Summary: Admittedly obsessed with war, photojournalist Isabel Ellsen has covered conflicts in Africa, the Balkans, and other centers of turmoil. She has also published both a memoir and a novel (later adapted into the film Harrison's Flowers) which describe emotional challenges that are bound up with war experiences. In this program, Ellsen shares personal stories about her adventures as a war...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Chin, Jimmy
Summary: "Filmmaker, photographer, and world-class mountaineer Jimmy Chin goes where few can follow to capture stunning images in death-defying situations. There and Back draws from his breathtaking portfolio of photographs, captured over twenty years during cutting-edge expeditions on all seven continents--from skiing Mount Everest, to an unsupported traverse of Tibet's Chang Tang Plateau on foot, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2021
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.092 CHISummary: "Afro-Atlantic Histories" brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that express and analyze the ebbs and flows between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe. The book is motivated by the desire and need to draw parallels, frictions, and dialogues around the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DelMonico Books, ARTBOOK/D.A.P. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 704.03 AFRSummary: Following the fast-paced world of Hollywood might seem like a dream job, but for Max Vadukul, photography doesn't end there. He also holds a top spot at the New Yorker and takes regular assignments from Conde Nast, GQ, and Mademoiselle, among others. This program evokes the honesty, vitality, and worldliness present in Vadukul's work, whether he's photographing a politician, movie star, or...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: A portrait of American photographer Tina Barney, who specialises in photographing the rarefied upper echelons of society in the US and Europe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IndiePix 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TINSummary: Born in Warsaw, Tomasz Tomaszewski started his photographic career with Polish magazines and worked with Solidarity Weekly. He has published numerous articles in National Geographic magazine, and his award-winning photos have also appeared in Stern, Paris Match, Geo, Time, and The New York Times. In this program, Tomaszewski shares his life and work as he presents a visual diary of the making...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Fagans, Michael
Summary: "Learn to capture more powerful and engaging images with your iPhone. Too often, we use our iPhones just to 'grab' a few ho-hum shots that do little more than document how things looked. As Michael Fagans demonstrates in this book, taking a few extra moments to consider our subjects and the best way to depict them can take our shots from boring to brilliant! Hone your powers of observation to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amherst Media, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 004.16 FAGSummary: "Targeted to fans of Simply Beautiful Photographs, the 2014 offering in National Geographic's iconic line of large-format photo books illuminates the power of photography to witness, reveal, persuade, celebrate, explore and change the way we see the world. Capturing the moment in which a firecracker explodes into a burst of electric energy or the last rays of the sun as it stretches across a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2014
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 778.9 NATAirey, Theresa.
Summary: Artist and teacher Theresa Airey introduces a variety of hands-on and software techniques that can turn conventional photographs into visually exciting masterpieces. From processing color infrared pictures to printing on Washi papers or wood panels, virtually any photo can be transformed into an unforgettable work of art.--From publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pixiq 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 770 AIRSummary: "The German photographic movement commonly known as the Dusseldorf School of Photography has become synonymous with artistic excellence and innovation. It began in the mid-1970s at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, under the instruction of the photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, known for their comparative grids of mundane industrial buildings captured with an objective and clinical eye. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aperture 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779 DUSCovert, Julie M.
Summary: Celebrating the beauty that winter creates with ice and snow, "Art of Winter" by Julie M Covert is a pictorial essay of winter's fierce and fragile beauty on Lake Huron. It is a feast for the eyes for anyone who loves the Great Lakes, winter and the beauty of nature. Surprising plays of light and sculptures of ice are the reward for braving bone-chilling temperatures. It captures ice and water...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Whitehead Press 2012
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 778.71 COVSteinmueller, Uwe.
Contents: Printing techniques -- Inks, papers, and print permanence -- Color management for printing -- Fine art printing workflow -- Fine art printers in practical use -- Printing packages and rips -- Black-and-white prints -- Image evaluation and presenting fineart prints.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rocky Nook 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 770 STEStanton, Brandon
Summary: "In the summer of 2010, photographer Brandon Stanton set out on an ambitious project: to single-handedly create a photographic census of New York City. Armed with his camera, he began crisscrossing the city, covering thousands of miles on foot, all in his attempt to capture ordinary New Yorkers in the most extraordinary of moments"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 STACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 974.70022 STALubomirski, Alexi
Summary: England-born, New York-based photographer Alexi Lubomirski has become an established name within the fashion industry, shooting for such publications as "Harper's Bazaar," "Vogue" and "GQ," and working with cover stars such as Charlize Theron, Gwyneth Paltrow, