Kategoria BISAC: Photography >> Subjects & Themes - General

Camouflage is an adaptive logic of escape from photographic representation. In Hide and Seek, Hanna Rose Shell traces the evolution of camouflage as it developed in counterpoint to technological advances in photography, innovations in warfare, and as-yet-unsolved mysteries of natural history. Today camouflage is commonly thought of as a textile pattern of interlocking greens and browns. But in Hide and Seek it reveals itself to be much more--a set of institutional structures, mixed-media art practices, and permutations of subjectivity, that emerged over the course of the...

All fine artists share a common goal: to combine individual elements into a convincing, cohesive whole that tells a story or expresses an intention. Photography is especially suited to this pursuit because the photographer can create multiple, distinct images of a single subject using a variety of design techniques. The display on a digital camera instantly shows the arrangement of elements in an image, allowing the photographer to make changes and refine their creation as they work.Albrecht Rissler believes that a firm understanding of image design is as important as having an observant...

Spanning Time: The Essential Guide to Time-lapse Photography is the ultimate how-to guide for creating time-lapse films, featuring both still and moving image techniques. Author Chris Weston provides all the information necessary to create compelling time-lapse sequences using a DSLR camera. As well as covering basic equipment requirements and shooting techniques, the book explores what makes a good time-lapse story, visualization, and advanced skills for creating multi-faceted time-lapse sequences. This book provides insider secrets including:

• How to create an...

Adobe's Lightroom has emerged as a must-have software due to its powerful editing tools and time saving organizational capabilities but how you establish a personalized, creative workflow that optimizes this technology, your time, and your art eludes most photographers. Jason Bradley, award-winning photographer and Lightroom pro, shares the answers to these questions in this practical and easy to follow guide that taps into the "how" and the "why" of a professional photographer's creative workflow in Lightroom.

Bradley will show you how all workflows can be simplified into...

Love Poems: Just Flowers is a miniature coffee table booklet, containing 24 pages of exquisite photographs of flowers, alongside a sweet love poem, on each page. Sized at 4x6" it fits nicely within any flower arrangement (or atop any gift purchase). The poetry expresses many different types of love sentiments, and can serve as the perfect gift idea, from gifts between lovers, to gifts between friends, sisters, or mothers and daughters. Both beautiful and romantic, it's a lovely gift for anyone. It can serve as the gift itself, or as a beautiful addition to any flower, balloon,...

Love Poems: Just Flowers is a miniature coffee table booklet, containing 24 pages of exquisite photographs of flowers, alongside a sweet love poem, on each page. Sized at 4x6" it fits nicely within any flower arrangement (or atop any gift purchase). The poetry expresses many different types of love sentiments, and can serve as the perfect gift idea, from gifts between lovers, to gifts between friends, sisters, or mothers and daughters. Both beautiful and romantic, it's a lovely gift for anyone. It can serve as the gift itself, or as a beautiful addition to any flower, balloon,...

The Theatre of Apparitions is an immersive and groundbreaking new monograph by the critically acclaimed art photographer Roger Ballen.

The author of numerous publications, including Asylum of the Birds and Outland, Ballen is best known for his psychologically powerful and masterfully composed images that exist in a space between painting, drawing, installation, and photography. This book is both a departure from his existing oeuvre and the culmination of his unique aesthetic linking image-making and theatrical performance. Separated into seven chapters or...