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  • My Florence

    A 70-Year Love Story

    by Art Shay ...
    My Florence is a collection of striking moments drawn from the shared life of renowned Chicago photojournalist ART SHAY and his beloved wife, Florence. By turns casual and glamorous, pensive and humorous, the photographs start the day Art and Florence met in 1942, as 20-year-old camp counselors in the Catskill Mountains, and continue for seven decades.Former LIFE, Fortune, Time, and Sports ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Chicago's Nelson Algren

    by Art Shay ...
    They met in 1949 when Art was a reporter for Life. Shay followed Algren around with a camera, gathering pictures for a photo-essay piece he was pitching to the magazine. Life didn’t pick up the article, but Shay and Algren became fast friends. Algren gave Shay’s camera entrance into the back-alley world of Division Street, and Shay captured Algren’s poetry on film. They were masters chronicling ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    In the summer of 1858 in a garden behind Christ Church in Oxford Charles Dodgson--better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll--dressed the six-year-old Alice Liddell in ragamuffin's clothes and then snapped the camera's shutter. In The Alice Behind Wonderland Simon Winchester uses the famous photograph of Alice as the launching pad for an appreciative energetic and penetrating look at the ... Read more

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  • Posing for Portrait Photography

    A Head-To-Toe Guide for Digital Photographers

    by Jeff Smith ...
    Aiming to help portrait photographers yield pleasing results with a variety of body types, this tutorial evaluates the subject’s appearance and suggests refining poses, providing tips to make sure each subject ends up with a result they like. Using before-and-after photos-and working through every region of the body from the head to the feet-acclaimed professional instructor Jeff Smith ... Read more

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  • Photography as Meditation

    Tap Into the Source of Your Creativity

    by Torsten Andreas Hoffmann ...
    For many people, photography serves as a form of meditation; a way to separate themselves from their stressful lives. In this book, Torsten Andreas Hoffmann explores an approach to artistic photography based on Japanese Zen-Philosophy.Meditation and photography have much in common: both are based in the present moment, both require complete focus, and both are most successful when the mind is free ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • On Photography

    by Walter Benjamin ...
    Translated by Esther Leslie ...
    Walter Benjamin’s essay ‘A Short History of Photography’ (1931) made bold statements about photographic pioneers such as David Octavius Hill and Nicéphore Niépce, and the social and historical context of their work. This first selection of Benjamin’s writings on photography includes a new translation of this influential essay as well as a range of Benjamin’s other writings, both published and ... Read more

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  • Texts

    by Lewis Baltz ...
    This is the long-awaited compendium of Lewis Baltzs writings from 1975 until 2007, drawn from his critical writing for magazines such as Art in America, the Times Literary Supplement, LArchitecture dAujourdhui and Purple. The book includes Baltzs texts on Edward Weston, Walker Evans, Robert Adams, Michael Schmidt, Allan Sekuka, Chris Burden, Thomas Ruff, Barry Le Va, Jeff Wall, Félix González ... Read more

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  • 365 Gratefuls

    Celebrating Treasures, Big and Small

    by Hailey Bartholomew, Andrew Bartholomew ...
    What are you grateful for?That is precisely the question that Hailey Bartholomew asked herself every day for a year. Struggling with depression, she reached out for help and received life-changing advice: Find something every day that you are grateful for.Embracing her assignment, Hailey used her talents as a photographer to put a twist on the exercise, taking pictures of her “gratefuls” and ... Read more

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  • The Book of Happiness: Africa

    by Joseph Peter ...
    Discover the book that puts a face on happinessIn 2009, photographer Joseph Peter traveled through fifty African nations in seventy-five days and shot 150,000 images—mostly portraits of joyous, proud, glorious faces. He photographed presidents and heads of state, soldiers and workers, and children of all ages. He captured their smiles, their laughter, their humanity.He captured their happiness ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Jewels

    50 Phenomenal Black Women Over 50

    by Michael Cunningham, Connie Briscoe ...
    A photographer and a New York Times bestsellingnovelist profile 50 women over the age of 50 who have been remarkably successful -- whether in reaching the top of thecorporate ladder, finding fame in politics or the arts, orraising a son to be proud of a single mother -- and revealthe ways that they have prevailed despite daunting obstacles.Jewels includes well-known and little-known womenalike, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Riga - Baltic Summer City

    Baltic Summer, #3

    by Giorgio di Bon ...
    Series Book 3 - Baltic Summer
    The wonders of Riga are revealed in the latest photo book by Giorgio di Bon. Riga is the largest of the Baltic capitals. Like the other Baltic capitals, the old town has been declared a UNESCO Heritage Site.Images capture a city at the height of summer. The Art Nouveau/Jugendstil architecture and 19th century wooden architecture is exceptional. The photos show scenes of a vibrant summer atmosphere ... Read more

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  • Dilli Dil

    by Julie Skarland ...
    The photographic journey of Julie Skarland, a fashion designer and artist from Norway, this book captures the beauty she sees in the small, simple things all around her in Dilli, her new home. Dilli Dil showcases Julie's fascination for Dilli, its people, streets, fauna, crafts and everyday objects often made through struggle and hardship, but also with pride, strength, faith and immense ... Read more

    $5.95 USD