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Book The Domain of Images

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Elkins
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780801487248
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book The Domain of Images written by James Elkins and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the domain of visual images, those of fine art form a tiny minority. This original and brilliant book calls upon art historians to look beyond their traditional subjects--painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking--to the vast array of "nonart" images, including those from science, technology, commerce, medicine, music, and archaeology. Such images, James Elkins asserts, can be as rich and expressive as any canonical painting. Using scores of illustrations as examples, he proposes a radically new way of thinking about visual analysis, one that relies on an object's own internal sense of organization.Elkins begins by demonstrating the arbitrariness of current criteria used by art historians for selecting images for study. He urges scholars to adopt, instead, the far broader criteria of the young field of image studies. After analyzing the philosophic underpinnings of this interdisciplinary field, he surveys the entire range of images, from calligraphy to mathematical graphs and abstract painting. Throughout, Elkins blends philosophic analysis with historical detail to produce a startling new sense of such basic terms as pictures, writing, and notation.

Book Amazing Public Domain Images Sourcebook

Download or read book Amazing Public Domain Images Sourcebook written by The Editors of Photopreneur and published by new media entertainment ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With tens of millions of pictures, public domain images make up the world's largest photography collection. Many of them are spectacular and unique, and all of them are available to be freely used, examined, browsed and enjoyed. The Amazing Domain Images Sourcebook contains 200 of the most incredible images in the public domain, providing a glimpse into the riches owned by the public. Each photo is displayed with its origin and its location, providing any photography lover with a starting point for their own photography exploration. *Discover the depth, range and incredible quality of the public's own enormous image collection. *The result of many hours spent browsing through thousands of images and dozens of photographic collections. *More than 200 pictures, complete with digital source and location for inspiration and further research. The Amazing Domain Images Sourcebook is a prime resource for photographers, designers, art editors and photography lovers. It's a starting point for a lifetime exploring the world's most important photography collection - your photography collection.

Book The Domain of Images

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Elkins
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2018-08-06
  • ISBN : 1501723901
  • Pages : 307 pages

Download or read book The Domain of Images written by James Elkins and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the domain of visual images, those of fine art form a tiny minority. This original and brilliant book calls upon art historians to look beyond their traditional subjects—painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking—to the vast array of "nonart" images, including those from science, technology, commerce, medicine, music, and archaeology. Such images, James Elkins asserts, can be as rich and expressive as any canonical painting. Using scores of illustrations as examples, he proposes a radically new way of thinking about visual analysis, one that relies on an object's own internal sense of organization.Elkins begins by demonstrating the arbitrariness of current criteria used by art historians for selecting images for study. He urges scholars to adopt, instead, the far broader criteria of the young field of image studies. After analyzing the philosophic underpinnings of this interdisciplinary field, he surveys the entire range of images, from calligraphy to mathematical graphs and abstract painting. Throughout, Elkins blends philosophic analysis with historical detail to produce a startling new sense of such basic terms as pictures, writing, and notation.

Book Affinities

    Book Details:
  • Author : Adam Green
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2022-06-07
  • ISBN : 0500025207
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Affinities written by Adam Green and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of echoes and resonances across two millennia of visual culture, this book brings together weird, wondrous, and unforgettable imagery in one stunning volume. A remarkable collection of over five hundred images, Affinities is a carefully curated visual journey illuminating connections across more than two thousand years of image-making. Drawing on a decade of archival immersion at The Public Domain Review, an online journal and not-for- profit project dedicated to exploring curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas, this volume has been assembled from a vast array of sources: from manuscripts to museum catalogs, and ship logs to primers on Victorian magic. The images are arranged in a single captivating sequence that unfurls according to a dreamlike logic, through a play of visual echoes and evolving thematic threads—hatching eggs paired with early Burmese world maps, marbled endpapers meet tattooed stowaways, and fireworks explode beside deep sea coral. At once an art book, a sourcebook, and a kaleidoscopic visual poem, Affinities is a unique and enthralling publication that will offer something different on each visit. A compelling art object and visual experience in its own right, this collection provides a launchpad for further exploration and inventive engagement across all forms of visual culture and expression.

