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Book SynopsisPhotographs have a strange and powerful way of shaping the way we see the world. The most successful images enter our collective consciousness, defining eras, making history, or simply touching something so fundamentally human and universal that they have become resonant icons all over the globe. To explore this unique influence, Photo Icons puts some of the most important photographic landmarks under the microscope. From some of the earliest photography, such as Nicéphore Niépce’s 1827 eight-hour-exposure rooftop picture and Louis Daguerre’s famous 1838 street scene, through to Martin Parr, this is as much a history of the medium as a case-by-case analysis of its social, historical, and artistic impact. We take in experimental Surrealist shots of the 1920s and the gritty photorealism of the 1930s, including Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother. We witness the power-makers (Che Guevara) and the heartbreakers (Marilyn Monroe) as well as the great gamut of human emotions and experiences to which photography bears such vivid witness: from the euphoric Kiss in Front of City Hall (1950) by Doisneau to the horror of Nick Ut’s Napalm Against Civilians showing nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phúc running naked toward the camera from South Vietnamese napalm.

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Book SynopsisBending Light: The Moods of Color showcases photographer Eric Meola's use of light and colour throughout his career of editorial, advertising, and personal work. In one hundred iconic photographs, including recent experiments with colour abstracts, and in dozens of stories and anecdotes, he examines his five-decade journey using colour in photography, its symbolism, and how it affects our moods.Meola's work is informed by writers, painters, musicians, and the desire to create visual metaphors with his imagerywhether intimate portraits, unique landscapes, or colour-saturated abstracts, his use of geometry within the frame of the photograph creates a tension that is instantly recognisable.In awarding him its Lifetime Achievement Award for 2023, the Professional Photographers of America noted that Eric Meola champions photography as a visual language capable of great emotion. He's a photographer with a love affair for colour, light, and artistic

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Book Synopsis"There are very few books about photography that achieve the status of essential reference, maybe even seminal. Well, I believe this is one of them. Enjoy it!" — Gilles Decamps, The Eye of Photography "...the book itself will surely go down as one of the most vivid visual documents of what were arguably the most transformative one-hundred years in human history." — Ken Scrudato, BlackBook "These photographs encapsulate the range of images that capture Fetterman’s imagination, from anonymous photographs to iconic masterworks, all with an underlying humanist spirit."—photograph “When I photograph, I project what I’m not. What I would like to be.” — Lillian Bassman "What makes the book so enjoyable is the same as the email: It is one great image after another, with personal commentary." — Tom Teicholz, Forbes "Although many of the images have standalone intensity, it is Peter’s direct encounters with the artists themselves that allow us to see them in a new light." — Eva Clifford, WhyNow The power of photography lies in its ability to ignite emotions across barriers of language and culture. This selection of iconic images, compiled by pioneering collector and gallerist Peter Fetterman, celebrates the photograph’s unique capacity for sensibility. Peter has been championing the photographic arts for over 30 years. He runs what is arguably the most important commercial photography gallery in the world. During the long months of lockdown, Peter ‘exhibited’ one photograph per day, accompanied by inspirational text, quotes and poetry. This digital collection struck a chord with followers from around the world. The Power of Photography presents 120 outstanding images from the series, along with Peter’s insightful words. This carefully curated selection offers an inspiring overview of the medium while paying homage to masters of the art. From the bizarre Boschian fantasies of Melvin Sokolsky to the haunting humanity of Ansel Adams’s family portraits; from Miho Kajioka’s interpretation of traditional Japanese aesthetics of to the joyful everyday scenes of Evelyn Hofer; from rare interior shots by famed nude photographer Ruth Bernhard to Bruce Davidson’s wistful depiction of young men playing ballgames on a street; this book gathers some of the most unique and heartening photographs from the 20th century. Each image is a time capsule, offering us a glimpse into days gone past. Yet each photograph also speaks of tranquillity, peace, and hope for the future. Trade Review"For every one image I think seriously about, I discard hundreds that don’t quite have that haunting quality. Most images are immediately forgettable. The art is to find those images that nourish and sustain you." - Peter Fetterman interviewed by Karen Rosenberg, 1st Dibs"A new book brings together 120 photographs from the gallerist’s collection. Together, they tell the story of 20th century photography." - Mee-Lai Stone, The Guardian"...the book itself will surely go down as one of the most vivid visual documents of what were arguably the most transformative one-hundred years in human history." - Ken Scrudato, BlackBook"The Power of Photography (May 2022, ACC Art Books), presents 120 outstanding images from the series, along with the AIPAD gallerist’s insightful words." - The Eye of Photography"These photographs encapsulate the range of images that capture Fetterman’s imagination, from anonymous photographs to iconic masterworks, all with an underlying humanist spirit." - photograph"A thoroughly satisfying and enlightening journey through the history of photography." - American Illustration - American Photography"...a new coffee-table book collects some of the last century’s most enduring photographs..." - Airmail"What makes the book so enjoyable is the same as the email: It is one great image after another, with personal commentary." - Tom Teicholz, Forbes"Fetterman believes all collecting is autobiographical and a journey of self-discovery: “You react to a certain image because it reminds you of a memory or a personal time."" - Claudia Eller, Variety"Although many of the images have standalone intensity, it is Peter’s direct encounters with the artists themselves that allow us to see them in a new light." - Eva Clifford, WhyNow"…fantastically diverse collection." - Lilly Subbotin, Daily Mail"The strength of the book, and of the images within, comes from Fetterman’s particular eye for new and old talent alike." - Blind Magazine"In his new illustrated book, the gallery owner explains and collector Peter Fetterman numerous backgrounds to masterpieces of photographic art." [Translated via Google Translate from German] - GQ Germany"The Power of Photography showcases 120 classic pictures he has collected over the last 30 years." - Black + White Photography"In his new book "The Power of Photography", Peter Fetterman presents 120 images that are particularly close to his heart and which he calls "almost autobiographical."" [Translated from German via Google Translate] - Monopol Magazine"A new collection of photography from ACC Art Books and famed collector Peter Fetterman features several of the most striking portraits you’ll ever see." - The Daily Beast, and Yahoo"Gallerist Peter Fetterman’s incredible collection comes into focus in a new book." - Maxim Magazine"Seeing the pictures currently on display at Peter Fetterman’s gallery is a revelatory experience." - The Eye of Photography"The Power of Photography (Acc Art Books) collects 120 photographs and includes endless iconic works ranging from Ansel's family portraits to the daily life of Evelyn Hofer and images of classics such as Ruth Bernhard, Bruce Davidson, Melvin Sokolsky, Kurt Markus or David Bailey." - Vanity Fair Spain"Fetterman is a collector and dealer in photographs, mainly from the 20th century, and this is a peep into his extraordinary collection, with work by both acknowledged masters and people you have never heard of." - Daily Mail"The Power of Photography presents 120 outstanding images...along with Peter's insightful words...this book gathers some of the most unique and heartening photographs from the 20th Century." - Arts & Collections"Each image is a time capsule and offers a glimpse into days gone by." - Photo Weekly

