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Ubiquitous Photography (Dms - Digital Media and Society)
Ubiquitous Photography (Dms - Digital Media and Society)
by Martin Hand
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The rise of digital photography and imaging has transformed the landscape of visual communication and culture. Events, activities, moments, objects, and people are ‘captured' and distributed as images on an unprecedented scale. Many of these are... (read more)

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Photography After Frank (09 Edition)
Photography After Frank (09 Edition)
by Philip Gefter
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In Photography After Frank, former New York Times writer and picture editor Philip Gefter narrates the tale of contemporary photography, beginning at the pivotal moment when Robert Frank commenced his seminal works of the 1950s. Along the way, he... (read more)

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Along Some Rivers: Photographs and Conversations
Along Some Rivers: Photographs and Conversations
by Robert Adams
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Robert Adams, one of America's foremost living photographers, has spent decades considering and documenting the landscape of the American West and the ways it has been altered, disturbed, or destroyed by the hand of man. A professor of English before... (read more)

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Matador, Volume N: Barcelo: Culture, Ideas and Trends Magazine 1955-2022 [With DVD]
Matador, Volume N: Barcelo: Culture, Ideas and Trends Magazine 1955-2022 [With DVD]
by La Fabrica
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Volume N of Matador is edited by Spanish artist Miquel Barcelo and includes a text by Rafael Sanchez Ferlosio on the bullfighter Luis Francisco Espla, the painter Raphael and the potter Joan Potiere Maman, plus other writings by Alberto Manguel, Jonathan... (read more)

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Photographs Not Taken
Photographs Not Taken
by Will (edt) Steacy
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Photographs Not Taken is a collection of photographers' essays about failed attempts to make a picture. Editor Will Steacy asked each photographer to abandon the conventional tools needed to make a photograph--camera, lens, film--and instead make a... (read more)

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Talk about Contemporary Photography
Talk about Contemporary Photography
by Elisabeth Couturier
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From photography’s role in society, such as photojournalism and fashion photography, to more traditional and purely artistic shots, this book explores all aspects of contemporary photography—photographers’ obsessions, unusual formats... (read more)

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Photography and Philosophy: Essays on the Pencil of Nature (New Directions in Aesthetics)
Photography and Philosophy: Essays on the Pencil of Nature (New Directions in Aesthetics)
by Scott Walden
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Seeing is believing –or is it? In an era of digital-imaging technology, can photographs still be considered truthful or realistic? Photography and Philosophy takes an up-to-date look at the issues of photographic truth, objectivity, and realism. It... (read more)

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Light Writing and Life Writing: Photography in Autobiography
Light Writing and Life Writing: Photography in Autobiography
by Timothy Dow Adams
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On a bookshelf crowded with autobiographical and photographic criticism, this book is one worth picking up. American Studies It will be an indispensable addition to the growing work on literature and photography. Miles Orvell, Temple University His book... (read more)

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Digital Wedding Photography for Dummies (For Dummies)
Digital Wedding Photography for Dummies (For Dummies)
by Amber Murphy
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Learn to:Shoot great images of a wedding, from start to finishBuild a portfolio and connect with clientsStart a wedding photography business IN FULL COLOR! Expert advice on becoming a successful wedding photographer Digital Wedding Photography For... (read more)

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The Image Factory: Consumer Culture, Photography and the Visual Content Industry (New Technologies/New Cultures Series)
The Image Factory: Consumer Culture, Photography and the Visual Content Industry (New Technologies/New Cultures Series)
by Paul Frosh
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Quietly but implacably, powerful transnational corporations are gaining power over our visual world. A 'global, visual content industry' increasingly controls images supplied to advertisers, marketers and designers, yet so far the process has... (read more)

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Photography on the South Texas Frontier: Images from the Witte Museum Collection
Photography on the South Texas Frontier: Images from the Witte Museum Collection
by Bruce M. Shackelford
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Compelling images of people in a region that in many ways remains a frontier fill the pages of this survey of photography in South Texas. The photographs, most published for the first time, are from the top-ranked collection of San Antonios Witte Museum.... (read more)

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Light in Dark Room: Photography and Loss
Light in Dark Room: Photography and Loss
by Jay Prosser
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When we look at a photograph we see a moment that is no more. Photographs place reality into the past tense, representing not memory but memory's loss. They are not conduits for the return of memory, but "memento mori: reminders of the fact of death... (read more)

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Philosophy of Photography (Lieven Gevaert Series 6)
Philosophy of Photography (Lieven Gevaert Series 6)
by Henri Van Lier
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Henri van Lier cannot be placed in any category. A philosopher of art, music and the universe, he taught for many years in Belgium. This work is a translation of a 2005 French publication growing from a series of lectures given in 1983. The work has... (read more)

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The Photographer's Eye
The Photographer's Eye
by John Szarkowski
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The Photographer's Eye by John Szarkowski is a twentieth-century classic--an indispensable introduction to the visual language of photography. Based on a landmark exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in 1964, and originally published in 1966, the book... (read more)

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Camera Eye on Idaho: Pioneer Photography, 1863-1913
Camera Eye on Idaho: Pioneer Photography, 1863-1913
by Arthur A. Hart
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Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press This book is a collection of the most compelling and beautiful photographs made of early Idaho people, places, and events in Idaho from 1863 through 1913. Virtually nothing had been... (read more)

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Witness in Our Times: Working Lives of Documentary Photographers
Witness in Our Times: Working Lives of Documentary Photographers
by Ken Light
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Author Ken Light traces the recent history of social documentary photography in the words of 22 of the genre's best photographers, editors, and curators, showing that the professions remains vital and committed to social change. Photos.... (read more)

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Fantom #07: Fantom, Issue 7: Photographic Quarterly
Fantom #07: Fantom, Issue 7: Photographic Quarterly
by Cay Sophie Rabinowitz
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Founded in Milan and New York in 2009, Fantom Photographic Quarterly is a premium international magazine nourishing contemporary perspectives in photography and the visual arts, delivering a unique view on the art of photography and contemporary... (read more)

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After Photography (09 Edition)
After Photography (09 Edition)
by Fred Ritchin
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One of our most influential commentators on photography investigates the future of visual media as the digital revolution transforms images, changing the way we conceptualize the world. From photos of news events taken on cell phones to the widespread... (read more)

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Photo Provocations
Photo Provocations
by Brian Clark O'connor
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O'Connor and Wyatt use more than 250 color photographs and illustrations to help us break out of the linear mode and see the world differently. Theirs is a wild ride through the language of images that may leave the reader/viewer a bit dizzy but excited... (read more)

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The Paranormal Caught on Film
The Paranormal Caught on Film
by Melvyn Willin
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Willin presents this mysterious and mesmerizing collection of photographs depicting ghosts and other extraordinary phenomena from around the world. Each compelling picture is accompanied by illuminating commentary from the author.... (read more)

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