Whether they are of Abu Dhabi, California, Egypt or Emilia, all of the images he produces are lit with a constant physical light and elements that this photographer seems to always have with him the way he does with his camera bag, and through which all he wants to do is observe the world. I find such an aesthetic to be more that of a painter than a photographer somehow. Better yet, that of a post-documentary or neo-pictorialist photographer, who experiences and conceives his work to be the exprssive gesture of an artist for whom the subject is above all the opportunity for a tremendous but constant variation in his view of the world.

The American Kennel Club recognizes over 160 breeds of dogs inseven categories: Hound, Working, Sporting, Non-sporting, Terrier,Toy and Herding. Thousands of Americans own purebred show dogs, andyear round, local kennel clubs host events at which judges evaluatehow closely individual dogs conform to breed standard. Ribbons andtrophies are bestowed and points are accumulated. The penultimateevent in a show dog s life is Westminster held in New York everyyear since 1877 which attracts hordes of visitors and aninternational media bonanza. In 2005 Life magazine assignedphotographer Kate Lacey to cover Westminster. She decided thatinstead of documenting the scene, she would rig up a seamlessbackdrop to make elegant portraits, much as Richard Avedon oncecaptured glamorous celebrities. Though partial to poodle mutt mixesherself, on this assignment Kate became entranced by show dogs, andtheir exquisite grooming and acclimatization to attention made themready subjects. After the assignment ended, she continued travel

* Digital SLR camera sales are estimated at 2.7 million units in 2005 and 4.5 million units in 2006; digital SLR cameras costing less than $500 are expected by the end of 2005 * This bargain-priced, full-color guide is the ideal resource for new digital SLR photographers * Offers well-organized coverage of camera facts and features as well as specific techniques for photographing people, sports, nature, and other genres * Covers image-editing techniques using Photoshop CS2, including levels, curves, Unsharp Mask, and color calibration

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In The Photographers Eye, Michael Freeman showed what a photographer needs to do in the instant before the shutter is released. In the sequel, The Photographers Mind, he explained the way that professional photographers think a picture through before taking it. Both of these international best-sellers featured Michaels own photography: stunning landscapes, revealing portraits, and fascinating street photography. Now, in The Photographers Vision, he examines the work of photographys greats, explaining how to look at a photo and how to learn from looking at it. The featured work includes some of the most distinguished names in photographys history: Nick Knight, Frederick Henry Evans, Frans Lanting, Tim Page, Wolfgang Tillmans, Nan Goldin, Paul Outerbridge, Walker Evans, Cindy Sherman, Elliott Erwitt, Trent Parke, Jeff Wall, Paul Strand, Romano Cagnoni, Horst Faas, James Casebere and many more, making this book visually stunning as well as intellectually authoritative.

Somehow the most compelling street photography remains thekind that allows us to imagine ourselves wandering into the frame.( Wall Street Journal )

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：

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.

In 1987 Aperture published Lynne Cohen’s first monograph,Occupied Territory, an exploration of space as simulatedexperience—an ersatz reality, idealized and standardized. Now,Aperture is pleased to release a newly expanded and updated reissueof this classic monograph, making Cohen’s pioneering work availableto a contemporary audience and situating her appropriately withinthe lineage of Lewis Baltz, Stephen Shore, and other widelycelebrated Topographic photographers. In the twenty years of workcontained in the book, Cohen turns her view camera towardclassrooms, science laboratories, testing facilities, waitingrooms, and other interior spaces where function triumphs overaesthetics. What decorations the inhabitants might have added tothese rooms to make them more inviting—mostly phony attempts atwarmth or individualism—only serve to amplify their artifice anduniformity. In cool, functional offices, futuristic receptionareas, lifeless party rooms, escapist motel rooms, and hauntingkilling chamber

An elegiac collection of sixty Polaroid photographs by thelate Soviet film director Andrei Tarkovsky. "Tarkovsky often reflected on the way that time flies and wantedto stop it, even with these quick Polaroid shots. The melancholy ofseeing things for the last time is the highly mysterious and poeticessence that these images leave with us. It is as though Andreiwanted to transmit his own enjoyment quickly to others. And theyfeel like a fond farewell." —Tonino Guerra, from theIntroduction This beautifully produced book comprises sixty Polaroid photographsof Andrei Tarkovsky's friends and family, taken between 1979 and1984 in his native Russia and in Italy, where he spent time inpolitical exile.The size of the Polaroids is exactly as presentedin the book, including the frame. The book may therefore be viewedas a facsimile edition. 60 color illustrations.