Book The Telling Image

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lois Farfel Stark
  • Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
  • Release : 2018-02-06
  • ISBN : 1626344728
  • Pages : 202 pages

Download or read book The Telling Image written by Lois Farfel Stark and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Best Non Fiction 2019 National Indie Excellence Award Winner Nautilus Book Awards, Gold #1 Amazon Best Seller in Architecture History & Periods Amazon Best Seller in Art Subjects & Themes Seeing the World Through Shape How do humans make sense of the world? In answer to this timeless question, award winning documentary filmmaker, Lois Farfel Stark, takes the reader on a remarkable journey from tribal ceremonies in Liberia and the pyramids in Egypt, to the gravity-defying architecture of modern China. Drawing on her experience as a global explorer, Stark unveils a crucial, hidden key to understanding the universe: Shape itself. The Telling Image is a stunning synthesis of civilization’s changing mindsets, a brilliantly original perspective urging you to re-envision history not as a story of kings and wars but through the lens of shape. In this sweeping tour through time, Stark takes us from migratory humans, who imitated a web in round-thatched huts and stone circles, to the urban ladder of pyramids and skyscrapers, organized by hierarchy and measurements, to today’s world of interconnected networks. ​In The Telling Image Stark reveals how buildings, behaviors, and beliefs reflect humans’ search for pattern and meaning. We can read the past and glimpse the future by watching when shapes shift. Stark’s beautifully illustrated book asks of all its readers: See what you think.

Book Remote Sensing Image Analysis  Including the Spatial Domain

Download or read book Remote Sensing Image Analysis Including the Spatial Domain written by Steven M. de Jong and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remote Sensing image analysis is mostly done using only spectral information on a pixel by pixel basis. Information captured in neighbouring cells, or information about patterns surrounding the pixel of interest often provides useful supplementary information. This book presents a wide range of innovative and advanced image processing methods for including spatial information, captured by neighbouring pixels in remotely sensed images, to improve image interpretation or image classification. Presented methods include different types of variogram analysis, various methods for texture quantification, smart kernel operators, pattern recognition techniques, image segmentation methods, sub-pixel methods, wavelets and advanced spectral mixture analysis techniques. Apart from explaining the working methods in detail a wide range of applications is presented covering land cover and land use mapping, environmental applications such as heavy metal pollution, urban mapping and geological applications to detect hydrocarbon seeps. The book is meant for professionals, PhD students and graduates who use remote sensing image analysis, image interpretation and image classification in their work related to disciplines such as geography, geology, botany, ecology, forestry, cartography, soil science, engineering and urban and regional planning.

Book Image and Video Processing in the Compressed Domain

Download or read book Image and Video Processing in the Compressed Domain written by Jayanta Mukhopadhyay and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As more images and videos are becoming available in compressed formats, researchers have begun designing algorithms for different image operations directly in their domains of representation, leading to faster computation and lower buffer requirements. Image and Video Processing in the Compressed Domain presents the fundamentals, properties, and applications of a variety of image transforms used in image and video compression. It illustrates the development of algorithms for processing images and videos in the compressed domain. Developing concepts from first principles, the book introduces popular image and video compression algorithms, in particular JPEG, JPEG2000, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and H.264 standards. It also explores compressed domain analysis and performance metrics for comparing algorithms. The author then elucidates the definitions and properties of the discrete Fourier transform (DFT), discrete cosine transform (DCT), integer cosine transform (ICT), and discrete wavelet transform (DWT). In the subsequent chapters, the author discusses core operations, such as image filtering, color enhancement, image resizing, and transcoding of images and videos, that are used in various image and video analysis approaches. He also focuses on other facets of compressed domain analysis, including video editing operations, video indexing, and image and video steganography and watermarking. With MATLAB® codes on an accompanying CD-ROM, this book takes you through the steps involved in processing and analyzing compressed videos and images. It covers the algorithms, standards, and techniques used for coding images and videos in compressed formats.

