Photography and photographs Books
The University of North Carolina Press North Carolinas Barrier Islands
Book SynopsisIn this stunning book, nature photographer and ecologist David Blevins offers an inspiring visual journey to North Carolina's barrier islands as you have never seen them before. These islands are unique and ever-changing places with epic origins, surprising plants and animals, and an uncertain future.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Narrowboat Life
Book Synopsis''A colourful and comprehensive guide to life on the waterways. Practical, pretty and accessible, it''s charmingly designed while providing excellent advice.''BBC Countryfile MagazineFull-time life on a narrowboat is a novelty for so many of us, and is endlessly fascinating. How do people downsize their lives and belongings into what looks like a large, crayon-coloured floating toy-box? Narrowboat Life answers all the questions we''ve wanted to ask about the ins and outs of liveaboard life on the inland waterways.The book is filled with beautiful, enthralling photography of the waterways themselves, the narrowboats that occupy them and, most importantly, every nook and cranny of their insides. Should you become seduced, the author gives solid hands-on advice about how to make a narrowboat (or widebeam, cruiser or small Dutch barge) your home.Accompanying these absorbing images, the playful and always informative text satisfies our curiosity Trade ReviewIt is a lovely colourful book, just as the life of a liveaboard boater can seem to be, viewed by the person on the bank. The photography, as you would expect of a professional image maker, is quite stunning. -- Colin Warring * Towpath Talk Review *The book is lavishly illustrated with hundreds of images of the waterways. * National Association of Boat Owners *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 What’s it like... living on a narrowboat? 2 How safe is it? 3 Is it cold in the winter? Step aboard... A recycled, repurposed narrowboat 4 How much did you pay for your narrowboat? 5 How green is living on a boat really? - Green Tips: A greener galley - Green Tips: Rudimentary to radical recycling - Green Tips: Eco Energy Step aboard... A narrowboat designed for escape 6 Did you paint it yourself? 7 Does he (the cat, dog, parrot) live on the boat? Step aboard... A well-read ark 8 How much does it cost to live on a narrowboat Step aboard... A widebeam cabinet of curiosities 9 Four canny questions... about continuously cruising - How do you receive post? - How do you see a doctor? - How do you use the internet? - How do you hold down a job? Glossary Index
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Duke University Press Surrealism at Play
Book SynopsisSusan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy, showing how its emphasis on chance provided the means to refashion artistic practice and everyday experience.Trade Review"This volume adds another layer of interpretation and visual analysis to the mass of recent scholarship on surrealism during its heyday. . . . Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." -- W. S. Bradley * Choice *"Surrealism at Play is a major contribution to the study of surrealism: Laxton balances a close reading of artwork with theoretical analysis. Every art school and college that covers surrealism in its curriculum and every museum with surrealist works in its collection should acquire this work." -- Stephen Bury * ARLIS/NA Reviews *"This book, without doubt, will take its rightful place alongside the best works in art history and literary criticism. Very well written, extensively researched, and breaking new ground in the understanding of surrealism." -- Robert Maddox-Harle * Leonardo Reviews *"Surrealism at Play passionately traces how a particular art movement envisioned and articulated its own transformative potential. . . . Laxton helps us understand the Surrealists’ insistence on irrationality not as a sport, but rather as an attempt to engage in the political debates of their time." -- Ela Bittencourt * Hyperallergic *"Laxton’s project is a major accomplishment, matching extensive imagination with scholarly rigor." -- Natalie Dupêcher * CAA Reviews *“Laxton’s elegantly written book engages with the topical question of play and points to future research on avant-garde and contemporary art along ludic critical lines.” -- Xiaofan Amy Li * French Studies *“Laxton’s sharp, well-informed, and incisive study offers a rich exploration of the serious business of surrealist play.” -- Johanna Malt * Modernism/modernity *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction. A Modern Critical Ludic 1 1. Blur 29 2. Drift 72 3. System 137 4. Pun 185 5. Postlude 246 Notes 273 Bibliography 331 Index 351
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Baylor University Press Gildersleeve
Book SynopsisIt was 1905 when the man destined to become Waco's photographer first opened his shop. Fred Gildersleeve documented the city he loved, establishing his legacy through iconic images that have become Waco's visual memory. The 186 Gildersleeve images in this volume capture the spirit of early Waco.
