Jér?me Sessini (b.1968) began his career with the GAMMA agency following the Kosovo war in 1999. Since then he has covered many events: the second intifada, the conflict in Iraq, the Haitian crisis of 2004, the capture of Mogadishu and the Lebanon War. In 2008, he started his Mexican project, So far from God, too close to America, a dive into the drug cartels war in Mexico. This project has already been awarded twice with the F-Award and a Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography. It is superbly presented here in scores of beautifully reproduced images

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.

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.

An elegant and original photo book illustrating once again the excellence of products made in Italy. After Italian Touch, produced with Tods in 2009 and distributed with great success all over the world, the autumn of 2012 will see the publication of a new volume: a gallery of images of Italian men of different ages and origins with a shared passion for elegance and the highest quality. Some thirty men, including a writer, jeweller, a painter, an entrepreneur and philanthropist, a journalist and an aristocrat, are photographed in their chosen settings: the home, the office, the garden or the city. Their lifestyles, born out of a natural flair for combining elegance and quality, are encapsulated in images and short phrases. Beauty becomes a matter of seeking and choosing, the expression of ideas and traditions, creativity and respect, a language capable of conveying the culture that represents the true excellence of products made in Italy.

From a Brazilian mine where 50,000 men haul heavy sacks ofdirt up and down ladders in search of a nugget of gold, to a formerlake in western Africa, where starving people walk over its surfaceof sand, photographer Sebastian Salgado explores the lives of theplanet's often-ignored people.

Portraiture has long been the bread-and-butter of photography;every working photographer needs to know how to shoot and lightpeople effectively to flatter, to deceive, to allude and to enhancebut there has never before been such a simple, time-saving (andtimeless) reference as this. Over two hundred lighting setups areshown in action, allowing you to quickly select one that will workfor you. Setting up photographing lighting can be a challenging andtime-consuming experience, and whether youre a professional lookingto bring out the best in your subject, or an amateur experimentingwith your lighting kit, the ability to flick through hundreds ofpictures showing lighting alternatives and the effect they have ondifferent skin-tones and facial structures in invaluable.

Celebrities rule the modern world, and close behind them arethe paparazzi, fuelling the medias endless fascination with therich and famous, while they themselves keep a low profile, fadingchameleon-like into the background. Bruno Mouron and Pascal Rostainare two respected photo-reporters, based in Paris but ready to goanywhere in the world for a scoop. They began working together inthe late 1970s as contributors to the magazine "Paris Match", andby 1986 they had set up a formal partnership, founding the agencySphinx. Over the decades, they have honed the instincts required tocatch the moment when a glance, a pose and a setting are mostperfectly matched, capturing movie stars and models, rock stars androyalty. This book presents a selection of their best work from thelast 25 years. Packed with striking black-and-white images thathark back to the golden age of photo-journalism, famous challengesus to recognize, appreciate and celebrate a fresh frame ofreference through which great photography can be judged.

In 1955, Henri Cartier-Bresson published "The Europeans", aportrait of the continent documenting a landscape shadowed by thewar. In this book, the photographer brings together images spanningthe years from the late 1920s to the early 1970s. He has travelledacross Europe, from the Scandinavian shield to the Irish bogs, inorder to capture what it means to be European. Beyond nationalismand the particular characteristics of each culture and nation, hehas found evidence of a greater identity, a likeness shared by thepeople and the landscape. His photographs seek to speak of the samedaily ceremony, of the ongoing business of living for people acrossEurope, whether Polish priests in alb or cassock, or Abruzzipeasants shrouded in the black of their cloaks and hats.

For many years respected gallerists PeterMacGill, Rudolf Kicken and Edwynn Houk have been collectingAleksandr Rodchenko's photographs. This book is a curated selectionof these images, mostly reproduced at their original sizes. Thehallmarks of Rodchenko's inimitable Constructivist-influencedvision are here to see, regardless of whether he is photographingpeople, architecture or machinery: bold diagonals, abstract shapesand moving objects cutting through space.

Fashion photography is said to have begun with the distinguished American photographer Edward Steichen in 1911, and in the more than hundred years since then the genre has attracted some of the most talented photographers in the history of the medium. Many of them started their careers thanks to the editors and art directors of Vogue, Glamour and other Condé Nast publications. This book, featuring the work of 85 of the great fashion photographers past and present, drawn from the Condé Nast archives in New York, Paris and Milan, illustrates the early work of such celebrated practitioners as Cecil Beaton, Irving Penn, David Bailey, Helmut Newton, Corinne Day, Ellen von Unwerth and Mario Testino that appeared in the pages of the company’s magazines. The book is arranged chronologically from 1910 to 2010, and each plate section is interleaved with texts that recount the major photographers of the period and the changing styles of photography and fashion. The book also includes an interview with Franca

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).

