African-american Made
To James Madison Davis, my great great grandfather, born in Alabama in 1835, I dedicate this family photo project. James M. Davis is a person I never knew, but of whom I've heard much, and through documentation have pieced together some details of his life. What is most remarkable is the fact that though born enslaved, he apparently always had dreams for freedom, for the acquisition of land, to be the support of his family, and to educate his children. He stole himself away from his slave owner at sometime between 1862 and 1863, and from oral accounts given by his children and his statement to the 1910 census takers, he joined the (UA) Union Army. Thank you great, great grandfather James Madison Davis for your fortitude, your faith, and your persistence in pursuing your dream.
African-american Made
To James Madison Davis, my great great grandfather, born in Alabama in 1835, I dedicate this family photo project. James M. Davis is a person I never knew, but of whom I've heard much, and through documentation have pieced together some details of his life. What is most remarkable is the fact that though born enslaved, he apparently always had dreams for freedom, for the acquisition of land, to be the support of his family, and to educate his children. He stole himself away from his slave owner at sometime between 1862 and 1863, and from oral accounts given by his children and his statement to the 1910 census takers, he joined the (UA) Union Army. Thank you great, great grandfather James Madison Davis for your fortitude, your faith, and your persistence in pursuing your dream.
African-american Made
To James Madison Davis, my great great grandfather, born in Alabama in 1835, I dedicate this family photo project. James M. Davis is a person I never knew, but of whom I've heard much, and through documentation have pieced together some details of his life. What is most remarkable is the fact that though born enslaved, he apparently always had dreams for freedom, for the acquisition of land, to be the support of his family, and to educate his children. He stole himself away from his slave owner at sometime between 1862 and 1863, and from oral accounts given by his children and his statement to the 1910 census takers, he joined the (UA) Union Army. Thank you great, great grandfather James Madison Davis for your fortitude, your faith, and your persistence in pursuing your dream.
Mastering the Nikon Z6
★★★★★ "Once you read this, you will know your camera inside and out."Mastering the Nikon Z6 is the ultimate guide to understanding your new mirrorless full-frame Z6 camera.Recently updated with downloadable resources for the new firmware C2.00 Eye detection (Eye-AF) feature, Mastering the Nikon Z6 by Darrell Young provides a wealth of experience-based information and insights. Darrell is determined to help the user navigate past the confusion that often comes with complex and powerful professional camera equipment.This book explores the features and capabilities of the camera in a way that far surpasses the user's manual. It guides readers through the camera features with step-by-step setting adjustments; color illustrations; and detailed how, when, and why explanations for each option. Every button, dial, switch, and menu configuration setting is explored in a user-friendly manner, with suggestions for setup according to various shooting styles.Darrell's friendly and informative writing style allows readers to easily follow directions, while feeling as if a friend dropped in to share his knowledge. The information in this book goes beyond the camera itself and also covers basic photography technique.What other Nikon Z6 users are saying about this book: ★★★★★ Darrell's books are easy to read, easy to find specific info, and very thorough in providing all the information I need. Excellent resource!!!★★★★★ The ONLY how to book you need for the Z6.★★★★★ This book on the Nikon Z6 should be included with the purchase of the camera. There is not much info left out. Once you read this you will know your camera inside and out.
Miguel Rio Branco
In Maldicidade, the city never sleeps. By dawn or dusk, in New York, Havana, Salvador da Bahia, or Tokyo, it is an environment fraught with yearning, aching with solitude, and fretful with fortunes never made. This searing urban portrait from visual artist Miguel Rio Branco draws upon his itinerant early years as the son of diplomats to reveal the common threads of struggle and loneliness in metropolises around the world.The images are impeccably captured, but the pictures are not always pretty. Rio Branco is not interested in documenting historic city landmarks, an impressive skyline, or the aspirational dreams that soar up towards it. Instead, he focuses his camera on the city's refuse and margins--on that which it has thrown away and on those it has cast aside and disappointed. In stark frames or soft impressions, it is street sleepers, beggars, prostitutes, stray dogs, smashed cars, and shattered glass that characterize his urban impressions. While subtle details reveal the specificity of place, it is the commonality of urban experience at the heart of Rio Branco's project. Light on local context or explanatory narrative, the images are instead meticulously arranged into one redolent sequence of a universal city. Working as if in the cutting studio, Rio Branco excels in the rhythm and succession of pictures, crafting evocative patterns of motif (decrepit buildings, lone figures, smashed-up cars); color (rich reds, dusty pinks, stark whites and blues); and form (an anguished street sleeper beside an ecstatic statue of a saint). Throughout, occasional pictures of women are proffered as sensual, hopeful reprieve, interspersing the grit and the grime in commanding portraits or up-close, supple nudes. At once incisive in its message and lyrical in its arrangement, Maldicidade focuses attention on the city's ineludible magnetism, as much as on its alienation and inhumanity. Biting, bare-faced, and achingly beautiful, it is a collection in which all city dwellers will find something of themselves, or something they long to escape.
