Publication date: 2008-01-01
Dewey code: 746.92
RRP: £24.95
Price: £44.31
Review Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys / Earthscan Publications Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-10-01
Dewey code: 770
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.32
Review National Geographic: The Photographs (Collectors): The Photographs (Collectors (National Geographic)) / National Geographic Society:
Publication date: 2008-09-03
Dewey code: 778
RRP: £21.99
Price: £11.73
Review Posing Techniques for Photographing Model Portfolios / AMHERST MEDIA, INC.:
Publication date: 2004-10-14
Dewey code: 070.49092
RRP: £24.95
Price: £15.63
Review Robert Capa: The Definitive Collection / Phaidon Press Ltd:
Authors
- Barbara Obermeier
- Deke McClelland
Dewey code: 006.6869
RRP: £18.95
Price: £9.21
Review Photoshop 7 for Dummies (For Dummies) / John Wiley & Sons:
Authors
- William A. Ewing
- Todd Brandow
RRP: £42.00
Price: £25.20
Review Edward Steichen: In High Fashion: The Conde Nast Years 1923-1937 / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-08-26
Dewey code: 779.9385
RRP: £38.00
Price: £24.24
Review The Call of Trains: Railroad Photographs by Jim Shaughnessy / W. W. Norton & Co.:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-05-20
Dewey code: 779.092
RRP: £14.95
Price: £5.65
Review Joel Meyerowitz / Phaidon Press Ltd:
Authors
- Christian Balmes
- Herve Le Bras
- Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Publication date: 2003-10-27
Dewey code: 778
RRP: £14.95
Price: £2.23
Review Earth from the Air, 365 Days / Thames & Hudson Ltd:French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand can be forgiven for looking down on the world when his latest global survey, The Earth from the Air, 365 Days bears such bold witness to the variety of our lives and our planet. More compact than the original The Earth from the Air, but somehow no less heavy, Arthus-Bertrand's glossy portrait-diary of privileged panoramas formalises the concept of looking at a single piece of art each day by arranging yet another stunning array of bird's-eye glimpses of the lives we lead, and the multitude we don't and never will. His now-recognisable preferences are much in evidence, such as a person or animal to give scale or reference to a shot (the relationship between man and beast greatly informs his more traditional portrait work, such as Dogs and Cats, local markets, primitive enclosures and dwellings, seaweed, water as transport, life-sustainer, destroyer and habitat and an irresistible attraction to the flamingo's brilliant hue. This time, even greater emphasis is placed on verbal context for each image, with a predominantly social commentary which acts as a moral tax on the visual delights. Oceans are overfished, rainforests destroyed, but Nature can play as malevolent a role, through hurricanes, or volcanoes, which feature prominently both as beautiful perils or as forces of geological shape. Indeed, perhaps the most beautiful photographs reveal tortured, sinewy geological formation, showing how much our world is formed by the fragile strength of its own internal forces and resources as much as humankind deforms it. Images stick in the mind: mangrove clearings in New Caledonia in the shape of a heart; stilt houses on the Orinoco Delta in Venezuela-literally Little Venice; an abandoned town near Chernobyl. Some exist aesthetically, some metaphorically, while others provoke, but almost without exception, they draw in the browser to contemplative delight. Textured works of art, daily balm for the vertiginous, The Earth from the Air, 365 Days is manna from heaven, and sure beats the Pirelli calendar -David Vincent.
Authors
- Bjorn Thomassen
- Daniel Lezano
Dewey code: 778.92
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.58
Review 100 Ways to Take Better Portrait Photographs / David & Charles PLC:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-09-28
Dewey code: 775
RRP: £20.50
Price: £10.43
Review Practical HDRI: High Dynamic Range Imaging for Photographers / Rocky Nook:
Authors
- Joe Cornish
- Charlie Waite
- David Ward
Publication date: 2007-11-01
Dewey code: 778
RRP: £20.00
Price: £10.23
Review Developing Vision and Style: A Masterclass in Landscape Photography (Light and Land): A Masterclass in Landscape Photography (Light & Land) / Argentum:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-06-24
Dewey code: 771.33
RRP: £15.99
Price: £10.54
Review David Busch's Nikon D60 Guide to Digital SLR Photography: 0 / Delmar:
Authors
- National Geographic Society
Publication date: 2004-12-22
Dewey code: 779.2
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.38
Review In Focus: "National Geographic" Greatest Photographs / National Geographic Books:
Authors
- Introduction by Agnes Sire
Publication date: 2006-12-08
Dewey code: 770.92
RRP: £45.00
Price: £25.11
Review Henri Cartier-Bresson/Scrapbook / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-09-01
Dewey code: 973.923092
RRP: £15.00
Price: £9.10
Review A Time It Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties / Harry N. Abrams, Inc.:
Creator: David Ward
Publication date: 2006-11-25
Dewey code: 778.936
RRP: £20.00
Price: £9.59
Review Working The Light: Landscape Photography Masterclass / Argentum:
Publication date: 2004-06-25
Dewey code: 770.68
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.34
Review Photographer's Market Guide to Building Your Photography Business: Everything You Need to Know to Run a Successful Photography Business / Writer's Digest Books:
Edition: Compact ed
Publication date: 2002-10-24
Dewey code: 770
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.32
