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Book DescriptionFor the travel photographer, the urban environment provides the greatest variety of subject matter and photographic possibilities. The challenge is to delve beyond the cliched landmarks and capture the vibrancy and unique character of any city you find yourself in. This essential guide is extensively illustrated with images taken on film and digital cameras, showing what to do and how to do it. Succinct and easy to understand, it is packed with tips and techniques to maximize drama and interest in your photos and so reveal the city's soul. Including:•Cityscapes and aerials, architecture and... |
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Book DescriptionThe first cameras appeared on campaign during the Crimean War of 185456, but the technology was only barely portable and the limitations of photographic plates restricted photographers to carefully posed shots in ideal lighting conditions. Yet these images also show armies on the brink of the application of the Industrial Revolution to warfare. Succeeding years see cameras travel in search of war images around the world. The American Civil War, however, first demonstrates how photography can provide a permanent record for individuals of their own war experience, how it can capture the battl... |
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Book DescriptionJPG--a tidy twist of letters that refers to both Japanese graphic design and that ubiquitous form of digital image transmission, the jpeg. Here is the youngest generation of graphic designers in Japan, a motley, formidable group whose work reflects a remix of influences from the West and appropriations of local cultural expressions. JPg is about 3D and computer graphics, but also about other fields of visual culture, from printed matter to consumer goods to contemporary art. Organized around three poetically conceived categories--"Scanning the World," "Multiplying Out," and "Free to Browse"... |
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Book DescriptionWKInteract is a French urban artist currently living in New York City. His distinctive black and white painted murals can be admired in more places than just the streets. The bold images, in which movement is practically palpable, are also being appreciated in exhibit spaces, including the display windows of the Parisian temple of consumption Galeries Lafayettes. This book presents a wide spectrum of WKInteract’s dynamic work in one place for the first time. In addition to the lively portraits of skaters, kung-fu masters, boxers and mountain climbers that have become his trademark, it al... |
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Book DescriptionWhere the art of feng shui (the arranging of homes, gardens, and businesses to attract wealth, success, and health) leaves off, the art of wabi sabi picks up through balancing and harmonizing homes, gardens, businesses in Zen-like fashion. Wabi Sabi Style embodies the essence of Japanese design. Flowing from spring to summer, autumn, and winter, each chapter is steeped in Japanese lore and techniques for incorporating the wabi sabi philosophy into one’s own home. Breathtaking photography brings wabi sabi to life, demonstrating the means for creating it anywhere. |
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Book DescriptionWabi sabi, the quintessential Japanese design aesthetic, is quickly gaining popularity around the world, as evidenced by recent articles in Time, The Chicago Tribune and Kyoto Journal. Taken from the Japanese words wabi, which translates to less is more, and sabi, which means attentive melancholy, wabi sabi refers to an awareness of the transient nature of earthly things and a corresponding pleasure in the things that bear the mark of this impermanence. As a design style, wabi sabi helps us to appreciate the simple beauty in imperfection--of a chipped vase or a rainy day, for example. |
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Book DescriptionRenowned throughout the world as purveyors of beauty, mystery, and allure, geisha have come to represent the epitome of Japanese elegance and chic. The rich 250-year history of these performance artists is vividly presented in this volume, taking the reader behind the masklike makeup and into the studios where they train and rehearse and the teahouses where they entertain. Geisha have altered definitions of feminine beauty and identity and are the prevailing icons of Japanese womanhood. Their influence on Japan's decorative arts is documented by their beautiful kimono and hair ornaments ... |
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