Photography

“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Fashion, 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.”

MaryKate Olsen and Ashley Olsen, known around the world for their individual, unique style have emerged as two of our shared culture's most influential women. In the pages of Influence, Ashley and MaryKate take readers on a journey through their celebrated young lives, pausing to reflect on what has helped shape them into who they are today. Infl...

60 Years in Space with NASAJourney through the U.S. space program?s fascinating pictorial historyOn October 1, 1958, the world?s first civilian space agency opened for business as an emergency response to the Soviet Union?s launch of Sputnik a year earlier. Within a decade, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, universally known as NAS...

?In Genesis, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.? ?Sebastião Salgado On a very fortuitous day in 1970, 26yearold Sebastião Salgado held a camera for the first time. When he looked through the viewfinder, he experienced a revelation: suddenly life made sense. From that day onward?though it took years of hard...

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...

This lush book of photography represents National Geographic's Photo Ark, a major crossplatform initiative and lifelong project by photographer Joel Sartore to make portraits of the world's animalsespecially those that are endangered. His powerful message, conveyed with humor, compassion, and art: to know these animals is to save them.Sartore in...

SUMO was a titanic book in every respect: a 480page tribute to the 20th century?s most influential, intriguing and controversial photographer, it broke records for weight, dimensions, and resale price. Helmut Newton (1920?2004) always demonstrated a healthy disdain for easy or predictable solutions. SUMO?a bold and unprecedented publishing ventur...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

After beginning his career as a photojournalist for a daily newspaper in southern California, Dan Winters moved to New York to begin a celebrated career that has since led to more than one hundred awards, including the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography. An immensely respected portrait photographer, Dan is well known for an impeccabl...

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 ...

A stunning celebration of movement and dance in hundreds of breathtaking photographs by the creative team behind NYC Dance Project. The Art of Movement is an exquisite collection of photographs by wellknown dance photographers Ken Browar and Deborah Ory that capture the movement, flow, energy, and grace of many of the most accomplished dancers in ...

In 2003, Trent Parke began a road trip around his native Australia, a monumental journey that was to last two years and cover a distance of over 90.000 km. Minutes to Midnight is the ambitious photographic record of that adventure, in which Parke presents a proud but uneasy nation struggling to craft its identity from different cultures and traditi...

Slim Aarons offers images of jetsetters and the wealthy, and beautiful, glittering people living the glamorous life. However, the main character is the pool and everything that goes with them magnificent suntanned bodies, welloiled skin, bikiniclad women, yachts, summer cocktails, sumptuous buffets, and, above all, fun....

With a landmark around every corner and a picture perfect view atop every hill, San Francisco might be the world's most picturesque city. And yet, the Golden City is so much more than postcard vistas. It's a town alive with history, culture, and a palpable sense of grandeur best captured by a man known as San Francisco's Brassai. Walking the city's...

When photographing people, you can have a great composition, perfect light, and the right camera settings, but if your subject doesn't look rightif the pose is offthe shot will not be a keeper. Posing is truly a crucial skill that photographers need to have in order to create great photographs. If you're looking to improve your ability to pose ...

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...

“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.”

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...

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 ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The first published collection of photographs by the icon of street style, bringing together favorites published in The New York Times alongside neverbeforeseen work across five decades. "A dazzling kaleidoscope from the gaze of an artist who saw beauty at every turn."Andr Leon TalleyBill Cunningham's photography ca...

A new edition of a modern classic of photography. Martin Parr is Europe's premier contemporary photographer, and The Last Resort is the book that is considered to have launched his career. Taken at the height of the Thatcher years, it depicts the "great British seaside" in all its garish glory. Described by some as cruel and voyeuristic and by othe...

In August 2007 Denmark's renowned Louisiana Museum of Modern Art presented Richard Avedon: Photographs 19462004, the first major retrospective devoted to Avedon's work since his death in 2004. This beautifully produced catalogue, designed by the renowned Danish graphic designer Michael Jensen, features deluxe tritone printing and varnish on premiu...