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Book SynopsisThe must-have photography monograph of the year, this lavish oversized volume celebrates David Yarrow's unparalleled wildlife imagery.Trade Review“David Yarrow doesn’t take pictures; he makes them. Critical of typical, documentary-style wildlife photography, the British fine-art photographer is known for getting up close to his subjects—even when they’re apex predators. ‘The biggest difference between art and reportage is proximity and emotion,’ he says. To achieve that difference, Yarrow might face a charging elephant, wait for the perfect 10 minutes of light, or spend 99 hours tracking a tiger. His new eponymous book features 150 of his most compelling photographs.”—American Way Magazine

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Book SynopsisTherapeutic photography is an increasingly popular approach for increasing self-esteem, resilience and self-reliance in a wide range of people, including those with dementia, autism or mental health problems, school children and offenders. This book provides practical guidance on delivering therapeutic photography interventions and introduces the theory underpinning the approach.Each chapter describes a different element of therapeutic photography, including storytelling through photographs to discuss relationships and the use of self-portraits and selfies to explore identity. Exercises, reflection points and examples are provided throughout and a detailed case study shows the approaches described in the book used with a group of young adults on the autism spectrum. An adaptable programme is also included in the appendix.Table of Contents1. What is Therapeutic Photography? 2. How can this be used in practice? 3. Advantages and challenges. 4. Using photography to explore self-image. 5. Using photography to explore relationships. 6. Using photography to express emotions and attachments. 7. Using photography to explore change. 8. Using photography to explore narratives and perspectives. 9. Using photography to make changes to society. 10. Adults with autism - a case study. 11. Voices from practice. Appendix.

