In Wyoming Revisited, Michael A. Amundson uses the power of rephotography to show how landscapes across the state have endured over the last century. Three sets of photographs—the original black-and-white photographs taken by famed Wyoming photographer Joseph E. Stimson more than a century ago, repeat black-and-white images taken by Amundson in the 1980s, and a third view in color taken by th…
Photographs by Hikaru C. IwasakiForeword by the Honorable Norman Y. Mineta In Japanese American Resettlement through the Lens, Lane Ryo Hirabayashi gathers a unique collection of photographs by War Relocation Authority photographer Hikaru Iwasaki, the only full-time WRA photographer from the period still living. With substantive focus on resettlement - and in particular Iwasaki's photos of Jap…
Pioneer photographer William Henry Jackson's photographs from the 1871 Hayden Survey were instrumental in persuading Congress to designate Yellowstone as a national park—America's first and greatest experiment in the preservation of an extraordinary landscape. Yellowstone National Park: Through the Lens of Time is an extended visual essay presenting Jackson's images paired with breathtaking c…
From 1914 to 1920, thousands of men who had immigrated to Canada from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire were unjustly imprisoned as "enemy aliens," some with their families. Many communities in Canada where internees originated do not know these stories of Ukrainians, Germans, Bulgarians, Croatians, Czechs, Hungarians, Italians, Jews, Alevi Kurds, Armenians, Ottoman T…
È il 1937 e la Spagna è dilaniata dalla guerra civile. A luglio un servizio della rivista Life traccia il funesto bilancio delle vite falciate in un anno di scontri e riproduce una fotografia destinata a fare il giro del mondo diventando un'icona dell'eroismo repubblicano: il Miliziano colpito a morte di Robert Capa. Lo scatto mette sotto gli occhi di tutti la morte in diretta di un combatten…
This is a book about Philadelphia and about photography, but it is not the usual book about either. On one level, this is the pictorial story of a great industrial metropolis in transition. It is the story of a railroad city, a city of trolleys and subways and horse-drawn vehicles, as it gradually succumbed to the automobile. It is the story of a city filled with neighborhood industry giving wa…
For more than forty years, Bruce Jackson has been documenting—in books, photographs, audio recording and film—inmates' lives in American prisons. In November 1975, he acquired a collection of old ID photos while he was visiting the Cummins Unit, a state prison farm in Arkansas. They are published together for the first time in this remarkable book. The 121 images that appear here were likel…
Cuando empecé a hacer fotos ni siquiera sabía qué era la fotografía de calle; sin embargo intuía que la cámara —entonces de mi padre— podía convertirse en una herramienta con la que expresarme. El paso del tiempo ha dejado pequeñas incluso las mejores expectativas. Fotografiar y compartir lo que sé en mi blog y ahora a través de este libro, se parece mucho a ser de nuevo un niño …
Mary Schäffer was a photographer, writer, botanical painter, and mapmaker from Philadelphia, well known for her travels in the Canadian Rockies and Japan at the turn of the twentieth century. In Searching for Mary Schäffer, Colleen Skidmore takes up Schäffer's own resonant themes—women and wilderness, travel and science—to ask new questions, tell new stories, and reassess the persona of …
Dieses Buch soll Ihnen den Weg zur professionellen Fotografie zeigen und Sie ein Stück auf diesem Weg begleiten. Professionell fotografieren bedeutet in erster Linie, bewusst und mit einem kommunikativen Ziel zu fotografieren. Es bedeutet, Fotografie als Bildsprache zu verstehen, die man wie jede andere Sprache erlernen und einüben kann, die bestimmten Gesetzmäßigkeiten folgt, und mit der m…