Written by worldrenowned photographer, writer, and broadcaster Tom Ang, Photography lavishly celebrates the most iconic photographs and photographers of the past 200 years. Tracing the history of photography from its origins in the 1800s to the digital age, Photography: The Definitive Visual History is the only book of its kind to give a comprehen...

Explore 100 breathtaking scuba diving sites around the worldfrom the cenotes of Mexico to the best wreck in Micronesiathrough stunning National Geographic photography, expert tips, and cuttingedge travel advice.Filled with more than 350 images from National Geographic, 100 Dives of a Lifetime provides the ultimate bucket list for ardent scuba ...

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....

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...

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 attractive boxed set includes:The Digital Photography Book (ISBN 032147404X)The Digital Photography Book, Volume 2 (ISBN 0321524764)The Digital Photography Book, Volume 3 (ISBN 0321617657)Scott Kelby, the man who changed the "digital darkroom" forever with his groundbreaking, #1 bestselling, awardwinning book The Photoshop Book for D...

Magnum photographer Steve McCurry never set out to take portraits. Critically acclaimed and recognized internationally for his classic reportage, over the last 20 years he has worked for the National Geographic and other publications on numerous assignments: along the Afghan border, in Baghdad, Beirut and the Sahel. McCurry's coverage of the monsoo...

What's your definition of a photo studio Is it a room with a white seamless backdrop or a cyc wall Maybe it's simply anywhere you're in control of the lighting. In a perfect world, where every day is a breezy 72 degrees with partial cloud coverage, we would all have a 5,000squarefoot studioand the entire catalog of B&H(TM) in our equipment loc...

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...

This is a newly revised edition of the classic book The Art of Photography (first published in 1994), which has often been described as the most readable, understandable, and comprehensive textbook on photography. In his accessible style, Barnbaum presents howto techniques for both traditional and digital approaches. Yet he goes well beyond the te...

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...

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...

A visual delight and an inspiration for every bibliophile with a growing home library, this dreamanddrool design book features some of the most jawdropping book collections of homeowners around the world.Interior designer Nina Freudenberger, New Yorker writer Sadie Stein, and Architectural Digest photographer Shade Degges give readers a peek at ...

Welcome to Todd McLellan's unique photographic vision of the material world: fifty design classicsarranged first by size and then by intricacyare beautifully displayed, piece by piece, exploding in midair and dissected in realtime, framebyframe video stills. This book makes visible the inner workings of some of the world's most iconic design...

When it comes to photography, it's all about the light.After spending more than thirty years behind the lensworking for National Geographic, Time, Life, and Sports IllustratedJoe McNally knows about light. He knows how to talk about it, shape it, color it, control it, and direct it. Most importantly, he knows how to create it...using small hot ...

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...

Hailed as the most successful exhibition of photography ever assembled, The Family of Man opened at The Museum of Modern Art in January 1955. It was groundbreaking in its scope503 images by 273 photographers originating in 69 countriesas well as in the numbers of people who experienced it on its tour through 88 venues in 37 countries. As the pe...

This text tackles the most important side of digital photography how to take professionalquality shots using the same tricks today's top digital pros use....

From internationally popular design blogger SF Girl By Bay comes the ultimate love letter to San Francisco. This gorgeously photographed lifestyle guide gives readers an insider's tour of the City by the Bay through Victoria Smith's unique lens. Organized by neighborhood, each chapter features enchanting photos of hidden corners, local color, landm...

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...

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 ...

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...

Showcasing cuttingedge underwater photography from the world?s leading marine and nature photographers, The Life & Love of the Sea is a breathtaking visual tour of the ocean?s great diversity. Readers will experience land meeting sea with images of dramatic coastlines, barrier reefs, and island chains, as well as the spectacular power of the ocean...

“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.”