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FriesenPress Dogversations: Conversations with My Dogs
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Manchester University Press Julia Margaret Cameron’s ‘Fancy Subjects’:
Book SynopsisNominated for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2017.The Victorians admired Julia Margaret Cameron for her evocative photographic portraits of eminent men like Tennyson, Carlyle and Darwin. However, Cameron also made numerous photographs that she called 'Fancy subjects', depicting scenes from literature, personifications from classical mythology, and Biblical parables from the Old and New Testament. This book is the first comprehensive study of these works, examining Cameron's use of historical allegories and popular iconography to embed moral, intellectual and political narratives in her photographs. A work of cultural history as much as art history, this book examines cartoons from Punch and line drawings from the Illustrated London News, cabinet photographs and autotype prints, textiles and wall paper, book illustrations and lithographs from period folios, all as a way to contextualise the allegorical subjects that Cameron represented, revealing connections between her 'Fancy subjects' and popular debates about such topics as Biblical interpretation, democratic government and colonial expansion.Trade Review'Much more than a standard history, Rosen's expansive text locates, quite forensically, what is perhaps one of the most important functions of Cameron's fancies for viewers today: to trace outward, from her immediate personal, literary, and visual communities, a nexus of contentious religious, colonial and nationalist debates that helped shape, not just Cameron and her work, but the Victorian psyche itself.'Katherine Parhar, Independent Scholar, Visual Culture in Britain, 2016‘Rosen’s well-illustrated study represents a valuable resource for scholars and critics alike, and I have already recommended it to my own students. In addition to its appeal to those working on Cameron and her contemporaries, the book contains rich material for those intrigued by the visual cultural history of the nineteenth century more generally.’ - Lindsay Smith, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, Early Popular Visual Culture‘Rosen has provided an astonishingly interdisciplinary, thoroughly researched study of Cameron’s intellectual range and her technical and exhibitionary practices. He coordinates material and philosophical content discursively to raise intriguing ambiguities and to problematize common assumptions about Cameron. In doing so, Rosen reveals Cameron as a deeply intellectually engaged photographer whose works not only embodied but also shaped the philosophical cross-currents of her day.’Julie Codell, History of Photography (Taylor & Francis) December 2016‘The overworked persona of Cameron—a cartoonish figure of Freshwater fame, eccentric, domineering, least-beautiful of the Pattle sisters, forever chasing down Tennyson and his guests with her camera, forcing her servants to participate in long sessions of posing so that the household had to live off eggs and bacon—is put firmly to the side in Jeff Rosen’s painstaking, revelatory, and serious assessment of the allegorical photographs. What matters to Rosen, and, it turns out, to the photographs themselves, is history: the political exigencies of the ten-year span in which these images were made, and in which their maker intended them to make sense.’Jennifer Green-Lewis of George Washington University'Jeff Rosen offers a serious, revelatory assessment of Cameron’s allegorical works by situating them within their historical and imperial context... the delight of the book lies in its exploration of the differing ways in which Cameron 'embedded photographs with complex narratives about British colonial history'.Heather Bozant Witcher, Saint Louis University, British Society for Literature and Science‘Carefully argued, thoroughly researched, and compellingly written, this book takes Cameron’s fancy subjects seriously, and the result is a new critical and historical perspective that futher reinforces Cameron’s seminal place in the history of photography.’ Helen Groth, University of New South Wales, Victorian Studies, Vol 61, Issue 2, (Winter 2019) -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Taking Cameron’s ‘fancy subjects’ seriously1. Saint-Pierre’s exiles: myths of origins and heritage2. Jowett’s scriptures: the moral life and the state3. Grote’s Hellenism: Victorian Parnassus on the Isle of Wight4. Byron’s ‘Beauties’: national heroines and defenders of liberty5. Overstone’s ‘Negromania’: justness and justice at home and abroad6. Tennyson’s nationalism: epic and lyric in Idylls of the King7. North’s gardens: redemption and the return to originsConclusionIndex
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Dovetail Communications Welsh Mod: Our Story: Documenting the roots and
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Bristol University Press Dissection Photography
Book SynopsisFeaturing previously unseen images, stories and anecdotes, this book explores the visual culture of death and the gross anatomy lab through the tradition of dissection photography, examining its historical aspects from both photographic and medical perspectives.
£77.39
Arcadia Publishing Library Editions Sacramento's Land Park
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Arcadia Publishing Library Editions Baylor County
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Arcadia Publishing Library Editions St. Mary Parish
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Arcadia Publishing Library Editions Ham Lake
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Arcadia Publishing Library Editions Lost Bay City
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Arcadia Publishing Library Editions Matunuck
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Arcadia Publishing Library Editions Hudson
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Arcadia Publishing Library Editions Bullhead City
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Arcadia Publishing Library Editions Littleton
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powerHouse Books,U.S. Heavenly Creatures
Book SynopsisSally Gall photographs the ephemeral beauty of delicate earthbound objects against the sky.
£35.99
Monacelli Press Water Views: Rivers Lakes Oceans
Book SynopsisJourney high above the world's most unforgettable waterscapes via this stunning collection of aerial photographs by David Ondaatje. Water Views is a breathtaking overview (literally) of the most striking bodies of water from around the world. Photographed with state-of-the-art drone technology by author and filmmaker David Ondaatje, these stunning aerial images range from the picturesque beaches of Carmel-by-the-Sea and Gaviota Beach to the wild coasts of Oregon, placid lakes from Tahoe to Como, the emerald waters of the Bahamas and Belize, the meandering fishing rivers of British Columbia and Montana. Ever-present in this selection, some of which debuted in his recent exhibition at the acclaimed ROSEGALLERY in Los Angeles, is Ondaatje’s deep personal affection for solitude, the unspoiled beauty of the nature, coastal water patterns, and fly-fishing in isolated areas. Annotated with behind-the-scenes anecdotes, these photographs take you on a spectacular journey from above as you share Ondaatje’s unique first look at some of the most beautiful places in his world, all tied to the compelling and blissful power of water.Trade Review'Water Views is an insightful re-viewing of where water meets land. The particular aerial perspective of the drone, combined with the fine art aesthetic of a landscape photographer, allows for a new way of thinking and feeling.' - FRAMES Magazine
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Aperture This Is Mars
Book SynopsisThis Is Mars offers a thrilling visual experience of the surface of the red planet. The multi-award-winning French editor and designer Xavier Barral has chosen and composed photographic frames, drawn from the comprehensive photographic map of Mars made by the U.S. observation satellite MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter), to revel in the wonder of Mars. What Yann Arthus-Bertrand did with a light aircraft for The Earth from the Air , Barral does for Mars—by scouring tens of thousands of gigabytes of satellite photographs available from NASA, seeking out the most distinct images of the planet’s surface. The result is visionary—a great science book, a unique artist’s book, and a stunning object. The photographs are accompanied by an introduction from research scientist Alfred S. McEwen, principle investigator of the HiRISE telescope; an essay by astrophysicist Francis Rocard, who explains the story of Mars’s origins and its evolution; and a timeline by geophysicist Nicolas Mangold, who demystifies some of Mars’s geological history. Now available as a mid-sized, accessibly priced edition, This Is Mars will excite lovers of great photobooks, and everyone curious about the universe and beyond.
