Nikon Lenses: From Snapshots to Great Shots

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You own a Nikon DSLR, but which Nikon lens is best for your shooting style and your budget? This guide by pro photographer Jerod Foster will help you learn the features of Nikon lenses to capture the stunning pictures you want for a price that matches your needs.

Shadows: The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art

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In this intriguing book, E.H. Gombrich, who was one of the world's foremost art historians, traces how cast shadows have been depicted in Western art through the centuries. Gombrich discusses the way shadows were represented--or ignored--by artists from the Renaissance to the 17th century and then describes how Romantic, Impressionist, and Surrealist artists exploited the device of the cast shadow to enhance the illusion of realism or drama in their representations. First published to accompany an exhibition at the National Gallery, London, in 1995, it is reissued here with additional color illustrations and a new introduction by esteemed scholar Nicholas Penny.
In this intriguing book, E.H. Gombrich, who was one of the world's foremost art historians, traces how cast shadows have been depicted in Western art through the centuries. Gombrich discusses the way shadows were represented--or ignored--by artists from the Renaissance to the 17th century and then describes how Romantic, Impressionist, and Surrealist artists exploited the device of the cast shadow to enhance the illusion of realism or drama in their representations. First published to accompany an exhibition at the National Gallery, London, in 1995, it is reissued here with additional color illustrations and a new introduction by esteemed scholar Nicholas Penny.

The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti

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Curator Schacter offers a stunning survey of artists known for their nonsanctioned public work in this concisely written, yet comprehensive volume. Collaborating with street artists and curators, writers, and art historians, the author situates 113 artists in 50 cities, highlighting the importance of environment and global artistic exchange. Each profile speaks to a unique art practice: collage, name-based wall graffiti, monumental installations, subway and boxcar art, and digitally projected images, among others. To emphasize the tension between high and low art, as well as between mainstream and underground culture, the artists selected also vary in terms of their visibility and commercial success. Famed L.A. artist Shepard Fairey (creator of the Obama Hope image) receives as much analysis as the Montreal boxcar painter Jiem and New York underground "conceptual vandal" Katsu. In introductory chapters to each continent and city, Schacter also explores region-based themes, such as local folklore and art collectives. His expertly selected images yield an entertaining, visually varied reading experience. One highlight of the book is its commissioned nontraditional city maps created by 12 of the volume's profiled artists. This valuable and impressive tome, featuring a foreword by street and multimedia artist John Fekner, provides an informative, consistent, and well-illustrated narrative of a global art phenomenon. Publishers Weekly

How to Photograph Everything (Popular Photography): simple techniques for shooting spectacular images

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The world is full of breathtaking images, just waiting to happen. "How to Shoot Everything" shows you how to approach thrilling subjects and get the picture-perfect shot you're after.
For each of more than fifty subject-specific chapters, How to Shoot Everything provides readers with information on getting started, ideas for shooting, must-have gear, helpful tech settings, PhotoShop fixes, gear maintenance, and more. Beautiful photographs get readers primed and itching to go out with their cameras, while helpful illustrations give them the technical details they need.

Portrait Pro: What You Must Know to Make Photography Your Career

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In this book, acclaimed photographer, photo-educator, and successful studio owner Jeff Smith shows you how to avoid the pitfalls and set a course for creative and financial success--right from the start. Every aspect of the field is covered, from developing a style that's on-target for your unique marketplace to maximizing client satisfaction at every stage of your interaction. You'll learn to make your shoots more productive, your sales sessions more profitable, and your business more desirable to new and existing clients. Whether you're launching a new photography business or seeking to re-invigorate an existing studio, this book is packed with ideas to help you succeed!

