Author: Paul Hill
Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Incorporated
ISBN:
Size: 12.89 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Photographers
Languages : en
Pages : 339
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Book Description: These are the classic interviews with the men and women who shaped so much of twentieth century photography. Ansel Adams, Man Ray, Brassai, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Andres Kertesz, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, George Rodger, Robert Doisneau, Brett Weston, W.Eugene Smith, Imogen Cunningham, Wynn Bullock, among many others-recall their frustrations and successes and the effects of world events on their work.

Author: Ian Walker
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719062155
Size: 24.26 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Book Description: This book offers the first detailed analysis of how the Surrealists utilized the tactics of documentary and how Surrealist ideas in turn influenced the development of documentary photography. The last two decades have seen the re-emergence of Surrealist photography, but with an emphasis on work made in the studio or the darkroom. This, however, is a study of what Louis Aragon called 'surrealist realism': the exploration of a real-life surreality encountered on the streets of the city. This book throws new light on Surrealism, emphasizing its connections with the everyday life of the city.

Author: Tanya Sheehan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317578961
Size: 49.29 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Book Description: Recent decades have seen a flourishing interest in and speculation about the origins of photography. Spurred by rediscoveries of ‘first’ photographs and proclamations of photography’s death in the digital age, scholars have been rethinking who and what invented the medium. Photography and Its Origins reflects on this interest in photography’s beginnings by reframing it in critical and specifically historiographical terms. How and why do we write about the origins of the medium? Whom or what do we rely on to construct those narratives? What’s at stake in choosing to tell stories of photography’s genesis in one way or another? And what kind of work can those stories do? Edited by Tanya Sheehan and Andrés Mario Zervigón, this collection of 16 original essays, illustrated with 32 colour images, showcases prominent and emerging voices in the field of photography studies. Their research cuts across disciplines and methodologies, shedding new light on old questions about histories and their writing. Photography and Its Origins will serve as a valuable resource for students and scholars in art history, visual and media studies, and the history of science and technology.

Author: Paul Martineau
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606061194
Size: 16.23 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Book Description: Known for his exquisite images of birds and landscape, Eliot Porter (American, 1901–1990) was a pioneer in the use of color photography. His work also became a powerful visual argument for environmental conservation. Trained as a medical doctor and possessing a scientist's gift for close observation, Porter explored new ways of depicting nature, building blinds in trees so he could study his avian subjects at closer vantage, and producing landscape images that capture both pristine forest and ragged river canyons with equal force and brilliance. Initially encouraged by the groundbreaking photographers Ansel Adams and Alfred Stieglitz, Porter went on to produce a body of work all his own. His 1962 Sierra Club book In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World, with its images grouped by season and accompanied by quotations from Henry David Thoreau, transformed the concept of nature photography books. Ultimately, Porter's photographs came to the attention of Congress and led to the passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964, the foundational law in wilderness management today. Eliot Porter: In the Realm of Nature contains 110 images from the collections of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser; the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; and of the J. Paul Getty Museum, along with an essay by Paul Martineau that discusses Porter's life and the innovations he brought to the practice of photography.

Author: Werner Sollors
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674052439
Size: 70.52 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Book Description: Discusses the time in Germany right after World War II when the country was dealing with the physical, emotional, and mental scars of obliterated cities, hungry refugees, and Nazi war crimes.

Author: Richard Bolton
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262521697
Size: 21.37 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 407
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Book Description: Essays discuss the development of photography, and how it promotes class and national interests

Author: Paul Hill
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000182509
Size: 36.18 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Book Description: Fully updated and revised, this seminal book explains and illustrates what photographs are, how they were made and used in the past and, more particularly, what their place is in the creative arts and visual communications world of today. Paul Hill looks at photographs as modes of expression and explores the diversity of approaches taken when creating photographs and what these mean for a photographer’s practice and purpose. It emphasises the importance of contextualisation to the understanding of the medium, diving into the ideas behind the images and how the camera transforms and influences how we see the world. With an impressive collection of 200 full colour images from professional practitioners and artists, it invites us to consider the foundations of photography’s past and the digital revolution’s impact on the creation and dissemination of photographs today. Essential reading for all students of photography, it is an invaluable guide for those who want to make a career in photography, covering most areas of photographic practice from photojournalism to fine art to personal essay.

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Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 80.11 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Shamoon Zamir
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469611767
Size: 28.11 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Book Description: Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian is the most ambitious photographic and ethnographic record of Native American cultures ever produced. Published between 1907 and 1930 as a series of twenty volumes and portfolios, the work contains more than two thousand photographs intended to document the traditional culture of every Native American tribe west of the Mississippi. Many critics have claimed that Curtis's images present Native peoples as a "vanishing race," hiding both their engagement with modernity and the history of colonial violence. But in this major reappraisal of Curtis's work, Shamoon Zamir argues instead that Curtis's photography engages meaningfully with the crisis of culture and selfhood brought on by the dramatic transformations of Native societies. This crisis is captured profoundly, and with remarkable empathy, in Curtis's images of the human face. Zamir also contends that we can fully understand this achievement only if we think of Curtis's Native subjects as coauthors of his project. This radical reassessment is presented as a series of close readings that explore the relationship of aesthetics and ethics in photography. Zamir's richly illustrated study resituates Curtis's work in Native American studies and in the histories of photography and visual anthropology.

Author: Diana Balmori
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118541197
Size: 41.76 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Book Description: How to tackle representation in landscape design Representation is a hot topic in landscape architecture. While computerization has been a catalyst for change across many fields in design, no other design field has experienced such drastic reinvention as has landscape architecture. As the world urbanizes rapidly and our relationship with nature changes, it is vitally important that landscape designers adopt innovative forms of representation—whether digital, analog, or hybrid. In this book, author Diana Balmori explores notions of representation in the discipline at large and across time. She takes readers from landscape design's roots in seventeenth-century France and eighteenth-century England through to modern attempts at representation made by contemporary landscape artists. Addresses a central topic in the discipline of landscape architecture Features historic works and those by leading contemporary practitioners, such as Bernard Lassus, Richard Haag, Stig L Andersson, Lawrence Halprin, and Patricia Johanson Written by a renowned practitioner and educator Features 150 full-color images Drawing and Reinventing Landscape, AD Primer is an informative investigation of beauty in landscape design, offering inspiring creative perspectives for students and professionals.