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Photoshop Lightroom Adventure: Mastering Adobe's next-generation tool for digital photographers

17 reviews
Mikkel Aaland

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007

Great Inspiration for any artist
Great book, not only from a reading perspective, but from an art perspective. The book is beautiful, inspiring, and informative. I really enjoyed the read, and the pictures are fabulous. Initially, when I requested a review copy, I thought it was for Photoshop CS3, I was unaware that Adobe made software called Lightroom. I have a Mac with Apeture, which is similar to Lightroom, but ...

Uncommon Places: The Complete Works

10 reviews
Lynn Tillman, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen

Aperture, 2004

a TRUE master
this is one of the first great works of color photography, and is still as fresh and significant as it was 30 years ago. forget all the imitators of today's contemporary scene, this was one of the first and is still better than anything to come along since (with the exception of sternfeld's american prospects which is equally great). and for those who say this is snapshot photography, think ...

Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera (Updated Edition)

451 reviews
Bryan Peterson

Amphoto Books, 2004

understanding Exposure
THIS BOOK HAS BEEN A BIG HELP IN MY PHOTOGRAPHY,JUST WHAT I NEEDED,I HAVE TOLD MY PHOTO CLUB ABOUT IT..

Why People Photograph

7 reviews
Robert Adams

Aperture, 1996

Photographers -- this book is your friend.
If you are not connected with any photography/art community, this book is for you. If none of your friends has an MFA, and if you are in need of someone who can speak intelligently about photography as art, then again, this book is for you. Robert Adams' writing is clear, concise, and insightful. Adams tells us why we photograph, for example, why we photograph landscapes. The answers include: ...

The New West: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range

2 reviews
Robert Adams

Aperture, 2008

The (old) new west
The New West is one of the most significant works of photography in the 20th century, presenting the reality of the western landscape in harsh contrast to the mythology of the other Adams... The pictures cut straight to the bone, showing the damage done to a landscape by our progress, but always the light is perfect, the skies brilliant, and the distant horizon intact. This work is a challenge ...

Immediate Family

35 reviews

Aperture, 1994

Grand Photographic Book
I love these photographs. They have amazing soul and power inside them. Brilliant exposures and a great looking family.

Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 2 (Apple Pro Training Series)

7 reviews
Ben Long, Richard Harrington, ...

Peachpit Press, 2008

A work book
This book comes with a DVD with media files to load to a Mac and then follows step by step on hands learning for work flow within Aperture 2. The book starts with the basics in a Getting Started chapter outlines system requirements, setting up the environment and system preferences, calibrating display while explaining methodology and course structure, as well as outlines chapters that are for ...

Josef Koudelka: Invasion 68

Aperture, 2008

In 1968, Josef Koudelka was a 30-year-old acclaimed theater photographer who had never made pictures of a news event. That all changed on the night of August 21, when Warsaw Pact tanks invaded the city of Prague, ending the short-lived political liberalization in Czechoslovakia that came to be known as Prague Spring. Koudelka had returned home the day before from photographing gypsies in Romania. In the midst of the turmoil of the Soviet-led ...

Apple Aperture 2: A workflow guide for digital photographers (Digital Workflow) (Digital Workflow)
Ken McMahon, Nik Rawlinson

Focal Press, 2008

Apples Aperture software is a post-production tool designed to allow digital photographers to import, manage and enhance photographs in one simple, integrated workflow. Aperture 2, the recently updated version of the software, includes more than 100 new features for photo management and image processing, and this much-needed guide takes you through the tools and knowledge necessary to get up-and-running fast. Unlike other software books on the ...

Henri Cartier-Bresson (Aperture Masters of Photography)

8 reviews

Aperture, 1997

A True Master
If Cartier-Bresson did not invent the art of 35mm street photography, he certainly brought it to the attention of other serious photographers and the public. Trained as a painter, his eye for composition was unerring, but it was his instinct for the defining human gesture--that he termed "the decisive moment"--that made him one of the immortals of photographic history. As one of the founding ...

Jock Sturges: Notes

14 reviews

Aperture, 2004

This review is going to be............
....about my own credo of America, and of the First Amendment. My online purchase of this is analagous to the story of a Yale professor I read about a few years ago...having no interest in guns, or hunting, he still believes in the Second Amendment; he bought a cheap shotgun, fired it once, and set it aside. That makes him a gun owner, "one of us". I haven't read this book; it is shelved in a ...

Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age

23 reviews

Aperture, 1993

workers: a great work!
The author: a great reporter. The book: a detailed "story" of manual workers, from Sicily to Cuba and India... Very good images, very well printed. Very very good black and white warm tone.

Radiant Identities: Photographs by Jock Sturges

29 reviews

Aperture, 1994

The early Jock Sturges
I first came across this book about ten years ago and when I did I instantly became a Jock Sturges fan. But it wasn't until resonantly that I realized just how powerful and deep his art can be. Visiting an art gallery I was stunned by the detail, contrast and the three dimensional quality of Jock's full sized prints. The images you see in his books might have been taken with a medium format ...

The Places We Live

Aperture, 2008

Luigi Ghirri: It's Beautiful Here, Isn't It...

1 review
Germano Celant

Aperture, 2008

Filled with countless color photos, as well as essays covering Ghirri's reflections
"It's Beautiful Here, Isn't It..." is not just a book title; it's a statement that perfectly sums up this newest collection of photography from Luigi Ghirri. Filled with countless color photos, as well as essays covering Ghirri's reflections on the time he took the photos and the atmosphere surrounding the events, "It's Beautiful Here, Isn't It..." adds a personal touch to the gorgeous shots on ...

Photo Art

Aperture, 2008

More adventurous in scope than other comparable compendiums, Photo Art is a vast critical survey of contemporary conceptual-oriented photography. It particularly addresses the work of artists emerging in Western and Eastern Europe--many of whom will be new to American audiences--and presents critical contexts for their work in accompanying essays. Gathering more than 120 image-makers from around the globe, this luscious compendium reads like ...

Erwin Olaf

Aperture, 2008

"Vermeer Noir" might be an apt description of Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf's disquieting image repertoire. His subjects are posed indoors, immobile, somewhat in reverie, and bathed in nearby window light--but not tranquilly so. An atmosphere of sinister but clinical indifference attends both them and their environments, rendering them into beautiful but dislocated mannequins in catalogue-furnished interiors. All sense of belonging to a place is ...

Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph

16 reviews

Aperture, 1997

"Cast A Cold Eye On Life, On Death. Horseman, Pass By!" Epitaph of W.B. Yeats
It is not overstating the case to say that creating these photographs cost Diane Arbus her life, her suicide followed soon after they were assembled. When you study them, (and you study them, you don't look at them), you quickly understand why. Arbus was a brittle and emotionally volatile woman long before taking these haunting images, the product of a privileged upbringing who cut her teeth in ...

Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values

3 reviews

Aperture, 1989

a MUST READ for serious photographers!
This is an important collection of essays for the serious photographer and for anyone interested in the art of photography. This book is destined to become a classic and will be read a hundred years from now. Adams' many excellent books of his own photography are testimony to the validity of what he writes about. I have read these essays over and over again and continue to learn. Robert ...

Art Photography Now

6 reviews
Susan Bright

Aperture, 2006

A trip to 80 (good) art galleries in a single book
It is difficult to find good contemporary photography overviews -- typically, you could go to galleries or museums for several years or buy a stack of art photography books and spend days going through them -- assuming you had a strong Art background. This book offers a nice alternative and it is one of the best overviews of contemporary fine art photography available. Aperture, a respected ...

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