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Based on the author's real-world experience, this book provides a
comprehensive guide on how to develop a professional career and
client base as a unit stills photographer in the entertainment
industry. Industry veteran Jace Downs takes readers behind the
scenes as he explores production from the perspective of a unit
stills photographer. Honest and entertaining, chapters cover the
production environment, set etiquette, equipment, dealing with
difficult talent, shooting on set, developing a client base,
joining the union and much more. Accessible to those within and
outside of the entertainment industry, this book is ideal for
intermediate level photographers looking to expand their skillset
and client base, as well as for aspiring photographers who would
like more insight into photography work in entertainment
production.
Joel Meyerowitz is one of the pioneers of color photography, as
well as an essential reference figure for street photography,
large-format photography, and portraits. The Pleasure of Seeing is
his first biography, the book offers a look behind the scenes of
the life and career of one of America's photographic living
legends. In conversation with historian and photographer Lorenzo
Braca, Meyerowitz speaks vividly about his beginnings, studying art
history, meeting Robert Frank, photographing on the streets of New
York City with Tony Ray-Jones and Garry Winogrand, traveling
extensively across America and Europe, learning from John
Szarkowski, director of photography at MoMA, working on numerous
exhibitions and publications, photographing at Ground Zero in 2001
and 2002, and about the most recent still lifes and self-portraits
projects. The book contains over one hundred pictures, including
Joel's most iconic photographs as well as new and previously
unpublished material. This comprehensive visual biography testifies
to the author's continuing evolution throughout the six decades of
his career and discusses his work in relation to his personal life,
to the history of photography, and to the incessant transformation
of the medium. Meyerowitz reveals anecdotes, personal memories, and
the story behind many of his famous photographs.
In this book, Vera Dika rewrites the story of the Pictures
Generation from the perspective of the Hallwalls Contemporary Arts
Center in Buffalo, NY. Her work is based on interviews with living
artists, archival research and personal collections, including
films, videotapes and sound recordings. At once aesthetic, cultural
and political, this renewed perspective asks new questions and
rewrites past assumptions about the artists' work. The legendary
members of the East Coast Pictures Generation emerged at Hallwalls
Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo in the mid-1970s. These young
people had started Hallwalls, an artist-run organization that
invited artists from a variety of mediums to show their work. It
also featured productions by the founding members themselves:
Robert Longo, Charlie Clough, Cindy Sherman, Nancy Dwyer, and
Michael Zwack. The works discussed in the volume include
performance, video, films, painting, music and literature, and have
been chosen because of the way they foreground states of the body
in relationship to conditions of their medium. As a distinguishing
feature of Hallwalls artists' work, the practice uses these traces
to make metaphors on the process of mechanical reproduction itself.
The Hallwalls artists' work also gives testament to Buffalo and to
New York City, the cities that formed their historical contexts.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history,
performance studies, film studies, and gender studies.
Like hardly any other artist of his generation, Wolfgang Tillmans
has shaped our perception of the world. From early portraits of his
friends to still lifes, travel shots, nudes, landscape and sky
photographs, to his abstract work, Tillmans has created a multitude
of iconic works in his unmistakable visual language, opening up new
paths and possibilities for both photography and contemporary art.
In 2000 he was the first photographer and the first non-British
person to receive the renowned Turner Prize. His first volume for
TASCHEN (1995) shows the young generation of the 1990s, of which
Tillmans himself was a member, in clubs, at Gay Pride, at fashion
events, and in everyday life. His dense, realistic photographs
conjure up tangible utopias of community and society and are
important documents of their time as well. With the follow-up
volume Burg (1998), Tillmans enriches his subject matter with
another array of beautiful, now iconic photographs. In truth study
center (2005), his images condense into even more subtle
compositions and now stand alongside completely abstract works.
