Friday, September 30, 2011

Earth from Above Tenth Anniversary Edition







Earth from Above Tenth Anniversary Edition Overview


Since its original publication in 1999, Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s Earth From Above has been a touchstone for the environmental movement throughout the world, selling more than 3 million copies in all languages. The result of a five-year journey across five continents and 60 countries, this spectacular portrait of our planet is also an iconic reminder of its fragility.

 

In this anniversary edition, Arthus-Bertrand and one dozen experts on current environmental issues look back upon the past decade’s progress. With more than 100 striking new images and nine new essays, including frank discussions of climate change and the growing energy crisis throughout the world, Arthus-Bertrand poignantly juxtaposes Earth’s raw beauty with the evidence of humanity’s negative impact upon our home.

 






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Thursday, September 29, 2011

iPhoto '11: The Missing Manual (Missing Manuals) (English and English Edition)






iPhoto '11: The Missing Manual (Missing Manuals) (English and English Edition) Feature


  • ISBN13: 9781449393236
  • Condition: New
  • Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!


iPhoto '11: The Missing Manual (Missing Manuals) (English and English Edition) Overview


With better ways to get your photos online and new options for creating printed projects, iPhoto '11 makes it easier than ever to transfer photos from a digital camera, organize them, and publish, print, or share them in maps—but there's still no printed manual for the program. Fortunately, David Pogue and Lesa Snider team up in this witty, authoritative book that should have been in the box.

  • Organize your collection. Discover all of the options for grouping your pictures—by events, in albums, or based on who’s in the photo or where it was taken.
  • Sharpen your editing skills. Learn how to use iPhoto’s beefed-up editing options, including its Photoshop-like adjustments panel.
  • Share images online. Get your photos to everyone on your list by publishing them to Flickr, Facebook, and MobileMe.
  • Dive into creative projects. Have fun building slideshows (with music), gift books, calendars, and cards.
5 Tips from the Author

  1. Flags are a great way to mark photos for deletion en masse (instead of deleting them one at a time). As soon as you import photos, take a spin through ’em and, when you find one you want to delete, click to select its thumbnail and then press Command - . (that’s the Command key plus the period key) to flag it. Alternatively, hover your cursor over photo’s thumbnail and then click the tiny gray flag that appears in its top right (it looks like a miniature pennant). Either way, you’ll see a tiny orange pennant appear at the thumbnail’s top left. Once you’re finished, click Flagged in your Source list, choose Select All to highlight all the flagged thumbnails, and then press the Delete key. When iPhoto asks if you’re sure you want to delete those photos, click OK and poof! iPhoto moves all those photos into its very own trash.

  2. Need to split an Event into two? Open the Event and click the thumbnail you want to mark the start of the new Event, and then press the S key. It’s as simple as that!

  3. Want to see the month and year your photos were taken as you’re scrolling through thumbnails in either Events or Photos view? You’re in luck! Choose iPhoto Preferences and turn on “Show informational overlays.” Now, next time you scroll through thumbnails, you’ll see the month and year appear in the middle of the viewing area. Sweet!

  4. Cruising around in Photos view can be a little overwhelming, especially when all of the Event names are expanded so you see thousands of thumbnails. The fix is to collapse all the Events en masse by Option-clicking the flippy triangle to the left of the Event’s name in the main photo-viewing area. That way you can expand them one at a time as you wish. (Option- clicking a collapsed flippy triangle will expand them all, too.)

  5. Smart Albums and Faces tags are the perfect way to quickly put together a slideshow for your next party. For example, if you’ve tagged friends and family using Faces, you can create a Smart Album by simply dragging someone’s picture from the Faces corkboard into an empty area in your Source list. If you want to add another person to that Smart Album, simply drag his image into the same Smart Album to create a self-populating album of just those two people.






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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

San Francisco Then and Now (Compact) (Then & Now Thunder Bay)






San Francisco Then and Now (Compact) (Then & Now Thunder Bay) Feature


  • ISBN13: 9781607101956
  • Condition: New
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San Francisco Then and Now (Compact) (Then & Now Thunder Bay) Overview


Home to social revolutions of every kind, a vibrant counterculture, and the crookedest street in the world, San Francisco is a city like no other—and always has been. This compact edition of San Francisco Then and Now looks back at the intriguing architecture and design of this extraordinary city, highlighting the differences between its picturesque past appearance and its no less fascinating present.

There's the Barbary Coast, once a district of song and dance and scandal, but is now a sedately beautiful street. The Golden Gate Theatre, which was once home to vaudeville classics, continues the theatrical tradition with the latest Broadway hits. And the ornate Palace Hotel, was and still is home of the city's finest luxury.

