Kategoria BISAC: Photography >> Individual Photographers - General

This collection of elegantly composed black-and-white images by one of New Mexico s most accomplished photographers, celebrates the state s captivating physical variety and enduring allure. With subject matter ranging from some of the state s most iconic landforms including the White Sands desert and Carlsbad Caverns to the people who work the land, Varjabedian s images pay homage to New Mexico s ancient history and to the homely details of everyday life. In photographing his subjects, whether epic or mundane, Varjabedian seeks the moments when the light, shadow, composition, and other...

The photographs taken by Charlotte T. McGraw, the official Women's Army Corps photographer during World War II, offer the single most comprehensive visual record of the approximately 140,000 women who served in the U.S. Army during the war. This collection of 150 of McGraw's photos includes pictures made in Africa, in England at the headquarters of the European Theater of Operations, in Asia and the Pacific, and in military hospitals in the United States.

Serving from July 1942 to August 1946, Captain McGraw provided more than 73,000 photographs to the War Department Bureau of Public...

Before the film, Cesar Chavez, Chavez'slife was depicted in photographsby his confidant, Jon Lewis.

In the winter of 1966, twenty-eight-year-old ex-marineJon Lewis visited Delano, California, thecenter of the California grape strike. He thought he might stay awhile, then resume studying photography at San Francisco State University. He stayed for two years, becoming the United Farm Workers Union s semiofficial photographer and a close confidant of farmworker leader Cesar Chavez.

Surviving on a picket s wage of five dollars a week, Lewis photographed twenty-four hours a day...

Benjamin Lowy's powerful and arresting color photographs, taken over a six-year period through Humvee windows and military-issue night vision goggles, capture the desolation of a war-ravaged Iraq as well as the tension and anxiety of both U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians. To photograph on the streets unprotected was impossible for Lowy, so he made images that illuminate this difficulty by shooting photographs through the windows and goggles meant to help him, and...

Alternative Photographic Processes teaches techniques, both analog & digital, allowing artists to bring a personal touch through manipulation of a photograph, the negative, and the print. This book stands apart from recent publications on alternative processes by presenting a range of new approaches and methods to achieve popular techniques, as well as providing step-by-step guidance for an array of unique techniques meant to inspire artists working in various mediums. Through detailed guidance, working artist examples, and info about the contemporary use of these processes, this book will...

Winner of the 2016 Western Heritage Award for Photography from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
Winner of the 2015 Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association
Winner of the 2015 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards for Arts Book and Best Book
2015 Southwest Books of the Year
Winner of the 2016 Southwest Book Design and Production Awards for Trade Book, Illustrated and Art and Photography from the New Mexico Book Association

The distinguished American Indian photographer Lee Marmon has documented over sixty years of Laguna history:...