MBR: The Photography Shelf
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A Glimpse Of Old China
China Books & Periodicals, Inc.
360 Swift Avenue, Suite 48, South San Francisco, CA 94080
www.chinabooks.com
7800242978 $89.95 1-800-818-2017
A Glimpse Of Old China is a unique, bilingual collection of
black-and-white historical photographs capturing daily life in Old
China, ranging from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.
Captions for each photo in English and Chinese succinctly date and
place the images within their context. Historical sites, festivals,
images from the military, industry, traffic, clothing of the period,
health care practices, and so much more fill the pages of this valuable
resource showcasing a timeless visual history. A Glimpse Of Old China
is a truly impressive and enthusiastically recommended photography
collection offering up a fully palpable sense of Chinese history,
tradition, and culture.
Photography: The Art Of Composition
Bert Krages
Allworth Press
10 E. 23rd Ave, Suite 510, NY, NY 10010
www.allworth.com
1581154097 $24.95 1-800-491-2808
Where is the 'art' in photography when the typical discussion revolves
around technical camera operation? It's right here, in
photographer/attorney Bert Krages' Photography: The Art Of Composition,
which should be required reading for any photography student. Krages
uses the same methods used to teach fine arts to draw important
connections between photography and art, providing a group of some
sixty exercises which teach readers how to perceive points, lines,
shapes and more through the camera's eye.
Digital Portrait Photography Of Teens And Seniors
Patrick Rice
Amherst Media
PO Box 586, Buffalo, NY 14226
www.amherstmedia.com
1584261626 $34.95 1-800-622-3278
Learn how to capture unique portaits of either teens and seniors, how
to marketing images to them, and how to maximize the features of both
teens and seniors through Digital Portrait Photography Of Teens And
Seniors which covers everything from personalizing the photo shoot for
the client to making the most of promoting this specialized path in
portrait photography. From shooting in studio or outdoor locations to
accepting input from clients and posing teens and seniors, Rice's many
solid tips are based on his own experience.
Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-20
Augustus F. Sherman
Aperture
20 East 23rd Street, New York NY 10010
www.aperture.org
193178860X $40.00 1-800-929-2323
Augustus F. Sherman worked as a clerk with the Immigration Bureau of
Ellis Island, photographing over two hundred families, groups and
individuals as they passed through customs. Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis
Island Portraits 1905-20 represents the first published collection of
his work, featuring a hundred of his best photos of peoples from
cultures around the world. A historical essay by Peter Mesenholler
places the period of time and photos in perspective, providing both a
critical analysis of Sherman's work and this collection, and lending
important background to the portraits. An outstanding presentation of
historical portrait photography.
Peachpit/Adobe Press
1249 - 8th St., Berkeley, CA 94710
www.peachpit.com
Peachpit's computer titles have strong following in the computer and
photography worlds, and some recent arrivals strengthen their
collection with new, important focuses on photography which any serious
public library or specialty computer/photography collection will
consider 'musts'. Ben Willmore's Adobe Photoshop CS2 Studio Techniques
(0321321-898, $50.00) provides a guide to mastering the basics of the
Photoshop photography enhancement program. From the most basic tools of
the program and how they can manipulate photos and effectively edit
images to more advanced, creative explorations of blending, enhancing
and colorizing images, this has been updated for the latest Photoshop
CS2 and covers all the new features of a program which has come to be
regarded as the industry standard in computer photo editing. Use it in
conjunction with Dave Cross's The Photoshop CS2 Help Desk Book
(0321337042, $34.99), written by a Photoshop seminar provider who
gathers the most common questions under one cover. From what to do when
things don't work, from re-setting to re-installing, to checklists for
troubleshooting, customization options, and common image problems,
become your own 'help desk' with Dave Cross' 'help desk in a book'. Dan
Margulis' Photoshop Lab Color: The Canyon Conundrum And Other
Adventures In The Most Powerful Colorspace (0321356780, $49.99)
explores the least-discussed tool of the program, Photoshop LAB. An
overview of LAB surveys areas in which it excels along with areas in
which it fails, considering the program's applications, pros, and cons.
>From creating more effective masks with A and B channels to making big
changes in color and creating both lifelife and fantastic results,
Photoshop Lab Color is a recommended pick for any advanced Photoshop
photographer.
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