£31.50
Aperture Desire: Aperture 253: Winter 2023 Issue
Book SynopsisAperture Magazine Releases Winter Issue, “Desire,” Featuring an Expansive Interview with Renowned Fashion Photographer Juergen Teller(New York—December 12, 2023) This winter, Aperture magazine presents “Desire,” an edition that considers desire as both an impulse and a state of mind. The issue features an expansive interview with Juergen Teller, whose photographs upend fashion’s vocabulary of glamour and aspiration, on the occasion of his major exhibition Juergen Teller: i need to live, opening at the Grand Palais Éphémère in Paris on December 16, 2023.Photographers are natural voyeurs. The compulsion to want—or, in today’s parlance, to manifest—emerges throughout the work in this issue. Artists such as Nakeya Brown, Nabil Harb, Oto Gillen, Marcelo Gomes, and Jonathas de Andrade consider the body, the natural world, beguiling objects, and direct physical expressions of desire as the material for indelible images.Andrew Maerkle profiles the celebrated Japanese photographer Ishiuchi Miyako, who for decades has conjured history through evocative personal objects, creating magnetic images that are at once surreal and surprisingly physical. Amanda Maddox considers a generation of women photographers whose work probes the feminist dynamics of seeing—and being seen. Moeko Fujii revisits Hisae Imai, an ascendent figure in Tokyo’s art and fashion scenes of the 1960s, and Lucy McKeon finds new resonance in the sensual self-portraits Melissa Shook made as a young woman and mother. In “Desire,” photographers render reality as unearthly—and take the viewer somewhere else altogether.For more information and to preview select content from the issue, visit aperture.org/magazine.Table of ContentsWords & Pictures Editors’ Note: Desire The Force of Life Juergen Teller on decades at the center of fashion A Conversation with Alistair O’Neill Daydreams Hisae Imai’s surreal life as a photographer Moeko Fujii She’s Got the Look A generation of women reconsiders the dynamics of being seen Amanda Maddox More Real Than a Memory Melissa Shook’s rigorous and sensual self-portraits Lucy McKeon Black Beauty Still Lifes Nakeya Brown stages a story about femininity Lovia Gyarkye Everything Shines How has the relationship between art and advertising evolved? Brian Dillon This Odor Oto Gillen’s uncanny New York flowers Evan Moffitt Kosen Ohtsubo’s Flower Planet The ikebana artist’s playful constructions mix performance and photography Daniel Abbe Polk County Nabil Harb portrays community and landscape in central Florida Michael Adno The Spark How Jonathas de Andrade channels the thrill of intimacy Silas Martí Things, Moments, Multitudes For Marcelo Gomes, beauty is in the pulse point Jesse Dorris The Afterlives of Objects Ishiuchi Miyako reveals histories in the everyday Andrew Maerkle
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University of South Carolina Press Seeing the New South: Race and Place in the
Book SynopsisUlrich Bonnell Phillips (1877–1934) established a reputation as one of the early twentieth century's foremost authorities on the history of African American slavery and the Old South. An empiricist, Phillips approached his subjects analytically and dispassionately, and his scholarship shaped historical investigation of the South for decades. Phillips was an empiricist and based his writing on an array of primary sources, including a growing collection of photographs he accumulated during his research. These images of plantation crops and machinery, agricultural scenes, distinctive architecture, white southerners, and former slaves and their descendants collectively record much about the life and labour in the rural South three decades before the Farm Security Administration undertook its own documentary projects during the New Deal.In Seeing the New South, photography historian Patricia Bellis Bixel and Phillips scholar and historian John David Smith delve into the visual record Phillips left behind, publishing many of these photographs for the first time, and integrating his photographic archive with his research and teachings on the history of the South. For example, his Life and Labor in the Old South, published in 1929, was well illustrated with useful photographs. The bulk of Phillips's papers resides in the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University. The collection includes sixty lantern slides and many photographic prints that Phillips employed in his work. Bixel and Smith uncovered another five hundred images that greatly expanded Phillips's visual archive. Taken between 1904 and 1930, these images provide glimpses of a Southern landscape rarely seen and even more rarely photographed, offering a striking visual account of early-twentieth-century life in the rural South.Phillips deliberately sought out images of buildings and agricultural scenes emblematic of the South, representative portraits of white and black southerners, and distinctive depictions of farm and town life. Some photographs reinforce Phillips's arguments about the general backwardness of an impoverished rural South and about the limitations of the region's agricultural and industrial economies. But his images also documented active independent black and white communities with diverse economic practices and subcultures. This first-ever collection of Phillips's photographs provides dramatic documentation of economic and social life during an era seldom captured on film, yielding striking visual portraits of human dignity in black and white.
