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Focusing on the presence of the photographer's gaze as an integral
part of constructing meaningful images, Roswell Angier combines
theory and practice, to provide you with the technical advice and
inspiration you need to develop your skills in portrait
photography.Fully updated to take into account advances in creative
work and photographic technology, this second edition also includes
stunning new visuals and a discussion on the role of social media
in the practice of portraiture.Each chapter includes a practical
assignment, designed to help you explore various kinds of portrait
photography and produce a range of different styles for your
creative portfolio.
From the INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING author of The Paris Seamstress
comes a story of courage, family and forgiveness from New York to
war-torn Europe. Perfect for fans of Kate Furnivall, Lucinda Riley,
Kate Morton and Gill Paul 'Divine' GILL PAUL, bestselling author of
The Secret Wife 'An emotional and sweeping tale' CHANEL CLEETON,
bestselling author of Next Year in Havana 'A splendid, breathtaking
novel, full of mystery and passion...a must read!' JEANNE MACKIN,
author of The Last Collection ******** 1942 When Jessica May's
successful modelling career is abruptly cut short, Vogue send her
to war-torn Paris to cover the conflict as a correspondent. She's
courageous and a fast-learner, but of course the military men make
her life as difficult as possible. Three friendships change that:
journalist Martha Gellhorn encourages Jess to bend the rules;
paratrooper Dan Hallworth shows her how to take pictures and write
stories that matter; and a little girl, Victorine, who shows Jess
how to open hear heart. 2005 Australian curator D'Arcy Hallworth
arrives at a beautiful French chateau to manage a famous collection
of photographs. What begins as just another job becomes far more
disquieting as D'Arcy uncovers the true identity of the mysterious
French photographer...
David Busch's Nikon Z5 Guide to Digital Photography is your
all-in-one comprehensive resource and reference for getting the
most out of your Nikon Z5 mirrorless camera. Nikon s most
affordable full-frame mirrorless model boasts up-scale features,
including dual memory card slots, five-axis image stabilization for
sharp images even when using slow shutter speeds, and an advanced
hybrid autofocus system with face/eye detection and 273 AF points.
The Z5 s 24MP sensor supports 4K and Full HD movie shooting, and an
innovative Focus Shift mode that produces stunning deep-focus
images. With this book in hand, you ll master all the camera s
impressive features, and fine tune your camera skills as develop
your creativity taking great photographs with your new Z5.Filled
with detailed how-to steps and full-color illustrations, David
Busch's Nikon Z5 Guide to Digital Photography covers all the
camera's capabilities in depth, from taking your first photos
through advanced details of setup, exposure, lens selection,
lighting, and more, and relates each feature to specific
photographic techniques and situations. Also included is the handy
visual guide to the Z5, with close-up photos and descriptions of
the camera's essential features and controls. Learn when to use
each option and, more importantly, when not to use them, by
following the author s recommended settings for every menu entry.
With best-selling photographer and mentor David Busch as your
guide, you'll quickly have full creative mastery of your camera s
capabilities, whether you're shooting on the job, as an advanced
enthusiast, or are just out for fun. Start building your knowledge
and confidence, while bringing your vision to light with the Nikon
Z5 today.
Through powerful case studies, Adjusting the Lens addresses the
ways that the historical photographic record of Indigenous peoples
has been shaped by colonial practices, and explores how this legacy
is being confronted by Indigenous art activism and contemporary
renegotiations of the past. Contributors to this collection analyze
the photographic practices and heritage of communities from North
America, Europe, and Australia, revealing how Indigenous people are
using old photographs in new ways to empower themselves, revitalize
community identity, and decolonize the colonial record.
The second half of the 19th century was a time of extensive
political upheaval in central east Europe that saw the negotiation
of conflicting territorial claims in the region by the Russian,
Austrian and Prussian empires. The post-WW1 settlement gave rise to
the formation of the independent nation states of Poland,
Lithuania, Ukraine, Latvia and Belarus. Less well know is that this
same period was also an era of keen photographic activity. During
this time of empire-, state- and nation-building, cultural heritage
was a potent vehicle and a provider of collective memory and
identity.This innovative account analyses the relationship between
politics, history, cultural heritage and photography in central
east Europe between 1859 and 1945. To understand the work
photographs 'do' in the construction of cultural heritage, the
author analyses a wide range of little-known photographic archives
created by contemporary professional and amateur photographers.
Their work was extensively exploited in contemporary debates,
appearing in albums, books, journals, exhibitions, museum exhibits,
postcards and newspapers aimed at both scientific and popular and
national and international publics. An extensive analysis of how
photographic practices and outcomes were applied, borrowed, copied,
appropriated and transmitted shows how photography was used to
exert or subvert power, on the one hand, and as a tool in
constructing and negotiating group identities on the other. By
weaving photography and its patterns of making, dissemination and
archival survival through major historical narratives, this volume
reveals the centrality of photography and visual discourse at
pivotal moments of modern history.
