky Mountains and for the Nebraska Conservation Trees Program. This constructed landscape of row-crop trees that were protected from fire for decades, yet never commercially harvested for timber, provides a rich metaphor for current environmental predicaments. The late nineteenth-century effort to reclaim with trees what was called the Great American Desert has evolved to a focus on twenty-first-century conservation, grassland restoration, and reforestation, all of which work to sequester carbon, maintain natural ecosystem balance, and mitigate large-scale climate change. Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape offers a visual and critical examination of this unique managed landscape, which has implications far beyond its borders.
Vintage Art
Vintage Art: Marsden Hartley: 20 Fine Art Prints features a hand-picked collection of artwork by American modernist painter, essayist and poet, Marsden Hartley. Hartley studied the works of Cubist artists and thus developed his skills in painting, his talent was acknowledged by art promoter Alfred Stieglitz. In 1909 Hartley held his first solo exhibition, at Stieglitz's 291 art gallery, where he exhibited hispaintings until 1937. How to use the prints: The one-sided prints can be removed by using a box cutter or scissors, they are ideal for framing, home decor, and papercrafts.
LAIR W pX 013 Plenty
This book is part of a series of themed zine-style photography runs, intended for cheerful relaxation.
LAIR W pX 012 Above The Dam
This book is part of a series of themed zine-style photography runs, intended for cheerful relaxation.
LAIR W pX 015 Pinwheel
This book is part of a series of themed zine-style photography runs, intended for cheerful relaxation.
Give us a Neg!..
The third selection of images drawn from the millions archived by the author during his career as a freelance press photographer and owner of Calyx Picture agency. Based in Swindon (Wiltshire) this volume highlights the many local sporting events that the author has covered, including spectacular action shots, with a commentary about the techniques that sports photojournalists employ. Previous volumes are A Picture is only the start of the story (ISBN 9781906978822), and Another Picture, Another Story (ISBN 9781904978969).
LAIR W pX 018 Flow
This book is part of a series of themed zine-style photography runs, intended for cheerful relaxation.
LAIR W pX 019 Workabout
This book is part of a series of themed zine-style photography runs, intended for cheerful relaxation.
Vintage Art
Vintage Art: Edmund Blair Leighton: 20 Fine Art Prints is a curated collection of detailed artwork by an English painter and craftsman, Edmund Blair Leighton. Within this book is a diverse range of reproduction paintings from Leighton's oeuvre, he was renowned for his depictions of historical, medieval, and Regency settings. Leighton was a popular artist, he produced high-quality paintings often with romantic scenes. For over forty years, Leighton exhibited annually at the Royal Academy. How to use the prints: The one-sided prints can be removed by using a box cutter or scissors, they are ideal for framing, home decor, and papercrafts.
N.Y.C. High School Pics
Historical photographs of NYC public high school students in the late 1960's.
LAIR W pX 001 JAW
This book is part of a series of themed zine-style photography runs, intended for cheerful relaxation.
LAIR W pX 002 JAW
This book is part of a series of themed zine-style photography runs, intended for cheerful relaxation.
N.Y.C. High School Pics
Historical photographs of NYC public high school students in the late 1960's.
