In the six years it has taken to produce the project, the layers of its creation have been a vital and very personal part of the work. The series parallels two worlds, the fantasy of the finished photographs, but also the deeply emotional journey Kirsty has gone through in the process of bringing it to fruition. This has been documented in her 6-year online diary packed full of her reflections on grief and the narrative that runs through the work. For this reason the book has always been regarded as the final and most important part in completing the project and one that has taken a great deal of consideration. For this reason, we are delighted to announce Kirsty has chosen to finish the series on her own terms, and self-publish the Wonderland book in a manner that will fully reflect the attention to detail that is so key in her work. It has taken many years to dechiper the best way in which to translate the story faithfully into something that will honour Kirsty's original intentions, and also give back to the people who have helped the series grow in such an extraordinary way. In Kirsty's words this will be 'our book, on our terms' something which she strongly feels is the only way to say goodbye to such an indescribable part of her life, and to her beloved mother who this is dedicated to.

    This collection of 175 photographs shot by Winogrand in a single year records an America in transition. Each picture is a strange, unforgettable surprise, documenting the artists comedic, almost palpable empathy for his subjects, and crystallizing his influence as a photographic interpreter of the 1960s. Most of the images in this collection are previously unpublished.

    Assume Nothing features frank and arresting images of twenty-five participants, along with their candid—and sometimes heartrending—comments about what it has meant to exist outside of traditional gender identities.The participants range in age from twenty to sixty. They are Haitian American, Samoan New Zealander, Maori, European Australian, Aboriginal, and African English. They are gay, lesbian, straight, bisexual, and pansexual. In terms of gender, they are transsexuals, gender queers, eunuchs, sister girls, drag kings and queens, and the alternative gender roles traditional to Maori and Samoan cultures.In their blurring of boundaries, Swan’s images ask readers to examine their assumptions—and even, at moments, their own sexuality. They reveal the harm that results from forcing living bodies to conform to preexisting roles and capture a deeper reality of struggle, uncertainty, and process. Above all, they point the way to the creation of a new vocabulary of gender and a world of increased tolerance where, when it comes to gender, nothing is assumed.

    Over 60 authors, photo editors and photographers have committed years of research to produce an absolute standard for fans of electronic music and its events. An impressive reference book, as well as a book full of great stories, this is a must-have for anyone who has ever nestled up to a speaker with their eyes shut. The book includes nearly 1000 photographs and over 140 interviews with many of dance music’s major players, including: Eddy de Clercq, Speedy J, Tiësto, Secret Cinema, Miss Djax, Armin van Buuren, Joost van Bellen, The Dreamteam, Paul Elstak, Chuckie, Junkie XL, Jeroen Flamman, Duncan Stutterheim, Ferry Corsten, Bart Skils, Roog, Chaos & L-Dopa, Nicky Romero, Laidback Luke, Gomes, and many, many more.

    Only the most important images could justify the cost. Such measures don't measure up to today.In his first book in more than 6 years, Dan Margulis rethinks the process from the ground up. He suggests a radically different workflow in which speed is critical and processing of multiple images is the rule, not the exception. His solutions are often highly automated, and the automation is made available for free, including a powerful PPW panel that serves as command central.Among the revolutionary ideas:
•Color and contrast are never mixed; there are separate passes to eliminate color problems, to heighten contrast, and to make the color sing.
•Many steps temporarily leave the image looking worse than before they were applied, so as to enable a superior final result.
•For very important work, instead of proceeding slowly and carefully, go as quickly as if the job were a throwaway. Then, do additional quick versions from scratch and then blending the best of each variant.Tthe language is simple but the concepts are deep, cutting-edge, and covered comprehensively. The reader's way of thinking is continually challenged with new ideas, sardonic comments, and the occasional quiz. Modern Photoshop Color Workflow is designed for an expert audience, yet the discussions of what makes for a good-looking image are accessible to all.As befits the modern age, the physical book is only the start of the experience. The supplied actions have hundreds of pages of PDF documentation. Readers have access to more than a dozen hours of supporting videos by the author and his friends, and can test their own skills with the scores of original images that the text shows how to correct.

