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Book 75 Years of Photography

Download or read book 75 Years of Photography written by Spencer Ross and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immersed in the flourishing Greenwich Village arts scene of the 1950s, Spencer Ross studied photography with some of the most famous mentors of that period. Soon his own work received accolades. U.S. Camera magazine named him one of “the young lions of photography.” His photograph “Street Scene in Siena” is considered by some to be one of the finest street photographs of that era. For the next six decades, Ross traveled the world on business to 130 countries and he always took his camera along. His street scenes and nature photographs from those travels have hung in over 100 museums and galleries including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the IBM Gallery. In this volume, you can see over 250 of Ross’s arresting images: stunning street photography, memorable portraits of men, women, and children, extraordinary photographs of our natural world, haunting landscapes, and memorable abstracts, accompanied by Ross’s observations about the images, his travels, and the creative process. Ross reflects on the increasing sophistication of cameras from their earliest days to 35mm technology, along with the ubiquity of today’s smartphones and their effect on the photography world. He reminisces about his mentors and significant influences and muses about photography as a fine art. “Though hardly reality itself,” says Ross, “the still photograph has an uncanny ability to preserve an image with an intensity which can equal or even surpass the experience of the moment. A photograph can mystify, elevate, transmute, imbue, and influence. All these possibilities and more are available to those practitioners who maintain an appropriate respect for the potential of this medium and a sufficient knowledge of the craft.” The photographs in this collection do indeed reflect Ross’s aspiration: to create works of lasting value. As you’ll see in this book, Spencer Ross can tackle a sunset, explore flowers in the field, and come up with beautiful beach scenes, but where do I think he really shines? As a street photographer myself, I cannot help being wowed by many of his street photographs: the kids playing in the streets of Belgium, or his photo of a portrait photographer on the streets of Athens, like a mirror of his eye-to-eye view of the world. An interested and interesting world traveler, he roamed around with his camera in hand before street photography even had a name. This worthy book is filled with Ross's life’s work and it serves photographic history well. - Ken Farrell

Book 75 Jahre Leica Fotografie

Download or read book 75 Jahre Leica Fotografie written by Verena Frey and published by Edition Braus. This book was released on 1990 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sélection de nombreuses photographies, textes, histoire du Leica, etc.

Book LIFE 75 Years

    Book Details:
  • Author : Editors of Life
  • Publisher : Life
  • Release : 2011-11-08
  • ISBN : 9781603202121
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book LIFE 75 Years written by Editors of Life and published by Life. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this deluxe commemorative edition, LIFE's editors focus on the publication's achievements more tightly than they ever have before: This is truly the best of everything LIFE has accomplished. In these pages are the best war photos ever taken for LIFE; the best photo essays ever to grace our pages (including the works of Capa and Parks and Smith); the loveliest pictures from Hollywood (in fact, the best pictures of Marilyn Monroe ever taken by such as Halsmann, Eisenstaedt and her dear friend Milton Greene), the best sports pictures, the funniest pictures we ever ran. The best pictures from the space race, and the most significant pictures to the human race, including Lennart Nilsson's "Life Before Birth." This is a premium volume of LIFE, and beyond its 200-plus pages, which include a review of every LIFE cover ever published, there is, included here, the ultimate premium: The first-ever LIFE issue, with the Margaret Bourke-White photograph of the Fort Peck Dam on the cover, reprinted in its entirety, at actual size (which was really big 10 1/2" x 14") and able to be detached. We've come a long way: We, you, those places, LIFE itself. This book tells, and celebrates, that voyage.

Book LIFE 70 Years of Extraordinary Photography

Download or read book LIFE 70 Years of Extraordinary Photography written by and published by Life. This book was released on 2006-10-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For seven decades, Life has been thrilling the world with its unrivaled presentation of the very best photography to be found. Here, the editors have assembled the crme de la crme from the magazines vast collection of images.Because Life has always dealt with matters of every sort, the entire spectrum of society is represented in these pages. One after another, there are unforgettable photos from Hollywoods greatest stars, from the wonders of small-town America, from the terrible wars, as well as from the zestful years of childhood. Life has always represented the apex in photojournalism and its roster of great photographers is unequaled.

Book San Francisco Noir

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fred Lyon
  • Publisher : Chronicle Books
  • Release : 2017-06-06
  • ISBN : 1616896787
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book San Francisco Noir written by Fred Lyon and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection by the acclaimed photographer reveals the shadowy side of the City by the Bay. Following in the footsteps of classic films like The Maltese Falcon and The Lady from Shanghai, veteran photographer Fred Lyon creates images of San Francisco in high contrast with a sense of mystery. In this latest offering from the photographer of San Francisco: Portrait of a City 1940–1960, Lyon presents a darker tone, exploring the hidden corners of his native city. Images taken in the foggy night are illuminated only by streetlights, neon signs, apartment windows, and the headlights of classic cars. Sharply dressed couples stroll out for evening shows, drivers travel down steep hills, and sailors work through the night at the old Fisherman’s Wharf. In many of the photographs, the noir tone is enhanced by double exposures, elements of collage, and blurred motion. These strikingly evocative duotone images expose a view of San Francisco as only Fred Lyon could capture.

Book National Geographic 125 Years

Download or read book National Geographic 125 Years written by Mark Collins Jenkins and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retrospective of the past 125 years of the National Geographic Society, using photographs, time lines, maps and stories to illustrate its history, milestones and accomplishments.

