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As part of the "Inspiration Books" series, this work examines contemporary photography.

"We are what we see and think in the face of a fleeting moment – Thus, the way we act, in  the consequence of our own bearing, eternally." 

Following George Lucas's maxim of “Give me a few frames and I'll make a film out of it”, this book project combines various forms of expressions such as image (photographic material) and text (statements) through certain cinematic means (story/plot) to produce an exciting and emotional photographic book.

The fourth edition of this comprehensive history of photography has been thoroughly revised and updated. Spanning the entire history of the medium, from its early development to current practice, and providing a focused understanding of the cultural contexts in which photographers have lived and worked throughout, this remains an all-encompassing survey.

Mary Warner Marien discusses photography from a truly global viewpoint and looks at a wide-ranging collection of images through the lenses of art, science, travel, war, fashion, the mass media and individual photographers. In addition to representing the established canon of Europe and the United States, key work from Latin America, Africa, India, Russia, China and Japan is also included. Professional, amateur and art photographers are all discussed, with ‘Portrait’ boxes devoted to highlighting important individuals and ‘Focus’ boxes charting particular cultural debates.

New additions to this fourth edition include an overview of photography’s involvement in conceptual art, a detailed review of the photographic work of artist Ed Ruscha and new material on European Worker Photography during the 1920s and 30s. Many new pictures have been added throughout the book, including superior versions of historical photographs and recent images from contemporary photographers, including Walead Beshty, Youssef Nabil, Lalla Essaydi and Ryan McGinley. A rich and vivid account of the history of photography placed in an essential cultural context, this indispensable book shows how photography has charted, shaped and sharpened our perception of the world.

‘Here is the history we’ve been waiting for … erudite and entertaining … she shows how pictures really did change our world. Her shrewd selection of over 600 fascinating photos (many in colour) illustrate a history that meets the ultimate test: open to any page and you’re hooked … and it’s free from tormenting academic jargon.’ Camera Arts

About the Author:

Mary Warner Marien is Professor Emerita in the Department of Fine Arts at Syracuse University, New York. She continues to lecture in the United States and Europe and in 2008 won an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writer award for her continuing work on the history and theory of documentary photography. She is the author of Photography and its Critics (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and 100 Ideas that Changed Photography (Laurence King, 2012) as well as numerous articles on photography.

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Посмотреть новое издание книги Photography: A Cultural History, Fifth Edition

300 illustrations

This book provides an inspirational education in photography for art, design and photography students, as well as young and new photographers. An accessible, original guide, it explores the subjects and themes that have always obsessed photographers and explains technique in a clear and simple way. Embracing the whole spectrum of photography from traditional to digital, it introduces the work of the masters of the art, as well as showing fresh, dynamic images created by young photographers from all over the world. An essential resource, the book also provides a valuable overview of careers in photography and a comprehensive reference section.

From the invention of the camera obscura to the birth of digital photography, this history of photography’s greatest advances focuses on individual artists, works, and moments that decisively shaped the evolution of a genre.

Chronologically arranged, each chapter focuses on a particular work or idea that changed the course of photography. Presented in beautiful spreads and with informative text, the book opens with photography’s genesis in the form of the camera obscura. Centuries later, Daguerre, Niepce, and Talbot invented their own means of capturing light on paper. The book covers groundbreaking genres such as still life, landscape, portraiture, and nudes. Sections on the role of photography in journalism illustrate how the camera’s presence on battlefields, on city streets, and in factories helped inform and reform the modern world. Fashion, animals, Surrealism, and staged portraits are also explored. Perfect for perusing or reading from cover to cover, this book illustrates how photography developed from a concept to a world-changing force — one that attempted to shed light on truth yet can also obscure and alter reality in dazzling ways.

250 illustrations, 64 in full color

Ever since Roger Fenton inaugurated the genre by photographing the Crimean War in 1855, the worlds great photojournalists have used a variety of approaches to bear witness to their times. At one end of the photojournalistic spectrum are war photographers like Robert Capa and Larry Burrows, who capture the most extreme events of human existence as they happen; at the other are social documentarians like Lewis Hine and Sebastião Salgado, who step back from the single dramatic incident to cover in depth such economic and cultural issues as labor and migration. By compiling 250 of the most memorable images from photojournalism’s 150-year history, Photojournalism 1855 to the Present: Editor’s Choice provides a fascinating introduction to the entire range of the field.

Author Reuel Golden, a noted authority on photojournalism, selected the fifty-four photographers featured in this book based on their critical reputations and historical importance. For each photographer, Golden provides a portfolio of representative images - many reproduced at full-page size - as well as a brief biography and an insightful critical commentary on his or her career. In these commentaries and in his informative introduction, Golden discusses the particular challenges of photojournalism, such as the relationship between photographer and subject, and the moral ramifications of aestheticizing human suffering. Yet perhaps most importantly, his text also encourages the reader to look closer and discover how well the photographs speak for themselves. From Frank Hurley’s groundbreaking World War I battlefield shots to Mary Ellen Mark’s stark portraits of American poverty and James Nachtwey’s haunting pictures of the September 11 attacks, the images in this book prove that even in our era of twenty-four-hour video-on demand, the still photograph remains as powerful as ever.

