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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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Family of Man

Family of Man more books like this

by Edward Steichen (Editor)

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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Photographers eye.

Photographers eye. more books like this

by Szarkowski

The Photographer's Eye by John Szarkowski is a twentieth-century classic--an indispensable introduction to the visual language of photography. Based on a landmark exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in 1964, and originally published in 1966, the book has long been out of print. It is now available again to a new generation of photographers 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." Learning to See Creatively" helps photographers visualize their work, and the world, in a whole new light.

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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography more books like this

by Roland Barthes

This personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume--and the last book Barthes published--finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to the subject of photography. To this end, several black-and-white photos (by the likes of Avedon, Clifford, Hine, Mapplethorpe, Nadar, Van Der Zee, and so forth) are ...

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Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs

Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs more books like this

by Ansel Adams

Each of Adams 40 photographs presented here is accompanied by an engaging narrative that explores the technical and aesthetic problems presented by the subject and includes reminiscences of the places and people involved.

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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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Portfolios of Ansel Adams

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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Until Now

Until Now more books like this

by Anne Geddes

This magnificent retrospective of Anne Geddes' exceptional photography includes many images never-before published in the United States, as well as a representative selection of her most popular images--113 in all. Exquisite reproductions in large-scale format convey the diverse vision of a truly remarkable artist, and commentary by Geddes ...

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On the Loose

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

by Terry Barrett

" Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images is now in its third edition and it has become the standard in photo criticism and theory courses throughout the United States. The book contains an elegant pedagogical apparatus founded on the four critical activities that Terry Barrett so ably illuminates -- describing, ...

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Lady Cottington's Fairy Album more books like this

by Brian Froud

Lady Angelica Cottington returns in this mysterious, hilarious sequel to Froud's huge international hit. In this quirky and seductive new volume, 15-year-old Angelica stumbles on an annotated photo album that reveals fairy enchantments, wanton romance, and bawdy trysts.

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Ansel Adams: Classic Image Essays more books like this

by James Alinder, Ansel E Adams (Photographer), Mr. John Szarkowski (Introduction by)

A beautiful collection of Adams' work, hand-picked by himself--a last statement portfolio to represent his life's work intended to be exhibited throughout the country as The Museum Set. 76 duotones.

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Photography and the Art of Seeing: A Visual Perception Workshop for Film and Digital Photography more books like this

by Freeman Patterson

The classic book on photography and visual perception updated and expanded to include both digital and film photography features practical techniques and exercises to develop an awareness of subject and personal direction.

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Immediate family more books like this

by Sally Mann

Terror, self-discovery, doubt, vulnerability, pain, and joy all clash and converge in Mann's powerful photographs. Sally Mann's widely acclaimed Immediate Family, which explores childhood with unparalleled emotional depth, is now available in paperback for the first time.

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Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs more books like this

by Ansel Adams (Photographer), Andrea G Stillman (Editor)

Ansel Adams sublime photographs of trees are the subject of this beautiful and elegant homage to the most graceful form in nature. 50 tritone photos. Little, Brown and Company

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Photographs more books like this

by Annie Leibovitz

These photographs are like the best lyrics of rock music; they define popular life for millions. 70 photographs, the best of her work, are reproduced. With a commentary by Annie in which she speaks about her ideas and techniques.

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Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art more books like this

by John Szarkowski

In this new edition of what "The New Yorker" calls "one of the finest photography anthologies in print, " Szarkowski explores the history of photography using 100 examples from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. 100 duotone photos. Available

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Cindy Sherman: Retrospective more books like this

by Cindy Sherman, Elizabeth Smith, Amelia Jones

This comprehensive catalog traces the career of Cindy Sherman, examining her achievements as one of the leading American artists of our time, whose art embodies two of the most crucial developments in the art world in the last decade: the impact of postmodern theory on the practice of art, and the rise of photography and mass-media techniques as ...

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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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Why People Photograph more books like this

by Robert Adams

A new selection of poignant essays by master photographer Robert Adams, in which he makes a strong case for the importance of art.

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Half Past Autumn: A Retrospective more books like this

by Gordon Parks

This stunning companion to a major traveling exhibition captures the life and work of one of the most distinguished photographers of our century. Fusing nearly 300 unforgettable images with his own account of his amazing life, Gordon Parks, at age 84, gives us the first complete retrospective of his photographic career. 100 color & 195 duotone ...

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Diane Arbus Revelations more books like this

by Doon Arbus, Diane Arbus

Published to accompany a major Diane Arbus exhibition in San Francisco, REVELATIONS includes familiar and unfamiliar work (some never before seen), as well as contact sheets and variant prints. It also include essays, biographies not only of Arbus but of the people in her life, excerpts from letters, a chronology, and Arbus's high school report ...

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Twilight more books like this

by Gregory Crewdson, Rick Moody

Twilight: in that zone between the certainty of day and fear of the dark, Gregory Crewdson sets his eerie, enigmatic photographs. A woman floats in her flooded living room, a cow appears to have fallen from the sky onto a front lawn, a gang of teenagers, seemingly hypnotized, pile up household objects for a bonfire. Created as elaborately staged ...

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Photography & the Art of Seeing more books like this

by Freeman Patterson

Now revised, the second book in Freeman Patterson's classic photography series familiarizes readers with the traditional principles of composition and visual design. Patterson provides technique and exercises for breaking with traditional concepts of design, enabling the photographer to develop a keen sense of awareness of subject matter and a ...

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