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Book SynopsisWhy do we look at lynching photographs? What is the basis for our curiosity, rage, indignation, or revulsion? This book examines lynching photographs as a way of analyzing photography's historical role in promoting and resisting racial violence. It charts the history of lynching photographs - their meanings, uses, and controversial display.Table of ContentsIntroduction Anthony W. Lee The Evidence of Lynching Photographs Shawn Michelle Smith Lynching Photographs and the Politics of Public Shaming Dora Apel Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisIn What Photography Is, James Elkins examines the strange and alluring power of photography in the same provocative and evocative manner as he explored oil painting in his best-selling What Painting Is. In the course of an extended imaginary dialogue with Roland Barthes''s Camera Lucida, Elkins argues that photography is also about meaninglessness--its apparently endless capacity to show us things that we do not want or need to see--and also about pain, because extremely powerful images can sear permanently into our consciousness. Extensively illustrated with a surprising range of images, the book demonstrates that what makes photography uniquely powerful is its ability to express the difficulty--physical, psychological, emotional, and aesthetic--of the act of seeing.Trade Review"The most exciting feature for me of this fascinating book was its articulation of the importance of writing in our engagement with photography. Writing for Elkins means the capacity to elicit articulate intensity in the tracking of the intricate turns and balances that can, and should, take place in a mind responding to expressive non-discursive materials. Here the distinctive feature of photography as a medium is not the punctum or the pursuit of sublimity but the photograph's powers for producing self-reflexive attention to how the work makes us see our own seeing--a power that is at risk when we become proud of the rhetorics that displace what the engagements of distinctive writing can bring to our attention." Charles Altieri, University of California, Berkeley"In an impassioned dialogue with Roland Barthes, Jim Elkins argues that photography is not 'about' representation and memory—those aspects of the Barthean punctum; rather, photography is 'at war with our attention.' If we focus on its essential materiality and physicality, photography shows us things we would often prefer not to see—the 'splotches and stains, cracks, unpleasant shadows, errant dust' in our natural environment as well as the human pain too hard to look at and yet unavoidably there. What is given by photography is the 'grainy substance of the world' in all its irritating contradictions, its 'displeasures'--the aporias that make the act of seeing itself so difficult. Elkins’s disillusioned meditation on how photography actually works upon the viewer is as original as it is profound." Marjorie Perloff, author of Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media and Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the 21st Century 'The most exciting feature for me of this fascinating book was its articulation of the importance of writing in our engagement with photography. Writing for Elkins means the capacity to elicit articulate intensity in the tracking of the intricate turns and balances that can, and should, take place in a mind responding to expressive non-discursive materials. Here the distinctive feature of photography as a medium is not the punctum or the pursuit of sublimity but the photograph's powers for producing self-reflexive attention to how the work makes us see our own seeing--a power that is at risk when we become proud of the rhetorics that displace what the engagements of distinctive writing can bring to our attention.' - Charles Altieri, University of California, Berkeley'In an impassioned dialogue with Roland Barthes, Jim Elkins argues that photography is not "about" representation and memory—those aspects of the Barthean punctum; rather, photography is "at war with our attention." If we focus on its essential materiality and physicality, photography shows us things we would often prefer not to see—the "splotches and stains, cracks, unpleasant shadows, errant dust" in our natural environment as well as the human pain too hard to look at and yet unavoidably there. What is given by photography is the "grainy substance of the world" in all its irritating contradictions, its "displeasures"--the aporias that make the act of seeing itself so difficult. Elkins’s disillusioned meditation on how photography actually works upon the viewer is as original as it is profound.' Marjorie Perloff, author of Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media and Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the 21st CenturyTable of ContentsPreface 1. Writing 2. Selenite, Ice, Salt 3. From the Green River to the Brunswick Peninsula 4. A Drop of Water, World Trade Center Dust 5. The Rapatronic Camera 6. Lingqi

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Book Synopsis''DO NOT OPEN - DESTROY.''The words on the envelope he has found are written in Kath''s hand, but Glyn ignores his wife''s instruction and breaks the seal. His life unwinds. For he finds a photograph showing Kath holding hands with another man. Unable to forget this long-ago act of betrayal he recklessly excavates the past, seeking out who knew what, tearing apart other lives as he tries to dig up the roots of his wife''s infidelity. But what is the truth about Kath? What is the truth about their love? And can it survive this?''Remarkable'' Sunday Telegraph

