Life in Color
National Geographic Photographs
Text by Susan Hitchcock
Edited by Annie Griffiths
Foreword by Jonathan Adler
Format: Hardcover, 504 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $40.00
"The world is a wonder of color. Remarkable images by National Geographic photographers entice us to take notice in a whole new way."
--House Beautiful
Life in Color is arranged by color in a rainbow of beauty. Each chapter, devoted to a color, begins with a short, inspiring essay that explores the qualities...
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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...
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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...
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Crowns
Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats
Written by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 31, 2000
Price: $29.95
Countless black women would rather attend church naked than hatless. For these women, a church hat, flamboyant as it may be, is no mere fashion accessory; it's a cherished African American custom, one observed with boundless passion by black women of various religious denominations. A woman's hat speaks long before its wearer...
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Living Shrines of Uyghur China
Photographs by Lisa Ross
Written by Lisa Ross
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $35.00
Lisa Ross's ethereal photographs of Islamic holy sites were created over the course of a decade on journeys to China's Xinjiang region in Central Asia, historically a cultural crossroads but an area to which artists and researchers have generally been denied access since its annexation in 1949. These monumental images show...
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Grandmother Power
A Global Phenomenon
Written by Paola Gianturco
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $49.95
Whether fighting for the environment, human rights, education, health, or cultural preservation, a new generation of activist grandmothers across the world are using their strength, wisdom, and hearts to make a difference. An unheralded grandmothers' movement is changing the world. Insurgent grandmothers are using their power to fight for a better...
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Slightly Out of Focus
Written by Robert Capa
Foreword by Cornell Capa
Introduction by Richard Whelan
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2001
Price: $16.00
In 1942, a dashing young man who liked nothing so much as a heated game of poker, a good bottle of scotch, and the company of a pretty girl hopped a merchant ship to England. He was Robert Capa, the brilliant and daring photojournalist, and Collier's magazine had put him on...
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