Kategoria BISAC: Photography >> Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General

Less than thirty years after Lewis and Clark completed their epic journey, Prince Maximilian of Wied a German naturalist and his entourage set off on their own daring expedition across North America. Accompanying the prince on this 1832 34 voyage was Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, whose drawings and watercolors designed to illustrate Maximilian s journals now rank among the great treasures of nineteenth-century American art. This lavishly illustrated book juxtaposes Bodmer s landscape images with modern-day photographs of the same views, allowing readers to see what has changed, and what seems...

In January 1839, photography was announced to the world. Two years prior, a young Queen Victoria ascended to the throne of Great Britain and Ireland. These two events, while seemingly unrelated, marked the beginnings of a relationship that continued throughout the nineteenth century and helped construct the image of an entire age.

A Royal Passion explores the connections between photography and the monarchy through Victoria's embrace of the new medium and her portrayal through the lens. Together with Prince Albert, her beloved husband, the Queen amassed one of the earliest...

You have the camera, you have the skills, and you have the pictures. Now what? Author Shirley Read expertly leads you through the world of exhibiting your photography one minute detail at a time. From finding a space and designing the exhibition to actually constructing a show and publicizing yourself, every aspect of exhibiting your photography is touched upon and clarified with ample detail, anecdotes, and real life case studies. In this new and expanded second edition, Shirley Read further illuminates the world of social networking, exhibiting, and selling photography online so your...

"In the beginning, there was no real plan, just a road trip that became a journey." In the years 1986 and 1987, Keith Carter and his wife, Patricia, visited one hundred small Texas towns with intriguing names like Diddy Waw Diddy, Elysian Fields, and Poetry. He says, "I tried to make my working method simple and practical: one town, one photograph. I would take several rolls of film but select only one image to represent that dot on my now-tattered map. The titles of the photographs are the actual names of the small towns. . . ." Carter created a body of work that evoked the essence of...