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Book SynopsisFrom acclaimed photographer Elinor Carucci, a vivid chronicle of one woman's passage through aging, family, illness, and intimacy. It is a period in life that is universal, at some point, to everyone, yet in our day-to-day and cultural dialogue, nearly invisible. Midlife is a moving and empathetic portrait of an artist at the point in her life when inexorable change is more apparent than ever. Elinor Carucci, whose work has been collected in the previous acclaimed volumes Closer (2002, 2009) and Mother (2013), continues her immersive and close-up examination of her own life in this volume, portraying this moment in vibrant detail. As one of the most autobiographically rigorous photographers of her generation, Carucci recruits and revisits the same members of her family that we have seen since her work gained prominence two decades ago. Even as we observe telling details--graying hair, the pressures and joys of marriage, episodes of pronounced illness, the evolution of her aging parents' roles as grandparents, her children's increasing independence--we are invited to reflect on the experiences that we all share contending with the challenges of life, love, and change.Trade ReviewWith her first book, 2002's Closer, Elinor Carucci brought us into her life and took us into her confidence, trusting viewers to understand that a certain amount of nakedness, both physical and emotional, was no big deal in her extended family. . . . She continues that invigorating, illuminating push and pull in her new book, Midlife (Monacelli), combining it with what she describes in the book's afterword as "a particular, very up-close—almost scientific—way of seeing." . . . In one of several images that hark back to Closer, the couple lay naked and side-by-side in bed, Elinor in the foreground, Eran peering at us from behind the crook of her neck. But instead of looking away, contented and abstracted, as she did in 1998, Elinor has turned her head to look out at us, too, with an expression that's older, wiser, and slightly ironic. Life goes on. And on. —Vince Aletti Photograph In Midlife, a deeply personal project spanning a 7-year time scale, Carucci presents her journey through motherhood, marriage, illness, love and ageing. Tracking the day-to-day dynamics of family life and the highs and lows of relationships, the book mixes candid snapshots with surreal and staged scenes. Interspersed with abstract paintings created in blood, Carucci creates a visceral, emotionally charged and startlingly honest document of her experience as a woman living through everyday change. —Celia Graham-Dixon, LensCulture The idea that women will become invisible when they reach middle age isn’t so much a universal truth but a veiled threat—"a kind of campfire story," as the writer Kristen Roupenian puts it in the foreword of Midlife, a new book by Elinor Carucci, who took the discomfiting photo that accompanied Roupenian's viral short story Cat Person. But there is truth, she continues, to the fact “signs of aging in women are treated as though they ought to be invisible.” Suffice to say, in Midlife, that isn't the case: Carucci captures the inevitable unapologetically—and so effectively that one wonders why she ever would apologize in the first place. —Stephanie Eckardt, W Magazine Photography no longer comforted [Carucci]; it confronted her with her own mortality. But she didn't avoid it, as some women begin to do, deftly stepping out of the shots at family gatherings. Instead, she fit her camera with a macro lens and turned on powerful strobe lights to illuminate aging skin, facial hair, and even blood. The images pair the precision of a scientist with all the drama of Caravaggio, an artist who embraced what his own era deemed vulgar and profane, insisting art "be made and painted from life." —Laura Mallonee, WIRED Carucci expertly weaves photographs of her family, photographs of herself, close-ups of objects like pills or a dead baby bird, and what we later find out to be paintings made with the artist’s own blood. . . . The element of drama Carucci invites into photos like Kiss Trace, 2015 and You Know More of the Parenting Falls To Me, 2017 aestheticizes familiar familial tropes to tell a story of the triumphs and challenges of life and love. I could relate and also not relate just enough so that the artist showed us something recognizable but at the same time, entirely her own. To me, the photos monumentalize something that, if we’re lucky enough to have, we usually take for granted. That is, family, intimacy, the process of aging, even those seemingly mundane routines like putting away the groceries which Carucci manages to make tender and beautiful. —Isabella Kazanecki, Musée Magazine Now [Carucci] has released a continuation of her self-portrait in the form of a new photo book, Midlife, which is a document of life in her forties. Here, she once again turns the gaze that she used in the previous decade—harsh and forgiving at the same time—onto herself. the lighting she chooses doesn’t flatter flaws, and gives her images an almost theatrical look, a chiaroscuro effect, throwing into stark relief the parts we might usually try to tone down or avoid looking at for too long or too close. —Charlotte Jansen, Elephant Magazine

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Book SynopsisHelp children to understand their emotions with these easy-to-read introductions to feelings.With the help of fun photographs of animals showing their emotions, children will start to recognise the different types of emotion and learn simple but effective ways to manage them. The titles in the Tame Your Emotions series are great for sharing with children and encouraging them to talk about their emotions. By talking through their feelings, children will gain confidence and boost their self-esteem, being able to understand and take more control of their behaviour. Each book contains notes for parents and teachers with suggestions for ideas and activities to develop a deeper understanding. They support the Personal, Social and Emotional Development Area of Learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage and are also suitable for use with KS1 children.

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Book SynopsisHelp children to understand their emotions with these easy-to-read introductions to feelings.With the help of fun photographs of animals showing their emotions, children will start to recognise the different types of emotion and learn easy ways to manage them. The titles in the Tame Your Emotions series are great for sharing with children and encouraging them to talk about their emotions. By talking through their feelings, children will gain confidence and boost their self-esteem, being able to understand and take more control of their behaviour. Each book contains notes for parents and teachers with suggestions for ideas and activities to develop a deeper understanding. They support the Personal, Social and Emotional Development Area of Learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage and are also suitable for use with KS1 children.