French Capital To French Riviera
French Capital To French Riviera European SkyDany PATARINIhttps: //www.artistpr.com/press-release/dany-patarini/iTunes: https: //itunes.apple.com/us/artist/dany-patarini/id937309415 Twitter: danypatari
American National Parks
Wide, breathtaking landscapes; crystal-clear, blue lakes; high, snow-covered mountain peaks--but also wild grizzlies, buffalos, mustangs, and rare animal species: this is North America. With nearly sixty national parks, the United States is preserving a living monument to the continent's pristine nature in an effort to make it accessible to everyone. This volume presents twenty-six parks in more than 450 photographs. Each has its own character and individual charm.
Catalog of Books by Sharon Hunt
A catalog of books written by Sharon Hunt.
The World’s Most Beautiful Horses
It would be hard to pack a greater number of wonderful horse motifs between two book covers. There are stunning images of eighteen different breeds from varying continents, cultures, and countries presented on 448 large format pages. In this book--a compilation of the most beautiful and emotive examples in recent decades of Gabriele Boiselle's photographic work--the reader is immersed in the diverse and fascinating world of horses. Again and again she succeeds in portraying these noble creatures with great intensity, and on every page the reader can sense the love and professionalism that have given rise to a unique work.
Earth’s Magic Places
There are energetically charged buildings that are the handiwork of humanity: cathedrals, temples, and other examples of artistic and cultural creativity. The photographer Tom獺s M穩cek focuses on another type of magical place in this engaging collection of pictures: places brought forth by that great artist Mother Nature, places whose fantastic formations can most certainly compete with our sacred buildings and spaces. This is not the first time this master photographer has turned to the wonders of the earth. He has already published the collections Trees of the World and Magic Stones. This collection lies in the center of a pentalogy. The planned fourth volume will be entitled Unique Plants of the World, and the final part is to once again pay homage to planet earth.
Mastering the Natural Light Portrait
What would your life be like if you could shoot absolutely amazing portraits? If you could be in any natural lighting situation, indoors or out, and know that you'd be able to create an amazing image every time? If you've ever dreamed of making such incredible portraits that your friends and family say, "Wait a minute, this is your photo!? You took this?" then you're in luck.Award-winning photography book author Scott Kelby teaches you exactly how to shoot and edit gorgeous natural light portraits. Scott shares all his secrets and time-tested techniques, as he discusses everything from his essential go-to portrait gear to camera settings to the portrait photography techniques you need to create absolutely stunning images. From window light to taming harsh outdoor light, from the tools and accessories you need to capture beautiful portraits in any lighting condition, Scott has got you covered.Among many other topics, you'll learn: - The secrets to getting super-sharp portraits every time without breaking a sweat.- Exactly which camera settings work best for natural light portraits (and which ones you should avoid).- How to create separation with a silky smooth, out-of-focus background no matter which lens you have.- How to tame even the harshest light and turn it to your advantage to create soft, beautiful, wrapping light.- Which lenses will get you the best results and why.- What gear you need, which accessories work best, and a ton of killer tips that will help you create better images and make the entire experience that much more fun.It's all here, including an entire chapter on post-processing and retouching, and another with detailed portrait recipes, and best of all, it's just one topic per page, so you'll get straight to the info you need fast. There's never been a natural light portrait photography book like it!TABLE OF CONTENTSChapter 1: Portrait LensesChapter 2: Camera SettingsChapter 3: Window Light PortraitsChapter 4: Shooting OutsideChapter 5: Shooting in Direct LightChapter 6: CompositionChapter 7: PosingChapter 8: Post-ProcessingChapter 9: Portrait Recipes
Canon Eos R Pocket Guide
Designed for photographers who haven't memorized every button, dial, setting, and feature on their Canon EOS R, Rocky Nook's handy and ultra-portable quick reference Pocket Guide helps you get the shot when you're out and about.This book shows you how to: Confirm that your camera is set up properly with the pre-shoot checklistIdentify every button and dial on your cameraLearn the essential modes and settings you need to knowDive deeper with additional features of your cameraExecute step-by-step instructions for shooting multiple exposures, in-camera HDR, time-lapse movies, and moreFollow tips and techniques for getting great shots in typical scenarios (portrait, landscape, freezing action, low light, etc.)Start making the most of your Canon EOS R with the Canon EOS R: Pocket Guide.
