Digital photography has become a revolution. The possibility of recording an image inside a memory device, instead of using film, makes the whole process more straightforward and accessible to amateur and casual photographers. This concept facilitates the management and edition of images in personal computers. Otherwise difficult tasks such as color correction, photo retouching, cropping, printintg or sharing your images are now achieved with incredible ease. As digital cameras are becoming more popular than film cameras a lot of information is becomes available on the web. In this section you will find a large amount of digital photography resources such as tutorials, books and software to help you develop your skills as a photographer.
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LIFE: World War II: History's Greatest Conflict in PicturesThis classic, gripping, and comprehensive pictorial history of the greatest conflict of the 20th century is now in paperback-just in time for the 60th anniversary of V-E Day (May 8, 2005). In a totally thorough, yet fresh look at the most important global event of the 20th century, bestselling journalist Richard B. Stolley takes you on a journey from the escalating tensions of pre-World War II Europe to the creation of the atomic bomb.... |
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Warhol/ Makos in ContextA behind-the-scenes, in-depth record of Christopher Makos' photographic life from 1976 to 1987, Warhol | Makos In Context, his newest book, documents the years he spent at Andy Warhol's side. The book includes over 100 original Makos contact sheets, reproduced in full with the photographer's editing marks and comments, which have never before been seen. Warhol | Makos In Context features the unedited, raw material of his work during the years he saw Warhol almost daily—including the experi... |
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Forest Defenders: The Confrontational American Landscape"Whether he's in a dingy fluorescent basement or a beautiful sunlit forest, LaMarca always manages to finesse something amazing." (Paul Moakley, Newsweek) Controversy erupted in March 2005 when, with the blessing of the Bush administration, logging companies began sawing into old growth reserves (sections of the federal forestland set aside for threatened wildlife). Two months later, the administration fanned the flames by repealing the 2001 "roadless rule," which protected 58 million acres of ... |
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Infected Landscape: Israel: Broken Promised LandThe accumulation of ruins and military remnants is an important part of what defines the Israeli landscape today-wounds in landscape that correspond to wounds in the Israeli collective consciousness. Shai Kremer seeks to challenge the viewer, using the landscape as a focus to understand the overwhelming impact of the situation.Four decades ago, the historian and philosopher Yeshayahu Leibovich forewarned that the Israeli occupation was a cancerous disease in the heart of the nation. As Kremer hi... |
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Film JournalFrom American photojournalist Eve Arnold, an intimate and candid look behind the scenes of some of the greatest movies ever made.In between her documentary photography, Eve Arnold spent almost fifty years photographing movie stars on location. From 1959, beginning with Joan Crawford's last major film, The Best of Everything, and ending in 1984 with Steaming, Joseph Losey's final picture, she worked behind the scenes on forty films, including The Misfits and Alien, capturing such legends as Marle... |
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Last Heroes: A Tribute to the Olympic Games (Potography)... |
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The Cottage BookRobin Williams and Sally Field lived the dream of many in the movie Mrs. Doubtfire--residing in a Queen Anne cottage in San Francisco. Richard Sexton, who himself lives in a small hillside cottage overlooking the city by the bay, has translated his passion for these quaint, rustic, and informal dwellings into a volume of captivating color images. You can live the cottage life vicariously through Sexton; his photographs have an almost three-dimensional feel that gives you the sense of being there... |
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Color PhotographyColor Photography is an homage to the photographers who elevated the use of color to an art form. Depending on the photographer, the subject and the period, color can be beautiful or ugly, showy or neutral. Color Photography represents an incredible range of styles and genres, including nudes and still lifes, fashion, portraits and landscapes, in the work of more than one hundred photographers. The collection includes images by John Rawlings, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Cecil Beaton, Guy Bourdin, Paol... |
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Stephen Shore: American SurfacesIn 1972, Stephen Shore left New York City and set out with a friend to Amarillo, Texas. He didn't drive, so his first view of America was framed by the passenger's window frame. He was taken aback by the fact that his experience of life as a New Yorker had very little in common with the character and aspirations of Middle America. Later that year he set out again, this time on his own, with a driver's licence and a Rollei 35 - a point-and-shoot camera - to explore the country through the eyes of... |
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