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Timber Press (OR) The Gardens of Mien Ruys
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Workman Publishing The Great American Retro Road Trip
Book SynopsisCelebrate the nostalgic pleasures of America's vintage signs, quirky roadside attractions, and offbeat fast food relics in this irresistible retro road trip across the country.The Great American Retro Road Trip is a coast-to-coast journey chronicling retro roadside America. Discover classic giant roadside attractions, from The Coffee Pot and The Big Duck to the World’s Largest Paint Can and the Haines Shoe House. Or iconic signage, like the dazzling Yoken’s neon sign, and the classic Moon Motel sign. Still-standing vintage locations of America’s favorite chain restaurants, from Pizza Hut to McDonald’s to Taco Bell. Through author Rolando Pujol’s anecdotes and clever narrative, readers will come away with a sweeping sense of roadside charm that still exists, as well as a desire to see it all for themselves. These lingering traces of America’s past are an archive of disappearing roadside signage and architecture, and they tell a story of American ingenuity, creativity, and community. Whether you pick up this book for the nostalgia-inducing photos, the heartwarming stories, or as a reference for planning your own trip, you’ll be encouraged to, as Pujol says, “Let your curiosity guide you.”
£23.75
Authorhouse UK Sixty Years in Sixty Minutes
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Rocky Nook Photographing Iceland: An Insider's Guide to the
Book SynopsisConsidered by many to be the world's top destination for amateur and professional landscape photographers, Iceland possesses unparalleled beauty, and the variety of spectacular landscapes found on this small island is astounding. Whether you're visiting Iceland as a destination in its own right or as a stopover on your way elsewhere, you're bound to have a unique and memorable experience. To help you make the most of your trip — no matter how long or short it is — Photographing Iceland provides you with five unique photography-focused tours that cover 37 must-see locations for you to photograph. Author, photographer, and Iceland expert Martin Schulz is your guide, providing you with background information on each location, detailed directions (including QR codes with Google Maps links), advice on gear and traveling, suggestions on the best time of year and day to visit each location, and the ideal angles from which to shoot.
£21.25
Independently Published Finest Magazine October 2018 Coxy Dominika
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Blurb The Christian Paintings by Antoine Jacques Hayes
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Blurb Pipe Ace: Learning from a sketch
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Blurb Ciclos de Sono
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Overlapse Sound the Sirens
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Sorika WINDOW
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Douglas & McIntyre Gidal: Sixty Letters and Sixty Photos, the
Book SynopsisAn intimate selection of letters between Tim Gidal, a pioneering force in photojournalism, and scholar and art collector Yosef Wosk. Although four decades separated us, Tim and I were inexorably drawn together through the magnetic forces of art and culture; travel; history; exile and war; loves and loves lost; writing, teaching and forgetting; collecting and letting it all go."Yosef Wosk, from the Preface Nachum Tim Gidal, Jewish pioneer of modern photojournalism, was born in Munich in 1909 and died in Jerusalem in 1996. He began taking photographs in the late 1920s, at a time when technological advances made photography equipment more compact and affordable than ever before. With his handheld Leica, Gidal was able to travel in interwar Europe, capturing rare images of Polish Jews prior to the annihilation of WWII.Yosef Wosk is a rabbi, philanthropist, educator, author, scholar, community leader and prominent figure in the BC arts scene. Wosk first encountered Gidal's work in the photo Night of the Kabbalist in a magazine in 1991 and, captivated, was determined to meet the photographer on an upcoming sabbatical in Israel. However, most of the trip passed without any signs that his search would be successful. One day, Wosk saw a small poster on a lamppost showcasing Israeli photography in a local gallery, and through the proprietor, finally met the person who he would later consider his close friend, teacher, and confidantNachum Tim Gidal.On one level, the lettersselected from the hundreds the correspondents exchanged over two decadesmemorialize Gidal as an artist, scholar, historian of photography and hero among the Jewish people." However, they also capture the essence of Gidal and Wosk's friendship. Readers will be drawn into a rich conversation touching on philosophy, advice, personal issues, reading recommendations and more, with Gidal always brilliant, witty and cantankerous and Wosk curious, appreciative and intelligent. This fascinating and beautifully designed volume will appeal to those with an interest in modern Jewish history as well as anyone interested in early 20th-century photography.
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GMC Publications Vest Pocket Kodak & The First World War, The
Book SynopsisLaunched in April 1912, the Vest Pocket Kodak was one of the world's first compact cameras. About the height and width of today's iPhone, it was small enough to fit into the pocket of a waistcoat (the American Vest) and allowed the soldiers to record their experiences of the trenches. The images they preserved offer us a remarkably personal viewpoint, and create a fascinating link between the camera and the conflict. The first half of the book sets the technology and timeline of the camera against those of the war. The second half presents a commemorative album of images taken with the camera, a remarkable record of a lost generation, and a tragic reflection of the manufacturer's advertising by-line: Kodak pictures never let you forget.
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Octopus Publishing Group Pring's Photographer's Miscellany: Stories,
Book Synopsis***How did Kodak company get its name? Who invented the Minox spy camera? Were there really fax machines in the mid-19th century? And what would a photographer use 'Mod Podge' for? The answers to all these questions and many, many more can be found in this intriguing compendium of photographic fascination compiled by Roger Pring.Beautifully packaged, full of arresting images and exquisitely typeset by the author himself, Pring's Photographer's Miscellany will make an intriguing gift for all photographers. Dipping into the book will reveal the origins of the photographer's craft, tips and tricks of the greats, a host of revealing quotes and fascinating trivia: and you'll not only be richly entertained, you'll certainly learn something you can use next time you shoot.
