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Photography (101 Essential Tips) Michael Lanford
 Covering all facets of photography and video, this practical guide features step-by-step photography and easy-to-understand information on the basics. Handy guides that use pictures to give readers the information they need, 101 Essential Tips feature comprehensive coverage, beautiful full-color images, and straightforward, practical information on a wide variety of subjects. Every point can be absorbed quickly and easily with 101 authoritative tips that will make anyone an expert in an instant....
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The Amazing Book Mazes: Covering the History, Theory, and Design of Mazes, from the Cretan Labyrinth until Today, and Including Hundreds of 3-D Mazes around ... Along with the Secr Adrian Fisher
 From the labyrinth that bedeviled Theseus in his search for the Minotaur to the exquisitely sculpted hedge mazes of English country houses, the maze has been a source of great pleasure and frustration for centuries. In The Amazing Book of Mazes , aard-winning maze designer Adrian Fisher presents over 350 photographs of more than 150 contemporary and historical maze designs, each one fully three-dimensional and interactive. In accompanying text, Fisher explains the complexities, innovations, and symolism of each maze. Arranged by type, and including vertical, horizontal, and even mirror mazes, these mazes don't all invite solution, but they do test the limits of one's imagination. And with mazes enjoying a resurgence in popularity, the timing couldnt be better for this beguiling, comprehensive history and celebration....
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Jim Marshall: Jazz
 An unexpected trove, Jim Marshall's portraits of the jazz greats are as wonderful as his legendary work with rock musicians (most recently enjoyed in Jim Marshall: Proof ). The access his subjects allow him and their obvious ease around him give these photographs an unequalled intimacy. This portfolio of Marshall's favorite shots shows the classics of jazz onstage, backstage, in the studio—and also in their kitchens and living rooms. Ray Charles, Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Coleman Hawkins—Marshall's images capture these faces and many, many more in authentic and unguarded moments. Jazz critic Phil Elwood provides an introduction, and captions throughout present Marshall's reminiscences in his own words, making this book a must-have for both jazz and photography aficionados. By turns illuminating and haunting, Jim Marshall: Jazz confirms his place as one of the great portrait photographers....
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Bill Jacobson: Photographs Bill Jacobson
 Bill Jacobson's photographs resist easy identification. They are blurred, diffuse, and atmospheric, depicting only the vague outlines of urban scenes, rural landscapes, and human figures. Enveloped by a dark or light mist, these shadowy forms refute the premise that photographs capture reality and serve as a reliable aid to memory. Instead, his photographs are images of vague recollections and forgotten experiences. They speak of mortality and dissolution, not only of the body but of its surroundings as well. His latest works, presented here, are related to two earlier series from the 1990s which were direct responses to the AIDS epidemic, but are more open-ended and universal in spirit. Most photographs are meant as documents of moments we wish to hold on to forever. My work suggests that these moments, like life itself, are constantly fading into the past. -- Bill Jacobson Essay by Eugenia Parry. Hardcover, 11.5 x 13.25 in./96 pgs / 50 color....
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Picture Taker: Photographs by Ken Elkins Ken Elkins
 This collection of 100 haunting, sometimes humorous, but always deeply honest black-and-white photographs reveals the 42-year career of a master photographer and photojournalist. Ken Elkins retired as chief photographer of the Anniston Star in 2000, and this selection of his work demonstrates his brilliant eye for finding and capturing images of rural southern lives and landscapes in all their difficulty, candor, and humor. These are unadorned images of a timeless landscape and proud resourceful people, who know well their neighbors, honor their past, and face the tests of daily life with wit and a stoic sense of endurance. As Rick Bragg, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist who worked with Elkins on many assignments, says of Elkins’s work: “The old scenes are gone, or going . . . and the people are different, less likely to be in overalls and print dresses, less likely to a sliver of tobacco off a sweet-smelling plug of Brown Mule. So......