The Hasselblad Award is the most important international photography prize in the world today, and since 1980 award winners have included some of the greatest names the medium has known. The award is granted to "a photographer recognized for major achievement"; this may be an individual who has made a pioneering achievement in photography, who has had a decisive impact on one or more younger generations of photographers, or one who has implemented one or more internationally significant photographic projects. The 2007 Hasselblad Award winner is Nan Goldin, easily one of the most significant photographers of our time. Adopting the direct aesthetics of snapshot photography, she has documented her own life and that of her friends and others on the margins of society for more than 30 years, offering frank depictions of drug abuse, cross-dressing and alternative sexualities. Her intimate photographs depict urban lives in New York and Europe in the 1970s, 80s and 90s, a period massively determined by HIV and

In this extraordinary collection of color images, noted landscape and wildlife photographer Jeff Drewitz presents Australia's natural beauty in all its stunning diversity. Whether photographs of dry outback or breathtaking coastline, the lush woods of Tasmania or the rainforests and wildlife of the tropical north, these pictures reveal a landscape that offers beauty and diversity in spades. The cities scattered along Australia's coasts are also covered. Here is a portrait of a vast land of extremes that will be the perfect keepsake for any traveler. Superb collection of photographs that captures the natural beauty and diversity of Australia’s landscape and wildlife. Also includes urban scenes. The fifth in teNeues’ successful color version of its Photopockets series, this will be the perfect keepsake for any traveler.

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.

This is the long-awaited compendium of LewisBaltz's writings from 1975 until 2007, drawn from his criticalwriting for magazines such as Art in America, the Times LiterarySupplement, L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, and Purple. The bookincludes Baltz's texts on Edward Weston, Walker Evans, RobertAdams, Michael Schmidt, Allan Sekuka, Chris Burden, Thomas Ruff,Barry Le Va, Jeff Wall, Félix González-Torres, John McLaughlin,Slavica Perkovic and Krzysztof Wodiczko, among others. Thisimportant publication gives Baltz's literary output the standing itdeserves and offers a unique insight into some of history's leadingphotographers.

This DVD contains a long film about the work of Magnumphotographer Martin Parr, who'd been followed by the director formore than a month. It includes an important selection of interviewsabout Parr's work, with extra content about a unique perspective onleisure and habits of the American people. Contains a longinterview with Parr and other great personalities of theinternational world of photography.

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

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

California denotes much more than a place-it implies a lifestyle, a space for ingenious, artistic, and enterprising leaders of society to live and play. Throughout the world, California is known as the place where wondrous things are invented and developed. It is the wondrous garden where everything grows and the magical place where movies are made. Historically, California's unlimited opportunities attracted countless newcomers, reaching back as far as the Native Americans. Others followed: the Conquistadors of the 1500s as well as the padres of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, who built the 21 missions that stretch from San Diego to just north of San Francisco. In 1849, fortune seekers flocked to the Sierras for the Gold Rush, and the years after World War II saw the beginning of another population boom. So dynamic is life in the most populated of the fifty United States that, if it were an independent nation, California could boast the eighth largest economy in the world.

THIS RICHLY ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO OVER 2000 OF THE WORLD'S FAVORITE ROSES WILL DELIGHT EVERY ROSE GROWER. Botanica's Pocket Roses contains a wealth of information to help the beginner or veteran to identify, choose and grow the world's most popular flower. Comprehensive entries of Wild Roses and the A-Z listing of varieties and their alternative names are illustrated with beautiful color photographs. There is also detailed information on cultivation, including planting, pruning, training, and routine care of these inspirational and widely loved plants. The book features something for every gardener - old favorites and the latest varieties, ground covers to climbers, easy-to-grow and more challenging varieties, and growing conditions for these beautiful and rewarding flowers.

A project-oriented workshop on exposure-in full color. Packed with 400 stunning full-color photographs of people, wildlife, and landscapes, this book offers photographers unique tips and tricks for getting just the right image quality and tone. Teaches you everything you need to know about shutter speed, aperture, white balance, lighting, flash photography and more to get your best images!

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

Tokyo is a city of contrasts and contradictions in which East coexists with West; modernity thrives amidst age-old traditions, and orderliness prevails in one of the most densely populated cities in the world. This striking collection of black & white photographs illustrates all of these truisms about this complex city and its inhabitants. Whether he's photographing a rooftop shrine set against the skyscrapers of the Shinjuku High rise district, a swirling mass of commuters in Tokyo Station at rush hour, or the tranquil beauty of the Imperial Palace, Ben Simmons' photographs both radiate with Tokyo's vitality and reveal its enduring traditions.

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.