Finally, Neue Welt (2012) documents Wolfgang Tillmans' travels
around the globe: from London to Tierra del Fuego, India, Papua New
Guinea, Saudi Arabia, and Central Africa, we follow his
ever-inquisitive eye for the realities of our planet, for social
situations with people and markets, technology and architecture,
and last but not least, nature and astronomy. For this volume, the
artist for the first time made use of the new possibilities of
digital photography. This enabled a density of information and
incisiveness hardly seen in photographs until then. This
40th-anniversary publication from TASCHEN combines the best of the
four books in one volume. Wolfgang Tillmans himself has compiled
this edition, partly redesigned it, added some recent works, and
written a new foreword. Paging through this collection of images,
which spans three decades, there are countless moments to delight
in, moments that are held not only in our collective memory but in
our individual ones too. About the series TASCHEN is 40! Since we
started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has
become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms
around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and
aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of
incredible books by staying true to our company credo. The 40
series presents new editions of some of the stars of our
program-now more compact, friendly in price, and still realized
with the same commitment to impeccable production.
Journalism Research in Practice: Perspectives on Change,
Challenges, and Solutions is a unique collection of research on
journalism written for journalists and wider audiences. Based on
scholarship previously published in Journalism Practice, Journalism
Studies, and Digital Journalism, authors have updated and rewritten
their works to make connections to contemporary issues. These 28
studies include perspectives on modern-day freelancing,
digitization, and partisan influences on the press. They appear in
four distinct sections: * Addressing Journalism in Times of Social
Conflict * Advancements in New Media and Audience Participation *
Challenges and Solutions in a Changing Profession * Possibilities
for Journalism and Social Change This book is a collection by
leading scholars from the field of Journalism Studies who have
revisited their previous work with the intent of asking more
questions about how journalism looks, works, and is preparing for
the future. From coverage on Donald Trump and alt-right media to
media trust, verification, and social media, this volume is
relevant for practicing journalists today who are planning for
tomorrow, students learning about the field and its debates, and
scholars and educators looking for approachable texts about complex
issues.
Learn to edit, organize, and present your best work and become a
better photographer in the process! Once a photographer has learned
the fundamental techniques of photography the basics of exposure,
composition, and focus their work often improves over the course of
a few months or years. The world is full of wonders to photograph,
and photographers can be pulled in many directions, excitedly
chasing the light and the moment. This approach can certainly yield
wonderful photographs, but over time the photographer s progress
often begins to slow, and eventually, it can stop altogether. The
reason for this is simple: creativity begins with image-making, but
true progress comes with learning to edit and organize your work in
ways that reflect your unique style and perspective, ways that
offer you insight into how you can improve your work moving
forward. In short, the key to becoming the best photographer you
can be is to create an ongoing portfolio (or multiple portfolios)
of your work. Based on an eight-week course taught by renowned
photographer and author William Neill, The Photographer s Portfolio
Development Workshop provides the tools and skills you need in
order to create a methodology that allows you to create a tightly
edited portfolio of work, no matter your end goal: a box of prints,
a book, an online presentation or website, or even a gallery
exhibit. A portfolio is simply a collection of photographs with a
consistent theme and consistent quality. In developing such a body
of work, you will learn what your specific passions are, find focus
for your work, and begin the iterative process of creating better
and better photographs over time. By constantly working within a
feedback loop where you carefully assess and edit your images, note
and learn from mistakes, then go out and create more photographs
you ll develop a portfolio that is constantly gaining in strength,
quality, and impact. It s no surprise that you ll also become a
much better photographer.
Photography, both in the form of contemporary practice and that of
historical material, now occupies a significant place in the
citadels of Western art culture. It has an institutional network of
its own, embedded within the broader art world, with its own
specialists including academics, critics, curators, collectors,
dealers and conservators. All of this cultural activity
consolidates an artistic practice and critical discourse of
photography that distinguishes what is increasingly termed ‘art
photography’ from its commercial, scientific and amateur guises.