Uneasy Halos
Frank Dituri has captured this essence visually with his solitary and silent contemplation of space, of the sacred image, where faith is embraced: holy spaces glimmering with candles, windows filled with rays of sunlight that act like portals to another reality, an unknown awesome place--a destination. These are the numinous spaces that allow the average person, if they are willing, to step for a moment into another place and receive an inward grace, to step outside of chronos and enter kairos. There is no dogma in such spaces, only opportunity for encounter. Through these photographs we can discover a glimpse into the faithful spaces and expressions that have existed for centuries all over the world. People of all ages have embraced them in day-to-day rituals--baptisms, marriages, funerals, holy days--the rhythms of life lived through the church. Dituri alludes to his own imbedded memory of the image of the sacred heart of Jesus next to his childhood bed--"My mother knew Him well, told me He was good. I was scared." Faith and belief are not without fear, especially in the case of youthful minds, but also in those of adults. Dituri has said that this exhibition of photographs "deals with the mixed feelings of growing up Roman Catholic in a traditional Italian-American family...[with] his sometime ambivalent feelings toward the experience with the symbolic traditions of religion vs. spirituality." When I look at these photographs, I see anything but ambivalence. They are taken with precise care, with sensitivity, and a sense of longing.
Fazal Sheikh and Teju Cole
For the past 25 years, Fazal Sheikh has highlighted the plight of displaced people and refugees around the world. He has photographed people driven from their homes by war as well as those upended by the redrawing of national borders and the reassertion of racial and ethnic divisions. Sheikh has also made sublime photographs of landscapes altered by political and environmental crises. In the past two years, the shift to the political right in the US has been replicated across Europe, the Middle East, Central and East Africa and Southeast Asia, as authoritarian governments and xenophobia have increased. As an act of refusal to these political trends, Sheikh sought out the celebrated novelist and critic Teju Cole for a collaboration that would reinforce their commitment to the ideal of a compassionate global community as well as the importance of individual courage. The resulting book represents the two authors' distinct visions, their shared values and mutual spirit of cooperation. With Cole's words and Sheikh's photos we are confronted with fundamental and newly necessary questions of coexistence: who is my neighbor? Who is kin to me? Who is a stranger? What does it mean to be human? Teju Cole (born 1975) is a Brooklyn-based novelist, essayist and photographer. His honors include the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Internationaler Literaturpreis and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Cole's photography book Blind Spot was shortlisted for the Paris Photo--Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards. He is the photography critic of the New York Times Magazine and Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing at Harvard University. The photographs of Fazal Sheikh (born 1965) have been exhibited internationally from Tate Modern, London, to the Metropolitan Museum and United Nations Headquarters in New York and the Mapfre Foundation, Madrid. The author of 15 monographs, many published by Steidl, Sheikh is currently the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities at Princeton University.
Momentum
Executed in a manner that is playful, yet driven with tension, Tilley's photography exacts an anticipation of the moment that is about to happen. Momentum is a collection of some of Tilley's best work to date. His photography continuously captivates the viewer, leading us to something perhaps unexpected, out of context or that may cause us some unease but in a fun and highly-dramatic way. The aesthetic is bold and well-designed with each image portraying a story at a paused point in time allowing the narrative of the image to be interpreted by the viewer. With this, the viewer should enjoy the surreal element to the work and embrace this style presented throughout the book.
Orlando
For the summer 2019 issue of Aperture, Swinton, as guest-editor, draws upon the central themes of Orlando--gender fluidity, consciousness without limits, and the deep perspective of a long life--to offer a collection of images and writings that celebrate openness, curiosity, and human possibility. Virginia Woolf's prescient 1928 novel Orlando tells the story of a young nobleman who, during the era of Queen Elizabeth I, lives for three centuries without aging and mysteriously shifts gender along the way. In 1992, filmmaker Sally Potter released a now-classic adaptation of the book with Tilda Swinton in the starring role as Orlando. Since then, Woolf's tale has continued to hold sway over Swinton, who describes the book's ability "to change like a magic mirror. Where I once assumed it was a book about eternal youth, I now see it as a book about growing up, about learning to live." "Woolf wrote Orlando," Swinton notes, "in an attitude of celebration of the oscillating nature of existence. She believed the creative mind to be androgynous. I have come to see Orlando far less as being about gender than about the flexibility of the fully awake and sensate spirit. This issue of Aperture will be a salute to indetermination and limitlessness, and a heartfelt celebration of the fully inclusive and expansive vision of life exemplified by the extraordinary artists collected here." This issue features contributions by artists and writers, including Michael Cunningham, Zackary Drucker, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Isaac Julien, Eileen Myles, Maggie Nelson, Jamal Nxedlana, Elle P矇rez, Sally Potter, Walter Pfeiffer, R. Ruby Rich, Antwaun Sargent, Viviane Sassen, Collier Schorr, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Mickalene Thomas, Lynne Tillman, Justin Torres, Marina Warner, Carmen Winant, and more.