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Book SynopsisWith these intimate social documentary photographs and oral histories, Bruce Harkness and John J. Bukowczyk have sensitively collaborated with and amplified the stories of Detroit’s often overlooked people and lost neighborhoods. The result is an unforgettable portrait of Detroit’s hard-won resiliency.Trade Review“Bruce Harkness is a masterful hunter, communicator, and seer in the visual language of photography. His photographs are charged with an emotional level that transfixes the viewer into wanting to know more.” -- Adger Cowans“In the 1950s, the avant-garde group known as the Situationist International developed the concept of dérive (French: drift) to describe a method of serendipitously navigating the urban environment to reveal its objective and subjective conditions, to disclose not only how things look but how they feel. Over a lifetime of circumambulating Detroit’s environs, photographer Bruce Harkness has observed the often-neglected people and places of the city to expose, as it were, the essence of its otherwise marginalized physical, social, and emotional spaces. In these much-vaunted times of Detroit as a ‘Comeback City,’ the photography of Bruce Harkness calls upon us to pause and take note of what too often gets left behind in the march of ‘progress.’” -- Vince Carducci, dean emeritus, College for Creative Studies”An incredibly beautiful and elegantly constructed body of work…[with] masterful editing. The captions are unpretentious and straightforward, like the images, which navigate the years with honesty and sensitivity. Love it, man. Bravo.“ -- Brian Day, award-winning Detroit street photographer“Harkness’s photography portrays the undulating moods of shadow and light refracted in a community’s afterlife and rebirth, like the image of jazz great Marcus Belgrave reconfiguring loss into belief flowing from his trumpet.” -- Melba Joyce Boyd, distinguished professor in African American studies, Wayne State University, and author of Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. W. Harper, 1825–1911“In this collection of intimate portraits, ragged streetscapes, and lively clubs and coffeehouses, Bruce Harkness depicts the stark beauty of Detroit and its people. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes uplifting, and always beautiful, Harkness captures both the city’s struggles and its profound resilience.” -- Thomas J. Sugrue, author of The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit“Unsentimental but deeply human, Bruce Harkness’s photographs draw you in to every detail—into the tales told by every crack in the plaster, every poster on the wall, every storefront and front stoop. They compel you to look in every eye and, in these moving images of brick and mortar and flesh and blood, to read the stories of the communities we create and those we leave behind.” -- Karen Majewski, author of Traitors and True Poles: Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880–1939 and former mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan“Bruce Harkness spent decades walking the streets of Detroit and photographing the people he met along the way. His images capture not just a street-level view of Detroit’s human tapestry, but the very soul of this city.” -- Peter O'Keefe, filmmaker and editor of A Brief Peculiar History of Detroit“We tend to think of history as a written record established by others. Photographs from Detroit, 1975–2019 takes you on a rare journey back in time, showing how history is written by the people who live it.” -- Nadja Rottner, professor of art history, University of Michigan-Dearborn and editor of Cardiovista: Detroit Street Photography

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Book SynopsisThis fully updated second edition of Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in a Digital Age invites readers to consider how cutting-edge approaches in phototherapy and therapeutic photography could be integrated into their own practice. Contributing authors provide guidance on different techniques for using photography in work with clients, including theory and context behind when each approach should be used. Readers will benefit from updates to the current edition, including: â Updates to the preface and introduction, exploring the importance of self-representation and expression against the backdrop of the ever-growing popularity of mobile phones and social media. â A new chapter on the integration of AI into phototherapy and therapeutic photography, including future-oriented practice and considering the use of AI for facial emotional recognition and creation of augmented realities. â A new chapter on PhotoVoiceâs methodologies and approaches to community engagement in delivering ethical photography projects for social change. â A new chapter on how phototherapy can provide safety, security and structure for exploration of self-identity, relationships and narratives. â An updated conclusion, drawing together developments in phototherapy and therapeutic photography, and renewing ideas about how practitioners look to the future of photography in therapeutic practice. This book will be of vital importance to counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists and photographers looking to learn more about the intersection of photography and therapeutic practice. It will also be essential reading for art therapists using photography within their work with clients.

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Book SynopsisConsiders the emotional and relational implications of portrait photographs for three modernist writers

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Book SynopsisHelp children to understand their emotions with these easy-to-read introductions to feelings.With the help of fun photographs of animals showing their emotions, children will start to recognise the different types of emotion and learn simple but effective ways to manage them. With the help of fun photographs of animals showing their emotions, children will start to recognise the different types of emotion and learn easy ways to manage them.The titles in the Tame Your Emotions series are great for sharing with children and encouraging them to talk about their emotions. By talking through their feelings, children will gain confidence and boost their self-esteem, being able to understand and take more control of their behaviour. Each book contains notes for parents and teachers with suggestions for ideas and activities to develop a deeper understanding. They support the Personal, Social and Emotional Development Area of Learning in the Early

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Book SynopsisThe general public’s image of Mondrian is of a serious man in a suit and tie with a reserved, rather aloof look. It is the same group of some ten photographs that shaped this image over time, although there are around 400 known photographs of the artist and his studios that provide a far more balanced and livelier image of Mondrian. This gorgeous book is not a biography, but rather a visual and emotional reference work for anyone who wants to immerse themselves in the world of this extraordinarily modern artist. The studios in Amsterdam, Paris, and New York are works of art themselves, as fascinating as the guests in these rooms. There are snapshots showing his private life, taken during journeys or visits, photographs of vernissages and dinners as well as formal portraits that he uses to promote the image of a serious, uncompromising artist. Detailed captions and richly illustrated essays on the significance of photography in the context of Mondrian’s work make this book an extraordinary document of his time.

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Book SynopsisHelp children to understand their emotions with these easy-to-read introductions to feelings.With the help of fun photographs of animals showing their emotions, children will start to recognise the different types of emotion and learn simple but effective ways to manage them. The titles in the Tame Your Emotions series are great for sharing with children and encouraging them to talk about their emotions. By talking through their feelings, children will gain confidence and boost their self-esteem, being able to understand and take more control of their behaviour. Each book contains notes for parents and teachers with suggestions for ideas and activities to develop a deeper understanding. They support the Personal, Social and Emotional Development Area of Learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage and are also suitable for use with KS1 children.

