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 ...
A seasoned professional teaches you the secrets of successful corporate photography on location. Gary Gladstone, a former photographer for Life Magazine, creates a practical, expert manual on pursuing this potentially lucrative career taking pictures for annual reports, corporate capability brochures, and marketing pieces. As freelancers, ...
Margaret Bourke-White is an internationally renowned photojournalist who, from the 1920s through the 1950s, tirelessly recorded the objects, people, and events that shaped history. Famous first as an industrial photographer, then as one of the four original staff members of Life magazine (her photograph graced its first cover), her vision and ...
This is the compelling story of the collaboration of the most important husband-and-wife team in the history of photography; a lavishly illustrated critical assessment of their lifelong project of documenting the industrial landscape of the twentieth century. Bernd and Hilla Becher's lifetime project of documenting the industrial landscape of our ...
The Space Race was an exhilirating moment in history, alternately frightening, thrilling, awe-inspiring, and ultimately, sublime. Its most enigmatic element was the competition. The Soviets seemed less technologically sophisticated (at least from the American perspective) but in fact won many of the races: first satellite to orbit the earth; first ...
By viewing the corporation as a communicator, Image Worlds links the histories of labor, business, consumption, engineering, and photography, providing a new perspective on one of the largest and most representative corporations.
The photographs of Ferit Kuyas combine cool objectivity with a feeling for the poetry hidden in industrial environments, primarily from the period of early industrialization in Europe. Although Ferit Kuyas's work has been known to insiders for some time, this is the long-awaited publication of his work in book form. One of Europe's foremost ...
Arthur d'Arazien's particular talent was to photograph American industry. He recorded with artistry, precision, and passion the powerful, emotional impact of giant machines, immense structures, and complex artifacts. His photographs are the result of meticulous planning and implementation on a grand scale. He was an experimenter and an innovator, ...
Industrial photography is an increasingly attractive, lucrative specialty for professional photographers. Jack Neubart shows the work of 12 well-known industrial photographers and presents a comprehensive guide to the creative, technical and practical aspects of this field. In their own words, each of the photographers instructs the reader in ...
This beautiful volume is both a tribute to and a celebration of the photographer who, more than anyone else, has produced a visual record of man's mark on the American land over the last half-century. David Plowden's beautiful black-and-white images reveal his great respect for man's ingenuity and honest work, documenting a disappearing landscape ...
Margaret Bourke-White is best known as the first staff photographer of "Fortune" magazine, the first female war correspondent, and the woman whose photographs made the covers of "Life" magazine famous. But before she began traveling throughout the world to document history in the making, Bourke-White was creating evocative abstract photographs of ...
Industrial photography is an increasingly attractive, lucrative specialty for professional photographers. Jack Neubart shows the work of 12 well-known industrial photographers and presents a comprehensive guide to the creative, technical and practical aspects of this field. In their own words, each of the photographers instructs the reader in ...
Bernd and Hilla Becher have profoundly influenced the international photography world over the past several decades. Their unique genre, which falls somewhere between topological documentation and conceptual art, is in line with the aesthetics of such early-20th-century masters of German photography as Karl Blossfeldt, Germaine Krull, Albert ...
A photographic investigation of the aesthetics of technology by noted photographer John Sexton. The subjects explored include ancient Anasazi sites, Hoover Dam, power plants, and the Space Shuttle.
With "New York Vertical", Horst Hamann turned the concept of panoramic photography, quite literally, on its head, offering breathtaking images of Manhattan that echo the city's towering presence. But New York is not the only place that begs us to crane our necks in awe, or look down in dizzying wonder. In this work, Hamann gives us even more ...
The Bechers' industrial vision has become an essential part of the way we see today; with their head-on, dead-pan photographs of pithead gear and water towers and blast furnaces. In this latest work, the Bechers present four principally different forms of gas holders or gas tanks in 140 photographs taken during the years 1963-1992 in Great Britain ...
For nearly four decades this renowned German husband-and-wife team of photographers has been paying tribute to the industrial landscape. Their work ranks internationally among the most significant achievements in the field of industrial photography. The 64 images in this collection comprise a typical cross-section of the Bechers' work. Captured in ...
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