But this long-awaited recognition of photography as high art brings
new challenges. How will photography’s newly privileged place in
the art world affect how the history of creative photography is
written? Modernist claims for the medium as having an aesthetic
often turned on precedents from painting. Postmodernism challenged
a cultural hierarchy organized around painting. Nineteenth-century
photographs move between the symbolic spaces of the gallery wall
and the archive: de-contextualised for art and re-contextualised
for history. But what of the contemporary writings, images, and
practices that negotiated an aesthetic status for ‘the
photographic’? Photography and the Arts revisits practices both
celebrated and elided by the modernist and postmodernist grand
narratives of art and photographic history in order to open up new
critical spaces. Written by leading scholars in the fields of
photography, art and literature, the essays examine the
metaphorical as well as the material exchanges between photography
and the fine, graphic, reproductive and sculptural arts.
Available for the first time in an updated, compact paperback
format, this book offers a stunning photographic survey of Ireland
over the last seven decades, from the 1950s to the present day.
Organized decade by decade, the images show the lingering influence
of rural life in the 1950s; the hidden story of ordinary Irish men
and women, living in a divided society during the troubled years of
the sectarian conflict; the South's huge economic growth at the end
of 1990s, baptised the 'Celtic Tiger', and Ireland's perpetual
quest for identity, from the 1950s to the present day. Each decade
is commented on by a notable contemporary Irish literary figure:
Anthony Cronin, Nuala O'Faolain, Eamonn McCann, Fintan O'Toole,
Colm Toibin and Anne Enright invite the reader to dive into the
social and political context of each period, providing a textual
backdrop to the photographers' work.
This interdisciplinary volume will be an important resource for
scholars, students and activists working in the areas of Cultural
Studies, Media and Visual Studies, Indigenous Studies, Refugee
Studies and Law An international team of authors take a
multidisciplinary approach to questions of race, geographies of
state violence and countermaps of resistance across North America,
Australia and Europe The book establishes rich lines of dialogic
connection between digital and other media by incorporating both
traditional scholarly resources and digital archives, databases,
social media
From Roentgen to Rembrandt, Hounsfield to Hollywood and Vesalius to
videogames, Imagining Imaging explores the deeply entwined
relationship between art (and visual-based culture) and radiology /
medical imaging. Including artworks from numerous historical eras
representing varied geographic locations and visual traditions,
alongside a diverse range of contemporary artists, Dr Jackson
argues that the foundations of medical image construction and
interpretation were laid down in artistic innovations dating back
hundreds and thousands of years. Since the discovery of X-rays,
artists and moviemakers have, in turn, drawn rich inspiration from
radiographic imagery and concepts, but the process of
cross-pollination between art and science has continued, with
creative endeavour continuing to mould medical imaging examinations
to this day. Blending a unique mix of art, science and medical
history, together with aspects of visual neurophysiology and
psychology, Imagining Imaging is essential reading for
radiologists, radiographers and artists alike. Peppered with
familiar TV and film references, personal insights into the
business of image interpretation, and delivered in an accessible
and humorous style, the book will also appeal to anyone who enjoys
looking at pictures. Key features: Engaging synthesis of art and
medical history, combined with anecdotes and experiences from a
working clinical radiologist Diverse range of visual reference
points including astronomy, botany and cartography, alongside
comprehensive discussion of medical imaging modalities including
plain radiography, ultrasound, CT and MRI 200 full colour
illustrations
At the intersection of law, literature and history, this book
interrogates how a dominant contemporary idea of law emerged out of
specific ideas of reading in the nineteenth century. Reading shapes
our identities. How we read shapes who we are. Reading also shapes
our conceptions of what the law is, because the law is also a
practice of reading. Focusing on the works of key Victorian writers
closely associated with legal practice, this book addresses the way
in which the identity of the reader of law has been modelled on the
identity of the political elite. At the same time, it shows how
other readers of law have been marginalised. The book thus shows
how a construction of the law has emerged from the ordering of a
power that discriminates between different readers and readings.