San Francisco Then and Now also highlights the changes that the city's various earthquakes have brought, showing how some of the Bay Area's most iconic sights quite literally rose from the ashes of its earlier landmarks.

So whether you've never set foot in the Haight-Ashbury or whether you're an expert at jumping on and off cable cars, San Francisco Then and Now is the perfect introduction to this amazing city—and its equally amazing history.





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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

The Digital Photography Book, Volume 4







The Digital Photography Book, Volume 4 Overview


Scott Kelby, author of The Digital Photography Book, Volume 1 (the world's best-selling digital photography book of all time), is back with yet another follow-up with an entirely new book that picks up right where he left off with Volume 3. It's even more of that "Ah ha, so that' s how they do it," straight-to-the-point, skip-the-techno-jargon stuff people can really use today to make their shots even better.

This book truly has a brilliant premise, and here's how Scott describes it: "If you and I were out on a shoot and you asked me, 'Hey Scott, I want the light for this portrait to look really soft and flattering. How far back should I put this softbox?' I wouldn't give you a lecture about lighting ratios, or flash modifiers. In real life, I'd just turn to you and say, 'Move it in as close to your subject as you possibly can, without it actually showing up in the shot.' Well, that's what this book is all about: you and I out shooting where I answer questions, give you advice, and share the secrets I've learned, just like I would with a friend--without all the technical explanations and techie photo speak."

The Digital Photography Book, Volume 4 follows in the footsteps of the wildly successful previous volumes, giving photographers nearly two hundred more closely guarded photographic "tricks of the trade" to get them shooting dramatically better-looking, sharper, more colorful, more professional-looking photos with their digital camera every time they press the shutter button.




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Monday, September 26, 2011

Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand: Masterworks from The Metropolitan Museum of Art







Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand: Masterworks from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Overview


Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), Edward Steichen (1879–1973), and Paul Strand (1890–1976) are among the most famous photographers of the 20th century. This handsome volume showcases for the first time the Metropolitan Museum’s extraordinarily rich holdings of works by these diverse and groundbreaking masters.

A passionate advocate for photography and modern art promoted through his “Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession” (also known as “291”) and his journal Camera Work, Stieglitz was also a photographer of supreme accomplishment. Featured works by Stieglitz include portraits, landscapes, city views, and cloud studies, along with photographs from his composite portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe (selected by O’Keeffe herself for the Museum). Steichen—perhaps best known as a fashion photographer, celebrity portraitist, and MoMA curator—was Stieglitz’s man in Paris, gallery collaborator, and most talented exemplar of Photo-Secessionist photography. His three large variant prints of The Flatiron and his moonlit photographs of Rodin’s Balzac are highlighted here. Marking a pivotal moment in the course of photography, the final double issue of Camera Work (1915–17) was devoted to the young Paul Strand, whose photographs from 1915 and 1916 treated three principal themes—movement in the city, abstractions, and street portraits—and pioneered a shift from the soft-focus Pictorialist aesthetic to the straight approach and graphic power of an emerging modernism. Represented are Strand’s rare large platinum prints—most of them unique exhibition prints of images popularly known only as Camera Work photogravures.

The rarely exhibited photographs gathered in Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand are among the crown jewels of the Metropolitan’s collection.




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Sunday, September 25, 2011

The American Barn






The American Barn Feature


  • ISBN13: 9780785825869
  • Condition: New
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The American Barn Overview


An examination of nearly 400 years of the American barn’s form and function illustrated with more than 200 of the authors stunning photographs. Barns come in many flavors: freshly painted or collapsing, adorned or plain, towering or long and low; tucked away in valleys or spotted from the highway; wood, stone or brick. The American Barn will be treasured by anyone intrigued by the country’s rich agricultural history and these deceptively complex buildings.






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Saturday, September 24, 2011

The Art of iPhoneography: A Guide to Mobile Creativity






The Art of iPhoneography: A Guide to Mobile Creativity Feature


  • ISBN13: 9781600599231
  • Condition: New
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The Art of iPhoneography: A Guide to Mobile Creativity Overview


The world's most popular cameras today are the ones on a cell phone--and this guide will help iPhone owners get the best photos possible from their equipment. Not only does The Art of iPhoneography explain how to choose, load, and use the best of the apps, it also focuses on the specific techniques that define this genre of picture-taking, and the skills photographers need to develop their creative “i.”





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Friday, September 23, 2011

Camera: A History of Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital







Camera: A History of Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital Overview


Cameras, and what they capture, forever changed our perception of the world, and of ourselves. Few inventions have had the impact of this ingenious, elegant, and deceptively simple device.