Anonymous
In essence this book has always been in existence. People intrigue me, melancholy inspires me, storms captivate me. My parents gave me a rather unconventional upbringing--a life that granted me the freedom to wake up and see where the day might take me. In retrospect this was the catalyst which led to self exploration and my awareness of self and others. As a teen, I was introduced to the theory of psychoanalysis provoking me to dive even deeper into the human condition. I spent my teenage years writing short stories and believing Jackson Browne was magic. Photographs extend this exploration
Anonymous
In essence this book has always been in existence. People intrigue me, melancholy inspires me, storms captivate me. My parents gave me a rather unconventional upbringing--a life that granted me the freedom to wake up and see where the day might take me. In retrospect this was the catalyst which led to self exploration and my awareness of self and others. As a teen, I was introduced to the theory of psychoanalysis provoking me to dive even deeper into the human condition. I spent my teenage years writing short stories and believing Jackson Browne was magic. Photographs extend this exploration
Between Two Rivers
The Brazos River and the Rio Grande: what lies between are physical and cultural geographies stretching south from the Texas Hill Country to the border of Mexico, west across the Trans-Pecos, and up through Northern New Mexico into Colorado. Photographer Jerod Foster and poet John Poch praise and wonder along these varied waterways and across the landscapes they host. The result is communion--a synergy of imagery in story and story in imagery, finding unexpected form, depths, and meaning much as rivers themselves are honed in the pull of gravity and texture.
Faces of Resilience
They say one picture is worth a thousand words because it captures complex emotions in a single shot.Faces of Resilience is a stunning gallery of nearly 200 portraits taken by Barbara J Hopkinson, PRae M Miliotis, and myself that showcase both the commonality and individuality of a timeless journey experienced by people around the world. Each portrait reveals how grief influences our emotions yet serves as a visual reminder that the power of resilience lies within us all.This influential collection tells a story better than written words, and serves as an agent of change by stimulating conversations about a universal experience through love, loss, heartbreak, resilience and--ultimately--hope.
Myldn
Following on from his daily photo blog, renowned London street photographer Babycakes Romero brings you MYDLN. A Street View of London Life. A compelling collection of documentary images showing both the communities and cultures which make up the multicultural melting pot that is London. These photos, carefully curated here for the first time, bear witness to the real heart and soul of the people that make up the metropolis. Narratives and interactions depicting scenes of love, hope, struggle and everyday life. This is his photographic love letter to London. A city of possibilities which has in fact become the impossible city. The intensity, the craziness, the inequality, the mayhem, the conflict, the injustice, the beauty and the essence of what makes the city what it was, what it is and what it will be. Each stolen moment recording and documenting a different perception of both the place and its people. This is survival in the city.
Wildlife of the Kennet and Avon Canal
The Kennet and Avon Canal is a linear oasis, providing water and a green ribbon, linking other areas of natural habitat, as it runs from Bristol to Reading. It both provides wildlife habitat and acts as a wildlife corridor. Those keen to observe wildlife will find a wide range of birds, as well as invertebrates, mammals, fish and other aquatic creatures. There are common water birds, such as coots and moorhens, as well as red-listed species (those of most conservation concern) like the grey wagtail and marsh tit. Water voles, which have disappeared from some counties altogether, have gone from once being Britain's most common mammal, to its fastest declining, but they can still be found along this waterway.With over 370 sumptuous full colour photographs, Wildlife of the Kennet and Avon Canal illustrates the range of wildlife that anyone could come across. Most of the images were taken using a conventional, hand-held camera, either on the tow path or very close to it. Some of the close-ups were taken using a macro lens, with the camera sometimes mounted on a tripod, elsewhere a telephoto lens was used. There was no use of hides or specialist photographic equipment, beyond that mentioned.The book includes wildlife spotting suggestions and photographic hints and tips, as well as a collection of wildlife stories. It provides a fabulous introduction to watching and photographing wildlife and a way of enhancing your enjoyment of one of Britain's best-loved canals.This book is available in a hardcover version, which also features higher quality paper and enhanced printing.Other books in the UK Canals series include 1: The Kennet and Avon Canal in pictures, 3: Weird and wonderful canal photographs and 4: The Erewash Canal in context. Also by the same author, Pandemic diary: Newbury in a time of crisis, Pandemic diary 2: Newbury emerges from lockdown and Living in a digital world: Demystifying technology.For more details about Mark C Baker books see http: //www.educationvision.co.uk/books.html
Don't Blink
In Don't Blink: Capturing Your Child's Story Through Portraits, professional photographer Jeanine McLeod pulls back the curtain on what really goes on in a professional portrait session. Written with warmth and humor, Don't Blink offers parents a roadmap on how to document their child's journey from birth to high school graduation in professional portraits.In this book, Jeanine McLeod will reveal: Practical tools for photographing your children, family, and even your pets! The single, most effective approach to take when photographing kids (hint: it's about them.) How to photograph kids of all ages in a way that's fun for them--and you. At the end of this book you will have a greater understanding of the value of portraits to a family legacy. The goal is for parents to have a roadmap on how to document their child's journey from birth to high school graduation in professional portraits.
