Download or read book The Man who Photographed the World written by Burton Holmes and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1977 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In an era before television and air travel, Burton Holmes -- "The Travelogue Man" as he called himself -- was for many people the only window on the world. Single-handed, he brought the glamour and excitement of foreign lands to Americans unable to go themselves. That excitement is re-created in this magnificent album of his photographs, accompanied by his own writings. Burton Holmes purchased his first camera in 1883, and began a love affair with photography that lasted throughout his 88 years. Almost equaling his passion to capture life on film was a desire to travel, to seek out and record novel experiences. In order to pay for his journeys, Holmes created the travelogue, a spectacle in words and pictures that played to full houses in city after city, attracting both sophisticates and provincials. When Burton Holmes came to town, usually engaging the best theater or concert hall for a week at a time, everyone went to see his magical slides and hear his enthralling lectures. His travelogues were the grand events of the season. This book shows why: no mere sunsets over Pago-Pago, his photographs are powerful observations of life on the move, of people and drama, of history in the making. In his long career, he traveled to nearly every country on the globe. He rode the Trans-Siberian Railroad across Russia while they were still laying the track. He was in Naples in 1906, and recorded Vesuvius' most devastating eruption in modern times. He covered the building of the Panama Canal, the Russo-Japanese War, the Boxer Rebellion in China. Holmes not only brought these and other events to American audiences, he even presented them in color. In the 1890s, his 3 1/2 x 4 1/2-inch glass slides were exquisitely hand-painted in watercolor by a team of Japanese artists. In later years the painting was done in the United States by artists personally trained by Holmes, work so fine that single-hair ermine brushes had to be used. The results were astonishingly realistic, as can be seen in the full-color reproductions. For the travel buff, the photographer, the historian, this is a book to delight the eye and mind."--

Download or read book The Photo Ark written by Joel Sartore and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of photography represents National Geographic's Photo Ark, a major cross-platform initiative and lifelong project by photographer Joel Sartore to make portraits of the world's animals -- especially those that are endangered. His message: to know these animals is to save them. Sartore intends to photograph every animal in captivity in the world. He is circling the globe, visiting zoos and wildlife rescue centers to create studio portraits of 12,000 species, with an emphasis on those facing extinction. He has photographed more than 6,000 already and now, thanks to a multi-year partnership with National Geographic, he may reach his goal. This book showcases his animal portraits: from tiny to mammoth, from the Florida grasshopper sparrow to the greater one-horned rhinoceros. Paired with the prose of veteran wildlife writer Douglas Chadwick, this book presents an argument for saving all the species of our planet.

Download or read book The Family of Man written by Edward Steichen and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1996 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the pages of this book are reproduced all of the 503 images that Steichen described as "photographs, made in all parts of the world, of the gamut of life from birth to death with emphasis on daily relationship..."-- Back cover.

Download or read book The man who photographed the world written by Burton Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book On Photography written by Susan Sontag and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Blood and Champagne written by Alex Kershaw and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-07-25 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friend of Hemingway, John Huston, and lover of beautiful women, Capa lived a life that was equal parts glamour and danger. He was the best of combat photographers, yet no one knew that Capa was not his real name, and that his greatest artistic achievement may well have been himself. Two 8-page photo inserts.

Download or read book The man who photographed the world written by Genoa Caldwell and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Henri Cartier Bresson written by and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an outstanding retrospective collection of the master of 20th-century photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson. Reproduced in exquisite black and white, the images in this book range from Henri Cartier-Bresson's earliest work in France, Spain, and Mexico through his postwar travels in Asia, the US, and Russia, and even include landscapes from the 1970s, when he retired his camera to pursue drawing. While his instinct for capturing what he called the decisive moment was unparalleled, as a photojournalist Cartier-Bresson was uniquely concerned with the human impact of historic events. In his photographs of the liberation of France from the Nazis, the death of Ghandi, and the creation of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Cartier-Bresson focused on the reactions of the crowds rather than the subjects of the events. And while his portraits of Sartre, Giacometti, Faulkner, Capote, and other artists are iconic, he gave equal attention to those forgotten by history: a dead resistance fighter lying on the bank of the Rhine, children playing alongside the Berlin Wall, and a eunuch in Peking's Imperial Court. Divided into six thematic sections, the book presents the photographs in spare double-page spreads. In a handwritten note included at the end of the book, Cartier-Bresson writes, "In order to give meaning to the world, one must feel involved in what one singles out through the viewfinder." His work shows how he has been able to capture the decisive moment with such extreme humility and profound humanity.