This gorgeous cornerstone volume, created in collaboration with the world-famous George Eastman House, celebrates the camera and the art of the photograph. It spans almost two hundred years of progress, from the first faint image ever caught to the instantaneous pictures snapped by today’s state-of-the-art digital equipment.

The informative narrative by Todd Gustavson traces the camera’s development, the lives of its brilliant but often eccentric inventors, and the artists behind the lens. Images and highly descriptive captions for more than 350 cameras from the George Eastman House Collection, plus more than 100 historic photos, ads, and drawings, complement the text.

A foreword by the George Eastman House Director Anthony Bannon, and insightful essays by Steve Sasson, inventor of the digital camera, and Alexis Gerard, visionary founder and president of Future Image Inc., completes this illuminating study of one of the greatest modern technological achievements.

 






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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures







Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures Overview


The author recounts his journeys throughout the world to explore the wealth of human diversity, and argues for the preservation of endangered traditional cultures in regions ranging from the Amazon to the Canadian Arctic to Tibet.




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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

The Philosophy of Art: Readings Ancient and Modern







The Philosophy of Art: Readings Ancient and Modern Overview


This anthology is intended as a core text for courses in aesthetics or philosophy of art. It contains a wealth of readings from both classic and contemporary sources, and aims to present substantial selections from those texts rather than mere "snippets." Readings are organized historically within four broad themes so that students can see how concepts of art have evolved and been debated. Each reading is introduced by the authors, who suggest connections between the reading and others in the anthology. Unlike other anthologies on the market, The Philosophy of Art is both comprehensive and affordable, making it the ideal book for course use.




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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: A Professional Image Editor's Guide to the Creative use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC







Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: A Professional Image Editor's Guide to the Creative use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC Overview


Martin Evening's Adobe Photoshop for Photographers titles have become classic reference sources for photographers at all skill levels. Whether you are an accomplished user or just starting out, the Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers book contains a wealth of practical advice, hints and tips to help you achieve professional-looking results.
Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers begins with an overview of the Photoshop interface and the fundamentals of how to use Photoshop, followed by how to configure and optimize your computer's performance to run the program and then it dives straight into the essentials of Camera Raw image editing. The Sharpening chapter shows how to use the Camera Raw controls to obtain optimum capture sharpening and noise reduction and the Essentials chapter outlines how to work with all the basic image adjustment tools that are in the program, some of which have been there since the very beginning.
Practical workshops show you how to master the essential techniques, such as color correction, retouching techniques, toning a black and white image, creating composite images and so on. Each technique is described in step-by-step detail, showing exactly which command to use, whether you are working with a Mac or PC computer.
The accompanying DVD contains a Photoshop for Photographers Help Guide. This is supplied in a web browser format that you can either run from the DVD or copy to your computer hard disk for off-line viewing. The Help Guide contains a complete guide to all the tools and panels in Photoshop as well as other items in the program. It is like having an off-line manual with which to learn more about what each Photoshop tool and palette does. The guide also provides 120 minutes of movie tutorials on Photoshop CS4. If you are just beginning to work with digital images or are looking for new ideas, the best techniques and ways to improve the quality of your work, this is the book for you!

* Learn Photoshop the Martin Evening way! Get up to speed fast with the essential information you need to create superb images in Photoshop CS4.
* Accompnying DVD includes the images you need to follow along as you read, with QuickTime movie tutorials for hands-on learning
* Contains over 750 professional, color images




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Monday, September 19, 2011

Nantucket: Island Living







Nantucket: Island Living Overview


Imagine a place of unspoiled beaches, windswept dunes, and dramatic natural beauty. A place free of traffic lights and blaring commercial come-ons. A place whose rich historical heritage is visible everywhere—from the antiques-shop windows filled with handmade baskets and scrimshawed ivories to the spare, shingle-clad houses that coexist harmoniously with the surrounding land- and seascapes. Imagine a place designed, by man and nature, to relax and restore you.

 

Nantucket Island is that place. Thirty miles off Cape Cod, Nantucket is both geographically isolated and—as an internationally regarded vacation resort—culturally sophisticated. Nantucketers are rightly proud of a manner of living that couples the casual comforts of small-town life with an urbane sense of glamour, taste, and style.

 

In this handsomely illustrated book, longtime Nantucket residents Leslie Linsley and Terry Pommett give you an insider’s look at the on-island lifestyle: the restored historic homes of Nantucket town and ’Sconset village, the appealingly humble beachfront cottages that dot the island’s shoreline, and the beautifully tended gardens—formal and informal—that grace Nantucket’s private houses and public buildings. More than 200 color photos document the other attractions—panoramic views, home-grown handicrafts, seasonal celebrations —that make Nantucket such a rewarding place to spend a day, a summer, or a lifetim






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Sunday, September 18, 2011

Improve Your Night Photography (Improve Your Photography)







Improve Your Night Photography (Improve Your Photography) Overview


Skilled night photographers can leave any shoot knowing they captured the scene in perfect focus and low noise, but beginning photographers often leave night shoots frustrated. After teaching dozens of photographers how to shoot at night, the author compiled this book to explain the most important tips for night photographers.