In 1950, Robert Frank left his job as a photographer in NewYork to travel through Europe with his family. That summer hearrived in Valencia, Spain, which was at the time a humble, bleakplace enduring the austere conditions of the postwar period likethe rest of the country. The pictures Frank took of Valencia depictthe daily life of a fishing village. His portrayal is so naturaland clear that further verbal explanation seems superfluous; theysimply reflect, in the photo graphers words, the humanity of themoment. The photographs in this book, many of which have never beenpublished before, allow dignity to override poverty. Robert Frank,a key figure in photographic history, was born in Zurich in 1924and immigrated to the United States in 1947. He is best known forhis seminal book The Americans, first published in 1959, which gaverise to a distinct new form in the photobook, and his experimentalfilm Pull My Daisy (1959). Franks other projects include the booksBlack White and Things (1954) and The Lines of

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.

In 2001, Rinko Kawauchi launched her career with the simultaneous publication of three astonishing photobooks--Utatane, Hanabi and Hanako--firmly establishing herself as one of the most innovative newcomers to contemporary photography, not just in Japan, but across the globe. In the years that followed, she published other notable monographs, including Aila (2004), The Eyes, the Ear (2005) and Semear (2007). And now, ten years after her precipitous entry onto the international stage, Aperture has published Illuminance, the latest volume of Kawauchi's work and the first to be published outside of Japan. Kawauchi's photography has frequently been lauded for its nuanced palette and offhand compositional mastery, as well as

To me, being a WASP has nothing to do with religion or money.. . At once glamorous and mysterious, the WASP lifestyle hasinfluenced countless trends in the worlds of fashion, home design,and pop culture. Today, one no longer has to be a WASP to embraceits casual-yet-elegant attitude and sense of style. With livelytext and over one hundred images from world-renowned photographers,A Privileged Life: Celebrating WASP Style is the first book of itskind to unveil this rarefied way of life, one that many emulatethough few truly understand. From the eclectic and well-decoratedhome of Sister Parish to the popular pink-and-green colorcombination of preppy chic to iconic photographs of the stylemakers who embody the WASP spirit like Grace Kelly, Truman Capote,or Jacqueline Kennedy, this book celebrates our timelessfascination with America's leisure class. AUTHOR SUSANNA SALK grewup in Essex, Massachusetts and went to boarding school at MiltonAcademy. She got her B.A. in English at Vassar College and thenmoved to

Parents, grandparents, teachers, and parents-to-be will delight in this collection of pictures of children from around the world. This charming CubeBook compendium of photographs follows the path of childhood from the cradle to first steps, from relationships with parents and siblings to attempts at independence, from games in the neighborhood to studies in school. Heartfelt and infinitely appealing in their unembellished charm, these lovely images—both candid and posed—express emotions and experiences shared by children everywhere, and also reveal the fascinating differences in children around the world. A vast range of cultures is represented in these pages, and the photographs convey in fascinating detail the traditional games, school environments, and family settings of each. From the irresistibly chubby legs of an infant to the tentative first steps of a toddler, from the proud gap-toothed grin of a young child to the shy smile of a preteen, these photographs embody the true essence of childhood.

Design is the single most important factor in creating asuccessful photograph. The ability to see the potential for astrong picture and then organize the graphic elements into aneffective, compelling composition has always been one of the keyskills in making photographs. Of course, digital photography hasbrought a new, exciting aspect to design first because the instantfeedback from a digital camera allows immediate appraisal andimprovement; and second because image-editing tools make itpossible to alter and enhance the design after the shutter has beenpressed. This has had a profound effect on the way digitalphotographers take pictures. The Photographers Eye shows how anyonecan develop an eye for seeing great digital photos. The bookexplores all the traditional approaches to composition and design,but crucially, it also addresses the new digital technique ofshooting in the knowledge that a picture will later be edited,manipulated, or montaged to result in a final image that may bevery different from the one

First published in France in 1958, then in the United States in 1959, Robert Frank's The Americans changed the course of twentieth-century photography. In 83 photographs, Frank looked beneath the surface of American life to reveal a people plagued by racism, ill-served by their politicians and rendered numb by a rapidly expanding culture of consumption. Yet he also found novel areas of beauty in simple, overlooked corners of American life. And it was not just his subject matter--cars, jukeboxes and even the road itself--that redefined the icons of it was also his seemingly intuitive, immediate, off-kilter style, as well as his method of brilliantly linking his photographs together thematically, conceptually, formally and linguistically, that made The Americans so innovative. More of an ode or a poem than a literal document, the book is as powerful and provocative today as it was 50 years ago. Published to accompany a major exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern A

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.