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Book SynopsisHelp children to understand their emotions with these easy-to-read introductions to feelings.With the help of fun photographs of animals showing their emotions, children will start to recognise the different types of emotion and learn simple but effective ways to manage them. The titles in the Tame Your Emotions series are great for sharing with children and encouraging them to talk about their emotions. By talking through their feelings, children will gain confidence and boost their self-esteem, being able to understand and take more control of their behaviour. Each book contains notes for parents and teachers with suggestions for ideas and activities to develop a deeper understanding. They support the Personal, Social and Emotional Development Area of Learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage and are also suitable for use with KS1 children.

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Book SynopsisThere are countless books on war photography, most of these focusing on dramatic images made by photojournalists in combat zones. Photography and War instead proposes a radically expanded notion of war photography, one that encompasses a far broader terrain of geographies, chronologies, practices and viewpoints. Pippa Oldfied considers photography’s fundamental role in military reconnaissance, propaganda and protest, exposure of war crimes, and the memorialisation of war, among other themes. While iconic images by well-known names such as Roger Fenton and Robert Capa are included, the viewpoints of people who have historically been overlooked - women and photographers from diasporic and non-Western backgrounds - are forcefully present. As a result, this book offers a nuanced and more inclusive understanding of war as a far-reaching undertaking in which anyone might be implicated and affected. Richly illustrated, with some photos published for the first time, this book offers an accessible and well-rounded introduction to photography’s perhaps most contested, complex and emotive subject.

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Book SynopsisHe walks into the living room and June is dead.He centres her, checking the light. Focusing, he clicks the shutter.He'll ask himself later, if he knew. It's easy to say that he had acted without thinking, out of instinct.Rook Henderson is an award-winning photographer, still carrying the hidden scars of war. Now, suddenly, he is also a widower. Leaving his son Ralph to pick up the pieces, Rook flies to Vietnam for the first time in fifty years, escaping to the landscape of a place he once knew so well. But when Ralph follows him out there, seeking answers from the father he barely knows, Rook is forced to unwind his past: his childhood in Yorkshire, his life in London in the 1960s and his marriage to the unforgettable June - and to ask himself what price he has paid for a life behind the lens . . .Gripping, evocative and unforgettable, The Last Photograph is a story of a life shaped by trauma and love - and the secrets that make us who we are.Trade ReviewEvocative, harrowing. . .Emma Chapman tackles the big subjects of love and war with aplomb * Tatler *

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Book SynopsisHelp children to understand their emotions with these easy-to-read introductions to feelings.With the help of fun photographs of animals showing their emotions, children will start to recognise the different types of emotion and learn simple but effective ways to manage them. The titles in the Tame Your Emotions series are great for sharing with children and encouraging them to talk about their emotions. By talking through their feelings, children will gain confidence and boost their self-esteem, being able to understand and take more control of their behaviour. Each book contains notes for parents and teachers with suggestions for ideas and activities to develop a deeper understanding. They support the Personal, Social and Emotional Development Area of Learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage and are also suitable for use with KS1 children.

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Book SynopsisHelp children to understand their emotions with these easy-to-read introductions to feelings.With the help of fun photographs of animals showing their emotions, children will start to recognise the different types of emotion and learn simple but effective ways to manage them. This book will help children to be confident and resilient in new situations, giving them skills for life.The titles in the Tame Your Emotions series are great for sharing with children and encouraging them to talk about their emotions. By talking through their feelings, children will gain confidence and boost their self-esteem, being able to understand and take more control of their behaviour. Each book contains notes for parents and teachers with suggestions for ideas and activities to develop a deeper understanding. They support the Personal, Social and Emotional Development Area of Learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage and are also suitable for use with KS

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Book SynopsisLearn about the emotions behind the faces of over 90 different children, then use the included mirror to practice understanding your own feelings! See why kids are happy, sad, mad/frustrated, surprised, scared, brave, bored, silly, and/or tired with beautiful photographs showing every bit of context (like welcoming a new sibling, falling off a bike, or getting ready to sleep). Every spread shows the same emotion on 10 different children''s faces so family members and educators can demonstrate emotions look different for everyone. Created with neurodiverse children in mind! Complete with family discussion questions and a feelings wheel in the back matter.