Gum Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Artists and Their
Creative Practice is a two-part book on gum bichromate written by
the medium's leading expert, Christina Z. Anderson. Section One
provides a step-by-step description of the gum printing process.
From setting up the "dimroom" (no darkroom required!) to evaluating
finished prints, it walks the reader through everything that is
needed to establish a firm gum practice with the simplest of setups
at home. Section Two showcases contemporary artists' works,
illustrating the myriad ways gum is conceptualized and practiced
today. The works in these pages range from monochrome to colorful
and from subtle to bold, representing a variety of genres,
including still lifes, portraits, nudes, landscapes, urbanscapes
and more. Featuring over 80 artists and 400 full-color images, Gum
Printing is the most complete overview of this dynamic and
expressive medium that has yet appeared in print. Key topics
covered include: The history of gum Simple digital negatives for
gum, platinum, and cyanotype Preparing supplies Making monochrome,
duotone, tricolor, and quadcolor gum prints Printing gum over
cyanotype Printing gum over platinum Troubleshooting gum Advice on
developing a creative practice
The Mallet Ranch, from its founding to the present, has followed
the arc of most Texas ranches. It has experienced booms and busts,
and its owners have fretted over droughts and floods as well as
fights in courtrooms. Despite hardships that may have outnumbered
successes, the Mallet, headquartered in Hockley County, Texas,
perseveres to this day. But More Than Running Cattle is more than
just a ranch tale. It is the story of a family both unique and
conventional among Texas stock raisers. David M. DeVitt, like many
before him, was not "born" to be a Texas cattleman. DeVitt began
his career as a reporter in Brooklyn, New York, before he decided
to leave that path behind to try his luck on the wide-open ranges
of West Texas. David DeVitt passed down his hardy, independent
spirit to his two daughters. Although Christine and Helen were
raised in Fort Worth, both from a young age learned the lesson that
the West Texas land—and the Mallet Ranch—were part of their
souls. When their father died, the two sisters fought to retain
control of the Mallet for the family. The discovery in 1938 of oil
on the ranch, and the subsequent drilling of more than a thousand
oil wells over the next few decades, transformed the Mallet from a
struggling enterprise into one of the most profitable such entities
in the nation. From that financial windfall sprung from the land,
Christine and Helen generously reinvested back into the region. The
two non-profit organizations founded by the DeVitt sisters have
distributed more than $200 million. The story of the Mallet Ranch
told within these pages illuminates and delves into this remarkable
story of a family, their operation, and the land that made it all
possible.
Hundreds of deep space missions since the 1960s have captured
stunning photographs of the cosmos. Many of these scientific images
can also be classified as art. This book highlights more than 100
examples, revealing the splendor of our universe. This book is a
gallery of human accomplishment that celebrates the scientists and
engineers who push civilization--including the ways that we produce
and experience art--beyond the physical limits of our planet. The
photographs, selected by Dr. Jim Bell, represent some of the finest
examples of the art of deep space exploration, most of them
involving high-tech robotic emissaries. The images are loosely
organized by distance from the Earth, so that readers will slowly
travel on a journey farther and farther away from home, ultimately
voyaging out to vistas of the farthest-known places in the
universe.
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Joan Brooks Baker grew up privileged in the New York City of
post-World War II America. The Yankee daughter of transplanted,
dyed-in-the-wool Southerners soon confronted an unwritten code of
conduct - the Magnolia Code - that paralyzed her mother and
threatened to do the same to her. In this embellished memoir, Baker
shares how she navigated her bifurcated world, defying the code and
finding role models in rebellious women including her Aunt Billie,
who challenged her to be herself regardless of the consequences.
Baker examines relationships with her primary and extended
families, ultimately discovering that her work as a photographer
taught her much about who she is and where she belongs. The
author's unselfconscious, humorous narrative will strike a chord
for those who struggle in a world full of paradox.
In 2013, he was commissioned to create Child Poverty in Spain for
Save the Children, which earned the PHotoEspana OjodePez Prize for
Human Values in 2014. The jury highlighted "his personal vision and
style, and his profound respect for the topic." He has worked in
several different countries, where he has explored the
anthropological dimensions of certain forms of religious worship
and some social minorities.