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Pelagic Publishing CCTV for Wildlife Monitoring: An Introduction
Book SynopsisCCTV for Wildlife Monitoring is a handbook on the use of CCTV in nature watching, conservation and ecological research. CCTV offers a unique ability to monitor wildlife in real time, stream video to the web, capture imagery of fast-moving species or cold animals such as wet otters or fish and maintain monitoring over long periods of time in a diverse array of habitats. Wildlife watchers can take advantage of a huge range of CCTV cameras, recording devices and accessories developed for use in non-wildlife applications. CCTV allows intimate study of animal behaviour not possible with other technologies. With expert experience in engineering, photography and wildlife, Susan Young describes CCTV equipment and techniques, giving readers the confidence to tackle what initially may seem technically challenging. The book enables the reader to navigate the technical aspects of recording: basic analogue, high definition HD-TVI and IP cameras, portable CCTV, digital video recorders (DVR) and video processing by focusing on practical applications. No prior knowledge of CCTV is required – step-by-step information is provided to get anyone started recording wildlife. In-depth methods for recording foxes, badger, deer, otters, small mammals and fish are also included, and the book makes comparisons with trail cameras where appropriate. Examples of recorded footage illustrate the book along with detailed diagrams on camera set-ups and links to accompanying videos on YouTube. Case-studies show real projects, both the equipment used and the results. This book will be of interest to amateur naturalists wishing to have a window into the private world of wildlife, ecological consultants monitoring protected species and research scientists studying animal behaviour.Trade ReviewThis book is a rare combination of two things: it is useful and it is interesting. It helps to open the door to CCTV monitoring for the amateur, an endeavour that will seem intimidating to anyone but an expert. The instructive sections are laid out logically with informative diagrams and photographs to assist you along the way (very useful). Instructions are straightforward and avoid jargon, making this an exceptionally accessible guide. -- Steph Maher * Mammal News *Table of ContentsCCTV for Wildlife Monitoring – an overview Why CCTV? How the book is designed. Chapter 1 Analogue CCTV 1.1 Analogue CCTV quick start 1.2 Basics of Analogue CCTV Chapter 2 Advanced CCTV details 2.1 Analogue CCTV in depth Chapter 3 HD-TVI CCTV 3.1 HD-TVI Quick Start 3.2 HD-TVI CCTV Chapter 4 IP cameras 4.1 IP camera Quick Start 4.2 IP cameras (Advanced CCTV) 4.3 IP cameras in depth Chapter 5 Portable CCTV 5.1 Portable CCTV Quick Start 5.2 Portable CCTV Chapter 6 Videos 6.1 Video processing Chapter 7 Technical case studies 7.1 In pursuit of image quality 7.2 Setting up portable CCTV 7.3 Setting up an IP camera 7.4 Making a lightweight mammal box 7.5 Connecting a lead-acid battery Chapter 8 Wildlife case studies 8.1 Clean pond dipping 8.2 Catching the frog catchers 8.3 Rock pool surveying 8.4 Badger activity - a life story 8.5 Bird feeders and bird baths 8.6 Tawny owl Chapter 9. Scientific case studies 9.1 Fish monitoring using a submersible camera –a pilot study 9.2 Monitoring bats in woodland – a pilot study Chapter 10 Suggestions for CCTV monitoring subjects 10.1 Birds 10.2 Reptiles 10.3 Insects 10.4 Aquatic mammals Chapter 11 Comparison of portable CCTV with trail cameras 11.1 Introduction 11.2 Trail camera details Chapter 12 Comparison of CCTV with remote triggered DSLR 12.1 Introduction 12.2 Triggered camera system details Appendix Comparison table for CCTV and trail cameras Equipment used Equipment suppliers References Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mass Photography: Collective Histories of
Book SynopsisWith increasingly accessible camera technology, crowdsourced public media projects abound like never before. Such projects often seek to secure a snapshot of a single day in order to establish communities and create visual time capsules for the future. Mass Photography: Collective Histories of Everyday Life assesses the potential of these popular moment-in-time projects by examining their current day prevalence and their historical predecessors. Through archival research and interviews with organisers and participants, it examines, for the first time, the vast photographic collections resulting from such projects, analysing their structures and systems, their aims and objectives, and their claims and promises. The central case study is the 55,000 photographs submitted to One Day for Life in 1987, which aimed, in its own time, to be ‘the biggest photographic event the world had ever seen’.Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Approaching Mass Photography: Methods, Models and DebatesChapter 1: Days in the life: From Mass Observation to crowdsourcingChapter 2: One Day for Life: Charity, competition, archiveChapter 3: Everyday life and ordinary photography: Documentary hopes and expectationsChapter 4: Scale and monumentality: Collective identity and imagined communityChapter 5: Humanism and compassion: Photographic democracy and emotional affectChapter 6: Competitive aesthetics: Art, amateurism and ambitionChapter 7: Visual time capsules: Photographic memory and historical desireChapter 8: Legacies, promises and potentialAppendix: Research methodsIndex
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Bradt Travel Guides The Travel Photographer's Way: Practical steps to
Book SynopsisShortlisted in the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2022: Photography Travel Book of the Year Nori Jemil's ground-breaking practical photography book considers not just how to get better images, but also why and when to take them. It guides you to becoming a more confident and reflective travel photographer, as well as covering all the technical knowhow needed. Taking a journey around the seven continents, each chapter focuses on the main areas of travel imagery, from people and landscape to architecture and adventure. Bite-size advice on how to get the best from your camera is contextualised throughout the book, so you learn as you go. Travel photography has exploded across the world thanks to the huge leap in quality of both mobile phone cameras and bridge cameras, as well as the ease of public posting on social media. Award-winning travel photographer Nori Jemil has been riding the wave of these advances and has created a 'how to' guide with a difference. Her book is not an attempt to replicate other reference works on the subject, top-loading technical information and addressing an expert reader. Nor does it focus on gadgetry - the proliferation of new hardware means camera-based information can become obsolete quite quickly. Instead it is a travel companion, a book that can be read for the prose and stories, as well as the information it contains. It covers the main elements of travel photography in eleven sections, including advice from some of the best travel photographers working around the world. Technical information is embedded, given in the context of each shot, but personal travel stories are at the heart of every chapter, linked to key travel images as well as the full camera settings and detail of how and why each photo was taken.Table of ContentsWaiting on a hillside How to use this book Part 1: PREPARING THE GROUND 1 Do your research 2 Right tools for the job 3 Know before you go Part 2: On The Road 4 People Focus on Central and South America 5 Landscapes Focus on Australia and Oceania 6 Wildlife Focus on Africa 7 Urban culture and street Focus on Europe 8 Action and adventure Focus on The Arctic and High North 9 Food and markets Focus on Asia 10 Wild places Focus on Antarctica and the Extreme South Part 3: BACK HOME 11 TELLING YOUR STORY Appendix TECHNICAL GLOSSARY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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Merrion Press Abandoned Ireland 2
Book SynopsisIn Abandoned Ireland 2, photographer Rebecca Brownlie travels further off the beaten path to explore and showcase Ireland? s forgotten buildings before nature or the demolition man claims them forever. Through her evocative photography, we cross the threshold of deserted mansions, cottages, convents and hotels, mills and shopping centres, wandering through once-lively rooms that have now fallen silent, where only mementos of the past stand sentinel. Amid the decay, tables are elaborately set for tea, coats hang by the door and well-thumbed books lay poised and open, as if their owner will be back at any moment.From a castle where King James II stayed before the Battle of the Boyne to a manor house whose occupants mysteriously disappeared in the middle of the night, the arresting and poignant photography on every page is a love letter to Ireland? s buildings abandoned to time.