Book The Domain Book of Intuitive Home Design

Download or read book The Domain Book of Intuitive Home Design written by Judy George and published by Clarkson Potter Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domain, one of the country's fastest growing furniture chains, presents the first interactive home-decorating book to marry the culture of home with the psychology of style. 200 color photos.

Book The Object Stares Back

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Elkins
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780156004978
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book The Object Stares Back written by James Elkins and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study on how our eyes function with our brains examines the irrational elements of physical sight and concludes that human seeing transforms both the viewer and the object being viewed.

Book What Painting is

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Elkins
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780415921138
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book What Painting is written by James Elkins and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Elkins argues that alchemists and painters have similar relationships to the substances they work with. Both try to transform the substance, while seeking to transform their own experience.

Book Digital Domain

    Book Details:
  • Author : Piers Bizony
  • Publisher : White Lion Publishing
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Digital Domain written by Piers Bizony and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piers Brizony has gained complete access to the headquarters of Digital Domain in Venice, California, in order to produce the first ever book on the company's work at the cutting edge of the special- effects industry. Covers major films of recent years: Titanic, Apollo 13, True Lies.

Book Permissions  A Survival Guide

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan M. Bielstein
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2010-06-15
  • ISBN : 0226046397
  • Pages : 190 pages

Download or read book Permissions A Survival Guide written by Susan M. Bielstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it's a good bet that at least half of those words relate to the picture's copyright status. Art historians, artists, and anyone who wants to use the images of others will find themselves awash in byzantine legal terms, constantly evolving copyright law, varying interpretations by museums and estates, and despair over the complexity of the whole situation. Here, on a white—not a high—horse, Susan Bielstein offers her decades of experience as an editor working with illustrated books. In doing so, she unsnarls the threads of permissions that have ensnared scholars, critics, and artists for years. Organized as a series of “takes” that range from short sidebars to extended discussions, Permissions, A Survival Guide explores intellectual property law as it pertains to visual imagery. How can you determine whether an artwork is copyrighted? How do you procure a high-quality reproduction of an image? What does “fair use” really mean? Is it ever legitimate to use the work of an artist without permission? Bielstein discusses the many uncertainties that plague writers who work with images in this highly visual age, and she does so based on her years navigating precisely these issues. As an editor who has hired a photographer to shoot an incredibly obscure work in the Italian mountains (a plan that backfired hilariously), who has tried to reason with artists' estates in languages she doesn't speak, and who has spent her time in the archival trenches, she offers a snappy and humane guide to this difficult terrain. Filled with anecdotes, asides, and real courage, Permissions, A Survival Guide is a unique handbook that anyone working in the visual arts will find invaluable, if not indispensable.

Book Domain driven Design

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric Evans
  • Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 0321125215
  • Pages : 563 pages

Download or read book Domain driven Design written by Eric Evans and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2004 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Domain-Driven Design" incorporates numerous examples in Java-case studies taken from actual projects that illustrate the application of domain-driven design to real-world software development.

Book Reasoned and Unreasoned Images

Download or read book Reasoned and Unreasoned Images written by Josh Ellenbogen and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines three projects in late nineteenth-century scientific photography: the endeavors of Alphonse Bertillon, Francis Galton, and Etienne-Jules Marey. Develops new theoretical perspectives on the history of photographic technology, as well as the history of scientific imaging more generally"--

Book The Public Domain

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Fishman
  • Publisher : NOLO
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780873374330
  • Pages : 558 pages

Download or read book The Public Domain written by Stephen Fishman and published by NOLO. This book was released on 2000 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how to find and use creative works without permission or fees, describing how to recognize whether or not a work is in the public domain.

Book CHAMPION TEXT BK ON EMBALMING

Download or read book CHAMPION TEXT BK ON EMBALMING written by Eliab Myers and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Image of the City

Download or read book The Image of the City written by Kevin Lynch and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1964-06-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.