Photography
Discover the best photography books, including top titles and cool photography guides for photographers of all levels.
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After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and FireHow exactly has San Francisco's urban landscape changed in the hundred years since the earthquake and cataclysmic firestorms that destroyed three-quarters of the city in 1906? For this provocative rephotography project, bringing past and present into dynamic juxtaposition, renowned photographer Mark Klett has gone...
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Dronescapes: The New Aerial Photography from DronestagramOnce used only by the military for surveillance, drones are now prevalent in everyday life, used for cartography, mail delivery, and now aerial photography. These small, affordable, lightweight, machines can take pictures from up to 500 feet in the air and from places where...
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Duane Michals: PortraitsDuane Michals: Portraits presents for the first time a comprehensive overview of more than a half-century of portrait photographs--many of iconic cultural figures--by one of our era's most influential and entertaining artists.Duane Michals, the subject of a major retrospective exhibition organized by the Carnegie...
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Ravens and Red Lipstick: Japanese Photography Since 1945This rich volume provides one of the first overviews of Japanese photography to be published in English. Drawing on extensive research, Lena Fritsch traces the development of Japanese photography chronologically, from the severity of post-war Realism to the diverse ingenuity of photography in contemporary...
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Egyptian ArtOf the ancient art that has survived from the non-Classical world, that of Egypt makes a unique appeal. In this authoritative and splendidly illustrated guide Cyril Aldred surveys nearly 3000 years of Egyptian art and architecture, concentrating on the fine arts of painting and...
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Historic Costume in PicturesFrom 1861 to 1890 the Munich publishing firm of Braun & Schneider published plates of historic and contemporary costume in their magazine M nchener Bilderbogen. These plates were eventually collected in book form and published at the turn of the century in Germany and...
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Awkward Family PhotosBased on the hit website, AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com ("painful, regrettable, horrifyingly awesome snaps of family bonding, you will laugh so hard that people in adjoining offices will ask what's wrong with you"--Esquire), this full color book features never-before-seen photos and hilarious personal stories covering everything from...
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Indiana Across the LandThe captivating landscapes of America's heartland offer an inviting escape from the everyday in Indiana Across the Land. Although a road trip from the shores of Lake Michigan to the Ohio River could be accomplished in only six hours, photographers Lee Mandrell and DeeDee...
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The Railroad Photography of Jack DelanoBorn in the Ukraine, photographer Jack Delano moved to the United States in 1923. After graduating from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1937, Delano worked for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and the Office of War Information (OWI) as a photographer. Best known...
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The Oregon ExperimentAfter a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are not publishing a major statement in the form of three works which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building, and...
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GorillasClassic movies show giant gorillas scaling tall buildings and swatting planes from the sky, but actual gorillas are gentle social animals that live together in family groups like humans. In fact, gorillas are one of the closest genetic matches to people. And just like...
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Free as They Want to Be: Artists Committed to MemoryHow the photographic arts have embodied the aspiration for freedom in Black AmericaAccompanying the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial exhibition, Free as They Want to Be considers the historical and contemporary role that photography and film have played in remembering legacies of slavery and its aftermath,...
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Zen Lefort: Indian LandA photographic account of Indigenous American life in perpetual struggle, from a leading chronicler of the Standing Rock protestsSince 2016, French documentary photographer Zen Lefort (born 1993) has taken road trips from Arizona to New Mexico, crossed Utah, Colorado and South Dakota, living with...
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Photojournalism Disrupted: The View from AustraliaPhotojournalism Disrupted addresses the unprecedented disruptions in photojournalism over the last decade, with a particular focus on the Australian news media context. Using a mixed methods approach, the book assesses the situation facing press photographers and their employers in the supply of professional imagery...
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The Terrorist Image: Decoding the Islamic State's Photo-PropagandaThe summer of 2014--when the Islamic State seized Mosul, Iraq's second city; captured vast swathes of eastern Syria; and declared itself a latter-day Caliphate--marked a turning point in the history of photography, one that pushed its already contested relationship with reality to its very...
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I'll Never TellSee World War II through the eyes of one of the United States' most secretive agencies.In 1941, Frank Eberflus enlisted in the United States Army. After his training and serving with the Strategic SV Unit in the United States, he was assigned as a...
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Finding Dairyland: In Search of Wisconsin's Vanishing HeritageExplore America's Dairyland and the American SpiritAt the dawn of World War II, Wisconsin was home to nearly 200,000 dairy farms. Today, barely 6,000 remain. The ghosts of the missing can still be seen in withering old farms along lonely highways, some restored, many...
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Heart Speaks, Is Spoken ForIn Heart Speaks, Is Spoken For, a cracked, heart-shaped stone inspired poet Marjorie Maddox and artist Karen Elias to collaborate in creating nuanced portrayals of love, obsession, grief, joy, loneliness, anger, protest, and hope. Looking backward to memories and forward to our responsibility for...
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Smashbox: Make S#!+ HappenA collection of stunning portraits of Hollywood stars, including Jennifer Lopez, Kim Kardashian, Charlize Theron, Samuel L. Jackson, and Angelina Jolie, captured by Davis Factor, the great-grandson of legendary cosmetics pioneer Max Factor. Founded in 1990 by Davis and Dean Factor, the great-grandsons of...
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A Face in Time: Egypt Photo Studios, 1865-1939A stunning collection of vintage studio photographs from Egypt, including princes, pashas, and members of the now vanished ruling class, presented in a sumptuous edition From the invention of the camera, photographers, like painters, have sought to portray other people, and early studio photographs,...
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