Price: $24.95
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Digital Photography Workshops: Nudes: Unique Course in a Book Taking You from Beginner to Expert
The Mammoth Book of Tattoo Art
Price: $17.95
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Art Models: Life Nudes for Drawing Painting and Sculpting
Price: $24.95
LA's Early Moderns: Art, Architecture, Photography
Price: $34.95
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
The Lighting Cookbook for Fashion and Beauty Photography: Foolproof Recipes for Taking Perfect Portraits
• Demystifies lucrative fashion and beauty
photography
• Beautiful examples with diagrams and instructions—everything the photographer needs in the studio or on location
Learning to set up, use, and control lighting is the biggest challenge for photographers in the field of fashion and beauty. Never fear! This book shows exactly how to become a lighting master. Dozens of stunning examples—some taken in the studio, others on location—are analyzed with setup details, lens choices, composition decisions, and lighting diagrams, plus step-by-step directions on re-creating the look. From an inventory of every essential piece of equipment, with a full explanation of how, when, and why to use each one, to an in-depth discussion of film versus digital formats, The Lighting Cookbook for Fashion and Beauty Photography is the complete guide to mastering this popular and lucrative genre.
Price: $24.95
Pulp Art Book: Volume One
Price: $50.00
Monday, November 21, 2011
Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before
Among the photographers and video-makers whose work receives serious attention in this powerfully argued book are Jeff Wall, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff, Andreas Gursky, Luc Delahaye, Rineke Dijkstra, Patrick Faigenbaum, Roland Fischer, Thomas Demand, Candida Höfer, Beat Streuli, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, James Welling, and Bernd and Hilla Becher. Future discussions of the new art photography will have no choice but to take a stand for or against Fried’s conclusions.
Price: $55.00
Fine Art Photography High Dynamic Range: Realism, Superrealism, and Image Optimization for Serious Novices to Advanced Di
* The specific settings used for each photo are given, along with commentary on why the artist chose those settings
* Includes 47 stunning examples to show the wide range of creative possibilities HDR provides
Price: $24.95
Sunday, November 20, 2011
The Meaning of Photography (Clark Studies in the Visual Arts)
With essays by Geoffrey Batchen, François Brunet, Mary Ann Doane, José Luis Falconi, Robin Kelsey, Douglas R. Nickel, Blake Stimson, and John Tagg, and additional contributions by Lars Kiel Bertelsen, Anne McCauley, Jorge Ribalta, John Roberts, Eric Rosenberg, Eric C. Shiner, and Bernd Stiegler
Photo essays by Sharon Harper, Lilla LoCurto and Bill Outcault, Fiona Tan, and Akram Zaatari
How can we write the histories of photography? How should art history and visual studies integrate the special technical and aesthetic challenges posed by the medium and respond to the intense interest it has provoked in the art world in recent years? In this timely volume, fifteen leading scholars discuss the discipline, practice, historiography, and study of photography, from William Henry Fox Talbot to Louise Lawler, and reflect on the status of photography today. In addition, the book features works by important contemporary artists that probe and illustrate these same issues, together offering new perspectives on the field and what photography means to us in the early 21st century.
Price: $24.95
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents (MoMA Primary Documents)
Publication of the Museum of Modern Art
Price: $40.00
The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage
Arriving in Arizona in 1931, Sommer abandoned his original profession, landscape architecture, and began painting and drawing. After meeting Alfred Stieglitz in 1935 and Edward Weston in 1936, Sommer embraced and quickly mastered photography. Other artists who later proved inspirational to Sommer included Precisionist painter and photographer Charles Sheeler, Surrealist artist Max Ernst, and photographer Aaron Siskind.
With an essay by photo historian Keith F. Davis, exquisite reproductions of Sommer’s diverse works, and a detailed chronology of his life by April Watson, The Art of Frederick Sommer describes and documents the full extent of the artist’s achievement as a twentieth-century visionary. The book is a revelation for scholars, artists, students, and everyone who admires and appreciates creative genius.
Price: $65.00
Friday, November 18, 2011
Beginner's Guide to Digital Photo Art (Lark Photography Book)
Price: $19.95
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Luana : nude, naked & erotic photography (sexy portraits) (Etre femme)
WARNING : Contains full nudity - uncensored nudes
Please note that this book CONTAINS NUDITY and is intended for ADULTS ONLY. All photographs professionally photographied.
Price: $2.99
Literacy and Justice Through Photography: A Classroom Guide (Language and Literacy Series)
Price: $31.95
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Vanishing Act
Price: $50.00
Photography: A Middle-Brow Art
Price: $24.95
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Life of the City: New York Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art (Photography)
Price: $19.95
Monday, November 14, 2011
Portrait Photography: The Art of Seeing Light
Price: $29.95
Sunday, November 13, 2011
On Photography
One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, On Photography first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as “a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs.” It begins with the famous “In Plato’s Cave”essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching “Brief Anthology of Quotations.”
