Somehow the most compelling street photography remains thekind that allows us to imagine ourselves wandering into the frame.( Wall Street Journal )
For over 30 years, The New York Times Magazine has beensynonymous with the myriad possibilities and applications ofphotography. The New York Times Magazine: Photographs reflects uponand interrogates the very nature of both photography and printmagazines at this pivotal moment in their history and evolution.Edited by Kathy Ryan, longtime photo editor of the Magazine, andwith a preface by former editorial director Gerald Marzorati, thisvolume presents some of the finest commissioned photographsworldwide in four sections: reportage, portraiture, style andconceptual photography, including photo illustration. Diverse incontent and sensibility, and consistent in virtuosity, thephotographs are accompanied by reproduced tear sheets to allow forthe examination of sequencing and the interplay between text andimage, simultaneously presenting the work while illuminating itsdistillation to magazine form. This process is explored furtherthrough texts offering behind-the-scenes perspective and anecdotesby the many ph
Most of us desire commitment. We want to know that there is someone we can count on, with whom we can join together. Yet in our dissatisfied and mobile culture, commitment is one of the hardest states to negotiate and preserve. Marriage vows no longer assure it; there is no legal contract that can protect it. In these days of easy divorce and endless possibility,it is not breaking up but staying together that is the challenge.The idea of true commitment in a marital relationship has come to be an archaic, romantic notion for many people. However, photographer M. I. Hamburg and author Catherine Whitney discovered that, in spite of all the negative media, we are surrounded by couples quietly commemorating decades of happily married life. Couples: A Celebration of Commitment is an extraordinary tribute to such love and devotion. This fascinating book relates the formulas of success behind thirty-five special couples who have more than weathered the tests of time.Couples offers intimate portraits of both
Digital photography has revolutionized the way people take, print, and share photos. But if you're wondering why your digital photos don't measure up to the terrific shots that some people take of sunsets, people, pets, and everything else, you probably need a little help from Digital Photography Workbook for Dummies. With great, easy-to-follow instruction and lots of practice tasks, this roll-up-your sleeves workbook is packed with exercises to help you become a better digital photographer and photo editor. You'll learn the basics of classic photocomposition, find out how to capture and accentuate movement in action photos, and get comfortable adding even more pizzazz to your pics using Photoshop Elements. More than 100 step-by-step procedures, illustrated in full color, help you discover how to: Get familiar with your camera's features and tools Control depth of field Minimize reflections Photograph children and pets Calibrate your monitor Notice and remove s
Get the most out of Lightroom with Tim Grey as your guide by reducing the time and effort you spend storing, selecting, and editing your digital images. Adobe’s new Lightroom software, together with this practical guide, explains everything from importing and cataloguing to processing and archiving. Whether you’re a professional photographer or advanced amateur, you’ll find ways to work efficiently with Lightroom in order to improve your productivity and get the results you want.
In the film era, learning to manipulate lighting and exposure settings was basic to a professional photographer's education. But in today's digital world, the camera handles these things for you—that is, unless you manually reclaim control. Now veteran photographer Michael Meadhra reintroduces you to the alchemy of light and exposure, showing you how to use these elements to create breathtaking photographic artistry with your digital camera. Understand the essential nature and color of light and why photography truly is "painting with light"； Learn how lighting and exposure affect specific subjects； Try different aperture and shutter settings and explore their effects； Discover how to set up lighting for various shots and enhance lighting on location； Control motion with shutter speed and use exposure creatively； Recognize the effect of exposure on color and how to light a setting to establish a mood； Create masterful effects with light and shadow. 作者简介：
American Dreaming presents a vision of America from 1990 to1995. Spagnoli took these photographs with a small Leica camera inthe classic manner of street photography and then selected smalldetails from the negatives. The resulting images of gestures,signs, faces and objects are freed from their original contexts andreconfigured. Spagnolis subject is the build-up to the First GulfWar, but we see these social and political events at best obliquelyas Spagnolis version of history is primarily subjective andfragmentary. American Dreaming is the second of Spagnolis books ina trilogy about the personal experience of history, the first beingDaguerreotypes (2006).
