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"Janessa 'Jinx' McCormick loves photography because it's like real life, except she can make it perfect. Using her late father's camera, Jinx takes photos for nearly everyone in her small town of Greenbelt, making her something of a local celebrity. But one day as she's touching up a new photo, Jinx sees ... something in the background of the image. A shadow that she's certain wasn't in the frame when she captured the shot. Though it's too dark and...
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The wonderful invention of Daguerre and Fox Talbot fascinated the Victorians as a new art form and a new way of looking at the world. This program follows the technical and esthetic strides made by the early, often amateur, practitioners. Material is drawn from the British Royal Archives at Windsor Castle; The Royal Institution of South Wales, Swansea; from the early photographic societies; The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, Bath; Norwich...
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Understanding the effects of different lighting conditions on a subject and composing a balanced image are important photography skills. This video explains the basics of lighting, rules of composition, and shooting techniques including: lighting angles, aperture, depth of field, shutter speed, and exposure. Follow along as our photographer provides helpful explanations and visual examples of these basics.
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"Day Connor is convinced that a boy she has met is not the murderer the police say he is, but can she prove his innocence--or will the truth change everything?"--
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War photographer Lynsey Addario's memoir It's What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life. What she does, with clarity, beauty, and candor, is to document, often in their most extreme moments, the complex lives of others. It's her work, but it's much more than that: it's her singular calling.
28) Photo science
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Explores the science behind topics related to photography.
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"A collection of striking and intimate photographs of Michelle Obama--many never before seen--coupled with personal reflections and behind-the-scenes stories from Official White House Photographer Amanda Lucidon, presented in a deluxe format. Michelle Obama is one of the most admired First Ladies in history, known for her grace, spirit, and beauty, as well as for the amazing work she did during her tenure to promote girls' education, combat childhood...
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This comprehensive photography companion shows you everything you need to do to start taking exquisite photographs with digital cameras and phones. Beginning with core techniques every photographer needs to master, this updated edition of Digital Photography: An Introduction progresses through a series of 15 projects that encourage you to practice and refine your skills. Quick troubleshooting tips help you fix common image problems, including those...
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With twenty-five new photographs for the eBook edition, the New York Times bestseller is now more awkward than ever
Based on the hit website, AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com (“painful, regrettable, horrifyingly awesome snaps of family bonding, you will laugh so hard that people in adjoining offices will ask what’s wrong with you”—Esquire), this full color book features never-before-seen photos and
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In 1968, Bernd and Hilla Becher set out to photograph industrial buildings such as water towers, silos, and blast furnaces. Their goal was to return photography to the documentary nature of its origins and free it of "Expressionist meanderings," as German artists of the New Objectivity movement had done with other visual arts. The Dusseldorf school - the Bechers and their students - was to radically impact photography with its strict, dispassionate...
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Walk in the street trying not to blink. Each time you blink, snap a photo. These instructions by Vito Acconci, the basis of his series "Blink," characterize the methods and philosophies of the Conceptualist Photography movement that began in the 1960s. Aided by his low-tech amateur camera, Acconci meant to deconstruct the notion of artistic subjectivity while suggesting that the open shutter replaces his closed eyes. Using works by Acconci and others,...
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With an overview of its pioneers - called "the primitives of photography" by Felix Nadar - this program explores the brief golden era between the time that photography was invented and the time it became an industry. The transformation of the camera from mere recording device to new artistic medium is seen in works that feature deliberate composition as well as in staged photos and composite prints. The technical processes by which photographers enhanced...
37) Pictorialism
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Fifty years after it was invented, photography once again sought to rival painting. The Pictorialist photographers at the turn of the 20th century reproduced the subjectivity and timeless themes of earlier visual arts by experimenting with soft focus, special lenses, printing effects, and by drawing, engraving, or painting directly onto prints. Providing an overview of the movement and its influences, this program studies the works and the methods...
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Here Comes the New Photographer!, by Walter Graeff, was published in conjunction with Stuttgart's influential 1929 "Film und Foto exhibition" and became the handbook for a new breed of artists evolving out of the Constructivist and Bauhaus schools. New Vision photography was based on the idea that modern, urban people see the world in a different way, both figuratively and literally, and was steeped in industrial motifs. This program examines the...
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At some point during the early 20th century staged photography fell out of fashion, but in the 1960s it made a spectacular comeback, enriched by the external influences of popular culture. This program explains how staged photography has been used to deconstruct the idea of literal photographic realism. Also explored are the ways in which this art form trounces the notion of a camera's objectivity, as in Cindy Sherman's parodies of B-movie portrayals...
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When Jacques Henri Lartigue began taking pictures in 1901 it was for the sheer enjoyment of recording his family's daily life. Lartigue's albums were featured at the MoMA in 1963, inspiring a new movement in photography called diarism. By the 1980s the genre had become even more intimate as the diarists added increasingly radical levels of introspection to their work. This program studies photos by Nobuyoshi Araki, Nan Golden, Antoine d'Agata, John...