Phyllis Galembo
The acclaimed photographer of African masks turns her lens to the astounding mask cultures of MexicoSince 1985, photographer Phyllis Galembo has traveled extensively to photograph sites of ritual dress in Africa and the Caribbean. In her latest body of work, collected in this new publication, Galembo turns to Mexico, where she captures cultural performances with a subterranean political edge. Using a direct, unaffected portrait style, Galembo captures her subjects informally posed but often strikingly attired in traditional or ritualistic dress. Masking is a complex tradition in which the participants transcend the physical world and enter the spiritual realm. Masks, costumes and body paint transform the human body and encode a rich range of political, artistic, theatrical, social and religious meanings on the body. In her vibrant color photographs, Galembo highlights the artistry of the performers, how they use materials from their immediate environment to morph into a fantastical representation of themselves and an idealized vision of a mythical figure. In a gorgeous, fascinating photographic survey of Mexico's masking practices, Galembo captures her subjects suspended between past, present and future, with their religious, political and cultural affiliations--their personal and collective identifications--displayed on their bodies. Photographer Phyllis Galembo (born 1952) received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1977, and was Professor in the Fine Arts Department of SUNY Albany from 1978 to 2018. A 2014 Guggenheim Fellow, Galembo has photographs in numerous public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New York Public Library. Her photographs of ritual masks in Africa, the Diaspora and beyond have been the subject of several monographic publications, including Maske (Aperture, 2016).
Hare There Adventures of Rosie Rabbit
Rosie was with me, looking out of a window, an imaginary scene of a battle during the Civil War in our minds. We were trying to understand the feelings of thousands who gave their lives for enduring desires, a right to live, a right to exhibit pride and honor, and a right to be equal. Attempting to realize the senseless meaning of the four-year war, as brutal and pointless one may surmise, we feel as though there is an awareness at these battlefields, a feeling of spiritual glow of the historical happenings. The devotion of each and every soldier regardless of rank or capability to be in the fight on foot and face-to-face-all this during the many nights of freezing temperatures, lack of food, medical assistance, or comfort of one's family. The many times that I visited Gettysburg and other battlefields, I feel an urge, such a passion, to learn more.
Naked City
Weegee was among the first to fully realize the camera's unique power to capture split-second drama and exaggerated emotion. But his profound influence on other photographers, most famously on Diane Arbus, derives not only from his sensational subject matter and his use of the blinding, close-up flash, but also from his eagerness to photograph the city at all hours, at all levels: coffee shops at three in the morning, hot summer evenings in the tenements, debutante balls, parties in the street, lovers on park benches, the destitute and the lonely. No other photographer has better revealed the non-stop spectacle of life in New York City.Weegee's first book, Naked City (1945), was a runaway success and made him a celebrity who suddenly had assignments from Life and Vogue. By the publication of his second book, Weegee's People (1946), he had cut the wires to his police radio and had begun to photograph the furred and bejeweled grandes dames at the Metropolitan Opera as well as his beloved street people. Naked Hollywood (1953) and Weegee by Weegee (1961) feature portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol, John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khruschev, and Liberace -- many of them viewed through the distorted lens of his Weegee-scope.Regarded as some of the most powerful images of twentieth-century photography, Weegee's work now resides in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
North Mississippi Homeplace
In the early 1970s photographer and documentary filmmaker Michael Ford left graduate school and a college teaching position in Boston, Massachusetts, packed his young family into a van, and headed to rural Mississippi, where he spent the next four years recording everyday life through interviews, still photographs, and film. The project took him to Oxford (in Lafayette County), as well as to Marshall, Panola, and Tate Counties, a remote area north of Sardis Lake. His efforts resulted in the award-winning documentary film Homeplace (1975), but none of the still photographs from this time were ever published. With this illustrated volume, those photographs are now available and offer a valuable window onto the rural, local culture of northern Mississippi at that time. These moving photographs illustrate Ford's experiences as an apprentice to blacksmith Marion Randolph Hall, his visits to Hal Waldrip's General Store in Chulahoma, a day spent with AG Newsom and his crew making molasses, and Othar Turner's barbecues accompanied by traditional African American fife-and-drum music. They also capture the evocative landscape of the Mississippi hill country and the everyday lives of its residents. In 2013 Ford returned to his adopted homeplace, camera in hand, only to find that most everything had changed--or was gone. This photo essay project juxtaposes the rural Mississippi of the 1970s and the mid-2010s with Ford's personal reflections drawn from his journals, interviews, and archival notes.
My Collection Maybe Yours! Why We Must Have It All
What Do You Collect? That depends on what demographic you belong to. If you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s, you are either a Trekkie or a Star Wars fan. Or maybe you're more into Marvel or DC Universe. Either way, you know you were hooked into reliving the adventure. For me, I was there in the beginning as a baby boomer with all that was on TV, music, and movies. It was all a good place to bring you back to all the thrill of your heroes and how one day you, too, can ride off into the sunset. For me, I did one better. I got to act out a role just like my hero and do the very things they did. With what you collect, you buy movies, music, toys, and anything connected with these treasured moments. I am very sure what I collect is what people stored in their closets. So sad, I thought, they should be sure what they collect to their friends and to the world. For what your collect and are attracted to is part of a million-no, trillion-dollar industry that grabs your attraction. Here it begins-my search on how we as baby boomers and generations beyond get caught up once in a never-ending spend cycle that must be met, as each decade unfolds, as each generation get sucked into being duped and persuaded. This would be the beginning of your spending habits. You are very much targeted. Many do not care! I, too, get caught up in this friendship. Difference is, I care and dare to ask why. Why do we need to collect so much? So says I, your friendly neighborhood self-appointed baby boomer consumer advocate.
