books by Aperture     books:     Aperture      Luigi Ghirri: It's Beautiful Here, Isn't It... Germano Celant Aperture, 2008 Filled with countless color photos, as well as essays covering Ghirri's reflections "It's Beautiful Here, Isn't It..." is not just a book title; it's a statement that perfectly sums up this newest collection of photography from Luigi Ghirri. Filled with countless color photos, as well as essays covering Ghirri's reflections on the time he took the ...             Why People Photograph Robert Adams Aperture, 1996 Photographers -- this book is your friend. If you are not connected with any photography/art community, this book is for you. If none of your friends has an MFA, and if you are in need of someone who can speak intelligently about photography as art, then again, this book is for you. Robert Adams' writing is ...             Uncommon Places: The Complete Works Lynn Tillman, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen Aperture, 2004 a TRUE master this is one of the first great works of color photography, and is still as fresh and significant as it was 30 years ago. forget all the imitators of today's contemporary scene, this was one of the first and is still better than anything to come along since (with the ...             The Places We Live Aperture, 2008             Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph Aperture, 1997 "Cast A Cold Eye On Life, On Death. Horseman, Pass By!" Epitaph of W.B. Yeats It is not overstating the case to say that creating these photographs cost Diane Arbus her life, her suicide followed soon after they were assembled. When you study them, (and you study them, you don't look at them), you quickly understand why. Arbus was a brittle ...             The New West: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range Robert Adams Aperture, 2008 The (old) new west The New West is one of the most significant works of photography in the 20th century, presenting the reality of the western landscape in harsh contrast to the mythology of the other Adams... The pictures cut straight to the bone, showing the damage done to a landscape ...             Henri Cartier-Bresson (Aperture Masters of Photography) Aperture, 1997 A True Master If Cartier-Bresson did not invent the art of 35mm street photography, he certainly brought it to the attention of other serious photographers and the public. Trained as a painter, his eye for composition was unerring, but it was his instinct for the defining human ...             Erwin Olaf Aperture, 2008 "Vermeer Noir" might be an apt description of Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf's disquieting image repertoire. His subjects are posed indoors, immobile, somewhat in reverie, and bathed in nearby window light--but not tranquilly so. An atmosphere of sinister but clinical indifference attends both them and their environments, rendering them into ...             Immediate Family Aperture, 1994 Grand Photographic Book I love these photographs. They have amazing soul and power inside them. Brilliant exposures and a great looking family.             Josef Koudelka: Invasion 68 Aperture, 2008 In 1968, Josef Koudelka was a 30-year-old acclaimed theater photographer who had never made pictures of a news event. That all changed on the night of August 21, when Warsaw Pact tanks invaded the city of Prague, ending the short-lived political liberalization in Czechoslovakia that came to be known as Prague Spring. Koudelka had returned home the ...             Jock Sturges: Misty Dawn Aperture, 2008 Over the course of his career, Jock Sturges' long-term engagement with his subjects has been a cornerstone of his work. Misty Dawn, one of his primary and most popular muses, is one such subject; he has photographed her for 25 of her 28 years. Lithe, beautiful, classically proportioned, she is the personification of Sturges' philosophy of being at ...             Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values Aperture, 1989 a MUST READ for serious photographers! This is an important collection of essays for the serious photographer and for anyone interested in the art of photography. This book is destined to become a classic and will be read a hundred years from now. Adams' many excellent books of his own photography are ...             Art Photography Now Susan Bright Aperture, 2006 A trip to 80 (good) art galleries in a single book It is difficult to find good contemporary photography overviews -- typically, you could go to galleries or museums for several years or buy a stack of art photography books and spend days going through them -- assuming you had a strong Art background. This book offers ...             Photo Art Aperture, 2008 More adventurous in scope than other comparable compendiums, Photo Art is a vast critical survey of contemporary conceptual-oriented photography. It particularly addresses the work of artists emerging in Western and Eastern Europe--many of whom will be new to American audiences--and presents critical contexts for their work in accompanying ...             Jock Sturges: Notes Aperture, 2004 This review is going to be............ ....about my own credo of America, and of the First Amendment. My online purchase of this is analagous to the story of a Yale professor I read about a few years ago...having no interest in guns, or hunting, he still believes in the Second Amendment; he bought a cheap ...          products you might be interested in search for books cartier-bresson, immediate, landscapes, photograph, photography, traditional      toavi.com    web randomly chosen book: The Long War for the Northern Plains (Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars)