Download or read book Oskar Barnack from the Idea to the Leica written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is approximately one hundred years ago that Oskar Barnack designed a camera for 35 mm motion picture film without a forerunner or any camera with similar specifications. The camera was to fit in a coat pocket and should always be ready to take pictures. Those were Oskar Barnack¿s self-imposed objectives. On 31 December 1839, the ¿Münchner Politische Zeitung¿ (Munich political newspaper) reported about a recent simplification of the Daguerrian method by Professor Steinheil, who had developed a camera for 4 x 4 cm negatives and who demanded that camera and pictures should be even significantly smaller in order for photography to achieve a greater popularity. Oskar Barnack did not know about this report, but it was Barnack who satisfied this demand 75 years later.The Leica was ridiculed in 1925, but in 1932 one hundred thousand cameras had been distributed all over the world. The Leica made it possible for the photographer to experience a new spirit in photo-graphy, a photography of the actual events. Contrived scenes were no longer necessary.But who was Oskar Barnack? What led him to the idea to design a camera around 35 mm motion pic-ture film, fit in the coat pocket, and produced only a postage stamp sized negative? (Experts of the time said that could not be possible). However, the renowned manufacturer of microscopes, Ernst Leitz, of Wetzlar, Germany, which had never produced a camera, decided to manufacture this camera. Why? In Germany, at this time was the world¿s largest and most innovative camera industry. However, life was difficult because of ruinous competition between large camera manufactures. Still, the Leica could establish itself in a masterful way. How Oskar Barnack arrived at his idea and how he accomplished it is described in this book.
Download or read book In a Window of Prestes Maia 911 Building written by Julio Bittencourt and published by Dewi Lewis Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 2006, the residents of 911 Prestes Maia, a ramshackle tower block in the centre of Sao Paulo, were surprised to learn that they were to be evicted within 28 days. The building, neglected by its landlord and thought to be empty, was actually home to 468 families with 315 children. These residents had driven out the vermin and the drug dealers and cleaned the place up - creating possibly the largest squat in the world. Bittencourt's photos are a powerful record of this diverse community.
Download or read book Artic Heroes written by Ragnar Axelsson and published by Kehrer Verlag. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greenland Dog is one of the greatest heroes of the Arctic, but his fate is uncertain.
Download or read book East of Nowhere written by Fabio Ponzio and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetic and empathetic vision of human perseverance, East of Nowhere captures, in stunning photographs, the reality of everyday life in central and Eastern Europe before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. In 1987, Fabio Ponzio embarked on a photographic odyssey across Central and Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. Starting in Istanbul, and making his way to Poland, Ponzio found little food in the shops and long lines to buy bread. With supplies dwindling in the shops and immense crowds to buy necessities, the countries along his route were on the verge of collapse. And in the autumn of 1989, as the various regimes of communist countries from Budapest to Bucharest began to crumble, everything changed. Equipped with a Leica, three Nikons and 100 rolls of film, Ponzio continued his travels across this immense territory, documenting lives marked by pain and sacrifice, now joined by a new energy, full of hope. For two decades, he returned to capture the traditions, faith, humility, courage, and strength of the people of the East. From a previously unpublished archive and an award-winning talent, East of Nowhere is an exquisite collection of photographs that illuminate the physical and ideological divisions between Western and Eastern Europe, while offering a sympathetic and hopeful vision of the human condition.
Download or read book Leica written by Gianni Rogliatti and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Leica written by Paul-Henry Van Hasbroeck and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slash Burn written by Terje Abusdal and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finnskogen -- directly translated as 'The Forest of the Finns' -- is a large, contiguous forest belt along the Norwegian-Swedish border, where farming families from Finland settled in the early 1600s. The immigrants -- called Forest Finns -- were slash-and-burn farmers. This ancient agricultural method yielded plentiful crops, but required large forested areas as the soil was quickly exhausted. The Forest Finns' understanding of nature was rooted in an Eastern shamanistic tradition, and they are often associated with magic and mystery. This photographic project draws on these beliefs while investigating what it means to be a Forest Finn today, some 400 years and twelve generations later.
Download or read book The Ameriguns written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the firearms in the world owned by private citizens for non-military purposes, half are in the United States of America. In number they exceed the country's population: 393 million for 372 million people. Photographer Gabriele Galimberti has travelled to every corner of the United States, to meet proud gun-owners, and to see their firearms collections. These, often unsettling, portraits, along with the accompanying stories of the owners and their firearms, provide an uncommon and unexpected insight into what today is really represented by the institution of the Second Amendment.
Download or read book Building Brand Authenticity written by M. Beverland and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The projection of authenticity is one of the key pillars of marketing. Research reveals that consumers seek authenticity through the brands they choose. Based on extensive research with consumers and brand managers this book offers seven guiding principles for building brand authenticity.
