Photographic Composition

Written by Tom Grill and Mark Scanlon

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1990
Price: $21.95

Effective image design, a key ingredient in successful photographs, is a skill that any serious photographer must learn and master. In Photographic Composition, award-winning photographers Tom Grill and Mark Scanlon demonstrate a modern, clear, and easily understandable approach to composing great photographs. Combining straightforward text with instructive yet compelling images, they... Read more >

Beyond Snapshots
How to Take That Fancy DSLR Camera Off "Auto" and Photograph Your Life like a Pro
Written by Rachel Devine and Peta Mazey

Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $14.99

Ready to Capture Your Story with Beautiful Photos?
 
Let professional photographers Rachel Devine and Peta Mazey show you how to use that fancy DSLR to photograph the story of your life, from falling in love and having a baby, to the everyday moments that are no less precious. You’ll learn:
 


   • Common beginner mistakes... Read more >

Shutterbabe
Adventures in Love and War
Written by Deborah Copaken Kogan

Format: eBook
On Sale: March 10, 2001
Price: $11.99

What if the protagonist in that age-old tale—boy goes to war, comes back a man—were a female? Shutterbabe, Deborah Copaken Kogan's remarkable debut, is just that: the story of a twenty-two-year-old girl from Potomac, Maryland, who goes off to photograph wars and comes back, four years and one too many adventures... Read more >

Cuba
Photographs by Jeffrey Milstein
Written by Jeffrey Milstein
Introduction by Nilo Cruz

Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: April 20, 2010
Price: $25.00

The images contained in this book do more than mirror reality in Cuba. They offer an orientation to its complexities. They present glimpses that are factual, realistic, honest, mixed with a breath of lyricism and quotidian simplicity, capturing our attention and allowing us to see the unseen. They get us in... Read more >

Fashion Photography
A Complete Guide to the Tools and Techniques of the Trade
Written by Bruce Smith

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $29.99

Fashion photography is glamorous. Fashion photography is hot. Fashion photography pays well! Now is the time to get into fashion photography, and there’s no better way to learn all the tricks and tips of this trade than Fashion Photography. Insider Bruce Smith explores every aspect of fashion photography, from high-end couture... Read more >

Beyond Portraiture
Creative People Photography
Written by Bryan Peterson

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2006
Price: $25.95

Great portraits go beyond a mere record of a face. They reveal one of the millions of intimate human moments that make up a life. In Beyond Portraiture, renowned photographer Bryan Peterson shows how to spot those “ah-ha!” moments and capture them forever. A teary child...old people laughing together...a smiling girl... Read more >

Arctic Voices
Resistance at the Tipping Point
Written by Subhankar Banerjee

Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: July 3, 2012
Price: $35.95

"One of the great strengths of Arctic Voices is that it shows how Alaska and the Arctic are tied to the places where most of us live. In this impassioned book, Banerjee shows a situation so serious that it has created a movement, where “voices of resistance are gathering, are getting louder and louder.” May his heartfelt efforts magnify them. The climate changes that... Read more >

Canyon Wilderness of the Southwest, mini edition

Photographed by Jon Ortner
Introduction by Greer K. Chesher

Format: Hardcover, 280 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2010
Price: $18.95

Straddling the boarders of Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico lies a magnificent wilderness known as the Colorado Plateau. Encompassing over 130,000 square miles, it is a high, eroded tableland of rock, canyon, and desert, and within its boundaries are the greatest concentration of National Parks, National Monuments, State Parks, Wilderness... Read more >

Whitewash

Photographed by Nicholas Alan Cope
Foreword by Rick Owens

Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $65.00

LA is a city of contrasts—the famous and unknown, blinding light and impenetrable shadow, wealth and poverty, massive success and bitter failure. The promise of fame, fortune, sun, and beauty have lured millions to its beaches, hills, and valleys crammed with low slung buildings and palm-tree-lined boulevards. But beneath this thin... Read more >

Capital Views
Historic Photographs of Washington, DC, Alexandria and Loudoun County, Virginia, and Frederick County, Maryland
Written by James M. Goode

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $39.95

Metropolitan areas change over the time. These changes come together and create a city's character and personality. Renowned Washington, DC, historian James Goode has assembled an incredible collection of images that look back at a Washington before it developed into the international metropolitan city it is today. The impactful historic photography... Read more >