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Manchester...the Sinister Side

by Steve Jones

STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO PHOTOGRAPHY

Artful Blogging (Autumn 2008) (Volume 2)

Autumn 2008Let Artful Blogging be your guide as you discover a world filled with visual delights from today's most inspirational artists. In their own words, read how blogging fits into the creative lives of artists like Amanada Soule ("Soulemama"), Vanessa Valencia ("A Fanciful Twist"), Sandra Evertson ("Artful Visions and Inspirations"), and many others. Filled with full-color photography,... (more)

Canon 50D: From Snapshots to Great Shots

Canon 50D: From Snapshots to Great Shots

by Jeff Revell

Now that you’ve bought the amazing Canon 50D, you need a book that goes beyond a tour of the camera’s features to show you exactly how to use the 50D to take great pictures. With Canon 50D: From Snapshots to Great Shots , you get the perfect blend of photography instruction and camera reference that will take your images to the next level! Beautifully illustrated with large, vibrant photos, this book teaches you... (more)

Michael Freeman's Perfect Exposure: The Professional's Guide to Capturing Perfect Digital Photographs

Michael Freeman's Perfect Exposure: The Professional's Guide to Capturing Perfect Digital Photographs

by Michael Freeman

Clear, direct and guaranteed, the perfect exposure method looks at the way professionals work, and lays out the decisions and sequences with absolute clarity, while incorporating the latest, powerful post-processing techniques. Chosing the exposure for a photograph is infinitely complex and one of photography's most absorbing paradoxes because it affects everything in the image and its effect on the viewer.... (more)

Letting Go of the Camera: Essays on Photography and the Creative LifeBrooks Jensen

Letting Go of the Camera: Essays on Photography and the Creative Life

by Brooks Jensen

How to Read a Photograph: Lessons from Master Photographers

How to Read a Photograph: Lessons from Master Photographers

by Ian Jeffrey

Ian Jeffrey is a superb guide in this profusely illustrated introduction to the appreciation of photography as an art form. Novices and experts alike will gain a deeper understanding of great photographers and their work, as Jeffrey decodes key images and provides essential biographical and historical background. Profiles of more than 100 major photographers, including Alfred Stieglitz, Bill Brandt, Henri... (more)

Inside Lightroom 2: The serious photographer's guide to Lightroom efficiency

Inside Lightroom 2: The serious photographer's guide to Lightroom efficiency

by Richard Earney

Ghosts in the Cemetery: A Pictorial Study

Ghosts in the Cemetery: A Pictorial Study

by Stuart L. Schneider

Heavily Tattooed Men & Women

by Spider Webb

This classic book will turn heads turn. Images of over a hundred heavily tattooed people from the early decades of the 20th century show proud carnival and circus performers, sailors, entertainers, and who knows, the girl next door? The Introduction is by Marcia Tucker, Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the author provided material for the 1999 New York Natural History Museum's Body... (more)

Broken Cycles

by Damon Falke

In Broken Cycles , a new collection of poetry and photography, thirty-three poems are dynamically paired with forty-four black and white photographs that reveal the gritty reality of the world along with our ability as humans to rise above it. Broken Cycles deals with themes of brokenness, man's depravity, hope, and redemption in a three-part journey. The photographs relate with the written texts in a manner... (more)

Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 Classroom in a Book

Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 Classroom in a Book

by Adobe Creative Team

Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 Classroom in a Book is the most thorough and comprehensive way for new users to master all the new features in Adobe's consumer-targeted image editing software. Each chapter in this step-by-step, project-based guide contains a project that builds on the reader's growing knowledge of the program, while end-of-chapter review questions reinforce each lesson. Readers will learn the... (more)

The Face of LincolnJames Mellon

The Face of Lincoln

by James Mellon

The Fellowship of the Ring Insiders' Guide (The Lord of the Rings Movie Tie-In)

The Fellowship of the Ring Insiders' Guide (The Lord of the Rings Movie Tie-In)

by Brian Sibley, Brian Sibley

The official tie-in companion for younger readers, packed with fascinating facts, on-set interviews and unique photos from the filming of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Brian Silbey goes behind the cameras and reveals just how much work, time, creativity and endless imagination are involved in bringing the movie phenomenon The Fellowship of the Ring to a theater near you...

A Ship from NorwayEinar and Nyquist, Finn P. and Skundberg, Odd-Leif (edited by) Berggren

A Ship from Norway

by Einar and Nyquist, Finn P. and Skundberg, Odd-Leif (edited by) Berggren

Text: English, Norwegian (translation)

THE ART DECO STYLE

examples from L’Art International d’Aujourd’hui capture geometric, prismatic Art Deco of 20’s and 30’s. Gardens, dwellings, interiors, furniture, fabrics, stained glass, sculpture, jewelry, graphics by Brandt, Chareau, Fouquet, Vuitton—171 other artists, architects, and designers. Over 400 photographs.

Spirit of the Wildcat

by Mike Briggs, Peggy Briggs

From the PublisherElegant and beautiful, cats have always fascinated people. Some, such as the jaguar, have been worshipped; others, like the lion have come to embody courage and strength. The power and grace shown by all cats are reflected in the beautiful illustrations of Spirit of Wild Cat.

VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN SAILING SHIPS FROM OLD PHOTOGRAPHSBasil Greenhill, Ann Gifford

VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN SAILING SHIPS FROM OLD PHOTOGRAPHS

by Ann Giffard, Basil Greenhill

Rediscovering Jacob Riis: The Reformer, His Journalism, and His Photographs

Rediscovering Jacob Riis: The Reformer, His Journalism, and His Photographs

by Bonnie Yochelson, Jacob A. Riis

A provocative new illustrated history of the famed early chronicler of New York's immigrant poor, seen here as an opportunistic, camera-toting social reformer whose legacy lives on. "I don't remember my mother or my aunts and uncles talking of their father as a photographer....In his letters—I have read most of them—he never mentions a camera." —J. Riis Owre (grandson of Jacob Riis) More than ninety years... (more)

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