Minor White: Manifestations of the Spirit

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This gorgeous collection of White's photographs documents an exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the first major showing of the artist's work since 1991.The book includes several complete series from the exhibition, which demonstrate the breadth of White's artistic concerns and personal passions, alternately (and sometimes simultaneously) erotic, contemplative, and abstractly sculptural. His photographs often evoke a spiritual, otherworldly realm while grounded in the concrete physical manifestations of the everyday world. For example, The Temptation of St. Anthony Is Mirrors, a sequence from the 1940s depicting White's student Tom Murphy, reflects the tenderness and pain of White's closeted homosexuality while referencing Christian martyrdom. White illuminates the sensuous yet transcendent orbs and crystalline filigree in a series shot in upstate New York called The Sound of One Hand.. Martineau's accompanying essay, informative if not groundbreaking, provides a straightforward biography detailing various hardships in White's life and they impacted his art and inspired his teaching career. Publishers Weekly (08/25/2014)

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Written by world-renowned photographer, writer, and broadcaster Tom Ang, "Photography" lavishly celebrates the most iconic photographs and photographers of the past 200 years.
Tracing the history of photography from its origins in the 1800s to the digital age, "Photography: The Definitive Visual History" is the only book of its kind to give a comprehensive account of the people, the photographs, and the technologies that have shaped the history of photography.

Daily Painting: Paint Small and Often to Become a More Creative, Productive, and Successful Artist

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A unique system for jump-starting artistic creativity, encouraging experimentation and growth, and increasing sales for artists of all levels, from novices to professionals. Too many artists find themselves in a frustrating rut: unable to sell paintings hanging in galleries, bogged down by projects they can't finish or abandon, and using any excuse to avoid working in the studio. Author Carol Marine was herself suffering from painter's block--until she discovered daily painting. The idea is simple: do art (usually small) often (how often is up to the individual) and, if you desire, post it and sell it online. Today Marine is among the best and most celebrated daily painters, and the curator of the popular online gallery dailypaintworks.com. In her debut, Daily Painting, Marine reveals the tips and tricks that helped her and other daily painters pick up the paintbrush and start creating beautiful, bountiful, marketable work

Your Photos Stink!: David Busch's Lessons in Elevating Your Photography from Awful to Awesome

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When it comes to photography, getting from awful to awesome can be as simple as shifting the camera a few inches, tweaking the exposure just a bit, or making a simple lighting change. The trick is to develop your eye and your photography skills by learning from experts, experimenting with your technique, and shooting lots of photos.

The Open Road: Photography and the American Roadtrip

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After World War II, the American road trip began appearing prominently in literature, music, movies and photography. As Stephen Shore has written, "Our country is made for long trips. Since the 1940s, the dream of the road trip, and the sense of possibility and freedom that it represents, has taken its own important place within our culture." Many photographers purposefully embarked on journeys across the U.S. in order to create work, including Robert Frank, whose seminal road trip resulted in "The Americans." However, he was preceded by Edward Weston, who traveled across the country taking pictures to illustrate Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass"; Henri Cartier-Bresson, whose 1947 trip through the American South and into the West was published in the early 1950s in "Harper's Bazaar"; and Ed Ruscha, whose road trips between Los Angeles and Oklahoma formed the basis of "Twentysix Gasoline Stations." Hundreds of photographers have continued the tradition of the photographic road trip on down to the present, from Stephen Shore to Taiyo Onorato, Nico Krebs, Alec Soth and Ryan McGinley. "The Open Road" considers the photographic road trip as a genre in and of itself, and presents the story of photographers for whom the American road is muse. The book features David Campany's introduction to the genre and 18 chapters presented chronologically, each exploring one American road trip in depth through a portfolio of images and informative texts. This volume highlights some of the most important bodies of work made on the road, from "The Americans" to the present day.

The Boston Raphael: A Mysterious Painting an Embattled Mueseum in an Era of Change and a Daughter's Search for the Truth

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In this fascinating book about a watershed moment in the culture of America's art museums, Rathbone ("Walker Evans" considers her father Perry Rathbone's directorship at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). A connoisseur and showman who believed that "art is for everyone, " Rathbone's influence as director was felt distinctly in the MFA from 1955 until 1972, when he was forced by the museum's board of trustees to resign. That decision was triggered by the controversy surrounding a tiny oil painting of a small girl, believed to be an unknown Raphael. For the occasion of MFA's centennial in 1970, Rathbone covertly purchased the painting for $600,000 from a shady dealer in Genoa. Eluding Italy's artistic patrimony law, the painting was smuggled into the U.S. Set against the backdrop of this intrigue are Rathbone's descriptions of life at MFA in the postwar years. She chronicles the celebration of its centennial, from the exhibitions that were installed to the infighting among staff and the attempts to woo collectors. Her father represents the old breed of museum directors, arbiters who behaved as "public servants" rather than "CEOs of a considerable corporate enterprise." Her book sheds light on museology of the present as well as of the past. Publishers Weekly (09/15/2014):