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Book SynopsisHelp children to understand their emotions with these easy-to-read introductions to feelings.With the help of fun photographs of animals showing their emotions, children will start to recognise the different types of emotion and learn simple but effective ways to manage them. This book will help children to face their fears, be brave, confident and resilient.With the help of fun photographs of animals showing their emotions, children will start to recognise the different types of emotion and learn easy ways to manage them.The titles in the Tame Your Emotions series are great for sharing with children and encouraging them to talk about their emotions. By talking through their feelings, children will gain confidence and boost their self-esteem, being able to understand and take more control of their behaviour. Each book contains notes for parents and teachers with suggestions for ideas and activities to develop a deeper under

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Book SynopsisAutomatically evaluating the aesthetic qualities of a photograph is a current challenge for artificial intelligence technologies, yet it is also an opportunity to open up new economic and social possibilities. Aesthetics in Digital Photography presents theories developed over the last 25 centuries by philosophers and art critics, who have sometimes been governed by the objectivity of perception, and other times, of course, by the subjectivity of human judgement. It explores the advances that have been made in neuro-aesthetics and their current limitations. In the field of photography, this book puts aesthetic hypotheses up against experimental verification, and then critically examines attempts to "scientifically" measure this beauty. Special attention is paid to artificial intelligence techniques, taking advantage of machine learning methods and large databases.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Image and Gaze xi Chapter 1 The Legacy of Philosophers 1 1.1. The objectivist approach 3 1.1.1. The source: ancient Greece 3 1.1.2. After Greece 5 1.1.3. Kant and modern aesthetics 7 1.1.4. Objectivism after Kant: from pseudo-subjectivism to aesthetic realism 9 1.2. The subjectivist approach 13 1.2.1. From classicism to romanticism 14 1.2.2. The moderns 15 1.2.3. The influence of neurobiology 18 1.3. Subjectivism and objectivism: an ongoing debate 19 Chapter 2. Neurobiology or the Arbitrator of Consciousness 25 2.1. fMRI protocols and neuroaesthetics 27 2.2. The fMRI quest for “beauty processes” in the brain 28 2.2.1. The role of the prefrontal cortex 28 2.2.2. The role of the insular cortex 31 2.2.3. The role of the visual areas 33 2.2.4. The role of memory and cognition 35 2.2.5. The role of embodiment 35 2.3. Responses from functional electric encephalography 36 2.4. A global cognitive scheme for aesthetic judgment? 39 2.4.1. J. Petitot’s neurogeometric model 40 2.4.2. A. Chatterjee’s aesthetic emotion model 40 2.4.3. The model by Brown et al. 42 2.4.4. Model proposed by H. Leder 43 2.4.5. The model by C. Redies 45 2.4.6. The emotions model developed by S. Koelsch et al. 47 2.4.7. L.H. Hsu’s model of emotions based on A. Damásio 47 2.4.8. Other models 50 2.5. A critique of neuroaesthetic methods 51 2.5.1. Criticism of neuroaesthetic methods 51 2.5.2. Criticisms of the objectives of neuroaesthetics 52 Chapter 3. What Are the Criteria For a Beautiful Photo? 55 3.1. Before we enter into the fray 56 3.1.1. What reference books do we have? 56 3.1.2. “Beauty of an image” or “quality of an image”? 57 3.1.3. A glossary of aesthetic appraisal 58 3.1.4. Measuring beauty 60 3.2. Composition 63 3.2.1. Complexity versus simplicity 63 3.2.2. Unity 64 3.2.3. A specific case in composition: landscapes 64 3.2.4. Using oculometry to analyze composition 67 3.2.5. Format or aspect ratio 68 3.2.6. The rule of thirds (RoT) 70 3.2.7. The center of the image 72 3.2.8. Other rules for composition 73 3.3. Histograms, spectral properties and textures 76 3.3.1. Histograms and gray levels 76 3.3.2. Focus, spectral density, fractals 78 3.3.3. Textures 80 3.4. Color 82 3.4.1. About the concept of color 82 3.4.2. Preferences related to isolated colors 84 3.4.3. Preferences related to color palettes 86 3.5. What behavioral psychosociology has to say 93 3.5.1. Images of nature 93 3.5.2. The aesthetics of faces 96 3.5.3. The role of the signature, title and context 99 3.5.4. Perception and memory: prototypicality 101 Chapter 4. Algorithmic Approaches to “Calculate” Beauty 103 4.1. First steps: C. Henry 103 4.2. G.D. Birkhoff’s mathematical approach 104 4.3. Those who followed G.D. Birkhoff 106 4.3.1. Beauty according to H.J. Eysenck 106 4.3.2. The Post-War years: the designers, A. Moles and M. Bense 106 4.3.3. A dynamic approach: P. Machado and A. Cardoso 107 4.3.4. Work carried out by J. Rigau, M. Feixas and M. Bert 108 4.4. Algorithmic approach with AI: J. Schmidhuber 110 Chapter 5. The Holy Grail of the Digital World: Artificial Intelligence 113 5.1. Which artificial intelligence? 114 5.1.1. The principles 114 5.1.2. Learning algorithms 115 5.2. Why artificial intelligence in aesthetics? 116 5.3. Expert opinions 118 5.4. The database 120 5.4.1. Generalist databases, used for aesthetic judgments 122 5.4.2. Databases that are specialized for aesthetic photography 126 5.4.3. Databases dedicated to artistic judgment 129 5.4.4. Other image databases that are sometimes used 130 5.4.5. Increasing databases 131 Chapter 6. Primitive-based Classification Methods 133 6.1. Judging aesthetics 136 6.1.1. Multimedia primitives: the ACQUINE system (Datta et al.) 136 6.1.2. Edges and chromatic distance: Ke et al. 137 6.1.3. Photography rules: Luo and Tang and Mavridaki and Mezaris 140 6.1.4. High-level primitives: Dhar et al. 143 6.1.5. Generic descriptors of vision: Marchesotti et al. 144 6.2. Help in composing beautiful photos 148 6.2.1. The library of aesthetic primitives developed by Su et al. 148 6.2.2. The OSCAR system by Yao et al. 148 6.2.3. Embedded systems: Lo et al. and Wang et al. 150 6.3. Some specific research related to the evaluation of aesthetics using primitives 151 6.3.1. Color harmony: Lu et al. 151 6.3.2. Group photography: Wang et al. 153 6.3.3. Social networks and crowdsourcing: Schifanella et al. 153 6.3.4. Looking at comments: San Pedro et al. 154 Chapter 7. Deep Neural Network Systems 155 7.1. DNNs dedicated to aesthetic evaluation 157 7.1.1. High and low resolutions: the RAPID system, Lu et al. 157 7.1.2. The multi-path DMA-Net architecture: Lu et al. 160 7.1.3. Adapting to the size of the image: Mai et al. 160 7.1.4. Finding beauty on the Web: Redi et al. 163 7.1.5. Siamese and GAN networks: Kong et al. and Deng et al. 165 7.1.6. Paying attention to the image construction: A-Lamp 167 7.2. Variants around the basic DNN architecture 170 7.2.1. Comparing photos between themselves: Schwarz et al. 170 7.2.2. Making use of knowledge of the subject: Kao et al. 172 7.2.3. BDN: halfway between classification and DNN 174 7.2.4. Using the distribution of the evaluations 175 7.2.5. Extracting a “dramatic” image from a panorama: the Creatism system 178 7.3. Written appraisals: analyzing them and formulating new ones 179 7.3.1. Photo critique captioning dataset (PCCD) 181 7.3.2. Neural aesthetic image retriever (NAIR) 182 7.3.3. Semantic processing by Ghosal et al. 182 7.3.4. Aesthetic multi attribute network (AMAN) 183 7.4. Measuring subjective beauty 185 7.4.1. Recommendation systems 186 7.4.2. Defining the user’s psychological profile 188 7.4.3. Learning the user’s tastes through tests 191 7.4.4. Multiplying concurrent expertise 194 Chapter 8. A Critical Analysis of Machine Learning Techniques 197 8.1. The popularity of studies on aesthetics 197 8.2. A summary of learning methods 199 8.2.1. Which architecture? Which software? 199 8.2.2. What performances? 200 8.3. Questioning the hypotheses 203 8.4. Specific features of beautiful images detected by a computer 204 8.4.1. Some observations on the photos in the AVA database 205 8.4.2. The scores in the AVA database 207 Conclusion 213 Appendix 1. A Brief Review of Aesthetics 219 Appendix 2. Aesthetics in China 237 Appendix 3. The Aesthetic of Persian Miniatures 251 Appendix 4. Aesthetics in Japan 263 References 271 Index 295

