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.