Photography as Meditation: Tap Into the Source of Your Creativity

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For many people, photography serves as a form of meditation; a way to separate themselves from their stressful lives. In this book, Torsten Andreas Hoffmann explores an approach to artistic photography based on Japanese Zen-Philosophy. Meditation and photography have much in common: both are based in the present moment, both require complete focus, and both are most successful when the mind is free from distracting thoughts. Hoffman shows how meditation can lead to the source of inspiration.Hoffman's impressive images of landscapes, cities, people, and nature, as well as his smart image analysis and suggestions about the artistic process, will help you understand this approach to photography without abandoning the principles of design necessary to achieve great images. Photographing busy scenes, especially, requires an inner calm that enables you to have intuition for the right moment and compose a well-balanced image amidst the chaos.The goal of this book is to develop your photographic expression. It provides enrichment for photographers who believe that only technical mastery produces great images and shows how important it is to engage with your own awareness to act creatively.

Pet Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots

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This new entry in the 'From Snapshots to Great Shots' series will teach readers everything they need to know about photographing their pets. Like all books in the series, the book will offer instruction on basic photographic technique, discussing exposure settings, lighting, equipment, etc. Then the book will dive into working with various types of animals, posing them, capturing action shots, and working with multiple subjects.

Travel and Street Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots

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Whether you're heading to Paris or San Francisco, Patagonia or Yosemite, you need a book that goes beyond the camera manual to teach you how to take great shots. This guide by pro photographer John Batdorff will help you conquer the fundamentals of travel and street photography and capture stunning pictures.
Batdorff starts with the basics-composition, light, and exposure-and how to plan and pack the right equipment for different types of shooting conditions. He also covers all the key camera features that affect your image. Once you've captured those shots, John takes you step-by-step through an effective workflow in Lightroom to organize your images and develop your own personal style.
This guide is for beginning-to-intermediate digital photographers to understand the basics and bring their own unique artistic expression to any situation whether you're taking landscapes, cityscapes, portraits, or food and drink shots.
Beautifully illustrated with large, compelling photos, this book teaches you how to take control of your photography to get the image you want every time you pack up your camera and take it on the road.

Photographic Composition: Principles of Image Design

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.Albrecht Rissler believes that a firm understanding of image design is as important as having an observant eye or having the technical knowledge to operate a camera. "Photographic Composition" presents the most important concepts of image design and offers 250 beautiful photographs to illustrate these concepts. By applying these concepts to your own work, you will greatly improve your photographic eye and your ability to compose an ideal image.This book's impressive images are in black-and-white, intentionally removing the distraction of color and making it easy to focus on compositional elements and form. With this book, photographers as well as all visual artists will learn how to infuse their own images with excitement, develop and hone their visual language, and express their personal artistic aesthetic.

This Is Gauguin

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Paul Gauguin created some of the most advanced art in a brilliant generation of artists all of whom struggled against the stifling conformity of the late 19th century's artistic mainstream. From his childhood in Peru to his experiences in Tahiti, the story of Gauguin's life is recounted in authoritative text by an expert on the Post-Impressionists and powerful imagery by an award-winning illustrator.

This Is Bacon

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Francis Bacon was one of the giants dominating the artistic landscape of the mid-twentieth century, and served as the inspiration and launching point for much of the figural and abstract art that came after him. This highly illustrated book features not only 20 of the artists major works, but in stunning original colour illustrations portrays the events of his life and the circle of friends and associates with whom he formed a louche, brazen gang that cut open the belly of the old propriety.