    

    The Los Angeles-based imagemaker has created portfolios for Vogue, Vanity Fair, and other magazines, done movie ads and music videos, and worked with fashion-world clients such as Calvin Klein and Giorgio Armani. This sumptuous catalogue, published to accompany an exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris, includes an interview with Herb Ritts. One hundred photographs, some previously unpublished, exemplify the rigorous, disconcerting work of one of the most remarkable photographers of the contemporary art, fashion, and entertainment worlds. Herb Ritts's subjects include Antonio Banderas, Sandra Bernhard, Louise Bourgeois,Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Francesco Clemente, Joseph Fiennes, Dizzy Gillespie, Mel Gibson, Keith Haring, Stephen Hawking, Michael Jordan, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, B. B. King, Roy Lichtenstein, Ewan MacGregor, Nelson Mandela, Edward Norton, Robert Rauschenberg, Christopher Reeve, and Tina Turner. 94 duotone photographs.

    In it, Alexander Lavrentiev, grandson of the photographer, includes more than 400 pictures reproduced under a broad categorical structure that allows the reader to gain insight into Rodchenko's work. What comes across most clearly from the content and form of these photos is the artist's desire to depict an image of purposeful individuality and an idealized relationship between humankind and the built world under construction in the Soviet Union. Individual portraits generally contain a device, such as a reflection, or capture some movement that obliterates the standard style of Western portraiture. Buildings, even trees, are photographed to draw attention to the space they hold rather than to depict scenic landscapes. The photos are stunningly original.

    On the surface his subjects are buildings, but at the core his lens is focused on the remnants and traces of lives he finds scattered in hallways, left in back rooms and worn on façades. Havana is a particularly rich setting for Polidori's inquiries. The curves and columns that line the streets refer to past eras and speak of the political, social and economic forces that have driven the city to its present condition. Through his rigorous and sensitive examination -- facilitated by a sense of color and composition that makes his photographs feel like vivid memories -- Polidori delicately peels away the patina of daily living and reveals the juxtapositions that create a city's identity. In this city the peddler lives where the countess once resided; children dance and tumble where merchants conducted their business. Each photograph is a discovery and a fragment of the city's biography.

    » Detailed directions to each location, including maps, where to park and satnav information. » Advice on the best time of day and the best time of year to visit locations. » Table of sunrise and sunset times for the area. » Suitable for photographers of all levels - from beginners to professionals. » Handy A5 size fits in your camera bag.

    Represented in this book are not so much the finished pieces of art that ultimately make their way onto walls or other outside surfaces, but rather the 'art' that; precedes this: the art of the coveted Blackbook. Some are no more than sketches or plans with all their strenghts and weaknesses, while others are complex finished works of art. The objective of this book is to show how the creation of graffiti evolves from quick illustrations of thoughts and ideas through a process of trial and error to arrive at the final 'style'. Because many writers guard their Blackbooks closely this book provides a rare opportunity to study the raw talent of some of the world's most famous graffiti artists, past and present.

    

    This book depicts the work, techniques, and the actors and actresses involved in the Hurrell style. This volume combines text with 190 photographs. It shows the glamour of Hollywood, the beauty of its stars, the vision that created them. (Description by http-mart)

    This book, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Bibliotheque nationale de France, shines new light on the work of the English photographer Michael Kenna.

    Most of the world's exquisite and rare bird species are found in tropical rainforests—the Amazon, Sumatra, Borneo, Daintree Rainforest in Australia, and the Congo basin in Africa. These lush, wet biospheres are home to some of the most colorful creatures on our planet. Did you know that parrots can live for 80 years or more? Or that most tropical birds are omnivores and will eat seeds, nuts, fruit, and insects, while a few will eat small lizards or animals? From the screeching red-and-green macaw to the majestic great hornbill, from the rainbow lorikeet of northern Queensland to the endangered Spix's macaw of the Amazonian rainforest, Tropical Birds explores the fascinating lifecycles, diets and, where applicable, migratory patterns of hundreds of species from every part of the tropical belt.

