Award of Excellence — Communication Arts Honorable Mention — The International Photography Awards 2024 Book Category Jury Top 5 Selection — The International Photography Awards 2024 Book Category Silver Winner in Zines And Photo Book/Culture— 2024 International Film Photography Award, Analog Sparks Timeless photos offer a rare portrait of the jubilant, vibrant, vital, nearly hidd…
The paintings, murals, and graphics of Ben Shahn (1898-1969) have made him one of the most heralded American artists of the twentieth century, but during the 1930s he was also among the nation's premier photographers. Much of his photographic work was sponsored by the New Deal's Farm Security Administration, where his colleagues included Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans. Ben Shahn's American Sc…
MACHEN SIE ETWAS SICHTBAR, WAS MAN NORMALERWEISE NICHT SIEHT! * Manfred Kriegelstein bringt Ihnen die Schönheit im vermeintlich Hässlichen näher. * Er inspiriert Sie, die Augen offen zu halten und somit neue Motive für eigene Projekte zu entdecken. Intuitiv spüren wir in diesem Titel einen Widerspruch. Wir verbinden den Begriff "Schönheit" spontan mit frischen, ästhetischen, lebendig…
PROFESSIONELLE PORTRÄTS – SCHRITT FÜR SCHRITT VON LICHT BIS RETUSCHE * 15 Porträtsessions komplett erklärt von Aufbau bis Retusche * exakte, nachvollziehbare Setups mit allen Angaben * alle Bilder als HiRes herunterladbar, zum besseren Nachvollziehen Schritt für Schritt und leicht verständlich lernen Sie mit diesem Buch, Porträts im Studio und on location für verschiedenste Looks…
In this volume, leading scholars of photography and media examine photography's vital role in the evolution of media and communication in the nineteenth century. In the first half of the nineteenth century, the introduction of telegraphy, the development of a cheaper and more reliable postal service, the rise of the mass-circulation press, and the emergence of the railway dramatically changed …
Alexander Gardner is best known for his innovative photographic history of the Civil War. What is less known is the extent to which he was involved in the international workers' rights movement. Tying Gardner's photographic storytelling to his transatlantic reform activities, this book expands our understanding of Gardner's career and the work of his studio in Washington, DC, by situating his p…
How do photographs compel belief and endow knowledge? To understand the impact of photography in a given era, we must study the adjacent forms of visual persuasion with which photographs compete and collaborate. In photography's early days, magic shows, scientific demonstrations, and philosophical games repeatedly put the visual credulity of the modern public to the test in ways that shaped, an…
Napoleon Sarony was once one of the most famous names in American photography. During the Gilded Age, his grand portrait studio with its one-story-high marquee reproducing the photographer's signature in golden letters was a New York City landmark visited by celebrities such as Oscar Wilde, Sarah Bernhardt, and Mark Twain. Sarony's story represents a central chapter in the history of photograph…
This book reveals one of the most beautiful and complicated untold stories of our time. Westerners often imagine Jews in Iran as a captive and oppressed community, alienated within their home nation yet restricted from leaving it. The reality is much more complex. Jews of Iran is a photographic journey through twenty-first-century Iran, providing a unique view of the country's Jewish community…
This comprehensive study of Rome's contribution to the early history of photography traces the medium's rise from a fledgling science to a dynamic form of artistic expression that forever changed the way we perceive the Eternal City. The authors examine the diverse transnational group of photographers who thrived in the cosmopolitan art center of Rome—and the pivotal role they played in the …