120 b/w photographs

San Francisco has long been one of America's most attractive cities, "a gleaming jewel of the West Coast surrounded on three sides by water." Its hilly streets provide gorgeous glimpses of San Francisco Bay and The Golden Gate Bridge and its neighborhoods reveals a mosaic of a city whose residents are an anthology of the world. Whether he's photographing the street life of bustling Chinatown, the gentrifying Mission or faux-Bohemian North Beach, this third generation San Franciscan renowned for his photographic essays captures it all In this superb collection of photographs of the city he loves.

Photographer and author Morton Beebe founded the West Coast arm of the Image Bank, the world's largest photography agency. His photography of exotic locales around the world is widely exhibited. He has published several books, including the best-selling San Francisco.

120 b/w photographs

Tokyo is a city of contrasts and contradictions in which East coexists with West; modernity thrives amidst age-old traditions, and orderliness prevails in one of the most densely populated cities in the world. This striking collection of black & white photographs illustrates all of these truisms about this complex city and its inhabitants. Whether he’s photographing a rooftop shrine set against the skyscrapers of the Shinjuku High rise district, a swirling mass of commuters in Tokyo Station at rush hour, or the tranquil beauty of the Imperial Palace, Ben Simmons’ photographs both radiate with Tokyo’s vitality and reveal its enduring traditions.

was born in 1952 in Columbus, Georgia. His photographs have appeared in several books and in such magazines as Time, National Geographic, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Geo, Stern, and Figaro. He lives in Tokyo, Japan where he has worked as a professional photographer since 1984.

* Strikingly illustrated introduction to this complex asian city
* The perfect keepsake for any traveler

100 color photographs

In this stunning collection of color images, noted photographer Rainer Kiedrowski presents Tuscany as it's never been seen before. Whether evocative rural landscapes or medieval towns, the verdant hills of Chianti or the great art centers of Florence, Pisa, and Siena, these pictures reveal the wondrous variety of a region unsurpassed in its natural beauty.

Полное, развернутое описание всех возможностей последней версии лучшего графического редактора — Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite 4 — сопровождается рекомендациями по практическому применению функций и инструментов программы. Большое количество примеров позволяет получить навыки работы в Photoshop. Особое внимание уделено нововведениям CS4, в частности возможностям версии Photoshop CS4 Extended. Материал структурирован таким образом, чтобы облегчить читателю поиск необходимой информации. Часть иллюстраций представлена на цветной вклейке. Прилагаемый компакт-диск содержит видеоуроки, дополнительные фильтры, макросы и многое другое.
Для всех пользователей Photoshop, а также для тех, кто хочет научиться эффективно работать в этой программе.

Оглавление.

Отрывок.

Лучший способ научиться что-нибудь делать — это попробовать. Книга, которую вы держите в руках, поможет вам в этом. Приведенные примеры не просто научат эффективно использовать возможности Photoshop CS4, но и обеспечат дизайнерскими рецептами на все случаи жизни. Вы сможете сразу перенести описанные приемы на практику. Много полезного содержит компакт-диск: дополнительные фильтры, кисти, макросы, а самое главное — видеоуроки и цветные иллюстрации к книге. Самые важные рисунки вынесены на цветную вклейку.
Для всех, кто хочет быстро получить практические навыки работы в Photoshop, а также иметь под рукой сборник готовых дизайнерских решений.

Отрывок.

Книга описывает каждый шаг цифрового рабочего потока. Это исчерпывающее руководство показывает, как инструменты, фильтры, диалоговые окна и процессы программы Photoshop могут использоваться профессионалами для получения высококачественных отпечатков и цифровых изображений. Автор рассказывает, как получать высококачественные отпечатки, как готовить изображения к печати, как добавлять водяные знаки и другие средства защиты авторского права, а также как обеспечивать и сохранять качество на протяжении всего процесса работы.

In Physique, Peter Kuhnst traces the history of the nude athlete in photography through distinct historical eras.

He begins in the mid-19th century with images from the early years of photography and proceeds to the 'moving' nude as exemplified by Eadweard Muybridge and the painterly photography of Pictorialism. In the second section, covering the first half of the 20th century, Kuhnst focuses on European Naturalism and the creative images of nudes in sport by photographers representing the New Objectivity.

The rise of Nazism was accompanied by a tendency toward a heroic view of the nude in photography, which was influenced in part by Italian Futurism; Leni Riefenstahl was a primary exponent of this movement.

The third section identifies a number of different photographic styles devoted to tradition, to rebellious protest and to provocative gags, and examines the aesthetic works of such American photographers as Robert Mapplethorpe, Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber and Annie Leibovitz.

30 years of Pierre & Gilles

As sweet as raspberry ripple, as tempting as popcorn: welcome to the seductive photographs of Pierre et Gilles, the masters of glam, kitsch, nostalgia, and everything fabulous. Bizarre and full of obscure significance, glitter, flowers, and hearts, the portraits are reminiscent of stills from film melodramas.

This saccharine collection of kitsch encompasses selections of Pierre et Gilles's most delectable works on the recurring theme of sailors and the sea.