    You'll learn about spirit photography and prison portraits, back-street operators and the pros and cons of smoking in the darkroom. This book is a must for anyone who still believes that our photographic forefathers were nothing more than dour and solemn moralists, and will be appreciated by those who already know that what early photographers were really interested in is a lot different than what most contemporary historians would have us believe.

    

    

    

    

    In his first book Pictures Under Discussion, previously unpublished landscapes and still lifes are combined with these powerful portraits to attest to the penetration of his eye and to give new dimension to his photographic achievement. 180 pages; 85 duo-toned b&w plates; 10 x 8 inches. Index.

    We are more than what we sayAnd less than what we wishLiving together, separately,United by divisionConnected, disconnectedOh, People Are Strange*12 Stories and 7 poems, inspired by 19 photographs*

    Find out about the Coast Starlight, which carries passengers from Los Angeles along the Pacific coast to Seattle and all points in between; or the 7,000 kilometer Trans-Siberian, crossing the entirety of Mongolia and Russia from Beijing to Moscow; or “El Chepe,” the Mexican Copper Canyon railway, a line that took 90 years to build and negotiates 87 tunnels, 36 bridges, and sweeping hairpin bends as it climbs from sea level to the rim-top views it offers at 2,400m. Enjoy the engineering excellence of the Konkan Railway in India, connecting Mumbai with the port of Mangalore via some 2,000 bridges and 90 tunnels, or experience the Shinkansen “Bullet Train” as it races at speeds of more than 300 km/h between Tokyo and Kyoto, passing the iconic Mount Fuji on the way. Whether it is aboard the Orient Express from London to Istanbul or travelling the Transcontinental railroad through the Canadian Rockies to the Pacific coast, or riding the Serra Verde Express through the Brazilian rainforest, Rail Journeys takes the reader on a journey through some of the most unusual, romantic, and remarkable landscapes in the world.

    During that time, we road tripped in a 4X4 SUV with an Airstream trailer in tow to all 59 U.S. National Parks in 52 weeks—an average of one park per week. With parks located in Maine, the Caribbean, northern Alaska, in the heart of the Pacific Ocean and everywhere in between, it was an ambitious yet attainable goal. We plotted our route carefully and planned contingencies so that we could capture the best of every park in one calendar year. A Year in the National Parks: The Greatest American Road Trip will be a coffee table book showcasing our very best images from each of the 59 U.S. National Parks, shot while on assignment for National Geographic, as well as information about the depths of the American wilderness and our wild ride into it.

    

    

    123 black and white photographs. Design by Elton Robinson . 4to (cm 30x28) pp. 130 Brossura (wrappers) Lievissime fioriture in prossimità del dorso (Very slight yellowings near the spine) Molto Buono (Very Good) For two years Bruce Davidson photographed one block in East Harlem. He went back day after day, standing on sidewalks, knocking on doors, asking permissions to photograph a face, a child, a room, a family. Through his skill, his extraordinary vision, and his deep respect for his subjects, Mr. Davidson's portrait of the people of East 100th Street is a powerful statement of the dignity and humanity that is in all men / Per due anni Bruce Davidson ha fotografato un angolo di East Harlem, tornando giorno dopo giorno, in piedi sui marciapiedi, a bussare alle porte, chiedendo il permesso di fotografare un volto, un bambino, una stanza, una famiglia. Attraverso la sua straordinaria visione e il profondo rispetto per i suoi soggetti, l'affresco del popolo di East 100th Street è una potente affermazione della dignità e umanità che è in tutti gli uomini.

    

    The Inspired Eye, Vol.I, is the first of a two-part discussion about the nature of inspiration and the creative process as it relates to photographers. GET A COPYhttp://craftandvision.com/products/th...A vital creative life and an understanding of how our own process work is the greatest asset a photographer can have and precedes any of our work with the camera or in the digital darkroom.

    

    Britain ruled the world again for a brief time in the mid- to late-60s, when it dominated the worlds of music, fashion, film and, of course, soccer. The cover image of Patti Boyd has now become one of the iconic images of that decade. At the time she was married to Beatle George Harrison and later, of course, to Eric Clapton about whom he wrote the song "Wonderful Tonight".One additional note is that there was actually a companion LP to the book by The Bob Crewe Generation of "Music to Watch Girls By" fame featuring the same cover as the book.

