Photography
Discover the best photography books, including top titles and cool photography guides for photographers of all levels.
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Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and WarNATIONAL BESTSELLER - The remarkable memoir of an ambitious young photojournalist who went off to war as a twenty-two-year-old girl--and came back, four years and many adventures later, a woman "Eloquent and well observed, not only about the memoirist, but about the world: war,...
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Something to Food about: Exploring Creativity with Innovative ChefsIn somethingtofoodabout, drummer, producer, musical director, culinary entrepreneur, and New York Times bestselling author, Questlove, applies his boundless curiosity to the world of food. In conversations with ten innovative chefs in America, Questlove explores what makes their creativity tick, how they see the world...
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Yes We Did: Photos and Behind-The-Scenes Stories Celebrating Our First African American PresidentEight years in the White House went by so fast. That's why I'm so grateful that Lawrence was there to capture them. I hope you enjoy his work as much as I do.--From the foreword by Barack Obama When Lawrence Jackson took the job...
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The World Atlas of Street FashionAn extensively researched and generously illustrated volume offering a striking and diverse portrait of street style in cities and cultures around the world Since the early 20th century, city sidewalks have become runways where idiosyncratic modes of dressing are presented, consumed, and exported. Their...
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Heirs Generation Next Wall Calendar 2023: Connecting a Vibrant Past to a Brilliant Future"Heirs embraces the idea that our children are descendants of fierce kings and warrior queens, heirs to great wealth, scholarship, and ingenuity."--Kahran and Regis Bethencourt Heirs is the calendar from husband-and-wife photographers Kahran and Regis Bethencourt, the team behind Atlanta's CreativeSoul Photography and authors...
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Bromoil printing and bromoil transferBromoil printing and bromoil transferThe bromoil process has always been one in which it has seemed difficult to attain success. Though many books and articles on the subject have been published, every writer seems to give different directions and every experimenter to have difficulty...
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Magic Shadows: The Story of the Origin of Motion PicturesMagic Shadows: The Story of the Origin of Motion PicturesThe art of magic shadows, which just before the dawn of the twentieth century evolved into the modern motion picture, was born three centuries ago, at Rome. There Athanasius Kircher, a German priest, first showed...
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The Dry Collodion ProcessThe Dry Collodion ProcessThe process described in the following pages has now been in use for twelve months, and I have much satisfaction in stating that it has, in almost every instance where it has been adopted and carried out with care and attention,...
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A Manual of Photographic Chemistry, Including the Practice of the Collodion ProcessA Manual of Photographic Chemistry, Including the Practice of the Collodion ProcessIn attempting to impart knowledge on any subject, it is not sufficient that the writer should himself be acquainted with that which he professes to teach. Even supposing such to be the case,...
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A Practical Manual of the Collodion Process, Giving in Detail a Method For Producing Positive and Negative Pictures on Glass and PaperA Practical Manual of the Collodion Process, Giving in Detail a Method For Producing Positive and Negative Pictures on Glass and Paper.The object of this little Manual is to present, in as plain, clear and concise a manner as possible, the practice of a...
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The Daguerreian Journal, Vol. II, No. 2, June 1, 1851The Daguerreian Journal, Vol. II, No. 2, June 1, 1851WOULD most respectfully announce to the public, that he has one of the best sky-lights in the United States, and is prepared to execute Daguerreotypes. Likenesses of all sizes, put up in every style of...
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The Daguerreian Journal, Vol. I, No. 8, March 1, 1851The Daguerreian Journal, Vol. I, No. 8, March 1, 1851Dr. Berres of Vienna was the first, I believe, who published a process for etching Daguerreotypes; his method was to cover the plates with a solution of gum-arabic, and then to immerse them in nitric...
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The Face of the Earth as Seen from the AirThe Face of the Earth as Seen from the Air - A Study in the Application of Airplane Photography to GeographyScarcely a generation has passed during the evolution of the airplane from a ridiculous dream to a practical factor in the work of the...
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The American Journal of Photography, Vol. XI, No. 7, July 1890The American Journal of Photography, Vol. XI, No. 7, July 1890Our illustration, Folwells Washington, is a profile of the one person characterized in our nations history as the First in war, the first in peace, and the first in the hearts of his countrymen....
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The British Journal of Photography, No. 613, Vol. XIX, February 2, 1872The British Journal of Photography, No. 613, Vol. XIX, February 2, 1872Herr Schultz-Sellack has recently called attention to a remarkable agreement in certain properties between chemically-clean glass surfaces and photographic films coated with tannin or albumen. The particular property in which they appear to...
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Jimmy Drury: Candid Camera DetectiveJimmy Drury: Candid Camera DetectiveJimmie Drury hated fog. He was thinking as he crossed the Madison Street bridge: Perhaps the devil is a monster breathing out fire, but when his fires are banked he must breathe out cold, gray fog which is worse. He...
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Naturalistic Photography for Students of the ArtNaturalistic Photography for Students of the Art.At a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, held in Paris on the 19th day of August, 1839, Louis Jacques Mand Daguerre, in the presence of the flower of Parisian art, literature and science, gave a demonstration...
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Das lebende Lichtbild: Entwicklung, Wesen und Bedeutung des KinematographenDas lebende Lichtbild: Entwicklung, Wesen und Bedeutung des KinematographenUm ihn in Betrieb zu setzen, biege man die Bltter mit dem Daumen der rechten Hand zurck und lasse sie durchgleiten, soda sie rasch nacheinander umschlagen. Das Abblttern geht besser vonstatten, wenn man die Seiten (ohne...
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Photo-LithographyPhoto-LithographyThe theoretical principle of lithography is purely chemical, and is based principally on the repulsion of water and other substances by fatty bodies, and the alteration of these greasy bodies by acids. As the support for this chemical opposition a stone or zinc plate...
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Airplane PhotographyAirplane PhotographyAirplane photography had its birth, and passed through a period of feverish development, in the Great War. Probably to many minds it figures as a purely military activity. Such need not be the case, for the application of aerial photography to mapping and...
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