Book After Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chris Bruce
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book After Art written by Chris Bruce and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name drawn from the remarkable collection of Joseph and Elaine Monsen and organized by the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle. A survey of the development of photography over the last 150 years, revealing its evolution as art and drawing attention to some great individual exemplars. Includes essays by Chris Bruce and Andy Grundberg. 11.75x11.75". Distributed by the U. of Washington Press. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book You Have Seen Their Faces

Download or read book You Have Seen Their Faces written by Erskine Caldwell and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the middle years of the Great Depression, Erskine Caldwell and photographer Margaret Bourke-White spent eighteen months traveling across the back roads of the Deep South--from South Carolina to Arkansas--to document the living conditions of the sharecropper. Their collaboration resulted in You Have Seen Their Faces, a graphic portrayal of America's desperately poor rural underclass. First published in 1937, it is a classic comparable to Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives, and James Agee and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, which it preceded by more than three years. Caldwell lets the poor speak for themselves. Supported by his commentary, they tell how the tenant system exploited whites and blacks alike and fostered animosity between them. Bourke-White, who sometimes waited hours for the right moment, captures her subjects in the shacks where they lived, the depleted fields where they plowed, and the churches where they worshipped.

Book Magnum Photos

Download or read book Magnum Photos written by Jordan Alves and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atelier EXB will retell Magnum's story with the republication of the 60th anniversary book. This book does not feature any photographs, but instead refers to them through anecdotal notes and image captions.Magnum Photos 75 Years examines how the photographers, the agency, the medium of documentary photography, have evolved over three-quarters of a century. It reverses the lens to focus on the photographers themselves, providing fascinating historical insight into the stories and processes behind the making of many of the finest photographs of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Book Pearl Harbor

    Book Details:
  • Author : The Editors of LIFE
  • Publisher : Life
  • Release : 2016-10-25
  • ISBN : 9781618931764
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Pearl Harbor written by The Editors of LIFE and published by Life. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE commemorates the 75th anniversary of the attacks on Pearl Harbor photographs - many exclusive to LIFE in this lavishly illustrated collector's edition. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese Empire stunned the world with a surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. Commemorating this momentous historical event which brought the United States into World War II, LIFE revisits the infamous scene in beautifully illustrated photographs: the years leading up to 1941, Lindbergh's antiwar rallies, the desperate scene in Europe and at Winston Churchill's 10 Downing Street, and the Japanese admiral who realized he awoke a sleeping giant. Highlights include "The Call to Action," LIFE's actual pages in the 10 weeks after the attack, as America mobilized and went to war, and a concluding chapter that covers today's modern tensions in the waters of the Far East.

Book Defined by Light

Download or read book Defined by Light written by Jack Wilgus and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book LIFE Gone with the Wind

Download or read book LIFE Gone with the Wind written by The Editors of LIFE and published by Life. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventy-five years after America fell in love with the cinematic classic Gone with the Wind, LIFE revisits the making of the award-winning movie and gives readers a rare look into the film's captivating, behind-the-scenes drama. This richly illustrated book is a must-have collector's item for old fans and new. At age 75, Gone with the Wind endures magnificently and is often considered one of the best films of all time. The travails of getting the movie made in the 1930s were chronicled in the pages of LIFE (1,400 actresses interviewed before Vivien Leigh chosen; Selznick waited two years for Clark Gable to sign on to the project), as was the frenzy of its premiere. All of this coverage is revisited in this lavish coffee-table edition, which also includes behind-the-scenes photography from the set, stunning pictures of the famed burning of Atlanta scene, as well as all of the fascinating, intimate photography from the making of the movie. Furthermore, LIFE partnered with renowned southern authors to bring readers insight into the influence of the book and film on American culture and presents a side-by-side chronicle of what Gone with the Wind claims, and what really happened during the Civil War. This book is as informative and intriguing as it is beautifully illustrated.

Book Bulletin of Photography

Download or read book Bulletin of Photography written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Yellow Beach 2 after 75 Years

Download or read book Yellow Beach 2 after 75 Years written by Boyd Dixon and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 15, 1944, Afetna Point was called ‘Yellow Beach 2’ by the U.S. Marines and Army infantry braving Japanese resistance to establish a beachhead before capturing As Lito airfield in the following days. After 75 years, this book presents archaeological evidence, archival records, and respected elders’ accounts from WWII.

Book Bulletin of Photography

Download or read book Bulletin of Photography written by John Bartlett and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rock Gods

Download or read book Rock Gods written by Divina Infusino and published by . This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1968 a young photographer named Robert M. Knight arrived in Seattle with a camera and a single roll of film to shoot local legend Jimi Hendrix. The photographs Knight took seized the uncanny energy of Hendrix, recording his primal performance and adrenaline driven solos that tantalised audiences. The iconic images Knight produced immortalised Hendrix and propelled Knight on a life-long pilgrimage as the photographic herald of rock and roll. Rock Gods is the rich visual universe, and sole volume, of Robert M. Knight's work, replete with visions of guitar gods, monumental performances, and earth shattering solos. His remarkable photos define generations of rock stars from the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin to Run DMC and Green Day.

Book The Year book of Photography and Photographic News Almanac for

Download or read book The Year book of Photography and Photographic News Almanac for written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: