A World of Images
Author : Laura H. Chapman
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 36,46 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780871922304
Author : Laura H. Chapman
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 36,46 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780871922304
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 30,71 MB
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9004263853
The well-illustrated articles in Observing the World through Images offer insights into the uses of images in astronomy, mathematics, instrument-making, medicine and alchemy, highlighting shared forms as well as those peculiar to individual disciplines. Themes addressed include: the processes of image production and communication; the transformation of images through copying and adaptation for new purposes; genres and traditions of imagery in particular scientific disciplines; the mnemonic and pedagogical value of diagrams; the relationship between text and image; and the roles of diagrams as tools to think with. Contributors include: Isabelle Pantin, Jennifer Rampling, Samuel Gessner, Renee Raphael, Karin Ekholm, Hester Higton, and Katie Taylor.
Author : Nicholas Mirzoeff
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 27,79 MB
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 0141977418
In recent decades, we have witnessed an explosion in the number of visual images we encounter, as our lives have become increasingly saturated with screens. From Google Images to Instagram, video games to installation art, this transformation is confusing, liberating and worrying all at once, since observing the new visuality of culture is not the same as understanding it. Nicholas Mirzoeff is a leading figure in the field of visual culture, which aims to make sense of this extraordinary explosion of visual experiences. As Mirzoeff reminds us, this is not the first visual revolution; the 19th century saw the invention of film, photography and x-rays, and the development of maps, microscopes and telescopes made the 17th century an era of visual discovery. But the sheer quantity of images produced on the internet today has no parallels. In the first book to define visual culture for the general reader, Mirzoeff draws on art history, theory and everyday experience to provide an engaging and accessible overview of how visual materials shape and define our lives.
Author : John Amadeus Wolter
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 34,94 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN :
Lavishly illustrated with 196 rare and historical maps it recounts tales of atlas makers from pre-Gutenberg to electronic atlas.
Author : David Friend
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 21,57 MB
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0312591489
Relates the stories behind the photographs of 9/11, discusses the controversy over whether the images are exploitative or redemptive, and shows how photographs help us witness, grieve, and understand the unimaginable.
Author : Douglas R. Gilbert
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,82 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802828002
Gilbert and Kilby offer a portrait of C.S. Lewis and the milieu in which he lived, using words and pictures to try to represent vividly some aspects of his life.
Author : Kelly Knauer
Publisher : Time
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,75 MB
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781603201971
Here is a book that indelibly captures the human pageant through the remarkable art of photojournalism. After all, we live in a visual age, when history is both made and experienced through photographs, from the flag raising at Iwo Jima to the thrill of the first footstep on the moon. Now TIME has gathered the most significant and influential photos in history in a magnificent volume that celebrates the art and craft of photojournalism: Great Images. Here are scientific breakthroughs, political upheavals and social revolutions, from the first photographs of an embryo in a human womb to the indelible images of America's Civil Rights movement. Here are sailors kissing nurses, a single man defying a Chinese tank, firefighters raising the American flag over the ruins of the World Trade Center. Based on a highly successful 2000 book, this new edition has been completely updated to add the most significant pictures of the last decade, from hanging chads ands the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to Hurricane Katrina and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
Author : Lark Books
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 34,57 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781600595639
Every unique photograph begins with an original point of view The first book in a brand-new photographic series--shot mostly by amateurs--about seeing the world from a brand-new perspective! Amateurs, by definition, work for love alone--so what subject could be more fitting for the first entry in a brand-new series focusing on the art of the amateur photographer than that potent symbol of love: the heart? Through their snapshot-hungry eyes, these photographers glimpse hearts everywhere: in graffiti scrawled on an alleyway wall, in paper cut by a child, and in nature’s worn stones scattered on a forest floor. All that’s necessary is to open our eyes...which is what this collection inspires us to do.
Author : Peter Menzel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 22,55 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780871564306
A photo-journey through the homes and lives of 30 families, revealing culture and economic levels around the world.
Author : Fred Pearce
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,26 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781554077717
Presents more the three hundred photographs showing how the world has changed over the past century from industrialization, urbanization, natural disasters, war, and travel and tourism.