Creator: Edward Chambre Hardman
Publication date: 2007-09-18
Dewey code: 942.7530820222
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.47
Review Liverpool Through the Lens / National Trust Books:
Authors
- Daniel Lezano
- Bjorn Thomassen
Dewey code: 778.92
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.57
Review 100 Ways to Take Better Portrait Photographs / David & Charles PLC:
Publication date: 2008-09-18
Dewey code: 910
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.86
Review Carnival Masks of Venice: A Photographic Essay / AAPPL Artists & Photographers Press Limited:
Publication date: 2008-07-11
Dewey code: 381.177092
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.14
Review Bringing Home the Birkin / William Morrow:
Creator: Sebastiao Salgado
Edition: Mul
Publication date: 2007-10
Dewey code: 960.0222
RRP: £39.99
Price: £20.00
Review Africa: Eye on Africa - Thirty Years of Africa Images, Selected by Salgado Himself / Taschen GmbH:
Publication date: 2007-01-25
Dewey code: 771.33
RRP: £14.95
Price: £4.55
Review Nikon D200 (Magic Lantern Guide) (Magic Lantern Guides) / Lark Books,U.S.:
Publication date: 2008-10-01
Dewey code: 746.92
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.78
Review Fashion Victims: The Catty Catalogue of Stylish Casualties, from A-Z / Collins Design:
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Publication date: 2003-04-12
Dewey code: 771
RRP: £21.99
Price: £11.68
Review Creative Lighting Techniques for Studio Photographers / Amherst Media,U.S.:
Edition: Taschen's 25th Anniversary Ed
Publication date: 2008-03-07
Dewey code: 770
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.79
Review Brassai, Paris (Taschen 25th Anniversary Special Editins) / Taschen GmbH:
Publication date: 2004-09-01
Dewey code: 636.7527
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.16
Review 101 Uses for a Lab / Willow Creek Press:
Creator: Colin Prior
Publication date: 2001-10-04
Dewey code: 914
RRP: £25.00
Price: £15.65
Review Scotland: The Wild Places / Constable:
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.
Publication date: 2003-09-08
Dewey code: 778
RRP: £30.00
Price: £19.60
Review Celebrity / Little, Brown:
Publication date: 2007-11-01
Dewey code: 746
RRP: £40.00
Price: £24.79
Review Stylist: The Interpreters of Fashion / Rizzoli International Publications:
Publication date: 2005-09
RRP: £18.95
Price: £10.81
Review ReGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-09-28
Dewey code: 775
RRP: £20.50
Price: £10.57
Review Practical HDRI: High Dynamic Range Imaging for Photographers / Rocky Nook:
Publication date: 2007-10-16
Dewey code: 778.925
RRP: £21.99
Price: £8.75
Review Children's Portrait Photography Handbook / Amherst Media,U.S.:
Authors
- Todd Brandow
- William A. Ewing
RRP: £42.00
Price: £23.46
Review Edward Steichen: In High Fashion: The Conde Nast Years 1923-1937 / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-03-20
RRP: £16.99
Price: £10.17
Review Brilliant Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 / Prentice Hall:
Publication date: 2004-10-14
Dewey code: 070.49092
RRP: £24.95
Price: £15.63
Review Robert Capa: The Definitive Collection / Phaidon Press Ltd:
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Liverpool Through the Lens, 100 Ways to Take Better Portrait Photographs, Carnival Masks of Venice: A Photographic Essay, Bringing Home the Birkin, Africa: Eye on Africa - Thirty Years of Africa Images, Selected by Salgado Himself, Nikon D200 (Magic Lantern Guide) (Magic Lantern Guides), Fashion Victims: The Catty Catalogue of Stylish Casualties, from A-Z, Creative Lighting Techniques for Studio Photographers, Brassai, Paris (Taschen 25th Anniversary Special Editins), 101 Uses for a Lab, Scotland: The Wild Places, Vermeer's Camera: Uncovering the Truth Behind the Masterpieces, Celebrity, Stylist: The Interpreters of Fashion, ReGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, Practical HDRI: High Dynamic Range Imaging for Photographers, Children's Portrait Photography Handbook, Edward Steichen: In High Fashion: The Conde Nast Years 1923-1937, Brilliant Adobe Photoshop Elements 6, Robert Capa: The Definitive Collection |