More specifically, and in response to the emerging media of
photography - and, with it, potentially subversive ideas of
exposure and visibility - the book shows that there have been
dominant, hidden and unrecognised guides to legal reading and to
legal thought. And in making these visible, the book also aims to
make them contestable. This secret history of law will appeal to
legal historians, legal theorists, those working at the
intersection of law and literature and others with interests in law
and the visual.
The life and career of Lejaren a Hiller (1880-1969), the American
illustrator and photographer who changed the face of advertisement
photography. Lejaren a Hiller (1880-1969) pioneered advertising
photography for an industry dominated by text and an occasional
line drawing. An advertising and editorial photographer in early
twentieth-century America, Hiller began his careeras an
illustrator. He first recognized photography's potential as a
persuasive method to sell products and services, as well as
illustrating magazine stories. Best known for his large and
exquisitely detailed studio sets that often depicted historical
scenarios or exotic foreign lands, Hiller produced thousands of
photographs for a variety of clients. The author includes examples
from all aspects of Hiller's career, and he examines two of
Hiller's most recognizable projects: the 87 Lands campaign for
Canadian Club Whisky and Surgery Through the Ages, commissioned by
Davis and Geck, a manufacturer of surgical sutures. Doug Manchee is
professor of photography and program chair for the School of
Photographic Arts and Sciences at Rochester Institute of
Technology. He teaches classes in advertising photography and his
commercial clients include Adobe Systems, Corning Inc., Xerox,
Eastman Kodak, Simpson Paper, Bausch & Lomb, and many others.
Manchee's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in
both solo and group exhibitions.
Charles Holden's designs for the London Underground from the
mid-1920s to the outbreak of World War II represent a high point of
transport architecture and Modernist design in Britain. His
collaboration with Frank Pick, the Chief Executive of London
Transport, brought about a marriage of form and function still
celebrated today. Pick used the term ‘Medieval Modernism’ to
describe their work on the underground system, comparing the task
to the construction of a great cathedral. London Tube Stations 1924
– 1961 catalogues and showcases every surviving station from this
innovative period. These beautiful buildings, simultaneously
historic and futuristic, have been meticulously documented by
architectural photographer Philip Butler. Annotated with
station-by-station overviews by writer and historian Joshua Abbott,
the book provides an indispensable guide to the network's Modernist
gems. All the key stations have a double page spread, with a
primary exterior photograph alongside supporting images. A broader
historical introduction, illustrated with archival images from the
London Transport Museum, gives historical context, while a closing
chapter lists the demolished examples alongside further period
images.These stations, as famed architectural historian Nicholas
Pevsner later noted, would "pave the way for the twentieth-century
style in England".
Modernism both influenced and was fascinated by the rhetorical and
aesthetic manifestations of fascism. In examining how four artists
and writers represented fascist leaders, Annalisa Zox-Weaver aims
to achieve a more complex understanding of the modernist political
imagination. She examines how photographer Lee Miller, filmmaker
Leni Riefenstahl, writer Gertrude Stein and journalist Janet
Flanner interpret, dramatize and exploit Hitler, Goering and
Petain. Within their own artistic medium, each of these modernists
explore confrontations between private and public identity, and
historical narrative and the construction of myth. This study makes
use of extensive archival material, such as letters, photographs,
journals, unpublished manuscripts and ephemera, and includes ten
illustrations. This interdisciplinary perspective opens up wider
discussions of the relationship between artists and dictators,
modernism and fascism, and authority and representation.
- The first book that collects an international range of
accomplished practitioners and academics together to share their
innovative photography practices - Written in a clear and
accessible style, ideal for students and practitioners - Uses
tangible examples and relatable practices that can inspire or be
extrapolated into the reader's own practice - Visually rich with
150 full colour images demonstrating a diverse set of practices.