My Collection Maybe Yours! Why We Must Have It All
What Do You Collect? That depends on what demographic you belong to. If you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s, you are either a Trekkie or a Star Wars fan. Or maybe you're more into Marvel or DC Universe. Either way, you know you were hooked into reliving the adventure. For me, I was there in the beginning as a baby boomer with all that was on TV, music, and movies. It was all a good place to bring you back to all the thrill of your heroes and how one day you, too, can ride off into the sunset. For me, I did one better. I got to act out a role just like my hero and do the very things they did. With what you collect, you buy movies, music, toys, and anything connected with these treasured moments. I am very sure what I collect is what people stored in their closets. So sad, I thought, they should be sure what they collect to their friends and to the world. For what your collect and are attracted to is part of a million-no, trillion-dollar industry that grabs your attraction. Here it begins-my search on how we as baby boomers and generations beyond get caught up once in a never-ending spend cycle that must be met, as each decade unfolds, as each generation get sucked into being duped and persuaded. This would be the beginning of your spending habits. You are very much targeted. Many do not care! I, too, get caught up in this friendship. Difference is, I care and dare to ask why. Why do we need to collect so much? So says I, your friendly neighborhood self-appointed baby boomer consumer advocate.
David Busch`s Canon Eos R Guide to Digital Photography
David Busch's Canon EOS R Guide to Digital Photography is your all-in-one comprehensive resource and reference for the exciting new Canon EOS R full-frame mirrorless camera. This camera sports a high-resolution 30 MP sensor embedded with 5,655 Dual-Pixel phase detection AF points for lightning-fast, precise autofocus. The EOS R's 3.69 million dot electronic viewfinder provides a bright, clear view. Three available mount adapters make it easy to supplement your R-mount lenses with a broad selection of legacy Canon EF and EF-S optics. The EOS R has Wi-Fi/ NFC connectivity to allow linking the camera to a computer and iOS or Android smart devices, high-definition movie-making capabilities, and a versatile swiveling touch screen LCD. With this book in hand, you can quickly apply all these advanced features to your digital photography, while boosting your creativity to take great photographs with your Canon EOS R.Filled with detailed how-to steps and full-color illustrations, David Busch's Canon EOS R Guide to Digital Photography covers all this upscale camera's features in depth, from taking your first photos through advanced details of setup, exposure, lens selection, lighting, and more, and relates each feature to specific photographic techniques and situations. Also included is the handy EOS R "roadmap" chapter, an easy-to-use visual guide to the camera's features and controls. Learn when to use each option and, more importantly, when not to use them, by following the author's recommended settings for every menu entry.With best-selling photographer and mentor David Busch as your guide, you'll quickly have full creative mastery of your camera's capabilities, whether you're shooting on the job, as an advanced enthusiast, or are just out for fun. Start building your knowledge and confidence, while bringing your vision to light with the Canon EOS R today.
Sol Y Tierra/ Sun and Earth
This project explores Mexico over the last thirty years by highlighting the challenges and beauty of life just south of the border. Collectively, the photographs invite dialogue between Mexico and the United States as viewers on both sides may recognize something of themselves in the pictures.
Women of Kuwait
Since moving to New York from Kuwait City Maha Alasaker learned that the everyday American has no conception of what daily life is like for women in modern-day Kuwait. Seeking to address this, Alasaker began making portraits of women in their bedrooms and asking them about their lives. This intimate collection of environmental portraits provides a never-before-seen look at what it means to be a young woman in Kuwait.
Aiviq
Massive, elusive, and always deserving of respect, the walrus is one of the Arctic's most recognizable animals. For thousands of years, Arctic residents have shared the coastlines and waters of the Arctic with these huge beasts. Often misunderstood by people who have not had first-hand encounters with them, walruses are known to those who share their habitat as somewhat unpredictable creatures, always deserving of caution when encountered. From close encounters with angry walruses, bent on destroying boats and chasing off humans to witnessing the attentive care of a walrus mother with its calf, this book gives readers from outside the Arctic a first-hand look at what life alongside walruses is really like. Aiviq: Life with Walruses features stunning wildlife photography by acclaimed photographer Paul Souders accompanied by first-hand accounts from people living alongside this enormous sea mammal.