Review Full Moon / Jonathan Cape Ltd:The Apollo missions, completed between 1967 and 1972, were achieved due to the magnificent co-operative effort of 400,000 men and women, and resulted in the miraculous feat of no deaths, six lunar landings, and over 32,000 photographs. To mark the 30th anniversary of the first landing, the Hayward Gallery in London held an exhibition in Summer 1999 of a selection of those photographs under the title "Full Moon". Indulge yourself in the catalogue of the show and it will take your breath away. Artist and photographer Michael Light has drawn on Nasa's huge archive to put together an archetypal lunar journey in images, from take-off to landing. It is awesome. To communicate the necessary density required a special black ink -"Luna Nero" was developed solely for the printing of this book, and the latest digital resources were used to process miles of black-and-white negatives and colour transparencies to a unique razor-sharp clarity. With five gatefold montage panoramas included, this is landscape photography at its best. Astronauts take their first steps in space, their cables attaching them to their mother craft like giant umbilical cords. The moody surface of the moon changes with every picture, resembling fried egg-white, Emmental cheese, and bubbling broth, magnificent desolation where humankind is the alien. Everything is shadow, scale, texture, trails. [+]Ultimately space travel, like any journeying, is about where you come from rather than where you are going, and the pictures of the Earth taken from space are about as life-affirming as anything you will see. The final image, taken from a capsule that has landed in the Pacific Ocean, ironically shows a seascape redolent of the moon, but appropriately coloured Earth-defining blue. Andrew Chaikin, author of the definitive study of the Apollo missions A Man in the Moon, has written a well-observed essay to complement Light's sequence, but there is no doubting the stars of the show, so to speak. At a time when we've bewilderingly lost a sense of space, this luxurious and spiritual book brilliantly captures something of it anew. -David Vincent The Apollo missions, completed between 1967 and 1972, were achieved due to the magnificent co-operative effort of 400,000 men and women, and resulted in the miraculous feat of no deaths, six lunar landings, and over 32,000 photographs. To mark the 30th anniversary of the first landing, the Hayward Gallery in London held an exhibition in Summer 1999 of a selection of those photographs under the title "Full Moon". Indulge yourself in the catalogue of the show and it will take your breath away. Artist and photographer Michael Light has drawn on Nasa's huge archive to put together an archetypal lunar journey in images, from take-off to landing. It is awesome. To communicate the necessary density required a special black ink -"Luna Nero" was developed solely for the printing of this book, and the latest digital resources were used to process miles of black-and-white negatives and colour transparencies to a unique razor-sharp clarity. With five gatefold montage panoramas included, this is landscape photography at its best. Astronauts take their first steps in space, their cables attaching them to their mother craft like giant umbilical cords. The moody surface of the moon changes with every picture, resembling fried egg-white, Emmental cheese, and bubbling broth, magnificent desolation where humankind is the alien. Everything is shadow, scale, texture, trails. Ultimately space travel, like any journeying, is about where you come from rather than where you are going, and the pictures of the Earth taken from space are about as life-affirming as anything you will see. The final image, taken from a capsule that has landed in the Pacific Ocean, ironically shows a seascape redolent of the moon, but appropriately coloured Earth-defining blue. Andrew Chaikin, author of the definitive study of the Apollo missions A Man in the Moon, has written a well-observed essay to complement Light's sequence, but there is no doubting the stars of the show, so to speak. At a time when we've bewilderingly lost a sense of space, this luxurious and spiritual book brilliantly captures something of it anew. -David Vincent.
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2002-04-04
Dewey code: 771
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.75
Review Vermeer's Camera: Uncovering the Truth Behind the Masterpieces / Oxford Paperbacks:Philip Steadman's remarkable book, Vermeer's Camera, cracks an artistic enigma that has haunted art history for centuries. Over the years artists and art historians have marvelled at the extraordinary visual realism of the paintings of the 17th-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. The painter's spectacular View of Delft, painted around 1661, and the beautiful domestic interior The Music Lesson seem almost photographic in their incredible detail and precise perspective. Since the 19th century, experts have speculated that Vermeer used a camera obscura, an early precursor of the modern camera. However, conclusive proof was never discovered, until now. In Vermeer's Camera, Philip Steadman conclusively proves that Vermeer did indeed use a camera obscura to complete his greatest canvases. Part art historical study, part scientific argument, but mainly a fascinating detective story, Vermeer's Camera argues that Vermeer had a camera obscura with a lens at the painting's viewpoint. He used this arrangement to project the scene onto the back wall of the room, which thus served as the camera's screen. He put paper on the wall and traced, perhaps even painted from the projected image. It is because Vermeer traced these images that they are the same size as the paintings themselves. [+]Steadman painstakingly develops his argument through careful study of the history of the camera obscura, an exploration of 17th-century optics, and a detailed study of the light, optics, perspective and measurement of a series of Vermeer's paintings. He goes to remarkable lengths to reconstruct Vermeer's studio and its furnishings, down to the angle of the light from its windows. The science is complex, but always clearly explained. Nor is this an attempt to reveal Vermeer as an artistic "cheat". Steadman convincingly argues that "Vermeer's obsessions with light, tonal values, shadow, and colour, for the treatment of which his work is so admired, are very closely bound up with his study of the special qualities of optical images". Vermeer's Camera is a wonderful book, that shows the ways in which, during the 17th century, art and science went hand in hand. It offers an enlarged, rather than reduced perspective on Vermeer. -Jerry Brotton.
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