"Life" has brought Americans the world in pictures for nearly seventy years. Now, in this very special gift book, "Life" treats us to the most romantic photographs ever to appear in the magazine-a passionate gallery of hugs, kisses, caresses, and embraces. From an old couple walking hand in hand to young lovers sharing a tender moment in a graveyard, from tentative first kiss to tender nuzzle, every picture tells a story and captures one of the many faces of love. Beautifully packaged in a square-format hardcover, LIFE & LOVE is the perfect way to say happy Valentine's Day.

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

The photography community has been among the earliest and most enthusiastic adopters of Apple’s revolutionary iPad. With its crystal-clear display, powerful graphical capabilities and intuitive interface, it’s certainly an effective way to show off photographs. But what else can it do? In this, the first book on the subject, Ben Harvell explains how the iPad is revolutionising the way that pro photographers work. There are powerful photo editing applications, easy-to-use photo sharing and display programs, and useful tethered-shooting this book explains all, and will be a must-read for digital photographers everywhere.

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.

When Diane Arbus died in 1971 at the age of forty-eight, shewas already a significant influence—even something of alegend—among serious photographers, although only a relativelysmall number of her most important pictures were widely known atthe time. The publication of Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph in1972—along with the posthumous retrospective at The Museum ofModern Art—offered the general public its first encounter with thebreadth and power of her achievements. The response wasunprecedented. The monograph of eighty photographs was edited anddesigned by the painter Marvin Israel, Diane Arbus’s friend andcolleague, and by her daughter Doon Arbus. Their goal in making thebook was to remain as faithful as possible to the standards bywhich Diane Arbus judged her own work and to the ways in which shehoped it would be seen. Universally acknowledged as a classic,Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph is a timeless masterpiece witheditions in five languages and remains the foundation of herinternat

The Great LIFE Photographers is the most comprehensive anthology of LIFE photography ever published, featuring the best work of every staff photographer who worked for the famous magazine, and that of a handful of others who shot for LIFE. It was always the photographers who made LIFE great, and this is the most vivid and exciting portrait of those men and women that has ever been produced. The book offers more than 100 portfolios including those of Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, Carl Mydans, Gordon Parks, W. Eugene Smith, Robert Capa, Ralph Morse, Nina Leen, Harry Benson, Philippe Halsman, and Joe McNally, whose work for LIFE in the aftermath of September 11 was in the finest tradition of the magazine. Each portfolio includes a short biography, offering an intimate look at the people behind the lens. Here are the defining moments of the 20th century, including MacArthur wading ashore by Mydans, Capa's D-Day landing at Omaha Beach and, of course, Eisenstaedt's sailor kissing th

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 Great LIFE Photographers is the mostcomprehensive anthology of LIFE photography ever published,featuring the best work of every staff photographer who worked forthe famous magazine, and that of a handful of others who shot forLIFE. It was always the photographers who made LIFE great, and thisis the most vivid and exciting portrait of those men and women thathas ever been produced. The book offers more than 100 portfolios including those ofAlfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, Carl Mydans, GordonParks, W. Eugene Smith, Robert Capa, Ralph Morse, Nina Leen, HarryBenson, Philippe Halsman, and Joe McNally, whose work for LIFE inthe aftermath of September 11 was in the finest tradition of themagazine. Each portfolio includes a short biography, offering anintimate look at the people behind the lens. Here are the defining moments of the 20th century, includingMacArthur wading ashore by Mydans, Capa's D-Day landing at OmahaBeach and, of course, Eisenstaedt's sailor kissing the nurse. Here

San Francisco has long been one of America's most attractive cities, "a gleaming jewel of the West Coast surrounded on three sides by water." Its hilly streets provide gorgeous glimpses of San Francisco Bay and The Golden Gate Bridge and its neighborhoods reveals a mosaic of a city whose residents are an anthology of the world. Whether he's photographing the street life of bustling Chinatown or gays of the Castro, the gentrifying Mission or faux-Bohemian North Beach, aerial views or interior settings, this third generation San Franciscan renowned for his photographic essays captures it all in this superb collection of photographs of the city he loves.

Best known for his striking photographs of people on the fringes of South African society, Roger Ballen makes images that are ambiguous and often disturbing, but also shot through with flashes of dark humour. The photographs in Shadow Chamber blur the boundaries between documentary photography and art forms such as painting, theatre and sculpture, challenging the ways in which we perceive the 'reality' of photography. Ballen's images are completely honest, yet also fabricated. The mysterious, cell-like rooms that Ballen photographs are actual places, but they are unsettling and strange, logical but impossible: their walls are covered with scribbled drawings, stains and dangling wires, the floors are strewn with bizarre props and artefacts. Dogs, rabbits and kittens wander into the frame or are stuffed into unlikely containers. The humans and animals in Ballen's photographs appear isolated and lost, yet strangely empowered at the same time. The resulting images are allegories of lived experiences and surre

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.