Andreas Gurskys new Bangkok series forms the basis of this book. Gurskys photos depict the dark, moving water of Thailands Chao Phraya river, whose shimmering surface possesses the qualities of abstract painting. Indeed these photos are reminiscent of some of the most recognisable examples of Modernist Abstraction such as the work of Hans Arp, but they also echo the more hostile patterns of military camouflage. Seductively beautiful on the first glance, it is only in time that the rubbish of civilisation becomes recognisable floating on the surface of the river the flotsam of a threatening reality moving upon colourful reflections. Gursky alludes to the ecological problems that jeopardise Bangkok, and which shortly after these images were made, culminated in the widespread flooding that devastated great parts of Thailand. Andreas Gursky, born in 1955 in Leipzig, is one of the most important contemporary photographers. He studied at the Folkwangschule in Essen, and at the Kunstakademie Du?sseldorf under
Bollywood movies are glorious, colorful spectacles of romance,action, drama, song, and dance. The biggest film industry in theworld, Bollywood puts out some nine hundred movies a year, whichare watched by passionate fans around the globe. Stephen Alter--awriter who grew up in India and has inside access toBollywood--acts as translator and tour guide in this firsthand lookinto the world of Bombay films. Following the making of a Bollywoodversion of Othello, he explores the enormous popularity of Hindimovies and reveals the actors, directors, musicians, and feats ofartifice that make them so compelling and unique. From the blessingceremony performed each time a movie starts shooting to the secretsbehind the song- and-dance extravaganzas, Fantasies of a BollywoodLove-Thief is a beguiling introduction to the rituals and cultureof a moviemaking industry so similar to and yet utterly differentfrom our own.
Peter Fischli (b. 1952) and David Weiss (19462012) were Switzerlands most renowned artistic duo. Executed in a variety of media, including sculpture, film and photography, their work playfully ignores the distinction between high and low art. The duo is perhaps best known for the 1987 film The Way Things Go, in which an improbable chain of events unfolds involving household objects and detritus in their studio. In 1988, Fischli and Weiss began working on an ongoing series of airport photographs. At first glance, the images appear commonplace, almost like tourist photographs. They focus on the banal side of air travel: the fuel vehicles, the baggage trucks, the daily routine of the airport worker. These carefully composed images are strangely placid and restful, without any of the noise and anxiety commonly associated with airports. This legendary series, comprising some 800 photographs, is published here in its complete form for the first time.
Paola De Pietri first learnt of World War I at school and fromfamily members who recounted historical facts through personalexperiences experiences that are in danger of being forgotten. InTo Face De Pietri preserves these memories in a series ofphotographs of the alps between Italy and Austria, a landscape thatstill bears the scars of trench warfare from nearly a century ago.De Pietris subtle, unassuming images show a landscape once damagedby man is now being reclaimed by nature.
Revised and updated, the new edition of the best-selling classic: over 500,000 copies of previous editions in print worldwide Every new generation of digital cameras offers more photographic possibilities, and the options can be baffling. This completely updated edition of Michael Freemans best-selling Complete Guide to Digital Photography introduces all the knowledge youll need to cut to the chase and create perfect photographs every time. You'll gain a thorough understanding of how today's cameras work, an introduction to digital editing techniques that make the most of the technology's capabilities, and a grounding in photography's all the expertise that Michael Freeman has gained in his successful career as a professional assignment photographer. With over 600 examples, a no-nonsense, jargon-busting glossary of terms and a full index for easy reference, it is an indispensable onestop source of photographic information and expertise.
Mans relationship with his surroundings is at the center of Valérie Jouves work. Her choreography of figures in an urban environment brings to mind pictures of classic street photography yet Jouve has developed fictitious areas at the junction of her topographic interests and her photographic research on human presence. Genres and photographic methods gradually become interlocked in her works, prompting fundamental questions about photographic representations.
Since its first publication in 1937, this lucid and scholarlychronicle of the history of photography has been hailed as theclassic work on the subject. No other book and no other author havemanaged to relate the aesthetic evolution of the art of photographyto its technical innovations with such an absorbing combination ofclarity, scholarship and enthusiasm. Through more than 300 works bysuch master photographers as William Henry Fox Talbot, TimothyO'Sullivan, Julia Margaret Cameron, Eugene Atget, Peter HenryEmerson, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Alvin Langdon Coburn, ManRay, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Ansel Adams,Brassai, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Harry Callahan, Minor White, RobertFrank and Diane Arbus, author Beaumont Newhall presents afascinating, comprehensive study of the significant trends anddevelopments in the medium since the first photographs were made in1839. New selections added to the fifth edition include photographsmade in color, from hand-tinted daguerreotypes of 1850 to
This volume presents photographerCartier-Bresson's own selection of 130 of his photographs of Paris,taken over 50 years. Accompanying text discusses the history ofCartier-Bresson's engagement with the city and its place in hisachievement.
Third Life is the new monograph by the photographers photographer, Norbert Schoerner. Assembled as a cinematic narrative, this book collects new and previously unseen work produced over the last seven years. In equal measures a photographic diary and a sequence of remarkable tableaux, Third Life traces Schoerners journeys across the globe. Through the juxtaposition of carefully chosen urban and rural landscapes with images from his photographic sketchbooks, Schoerner explores representation in the context of mass availability and re-purposing of digital images in the www environment.