This book is targeted to intermediate and advanced amateur photographers who are just beginning to learn night photography.

Topics discussed in this book include: how to achieve low noise, how to shoot stars and star trails, shooting HDR images at night, practical tips for focusing the camera in the dark, how to shoot fireworks, and dozens of quick tips to improve your images.

"Improve Your Night Photography" is the fourth book in the popular "Improve Your Photography" book series by author and award-winning photographer Jim Harmer.

Improve Your Night Photography (Improve Your Photography) Specifications


Skilled night photographers can leave any shoot knowing they captured the scene in perfect focus and low noise, but beginning photographers often leave night shoots frustrated. After teaching dozens of photographers how to shoot at night, the author compiled this book to explain the most important tips for night photographers.

This book is targeted to intermediate and advanced amateur photographers who are just beginning to learn night photography.

Topics discussed in this book include: how to achieve low noise, how to shoot stars and star trails, shooting HDR images at night, practical tips for focusing the camera in the dark, how to shoot fireworks, and dozens of quick tips to improve your images.

"Improve Your Night Photography" is the fourth book in the popular "Improve Your Photography" book series by author and award-winning photographer Jim Harmer.



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Saturday, September 17, 2011

Awkward Family Photos






Awkward Family Photos Feature


  • ISBN13: 9780307592293
  • Condition: New
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Awkward Family Photos Overview


Based on the hit website, AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com (“painful, regrettable, horrifyingly awesome snaps of family bonding, you will laugh so hard that people in adjoining offices will ask what’s wrong with you”—Esquire), this full color book features never-before-seen photos and hilarious personal stories covering everything from uncomfortable moments with relatives, teen angst, sibling rivalry, and family vacations from hell. Cringe at the forced poses, bad hair, and matching outfits--all prompting us to look at our own families and celebrate the fact that we're not alone. Nothing says awkward better than an uncomfortable family photograph!

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Jennifer Weiner Reviews Awkward Family Photos

Jennifer Weiner was born in 1970 on an army base in Louisiana. She grew up in Connecticut and graduated with a degree in English literature from Princeton University. She is the author of the novels Good In Bed (2001), In Her Shoes (2002), which was turned into a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette and Shirley MacLaine; Little Earthquakes (2004), Goodnight Nobody (2005), the short story collection The Guy Not Taken (2006), Certain Girls (2008), the sequel to Good in Bed, and her most recent, Best Friends Forever (2009). Her next book, Fly Away Home, will be published by Atria Books on July 13, 2010. There are more than 11 million copies of her books in print in 36 countries. She can be found on Facebook, on Twitter, and, in real life, in Philadelphia, where she lives with her family. Read her review of Awkward Family Photos:

Samuel Butler once said "Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

If that’s true, than God help Mike Bender and Doug Chernack, who waded into the toxic slurry of bad mullets, spiral perms, skin conditions, leg warmers, wet pants, creepy Moms, funny uncles, and truly disturbing Santas, and came back with this hilarious collection of awkward family photos. Awkward Family Photos reminds anyone with a dusty shoebox full of snapshots of unfortunate fashion choices, band trips, braces, bad bridesmaids’ dresses and that one time you got talked into dressing up and going to the Renaissance Faire, that you are not alone. This isn’t just a book, it’s a public service on the page, a living, breathing, laugh-out-loud reminder that no matter how badly you dressed, how oddly you posed, and how weird Uncle Dave who lived in the basement was, somebody out there had it worse. Particularly the girl on page 77.







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Friday, September 16, 2011

Magic Lantern Guides: Nikon D7000 Multimedia Workshop






Magic Lantern Guides: Nikon D7000 Multimedia Workshop Feature


  • Great Photos with Your Digital SLR 60-minute DVD: Live action tutorials show how to compose pictures, choose the best picture-quality settings, improve results with the built-in flash, interpret your histogram and when to trust your camera's automatic settings or change them yourself
  • Nikon D7000 Quick Reference Wallet Card: This laminated take-along is the ideal in-the-field key to camera and menu operations