Tony Northrup's Dslr Book: How to Create Stunning Digital Photography

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 This book gives you four innovations no other book offers:
1) Free video training. Watch over three hours of fast-paced, hands-on video tutorials integrated into the book to support and reinforce the lessons. View the videos using any web browser or by scanning QR codes with your smartphone.
2) Hands-on practices. Complete the practices at the end of every chapter to get the real world experience you need.
3) Classroom support. Join an author led private community of supportive, helpful people who also want to improve their photography.
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Beautiful Beach Portraits: Lighting, Posing, and Composition for Outstanding Photography

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Family and children portraits against the dunes or with a crashing wave in the background are beautiful, but they are also one of the more difficult genres of photography because of wind, shifting sand, unpredictable sun mixing with clouds and sudden storms. Mary Fisk-Taylor and Jamie Hayes explain how they created the beautiful images in this book despite the adversities they encountered.

Elsa Schiaparelli: A Biography

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"This book had its start when I began to wonder why nobody dressed up any more, even for evenings out, " writes Secrest. Although she never answers her question, this consummate biographer ("Leonard Bernstein: A Life" does take readers on a breathless, madcap ride across the early 20th century. The book follows Schiaparelli from her meteoric rise to couture queen of 1930s Paris to her fizzling postwar descent into bankruptcy. It begins with the image of the child Schiaparelli running through the Italian palazzo where she grew up, and ends, no less evocatively, by musing on what passed through the designer's mind as she sat on the terrace of her Tunisian getaway in her later years. In between, Secrest draws on the interviews and writings of Schiaparelli's friends, family, and colleagues; biographers and historians of the period; public records from ship manifests and visas to FBI documents; Schiaparelli's 1954 memoir, "Shocking Life" and Secrest's own speculative imagination. The result paints an alternately exhilarating, sympathetic, slyly humorous, and poignant portrait, not only of the surrealism-influenced, innovative fashion designer who invented wraparound dresses, built-in bras, falsies, and shocking pink, but also of the creative cauldron of Paris in its golden age between the two world wars. Agent: Lynn Nesbit, Janklow & Nesbit. Publishers Weekly (08/25/2014):

Breakfast at Sotheby's: An A-Z of the Art World

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Hook offers up a dishy lexicon of art-world topics and terminology in this loosely structured dictionary. As painting specialist for Sotheby's auction house and a popular appraiser on Antiques Roadshow, Hook is fascinated by the relationship between art and money, and by the ways in which an artwork obtains its market value. Relying on 35 years of experience and anecdote, Hook divides his guide into sections that cover artists' backstories, artists' subjects, visual impact, provenance, and market variance. Each section contains a unique alphabet of pithy, bite-size essays, which lay bare outrageous episodes of art history and oddities of audience taste. Football, for example, charts auction sales against ballplayer salaries over time. Interiors reveals that Bonnard's bathrooms and Matisse's hotels are in demand, while no one wants paintings of churches. War (191418) cheerfully lists artists whose work would have fetched better prices if only they had perished earlier. With its tone of art-history-textbook-meets-tabloid, Hook's witty primer provides a truthful yet humorous crash course, an insider's take that is more gentle ribbing than art-world expos. (Booklist)

The 21st-Century Art Book

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The 21st‐Century Art Book" is an A‐to‐Z guide of contemporary artists featuring established art‐world figures - Maurizio Cattelan, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall - alongside rising stars of the next generations. Global in scope, the book features work from 50 countries across a variety of mediums, from painting, drawing, and sculpture to digital art, video installation, and performance.
Each of the 280 artists included has a dedicated page pairing a significant artwork from his or her oeuvre with lively and informative text. An international directory of major art events along with a helpful glossary round out the package, making this both a must‐have resource and a beautifully illustrated celebration of contemporary art.

Rendez-Vous with Art

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The premise two art experts look at some of the world's most magnificent works in tandem is a good one, offering readers guided tours of the Louvre, the Prado, the Palazzo Pitti, and other prestigious institutions. The experts in question, Philippe de Montebello, who spent 31 years as director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Martin Gayford (Man With a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud), a highly regarded British art critic, certainly fit the bill. The book adds an ingenious twist to the classic approach to art criticism, which is, for the most part, effective. Montebello and Gayford offer depth and context to key works by Bosch, Goya, Vermeer, followed by erudite discussions. The authors' admissions that they didn't appreciate certain styles or eras at first; explanations regarding the effects of a museum's physical layout on a visitor's experience and interpretation, and the declaration that we're now spending more time looking at photos and reproductions of artworks than the real thing are sure to provoke a response. Assuming readers can get past the authors' egos (which loom large) and their penchant for peppering their text with purple prose, there are considerable insights into the featured art. Publishers Weekly

