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Designed for photographers who haven t memorized every button,
dial, setting, and feature on their OM System Olympus OM-1, Rocky
Nook s handy and ultraportable quick reference Pocket Guide helps
you get the shot when you re out and about. Confirm that your
camera is set up properly with the pre-shoot checklist Identify
every button and dial on your camera Learn the essential modes and
settings you need to know Dive deeper with additional features of
your camera Execute step-by-step instructions for shooting
in-camera multiple exposures, HDR photographs, interval timer
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getting great shots in typical scenarios (portrait, landscape,
freezing action, low light, etc.)
This book offers a rare and innovative consideration of an enduring
tendency in postwar art to explore places devoid of human agents in
the wake of violent encounters. To see the scenery together with
the crime elicits a double interrogation, not merely of a physical
site but also of its formation as an aesthetic artefact, and
ultimately of our own acts of looking and imagining. Closely
engaging with a vast array of works made by artists, filmmakers and
photographers, each who has forged a distinct vantage point on the
aftermath of crime and conflict, the study selectively maps the
afterlife of landscape in search of the political and ethical
agency of the image. By way of a thoroughly interdisciplinary
approach, Crime Scenery in Postwar Film and Photography brings
landscape studies into close dialogue with contemporary theory by
paying sustained attention to how the gesture of retracing past
events facilitates new configurations of the present and future.
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.
For more than thirty years, Jazz Hot, the world's oldest jazz
magazine (launched in 1935, as DownBeat), has regularly published
Pascal Kober's photos, breakfast interviews, album and festival
reviews and feature articles. Over the years, he has built up a
unique catalogue of more than 35,000 jazz photos, taken all over
the world. As a freelance journalist and photographer, he later
contributed to many publications in the French and international
press. The venue: musee de l'ancier evechee. Located in the heart
of Grenoble, the Bishop's Palace (l'Ancien Eveche) is today a
protected historical monument dated from the thirteenth century,
housing a highly visited heritage museum. Since its establishment
in 1998, this museum has been curated by Isabelle Lazier, an
ethnologist, with a passion for both music and photography. In
alphabetical order: Jorge Ben, Joao Bosco, Stanley Clarke, Miles
Davis, Gil Evans, Joao Gilberto, Dizzy Gillespie, George Gruntz,
Jon Hendricks, Elvin and Hank Jones, Joachim Kuhn, Michel Legrand,
Manhattan Transfer, Branford and Ellis Marsalis, Mike Stern, Sam
Rivers, Linda Womack and... the public. Pascal Kober is a
journalist and photographer.
Throughout Germany's tumultuous twentieth century, photography was
an indispensable form of documentation. Whether acting as artists,
witnesses, or reformers, both professional and amateur
photographers chronicled social worlds through successive periods
of radical upheaval. The Ethics of Seeing brings together an
international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship
between the visual and the historic in German history. Emphasizing
the transformation of the visual arena and the ways in which
ordinary people made sense of world events, these revealing case
studies illustrate photography's multilayered role as a new form of
representation, a means to subjective experience, and a fresh mode
of narrating the past.
Four Arts of Photography explores the history of photography
through the lens of philosophy and proposes a new scholarly
understanding of the art form for the 21st century. * Re-examines
the history of art photography through four major photographic
movements and with case studies of representative images * Employs
a top-down, theory to case approach, as well as a bottom-up, case
to theory approach * Advances a new theory regarding the nature of
photography that is grounded in technology but doesn t place it in
opposition to painting * Includes commentaries by two leading
philosophers of photography, Diarmuid Costello and Cynthia A.
Freeland
...give(s) readers a stirring sense of place in which the history
of an era springs to life and captivates one's imagination.-- The
Quoddy Times
Compose, create, and print innovative art quilts starting from your
own digital photographs-even those from your phone! Well-known
fibre artist Wen Redmond starts with the tools and equipment you'll
need-any image-editing software and a standard inkjet printer-and
teaches you to alter images, print them on a variety of fibres, and
accentuate them with stitching. With a sense of adventure, even a
beginner can apply these techniques to create new and innovative
works of art. 'Nicely laid out and well-illustrated.'
