Photography

This bestselling classic, which the New York Times called the classiest `howtoâ text on landscape color photography ever published,â captures the unique artistic vision of the late Galen Rowell, one of Americaâs greatest outdoor photographers. Here Rowell assembled eighty of his finest images, along with the stories behind themwhat he was...

Blackandwhite photography poses unique challenges; without color to guide the eye, contrast, lighting, and composition take on even more importance. In Creative Black and White, 2nd Edition, renowned photographer Harold Davis explains these elements and demonstrates the basic rules of black and white photography, as well as when and how to break ...

Through accessible discussions and exercises, readers learn to use composition, available light, color, and point of view to create stunning photographs in any environment. Photographers are born travelers. They?ll go any distance to capture the right light, beautiful landscapes, wildlife, and people. But exotic locales aren?t necessary for interes...

In The Photographer's Handbook, Silber provides the definitive handbook that will take you through the entire process of becoming an accomplished photographer. From teaching you the basics to exploring the stages of the cycle of photography, Silber makes it so you can master the art form. Purposefully compact, this handbook is meant to fit in your ...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Art, Photography lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for creative discipline, craft, or artistic motivation. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

About Exiles, Cornell Capa once wrote, "Koudelka's unsentimental, stark, brooding, intensely human imagery reflects his own spirit, the very essence of an exile who is at home wherever his wandering body finds haven in the night...." In this newly revised and expanded edition of the 1988 classic, which includes ten new images and a new commentary w...

Contact sheets unveil the story of what went into a photograph. Was it the outcome of what a photographer had in mind from the outset Did it emerge from a diligently worked sequence Was the right shot a matter of being in the right place at the right timeHere, for the first time, are the best contact sheets created by Magnum photographers. They ...

A stunning and unique collection of satellite images of Earth that offer an unexpected look at humanity, derived from the wildly popular Daily Overview Instagram project.Inspired by the ?Overview Effect??a sensation that astronauts experience when given the opportunity to look down and view the Earth as a whole?the breathtaking, high definition sat...

With more than two hundred photographs many rarely seen and some never before published this is the most comprehensive collection of Ansel Adams' photographs of America's national parks and wilderness areas. For many people, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Glacier National Park, and other iconic American wildlands exist in the mind's eye as Ansel Adams ...

Bill Brandt was the preeminent British photographer of the twentieth century, a founding father of photography's modernist tradition whose halfcenturylong career defies neat categorization. This publication presents the photographer's entire oeuvre, with special emphasis on his investigation of English life in the 1930s and his innovative late nu...

In this thoroughly updated edition of Complete Digital Photography, popular photographer, writer, and teacher Ben Long guides you through the creative and challenging world of digital photography. In this book is everything you?ll need to know in order to create great digital photos, from how a camera works to all the details of shooting, image edi...

In this firstever showcase of his work, Gregory Heisler, one of professional photography's most respected practitioners, shares 50 iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders, along with fascinating, thoughtful, often humorous stories about how the images were made. From his famously controversial portrait of President George H.W....

"The Decisive Moment" originally titled "Images a la Sauvette"is one of the most famous books in the history of photography, assembling CartierBresson's best work from his early years. Published in 1952 by Simon and Schuster, New York, in collaboration with Editions Verve, Paris, it was lavishly embellished with a collage cover by Henri Matisse. ...

In commemoration of the onehundredth anniversary of his birth, Ansel Adams at 100 presents an intriguing new look at this distinguished photographer's work. The legendary curator John Szarkowski, director emeritus of the Department of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art, has painstakingly selected what he considers Adams' finest work an...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Art, Photography lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for creative discipline, craft, or artistic motivation. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

A beautiful, heartfelt, funny and inspiring collection of photographs capturing the spirit of a city In the summer of 2010, photographer Brandon Stanton set out on an ambitious project: to singlehandedly create a photographic census of New York City. Armed with his camera, he began crisscrossing the city, covering thousands of miles on foot, all ...

In this dazzling book of visual wonders, National Geographic reveals a world very few will have the chance to see for themselves. Shot by some of the world's finest photographers, New York Times bestseller Rarely Seen features striking images of places, events, natural phenomena, and manmade heirlooms seldom seen by human eyes. It's all here: 30,00...

In this new collection from Annie Leibovitz, one of the most influential photographers of our time, iconic portraits sit side by side neverbeforepublished photographs. Afterword by Annie Leibovitz.Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 20052016 is the photographer's followup to her two landmark books, Annie Leibovitz: Photographs, 19701990 and A Photograp...

Each of Adams 40 photographs presented here is accompanied by an engaging narrative that explores the technical and aesthetic problems presented by the subject and includes reminiscences of the places and people involved....

If ever anyone was born to be a photographer, Helen Levitt was. Looking at these pictures triggers that tingling feeling you get from photographs by artists like Lartigue, Kertész, and CartierBresson: a feeling that the camera is less an expertly operated tool than the seamless extension of a mind and body that are preternaturally alert to the wo...

Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop choose Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book (2020 release) from Adobe Press. The 15 projectbased lessons show key stepbystep techniques for working in Photoshop, including how to correct, enhance, and distort digital images, create image composite...

Photography deepens our connections to the world around us, to ourselves, and to one another. In this new and innovative series, Aperture works with the worlds top photographers, many of whom also teach, to publish their core thinking on photography making their experience, insight, and knowledge accessible to a wider audience, including students. ...