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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

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Help children to understand their emotions with these easy-to-read introductions to feelings.With the help of fun photographs of animals showing their emotions, children will start to recognise the different types of emotion and learn simple but effective ways to manage them. This book will help children to be more brave and confident in the face of scary moments in their lives.The titles in the Tame Your Emotions series are great for sharing with children and encouraging them to talk about their emotions. Through talking about their feelings, children will gain confidence and boost their self-esteem, being able to understand and take more control of their behaviour. Each book contains notes for parents and teachers with suggestions for ideas and activities to develop a deeper understanding. They support the Personal, Social and Emotional Development Area of Learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage and are also suitable for use with KS1 children.

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Book SynopsisCute photographs of animals showing emotion, combined with simple text, explains to children how to understand and deal with their own emotions Coming across emotions for the first time, children might think they are the only ones to feel this way. These engaging books will help children to understand that feelings and emotions are universal and that they needn''t be overwhelming. With the help of fun photographs of animals showing their emotions, children will start to recognise the different types of emotion and learn easy ways to manage them.The titles in the Tame Your Emotions series are great for sharing with children and encouraging them to talk about their emotions. By talking through their feelings, children will gain confidence and boost their self-esteem, being able to understand and take more control of their behaviour. Each book contains notes for parents and teachers with suggestions for ideas and activities to develop a deeper unde

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Book SynopsisHelp children to understand their emotions with these easy-to-read introductions to feelings.With the help of fun photographs of animals showing their emotions, children will start to recognise the different types of emotion and learn simple but effective ways to manage them. The titles in the Tame Your Emotions series are great for sharing with children and encouraging them to talk about their emotions. By talking through their feelings, children will gain confidence and boost their self-esteem, being able to understand and take more control of their behaviour. Each book contains notes for parents and teachers with suggestions for ideas and activities to develop a deeper understanding. They support the Personal, Social and Emotional Development Area of Learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage and are also suitable for use with KS1 children.

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