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Twins
(Hardcover)
Julie Hascoet
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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.
Seeing Science offers an insightful and reader-friendly collection
of essays and pictures about photography's role in visualizing
science and building human knowledge-from micro to macro levels and
everything in between. Photography and science have long been
intertwined, helping to shape the way we look at the world.
Scientists use photography as a way to gather information, explore,
and learn, but just as important, photography is also used to
promote scientific advances and has long served as an interface
between the sciences and the public. Our understanding of outer
space depends on images sent to Earth from the Hubble Space
Telescope, just as our understanding of our own bodies depends on
X-rays. Images make visible what lies beyond human perception.
Science is less an edifice of facts than a process of discovery and
inquiry. In this way, it is not dissimilar to art; artists have
engaged with some of the same scientific principles, using
photography to imagine the world differently and present us with
new experiences and ways of seeing. This volume presents both
perspectives exploring how science is made perceptible, featuring
over three hundred images and sixty short texts. Together they
engage readers in a timely exploration of the extent to which our
knowledge is formed and transformed through our interactions with
photographic imagery.
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As A Man Thinketh
(Paperback)
James Allen; Contributions by Mint Editions
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In creating one of the first and most successful examples of the
inspirational self-help book, James Allen was motivated by his own
hard experience to show how our mental attitude has profound
control over our lives and how we experience the world. More than
that, he shows how, in mastering how we think, we can master our
place in the world. As a Man Thinketh first appeared in 1903 and
draws its title from the Bible (Prov. 23: 7) "As a man thinketh in
his heart, so is he." Written to be accessible to all, the author
persuasively describes how readers need to take responsibility for
their thoughts as well as their actions, and that how a person
thinks literally shapes their life path. In improving our thoughts,
we can improve our lives. With an eye-catching new cover, and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of As a Man
Thinketh is both modern and readable.
A truly up to date and thoughtful approach to an introduction to
graphic design! The design industry has evolved rapidly over the
past decade. Effective and successful designers no longer need to
just "make things," they need to be curious thinkers who understand
how to solve problems that have a true impact on the world we live
in and how to show the power of designing for social good. Now more
than ever, the graphic design industry needs a book that teaches
the foundations and theories of design while simultaneously
speaking to the topics of history, ethics, and accessibility in
order to make designs that are the most effective for all people.
In Powered by Design, educator, designer, and public speaker Renee
Stevens brings a truly up to date and thoughtful approach to an
introduction to graphic design. As Assistant Professor at the S.I.
Newhouse School of Communication at Syracuse University, Stevens
created this book to be at home equally in academia and outside of
the school setting. With a conversational and approachable tone,
Stevens' book is for anyone who wants to gain a more practical
understanding of what graphic design is today, and the power and
potential it has: from students to novice graphic designers to
anyone who wants to build a solid foundation of design skills so
that they can work more effectively with professional designers.
Stevens covers topics such as: - Choosing the right typeface -
Hierarchy and visual weight - Creating design systems - Balancing
tension - Visualizing data - Understanding color and mood -
Defining a story structure - User testing and critique - Immersive
design (designing for all the senses) - Determining when a design
is finished - How to make a living with design Woven throughout is
the crucial idea that you must embrace empathy in everything you
design in order to create work that is the most inclusive. Design
has the power and potential to make real impact in our everyday
lives, and this book will show you how to do that starting with
your first design experience.
Guest edited by the acclaimed photographer Alec Soth, Aperture's
summer issue explores the dimensions and possibilities of dreams,
journeys, and chance in photography. "Sleepwalking" covers a
surprising array of images and stories from the Soviet-era Czech
artist Emila Medova to Sophie Calle's discovery of an abandoned
Parisian hotel to Soth's own photographs from his travels in the
United States. In this issue, Jesse Dorris interviews Duane Michals
about luck and fate, Marina Warner explores the enduring resonance
of the figure of the sleepwalker, and artists including Etienne
Courtois, Maja Daniels, and Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. present
surreal and imaginative new series. The Summer 2022 issue also
introduces The PhotoBook Review, a new section for lively
engagement with photobooks, featuring reviews of recent titles by
Nona Faustine, Samuel Fosso, Oscar Monzon, and others.
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War Games
(Hardcover)
David Levinthal
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David Levinthal, a central figure in the history of American
postmodern photography, has staged uncanny tableaux using toys and
miniature dioramas for nearly forty years. This publication for the
first time assembles the artist's photography on the subject of
war.
Levinthal's combat-related tableaux constitute a remarkable
critique of the ways society experiences conflict through its
portrayal. His groundbreaking project "Hitler Moves East"
(1975-77), a series of imagined scenes from World War II's Russian
front, first established his reputation, becoming a touchstone for
the iconoclastic generation of American photographers that includes
artists like Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince.