Price: $15.00
Digital Art Revolution: Creating Fine Art with Photoshop
Whether you’re a beginner who’s never picked up a pen or paintbrush, or a traditional artist who wants to explore everything a digital canvas might inspire, digital artist and arts educator Scott Ligon guides you and inspires you with clear instructions and exercises that explore all the visual and technical possibilities.
Featuring the work of 40 of the finest digital artists working today, Digital Art Revolution is your primary resource for creating amazing artwork using your computer.
Price: $29.99
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Art Models 6: The Female Figure in Shadow and Light (Art Models series)
Whether trying a new technique, getting in some practice time, or working on a finished piece, this figure study enables artists to create their choice of model, pose, and view whenever and wherever they’d like. The latest addition to the series will help artists become proficient in incorporating chiaroscuro or light and dark lighting?a technique used by the great masters to produce drama and depth in their paintings?to define the human form. The book incorporates a new layout featuring two primary views per pose as well as a section of close-up faces, while additional expressions and body details such as the face, hands, and feet are shown in even greater detail on the DVD-ROM. With the book, artists can study 95 poses in strong unidirectional lighting and observe the female form through more than 200 printed photos. Varieties of body types?ranging from thin to plus-size?and ethnicities are included. Poses have been carefully chosen to illustrate important effects such as foreshortening and perspective changes. With this guide, artists can achieve longer drawing sessions than they could when drawing from a model directly. While viewing from many angles and at their own pace is often impossible for artists in a studio session, it becomes as easy as putting in the disc and opening any photo. A judicious amount of photo retouching is done?not to make the models more glamorous or plastic but to remove distractions that detract from the models’ essence. The PC/Mac-compatible DVD-ROM included in the book features more than 2,500 high-resolution JPEG photos providing a number of viewing options?on a computer screen, printed out, projected for a group, or via a high-definition television. Each angle of every pose may also be enlarged, enabling artists to zoom in on specific body parts to achieve a higher level of detail.
Price: $36.95
New Vision: Photography Between the World Wars : Ford Motor Company Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Price: $45.00
Friday, November 11, 2011
Treasury of Art Nouveau Design & Ornament (Dover Pictorial Archives)
Price: $12.95
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Wide Open: Inspiration and Techniques for Art Journaling on the Edge (Book & Card Kit)
Price: $19.99
The Art Teacher's Survival Guide for Elementary and Middle Schools (J-B Ed: Survival Guides)
One of the most popular books in the Jossey-Bass Teacher series is now available in a completely updated and expanded version. With more than 110 creative art projects in varied types of media--from drawing to digital--plus tips, tools, and curricular resources, The Art Teacher's Survival Guide for Elementary and Middle Schools offers everything a teacher needs to know to present an effective arts education program. Classroom teachers who want to include art projects as part of the content curriculum and art teachers looking for new ideas will all find fresh inspiration in this exciting new edition. It features numerous new projects and draws on multicultural traditions, includes reproducible pages, and provides detailed instructions with illustrations, links to content learning, and modifications for different ages. Authoritative, practical, and user-friendly, this comprehensive guide is an invaluable addition to every K-8 teacher's basic classroom tools.
Price: $34.95
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Nylon Girls: Erotic Fashion Photography
Price: $24.95
India: Public Places, Private Spaces: Contemporary Photography and Video Art
Price: $30.00
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Monte Zucker's Portrait Photography Handbook
Price: $39.95
Westwood Light and Lens Bundle: Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age
Light & Lens: Photography in the Digital Age is a groundbreaking introductory book that clearly and concisely provides the instruction and building blocks necessary to create thought-provoking digitally based photographs. It is an adventurous idea book that features numerous classroom-tested assignments and exercises from leading photographic educators to encourage you to critically explore and make images from the photographers' eye, an aesthetic point of view. Acquire a basic foundation for digital photography. Light and Lens covers the fundamental concepts of image-making; how to use today's digital technology to create compelling images; and how to output and preserve images in the digital world. Explore the history, theory and methods of digital image-making. Light and Lens translates the enduring aesthetics of art photography into the digital realm. You'll view, capture and think about images from a new perspective. Increase your ability to analyze, discuss and write about your own work and the images of others. Learn with exercises and assignments by leading digital educators. Innovative techniques will train your eye to make the strongest visual statement. Solve visual problems and overcome image challenges. Whether you use a digital SLR or a point-and-shoot camera, you'll get new strategies to master composition, design and light. View the full range of the digital terrain with stunning images and commentary by over 190 international artists. Robert Hirsch is a renowned photographer, educator, historian and writer. His book credits include Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Ideas, Materials and Processes; Exploring Color Photography: From the Darkroom to the Digital Studio; and Seizing the Light: A History of Photography. He has had many one-person shows and curated numerous exhibitions. Hirsch has also conducted many workshops and interviewed eminent photographers of our time. The former executive director of CEPA Gallery, he is now the director of Light Research in Buffalo, New York, and on the Visual Studies faculty of University of Buffalo/The State University of New York.