Magic Lantern Guides: Nikon D7000 Multimedia Workshop Overview


Looking for the fastest way to learn about digital photography and your D-SLR camera? The Magic Lantern Guides Multimedia Workshop is like having your own personal D-SLR class in the comfort of your own home. The package includes:

o Camera Specific 80-minute DVD: Take full advantage of your camera's impressive features by following the authoritative DVD guide made just for your model. Created by photographersfor photographers, this in-depth, instructional DVD covers specific camera featuresand functions. It allows you to easily navigate between different topics and reviewspecific chapters anytime so you can learn at your own pace.
o Taking Great Digital Photos 64-page book: Get started right with your digital photography. Learn all about digital file formats, getting accurate color with white balance, how f/stops and shutter speeds work together to create an exposure, and which focal lengths are best for various subjects. This full-color guide is packed with digital picture-taking tips and is perfect for anyone who wants to get the most from their camera.
o Great Photos with Your Digital SLR 60-minute DVD: Finally, help is at hand to demystify shooting with a digital SLR camera. Live action tutorials show how to compose pictures, choose the best picture-quality settings, improve results with the built-in flash, interpret your histogram, and when to trust your camera's automatic settings or change them yourself.
o Nikon D7000 Quick Reference Wallet Card: This laminated take-along is the ideal in-the-field key to camera and menu operations.





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Thursday, September 15, 2011

Sporty Girls







Sporty Girls Overview


Do you ever wish that hot sporty girl would stop playing and start showing off her fit body? Your wish is about to come true!

Three active girls strut their stuff in this collection of sporty girls.

Lisa is on a camping trip and decides that the natural way is the only way so she strips and lays on her towel.

Louise is out cycling in her short skirt so she stops to give a peek at her panties. She then gets off her bike and strips down to her underwear and then just her sneakers.

Marianne is out playing tennis but instead of playing the game she shows off her panties. She eventually gets rid of her panties altogether for the ultimate tennis sneak peek!


Sporty Girls Specifications


Do you ever wish that hot sporty girl would stop playing and start showing off her fit body? Your wish is about to come true!

Three active girls strut their stuff in this collection of sporty girls.

Lisa is on a camping trip and decides that the natural way is the only way so she strips and lays on her towel.

Louise is out cycling in her short skirt so she stops to give a peek at her panties. She then gets off her bike and strips down to her underwear and then just her sneakers.

Marianne is out playing tennis but instead of playing the game she shows off her panties. She eventually gets rid of her panties altogether for the ultimate tennis sneak peek!




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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials







Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials Overview


In this illustrated field guide to extraterrestrials-a 1980 nominee for the ABA and Hugo Awards and named one of the Best Books of Spring 1980 by School Library Journal-Wayne Douglas Barlowe paints 50 denizens of popular science fiction literature. 150 full-color paintings show each character not only in full figure but also in detail highlighting distinctive characteristics. Humanoids, insectoids, reptilians, and more are included. Field notes explain movement, diet, respiration, and reproduction habits. The book also features a pull-out chart showing comparative sizes, and a section devoted to Barlowe's own sketchbook of works in progress. Selection of the Science Fiction Book Club. 267,000 copies in print.






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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Pedro Páramo (Wittliff Gallery Series)







Pedro Páramo (Wittliff Gallery Series) Overview


Deserted villages of rural Mexico, where images and memories of the past linger like unquiet ghosts, haunted the imaginations of two artists--writer Juan Rulfo and photographer Josephine Sacabo. In one such village of the mind, Comala, Rulfo set his classic novel Pedro Páramo, a dream-like tale that intertwines a man's quest to find his lost father and reclaim his patrimony with the father's obsessive love for a woman who will not be possessed--Susana San Juan. Recognizing that "Rulfo was describing a world I already knew" and feeling "a very personal response, particularly to Susana San Juan and her dilemma," Josephine Sacabo used Rulfo's novel as the starting point for a series of evocative photographs she calls "The Unreachable World of Susana San Juan: Homage to Juan Rulfo." This volume brings together Rulfo's novel and Sacabo's photographs to offer a dual artistic vision of the same unforgettable story. Margaret Sayers Peden's superb translation renders the novel as poetic and mysterious in English as it is in Spanish. Josephine Sacabo's photographs tell, in her words, "the story of a woman forced to take refuge in madness as a means of protecting her inner world from the ravages of the forces around her: a cruel and tyrannical patriarchy, a church that offers no redemption, the senseless violence of revolution, death itself."