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David & Charles Dogs just wanna have FUN!: Picture this: Dogs at
Book SynopsisThere are many books that celebrate our canine friends, but few so colourfully and evocatively demonstrate the sheer enjoyment they experience just from being a dog. The photographs in this book are not about the bond between us and our canine companions, the results of dog training, or the ever-expanding canine wardrobe. Rather, the focus is on how dogs behave when they are freed from everyday constraints, and can indulge their natural instincts. The unsung heroes here are the owners, who, after ensuring that their beloved best friend would be safe, let him or her run free to interact with others for the photoshoot. The resultant images showcase pure doggie delight - as the expressions on the dogs' faces demonstrate! Whether chasing balls or other dogs, mud-bathing, swimming, or rolling, this is a joyous celebration of dogs simply enjoying themselves!Trade ReviewWow, what a wonderful book. A hardback from publisher Hubble & Hattie stuffed full of beautiful photo's of dogs playing and having fun. On every page there is a beautiful quality photo, but not a standard pet portrait, but dogs jumping into water, splashing and shaking their heads, rolling in mud and playing chase. Vibrant stunning pictures which demonstrate a dog's total commitment to having a wonderful life. Cheryl Murphy, the author, is a professional photographer and has done many formal studio shoots of people's pets in her work, but wanted to explore some natural behaviour and photograph this in an uninhibited environment. This excellent quality publication would be a superb gift for a budding pet photographer and dog lover as well. - Dog Training Weekly. Colourful and evocative photographs in this book are not about the bond between us and our canine companions, but the results of dog training, or the ever-expanding canine wardrobe. Rather, the focus of the book is on how dogs behave when they are freed rom everyday constraints, and can indulge their natural instincts. The unsung heroes here are the pet parents, who, after ensuring that their beloved best friend would be safe, let them run free to interact with others for the photoshoot. The resultant images showcase pure doggie delight - as the expressions on the dogs' faces demonstrate! Author Cheryl Murphy is a professional photographer based in Beverley, East Yorkshire and she explores photographing dogs in a natural environment, with no constraints on their behaviour. - Dogs & Pups, Cats & Kittens. The dogs in this photography book aren't posing, they're simply enjoying life. Pictured during playtime, they haven't a care in the world and this project celebrates their natural zest for life and individual personalities. Inspired by her late Golden Retriever, Tilly, photographer and author Cheryl Murphy decided to explore photographing dogs in a natural environment with no constraints on their behaviour. Having been a dog owner for many years, she's well aware of the individual traits and characteristics our pets have. This book makes for an ideal gift and coffee table read to flick through. There are plenty of pictures to giggle over, and Cheryl's dog Nellie's facial expressions are particularly hilarious. - Dogs Monthly. Thanks to the indisputable growth of Instagram and Snapchat, together with our unwavering devotion to pursuing all things cute and canine, it's difficult to pick up your smartphone without drowning in waves of Pugs in pirate outfits or Bulldogs in bikinis. And so the latest publication from ethical publishers Hubble and Hattie makes a refreshing and welcome change. The book contains 97 pages of full colour photographs, and there's not an uncomfortable animal in sight. Images of Chihuahuas in teacups have been replaced with wonderful pictures which demonstrate the natural beauty and fun-loving spirit of our canine companions. Author Cheryl Murphy, a professional photographer, was keen to capture this spirit, which is so often suppressed; how often do we truly let our dogs behave like dogs? Moreover, how often do we actually stop and appreciate the wonders of their body language and the incredible variation between breeds? In short, canine fans will enjoy 'Dogs just wanna have FUN!', a book which achieves its aim of showcasing dogs behaving naturally, free of clothes and cues, and having great fun in the process. - Grace Clarke. Brilliantly illustrated, this book is suitable for the admiring child and the most elderly adult. It captures action photographs of dogs being dogs. All shapes, sizes and types are seen having fun, thoroughly enjoying the realities of life. The photographs express the true personalities we love in this diverse species. - APDT UK. An ideal Christmas present for any dog lover that will guarantee to a frown upside down. The Kennel ClubTable of ContentsIntroduction Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Speed training- Dogs running and interacting in a game Chapter 2 Aquacise-Dogs enjoying everything watery incorporating seaside shots, rivers and streams Chapter 3 Glorious mud- Photographs showing irresistible lure of anything dirty Chapter 4 Ball games-Incorporating interaction with a dog's favourite prop, the ball Chapter 5 Poser's paradise- A selection of shots capturing dogs surveying their surroundings with natural backdrops Chapter 6 Tribute to Tilly- Photographs celebrating the life of Tilly who inspired this book idea Rogues gallery
