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Think you know photography? Think again. Through a carefully curated selection of quotes and images, this book reveals what matters most to the masters of photography. With accompanying text by Henry Carroll, author of the internationally bestselling Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs series, you’ll learn what photography actually means to the giants of the genres and how they developed their distinctive visual styles.

About the Author:

Henry Carroll studied photography at the Royal College of Art and his work has been exhibited worldwide. Henry’s clear, jargon-free style of teaching has demystified digital photography and inspired thousands to get creative with their cameras.

ILLUSTRATIONS: 120 b&w

* Newly discovered images of British fashion taken by world famous photographers for The Sunday Times during the 1960s, using the finest models of the day and published for the first time since their original appearance in editor Ernestine Carter's fashion pages

* With a foreword by fashion designer John Bates

For almost forty years one of Britain's most important photographic archives has remained unseen. Created by the legendary fashion editor Ernestine Carter, the hundreds of images she commissioned for The Sunday Times include some of the finest photo-shoots of the Sixties. Photographing Fashion champions the best of British chosen by her during this incredible decade: photographers John Cowan, Terence Donovan, John French and Patrick Hunt capture the mood, with the clothes of Mary Quant, John Bates, Gina Fratini, Foale & Tuffin, Biba, Jean Muir, and Ossie Clark. The emphasis is on an unswerving eye for style, with a fresh look at everything from ball gowns to beachwear. Unparalleled photographs, groundbreaking fashion, all published for the first time since they appeared in the decade that still defines British style.

With over 350 illustrations in colour and duotone

This marvellously rich photographic journey through the last sixty years of Italian history will be a joy for anyone who loves photography or Italy – a stunning anthology of some of the most important Italian and international photographers.

The first section records Italy's evolution since 1943 in photographs accompanied by the thoughts of witnesses. The first is by Robert Capa of the arrival of the American army in Sicily in 1943 and in the last, Gabriele Basilico shows the Calabrian coast where the bridge over the Straits of Messina could soon be built. These images encompass all genres: from the work of photojournalists to amateurs, from the first pioneers to contemporary practitioners from the worlds of fashion, architecture, nature photography and artistic experiment.

In Part Two six essays reflect upon moments and movements that have defined the evolution of Italian visual culture, both from the point of view of the creators and the ways in which their images were used.

The third section displays auteur portfolios, each composed of two photo-essays on the same theme, one by an Italian and the other by a non-Italian photographer. These are allied to a text by Ferdinando Scianna, one of Italy’s most prominent photographers.

Giovanna Calvenzi is one of the most prominent figures in European photography today. Currently the Director of Photography for Sportsweek, she has also been the photo-editor at several magazines, notably Amica and Vanity Fair. She has also curated many exhibitions and has sat on several juries, including the World Press Photo award.

Эта динамичная, вдохновляющая и всеобъемлющая книга по технике профессионального освещения рассказывает об увлекательных и новаторских работах фотографов со всего мира, объясняя систему постановки света, которая занимает крайне важное место в процессе достижения успеха.

Книга охватывает портретную съемку, моду и гламур. Она является уникальным источником информации и вдохновения, как для проницательного любителя, так и для уже состоявшегося фотографа-профессионала.

Объясняет постановку освещения при съемках лучших мировых фотографий. Каждая фотография снабжена детальными схемами постановки освещения: трехмерной и двумерной с видом сверху.

Включает указатель фотографов – отличный справочник для художественных редакторов и дизайнеров.

The phenomenally successful "Photographing People" owed its success to its inspiring and comprehensive showcase of professional lighting techniques featuring exciting and innovative work from photographers around the world. Now available in a revised and updated paperback edition, it covers the genres of portraits, fashion and glamour photography with depth and clarity. Although a vast range and diversity of work is on display, the key element in each shot is the lighting. For every featured photograph, the lighting setup is illustrated by helpful 3D diagrams, along with expert explanations and advice on potential problems that might arise, alongside suggested solutions. This book is therefore a unique source of information and inspiration for the keen amateur and the established professional alike.

Horst P. Horst, one of the worlds most influential fashion photographers, died in November 1999 at the age of 93. Our superbly produced monograph was first published in 1991.

The Museum of Modern Art has one of the greatest collections of twentieth-century photography in the world.

As one of three volumes dedicated to a new history of photography published by the Museum, this publication comprises a comprehensive catalogue of the collection post-1960s and brings much-needed new critical perspective on the most prominent artists working with the photographic medium of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. At a moment when photography is undergoing fast-paced changes and artists are seeking to redefine its boundaries in new and exciting ways, Photography at MoMA serves as an excellent resource for understanding the expanded field of contemporary photography today.

The book is organized with an in-depth introductory chapter and eight chapters of full-colour plates, each introduced by a short essay, and features work by over 250 artists, including Diane Arbus, John Baldessari, Jan Dibbets, Rineke Dijkstra, William Eggleston, Lee Friedlander, Louise Lawler, Zoe Leonard, Helen Levitt, Sigmar Polke, Cindy Sherman, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jeff Wall, Carrie Mae Weems, Hannah Wilke and Garry Winogrand, among many others.

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.