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Lucien Herve: Building Images (Resources Series) Olivier Beer
 Lucien Herve (b. 1910), one of the great architectural photographers of the twentieth century, collaborated with Le Corbusier from 1949 until the renowned architect died in 1965. Herve approached his subjects seeking not only to document the buildings he was commissioned to photograph but also, especially, to convey a sense of space, texture, and structure. Through light and shadow, Herve defined the dialogue between substance and form. By delineating a strong contrast between light and shadow as well as placing emphasis on building details, the photographer was able to communicate the depth of a room, the surface of a wall, or the strength of a building's framework. For too long, Herve the master of architectural photography has eclipsed Herve the photographer whose career began as early as 1938 and whose subject matter varied widely. Featuring more than one hundred of his photographs in every genre, this book celebrates Herve's work as an artist, creating images that......
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San Francisco's Lost Landmarks (California/Old West) James R. Smith
 People who recall San Francisco's prior days bemoan that it just isn't the same... and they're right. San Francisco will always remain one of the world's great cities, but yesterday's San Francisco, with it's personalized style and charm, had no rival. With long-forgotten stories and evocative photographs, San Francisco's Lost Landmarks showcases the once-familiar sites that have faded into dim memories and hazy legends. Not just a list of places, facts, and dates, this pictorial history shows why San Francisco as been a legendary travel destination and one of the world's premier places to live and work for more than one hundred and fifty years. It not only tells of the lost landmarks, but also serves up the flavor of what it was like to experience these past treasures....
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Heaven and Earth: Unseen by the Naked Eye David Malin, Katherine Roucoux
 Now available as a mini paperback, Heaven & Earth charts an awe-inspiring voyage of discovery through the infinite world of science - from the smallest particles on the earth's surface to tiny dots in galaxies that are light years away. Featuring the extensive range of matter contained in the cosmos, the book navigates an unfamiliar world and celebrates the beauty and boundless mysteries of planet earth and the universe. These beautiful photographs are presented in sequence according to scale and distance within distinct chapters, and are accompanied by extended captions....
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Love Your Dog Pictures: How to Photograph Your Pet with Any Camera Jenni Bidner
 ? Millions of dog owners need this book ? Easy-to-use advice from a pro photographer and dog lover! ? Great examples from ten different photographers for a variety of styles ? Start getting better pictures right away More than 115 million dogs are kept as pets in the U.S. alone?and there's hardly a decent photo of any of them. Out of focus when Fido moves. Red-eye from Barkley's too-curious stare. Fuzzy where Rover breathed on the lens. Just awful. But now dog owners everywhere can learn how to take better pictures of their pets, posed or candid, inside or outside, in action or resting, with family members, dog friends, or alone. Author Jenni Bidner, a professional photographer and rescue-dog owner/trainer, covers photography basics like equipment, exposure, and composition, then explains just how to capture the charm, personality, and good looks of any dog. Special tips on photographing puppies, black dogs and white dogs, and show dogs, plus ideas on......
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Little Polar Bears Thorsten Milse
 October in Canada's Wapusk National Park: a female bear digs a den deep into the snow, a safe haven where she can give birth to her cubs. The tiny white bears emerge from the cozy fastness of the cave in February and make the journey with their mother to hunting grounds on Hudson Bay. Internationally renowned photographer Thorsten Milse captures the baby polar bears' first steps and play-filled days in enchanting pictures that delight and move us....
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Shades of Desire Jay Jorgensen
 Light - Shadows - Passion! "Shades of Desire" is the name of this gorgeous photo collection by Jay Jorgensen, who presents his well-built models in black-and-white. Using only his camera and reflector the photographer turns his subjects into elegiac, elegant works of art. Using the available lighting he shapes the powerful bodies. "Nude photography is very powerful and yet at the same time very vulnerable," says the master, and his photos exude these very qualities....
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The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult Clement Cheroux, Pierre Apraxine, Andreas Fischer, Denis Canguilhem, Sophie Schmit
 In the early days of photography, many believed and hoped that the camera would prove more efficient than the human eye in capturing the unseen. Spiritualists and animists of the nineteenth century seized on the new technology as a method of substantiating the existence of supernatural beings and happenings. This fascinating book assembles more than 250 photographic images from the Victorian era to the 1960s, each purporting to document an occult phenomenon: levitations, apparitions, transfigurations, ectoplasms, spectres, ghosts, and auras. Drawn from the archives of European and American occult societies and private and public collections, the photographs in many cases have never before been published. The Perfect Medium studies these rare and remarkable photographs through cultural, historical, and artistic lenses. More than mere curiosities, the images on film are important records of the cultural forces and technical methods that brought about their production.......
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