Eugene Atget, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Andre Kertesz, Brassai, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau - some of the greatest photographers of Paris - were relatively unknown when they began their most innovative work. Not yet burdened with conventional career expectations, they found the city the perfect environment in which to invent and develop ...
"Boarding House" shows an imaginary space of transient residence, of coming and goings, of people without homes, sheltering in an abode that they are using for their immediate survival. The structure is basic and fundamental and it is furnished with objects that are necessarily for an elementary existence. Remnants function here as physical ...
Dig into the second installment of the popular UNDEAD series, THE UNDEAD: SKIN AND BONES. A fungus takes over an office building and all its occupants. An exiled boy flees across a wasteland, stalked by an executioner and an undead dragon. A squadron of troops confronts an army of corpses. A greedy producer creates a talk show about the living ...
Adolescence is a time of drives: sexual, emotional, and vehicular. That age sparkles with the promise of what's to come, hides its insecurities under the cover of bravado, and trembles with excitement about the here and now. From 1959 to 1964 (arguably the adolescence of America), Joseph Sterling photographed teenagers, mostly in and around ...
Gets to the emotional, technical and aesthetic core of genius at work. In these seven essays Travis presents his thoughts on some of his favourite subjects: Weston, Stieglitz, Kertesz, Brassai and Strand.
One of Chicago's great cultural achievements, the Institute of Design was among the most important schools of photography in 20th-century America. It began as an outpost of experimental Bauhaus education and was home to an astonishing group of influential teachers and students, including Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. To date ...
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In the mid 1970s, Larry McPherson made a series of photographs of cows grazing at a Midwestern farm, in the natural oak savannahs on the Illinois-Wisconsin border. The images, some made in daytime and some at night, capture a range of bovine activities and moods, and a classic landscape. They became the subject of a solo exhibition at the Art ...
This is a retrospective view, since the mid-1960s, of the work of Raghubir Singh, one of India's greatest photographers. Published to mark the occasion of an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, it contains images of India, with an introduction by Singh and quotations from works by noted writers about India, such as Kipling and V.S. Naipal. ...
In a series of articles, the editors have compiled a reference work that examines the latest developments in logging data on behavioural disabilities as it occurs. Recent technological advances have made such developments possible.'
The mosaic of contemporary urban Jewish life is revealed in this intimate book of photographs by Jay Wolke. Whether he is photographing a Succoth celebration, or Russian Orthodox Jews, or the chards of sacred texts after arson in a synagogue, Wolke's images are at once familiar and mysterious, prosaic and exotic. And though the book's focus is the ...
When thirteen-year-old Jay Brady tries to find out what has happened to a classmate who has disappeared, he encounters increasingly strange and frightening occurrences.
Top performing dotcoms share a common feature. It isn't a new software plug-in or a design gadget or any other piece of technology. These sites share a passionate focus on usability. This guide is designed for software developers, project managers, business analysis and user interface designers, and does not require a background in human factors ...
Now available in paperback, this book won the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award for the Best Photographic Publication of 1989. Over 400 landmark photographs--famous images as well as newly discovered material never before exhibited or published--represent the work of over 200 photographers from public and private collections ...
A text intended for professionals involved in the design process, visual display managers, human factors engineers, computer scientists, and also as a secondary text reference for human factors and human-computer-interaction classes. The increasing use of colour in electronic displays has been one of the major developments in the computer ...
Police interrogation attracts debate and controversy around the world. Audio-visual recording is widely regarded as a panacea for problems in police questioning of suspects."Interrogating Images" presents the first empirical study of the routine use of audio-visual recording anywhere in the world, focusing on New South Wales, Australia where such ...
Injury to themselves and to other people, and damage to property by people with learning disabilities, is the subject of this interdisciplinary volume. Contributors address such topics as how to diagnose those among the developmentally disabled who will commit such acts, and how to measure the effectiveness of intervention and//or treatment ...
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