Monday, June 30, 2008

Zones of Exclusion: Pripyat and Chernobyl



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In the 11 days following the Chernobyl catastrophe on April 26, 1986, more than 116,000 people were permanently evacuated from the area surrounding the nuclear power plant. Declared unfit for human habitation, the Zones of Exclusion includes the towns of Pripyat (established in the 1970s to house workers) and Chernobyl. In May 2001, Robert Polidori photographed what was left behind in the this dead zone. His richly detailed images move from the burned-out control ro... More >>

Zones of Exclusion: Pripyat and Chernobyl

Creative Portraits: Digital Photography Tips and Techniques


  • ISBN13: 9780470623268
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Go beyond the basic rules of photography to capture stunning portraitsPortrait photography is a vital topic for photographers of every level of experience, from amateur to professional. Written by renowned photographer Harold Davis, this inspirational book encourages you to define our own photographic style and capture stunning, creative, and unique portraits.You'll discover tips and techniques for "breaking the rules" of basic digital photography so that you... More >>

Creative Portraits: Digital Photography Tips and Techniques

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Technique of Film Editing, Second Edition



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First published in 1953, the original English version of the book was reprinted 13 times without a word being changed and in translation it has become the standard work on the subject in the Spanish Czech, Polish and Russian languages.

In 1968 the original text was reprinted as it stood, as it was felt that any attempt to revise or reinterpret it could only blur its spirit. the second edition has now also reprinted 13 times. On publication the film director... More >>

Technique of Film Editing, Second Edition

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

George Platt Lynes: The Male Nudes



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The elegant male nude photographs of George Platt Lynes, many never before published, from a newly discovered archive of negatives. George Platt Lynes was the preeminent celebrity portraitist of his day, shooting for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar and creating distinctive photographs of iconic cultural figures such as Diana Vreeland, Salvador DalĂ­, and Orson Welles. But he also produced a separate body of work, kept largely hidden during his lifetime: photographs of t... More >>

George Platt Lynes: The Male Nudes

The West: An Illustrated History



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The creators of the landmark public television series The Civil War and Baseball present a lavishly illustrated companion book to the forthcoming series tracing the history of the West. TV tie-in. $300,000 ad/promo. BOMC, History, & QPB Main.Amazon.com Review
The companion volume to the stunning PBS television series, and an encore the acclaimed bestsellers The Civil War and Baseball. In a vivid narrative that begins with the arrival of the fi... More >>

The West: An Illustrated History

Poolside: Hot Guys in Cool Water



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Mark Henderson sticks to his affectation for private spaces. POOLSIDE takes us in the garden, where-who wonders?-a decadent, large pool waits for us. Henderson's fascination for incredibly handsome and perfectly trained men remains the leitmotif of his work; and so does the extensive and clever editing of his pictures. Henderson presents us digital photo art on a whole new level. Cool shades of blue and green clearly dominate his new pictures, giving a refreshing co... More >>

Poolside: Hot Guys in Cool Water

Monday, June 23, 2008

Final Cut Pro Workflows: The Independent Studio Handbook


  • ISBN13: 9780240810058
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Today's digital production tools empower the small team to produce multimedia projects that formerly required large teams. Orchestrating a production requires more than proficiency with the postproduction tools. Final Cut Pro Workflows: The Independent Studio Handbook offers a cookbook of postproduction workflows that teams can follow to deliver an array of products to their clients. It describes appropriate postproduction workflows, team roles and responsibilities,... More >>

Final Cut Pro Workflows: The Independent Studio Handbook

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Camera RAW 101: Better Photos with Photoshop, Elements, and Lightroom


  • ISBN13: 9780817432294
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The most up-to-date techniques for shooting in RAW format, using the newest features of the latest software


Many serious amateur photographers have trouble getting that "wow" shot from their digital cameras. And they’re discovering that working in RAW (the digital equivalent of a film negative) takes their photographs to the next level, giving them the control they need to get the highest image quality possible. The problem is, while most photogr... More >>

Camera RAW 101: Better Photos with Photoshop, Elements, and Lightroom

The Photographic Eye: Learning to See with a Camera



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Learn how to take apart each element of a successful photograph, analyze it, master it, and then put it all back together. 228 pages (8 in color), 240 b/w illus., 8 1/2 x 10 1/4. ... More >>