Download or read book Slim Aarons Style written by Shawn Waldron and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glamorous fashions, personalities, and places captured by iconic photographer Slim Aarons Slim Aarons, at least according to the man himself, did not photograph fashion: “I didn’t do fashion. I did the people in their clothes that became the fashion.” But despite what he claimed, Aarons’s work is indelibly tied to fashion. Aarons’s incredibly influential photographs of high society and socialites being unambiguously themselves are still a source of inspiration for modern day style icons. Slim Aarons: Style showcases the photographs that both recorded and influenced the luminaries of the fashion world. This volume features early black-and-white fashion photography, as well as portraits of the fashionable elite—like Jacqueline de Ribes, C.Z. Guest, Nan Kempner, and Marisa Berenson—and those that designed the clothes, such as Oscar de la Renta, Emilio Pucci, Mary McFadden, and Lilly Pulitzer. Featuring some never-before-seen images and detailed captions written by fashion historians, Slim Aarons: Style is a collection of the photographer's most stylish work.

Download or read book Henri Cartier Bresson written by Philippe Arbaizar and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly illustrated retrospective of the critically acclaimed work of the master photographer honors the ninety-fifth birthday of Cartier-Bresson with a collection of some of his finest works, representing all periods of his life, along with a selection of drawings, paintings, film stills, and previously unpublished photographs. 20,000 first printing.

Download or read book Henri Cartier Bresson written by Philippe Arbaizar and published by . This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of classic photographs by Cartier-Bresson that have become icons of the medium, as well as rarely seen work from all periods of the photographers life. Also includes a number of previously unpublished photographs as well as a selection of drawings, paintings and films stills.

Download or read book Ansel Adams written by Mary Street Alinder and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life and career of Ansel Adams, including his childhood in San Francisco, his marriage and affairs, his relationship with the Native Americans of Yosemite, and the influences on his photography and painting of western landscapes.

Download or read book Vivian Maier written by John Maloof and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that all blank pages in the book were chosen as part of the design by the publisher. A good street photographer must be possessed of many talents: an eye for detail, light, and composition; impeccable timing; a populist or humanitarian outlook; and a tireless ability to constantly shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot and never miss a moment. It is hard enough to find these qualities in trained photographers with the benefit of schooling and mentors and a community of fellow artists and aficionados supporting and rewarding their efforts. It is incredibly rare to find it in someone with no formal training and no network of peers. Yet Vivian Maier is all of these things, a professional nanny, who from the 1950s until the 1990s took over 100,000 photographs worldwide—from France to New York City to Chicago and dozens of other countries—and yet showed the results to no one. The photos are amazing both for the breadth of the work and for the high quality of the humorous, moving, beautiful, and raw images of all facets of city life in America’s post-war golden age. It wasn’t until local historian John Maloof purchased a box of Maier’s negatives from a Chicago auction house and began collecting and championing her marvelous work just a few years ago that any of it saw the light of day. Presented here for the first time in print, Vivian Maier: Street Photographer collects the best of her incredible, unseen body of work.

Download or read book Invasion 68 Prague written by Josef Koudelka and published by Aperture. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "DECREAZIONE" is a book collecting Joseph Koudelka's images exhibited at the fifty-firth Venice Biennale, at the Vatican Pavilion. With his suggestive black-and-white images and his moving, desolated landscapes, Koudelka tells stories of destruction, declined in three different forms: time, violence, and contrast between nature and uncontrolled industrial development. Josef Koudelka was born in Moravia in 1938. He published numerous photographic books on the relationship between man and landscape, about gypsy life, and on the invasion of Prague in 1968. Significant exhibitions of his works have been held at international museums and galleries and he received numerous major awards.

Download or read book The World of Henri Cartier Bresson written by Henri Cartier-Bresson and published by Penguin Putnam. This book was released on 1968 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Blind Photographer written by Julian Rothenstein and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The blind photographer cannot see a butterfly perched perfectly still on a flower, a bowl of sweet-smelling fruit, or a child's rattle on a darkened floor, but the mind's eye is sharply focused. How then, do blind or partially sighted people capture such extraordinary images? The photographs in this revelatory book suggest a deeper truth: that blindness is itself a kind of seeing, and that those who can see are often blind to the strangeness and beauty of the world around them. As the blind photographer Evgen Bavcar writes, "Photography must belong to the blind, who in their daily existence have learned to become the masters of camera obscura." Through the photographs of more than fifty blind or partially sighted people from around the world, this exhilarating book—the first to explore this phenomenon in all its vibrancy and diversity—will make you see differently.

Download or read book The World s Luckiest Man written by L. Henry Stone and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Worlds Luckiest Man is a book about a man who was born in absolutely the most unique of circumstances and lives a most remarkable life. The book begins two generations before the main character is born as his life, like everyones, is greatly influenced by those people who came before. Although world famous from birth and rich beyond imagination, like all people, the main character experiences extreme highs and lows throughout his life. In the end, he finds that the only thing you take with you to the afterlife is the love you had for people while in this world.