    The book has 292 pages and contains 200 images, both colour and black & white, as well as texts, interviews and essays.

    

    

    Trained as a marine biologist and a photographer, the Mexico City-born Mittermeier combines her work behind the lens with her passion for environmentalism, taking pictures around the world to explore our relationship to the earth and ocean and to draw attention to the beauty and the plight of our planet.In Amaze, Mittermeier elicits our wonder and awe at the natural world and the labyrinth or "maze" of navigating a sustainable existence. The book combines two series: "Enoughness" and "The Water's Edge." The first draws out Mittermeier's philosophy for a mindful and sustainable way of being in the world. Bringing together photographs from some of the most isolated corners of the earth, the book shows wild animals, remote landscapes, and indigenous peoples--challenging the cult of material wealth and proposing alternatives for a meaningful and sustainable connection to our environment, each other, and ourselves.In "The Water's Edge," Mittermeier presents photographs from around the globe that capture the frontier between land and ocean and the special meaning it has for human life. Whether it is fishermen bringing in their daily haul, women washing laundry in the shallows, or surfers frolicking in the spray, the water's edge is revealed as an integral and universal space in which ephemeral moments reveal not only our common dependency on the planet, but also our common humanity.As much an inspiration for sustainable living as a staggering collection of nature photography, Amaze i s a must-have book for all those who care about our planet and those we share it with.

    The Richard Avedon images presented here, many for the first time, were made in Paris for "Harper's Bazaar" during the 1950s. What is particularly special about this presentation is that the images are being reproduced to the exact scale of the engraver's prints made for Avedon by the master printer Andre Gremola, and are uncropped, on their original mounts, with all of the artist's notations on both front and back. Thus, they provide a remarkable portrait of the working methods of one of the most influential fashion photographers in history. This oversized book, measuring 12 x15 inches, is being printed without compromise with tritone plates throughout, and will be a stunning object in its own right. With this body of work, which includes the photographer's iconographic "Dovima with Elephants, Cirque d'Hiver, 1955", Avedon broke radical new ground in the history of photography. He documented the moment in which postwar France was striving through fashion to reclaim its cultural eminence. Judith Thurman, fashion writer for "The New Yorker" contributes the book's introduction. Edition of 100. "And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible."-Richard Avedon "(Avedon) is a passionate artist, always trying to climb inside his image. He gets there, too. It's a self-portrait in the eye of the beholder who is also, and so strenuously, beheld." -Thomas Hess "Here, for instance, is all that I read in an Avedon photograph, the seven gifts it gives me: first of all, truth, the sensation of truth, the exclamation of truth; then character (pensivity, melancholy, severity, satisfaction, gaiety, etc.); then type (the politician, the writer, the executive); then Eros, a commitment, whether seductive or repulsive, to affect; then death, the corpse's vocation; then too the past, what has been caught, taken, can never come back again, can no longer be touched; lastly. . .lastly the seventh meaning, which is just the one which resists all the rest, the inexpressible supplement, the evidence that, within the image, there is always something else: the inexhaustible, the intractable element of Photography (desire?)." -Roland Barthes Essay by Judith Thurman. 40 quadratone. 12 x 14.75 in.

    It juxtaposes intimate images of home life on Long Island alongside NYC street and night life - the likes of which have never been seen. Quirky, nostalgic and a bit naughty, it's a genuine cultural capsule of a decade that captivates today's generation. The photos and stories illustrate Meryl's coming of age: The South Bronx, suburbia, The Mystery Club, dance lessons, Girl Scouts, the Rockettes, the circus, school, mitzvahs, proms, weddings, gay Fire Island, the Hamptons, feminists, happy hookers, CBGB, Punks, Disco, After Hours and Go-Go Bars, Jewish and LGBT Pride, street life, home theatrics, holidays, friendship, family and love. Meryl's introduction to purgatory began with a 1957 childhood incident, being told "You can never go to heaven, the best you can do is purgatory" because she was Jewish. That's when Meryl learned about purgatory, and the importance of being open minded and not pre-judging people. Meryl moved to NYC in 1975, with her first paycheck she bought an antique edition of Dante's Purgatory & Paradise illustrated by Gustave Doré. She needed to "own it" literally and figuratively. Meryl carried her medium format camera everywhere with great delight - photographing the world she knew on Long Island- donning childhood uniforms and costumes for self-portraits, comedic insider views of family and friends homes, the hilarity of her parents' Mystery Club circle. "Not in mine eyes alone is Paradise," declares Dante in Paradiso. Many viewed '70s NYC as hell, purgatory at best. With an open mind and heart, Meryl found paradise photographing the streets and nightlife of The City, many so wild she never dared to show them until now.

