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The Education of a photographer
From the early twentieth-century masters to the postmoderns and on to today's incisive visionaries, this ... book will navigate the readers through the varied landscape of photography ... expressing what it means to be a photographer.-Back cover.
The education of a photographer
Chris Terrill is a man in search of his limit. He's 55 years old. He is being trained by the Royal Marines and he is going to Afghanistan. Chris will be holding a camera and filming the whole ordeal for a major TV series. This book tells of his heroic struggle to become the olde…
The first definitive monograph of color photographs by American street photographer Vivian Maier. Photographer Vivian Maier's allure endures even though many details of her life continue to remain a mystery. Her story-the secretive nanny-photographer who became a pioneer photogr…
Berenice Abbott is to American photography what Georgia O'Keeffe is to painting or Willa Cather to letters. Abbott's sixty-year career established her not only as a master of American photography but also as a teacher, writer, archivist, and inventor. A teenage rebel from Ohio, …
When Gianni Bozzacchi accepted an assignment as a photographer on the set of The Comedians (1967), he didn't know that his life was about to change forever. His ability to capture the beauty of candid moments drew the attention of the film's star, Elizabeth Taylor, and prompted …
"For those people who care deeply about photography but regard trends in contemporary discourse with skepticism or impatience, Robert Adams must appear as a kind of godsend. First in Beauty in Photography (1981) and now in Why People Photograph, Adams, a respected photographer w…
This critically acclaimed work brings us a new selection of poignant essays by master photographer Robert Adams. In this volume, Adams evinces his firm belief in the importance of art. Photographers "may or may not make a living by photography," he writes, "but they are alive by…