The Photographic Eye: Learning to See with a Camera

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Hollywood Portraits


  • ISBN13: 9780817440206
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From the innocent allure of Audrey Hepburn and the sensuous poses of Marilyn Monroe to the macho charisma of Marlon Brando and the cool sophistication of Humphrey Bogart, this fabulous, inspirational book of star photographs provides classic portrait styles and detailed directions on how to set up, light, and shoot each photo. Step-by-step instructions reveal the techniques used by top-notch Hollywood photographers for their glittering glamour portraits of the 19... More >>

Hollywood Portraits

Vanishing America: The End of Main Street Diners, Drive-Ins, Donut Shops, and Other Everyday Monuments


  • ISBN13: 9780847830404
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Think of the quirky buildings you pass every day but whose quiet beauty you take for granted—the moviehouses, juke joints, soda fountains, barbershops, roadside diners, and storefront churches. You don’t miss them until they’re gone. As suburban sprawl and strip malls conquer the country, these vestiges of a lost way of life are falling under the wrecking ball. Here the photographer Michael Eastman has made the ultimate road trip, crisscrossing the nation doze... More >>

Vanishing America: The End of Main Street Diners, Drive-Ins, Donut Shops, and Other Everyday Monuments

The Automated Lighting Programmer's Handbook



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From basic principles of automated lighting, to pre-production preparations, the text details concepts, procedures, and guidelines to ensure a successful production. Then the author continues with in-depth explanations for beginning, intermediate, and advanced programmers. Additional sections explore troubleshooting principles, working relationships, and future technologies. For the final chapter of the book, the author interviewed many respected lighting industry v... More >>

The Automated Lighting Programmer's Handbook

Monday, June 16, 2008

Beginnings


  • ISBN13: 9781921652301
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Award-winning photographer Anne Geddes founded a new tradition in visual storytelling and captivated an international audience. Now, after spending 12 months photographing, Anne reveals a range of images that are, in her own words, among the most personally rewarding she has ever created. A beautiful gift book with more than 140 never-before-published photographs,BEGINNINGSwill be released worldwide on 10.10.10 in countries including, the United States... More >>

Beginnings

Mapplethorpe: Polaroids


  • ISBN13: 9783791338354
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Critically praised for his finely modeled and classically composed photographs, Mapplethorpe remains intensely controversial and enormously popular. Revealing the themes that would inspire Mapplethorpe throughout his career, this book brings together almost three hundred images, many never published, from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation's archive and private collections, to provide a critical view of Mapplethorpe's formative years as an artist. Included is a sele... More >>

Mapplethorpe: Polaroids

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Locker Room Nudes / Dieux du Stade: The French National Rugby Team



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This remarkable collection of candid nude photos of France’s national rugby team goes beneath the uniform to reveal what real jocks look like underneath it all. Each image taken by leading French photographer François Rousseau depicts the rugby player―alone or with teammates―undressing, lounging on the bench, showering. Locker Room Men is at once a celebration of athletes and the beauty of the male form as well as the fulfillment of the fantasy of going beh... More >>

Locker Room Nudes / Dieux du Stade: The French National Rugby Team

Friday, June 13, 2008

Kilimanjaro: A Photographic Journey to the Roof of Africa


  • ISBN13: 9781566567534
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A spectacular collection of images and words that offer a detailed glimpse into the unique beauty and rhythm of Africa's natural wonder. Mount Kilimanjaro is the African continent's highest mountain and the world's tallest freestanding mountain. It is a geological wonder formed, sculpted, and molded by the natural forces of volcanic fire and glacial ice. At 19,340 feet (5895 meters) high, Kilimanjaro towers above the Great Rift Valley and lies 3 degrees south of the... More >>

Kilimanjaro: A Photographic Journey to the Roof of Africa

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Photoshop Elements 6 For Dummies


  • ISBN13: 9780470192382
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Want to get more fun from your photos?   To edit and enhance your pictures, fix flaws, and create greeting cards or cool photo projects to share? What about turning out some really professional prints with simply stunning color? Photoshop Elements can handle it, and Photoshop Elements 6 For Dummies gets you up and running on Elements in a hurry.Photoshop Elements 6 is a reasonably priced, full-featured, powerful image-editing program for Windows (Adobe stopped supp... More >>

Photoshop Elements 6 For Dummies

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women



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At Twelve is a composite portrait that is both universal and intimately personal. As Ann Beattie writes in her perceptive introduction, "These girls still exist in an innocent world in which a pose is only a pose--what adults make of that pose may be the issue." Sally Mann's work is in the collections of major museums across the country. "Haunting black-and-white studies of children, shown here as surprisingly sensual and often distant beings, the magical keepers o... More >>