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Revolution Is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation is the
powerful and celebratory visual record of a contemporary activist
movement in New York City, and a moving testament to the enduring
power of photography in activism, advocacy, and community. In June
2020, after a Black trans woman in Missouri and a Black trans man
in Florida were killed just weeks apart, activists Qween Jean and
Joela Rivera returned to the historic Stonewall Inn-site of the
1969 riots that launched the modern gay rights movement-where they
initiated weekly actions known thereafter as the Stonewall
Protests. Brought together by the urgent need to center Black trans
and queer lives within the Black Lives Matter movement, a vibrant
and radical community emerged. Over the following year, the
Stonewall Protests brought together thousands of people across
communities and social movements to gather in solidarity,
resistance, and communion. Each Thursday was an invitation for
protests, healing, and celebration-whether through marches, voguing
balls, or vigil-and a living testament to love in revolution. This
book gathers twenty-four photographers who participated in these
actions to share images and words on the demonstrations and their
community at large, preserving this legacy as it unfolded. Through
photographs, interviews, and text, Revolution Is Love celebrates
the power of shared joy and struggle in trans community and
liberation. Featuring images and text by Ramie Ahmed, Lucy
Baptiste, Budi, Brandon English, Deb Fong, Snake Garcia, Stas
Ginzburg, Katie Godowski, Robert Hamada, Chae Kihn, Zak Krevitt,
Erica Lansner, Daniel Lehrhaupt, Caroline Mardok, Ryan McGinley,
Josh Pacheco, Jarrett Robertson, Phoenix Robles, Souls of a
Movement, Madison Swart, Cindy Trinh, Sean Waltrous, Ruvan
Wijesooriya, and David Zung
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Les Capes
(Hardcover)
Matali Crasset; Photographs by Julien Carreyn
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Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism.
One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, On Photography first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as “a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs.” It begins with the famous “In Plato’s Cave”essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching “Brief Anthology of Quotations.”
The Stahl House: Case Study House #22, The Making of a Modernist
Icon is the official autobiography of this world renowned
architectural gem by the family that made it their home. Considered
one of the most iconic and recognizable examples of mid-century
modern homes in the world, it was first envisioned by the owner's
Buck and Carlotta Stahl, designed by architect Pierre Koenig, and
immortalized by photographer Julius Shulman. This 1960
glass-and-steel home in the Hollywood Hills has come to embody the
idealism of a generation in search of the American dream. As one of
the Case Study Houses designed between 1945 and 1966 under the
vision of John Entenza and ARTS & ARCHITECTURE magazine, this
was an affordable yet progressive design experiment to address the
postwar housing shortage. The result-a two-bedroom,
2,200-square-foot house with glass walls that disappear into a
270-degree panorama of Los Angeles-became Koenig's piece de
resistance. The Stahl House broke rules, defied building codes that
discouraged building on cliffs, and expanded the possibilities of
residential architecture. The glass walls blurred the boundary
between indoors and outdoors. The building seemed to merge with the
city itself, the lines of the structure aligning with the geometry
of the city's gridded streets. "Los Angeles becomes an extension of
the house and vice versa," Koenig said. "The house is just a part
of the city." The book shares the never-before-told inside story by
the Stahl family's adult children who grew up there and still
graciously give home tours to fans from around the world. Through
extensive research and interviews, historical information and
personal photos are featured. This includes Buck Stahl's initial
vision of the home with his own DIY schematic model for how to
build on the complicated site. It also includes blueprints, floor
plans, and sketches by Pierre Koenig, as well as Julius Shulman's
renowned photographs. Additionally, photographs of the house used
in high-end, fashion ad campaigns and film and television are also
included, cementing The Stahl House's prominence in contemporary
culture.
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Empty Days
(Hardcover)
Paddy Summerfield
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A mountain lodge 5,000 feet up in Washington State’s Cascades
mountains, accessible only by skis—or an SUV tricked out with
bulldozer-size snow tires. A sleek cabin just 80 minutes from
Manhattan, overlooking the property’s pond and 19 acres of
woodland. A romantic, eco-friendly escape in the misty mountains of
Bali’s Gunung Agung volcano. A glass-domed Finnish hut offering
unobstructed views of the Northern Lights. Whether readers are
seeking a once-in-a-lifetime adventure or a quiet retreat, a cozy
night around a firepit or a summery lakefront sojourn, Cabin
Tripping delivers. Divided into six chapters—Forest, Tropics,
Mountain, Arctic, Water, and Desert—the book features a curated
collection of over 80 of the most incredible cabins available to
rent all over the globe. Each cabin profile includes information on
how to get there, activities to enjoy in the area (hiking trails,
fishing holes, thermal spas, and more), and tips like when to plan
your visit to maximize your “leaf-peeping” or whale-watching
opportunities.
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