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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography more books like this

by Roland Barthes

Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind.

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On Photography

On Photography more books like this

by Susan Sontag

In her great classic work ON PHOTOGRAPHY (1977), without including a single photograph, Susan Sontag looks at the impact of photography on real life in the 20th century. Her thesis is that the universal presence of the photographic image in our lives as something we take for granted has made the photograph more real than what it represents, and ...

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Learning to See Creatively: Design, Color & Composition in Photography

Learning to See Creatively: Design, Color & Composition in Photography more books like this

by Bryan F Peterson

Almost everyone can "see" in the conventional sense, but developing photographic vision takes practice. This work helps photographers visualize their work, and the world, in a whole new light. This revised and rewritten guide takes a radical approach to creativity. It explains how it is not some gift only for a few, but actually a skill that can ...

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Family of Man

Family of Man more books like this

by Edward Steichen

This now classic book is the permanent embodiment of Edward Steichen's masterpiece - a creation that has been hailed as the most successful and inspiring exhibition of photography ever assembled. The Family of Man opened at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in January 1955 and thereafter traveled throughout the United States and much of the ...

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Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images

Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images more books like this

by Terry Barrett

This brief text is designed to help both beginning and advanced students of photography better develop and articulate thoughtful criticism. Organized around the major activities of criticism (describing, interpreting, evaluating, and theorizing), "Criticizing Photographs" provides a clear framework and vocabulary for students' critical skill ...

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Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs

Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs more books like this

by Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams recounts the circumstances surrounding the making of many of his most famous photographs and the methods he used in their realization. Each image is accompanied by a narrative that explores the technical and aesthetic problems presented by the subject, and includes reminiscences of the places and people involved and anecdotes on ...

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The A-Z of creative photography : over 70 techniques explained in full

The A-Z of creative photography : over 70 techniques explained in full more books like this

by Lee Frost

Explores over 70 different photographic techniques in jargon-free language, encompassing many subject areas. The "Top Tips" section for each technique aims to achieve superb results, even at the first attempt. By the author of "Taking Pictures for Profit".

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Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph

Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph more books like this

by Diane Arbus (Photographer)

This classic work showcases the best of Diane Arbus's photographs--80 of them--and includes 15 pages of fragments of Arbus's writing that illuminate the images.

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The Photography Book

The Photography Book more books like this

by Ian Jeffrey

This is a mini edition of "The Photography Book", containing every sort of photography, from pictures of famous events such as the Royal Wedding and the first landing on the moon, to familiar shots by the masters of photography such as Bill Brandt and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

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Ansel Adams: Trees

Ansel Adams: Trees more books like this

by Ansel Adams

The great American photographer Ansel Adams is justly famous for his heroic mountain landscapes. He is also a consummate photographer of trees and forest woodland, creating stirring portraits of giant oaks in Yosemite Valley and capturing the shimmering beauty of an aspen grove in New Mexico. This book will present some fifty of Adams' finest ...

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Portfolios of Ansel Adams more books like this

by Ansel Adams

This volume includes the seven limited-edition portfolios produced by Adams between 1948 and 1976, each containing 10 to 15 signed prints. It features many of his best and most well-known landscapes, as well as portraits and cityscapes.

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How to Read a Photograph: Lessons from Master Photographers more books like this

by Ian Jeffrey, Mr. Max Kozloff (Foreword by)

Ian Jeffrey is a superb guide in this profusely illustrated introduction to the appreciation of photography as an art form. Novices and experts alike will gain a deeper understanding of great photographers and their work, as Jeffrey decodes key images and provides essential biographical and historical background. Profiles of more than 100 major ...

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The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification more books like this

by Julian Montague

Despite the ubiquity of stray shopping carts, little effort has been made to comprehend the complex relationship between cart and landscape. This is, in no small part, due to the fact that we have until now lacked a formalised language to describe these wayward carts in systematic detail. That is, until now. In "The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern ...

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Winogrand: Figments from the Real World more books like this

by John Szarkowski (Editor)

The first comprehensive overview of the work of Garry Winogrand, long out of print and difficult to come by, contains an eloquent and important essay on the life and work of the photographer by John Szarkowski and a lavish plate section presenting the 208 photos thematically.

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Friedlander more books like this

by Peter Galassi, Lee Friedlander (Photographer)

Text by Peter Galassi. Afterword by Richard Benson.

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Josef Sudek: Poet of Prague more books like this

by Josef Sudek, Anna Farova

Here is the most comprehensive compilation of Josef Sudek's photographs, providing the rare opportunity to see for the first time the masterworks of one of photography's greatest artists.

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The Photograph as Contemporary Art more books like this

by Charlotte Cotton

This book, now updated and expanded, is a profusely illustrated survey of the use of photography in contemporary art since the mid-1980s. It features the work of more than 170 of internationally renowned and up-and-coming artist-photographers, including Andreas Gursky, Nan Goldin, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Richard Billingham, Jurgen Teller, Thomas ...

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Henri Cartier-Bresson more books like this

by Aperture, Henri Cartier-Bresson (Photographer)

Henri Cartier-Bresson reveals--as only a few great artists have done consistently--the variety and richness of human experience in the twentieth century. This second volume of Aperture's Masters of Photography series confirms the genius of the photographer who--with the new, smaller, hand-held cameras and faster films--defined the idea of "the ...

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The Fine Print more books like this

by Fred Picker

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Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age more books like this

by Sebastiao Salgado

More than those of any living photographer, Sebastiao Salgado's images of the world's poor stand as icons of the human condition. His transforming photographs bestow dignity on the most isolated and neglected, from refugees in the famine-stricken Sahel, to the men who swarm the gold mines of Brazil. Now Saigado goes beyond icons to bring us a ...

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On the Loose more books like this

by Russell

"On The Loose" is a journey through the American West, led by two adventurous brothers, Terry and Renny Russell. As a chronicle of triumph and tragedy, the brothers gain an understanding about themselves through an understanding of the natural world. Includes photos by the authors of Yosemite, Point Reyes, and the High Sierra in the 1950s. 63 ...

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Jock Sturges: Notes more books like this

by Jock Sturges (Photographer)

This volume gives fans of Sturges's unforgettable images a glimpse behind the scenes of his working process, opening up his studio and notes to the viewer for the very first time.

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William Eggleston: Democratic Camera: Photographs and Video, 1961-2008 more books like this

by Ms. Elisabeth Sussman, Thomas Weski, Stanley Booth (Contributions by)

Elvis' Graceland, a freezer stuffed with food, a Gulf gasoline sign standing in a deserted rural landscape - these are only a few of the iconic images captured by the "democratic camera" of photographer William Eggleston. Not only has he drawn upon images so telling of American culture, he has produced them with an intensity and balance of colour ...

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Until Now more books like this

by Anne Geddes

A retrospective of ten years of the work of photographer Anne Geddes. It features all her best-known images, together with photographs of babies, which are her speciality. The photographs take pride of place, with thumbnail text at the end giving details about their subjects.

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Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky more books like this

by Lori Pauli, Kenneth Baker, S.J, Mark Haworth-Booth

Over a period of 25 years, the internationally renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has been an explorer of unfamiliar places where human activity has reshaped the surface of the land. His astonishing large-scale colour photographs of the landscapes of mining, quarrying, railcutting, recycling, oil refining and shipbreaking uncover a ...

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