Secrets of Backyard Bird Photography

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Photographing birds in your backyard is a convenient, rewarding, and addictive adventure. "Secrets of Backyard Bird Photography" is a guide to that pursuit. In this book, author and wildlife photographer J. Chris Hansen teaches techniques for creating professional-quality images of the subjects right in your yard. This book covers all aspects of backyard bird photography, including the best camera equipment to use and the basics of attracting birds using bird feeders, perches, backgrounds, and photo blinds. You'll learn about the common camera settings and composition styles used to create outstanding backyard bird images. This book also offers ideas and examples of ways to exhibit your photography, including step-by-step instructions for a variety of fun, easy projects for the do-it-yourselfer. "Secrets of Backyard Bird Photography" contains a collection of beautiful, detailed images that illustrate the important aspects of creating stunning photographs of the birds right in your backyard.

Testament

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Chris Hondros (March 14, 1970--April 20, 2011) was an American Pulitzer Prize-nominated photojournalist. Born in New York City to Greek and German immigrants, both survivors of World War II, he moved to Fayetteville, North Carolina, as a child. After studying English literature at North Carolina State University and receiving a master's degree from Ohio University's School of Visual Communication, Hondros returned to New York to concentrate on international reporting.
Hondros covered most of the world's major conflicts and disasters since the late 1990s, including work in Kosovo, Afghanistan, the West Bank, Iraq, Liberia, Egypt, and Libya. Hondros was also a frequent lecturer and published essayist on issues of war, and he regularly wrote for the "Virginia Quarterly Review," "Editor & Publisher," the Digital Journalist, and other news publications.
Hondros, a staff photographer for Getty Images since 2000, was a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news photography: in 2004, for his work in Liberia, and posthumously in 2012, for his coverage of the Arab Spring. During his career, he received dozens of awards, among them honors from World Press Photo, the Pictures of the Year International competition, Visa pour l'Image, and the Overseas Press Club, including the John Faber Award for his work in Liberia and the Robert Capa Gold Medal, war photography's highest honor, for his work covering the conflict in Iraq.

Eye to Eye: Photographs by Vivian Maier

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The exceptional story of masterful nanny street photographer Vivian Maier (19262009) continues to unfold, entrancing viewers and readers everywhere. The documentary film Finding Vivian Maier (2014) provides a wider lens on her life, and now the superbly gifted writing and photo restoration duo, Richard Cahan and Michael Williams, bring out their second Maier book, following the revelatory Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows (2012). Here they publish for the first time 100 pristine and electrifying portraits of strangers the rapturously observant Maier encountered by chance and swiftly connected with eye-to-eye. Attaining particular rapport with the young and the old, Maier elicited smiles and scowls as she courageously roamed, cameras around her neck, streets and byways in New York City, Chicago, Florida, the French countryside, Malaysia, Thailand, and Yemen. Cahan and Williams suggest that Maier's work as a domestic enhanced her ability to astutely, intimately, and forthrightly scrutinize people and their worlds. The longer you gaze at these sumptuously printed black-and-white photographs, taken from 1949 into the 1970s, the more you realize how brilliantly and vibrantly composed they are and how captivated resolute and relentless Maier was by the power of faces and by people's profound relationships with their surroundings. Maier's portraits, radiant flashes of mutual recognition, are breathtaking works of art.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)

Superlight: Rethinking How Our Homes Impact the Earth

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One of the most influential design philosophies of the past 25 years has been Glenn Murcutts dictum that buildings should touch the earth lightly. Today, climate change, new materials, and restricted land use have given fresh impetus to finding lightweight solutions for our dwellings. The 40 houses gathered here by Phyllis Richardson - author of the highly successful XS series and Nano House - show us that buildings can weigh less and have minimal impact on their environments, and that this lightness - visual, material, ecological - can create beautiful, ethereal homes that offer new, natural modes of habitation and greater communion with our surroundings.