Robert Hirsch's new edition of Exploring Color Photography is also now available from Focal Press!
*Applies technology in the service of ideas *Emphasizes conceptual problem solving in photography today
* Full of beautiful and inspiring images
Price: $51.95
Monday, November 7, 2011
God Is at Eye Level: Photography as a Healing Art
Price: $21.95
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Photography: Essays & Images
Price:
The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Model as Muse explores fashion’s reciprocal relationship to iconic beauties that represent the evolution and changing face of the feminine ideal. Featuring a brief historical overview of the phenomenon of the supermodel, the book begins in the early 20th century and continues to the present day. Dorian Leigh and Lisa Fonssagrives in the 1940s are joined in the 1950s by Dovima, Sunny Harnett, and Suzy Parker. They are followed by Jean ?The Shrimp” Shrimpton and Twiggy in the 1960s and Lauren Hutton in the 1970s. The 1980s witnessed such enduring personalities as Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, and Linda Evangelista, while the 1990s brought on Kate Moss, whose edgy, street-inflected style has inspired not only fashion designers, editors, stylists, and photographers, but artists such as Chuck Close and Lucien Freud.
With an emphasis on styles from the 1950s onward, the book features designs from the great ready-to-wear and couture houses?Madame Grès, Christian Dior, and Balenciaga in the 1950s; Rudi Gernreich, Yves Saint Laurent, and Cardin in the 1960s; Giorgio di Sant’Angelo and Halston in the 1970s; Christian Lacroix, Versace, Comme des Garcons, and Calvin Klein in the 1980s; and Marc Jacobs, John Galliano, and Alexander McQueen in the 1990s.
Price: $50.00
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Wedding Photography: Art, Business and Style
Price: $29.95
The Art and Business of Photography
Price: $24.95
Friday, November 4, 2011
The Art of Black and White Photography: Techniques for Creating Superb Images in a Digital Workflow
Over the last few years, most books on photography have been focused on the new breed of cameras and how to master the digital imaging workflow. In The Art of Black and White Photography author and photographer Torsten Andreas Hoffmann takes a different approach, focusing on image composition and image capture, with an emphasis on the creative aspects of black and white photography rather than on the digital workflow.
After introducing the ground rules of composition, Hoffmann illustrates their applications with his own stunning black and white images that cover various photographic genres, including architecture, street photography, portraiture, and surreal photography. Also discussed are the elements of a "photographic language"', which distinguishes creative photography from random shooting. Finally, you will learn valuable post-processing techniques, mostly using Photoshop, that emphasize the functions necessary for creating outstanding black and white images.
This second edition has been updated to include Photoshop CS5, as well as brand new images, content, and a revised layout.
Price: $44.95
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Karsh: American Legends: Photographs and Commentary (Springs of Achievement Series on the Art of Photography)
Price: $50.00
Edge of the Earth, Corner of the Sky
Price: $75.00
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Art and Photography
Price: $16.95
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Adobe Photoshop and the Art of Photography: A Comprehensive Introduction (Adobe Creative Suite)
There is so much detail to be captured in a face. Cicero (106-43 BC) said: "The face is a picture of the mind as the eyes are its interpreter." To capture a person's personality, there are many things to keep in mind, and the authors of FACES show us how to match up a personality with lighting, posing, and composition. Portraiture is truly an art, and this book dives deep into the details so that you end up with a gorgeous portrait that both you and your subject love. Not only is this book the most comprehensive title available on portraiture, but it contains stunning images. Each image is paired with a lighting diagram, a description of why the type of image was chosen, and then takes you through postproduction to put the finishing touches on. The authors also showcase a gallery of portraits by renowned photographers.
*Written by Paul Fuqua and Steven Biver, two of the authors of Light-Science and Magic * gallery of celebrity photographs by Nadav Kander, Joyce Tenneson, Sandro Miller, George Holz, Brent Stirton, and Dan Winters showcases both the studio and photojounalistic styles of portraiture * wide breadth of portraits -- from street shots to studio shots, with a lighting diagram to accompany most of these * the most gorgeous book for one of the most sought after photographic genres - people and portraits
Price: $61.95
Dance Studio Photography: A Guide for Professional Photographers
This book addresses, in great detail, the processes for approaching the studio owners, demonstrating your competence, planning and conducting the photography, and implementing a successful, profitable selling campaign.
If you are a professional photographer, or an aspiring pro, this book will give you the knowledge, skills and confidence to pursue dance studio photography as a viable element of your photography portfolio.
Price: $5.99