People Pictures
Title | People Pictures PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Orwig |
Publisher | Peachpit Press |
Total Pages | 360 |
Release | 2011-09-15 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 0132778335 |
Bestselling author/photographer Chris Orwig offers 30 photographic exercises to renew your passion for capturing the people in your world. This is not a traditional portrait photography book. The goal isn’t flattery, but connection and depth. Whether you are a student, busy parent, or seasoned pro photographer, these exercises provide an accessible framework for exploration and growth. With titles like: Be Quiet, Turn the Camera Around, and the Fabric of Family, each of the 30 exercises encourages you to have fun and experiment at your own pace. With step-by-step instructions and using natural light, you will explore everything from street, lifestyle, candid, and environmental shots. The projects are small artistic endeavors meant to change how you see and the pictures that you make. All that’s required is a camera, an intrepid attitude, curiosity, and some imagination.
Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs
Title | Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Carroll |
Publisher | Laurence King Publishing |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 2014-03-03 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 1780675453 |
Photography is now more popular than ever thanks to the rapid development of digital cameras. Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs is ideal for this new wave of snapshooters using DSLR, compact system and bridge cameras. It contains no graphs, no techie diagrams and no camera-club jargon. Instead, it inspires readers through iconic images and playful copy, packed with hands-on tips. Split into five sections, the book covers composition, exposure, light, lenses and the art of seeing. Masterpieces by acclaimed photographers – including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastião Salgado, Fay Godwin, Nadav Kander, Daido Moriyama and Martin Parr – serve to illustrate points and encourage readers to try out new ideas. Today’s aspiring photographers want immediacy and see photography as an affordable way of expressing themselves quickly and creatively. This handbook meets their needs, teaching them how to take photographs using professional techniques.
Pictures of People
Title | Pictures of People PDF eBook |
Author | Pamela Allara |
Publisher | UPNE |
Total Pages | 380 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781584650362 |
A vibrant chronicle of the life and work of a prolific painter and bohemian eccentric.
Prints & People
Title | Prints & People PDF eBook |
Author | Alpheus Hyatt Mayor |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | 497 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Art and society |
ISBN | 0870991086 |
Discusses the significance and history of printmaking and evaluates 700 prints.
The People in the Photo
Title | The People in the Photo PDF eBook |
Author | Hélène Gestern |
Publisher | Gallic Books |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2014-01-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1908313609 |
Parisian archivist Hélène knows very little about her mother, Nathalie, who died when she was four. In the hope of learning more, she places a newspaper advert calling for information on Nathalie and two unknown men pictured with her at a tennis tournament in 1971. Against the odds, she receives a response from Stéphane, a Swiss biologist: his father is one of the people in the photo. More letters, and more photos, pass between them, in an attempt to unearth the truth their parents kept from them. But as they piece together events from the past, will they discover more than they can actually deal with? Winner of twenty-five literary awards, this dark yet moving drama deftly explores the themes of blame and forgiveness, identity and love.
Material World
Title | Material World PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Menzel |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 274 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 9780871564306 |
A photo-journey through the homes and lives of 30 families, revealing culture and economic levels around the world.
Portraits of a People
Title | Portraits of a People PDF eBook |
Author | Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | 188 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Architecture |
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Recently, a number of cutting edge African American artists have investigated issues of race and American identity in their work, relying on the use of historical source material and the subversion of archaic media. This scrutiny of little known, yet uncannily familiar, racialized imagery by contemporary artists has created a renewed interest in the politics of nineteenth-century American art and the role of race in the visual discourse. Portraits of a People looks critically at images made of and by African Americans, extending back to the late 1700s when a portrait of African-born poet Phillis Wheatley was drawn by her friend, the slave Scipio Moorhead. From the American Revolution until the Civil War and on into the Gilded Age, American artists created dynamic images of black sitters. In their effort to create enduring symbols of self-possessed identity, many of these portraits provide a window into cultural stereotypes and practices. For example, while some of these pictures were undoubtedly of distinct, named individuals, many are now known by titles that reference only generalized types, such as Joshua Johnston's painting Portrait of a Man, c. 1805–10, or the silhouette inscribed "Mr. Shaw's blackman," cut around 1802 by the manumitted slave Moses Williams. By the middle of the nineteenth century, photography began to offer black sitters an affordable and accessible way to fashion an individual identity and sometimes obtain financial support, as in the case of the numerous cartes-de-visites produced during the 1860s and '70s that bear the image of the feminist activist Sojourner Truth above the text, "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance." Portraits of a People features colour reproductions of over 100 important portraits in various media, ranging from paintings, photographs, and silhouettes to book frontispieces and popular prints. Essays by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw consider silhouettes and African American identity in the early republic, photography and the black presence in the public sphere after the Civil War, and portrait painting and social fluidity among middle-class African American artists and sitters. This landmark publication will change the way that we view the images of blacks in the nineteenth century.