Over a period of fifteen years Joel Sternfeld travelled across America and took portrait photographs that form in Douglas R. Nickels words an intelligent, unscientific, interpretive sampling of what Americans looked like at the centurys end. Unlike historical portraits which represent significant people in staged surroundings, Sternfelds subjects are uncannily normal: a banker having an evening meal, a teenager collecting shopping carts in a parking lot, a homeless man holding his bedding. Using August Sanders classic photograph of three peasants on their way to a dance as a starting point, Sternfeld employed a conceptual strategy that amounts to a new theory of the portrait, which might be termed The Circumstantial Portrait. What happens when we encounter the other in the mist of a circumstance? What presumptions, if any, are valid? What, if anything, can be known of the other from a photographic portrait? A major figure in the photography world, Joel Sternfeld was born in New York City in 1944. He ha
Renowned photographer, and popular blogger Tracey Clark shows how each day of our lives is full of photographic potential. Focusing on the moments that are most precious to us, she offers a host of creative ideas, technical tips, and inspirational shots, enabling the readers photographic achievements to grow, turning those instants arrivals, departures, childhood and family gatherings into beautiful, captivating images that will stand the test of time. Written with the busy mum or dad in mind, this book will bring the fun back into family photographs, helping you create memories that youll cherish, and moments that your social network will love. In fact a whole chapter is dedicated to sharing your results in a way everyone will love.
Off Beat presents photographs taken in New York City in 2008and 2009, when A-chan began working with black and white film. Theimages were made in the same wandering spirit as those in VibrantHome, also to be published this season by Steidl. A-chan exploredthe streets of New York, allowing her compositions to revealthemselves rather than searching for pre-determined motifs. Pigeonsperched on a branch, the lyrical geometry of serviettes on a table,or the play of shapes created by a bus silhouetted against traffic:such is the material of A-chan's restless, charming vision.
One of the most popular cameras on the market is called theDigital Rebel, yet many photographers use it and its brethrenfollowing tired old rules from tired old photographers. This bookshows new and intermediate photographers that they can move beyondthe dogma and shoot more creatively, right now. If youre juststarting out with a camera, or are starting to think aboutswitching away from auto, this is the perfect book for you. Notonly will you find within all the classical rules useful basicknowledge that can sharpen anyones eye for a great photograph butyoull simultaneously be shown how you can push the boundaries thatmany teachers erroneously set, filling your memory card withexciting, refreshing pictures every time.
Photography has revolutionized the way we see the world. This book is a comprehensive guide to 250 of the world's best-known photographers, from the pioneers of the previous century to the experimental artisit who will take us into the next.
Adult/High School–The enormous variety of things that people do for survival and sustenance is impressively represented in this book. Neither doctor nor lawyer is included, and only a small number of white-collar jobs make the cut. Instead, readers see clover collectors in Yemen, bootblacks in Portugal, ice fishermen in Russia, coal miners in West Virginia, and salt miners in Ukraine. The volume is arranged in geographic sections: Europe, Asia, Africa, Middle East, Americas, and Islands. Interspersed among them are three thematic portfolios: agriculture, extraction (mining), and manufacturing. Protzman contributes engaging and helpful introductions to each geographic section, as well as brief notes introducing the thematic portfolios. With few exceptions the photos are captivating and of high technical quality. Most were taken within the past 20 years, although some are historical, including a few early-20th-century images by Lewis Hine. Many of the images display poverty, hardship, and oppression (especial
Tradition and innovation are twin pillars in America's captial city, where grand monuments beckon, memorials inspire and power browkers cut deals in Downtown bistros and Georgetown bars. Washington, DC appeals with attractions as diverse as the nation's population. Our savvy authors scour the city, pinpointing the best experiences in DC. EXPLORE THE NATIONAL MALL - experience America's front yard your own way with our special full-color National Mall chapter. TOUR THE CITY - sample the corridors of power before savoring daily life in DC's energetic, vibrant neighborhoods. EAT OUT - indulge in Ethiopian pancakes, olive martinis, overstuffed Tex-Mex, oysters and mimosas, and all-American ice cream. GO ALL NIGHT - cut loose like the locals in DC's relentless nightlife scene by downing rooftop drinks, catching shows at the 9:30 Club or clubbing in Dupont till dawn. HIT THE ROAD - see the best of the Capital Region's varied attractions, from Atlantic beaches to Civil War battlegrounds