£11.69
ACC Art Books The Style of Time: The Evolution of Wristwatch
Book SynopsisTime is a great mystery. A changeable element, which expands or vanishes, but that appears concrete as it is marked by the passing of seconds, minutes, hours, days, and years. The path toward the capture of minutes and seconds coincided with the phases of scientific evolution that allowed man to manufacture watches that are increasingly reliable, but that are also in tune with changes in customs, social needs, and aesthetic canons. This book covers the art of watch manufactory as well as 60 great models, covering both their technical evolution and style trends. In each chapter in-depth studies will guide the reader to the history of the most important manufacturers, the personalities linked to the models treated, technical innovations, styles of the period, or records achieved by the wristwatches: from the watch that helped Charles Lindbergh during the first transatlantic solo flight, to the one worn by Sir Edmund Hillary on the top of Mount Everest, the most iconic models will be discussed in detail.Trade Review"“A watch is a work of technical mastery. It also constitutes an artifact that blends art with science, creating what has over the years become, and remained, an object of desire,” writes journalist and professor Mara Cappelletti in her newly released book The Style of Time (ACC Art Books), which marvels over the intricacies of 60 timepieces that have directed the course of history and are exemplary of style trends." - JCK Magazine"Each chapter of Mara Cappelletti’s beautifully illustrated new book, The Style of Time: The Evolution of Wristwatch Design, details a decade of horological history." - Rapaport"Alongside photos of watches both classic and elaborate—Cartier’s jewel-encrusted brooches and Patek Philippe’s diamond-set bracelets are notable stunners—author Mara Cappelletti delves into the art of watchmaking and recalls historically significant timepieces, including the one worn by Charles Lindbergh during the first transatlantic solo flight." - Natural Diamonds"… describe the evolution of the watch design decade by decade amid the fashion, artistic, technological, social and political developments on each time period." - The New York Times"Decade by decade, the evolution of wristwatch design since the year 1900 is broken down over 272 pages, framing each era in its context, taking into account fashion, technology, society and the political situation." Google Translate from Spanish - Forbes Watch SpainAnnual Holiday Gift Guide 2023: "This book, published by ACC Art Books, covers the details and technical wonders of 60 wristwatch models that went down in history for their innovation in shapes, materials, and production methods, the perfect gift for any watch enthusiast." - The Gentleman RacerTable of Contents1900s; 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; 1904 Cartier Santos; 1906 Audemar piguet Minute Repeater; 1908 Cartier Tonneau; 1915 Breitling Chronograph; 1919 Eberhard Chronograph; 1923 Patek Philippe 130 Chronograph; 1926 Rolex Oyster; 1928 Rolex Prince; 1926 Breguet 1262 Jump Hour; 1926 Vacheron Constantin Minute Repeater; 1931 Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso; 1931 Rolex Perpetual; 1936 IWC Pilot’s Watch; 1931 Longines Hour Angle; 1931 Omega Marine; 1938 Panerai Radiomir; 1938 Patek Philippe Calatrava; 1939 IWC Portugieser; 1945 Rolex Datejust; 1947 Rolex Dato Compax; 1942 Breitling Chronomat; 1947 Eberhard Extra-Fort; 1940 Patek Philippe 1463 Chrono; 1953 Blancpain Fifty Fathoms; 1952 Breitling Navitimer; 1956 Jaeger-LeCoultre Memovox; 1954 Rolex GMT Master; 1954 Rolex Submariner; 1956 Rolex Day-Date; 1955 IWC Ingenieur; 1957 Omega Speedmaster; 1960 Patek Philippe 3424 Asymmetrical Wristwatch; 1963 Rolex 6239 Daytona; 1969 Zenith El Primero; 1967 Cartier Crash; 1967 Omega De Ville; 1967 IWC Aquatimer; 1971 Patek Philippe Golden Circle/Ellipse; 1972 Audemars Piguet Royal Oak; 1971 Omega Seamaster 600 (PloProf); 1977 Bulgari Bulgari Bulgari; 1971 Rolex Explorer II Steve Mc Queen; 1981 Patek Philippe Nautilus; 1983 Cartier Panthere; 1989 Patek Philippe The Officier; 1983 Swatch Early models; 1987 Blancpain Caliber 1185 Chronograph; 1997 Patek Philippe Aquanaut; 1995 Breguet 3355 Tourbillon; 1992 Audemar Piguet Star Wheel; 1993 Panerai Luminor; 1997 Eberhard 8 Jour; 1991 Girard Perregaux Tourbillon with Three Flying Bridges; 2000 Vacheron Constantin Malte; 2001 Patek Philippe Sky Moon Tourbillon; 2002 Patek Philippe The Celestial; 2001 Breguet 1801 Tourbillon; 2006 Breguet Double Tourbillon; 2007 Rolex Yacht Meister; 2010 Bulgari Octo; 2010 Rolex Submariner Jewellery; 2012 Jaquet Droz Bird Repeater.
