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.

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.

From the opulent and grand to the intimate and practical the gardens of England are as diverse as they are loved. Here, Britain's leading garden photographer Andrew Lawson has travelled the length and breadth of the land to capture the true essence of the English garden.Seen through all the seasons, the gardens range from those of magnificent country houses with sumptuous borders and immaculate parterres,through to intimate private gardens full of character, charm and eccentricity, to those of tiny cottage plots, bursting with a colourful array of flowers and vegetables. Panoramic views and delicate close-ups contribute to the overall tapestry: romantic rose gardens, productive potagers and tumbling waterfalls are interwoven with wildflower meadows and clipped topiary. An authoritative and accessible text by the well-known garden writer Jane Taylor provides the perfect commentary to Andrew Lawson's stunning images and with an index and list of gardens to visit, Great English Gardens can also be used as a gui

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

Calling all mamarazzis! Every camera-toting mom will want thisguide! Moms, if you can't seem to take enough great photos of the childrenin your life, this is the book for you. Now you can learn howto photograph children with the style, clarity, color, and beautyyou see in professional photographs. This fun guide combineshumor with solid know-how to show you how to compose shots, handlecameras from basic compacts to advanced dSLRs, take portraits orcandids, create prints that impress, and even work with kids!Packed with beautiful examples and written in a down-to-earth stylefrom one mom to another, this book will help mamarazzis everywheretake better photos. Moms are one of the fastest-growing segments of thecamera-toting demographic, and the blogosphere has a term for them,mamarazzis Mixes information, inspiration, and fun for women who want to takebetter photographs of the children in their lives Explains how to set up a camera and use the controls on basiccompacts up to advanced dSLR cameras Covers shot

The work of German photographer Louisa Marie Summer is driven by her interest in discovering the inner workings of other peoples lives. She is eager to look at what is beyond the surface and questions with her camera what she sees. Louisas photographs share her experience with Jennifer, a young second-generation Puerto Rican woman, whom one day Louisa approached in South Providence. Jennifer lives with her native American partner and their four children in a run-down three-bedroom apartment at or near the lower end of the socio-economic ladder. South Providence is an urban neighborhood with a large African-American and Hispanic population, high unemployment and crime rates, and where many families live well below the poverty line. Over time Louisa and the family developed a close relationship based on mutual understanding, respect, and trust. Accordingly, Louisas photographs, captured over a year, provide an intimate view into the daily life of Jennifers family. They illustrate how a 26 year old mother

Nature Photography Photo Workshop is a how-to guide fornature photographers who want to improve the quality of theirphotographs. Author Michael Fairchild shares techniques forshooting nature images in nearly any situation a naturephotographer may encounter. This book will teach readers whatequipment to use in different settings and why it should be used.Readers will learn how to get a great shot of a fast moving animal,fundamentals of exposure, as well as Photoshop tips for sharpeningand otherwise improving previously captured images.

The secret to taking great “people pictures” is to observe your subjects, connect with them, and use your camera to its best advantage. Here’s how to work with lighting, location, angle, composition, physical characteristics, environment, and countless other variables, including the unique challenges of photographing babies, group activities, and action. Learn to capture facial expressions, tell a story with a series of candids, add interest to large-group shots, and more. Apply these techniques and watch your subjects come to life.

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

Over 200 full-color images, an attractive two-column design, and a price under $30 make this guide a must for digital photographers who want to take their skills to the next level. Presents step-by-step instructions in uncluttered, highly visual format Clear steps illustrate the before-and-after transformations of images Topics covered include selecting proper camera settings, shooting against the best backdrop available, using photo-editing tools to correct mistakes, adjusting software and printer settings for better results, and performing "extreme" makeovers. 40 percent of U.S. households now own a digital camera, and digital camera sales grew by 43 percent in 2004 over the prior year.

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

A comprehensively illustrated companion volume to an exhibition that explores the German fascination with the Wild West. Beginning in the 1820s when waves of German immigrants crossed America's high plains, German-speaking Europeans were obsessed with the lives, histories, and myths surrounding the American West. This volume examines and documents that enthusiasm and its origins. Paintings, drawings, engravings, exhibition posters, and photographs by American and German artists such as George Catlin, Karl Bodmer, Alfred Bierstadt, George Grosz, August Macke, Emil Nolde, and Carl Wimar are accompanied by illuminating essays that follow the rise of American and European imagery pertaining to Indians and frontier life. Throughout this wide-ranging volume, Germany's enthusiasm for the Wild West is explored through the filter of American visual culture, resulting in a distinctly German take on a distinctly erican myth.