Seeing Science
Seeing Science offers an insightful and reader-friendly collection of essays and pictures about photography's role in visualizing science and building human knowledge--from micro to macro levels and everything in between. Photography and science have long been intertwined, helping to shape the way we look at the world. Scientists use photography as a way to gather information, explore, and learn, but just as important, photography is also used to promote scientific advances and has long served as an interface between the sciences and the public. Our understanding of outer space depends on images sent to Earth from the Hubble Space Telescope, just as our understanding of our own bodies depends on X-rays. Images make visible what lies beyond human perception. Science is less an edifice of facts than a process of discovery and inquiry. In this way, it is not dissimilar to art; artists have engaged with some of the same scientific principles, using photography to imagine the world differently and present us with new experiences and ways of seeing. This volume presents both perspectives exploring how science is made perceptible, featuring over three hundred images and sixty short texts. Together they engage readers in a timely exploration of the extent to which our knowledge is formed and transformed through our interactions with photographic imagery.
The Isle of Dogs
-A rare documentation of London's docklands at a time just before the financial transformation When Mike Seaborne began photographing the Isle of Dogs in the early '80s he was struck by how it retained its traditional industrial character, despite the efforts of Thatcher's reign. His black-and-white photographs reveal an eerily desolate landscape which would soon be home to financial heavyweights and epic skyscrapers like Canary Wharf. They show an area of East London now almost beyond recognition, just before the money moved in.
Steve Diet Goedde
Contains unseen 'candid' and behind-the-scenes images from the world's leading fetish photographerIncludes commentaries by the photographer about each image - recollections from shoots and back stories about the models create an intimate atmosphereSteve Diet Goedde's photographs are concerned with fetishism, but they could reasonably be regarded as fashion photographs, for they are about clothes and the roles that dressing imposes on women, or allows them to play. Indeed, Goedde has consistently rejected the visual stereotypes of 'fetish' photography. Instead he sets out to seduce and amuse, experimenting with humor, irony and elements of the surreal. Extempore brings together images that are departures in another sense. They represent stolen moments, or glimpses behind the scenes, when the models are not necessarily aware of the camera. Most of Goedde's models are drawn from his close circle of friends and in these photographs particularly one senses a shared trust and understanding.
Don Mccullin
Don McCullin (b. 1935) is an internationally acclaimed British photojournalist, best known for his war photography and images of urban strife. A Londoner, McCullin began documenting his local community. In 1958, his photograph The Guvnors, a portrait of a notorious Finsbury Park gang involved in the murder of a police officer, was published in the Observer, launching his career as a photojournalist. McCullin went on to become a well-known war correspondent, recognized for his iconic images taken on assignment in Vietnam, Cyprus, Lebanon, and Biafra. He has continued to document poverty in Britain and more recently has turned to landscape photography. This book celebrates McCullin's work over the decades, including color photographs taken on assignment for the Sunday Times magazine that have rarely been seen.
Mike Tyson
Collection of never before seen photographs showing a very little known side of Mike Tyson at his prime and peaking the 1980's and 1990's, in and out of the ring, sometimes with epic legends. It all began with an art school photography assignment: Lori Grinker was shooting a project on young boxers under the guidance of the legendary trainer Cus D'Amato. Her main focus became a nine-year-old boxer Billy Hamm. While photographing him, Cus wandered over and asked why Lori was shooting that kid, when the bigger kid in the corner working a speed bag would one day be the heavyweight champion of the world! The kid was a then 13-year-old Mike Tyson. Lori's early boxing photographs of Mike Tyson are without peer--little exists from that era and all of Grinker's work is personal with uniquely privileged access in and out of the ring. Over the next decade Lori would photograph the coterie that surrounded Mike; Cus's funeral, going home to Brownsville, old friends, trips abroad, in hotel suites before and after fights, his hook-up with Robin Givens, their wedding, their divorce, and the training and fights in between until Tyson's first defeat--the Buster Douglas fight in 1991. This is a side of the Mike Tyson story rarely seen or shared.
In thin lines
A Collection of Custom Designed, Fine Line Tattoo work by New York City based, Filipino-American Tattoo Artist, Sarah Gaugler.
In thin lines
A Collection of Custom Designed, Fine Line Tattoo work by New York City based, Filipino-American Tattoo Artist, Sarah Gaugler.
On Photography
On Photography traces the artistic and institutional decisions that have influenced the Camera Austria association. Since its founding in the mid-1970s as an association of Austrian photographers, the group has had an important place in the European photography world, putting on exhibitions and symposia on topics in photography and, since 1980, publishing the magazine Camera Austria International. Operating through a network of photographers, academics and art critics from all over the world, Camera Austria has come to function like a laboratory shaping photographic culture. At the center of the book are the photographers that Camera Austria has worked with, whether in exhibitions, at symposia or in the magazine--among them Robert Adams, Nobuyoshi Araki, Lewis Baltz, William Eggleston, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Seiichi Furuya, Luigi Ghirri, David Goldblatt, Nan Goldin, Zofia Kulik, Tatiana Lecomte, Susan Meiselas, Peter Piller, Walid Raad, Michael Schmidt, Allan Sekula, Ahlam Shibli, Lieko Shiga, Manfred Willmann and Tobias Zielony.