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Ghost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays - meditations,
memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems - and not
a single image. Herve Guibert's brief, literary rumination on
photography was written in response to Roland Barthes' Camera
Lucida, but its deeply personal contents go far beyond that
canonical text. Some essays talk of Guibert's parents and friends,
some describe old family photographs and films, and spinning
through them all are reflections on remembrance, narcissism,
seduction, deception, death, and the phantom images that have been
missed. Both a memoir and an exploration of the artistic process,
Ghost Image not only reveals Guibert's particular experience as a
gay artist captivated by the transience and physicality of his
media and his life, but also his thoughts on the more technical
aspects of his vocation. In one essay, Guibert searches through a
cardboard box of family portraits for clues-answers, or even
questions-about the lives of his parents and more distant
relatives. Rifling through vacation snapshots and the autographed
images of long-forgotten film stars, Guibert muses, "I don't even
recognize the faces, except occasionally that of an aunt or
great-aunt, or the thin, fair face of my mother as a young girl."
In other essays, he explains how he composes his photographs, and
how - in writing - he seeks to escape and correct the inherent
limits of his technique, to preserve those images lost to his
technical failings as a photographer. With strains of Jean Genet
and recurring themes that speak to the work of contemporary artists
across a range of media, Guibert's Ghost Image is a beautifully
written, melancholic ode to existence and art forms both fleeting
and powerful - a unique memoir at the nexus of family, memory,
desire, and photography.
***One of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2022*** ***One of The New
York Time's 100 Notable Books of 2022*** 'Exuberantly entertaining'
NYT Book Review 'Mark Braude's writing and subject make this book
irresistible, as was Kiki herself.' Jim Jarmusch 'A delightful,
marvelously readable, meticulously-researched romp of a book, Kiki
Man Ray brings to life not just the kaleidoscopically talented Kiki
herself, but the endlessly fascinating Montparnasse milieu over
which she reigned.' Whitney Scharer, author of THE AGE OF LIGHT
Though many have never heard her name, Alice Prin - Kiki de
Montparnasse - was the icon of 1920s Paris. She captivated as a
ground-breaking nightclub performer, wrote a bestselling memoir,
sold out exhibitions of her paintings, and shared drinks and ideas
with the likes of Pablo Picasso, Peggy Guggenheim, and Marcel
Duchamp. She also shepherded along the career of a then-unknown
American photographer: Man Ray. Following Kiki in the years between
1921 and 1929, when she lived and worked with Man Ray, Kiki Man Ray
charts their complicated entanglement and reveals how Man Ray -
always the unabashed careerist - went on to become one of the most
famous photographers of the twentieth century, enjoying wealth and
prestige, while Kiki's legacy was lost. But this isn't a story of
an overbearing male genius and his defeated muse. During the 1920s
it was Kiki, not Man Ray, who was the brighter of the two rising
stars and a powerful figure among the close-knit community of
models, painters, writers and cafe wastrels who made their homes in
gritty Montparnasse. Following the couple as they created art,
struggled for power and competed for fame, Kiki Man Ray illuminates
for the first time Kiki's seminal influence on the culture of 1920s
Paris, and challenges ideas about artists and muses, and the lines
separating the two. 'Kiki de Montparnasse was more than a muse -
she was a vivacious, independent woman whose talent and magnetism
helped make Paris the center of the art world in the 1920s. In Mark
Braude's riveting cultural history, the Queen of Montparnasse rises
again. This is a lively and compassionate tribute to the chanteuse,
model, and portraitist who held center stage in her life, and who
inspired some of the finest Surrealist art of the twentieth
century.' Heather Clark, author of Pulitzer Prize-finalist Red
Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
This book studies the relationship between photography and history
in colonial Southern Africa, using a series of encounters with
Southern African photographic archives to reflect on photography as
a distinct historical form. Through use of private and public
archives, images produced by African itinerant photographers, white
settlers, and colonial state institutions, this book explores the
relationship between photography and history in colonial Southern
Africa. Late nineteenth century Cape Colonial prison albums, police
photographs from German Southwest Africa, African studio portraits,
identity documents, travel permits and passports from the 1920s and
1930s, visual studies of whiteness and blackness authored by
settler photographers, South African dompas photographs from the
1950s and 1960s, and aerial photography from the Eastern Cape in
the mid-twentieth century are examined to highlight the ways in
which photographic images cut across conventional institutional
boundaries and complicate rigid distinctions between the private
and the public, the political and the aesthetic, the colonial and
the vernacular, or the subject and the object. Photography and
History in Colonial Southern Africa argues that rather than
understanding photographs as a means of preserving and recreating
the past in the present, we can value them for how they evoke at
once the need for and the limits of historical reconstruction. This
book will be of interest to students and scholars of colonial
history, photographic history, visual media, and African studies.
