Kategoria BISAC: Photography >> Subjects & Themes - Portraits & Selfies

Nude photography can be intimidating, for the artist and the subject. Technique, creativity, and psychology all need to be considered and executed seamlessly to achieve a photographer s desired artistic and professional result. Author Louis Benjamin has built a career by studying the intricacies of the perfect nude photography photo shoot and he has compiled what he has learned for you in this second edition of the best-selling book, The Naked and the Lens.

This revised text updates and builds upon the key concepts presented in the first edition that guide...

The birth of photography coincided with the expansion of European imperialism in the Middle East, and some of the medium's earliest images are Orientalist pictures taken by Europeans in such places as Cairo and Jerusalem--photographs that have long shaped and distorted the Western visual imagination of the region. But the Middle East had many of its own photographers, collectors, and patrons. In this book, Stephen Sheehi presents a groundbreaking new account of early photography in the Arab world.

The Arab Imago concentrates primarily on studio portraits by Arab and Armenian...

Calligraphy has held an honored place in the spiritual traditions of Tibet. Monks dedicate their lives to mastering the many subtleties of the art, often spending years transcribing sacred Buddhist manuscripts. The carefully composed lines and deliberate spatial awareness in each work of calligraphy within Sacred Scripts encourage reflection, mindfulness, and meditation.

Within these pages, sacred mantras, seed syllables,...

Die hier erstmals vorgestellte Bildnissammlung der osterreichischen Erzherzogin Maria Anna (1738-1789), Tochter Maria Theresias und Franz Stephans von Lothringen, zeigt eine faszinierende Adaption kaiserlicher Reprasentationspraktiken. Die Portrats des Klagenfurter Konvoluts dienen der Darstellung der weit gefacherten Habsburgerfamilie und bieten einen exemplarischen Einblick in die hofische Portratkultur des 18. Jahrhunderts.

Nineteenth-century Iran was an ocularcentered society predicated on visuality and what was seen and unseen, and photographs became liminal sites of desire that maneuvered "betwixt and between" various social spaces public, private, seen, unseen, accessible, and forbidden thus mapping, graphing, and even transgressing those spaces, especially in light of increasing modernization and global contact during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Of primary interest is how photographs negotiated and coded gender, sexuality, and desire, becoming strategies of empowerment, of domination,...

'Those who have eyes, ' writes Georges Braque, my favourite cubist painter, 'know just how irrelevant words are to what they see.' Does this mean that I don't have the eyes to
see? Perhaps it does. But it also shows my propensity to take refuge in words. I can't draw or paint. It's only words that I can rely on. If I turn to them, this is because when my eyes look at a painting, words help me discover more about myself.

A hug is a simple but profound gesture that can express care, connection, and love. Free hugs is a global movement started by Juan Mann in 2006 through a viral YouTube video, and people around the world have been hugging on the street since. Free hugs can shift deeply held beliefs about the nature of the world and people, it brings joy and physical well-being, it brings more genuine connection in our disconnected, tech filled lives.

Rossi Dimitrova loves hugs and has been a free hugger and photographer for 9 years, both hugging and documenting the Free Hugs movement in...