Richard Kalvar
This latest volume in the Photofile series assembles the experimental, unforgettable moments captured by Richard Kalvar in one accessible volume.Kalvar's photographic style is distinctive for its strong uniformity of aesthetic and theme. His images frequently play on a discrepancy between the banality of a real situation and a feeling of strangeness that emerges from a particular choice of timing and framing. Kalvar is one of the contemporary masters of street photography, and also a member of Magnum Photos.
In Thin Lines
A Collection of Custom Designed, Fine Line Tattoo work by New York City based, Filipino-American Tattoo Artist, Sarah Gaugler.
The Ridiculously Simple Guide to Final Cut Pro X
Apple promises that Final Cut - the company's flagship digital editing software - is "not just a different cut, but a whole new production" -and it truly is. Workflow is faster, smoother and easier than ever. Background tasks are completely automated, and with the program logistics under control, you're free to fully explore your creativity. This guide will walk you through all the basics and have you editing video like a pro in no time at all!This book is not endorsed by Apple, Inc and should be considered unofficial.
In Thin Lines
A Collection of Custom Designed, Fine Line Tattoo work by New York City based, Filipino-American Tattoo Artist, Sarah Gaugler.
Authentic Portraits
An honest and personal book about creating better portraits and becoming your best self.The most successful portraits take us well beyond the surface of how someone looks and show us the inner essence of who someone is. They reveal character, soul, and depth. They uncover hidden hopes and profound truths, revealing that authentic and deeply human light that shines within. And while technical expertise is undoubtedly important, it's not the light, camera, or pose that creates a great portrait. It's you, and it's the connection you create with the subject that makes all the difference.In Authentic Portraits, photographer Chris Orwig teaches you that the secret to creating meaningful portraits is simple: curiosity, empathy, kindness, and soul...plus a bit of technique. While Chris spends significant time on the fundamentals of "getting the shot"--working with natural light, nailing focus, dialing in the correct exposure, effectively posing and directing the subject, intentionally composing the frame--he also passionately discusses the need for personal development, creative collaboration, and connection with the subject. Because who you are directly and deeply affects what you create, and it is only through cultivating your own inner light that you will be able to bring it out in your subjects.Filled with instruction, insight, and inspiration, Authentic Portraits is an honest and personal book about creating better frames. It's also about becoming your best self. Take the journey, and you'll learn to find your vision and voice, bring intention to your photography and your life, embrace mystery, and understand the importance of gratitude and empathy. Along the way, you will teach the camera to see in a way that replicates how you feel, and you'll find you have all you need to create work of lasting significance.TABLE OF CONTENTSPart 1: The Foundation of Authentic Portraiture01: Authentic Portraits02: Beneath the Surface03: The Paradox of Portraiture04: Harmony and Discord05: Thread06: The SearchPart 2: The Art of Authentic Portraiture07: Light and Soul08: Invisible Light09: Defining and Cultivating Soul10: Silence11: Wabi SabiPart 3: Mastering Technique, Gear, and Light12: Finding the Perfect Portrait Lens13: Exposure Settings14: Seven Principles of Natural Light15: Working with Natural LightPart 4: The Sitter and the Subject16: Finding Subjects17: Finding and Approaching People You Want to Photograph18: Pre-Shoot Prep19: Preparing Yourself20: Photograph People, Not LabelsPart 5: Posing, Directing, and Connecting21: Defining Your Directorial Style22: Practical Posing Tips23: Connecting with the Subject24: Unlikely Inspiration for Connecting25: The Four-Step ApproachPart 6: Camera Work26: Composition27: This to ThatPart 7: Stepping Up Your Game28: The Other Side of the Lens29: Courage30: Inner Art31: Gratitude32: FAQ33: The Journey AheadThanksImage DetailsIndex
Between the Films
-Current and historical photographs from 70 years of the Berlinale -Features backstage and slice-of-life images from the festival Since its debut nearly 70 years ago, the Berlin International Film Festival - known as the Berlinale - has become one of the world's leading showcases for cinematic talent and ranks amongst the industry's best attended events. Every year, photographs from the festival - held every February - capture the attention of the world. This selection of images of the Berlinale from the 1950s to the present in the archives of the Deutsche Kinemathek features highlights from on and off the red carpet. In addition to the stars and directors, it includes images of lively press conferences, parties, fans, award ceremonies, and some rare instances of calm amidst the hustle and bustle of the festival. From a historical perspective, the collection draws attention to the development of Berlin itself and the transformations within the film industry. These are revealed by images of interiors, by the fluctuations of fashion, and by the way, changing over time, that people interacted with photographers and journalists. Text in English and German. Contents: 1. 50 Photographs; 2. Fans; 3. Movie Theaters; 4. Parties; 5. Fashion; 6. Press 7; Politics; 8. Portraits; 9. Couples; 10. City; 11. Stars; 12. Bears.
