June 2009
National Geographic The Ultimate Field Guide to Digital Video (NG Photography Field Guides)
With the explosive popularity of camera phones, streaming video, and YouTube.com, digital video is fast becoming as ubiquitous as the snapshot. National Geographic stands at the forefront of this emerging trend with an essential how-to guide. Illustrated with clear, step-by-step photos, it teaches an easy, logical approach: first, make better-quality videos—and then, edit them into [...]
Seeing the Light: Optics in Nature, Photography, Color, Vision, and Holography
The most complete and lucid nonmathematical study of light available. Chapters are self-contained, making the book flexible and easy to read. Coverage includes such non-traditional topics as processes of vision and the eye, atmospherical optical phenomena, color perception and illusions, color in nature and in art, Kirilian photography, and holography. Includes experiments that can be [...]
Digital Boudoir Photography: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Fabulous Images of Any Woman
Boudoir photography does not require its subject to be a beautiful, physically flawless woman. It does not require the use of extravagantly expensive equipments, props, and studio space. In fact, the very essence of boudoir photography is the idea that its subject is not a professional model and is not even necessarily in the boudoir. [...]
Best of Black and White: Erotic Photography
Does anybody really know the “next-generation photographers,” the successors to Newton, Lindbergh, von Unwerth, and Ritts? The shots in this volume are an introduction to these newcomers and their accomplished, sexy, romantic work—the best of today’s nude photography in black and white. Classic black-and-white photography shows clearly who knows how to take a good picture [...]
In the Vernacular: Photography of the Everyday
Since the inception of photography in the early nineteenth century, photographs have been made, used, collected, and discarded in greatly increasing numbers. Despite the photograph’s persistence in daily life, until recently most types of everyday photography have remained unexamined by historians and have been absent from the walls of galleries and museums. In response to [...]
1000 Nudes: A History of Erotic Photography from 1839-1939
TASCHEN’s 25th anniversary - Special edition! “Fascinating for what it tells us about the history of body images and social codes.” -The Independent, London
Customer Review: A Wonderful Collection
While we are no longer scandalized by the nude body, we have too much allowed our sophistication to turn to boredom. With this collection we can trace [...]
Introduction to Digital Photography (2nd Edition)
Unique in approach, this is the first introduction to digital photography written specifically for beginning photographers. Using a photographer’s perspective, it shows users how digital photography relates to traditional photography, how it can improve traditional picture-making, and how it diverges from traditional photography to open up new avenues for creative growth. The volume [...]
The Contest of Meaning: Critical Histories of Photography
Photography’s great success gives us the impression that the major questions that have haunted the medium are now resolved. On the contrary - the most important questions are just beginning to be asked. These fourteen essays, with over 200 illustrations, critically examine and challenge the prevailing formalist values of late modernism that have been applied [...]
Creative Photoshop Lighting Techniques, Revised and Updated (A Lark Photography Book)
From bringing sunshine into cloudy day pictures to creating underwater effects, photographers can add realistic drama to their images with Photoshop. The techniques are all here, brilliantly illustrated and explained in this bestselling guide–now updated for the next version of Adobe Photoshop with new instructions and screen grabs. Find out about light sources; different types [...]
Lighting Techniques for Low Key Portrait Photography
Photographers learn from a master the impact and drama that can be created through the precise creation of low key portraits-portraits in which the tonal range is primarily dark. While the low key technique lends a classic, artistic, subdued mood to images that may seem relaxed and effortless, creating this style presents significant challenges for [...]
