Author: International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House
Publisher: Abbeville Promotional
ISBN: 9780896595866
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Gathers hundreds of photographs, including portraits, nudes, still lifes, landscapes, and abstracts, taken between 1839 and the present, and offers brief profiles of each photographer
Masterpieces of Photography
Author: International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House
Publisher: Abbeville Promotional
ISBN: 9780896595866
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Gathers hundreds of photographs, including portraits, nudes, still lifes, landscapes, and abstracts, taken between 1839 and the present, and offers brief profiles of each photographer
Publisher: Abbeville Promotional
ISBN: 9780896595866
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Gathers hundreds of photographs, including portraits, nudes, still lifes, landscapes, and abstracts, taken between 1839 and the present, and offers brief profiles of each photographer
What Makes Great Photography
Author: Val Williams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780711235069
Category : Photographic criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Why are some photographs so much more effective and powerful than others? What Makes Great Photography showcases 80 outstanding photographs from the first daguerrotypes to today’s digital masterpieces and by photographers as diverse as Alfred Stieglitz, Diane Arbus, Ernst Haas and Don McCullin. Val Williams highlights the elements of each photograph that distinguishes it from its peers, such as composition, colour, texture and fidelity to subject, explaining just what it is that makes it so great. Her insightful text will open your eyes to the defining qualities of the key photographs of every period and genre, from portraiture to landscape and from photojournalism to the nude.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780711235069
Category : Photographic criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Why are some photographs so much more effective and powerful than others? What Makes Great Photography showcases 80 outstanding photographs from the first daguerrotypes to today’s digital masterpieces and by photographers as diverse as Alfred Stieglitz, Diane Arbus, Ernst Haas and Don McCullin. Val Williams highlights the elements of each photograph that distinguishes it from its peers, such as composition, colour, texture and fidelity to subject, explaining just what it is that makes it so great. Her insightful text will open your eyes to the defining qualities of the key photographs of every period and genre, from portraiture to landscape and from photojournalism to the nude.
The Invented Eye
Author: Edward Lucie-Smith
Publisher: Two Continents Publishing Group, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
In The invented eye Edward Lucie-Smith surveys, from an art critic's point of view, the pioneer period of photography. Against the cultural and artistic background of the 19th century world he discusses the broad implications of early photography and many of its most important practitioners. Taking as it does an art-critical point of view, The invented eye is not a technical book (though there is a brief section explaining the major techniques of early photography). Its emphasis is on understanding the photographs as visual images. More than 150 photographs provide a magnificent complement to the lucid and perceptive text, and make The invented eye a journey through time, to the beginnings of "a new way of seeing the world."
Publisher: Two Continents Publishing Group, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
In The invented eye Edward Lucie-Smith surveys, from an art critic's point of view, the pioneer period of photography. Against the cultural and artistic background of the 19th century world he discusses the broad implications of early photography and many of its most important practitioners. Taking as it does an art-critical point of view, The invented eye is not a technical book (though there is a brief section explaining the major techniques of early photography). Its emphasis is on understanding the photographs as visual images. More than 150 photographs provide a magnificent complement to the lucid and perceptive text, and make The invented eye a journey through time, to the beginnings of "a new way of seeing the world."
Capturing Light
Author: Drew Heath Johnson
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393049930
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Surveys the work of the master photographers who have shaped the consciousness of the state of California and the nation for more than 150 years.
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393049930
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Surveys the work of the master photographers who have shaped the consciousness of the state of California and the nation for more than 150 years.