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Monday, September 12, 2011

Core Curriculum: Writings on Photography (Aperture Ideas)







Core Curriculum: Writings on Photography (Aperture Ideas) Overview


Core Curriculum: Writings on Photography is the long-awaited collection of essays, reviews and lectures by Tod Papageorge, one of the most influential voices in photography today. As a photographer and the Walker Evans Professor of Photography at the Yale University School of Art, Papageorge has shaped the work and thought of generations of artist-photographers, and, through his critical writings--some of which have gained a cult following through online postings--he has earned a reputation as an unusually eloquent and illuminating guide to the work of many of the most important figures in twentieth-century photography. Among the artists Papageorge discusses in this essential volume are Eugène Atget, Brassaï, Robert Frank (with Walker Evans), Robert Adams and his close friend Garry Winogrand. The book also includes texts that examine the more general questions of photography's relationship to poetry, and how the evolution of the medium's early technologies led to the twentieth- century creation of the artist-photographer. Among the previously unpublished pieces in Core Curriculum are an unfinished poem written in response to Susan Sontag's On Photography, a profile of Josef Koudelka and a commencement speech delivered at the Yale School of Art in 2004. Core Curriculum also includes a number of interviews with this esteemed photographer/teacher/ author, ranging in topic from his own photographic work and background in poetry to his energetic observations on the art of photography.
Tod Papageorge (born 1940) earned his BA in English literature from the University of New Hampshire in 1962, where he began taking photographs during his last semester. He is the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. In 1979, Papageorge was named Yale University's Walker Evans Professor of Photography and director of graduate studies in photography, both positions he continues to hold today.




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Sunday, September 11, 2011

David Busch's Nikon D300 Guide to Digital SLR Photography







David Busch's Nikon D300 Guide to Digital SLR Photography Overview


Have you unpacked your new Nikon D300 digital SLR camera and want to get started right away taking professional quality pictures? David Busch's Nikon D300 Guide to Digital SLR Photography will show you how, when, and why to use all the cool features, controls, and functions of your camera to take great photographs of anything. After a brief introduction to the camera to help you get your bearings, you'll dive right into all the exciting, innovative capabilities of the D300 including the focus controls, flash synchronization options, how to choose lenses, and which exposure modes are best. Beautiful, full-color images illustrate where the essential buttons and dials are, and you'll find tips and techniques that can be applied to any type of photography to help you take better pictures with your new digital SLR. Whether you are new to digital SLR photography or an experienced pro, David Busch's Nikon D300 Guide to Digital SLR Photography will help you maximize your camera's capabilities.




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Saturday, September 10, 2011

The Digital Photography Book, Volume 3






The Digital Photography Book, Volume 3 Feature


  • ISBN13: 9780321617651
  • Condition: New
  • Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!


The Digital Photography Book, Volume 3 Overview


Scott Kelby, author of The Digital Photography Book, volume 1 (the world’s best-selling digital photography book of all time), is back with a follow-up to his volume 2 smash best seller, with an entirely new book that picks up right where he left off. It’s even more of that “Ah ha—so that’s how they do it,” straight-to-the-point, skip-the-techno-jargon stuff you can really use today to make your shots even better.

This book truly has a brilliant premise, and here’s how Scott describes it: “If you and I were out on a shoot and you asked me, ‘Hey Scott, I want the light for this portrait to look really soft and flattering. How far back should I put this softbox?’ I wouldn’t give you a lecture about lighting ratios, or flash modifiers. In real life, I’d just turn to you and say, ‘Move it in as close to your subject as you possibly can, without it actually showing up in the shot.’ Well, that’s what this book is all about: you and I out shooting where I answer questions, give you advice, and share the secrets I’ve learned, just like I would with a friend—without all the technical explanations and techie photo speak.”

Each page covers a single concept on how to make your photography better. Every time you turn the page, you’ll learn another pro setting, tool, or trick to transform your work from snapshots into gallery prints. If you’re tired of taking shots that look “okay,” and if you’re tired of looking in photography magazines and thinking, “Why don’t my shots look like that?” then this is the book for you.

This isn’t a book of theory—full of confusing jargon and detailed concepts. This is a book on which button to push, which setting to use, and when to use it. With nearly 200 more of the most closely guarded photographic “tricks of the trade,” this book gets you shooting dramatically better-looking, sharper, more colorful, more professional-looking photos every time.




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Friday, September 9, 2011

Spectacular Ireland






Spectacular Ireland Feature


  • ISBN13: 9780883633397
  • Condition: Used - Good
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Spectacular Ireland Overview


Through words and stunning images, the Emerald Isle is brought to life in Spectacular Ireland, a magnificent collection of 140 color photographs by some of Ireland’s best landscape photographers and elegant text by Peter Harbison, one of Ireland’s most distinguished voices and renowned archaeologists. This handsome volume celebrates Ireland, a small island country of extraordinary beauty, fascinating history, and evocative myths, where old and new thrive together. From ancient standing stones and breathtaking pastoral scenes to energetic cities of architectural sophistication, we take a photographic tour reflecting the soul of this spectacular island. A brief history of Ireland puts the images into historical context: from ancient Celtic dolmens to abbeys and castles, from lush pastures, fields of heather, and seaside cliffs to formal gardens, and from ancient villages to the rush of contemporary Dublin. But Ireland is much more than beautiful landscape. Much of the magic of the country lies in the people themselves; these are a people who cherish their land. It is a rich heritage—of history, magic, and mystery—that makes Ireland a favorite destination for tourists and armchair travelers alike.