    Jonathan and Angela Scott's Safari Guide to East African Animals is a great compilation of information and award winning photography.

    He's an insider in that elite group of rich, famous, and beautiful jet-setters whose celebrity and pulchritude have become an almost obsessive fascination for a public that can't get enough of them. Now this dazzling collection of over 600 color and black-and white-photographs--both intimate and revealing--provides a window into the exciting life of the man whose portfolio resembles a "who's who" of entertainment and fashion. The faces and bodies--including many nudes--of supermodels, movie stars, musicians, and artists grace the pages of this lush volume in images from magazine and celebrity shoots as well as in candid photos which capture private moments with delicious spontaneity. And throughout, a collage of travel souvenirs and personal notes--written in d'Orazio's own hand--about his work, travels, and fascinating photographic encounters provide a startling window into the life of this remarkable artist. More than a mere photographic collection or celebrity journal, A Private View offers a voyeuristic vision of a lifestyle watched by many, but lived by few.

    

    

    

    

    GET A COPYhttp://craftandvision.com/products/dr...Broken into 4 parts, Drawing The Eye looks at this concept of visual mass, or visual pull, in concept, in camera, in post-processing, and then through creative exercises related to each of these sections.Don’t let the egghead title fool you, this is not academia; it’s a real-world discussion about making images that are more powerful because they’re made with a fuller understanding of where the eye moves in an image, and how that understanding can change the way you shoot and process your images.

    

    These strongholds may now largely be ruined, but in their dilapidation they have gained an air of mystery and beauty. The people they once protected are gone, the borders they guarded have dissolved, the fragile communities and wooden buildings that built up around them have been dismantled. Only the castles, centuries on, remain – proof of how robustly they were constructed in the first place. From the tip of southern Ireland to northern Scotland, from castles maintained over the centuries to ones that are now mere ruins, Celtic Castles celebrates the stories behind more than 100 strongholds. In these we find tales of religious dissent, of English Parliamentarians attacking Irish Catholic refuges, of warring Scottish clans, of the English and Scots fighting over Scottish independence. And in the buildings we find such curiosities as Britain’s only triangular castle or the hiding place for the Scottish crown jewels. With 150 outstanding colour photographs, Celtic Castles is a brilliant pictorial examination of worlds gone by.

    The flow of images takes you on a journey that loosely travels from west to east of Hong Kong island, from the boat people through construction and modernisation and across the harbour to the Kowloon side, ending in the New Territories and the quiet waters of Hong Kong. The selection of this new body of work feels more natural and closer to documentary compared to his previous highly stylised approach on street photography. In his own manifesto “Thoughts on Street Photography” which he wrote at the age of 28, and of which carefully selected quotes can be found throughout the book, he mentions: ‘My realistic street photos are rarely selected. Pictorial aesthetics and images with a sense of humour are still the key for salon photos but I expect changes to happen soon. In the meantime, I will just keep trying." In 2015 Fan Ho’s last dream started to materialise. Fan Ho selected about 500 old negatives from his own collection which he cropped in his signature style. After the very unfortunate event of his passing, it took another year for the project to be completed with the help of his family and Sarah Greene. In addition to the images, the book begins with a touching foreword written by John Woo about his personal encounters with Fan Ho. The book also includes an essay by professor Joseph Fung. Fan Ho’s colourful life is summarised by Sarah Greene in the biographical notes at the hand of multiple conversations and recordings with the artist.

    A dream-team of Brooklyn rock'n'rollers has banded together to produce this spectacular book! Featuring poetry by ZACHARY LIPEZ (Fresh Kills) photographs by NICHOLAS ZINNER (The Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and design by STACY WAKEFIELD (Index Magazine).