100 Masterpieces of Photography
Author: Quentin Bajac
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782844264770
Category : Photograph collections
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782844264770
Category : Photograph collections
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
The Fugitive Gesture
Author: William A. Ewing
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500278062
Category : Art and dance
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A tribute to a major photographic genre's success in capturing in permanent form the most ephemeral of the arts. Over 200 reproduced duotone plates reveal dance in all its aspects - from many countries and periods, from classical ballet to rock and roll - photographed wherever dancers waltz, tango, tap-dance, pirouette, stomp, jive or kick up their heels for joy. The great dancers are here - Nijinsky, Fred Astaire, Pavlova, Fonteyn and Isadora Duncan among other immortals; but so too are the anonymous, captured in a Parisian nightclub or at the Roxy, New York, an Amsterdam street cafe or simply dancing alone by the seashore. The wide range of photographers include Gordon Anthony, Barbara Morgan, Beaton, Degas, Genthe, Steichen, Horst, Man Ray and Helmut Newton. Introductions to each chapter and detailed notes on the photographs provide essential background about the dancers and photographers.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500278062
Category : Art and dance
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A tribute to a major photographic genre's success in capturing in permanent form the most ephemeral of the arts. Over 200 reproduced duotone plates reveal dance in all its aspects - from many countries and periods, from classical ballet to rock and roll - photographed wherever dancers waltz, tango, tap-dance, pirouette, stomp, jive or kick up their heels for joy. The great dancers are here - Nijinsky, Fred Astaire, Pavlova, Fonteyn and Isadora Duncan among other immortals; but so too are the anonymous, captured in a Parisian nightclub or at the Roxy, New York, an Amsterdam street cafe or simply dancing alone by the seashore. The wide range of photographers include Gordon Anthony, Barbara Morgan, Beaton, Degas, Genthe, Steichen, Horst, Man Ray and Helmut Newton. Introductions to each chapter and detailed notes on the photographs provide essential background about the dancers and photographers.
Nude Photography
Author: Peter-Cornell Richter
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The dawn of the daguerrotype 150 years ago has brought not only the birth of photography, but a renaissance in the study of nudes as well. This book tells the story of nudes in the photographic medium, from the world's most important photographers. Starting with the pioneer Daguerre, whose 1839 photograph of a nude sculpture set artistic precedent, this book spans the decades to early twentieth century greats such as Alfred Steiglitz, Man Ray and Brassai, to contemporary photographers such as Robert Mapplethorpe, David Levinthal and Duane Michals. The volume is a tour through a photographic gallery which treats the viewer to aspects of female beauty from the perspective of the camera lens. Set against a historical background, this book contrasts the art of taking pictures and its technological innovations with the academic tradition of painting nudes. The appearance of a new means of capturing the nude, the camera, introduced an entirely new dimension to the fine arts. The volume highlights the once fervent competition between the two media of photography and painting, with refinements in technology allowing the newer art form to come into its own. Each photograph is accompanied by a short essay that explains its story and interprets the photographic subjects. Biographical entries summarize the information belonging to each work.
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The dawn of the daguerrotype 150 years ago has brought not only the birth of photography, but a renaissance in the study of nudes as well. This book tells the story of nudes in the photographic medium, from the world's most important photographers. Starting with the pioneer Daguerre, whose 1839 photograph of a nude sculpture set artistic precedent, this book spans the decades to early twentieth century greats such as Alfred Steiglitz, Man Ray and Brassai, to contemporary photographers such as Robert Mapplethorpe, David Levinthal and Duane Michals. The volume is a tour through a photographic gallery which treats the viewer to aspects of female beauty from the perspective of the camera lens. Set against a historical background, this book contrasts the art of taking pictures and its technological innovations with the academic tradition of painting nudes. The appearance of a new means of capturing the nude, the camera, introduced an entirely new dimension to the fine arts. The volume highlights the once fervent competition between the two media of photography and painting, with refinements in technology allowing the newer art form to come into its own. Each photograph is accompanied by a short essay that explains its story and interprets the photographic subjects. Biographical entries summarize the information belonging to each work.
50 Masterpieces of Photography
Author: Julian Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography, Artistic
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography, Artistic
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Points of View
Author: Annette Kicken
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783865212146
Category : Photographie artistique - Histoire - 20e siècle
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A reference work on the history of photography. It includes more than 100 masterpieces from the history of photography, presented with comments by more than 100 authors. Profiles of photographers, authors, and collections provide a look at the development of photography and a peek behind the scenes of the art business.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783865212146
Category : Photographie artistique - Histoire - 20e siècle
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A reference work on the history of photography. It includes more than 100 masterpieces from the history of photography, presented with comments by more than 100 authors. Profiles of photographers, authors, and collections provide a look at the development of photography and a peek behind the scenes of the art business.
The Silver Canvas
Author: Bates Lowry
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892365366
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
By the middle of the nineteenth century, the most common method of photography was the daguerreotype—Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s miraculous invention that captured in a camera visual images on a highly polished silver surface through exposure to light. In this book are presented nearly eighty masterpieces—many never previously published—from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s extensive daguerreotype collection.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892365366
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
By the middle of the nineteenth century, the most common method of photography was the daguerreotype—Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s miraculous invention that captured in a camera visual images on a highly polished silver surface through exposure to light. In this book are presented nearly eighty masterpieces—many never previously published—from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s extensive daguerreotype collection.