At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women

Sunday, June 8, 2008

Ari Marcopoulos: Directory



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Influential to both art and fashion, Ari Marcopoulos’s unique style of raw immediacy has made him one of the most important contemporary photographers. For thirty years, photographer Ari Marcopoulos has been pioneering contemporary photography by documenting subcultures such as skateboarders and graffiti artists, as well as landscapes and his own family and friends. Since his days printing photographs for Andy Warhol, he has amassed a huge body of work marked by i... More >>

Ari Marcopoulos: Directory

LIZ: The Pictorial Biography of Elizabeth Taylor



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This loving tribute to one of America's most beloved film actresses traces Taylor's career from precocious, pampered child star to full-fledged movie diva. It also recounts her glamorous life, her eight marriages, and her recent role as AIDS activist and fundraiser. With more than 100 full-color photographs, this superb illustrated biography provides an intimate look at a dazzling Hollywood personality.... More >>

LIZ: The Pictorial Biography of Elizabeth Taylor

Friday, June 6, 2008

The Dusseldorf School of Photography



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The German photographic movement commonly known as the Dusseldorf School of Photography has become synonymous with artistic excellence and innovation. It began in the mid-1970s at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, under the instruction of the photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, known for their comparative grids of mundane industrial buildings captured with an objective and clinical eye. This school has not only birthed some of today's most important and successful pho... More >>

The Dusseldorf School of Photography

Abydos: Egypt's First Pharaohs and the Cult of Osiris



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“O’Connor presents the rich fruits of his long labors in this volume certain to appeal to scholars and Egyptophiles alike.”—KMTThe ancient site of Abydos lies between the towering cliffs of the Egyptian high desert and the lush green floodplain of the Nile. As both the burial place of the first kings of Egypt and a cult center for Osiris, god of the dead, this sacred area has long tantalized archaeologists with incredible finds. ... More >>

Abydos: Egypt's First Pharaohs and the Cult of Osiris

Thursday, June 5, 2008

The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947-1957


  • ISBN13: 9781851775217
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In 1947, Christian Dior’s “New Look” was greeted with both shock and delight, making headlines around the world. Accompanying the exhibition opening at the Victoria and Albert Museum in September 2007, this lavish book focuses on Parisian and British couture between 1947 and 1957, the decade Dior hailed as fashion’s “golden age.”

The “New Look” symbolized a new femininity. The full skirts and hourglass silhouettes were considered highly decadent... More >>

The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947-1957

Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 for Photographers



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If you're new to Elements and need a complete overview of each feature and function, you'll find exactly what you're looking for here: step-by-step instructions covering every aspect of Elements, accompanied by helpful screenshots and colorful images. If you're a more experienced user, you'll find Philip's signature advanced tips and techniques invaluable as you stretch the power of Elements beyond what you previously thought possible. From basic techniques such as ... More >>

Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 for Photographers

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Rainforest



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Thomas Marent, a self-taught photographer who has dedicated half his life to capturing images of rainforest life, tells the story of his journey through these spectacular photographs. Join him as he travels across five continents for an up-close view of the astonishing variety and fascinating behavior of rainforest plants and trees, reptiles, birds, amphibians, insects, and mammals.Amazon.com Review
Over the past 16 years Swiss photographer Thoma... More >>

Rainforest

Monday, June 2, 2008

Ruin: Photographs of a Vanishing America



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Brian Vanden Brink is one of America's most sought-after architectural photographers. He is also drawn to the mystery and unexpected beauty found in abandoned architecture. Here Vanden Brink captures and illuminates in stunning black and white images abandoned structures such as mills, bridges, grain elevators, churches, and storefronts-structures that once were important and useful. With text by historic preservation expert Howard Mansfield, this collection of phot... More >>

Ruin: Photographs of a Vanishing America

Sunday, June 1, 2008

RED: The Ultimate Guide to Using the Revolutionary Camera


  • ISBN13: 9780321617682
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With the release of the RED ONE™ digital cinema camera, the possibility of recording stunning, cinematic-quality images with an affordable camera became a reality. Now that the industry has embraced the nascent technology and added new tools and workflows, filmmakers—from independents on up—are leading the charge on establishing new rules.

Here to guide newcomers and RED veterans alike, popular trainer and filmmaker Noah Kadner picks up where the manua... More >>

RED: The Ultimate Guide to Using the Revolutionary Camera