Creative Block: Get Unstuck, Discover New Ideas: Advice and Projects from 50 Successful Artists

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Everyone draws a blank occasionally. Fortunately, this title is there to help inspire visual artists and get their creative ideas flowing again. Artist and blogger Krysa ("The Jealous Curator") interviewed 50 working artists from around the world. They share insights about their process, the notion of creativity, and what they do to get out of a rut. There are no step-by-step instructional projects included, however; instead each artist offers a short assignment suggestion. These exercises vary widely--everything from road trips to 30-day challenges--and sometimes depart far from conventional art making in their tactics. Library Journal (07/01/2014)

Five Hundred Buildings of New York

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The greatest buildings, monuments, and structures of New York come to life in these inspiring, neighborhood-by-neighborhood photographic tours. Each building is featured in a rich, fine-resolution duotone photograph. Information including the building's name, its address and location, and year of completion or renovation is included underneath the image. A brief description of each building, which highlights its distinctive features and places it in historical context, is included at the back of the book.

Five Hundred Buildings of Paris

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The greatest buildings, monuments, and structures of Paris come to life in these inspiring, neighborhood-by-neighborhood photographic tours. Each building is featured in a rich, fine-resolution duotone photograph. Information including the building's name, its address and location, and year of completion or renovation is included underneath the image. A brief description of each building, which highlights its distinctive features and places it in historical context, is included at the back of the book.

Five Hundred Buildings of London

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The greatest buildings, monuments, and structures of London come to life in these inspiring, neighborhood-by-neighborhood photographic tours. Each building is featured in a rich, fine-resolution duotone photograph. Information including the building's name, its address and location, and year of completion or renovation is included underneath the image. A brief description of each building, which highlights its distinctive features and places it in historical context, is included at the back of the book.

A Step-By-Step Course in Watercolour

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Discover your hidden talents with this project-based course for the beginner. There are many styles of art to explore, and expert guidance on using all the different kinds of materials. With over 175 photographs clearly showing the development of each painting, this book will help you create your own beautiful landscapes, still lives and portraits.

100% Kid: A Professional Photographer's Guide to Capturing Kids in a Whole New Light

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Start with the kid! This sounds obvious when photographing children, but many images start with a couch in a field, or a tutu the size of Montana. What do these props have to do with the child you are photographing? In this funny and beautifully illustrated guide, photographer Allison Tyler Jones provides inspiration and practical techniques for photographers to effectively capture kids in beautiful light. She challenges readers to go a little deeper in their thought processes and to be more personal, more thought provoking, more humorous, and more real.

Tim's Vermeer

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Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did 17th century Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer ("Girl with a Pearl Earring") manage to paint so photo-realistically -- 150 years before the invention of photography? The epic research project Jenison embarks on to test his theory is as extraordinary as what he discovers.Spanning eight years, Jenison's adventure takes him to Delft, Holland, where Vermeer painted his masterpieces, on a pilgrimage to the North coast of Yorkshire to meet artist David Hockney, and even to Buckingham Palace to see a Vermeer masterpiece in the collection of the Queen.

Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb on Street Photography and the Poetic Image: The Photography Workshop Series

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Photography deepens our connections to the world around us, to ourselves, and to one another. In this new and innovative series, Aperture works with the world's top photographers, many of whom also teach, to publish their core thinking on photography making their experience, insight, and knowledge accessible to a wider audience, including students. Each title in the series will provide an essential primer on the photographers area of expertise and creative process. The key points of their practice are presented in the photographers own words, and will answer the questions they are asked most frequently. The commentary will accompany a selection of fifty photographs, iconic images by each featured photographer, as well as key images by others that have influenced their thinking and work.

Aia Guide to Chicago

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An unparalleled architectural powerhouse, Chicago offers visitors and natives alike a panorama of styles and forms. The third edition of the "AIA Guide to Chicago" brings readers up to date on ten years of dynamic changes with new entries on smaller projects as well as showcases like the Aqua building, Trump Tower, and Millennium Park.
Four hundred photos and thirty-four specially commissioned maps make it easy to find each of the one thousand-plus featured buildings, while a comprehensive index organizes buildings by name and architect. This edition also features an introduction providing an indispensable overview of Chicago's architectural history.