Following the tremendous success of her book of portraits, Wise Women, acclaimed photographer Joyce Tenneson now turns her lens to the life of flowers. In this enchanting series of photographs, Tenneson breaks new ground by recording the often unseen and overlooked later phases in a plant's life, and finds exquisite beauty in their blossoming and gradual decline. These stunning portraits celebrate the life cycle and allow the reader to appreciate flowers in a new way, as well as contemplate the poignancy, fragility, and continual beauty of life itself. Tenneson's photographs follow in the long tradition of botanical illustrations of the 18th and 19th centuries as well as photographic masters such as Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Irving Penn. Just as Tenneson's Wise Women chronicled the energy, vitality, and beauty of older women, FLOWER PORTRAITS offers a compelling look at the radiant and exquisitely individual metamorphosis of flowers in the later phases of their lives.

Great for the beginner and the expert, this book offersreaders exercises to improve their work.

一An lnsider's guide to making it in the stock photography industry。 —lIlustrated throughout with professiOnaI stock photography。 —Invaluable advice frOm those in the knowon preparing a portfolio of work，howto market it and howto make it PaV。 —-——In-depth case studies of Iive shoots and how those shots could eventually be used。 ——Imagegalleryofseven conceptual themes toinspire creatiVity in stock photographers and their customers。 —-Contact names and web addresses of major stock Iibraries。

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.

Acclaimed American documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark (b. 1940) made her first iconic pictures when living in Turkey on a Fulbright Fellowship in the mid-1960s. Her photographs of Bombay brothels, shot in the late 1970s, were published in 1981 in Falkland Road, a book that became legendary and confirmed her status as one of the most prominent and provocative documentary photographers working today.Mark's pictures are a celebration of humanity in its most diverse and eccentric forms. Circuses, gypsy camps, children yearning for adulthood, the poor and destitute are some of her recurring themes. Mark has the unique ability to capture gestures and expressions that translate the intense emotions of her subjects. Compassionate but never literal, her pictures can be humorous, tragic, enigmatic, shocking, and oftentimes all of these simultaneously. This book presents for the first time a selection of the strongest pictures of Mark's forty-year career, drawing from emblematic series such as "Falkland Road," "In

Revised and thoroughly updated, this practical guide tophotographing people is better than ever! What is the color of skin? You may think you know, until youenter the world of digital photography and try to reproduce whatyou see. Differences in software, lighting, computercalibration—everything has an impact on color. And that’s allbefore you get into differences between people in terms of skintypes, ethnicities, age, gender, and more! Hollywood-basedphoto-illustrator Lee Varis guides you step-by-step through themaze. This new edition covers the very newest trends and techniques inphotographing, lighting, and editing skin—and offers plenty oftips, examples, and valuable advice from the author’s ownprofessional experience in the field. Shows you how to digitally capture all skin types: male,female, young, old, different skin tones and ethnicities, withmakeup or without, wrinkled, tattooed, and more Covers a wealth of topics in addition to photo editing, such ashow to obtain model releases a

Greece's historical and cultural legacy is set amidst landscapes and seascapes of breathtaking beauty. Noted photographer Rainer Kiedrowski's luminous color images reveal the wonders of Greece both natural and man-made in this stunning visual survey. His beautifully composed pictures capture everything from the mountainside monasteries, unspoiled villages, ancient olive groves, white beaches, and ludicrously blue-heaven waters on the blindingly bright islands, to the paradox of modern life in ancient Athens. This portrait of a country unique in charm and beauty will be the perfect keepsake for any traveler. Superb collection of color photographs that captures the wonders of Greece both natural and man-made. This is the third in teNeues' successful color version of its Photopocket series.

Elegance represents an important watershed in architectural design. Since the onset of computer-driven technologies, innovative designers have, almost exclusively, been preoccupied with the pursuit of digital techniques. This issue of AD extrapolates current design tendencies and brings them together to present a new type of architecture, one that is seamlessly trying processes, space, structure and material together with beauty. ‘Elegance’ here is cast with a new contemporary meaning as it is applied to work that is effortlessly complex. It is analogous to an elegant algorithm that uses a small amount of initiative code to great effect. In a structure elegance may be expressed by a complex surface that retains its continuity and integrity even when punctured. In many ways, Elegance marks a coming of age for, ‘digital architecture’, as architects become more adept at producing complexity and integrating digital design technologies, production and assembly systems producing elegant solutions. It

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

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.