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Thursday, September 8, 2011

Scanning Negatives and Slides: Digitizing Your Photographic Archives






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  • ISBN13: 9781933952307
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Scanning Negatives and Slides: Digitizing Your Photographic Archives Overview


Many photographers have either moved into digital photography exclusively or use both analog and digital media in their work. In either case, there is sure to be an archive of slides and negatives that cannot be directly integrated into the new digital workflow, nor can it be archived in a digital format. Increasingly, photographers are trying to bridge this gap with the use of high-performance film scanners.

In this 2nd edition, you will learn how to achieve the best possible digital image from a negative or a slide, and how to build a workflow to make this process efficient, repeatable, and reliable. The author uses Nikon's film scanners, but all steps can easily be accomplished while using a different scanner. The most common software tools for scanning (SilverFast, VueScan, NikonScan) are not only covered extensively in the book, but trial versions are also provided on a DVD, which also contains other useful tools for image editing, as well as numerous sample scans.






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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Between The Eyes: Essays On Photography And Politics







Between The Eyes: Essays On Photography And Politics Overview


David Levi Strauss is a writer whose visual and intellectual sensibilities are both acute and expansive. His trenchant writings on photography and photographers have been collected for this volume from a broad range of magazines, including Aperture, Artforum, and The Nation. In Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics, Strauss tackles subjects as diverse as "Photography and Propaganda," the imagery of dreams, SebastiNo Salgado's epic social documents, and the deeply personal photographic revelations of Francesca Woodman. The timely issue of photographic legitimacy is addressed in the essay "Photography and Belief," and in "The Highest Degree of Illusion," Strauss discusses the media frenzy surrounding the events of September 11. As our world is shaped more and more by images and their slipperiness, what he calls a media "pandemonium" in its root meaning of "the place of all howling demons," we need a mind and voice like Levi Strauss's to bring clarity to our vision.




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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Kinky Nature: Dark Erotik Fashion Photography







Kinky Nature: Dark Erotik Fashion Photography Overview


Kinky Nature draws you into a dream forest, teeming with the kinkiest beauties in the land. Explore the wild side of these enchanting girls, whether they're lost in latex or wandering the forest naughtily nude. Fetish and frivolity come together leaving everything and nothing to the imagination. The sultry style of Emma Delves-Broughton's satiates your desire for wild abandonment and kinky natures. Emma Delves-Broughton has always had an uncompromising eye, and this time she's trained it on the kinkiest girls this enchanted forest has to offer. The unrestrained (except when they're physically restrained) beauties are a testament to pure pleasure. Kinky Nature is tantalizing, steamy and seductive. What would you do if you were to suddenly come across a sensuous girl passively saran wrapped to a fallen tree in the forest? Emma Delves-Broughton teases us with this and other fantasies; a vampy vixen sprawled bare skinned and exposed, a kinky creature coyly shows off her wears, attired in nothing but red latex panties. These beauties tantalizingly lead you deeper and deeper into their kinky natures. Emma is a rare kind of photographer, managing to put the model at ease, regardless of the position. Although she started in black and white using a variety of techniques, including hand tinting and toning, she later branched out to color photo-graphy. All of the photos were shot deep in the drizzly forests of the UK. This was no warm and cozy studio shoot! Privacy was hard to come by, and more than once the models found themselves being observed by onlookers other than Emma. Kinky Nature offers bold colors, kinky costumes and of course, lascivious ladies. The damp greens and rough textures of the forest contrast with the delicate skin of the models; aside from their perfect skin, there's nothing delicate about these girls. Their teasing and lustful gazes will pull you into their fantasies. With a mix of latex and lace and sometimes nothing at all, the sirens live and breathe off the page. This book is dangerously seductive; you won't want to put it down!




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Monday, September 5, 2011

Monica Bellucci







Monica Bellucci Overview


An exquisite tribute to Italy’s most important contemporary model and actress. As a model, Monica Bellucci graced the covers of magazines such as Elle and Esquire before achieving success as an actress whose notable appearances include roles in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Matrix Reloaded, The Passion of the Christ, and The Matrix Revolutions. This glamorous volume features 150 of the most exquisite, sensual photographs of Bellucci throughout her twenty-year career taken by the world’s most important photographers, including Peter Lindbergh, Helmut Newton, Fabrizio Ferri, Richard Avedon, and Ellen von Unwerth. Monica Bellucci will appear in the 2010 Disney film The Sorcerer’s Apprentice with Nicolas Cage.