The first-ever exhibition curated by Peter Lindbergh himself,
shortly before his untimely death, Untold Stories at the Dusseldorf
Kunstpalast served as a blank canvas for the photographer's
unrestrained vision and creativity. Given total artistic freedom,
Lindbergh curated an uncompromising collection that sheds an
unexpected light on his colossal oeuvre. This artist's book, the
official companion to the landmark exhibition, offers an extensive,
firsthand look at the highly personal collection. When it came to
printing his photos, Lindbergh chose a special uncoated paper - a
thin sheet with a soft, open surface - as a deliberate aesthetic
statement. Renowned the world over, Lindbergh's images have left an
indelible mark on contemporary culture and photo history. Here, the
photographer experiments with his own oeuvre and narrates new
stories while staying true to his lexicon. In both emblematic and
never-before-seen images, he challenges his own icons and presents
intimate moments shared with personalities who had been close to
him for years, including Nicole Kidman, Uma Thurman, Robin Wright,
Jessica Chastain, Jeanne Moreau, Naomi Campbell, Charlotte Rampling
and many more. This XL volume presents more than 150
photographs-many of them unpublished or short-lived, often having
been commissioned by monthly fashion magazines such as Vogue,
Harper's Bazaar, Interview, Rolling Stone, W Magazine, or The Wall
Street Journal. An extensive conversation between Lindbergh and
Kunstpalast director Felix Kramer, as well as an homage by close
friend Wim Wenders, offer fresh insights into the making of the
collection. The result is an intimate personal statement by
Lindbergh about his work.
"It is as if I have lost myself," described a client of her
state of being to the psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer 100 years ago.
Today, as the number of old people is constantly growing, more and
more people are affected by Alzheimer's disease.
This book is an artistic approach to the topic of Alzheimer's
disease. Many of the images are portraits, a classical way to
capture an individual's personality. The soft colors and square
shapes of the photographs create a striking esthetic without
denying that the people shown are continually losing their
individuality. Texts and images are a plea to the individual and to
society as a whole to get involved with people suffering from
Alzheimer's disease.
However beautiful or technically dazzling your photographs might
be, if they don't tell a story, convey an idea or make your viewer
stop and think, they are unlikely to make a lasting
impression.Context and Narrative in Photography introduces
practical methods to help you plan, develop and present meaningful,
communicative images. With dozens of examples from some of the
world's most thought-provoking photographers, this is a beautiful
introduction to a fascinating aspect of photography.Beginning with
an exploration of different narrative techniques, you'll be guided
through selecting and developing a compelling concept for your
project and how it might be conveyed either through a single image
or a series of photographs. You'll also learn ways to incorporate
signs, symbols and text into your work and how to present the
finished piece to best reach your audience.New to this edition are
extended projects, additional exercises and discussion questions,
expanded case studies, around 25% of the images and an expanded
Chapter 6 on integrating text into photographic projects.
Learn to ask better, more helpful questions of your work so that
you can create stronger and more powerful photographs.
Photographers often look at an image--one they've either already
created or are in the process of making--and ask themselves a
simple question: "Is this a good photograph?" It's an
understandable question, but it's really not very helpful. How are
you supposed to answer that? What does "good" even mean? Is it the
same for everyone? What if you were equipped to ask better, more
constructive questions of your work so that you could think more
intentionally and creatively, and in doing so, bring more specific
action and vision to the act of creating photographs? What if
asking stronger questions allowed you to establish a more effective
approach to your image-making? In The Heart of the Photograph: 100
Questions for Making Stronger, More Expressive Photographs,
photographer and author David duChemin helps you learn to ask
better questions of your work in order to craft more successful
photographs--photographs that express and connect, photographs that
are strong and, above all, photographs that are truly yours. From
the big-picture questions--What do I want this image to
accomplish?--to the more detail-oriented questions that help you
get there--What is the light doing? Where do the lines lead? What
can I do about it?--David walks you through his thought process so
that you can establish your own. Along the way, he discusses the
building blocks from which compelling photographs are made, such as
gesture, balance, scale, contrast, perspective, story, memory,
symbolism, and much more. The Heart of the Photograph is not a
theoretical book. It is a practical and useful book that equips you
to think more intentionally as a photographer and empowers you to
ask more helpful questions of you and your work, so that you can
produce images that are not only better than "good," but as
powerful and authentic as you hope them to be. TABLE OF CONTENTS
Better Questions PART ONE: A GOOD PHOTOGRAPH? Is It Good? The
Audience's Good The Photographer's Good PART TWO: BETTER THAN GOOD
Better Subjects PART THREE: BETTER EXPRESSION Exploration and
Expression What Is the Light Doing? What Does Colour Contribute?
What Role Do the Lines and Shapes Play? What's Your Point of View?
What Is the Quality of the Moment? Where Is the Story? Where Is the
Contrast? What About Balance and Tension? What Is the Energy? How
Can I Use Space and Scale? Can I Go Deeper? What About the Frame?
Do the Elements Repeat? Harmony Can I Exclude More? Where Does the
Eye Go? How Does It Feel? Where's the Mystery? Remember When? Can I
Use Symbols? Am I Being Too Literal? PART FOUR: BETTER PHOTOGRAPHS
The Heart of the Photograph Index
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