Download or read book Daughters written by Margaret M. De Lange and published by Trolley Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve years ago Norwegian photographer Margaret d Lange began to photograph what came as a natural subject matter to her - her daughters. Since then it has developed into a beautiful and highly regarded photographic series.
Download or read book Too Much Time written by Jane Evelyn Atwood and published by Phaidon. This book was released on 2000-03-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking documentary survey of the experience of women in prison.
Download or read book Leica An Illustrated History written by James L. Lager and published by . This book was released on 1994-10-30 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers virtually all of the lenses produced by Leitz from the introduction of the Leica 1 Anastigmat in 1925 and the long awaited screw mount lenses, through the M and R optics, to the latest developments
Download or read book My Life with the Leica written by Walther Benser and published by Steyning Photo Books LLP. This book was released on 2006-11-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personalties around the Leica such as Ernst Leitz II, Oskar Barnack, Henri Dumur, Paul Wolff, Heinrich Stockler and Julius Behnke come to life again through Walther Benser's tales and recollections presented to us in a new light. The Leica lecture tours, started by Anton Baumann, soon became Benser's specialty with which he achieved world-wide recognition. He took his shows not only around Germany but also into neighboring countries even after he war had begun. As a result of his photographic activity he eventually became a war reporter. Then came the battle for survival, both during and after the war - and the Leica always played an important and often decisive role. Finally he resumed his lecture tours, earning great success across the continents, both for his own pictures and for the Leica. He then started his own business, which finally grew into a large color-picture agency. These are the stages in Walter Benser's life with the Leica, periods he lived through and helped to mold with every camera model, from the Leica I to the M6.
Download or read book Leica Lens Compendium written by Erwin Puts and published by . This book was released on 2003-11-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 81/2 x 10Since publication this title has proved to be very popular for both the serious lens user wishing to understand more about his lenses, as well as the Leica enthusiast considering which lens would be suitable to add to his outfit.Do you know your "Coma from your Aberrations"? If "Yes," then part 2 of Erwin Puts' new book will be of considerable interest to you. Either way you may find this section easier to understand than you expect; the illustrations and diagrams do help.Part 1 goes into the optical history of E. Leitz, Wetzlar and the Leica Camera of Solms in detail with all the personalities involved. This section is well illustrated with some new pictures. The commercial demands are always battling with the perfectionists at Leica who created some of the world's most famous lenses.Part 2 is an optical digression explaining the lens and glass design features, problems and terms and the continual battle to ensure that Leica users end up with the highest possible standard of lens.Part 3 is the largest part of the book. Puts has tested Leica lenses from 1925 to date; each lens, in most cases with diagram, is detailed with its performances at the critical apertures.
Download or read book And Time Folds written by and published by Mack. This book was released on 2018 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And Time Folds' accompanies a retrospective exhibition of the British photographer Vanessa Winship at the Barbican Art Gallery, London. At once intimate and epic, Winship's black-and-white photographs explore notions of borders, land, memory, desire and history. This volume comprises photographs from seven series, including projects made during a decade living in the region of the Balkans, Turkey and the Caucasus; as well as work made in Georgia, North America and the U.K. Winship has long been concerned with the elusive nature of transience in our landscape and society, and her oeuvre moves sure-footedly between genres reportage, documentary, portraiture and landscape. Alongside her luminous photographs, And Time Folds brings together personal archival material that reveals Winship's thought process, working methods, and the importance of the written word, as well as an extensive essay by the renowned photography historian David Chandler, proffering a multi-faceted view of her work and artistic trajectory. Exhibition: Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK (22.06. - 02.09.2018)
Download or read book Leica M Compendium written by Jonathan Eastland and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1994 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Leica M system has been with us since 1954. It rapidly became, and has remained the favorite instrument of photographers, especially photojournalists, who, like Henri Cartier-Bresson, seek to ""catch life in the act"", to record ""the decisive moment"". In this Leica M Compendium Jonathan Eastland describes the whole Leica M system from his experience as a professional photographer. He explains how to use, enjoy and get the best out of the cameras and lenses, regardless of age. The latest lenses can be used on the earliest cameras, and vice-versa, and the Visoflex, although no longer made, is now much easier to use with the M6 and its TTL metering. Advice on planning and shooting a story with the Leica and extensive tables of technical data complete this ideal companion for the practical Leica M photographer, as well as for the Leica collector and enthusiast.
Download or read book Dr Paul Wolff written by Hans-Michael Koetzle and published by Kehrer Verlag. This book was released on 2019-06 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First comprehensive publication about the German pioneer of Leica photography