This work is a chronicle of the photographic genre created from the chaotic energy of everyday street life. It grew out of a 15year collaboration between an esteemed curator and a distinguished photographer. The work of such celebrated masters as Arget, Stieglitz, Cartierbresson, Brassai, Walker Evans, Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand is presente...

This gorgeous cornerstone volume celebrating the camera and the art of the photograph, created in collaboration with the George Eastman House, spans almost 200 years, from the first faint image ever caught to today's stateoftheart digital equipment. The informative narrative by Todd Gustavsonincluding insightful essays by Steve Sasson (invento...

National Geographic takes you on a photographic tour of the world?s most spectacular destinations, inspiring tangible ideas for your next trip. Hundreds of the most breathtaking locales?both natural and manmade?are illustrated with vivid images taken by the organization's worldclass photographers. These images, coupled with evocative text, featur...

Digital Photography Complete Course will help you build your photography skills stepbystep, with an independent photography course that guides you through every aspect of digital photography. Digital Photography Complete Course uses a combination of tutorials, stepbystep demonstrations, practical assignments, and Q&As to help you understand and...

Originally published in 1973, this marvelous collection of photographs with accompanying texts by the revered late Museum of Modern Art photography curator John Szarkowski has long been recognized as a classic. Reissued in 1999with new digital duotonesthis volume is now available to a new generation of readers."This is a picture book, and its fir...

With very little time and effort you can be well on your way to taking better pictures consistently. Any serious photographer will eventually learn everything in this book. You have an opportunity to learn it quickly and easily in just a few hours. Adjusting APERTURE, SHUTTER SPEED, ISO and EXPOSURE will no longer be sources of stress, and your con...

Behind National Geographic's worldwide reputation as a powerhouse of photography lies one of the most extensive, valuable, and unique graphic resources on Earth: the National Geographic Image Collection. The book by the same name, now in small format, lets readers plumb the fascinating depths of this immense archive from the earliest photographs co...

This is the definitive visual biography of Barack Obama's presidency, captured in intimate, unprecedented detail by his official White House photographer.Pete Souza began photographing President Obama on his first day as a U.S. senator, in January 2005, and served as the chief official White House photographer for the President's full two terms. So...

This is an attractively priced photography classic made accessible to a wider, new audience. It covers everything from "seeing" the finished photo in advance, to lens choices. It is illustrated with many of Ansel Adams most famous images....

Learn to ?see? more compelling images with this onthego field guide from Bryan Peterson! What makes an image amazing Believe it or not, it is not about the content. What makes a photo compelling is the arrangement of that content?in other words, its composition. The right composition gives your images impact and emotion; the wrong one leaves th...

With the popularity of digital photography growing by leaps and bounds over the last decade, some say film has been dying a slow death ever sinceor is already dead. The reality is that film has never gone away, and in recent years has experienced a surging, renewed popularitysometimes simply for its retro, analog status, but mostly for film's abi...

Henri CartierBresson's writings on photography and photographers have been published sporadically over the past 45 years. His essaysseveral of which have never before been translated into Englishare collected here for the first time. The Mind's Eye features CartierBresson's famous text on "the decisive moment" as well as his observations on M...

Photographic lighting is a topic that will never go out of style, no matter how sophisticated cameras and other Technology, get. Even with the most hightech gear, photographers still need to put a lot of thought and vision into lighting their photographs in order to get great results. This key skill has the power to dramatically and quickly improve...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Art, Photography lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for creative discipline, craft, or artistic motivation. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Ready to Capture Your Story with Beautiful Photos Let professional photographers Rachel Devine and Peta Mazey show you how to use that fancy DSLR to photograph the story of your life, from falling in love and having a baby, to the everyday moments that are no less precious. You?ll learn: ? Common beginner mistakes and how to avoid them ? How ...

In this thoroughly updated eighth edition of COMPLETE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY, popular photographer, writer, and teacher Ben Long is your guide through the creative and challenging world of digital photography. In this book is everything you'll need to know in order to create great digital photos, from how a camera works and how to choose the right cam...

This thorough, concise, and easytouse guide to capturing digital photographs provides an entire stepbystep course for budding digital photographers. All concepts are fully illustrated with sample work by internationally renowned professionals, representing editorial work, photojournalism, and everything in between. Topics covered include essent...

Completely revised and updated throughout, Bryan Peterson's classic guide to creativity helps photographers visualize their work, and the world, in a whole new light by developing their photographic vision. Fully revised with 100 percent new photography, this bestselling guide takes a radical approach to creativity by explaining how it is not ...

Photography has been the business and the passion of LIFE since the original weekly magazine's inception in 1936, and it continues to be the business and passion of LIFE Books and LIFE.com in the new millennium. But photography has surely changed during these many decades. The rigs and gear of old have given wayfirst slowly, then all at onceto sl...

An exciting monograph dedicated to an extraordinary figure and one of last century?s most famous and influential artists. Man Ray (18901976) was a photographer, painter, and creator of objects, experimental films, and images which were at times enigmatic. This catalog, which presents more than 200 works and compares and contrasts images with biogr...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Business, Art, Photography lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for creative discipline, craft, or artistic motivation. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Absolutely anyone can take better photos! If you can press a button, you can take great pictures. It?s as simple as that. In BetterPhoto Basics, Jim Miotke, founder of the popular online photography school BetterPhoto.com, shares tips and tricks to improve your photos right away, no matter what camera you?re using. Too busy to read a book No probl...