Fotografia

This lavish coffee-table book traces the history of photography from the first black and white images to celebrated examples of 21st-century digital photography.<BR><BR>Photography celebrates the most iconic photographs of the past 200 years and includes more than 50 biographies of the most famous photographers, explaining how they pushed the bounds of the medium. It also showcases examples of the extraordinary cameras that photographers experimented with, from the daguerreotype to the latest camera phones!<BR><BR>Charting the influence of social and cultural change, as well as the impact of science and technology, this beautiful book follows the history of photographs from the first grainy attempts at portrait and landscape photography to gritty photojournalism, street photography, and digital photography, with special features delving into the stories behind photographic images that changed how people saw the world.<BR><BR>This fantastic photography book promises:<BR><BR>- A selection of the most important "lost" cultural artefacts from ancient times to the present day<BR>- Features images of the artworks where available, or specially commissioned illustrations of them based on written accounts<BR>- Includes details of the ongoing debate about whether looted art should be returned to its country of origin<BR><BR>Packed with information and full of inspiration, Photography is the perfect reference for budding photographers, seasoned professionals, and anyone with an interest in the subject. Whether you're looking for a riveting reference book to display on your coffee table or gift to a friend, or you're a life-longer learner with a thirst for knowledge - Photography is sure to delight!

Die beeindruckende Geschichte der Fotografie<BR>Von den ersten Schwarz-Weiß-Bildern bis hin zur Digitalfotografie - kommen Sie mit auf eine visuelle Entdeckungsreise zu über 1500 ikonischen Fotografien der letzten 200 Jahre. Tauchen Sie mit diesem Buch ein in die Leben berühmter Fotograf*innen wie Alfred Stieglitz und Cindy Sherman und erleben Sie dank hochwertiger Abbildungen und eindrucksvoller Analysen die Bedeutung und kunstvolle Komposition weltberühmter Bilder aus einem neuen Blickwinkel.<BR><BR>Auf den Spuren der Fotografie<BR>¿ Großartig bebildert mit über 1500 eindrucksvollen und hochwertigen Abbildungen<BR>¿ Geschrieben von Tom Ang, dem weltbekannten und preisgekrönten Fotografen<BR>¿ Analysen berühmter Fotografien erzählen die Geschichten ikonischer Bilder - darunter viele von Pulitzer-Preisträger*innen.<BR>¿ Spannende Biografien von über 50 bedeutenden Fotograf*innen wie Ansel Adam, Dorothea Lange oder Sebastião Salgado zeigen die Menschen hinter der Kamera.<BR><BR>200 Jahre Fotografie in einem visuellen Nachschlagewerk vereint<BR>Wie funktionierte das erste Fotografie-Verfahren? Und welchen Einfluss hat sozialer und kultureller Wandel auf die Fotografie? Tom Ang ermöglicht uns mit seinem Buch einen tiefen Einblick in die Geschichte - von der Fotografie als technische Errungenschaft bis hin zu den bewegenden Details hinter den Bildern, die unsere Sichtweise auf die Welt veränderten.<BR><BR>Informativ, inspirierend und bildgewaltig - dieses Buch ist ein großartiger Schatz für alle Liebhaber*innen der Fotografie.

A meditation forty-nine poems long on love that combines creative flights within the confines of a haiku-like discipline. Every poem comprises just 49 syllables, with seven syllables on each of seven lines. This formal rigour provides a skeleton on which a filigree of feelings, thoughts and discursive world-play can be wrapped. The collection uses many unusual rhetorical devices in order to accommodate the formal strictures.<BR>This is the second of three volumes, with one other completed. The other title is a meditation on life: 49 Syllables on Life.<BR>The texts are accompanied by Tom Ang's atmospheric high-key images in which light itself is the subject. <BR>

A meditation 49 poems long on life that combines creative flights within a haiku-like discipline. <BR>Every poem comprises just 49 syllables, with seven syllables on each of seven lines. This formal rigour provides a skeleton on which a filigree of feelings, thoughts and discursive world-play are wrapped. The collection uses many unusual rhetorical devices in order to accommodate the formal strictures that makes it a challenging read.<BR>This is the first of three volumes, with another completed. The other title is a meditation on love: 49 Syllables on Love.<BR>The texts are accompanied by Tom Ang's beautiful, melancholic still-lifes that reflect the co-creativity of chaos in the photographic process.