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The Photo Book
Ian Jeffrey
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Current:
9.5 |
The concept for this book is simple: 500 photographers, 500 pages. Arranged alphabetically, each of the photographers--from contemporary Dutch cameraman Hans Aarsman to mid-century New York shutterbug James Van Der Zee--gets a full, oversiz
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The Art of Handpainting Photographs
Cheryl Machat Dorskind
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Current:
9.5 |
The tradition of coloring photographs is almost as old as the medium itself, arising from the desire to soften the starkness of early photos. Handcoloring is very popular again, and this lovely book makes it easy to see why. Art photographe
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How to Photograph Your Baby : Getting Closer With Your Camera and Your Heart
Nick Kelsh
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Current:
9.5 |
In an accessible, easy-to-follow guide that reveals the techniques he has developed over the years, a professional photographer shows how to successfully take pictures of babies and young children. 150 photos, 100 in color., including 9 gat
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Twins
David Fields(Photographer)
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Current:
9.3 |
In the preface to their collection of photos and personal essays, authors Ruth and Rachel Sandweiss express their desire to "shed light on human relationships in a way that brings us all together." Indeed, the words expressed by the twins f
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Master Breasts : Objectified, Aestheticized, Fantasized, Eroticized, Feminized by Photography's Most Titillating Masters
Melissa Harris
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Current:
9.2 |
The most revealing look at breasts. Photographs of breasts are everywhere: in museums, on book covers, in fashion ads, and on posters. Alluring symbols of womanhood, breasts have fascinated generations of image makers. Here, for the firs
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Dog Dogs
Elliott Erwitt
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Current:
9.1 |
Nearly every one of the 500 black-and-white pictures in this book is a miraculous blend of composition and content, placing photographer Elliott Erwitt right up there with the other postwar, 20th-century masters of moment and meaning. Erwit
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Kennedy Weddings : A Family Album
Jay Mulvaney, Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Current:
9.1 |
It's often said that the Kennedys are the closest thing to royalty that we Americans have, and it's true that we share an obsession with them that parallels the British obsession with their royal family. We admire their talent, good looks,
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Mission Furniture : How to Make It
Henry Haven- -Windsor
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Current:
9.1 |
Here are nearly 100 of the finest, most desirable pieces of Mission furniture that you could ever want to make. Each project features accurate measured drawings and an illustration of the completed piece. Instructions have been prepared by
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Interaction of Color
Josef Albers
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Current:
9.0 |
Interaction of Color, a masterwork of one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, is a brilliant display and explanation of the characteristics of color and the conditions under which certain optical phenomena occur. Origi
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Photoshop Channel Chops
David Biedny
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Current:
8.9 |
This is an excellent guide to using advanced channel-processing techniques and other procedures in Adobe Photoshop. The writers assume that you're already familiar with this image editor, but that you want to learn how to use channels, alph
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Digital Camera Companion
Ben Sawyer
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Current:
8.7 |
Computer users who want to turn their photography into digital artwork usually start with a scanner, or instead use an existing digital photograph in the public domain. But with the advent of the digital camera, that's changing. A digital c
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Moments to Remember : The Art of Creating Scrapbook Memories
Jo Packham
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Current:
8.7 |
Moments to Remember is a comprehensive book that can help anyone turn haphazard photo collections into stunning presentations of life's best memories. Besides design suggestions, readers will also learn how to use archival scrapbooki
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Full Moon
Michael Light, Andrew Chaikin
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Current:
8.6 |
In Full Moon, one of the best science photography books ever published, Michael Light presents a voyage in images to the Moon and back. Light took NASA's master negatives of photos taken by Apollo astronauts and scanned them e
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Photography
Barbara London, John Upton
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Current:
8.6 |
A picture tells a thousand stories, but the one it doesn't tell is how the shot was made. Barbara London and John Upton's Photography is an all-inclusive look at the craft of photography. This book will help any amateur move up a few
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The Basic Book of Photography
Tom Grimm(Photographer)
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Current:
8.5 |
This fourth edition of the best and most comprehensive book in the field is the ideal handbook for beginning photographers and a valuable reference for pros. Completely updated and enlarged, the book has a new chapter on digital cameras, pl
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Photography for Dummies (For Dummies)
Russell Hart, Dan Richards
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Current:
8.5 |
The inimitable Dummies format, which has distilled everything from the Internet to Italian cooking, is an excellent way to organize information for photographers. The chapters cover single topics like film, flash, and composition, and are e
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Photography (Complete Idiot's Guide)
R. Dodge Woodson
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Current:
8.4 |
From using simple point and shoot cameras to darkroom basics, this book offers step-by-step guidelines for taking the very best vacation shots, family photos, nature panoramas, and more. Featured are useful tips on shopping for cameras and
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Real World After Effects (version 3.1)
Eric Reinfeld, Sherry London
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Current:
8.4 |
After Effects, the video-compositing program from Adobe, lets you create all kinds of footage. Real World After Effects provides users of all levels with an excellent guide to this program. The guide thoroughly reviews the basic inte
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The Lighting Cookbook : Foolproof Recipes for Perfect Glamour, Portrait, Still Life, and Corporate Photographs
Jenni Bidner
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Current:
8.2 |
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How to Draw Lifelike Portraits from Photographs
Lee Hammond
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Current:
8.1 |
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Eric Kroll's Beauty Parade
Eric Kroll
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Current:
8.1 |
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Business and Legal Forms for Photographers
Tad Crawford
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Current:
8.0 |
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Ways of Seeing
John Berger
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Current:
8.0 |
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Femalia
Joani Blank
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Current:
7.9 |
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Absolut Book : The Absolut Vodka Advertising Story
Richard W. Lewis
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Current:
7.9 |
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