£40.00
Berghahn Books On the Death of Jews: Photographs and History
Book Synopsis “A meticulous and shattering investigation of eight horrific pictures…”—L’Arche In December 1941, on a shore near the Latvian city of Liepaja, Nazi death squads (the Einsatzgruppen) and local collaborators murdered in three days more than 2,700 Jews. The majority were women and children, most men having already been shot during the summer. The perpetrators took pictures of the December killings. These pictures are among the rare photographs from the first period of the extermination, during which over 800 000 Jews from the Baltic to the Black Sea were shot to death. By showing the importance of photography in understanding persecution, Nadine Fresco offers a powerful meditation on these images while confronting the essential questions of testimony and guilt. From the forward by Dorota Glowackay: Straddling the boundary between historical inquiry and personal reflection, this extraordinary text unfolds as a series of encounters with eponymic Holocaust photographs. Although only a small number of photographs are reproduced here, Fresco provides evocative descriptions of many well-known images: synagogues and Torah scrolls burning on the night of Kristallnacht; deportations to the ghettos and the camps; and, finally, mass executions in the killing fi elds of Eastern Europe. The unique set of photographs included in On the Death of Jews shows groups of women and children from Liepaja (Liepája), shortly before they were killed in December 1941 in the dunes of Shkede (Škéde) on the Baltic Sea. In the last photograph of the series, we see the victims’ bodies tumbling into the pit.Trade Review Praise for the French and Polish editions: “A great and shattering book.” • Jan T. Gross “Emotion, sensitivity, and suffering are not the enemies of precision or historical rigor and can sometimes make it more substantial, even more accurate. This is what Nadine Fresco manages to do with strength and brilliance, through a steady effort of writing, in this moving book.” • Politis “A meticulous and shattering investigation of eight horrific pictures, in which the progressive revelation of the truth is reminiscent of Daniel Mendelssohn’s The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million.” • L’Arche “Around the pain, the anguish, the astonishment, the shame, the refusal to see, Nadine Fresco, with all her resources as a historian, delicately undertakes to build a shelter made of arguments, research on facts, deeds, and words. She envelops the horror while revealing it, and she shelters past sufferings as well as the one she awakens in the reader.” • La Quinzaine littéraire “Fresco skillfully guides us from the flat surface of photography to the depths of the victims’ experience—their humiliation, loneliness, suffering, and death. A fascinating essay about the cognitive, aesthetic, and moral dilemmas of the photographic representation of the Holocaust.” • Jacek LeociakTable of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword Dorota Glowacka List of Abbreviations On the Death of Jews Select Bibliography
£101.65
Chronicle Books Black Girls Gardening
Book Synopsis A visual celebration of Black women and their gardens, filled with inspiration, stories, and the healing magic of gardening, based on the popular Instagram account BlackGirlsGardening.Through first-person narratives and arresting photography, this unique gardening book profiles women who demonstrate how a gardening practice has the power to heal, empower, educate, and connect. Thirty-one compelling personal stories about creating backyard, flower, and vegetable gardens, participating in community gardens, and gardening with kids are included. Sidebars offer advice on composting, pest control, must-have tools, greenhouse gardens, and more. In a beautiful, chunky package that can be read cover to cover or displayed on a coffee table, Black Girls Gardening makes a lovely gift for aspiring and practicing Black women gardeners, first-time homeowners, parents who garden with their kids, and women of all ages who enjoy sinking their hands into the soil.Perfect for: Self-care gift or self-purchase for Black women, ages 18 - 50+ Gift-giving for Mother’s Day, birthday, housewarming, or retirement Women gardeners and aspiring green thumbs Garden admirers and nature enthusiasts First-time homeowners who want to plant a garden Followers of @BlackGirlsGardening Fans of Nature Swagger, Wild at Home, My Beautiful Black Hair, She Explores
£20.21
Key Publishing Ltd Low-Floor Double-Deckers
Book SynopsisIn just under 25 years, double-deck buses in the UK have undergone a transformation. Every double-decker in normal service in the UK today is a low-floor bus offering easy access to everyone. This book traces the story of the UK's low-floor double-deckers, from the first tentative steps to the widespread adoption of this layout and the moves from diesel buses to diesel-electric hybrids, to gas, electric and even hydrogen buses built for bus companies of all sizes. It covers the London operators that initially drove the low-floor revolution, along with the major groups, the remaining local authority fleets and a range of enterprising independents that operate them. Where once every double-decker for service in the UK was built in the UK, today many chassis come from mainland Europe and, increasingly, from manufacturers based in other and more distant parts of the world - and UK builders have gained an important foothold in Europe, North America, and the Far East as well. The story is told for the first time, on a model-by-model basis, supported by many unseen colour images, which show the buses in use throughout the UK.
£14.39
Berghahn Books The Death in their Eyes
Book SynopsisImages that embody the point of view of the perpetrators of violent crimes, or their accomplices, force us to look at the pain of victims through the eyes of those who caused it. Accompanied by over sixty visuals of historically infamous violence, The Death in their Eyes goes beyond the visible aspects of images to reveal what has been left outside of the frame. Covering human abuse and humiliation at Abu Ghraib, the Auschwitz Album, religious desecration during the Spanish Civil War, an unfinished Nazi propaganda film made at the Warsaw Ghetto in the spring of 1942, and detainees at the S-21 torture center in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, this volume proposes a rigorous new methodology for analyzing perpetrator images, in photography and film, that continue to be used and re-appropriated in today's media.Content warning: This book contains images of victims of murder and torture which are essential to the author's analysis.
£94.05
Chroma Editions From Tarmac to Towpath: Excursions into Lockdown:
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