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This work is dedicated to CMOS based imaging with the emphasis on
the noise modeling, characterization and optimization in order to
contribute to the design of high performance imagers in general and
range imagers in particular. CMOS is known to be superior to CCD
due to its flexibility in terms of integration capabilities, but
typically has to be enhanced to compete at parameters as for
instance noise, dynamic range or spectral response. Temporal noise
is an important topic, since it is one of the most crucial
parameters that ultimately limits the performance and cannot be
corrected. This work gathers the widespread theory on noise and
extends the theory by a non-rigorous but potentially computing
efficient algorithm to estimate noise in time sampled systems. This
work contributed to two generations of LDPD based ToF range image
sensors and proposed a new approach to implement the MSI PM ToF
principle. This was verified to yield a significantly faster charge
transfer, better linearity, dark current and matching performance.
A non-linear and time-variant model is provided that takes into
account undesired phenomena such as finite charge transfer speed
and a parasitic sensitivity to light when the shutters should
remain OFF, to allow for investigations of largesignal
characteristics, sensitivity and precision. It was demonstrated
that the model converges to a standard photodetector model and
properly resembles the measurements. Finally the impact of these
undesired phenomena on the range measurement performance is
demonstrated.
Detailed and accurate information on the spatial distribution of
individual species over large spatial extents and over multiple
time periods is critical for rapid response and effective
management of environmental change. The twenty first century has
witnessed a rapid development in both fine resolution sensors and
statistical theories and techniques. These innovations hold great
potential for improved accuracy of species mapping using remote
sensing. Fine Resolution Remote Sensing of Species in Terrestrial
and Coastal Ecosystems is a collection of eight cutting-edge
studies of fine spatial resolution remote sensing, including
species mapping of biogenic and coral reefs, seagrasses, salt and
freshwater marshes, and grasslands. The studies illustrate the
power of fine resolution imagery for species identification, as
well as the value of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery as an
ideal source of high-quality reference data at the species level.
The studies also highlight the benefit of LiDAR (Light Detection
and Ranging) data for species identification, and how this varies
depending on the species of interest as well as the nature of the
context in which the species is found. The broad range of
applications explored in the book demonstrates the major
contribution of remote sensing to species-level terrestrial and
coastal ecosystem studies as well as the potential for future
advances. The chapters in this book were originally published as a
special issue of the International Journal of Remote Sensing.
Comet presents the amazing story of the Rosetta space probe and its
interstellar voyage to the comet Tchoury. Its mission - to find
clues to the origins of our solar system and the emergence of life
on Earth. Following a ten-year voyage and a journey spanning
millions of kilometres through our Solar System, the Rosetta
entered the comet's orbit. Its lander, Philae - a miniature science
laboratory - landed directly on Tchoury's surface and was able to
take the photographs presented here. This triumph of scientific
endeavour brought back a raft of incredible new photographs, the
best of which are featured here. The book is built around the
various phases in Rosetta's journey: leaving Earth, breaching its
atmosphere and watching the lights of home recede; skirting the
Moon and coming close to Mars; plunging into the cosmos' starry
void and approaching the comet; and, finally, landing on Tchoury.
The photographs are accompanied by a text that reflects on the
objectives of the mission and the accomplishment of such a
technological feat for humanity. Detailed captions provide the
reader with accessible scientific information, enabling them to get
to the heart of the subject.
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Provides over 325 full-color photos illustrating real-world
examples of quality scene work and optimal crime scene photographic
techniques Offers step-by-step procedures for recording difficult
photographic images, including painting with light, UV/IR
photographs, and laser (shooting) reconstruction photographs
Presents all the unique insights, techniques, and tips from a crime
scene investigator with over 1,000 crimes scenes worked and nearly
20 years’ experience in a major-metropolitan city New to this
edition: test questions and instructors’ material to encourage
use in schools, police academies, and colleges and universities
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