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This book explores the interplay between 19th-century photography and Europe's vision of the Middle East. The Middle East played a critical role in the development of photography as a new technology and an art form. Likewise, photography was instrumental in cultivating and maintaining Europe's distinctively Orientalist vision of the Middle East. As...

Why take a self-portrait but obscure your face with a lightbulb (Lee Friedlander, Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts (1968)? Or deliberately underexpose an image (Vera Lutter, Battersea Power Station, XI: July 13 , 2004)? And why photograph a ceiling (William Eggleston, Red Ceiling , 1973)? In Why It Does Not Have To Be In Focus , Jackie Higgins...

Richard Prince emerged in the 1980s as one of America's new, highly innovative artists who worked with the margins of American subcultures and visual debris. Highly idiosyncratic subject matter - such as one-line jokes, cartoons, cowboys ('borrowed' from the Marlboro ads) and motorcycle gangs - are central to his work. In the late 1970s Prince was...

Digital technology is transforming commercial photography - offering speed, efficiency and higher quality imaging. Yet, for all its advantages, the world of digital photography is rife with challenges. This handbook for using and managing digital techniques smoothly and effectively takes readers step-by-step through the entire digital process, from...

Since 1978, French photographer Frédéric Brenner has been chronicling the Jewish Diaspora by producing visual social histories of Jewish communities. Diaspora is a photographic record of his 25-year search for the Jewish population in 40 countries over five continents. Volume I, 344 pages, is a collection of 264 of Brenner's more than 80,000...

Książka ta to biografia jednego z najwybitniejszych fotografików XX wieku, Jacquesie Henrim Lartigue'u. Z jednej strony ukazuje szerokie tło epoki, w której stworzył swoje najważniejsze prace, z drugiej zaś przedstawia intrygujący splot okoliczności, który sprawił, że uznano go za jednego z najważniejszych mistrzów obiektywu XX wieku. Ponadto autor...