I Want to Take Picture


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A photobook of Bill Burke's travels to Thailand and Cambodia in the 1980s, with collages of photographs, ephemera, and handwritten diary entries.




Take a Picture of Me, James Van Der Zee!


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"A biography of James Van Der Zee, innovative and celebrated African American photographer of the Harlem Renaissance. Includes an afterword, photos, and author's sources"--Publisher.




I Wanna Take Me a Picture


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Written for parents and teachers, I Wanna Take Me a Picture is an accessible and practical guide to getting children involved in photography. Through a series of lessons-from self-portraiture to representing their dreams-it teaches everything a beginner needs to know: how to compose a picture, set up a darkroom, and develop film.




Get the Picture


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"So you've got yourself a shiny new camera. Now what? Skip that brick of a manual and join POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY writer Dan Richards on an accessible, empowering tour of your camera's functions. Full of crystal-clear instructions, expert explanations, and aspirational images, GET THE PICTURE is a novice's best choice for maximizing today's DSLRs and ILCs." -- page 4 of cover.




Take a Picture


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Take My Picture, Gary Leonard


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Take My Picture documents the weird, the fun, the serious, and the ironic -- from wacky tourists and posturing politicians co rising and falling sears that up Los Angeles, a city famous for identifying itself with image. Gary Leonard's photos provide a telling, evocative, and provocative backdrop for the eclectic juxtapositions occurring in the vast metropolis. By documenting one city he tells the story of all cities.




Believing Is Seeing


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Academy Award–winning director Errol Morris turns his eye to the nature of truth in photography In his inimitable style, Errol Morris untangles the mysteries behind an eclectic range of documentary photographs. With his keen sense of irony, skepticism, and humor, Morris shows how photographs can obscure as much as they reveal, and how what we see is often determined by our beliefs. Each essay in this book is part detective story, part philosophical meditation, presenting readers with a conundrum, and investigates the relationship between photographs and the real world they supposedly record. Believing Is Seeing is a highly original exploration of photography and perception, from one of America’s most provocative observers.




Click!


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Describes the basic parts of a camera and how to take photographs.




The Photo Cookbook


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This Photo Cookbook is your quick and easy guide to creating your own jaw-dropping pictures without complicated and boring explanations, using the camera or phone you already have. Award-winning Chefs use recipes to create amazing dishes, and if you follow their recipes, you can create the exact same dishes. This Photo Cookbook contains 30 recipes you can use to take amazing photos. Want to shoot a glorious sunset? There’s a recipe for that. Want to create amazing compositions? There are 8 recipes for that. Want to take a stunning portrait shot with a blurred out background? There’s a recipe for that, too. Every recipe is short, to the point, and stands alone. The Photo Cookbook was written by award-winning photographer Tim Shields with thousands of students in his photography programs. Take the best photos of your life using the camera or phone you already have And the best part? Every recipe comes with a how-to video! Just open the regular camera app on your phone and point it at the QR code on the page, or tap the QR code when reading on mobile phones and tablets. When the link pops up, tap it and the video will start. You don’t need any new software or apps.




Get the Picture


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How do photojournalists get the pictures that bring us the action from the world's most dangerous places? How do picture editors decide which photos to scrap and which to feature on the front page? Find out in Get the Picture, a personal history of fifty years of photojournalism by one of the top journalists of the twentieth century. John G. Morris brought us many of the images that defined our era, from photos of the London air raids and the D-Day landing during World War II to the assassination of Robert Kennedy. He tells us the inside stories behind dozens of famous pictures like these, which are reproduced in this book, and provides intimate and revealing portraits of the men and women who shot them, including Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and W. Eugene Smith. A firm believer in the power of images to educate and persuade, Morris nevertheless warns of the tremendous threats posed to photojournalists today by increasingly chaotic wars and the growing commercialism in publishing, the siren song of money that leads editors to seek pictures that sell copies rather than those that can change the way we see the world.