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Sunday, September 4, 2011

Secrets of Proshow Experts: The Official Guide to Creating Your Best Slide Shows with ProShow Gold and Producer






Secrets of Proshow Experts: The Official Guide to Creating Your Best Slide Shows with ProShow Gold and Producer Feature


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Secrets of Proshow Experts: The Official Guide to Creating Your Best Slide Shows with ProShow Gold and Producer Overview


"Secrets of ProShow Experts: The Photodex Official Guide to Creating Your Best Slideshows" teaches creative techniques for creating more professional-looking and polished slide shows with ProShow software. This one-of-a-kind guide provides readers with easy-to-follow examples and expert advice on topics like understanding your audience, using motion to convey emotion, controlling the feel of a slide show with audio, and more. ProShow users of all levels and anyone wanting to learn how to share their digital images in a compelling slide show will find this guide useful. Whether users are new to the software or are seasoned experts, this book offers valuable creative techniques from an expert author. Includes a bonus DVD with sample slideshows, slide styles, and a trial version of the ProShow software!




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Saturday, September 3, 2011

Classic Flash in 5 Bold Colors







Classic Flash in 5 Bold Colors Overview


Traditional American tattooing has a rich, extensive heritage. Often under appreciated, it represents a true folk art, encompassing design motifs and themes that are expressions of the heart, the desires, loves, and ambitions of the artists and those who wear their artworks. After carefully studying work by renowned American tattoo artists (including Paul Rogers, Leonard "Stoney" St.Clair, George Burchett, August "Cap" Coleman, Percy Waters, Owen James and others) the author distilled it into five component colors: black, red, yellow, green, and brown, and developed a new interpretation of their classic styles.
Besides classic designs by the author, the images here include collaborative work with other tattoo designers. Over 640 individual flash designs are reproduced in color as a celebration of the tradition and the hope that it will continue as folk art.




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Friday, September 2, 2011

Doug Box's Flash Photography: On- and Off- Camera Techniques for Digital Photographers






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  • ISBN13: 9781608952588
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Doug Box's Flash Photography: On- and Off- Camera Techniques for Digital Photographers Overview


Offering an in-depth look at the camera controls that come into play when using an off-camera flash—including radio slave, optical triggers, wired flash communication, and more—this photography resource gives step-by-step instructions for producing expertly lit portraits and wedding photographs in every imaginable lighting scenario. Using succinct, simple language in tandem with lighting diagrams and case studies, this guide offers discussions on creating expert lighting patterns for individuals and groups, on location, outdoors, in a client’s home, or in the studio. Professionals and advanced amateurs will grow in terms of technique and artistry with the help of this user-friendly manual.






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Thursday, September 1, 2011

101 Cataclysms: For the Love of Cats







101 Cataclysms: For the Love of Cats Overview


"101 Cataclysms: For the Love of Cats" is a photographic celebration of the world's most popular pet - the creatures that have beguiled, fascinated and blessed us with their company since the civilised world began. Featuring the exquisite images of premier animal portrait photographer Rachael Hale, this unique collection superbly captures the beauty, elegance and charm of 101 of her favourite felines. You will see it in the bald-face cheekiness of Hilander, the hairless Sphynx, or in the astonishment of Puffy, the Persian ball of fluff; the coyness of Russian Blue contortionists Alexei and Cossak; the sensuality of the stone-deaf Tallulah, or the nonchalance of cool cat Pat. Despite their feline fickleness, the adorable photographs capture the unique personality of each and every mischievious model, and are complemented by quirky cat quotations and poems, from Dr Seuss to Tom Jones. Inspiration came from the photographer's own triumvirate of cats, the crazy, loveable Himalayan Persian Edmund, and 'designer moggies' Gianni and Versace, all of whom feature in this exceptional collection. This book is a stunning tribute to our feline friends, certain to touch the heart of every cat lover, and more.




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The Writer's Toolbox: Creative Games and Exercises for Inspiring the 'Write' Side of Your Brain







The Writer's Toolbox: Creative Games and Exercises for Inspiring the 'Write' Side of Your Brain Overview


Designed by a longtime creative writing teacher, this innovative kit includes a 64-page booklet filled with exercises and instructions that focus on a "right-brain" approach to writing. Sixty exercise sticksFirst Sentences, Non Sequiturs, and Last Strawswill get stories off the ground, 60 cards fuel creative descriptions, and four spinner palettes will ignite unexpected plot twists. For any aspiring writer, thiskit is the perfect first step on the path to literary greatness!




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