    Attention Servicemember is Ben Brody’s searing elegy to the experience of the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Brody was a soldier assigned to make visual propaganda during the Iraq War. After leaving the army, he traveled to Afghanistan as an independent civilian journalist. Returning to rural New England after 12 years at war, he found his home unrecognizable - even his own backyard radiated menace and threat. So he continued photographing the war as it exists in his own mind. Inspired by military field manuals, Attention Servicemember invites viewers through an evolving and often wickedly funny creative process - some pictures are intimate snapshots, some are slick jingoistic propaganda, others are meditative and subtle tableaus. Writing from an intensely personal perspective, he also offers an insiders’ view of the military, the media, and their contentious but symbiotic partnership. Anyone wondering how we wound up trusting serial liars and arguing about fake news should take a closer look at the cognitive disconnection in Baghdad and Kabul during the height of the wars. With a darkly engaging design treatment by Kummer & Herrman, Attention Servicemember is a powerful passport to that world.

    VISION IS BETTER is a compilation of the 50 most popular articles covering a range of topics, all of which share one common theme – the photographic life and craft.GET A COPYhttp://craftandvision.com/products/vi...Becoming a better photographer is not only a matter of learning which buttons to press and in which direction to point your camera. It’s a matter of knowing why to do those things, where to look for inspiration, how to handle the distractions, and how to avoid getting sucked in by the lesser concerns. It is 100% Pixelated Image Blog. If you like David’s writing and want more of it, in a great-looking offline format, this is a killer deal.

    

    An online community of local photographers submitted photos to be considered for publication in this book. Then, area residents voted to determine which photos would be published. Top-rated photos, as well as editors' picks, are selected for publication. It's the best of Wisconsin, through the eyes of those who know it best: Wisconsin photographers.

    After a swim in the Aegean Sea, a bizarre epiphany in an olive grove confirms her explorations with painting and instills her with the courage to either mend or end her broken marriage. Her immediate tasks are to heed the lessons of the past, forgive her own mistakes, and resurrect faith in her intuitive powers. Seven years of painting workshops at home and abroad give unparalleled inspiration for her work before another devastating loss: the black curtain lowers when her brilliant, ever youthful mentor loses her life. Reasonable plans for a secure future on her own are firming into place as flashes of illumination continue to beckon from distant shores. The most enchanted moments of her life have occurred in Greece. Can living there offer the serenity she seeks? For a middle- aged woman with minimal financial resources to believe she can live her dream is irrational. Maybe she's having a mid-life crisis, but what if she isn't? With her bag of paints, high hopes, and a growing sense of humor she bids farewell to her past and sails forward to 'trust in the process' of creating a new single life and art on a small Greek Island.

    Photography, Art Criticism

    It is the story of the rapid rise and subsequent decline of the individually owned mom-and-pop motel in The Golden State. It is an exploration of theme-based marketing and a documentation of American culture at perhaps what will be the most prosperous time in United States history.

    Encyclopedia of Flowers

    

    

    Hopper has also, however, made a name for himself as an artist and a photographer. His photographic chronicle of America in the 1960s, a decade marked by awakening and rebellion and documented by Hopper in forceful black-and-white pictures, has now become legendary. A System of Moments, published on the occasion of a major retrospective exhibition at the MAK, Vienna, is a kaleidoscopic documentation of painting, photography, film, and life. It is the first comprehensive publication that takes in to account all of the diverse artistic activities in Hopper's nearly 50-year career, and it examines particularly the subtle connection between genres that is a hallmark of his work. For the first time, recent photographic works, which emerged after a long hiatus from the medium in the 1990s, are also presented. A major retrospective that will be the definitive statement on Hopper's career.

    

    Lisa Fonssagrives: Three Decades of Classic Fashion Photography chronicles Fonssagrives's modeling years and establishes her role in bringing fashion photography to the level of high art. It's easy to forget the clothes in light of her sleek, athletic form and engaging Mona Lisa smile. While the tall columns of text may dissuade you from reading the essays, plug on. David Seidner's and Martin Harrison's essays are informed and engaging. The beautifully produced illustrations prove her more a muse than a model for fashion photographers such as Richard Avedon, Anton Bruehl, Horst, Man Ray, and Irving Penn. Readers have the pleasure of watching her become more beautiful as she ages.

