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.
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
The classic Photofile series brings together the best work ofthe world's greatest photographers in an attractive format and at areasonable price. Handsome and collectible, the books each containsome sixty reproductions, plus a critical introduction and abibliography. With his focus on the "disagreeable beauty" of the anomalous andthe transgressive, Joel-Peter Witkin's images are edgy anddisturbing. Influenced by artists from Giotto to the Surrealists,by daguerreotypes and the work of Bellocq, his portraits andcomplex tableaux incorporating corpses, hermaphrodites, masks, andmutilation provoke and challenge the viewer. 64 illustrations incolor and duotone.
Attention all hipsters! In November 2012, the world’s coolest camera brand celebrates its 20th anniversary with the publication of this official two-volume slipcased title. Book I features specially commissioned photography showing off all cameras in the vast Lomography range, including every limited edition and the best one-offs ever made. Book II traces the story of the last 20 years of Lomography, as seen through the wonderful and varied world of Lomo lenses. Anecdotes and recollections relate the stuff of Lomo legend. Chronologically organized and featuring the very best photographic material from the 1.5 million-strong Lomography community, this volume is a snapshot of every corner of the lomographic world. This is an absolute must-have package for designers, photographers and hipsters the world over. The future is analogue!
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).
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.
Unlock the creative potential of the camera thats always in your pocket. This book is for every iPhone owner with an interest in creating stylish, fashionable, exciting and unique photos, wherever they are. iPhone users are always talking about the latest apps, and with good for pennies, extra features can be added to the phone in seconds, including hundreds of tools for photographers. This book selects the best, showing how to use them through clear instructions, inspirational images and a friendly instructional text. But this is no mere software this is a book to inspire creative photographers. A series of photographic challenges that everyone can undertake will let you gain in confidence and train you to see great opportunities for arresting photos, wherever you are.
法国印象派绘画虽然在有些人看来分别存有或片面追求光学的客观主义，或把科学原理与艺术创作有机结合，以及自我表现的个体主义倾向等，但在西方传统绘画的历史性超越、对西方现代主义艺术的精神启迪等方面，提出了许多关键性的问题并进行了有益的探索性实验。因此可以说，法国印象派绘画扭转了西方美术的发展方向，开启了美术的新纪元。
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.
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.
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
Get up close and personal with the world’s best street photographers as they capture the drama of everyday life at 1?125 of a second. Prowl pavements and back alleys, encountering comic absurdities, small acts of kindness and scenes of unexpected let your eye be caught by a witty billboard, a woman dressed as an angel, a businessman sprinting through the crowd: the human carnival is in town and the streets are alive. Street Photography Now presents 46 contemporary image-makers noted for their candid depictions of everyday life. Included are Magnum masters such as Bruce Gilden, Martin Parr and Alex Webb, along with an international cast of emerging photographers whose individual biographies illuminate the stories behind their pictures of New York, Tokyo, Delhi or Dakar. Four thought-provoking essays and a global conversation between leading street photographers explore the compelling and often controversial issues in the genre. A select bibliography and a resource section for aspiring street photogra
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.
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
修订一部深受读者欢迎的音乐通史，目的不是推倒重写，而是提高它的时代性。看惯前几版的读者，会觉得此书不论外貌或者内容改动甚大，但章次和范围基本未变。收名中加上“西方”一词，说明我们意识到西欧和南北美洲的音乐体系不过是世界文明的诸音乐体系之一。本书范围的又一局限在于只谈“艺术音乐”；而必须承认，“艺术音乐”这一概念本身便十分含糊。通俗音乐、爵士乐以及诸如此类的品种确已有相当高深的技巧，但不能期望本书同等对待西方音乐的这一广大支系（如今已成为独立的研究课题），常规的音乐史教程也未必能等同视之，而本书不过是一本常规音乐史的手册。
ANSEL ADAMS: 400 PHOTOGRAPHS presents the full spectrum ofAdams' work in a single volume for the first time, offering thelargest available compilation from his legendary photographiccareer. Beautifully produced and presented in an attractivelandscape trim, ANSEL ADAMS: 400 PHOTOGRAPHS will appeal to ageneral gift-book audience as well as Adams' legions of dedicatedfans and students. The photographs are arranged chronologically into five majorperiods, from his first photographs made in Yosemite and the HighSierra in 1916 to his work in the National Parks in the 1940s up tohis last important photographs from the 1960s. An introduction andbrief essays on selected images provide information aboutAdams'life, document the evolution of his technique, and give voice tohis artistic vision. Few artists of any era can claim to have produced four hundredimages of lasting beauty and significance. It is a testament toAdams' vision and lifetime of hard work that a book of this scalecan be compiled. ANSEL
The newest title in this affordable photography serieshighlights the work of Paolo Roversi.Born in Ravenna, Italy, in1947, Paolo Roversi discovered photography at the age of seventeenon a family holiday. A chance meeting with photographer Peter Knappled him to move to Paris in the early 1970s, where he firstencountered the world of fashion. His career truly began when hebecame an assistant to Laurence Sackman, who taught him thephotographer’s craft.Now based in Paris for more than thirty years,Roversi is famed for his use of large-format Polaroid film tocapture images of ethereal beauty, vulnerability, and romanticism.Working in evocative monochrome or carefully articulated color, hecollaborates regularly with the world’s top supermodels anddesigners, and has photographed for many leading fashion magazinesand international ad campaigns. 64 duotone illustrations
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.
