"Mostly candid and spontaneous, documentary photography serves to preserve a moment in time. In [this book] ... Stephanie Calabrese Roberts inspires you to explore, shoot, and share documentary photographs, guiding you as you define your own style. Illustrated with [her] artwork…
'Lens on Life' is intended to inspire the reader to explore, define, plan, shoot, and share documentary photographs, sparking creative ideas and guiding them as they define their own approach.
"With her perfect memory (and plenty of zip), ninety-five-year-old Ruth Gruber - adventurer, international correspondent, photographer, maker of (and witness to) history, responsible for rescuing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II and after - tells her …
With her perfect memory (and plenty of zip), ninety-five-year-old Ruth Gruber - adventurer, international correspondent, photographer, maker of (and witness to) history, responsible for rescuing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II and after - tells her s…
Words and photographs describe the daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the American South.
"LIFE has long been one of the country's preeminent publishers of periodicals and books, and is renowned for its presentation of photography- in fact, several of these 100 important photographs first appeared in the magazine's pages."--Page 2 of cover. As Gordon Parks writes in…
"A collection of one hundred photographs which have had a dramatic impact on the world."
This title challenges the widely-held idea that Africans are powerless in the creation of self-image. It explores the ways in which image creation is a process of negotiation entered into by a wide range of actors within and beyond the continent.
Africa traditionally has had a bad image. For many, particularly in the West, the continent summons up ideas of corrupt leadership, malnourished, diseased children, conflict and crime from internet scams to piracy. Often it seems that outsiders -development agencies, well-meanin…
This title challenges the widely-held idea that Africans are powerless in the creation of self-image. It explores the ways in which image creation is a process of negotiation entered into by a wide range of actors within and beyond the continent.
Text and accompanying photographs show the use of children as industrial workers, interwoven with the story of Lewis W. Hine who took these photographs and whose life work made significant difference in the lives of others.