    When her police contact asks her to look into a "suicide," she suddenly finds herself in a labyrinth of deception, drugs, murder -- and all-too-human corruption. The cops are her allies, except for the ones who want her dead. The hellbreed are her targets, except for the ones who might know what's going on. Her city is in danger, time is running out, and each lead only draws her deeper. How far will a hunter go when her city -- and her friends -- are on the line? Just far enough. "Step into Redemption Alley..."

    GET A COPYhttp://craftandvision.com/products/th...Most of those lessons are accompanied with real-life, honest-to-God assignments to get you out there learning how to make stronger photographs, not just learning to use a camera.The Visual Toolbox is 201 pages long: a big, gorgeous, PDF eBook, filled from front to back with the stuff that will make you more comfortable with the tools of your craft and more fluent with the language of this art. It’ll take you past images that are sharp and well-exposed, to photographs that are alive and say something.Lessons include topics like isolation, scale, balance and tension, abstraction and expressionism, seeing light, understanding visual mass and energy, using negative space, using your lenses more expressively, exploring the effects of perspective on your image, and so much more. Then it’s your turn and if you’re looking for practical hands-on ideas to really solidify this stuff, those are there too.

    This guide has all the information you need to make your trip richer and more rewarding. - Volume 2 covers Arizona & New Mexico - 220+ pages of great information for everyone; no need to be a photographer - Hundreds of locations, including the best spots and how to get there - All the major national parks, monuments and state parks - Clear and precise indications provided for hard-to-find sites - Lots of travel tips not usually found in traditional guidebooks - Where, when and how to get the best shots - Valuable tips on composition, exposure and hard-to-shoot scenery - 120+ high-quality B&W photographs - companion CD-ROM "Images of the Southwest-Vol. 2" to pre-visualize the sites The photography as well as the reproduction quality of the B&W images make these new guidebooks very unique. Eleven photographers, all pros and advanced amateurs, contributed their talent to illustrate the sites.

    

    Hardcover. Black laminated cloth-covered boards with title stamped in gold on cover and spine, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs and text by Edward Steichen. Includes a biographical outline. Designed by Kathleen Haven. Unpaginated (284 pp.), with 249 black and white plates. 11-1/2 x 10 inches.

    

    It is a sound we can learn to live without in the city, but it can instantly summon a flood of memories of a country childhood. This National Geographic hardcover book uses photography and descriptive prose to tell the story of rural America in the 1970s. Five chapters describe "our roots", small towns, work, leisure and community outside and away from our growing cities.

    The Ratcliffe photographs take on the tonal quality of a partially lit ecosphere unique to the photographer and his subject. A brilliant manipulator of half-light, Kenna's grainy, spatial topography epitomizes the gray skies of Northern England that were the ubiquitous backdrop to his childhood. Kenna's Ratcliffe photographs create the impression of an atmospherically foggy day, registering the homeostasis of a mood that is a dominant characteristic of his work. Beautifully printed in duotone on matt art paper, Ratcliffe Power Station is published in a first edition of 3,000 copies. Introduction by Jeremy Reed.

    New to this edition are sections dedicated to unusual and hand-colored photographs, as well as a 12-page illustrated introduction by renowned old-photograph expert Maureen Taylor.

    And yes, it’s free. GET A COPY http://craftandvision.com/products/cr...Craft & Vision is a collection of hands-on, practical articles written by the following photographers: David duChemin, Piet Van den Eynde, Andrew S. Gibson, Nicole S. Young, Alexandre Buisse, Stuart Sipahigil, Eli Reinholdtsen and Michael Frye.Readers will gain fresh ideas and insights into improving their photographic vision and the skills required to compose the images they want to make. It is 67 spreads (as in 134 magazine pages) which makes it the second largest ebook we’ve ever produced.This is a downloadable PDF eBook. And it's free. Download it. Enjoy it. Tell your friends about it.