The book has a beautifully designed canvas hardcover with
silkscreen print and a dust jacket
Launched in April 1912, the Vest Pocket Kodak was one of the
world's first compact cameras. About the height and width of
today's iPhone, it was small enough to fit into the pocket of a
waistcoat (the American Vest) and allowed the soldiers to record
their experiences of the trenches. The images they preserved offer
us a remarkably personal viewpoint, and create a fascinating link
between the camera and the conflict. The first half of the book
sets the technology and timeline of the camera against those of the
war. The second half presents a commemorative album of images taken
with the camera, a remarkable record of a lost generation, and a
tragic reflection of the manufacturer's advertising by-line: Kodak
pictures never let you forget.
Breathtaking photography of sea glass by Tommy Allen lures you into
the new year in this 2021 wall calendar. Complete with facts and
quotes on sea glass from the definitive guide, Pure Sea Glass by
author Richard LaMotte, this is a year-long delight for the avid
collector and the occasional beachcomber.
Over a six-month period, Swiss artist Georg Gatsas photographed
many of the artists living in New York's Lower Manhattan. Sparked
by the history of the area as a haven for creativity, Gatsas
produced a historical document in the tradition of social
photographer Jacob Riis--charting places, people and moments that
seem otherwise bound for oblivion.
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Empty Days
(Hardcover)
Paddy Summerfield
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The Railroad Photography of Phil Hastings explores the life and
influential work of Dr. Philip R. "Phil" Hastings (1923–1987).
Along with his contemporaries, Hastings changed the way we look at
the North American railroad. Influenced by the
photojournalistic movement that developed during their childhoods,
these visionaries expanded their work from traditional locomotive
roster and action shots into a holistic view of the railroad
environment. Collated by Tony Reevy, The Railroad Photography of
Phil Hastings features 140 full-page, black-and-white photographs
from throughout Hasting's career and features an introduction that
explores Hastings's life and work, including his relationships with
noted author and editor David P. Morgan and photographer Jim
Shaughnessy. The Railroad Photography of Phil Hastings represents a
major contribution to historical record of the life and work of
this remarkable photographer, whose images shaped how we perceive
and experience railroads throughout North America.
In this book, Osborne demonstrates why and how photography as
photography has survived and flourished since the rise of digital
processes, when many anticipated its dissolution into a generalised
system of audio-visual representations or its collapse under the
relentless overload of digital imagery. He examines how photography
embodies, contributes to, and even in effect critiques how the
contemporary social world is now imagined, how it is made present
and how the concept and the experience of the Present itself is
produced. Osborne bases his discussions primarily in cultural
studies and visual cultural studies. Through an analysis of
different kinds of photographic work in distinct contexts, he
demonstrates how aspects of photography that once appeared to make
it vulnerable to redundancy turn out to be the basis of its
survival and have been utilised by much important photographic work
of the last three decades.
How ’Bout Them Dawgs! tells the behind-the-scenes story of the
University of Georgia’s 2021 college football national
championship season from the perspective of the man in charge:
Kirby Smart. In addition to offering his perspective on coaching,
his defensive philosophy, the importance of recruiting, each of the
fifteen games, and the celebrations that followed the last one,
Coach Smart also tells a bit of his own story that started in
Slapout, Alabama, in 1975 and ended at the height of the college
football world on a January night in Indianapolis. From the
opening-game victory over perennial-power Clemson University to the
undefeated march through the mighty SEC to the discouraging loss to
the University of Alabama in the SEC Championship Game to the
Dawgs’ eventual triumph over that same familiar foe in
Indianapolis, Coach Smart and Loran Smith team up to provide an
intimate look at the first team to win a college football national
championship at the University of Georgia in more than four
decades. Vince Dooley, the last head coach to lead UGA to a college
football national championship in 1980, and Jere W. Morehead, the
president of the University of Georgia, offer their unique insights
on the historic 2021 season and the elite team that made it happen
as well. Featuring the profiles and recollections of players,
coaches, and support staff—and handsomely illustrated with more
than 100 never-before-seen photographs—How ’Bout Them Dawgs! is
a unique keepsake for Dawg fans everywhere.
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SOON
(Paperback)
Emma van der Put
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A clear and concise survey of some of the most significant
writers on photography who have played a major part in defining and
influencing our understanding of the medium. It provides a succinct
overview of writing on photography from a diverse range of
disciplines and perspectives and examines the shifting perception
of the medium over the course of its 170 year history. Key writers
discussed include:
- Roland Barthes
- Susan Sontag
- Jacques Derrida
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Geoffrey Batchen
Fully cross-referenced and in an A-Z format, this is an
accessible and engaging introductory guide.
Between 1914 and 1918, military, press and amateur photographers
produced thousands of pictures. Either classified in military
archives specially created with this purpose in 1915, collected in
personal albums or circulated in illustrated magazines, photographs
were supposed to tell the story of the war. Picturing the Western
Front argues that photographic practices also shaped combatants and
civilians’ war experiences. Doing photography (taking pictures,
posing for them, exhibiting, cataloguing and looking at them)
allowed combatants and civilians to make sense of what they were
living through. Photography mattered because it enabled combatants
and civilians to record events, establish or reinforce bonds with
one another, represent bodies, place people and events in
imaginative geographies and making things visible, while making
others, such as suicide, invisible. Photographic practices became,
thus, frames of experience. -- .
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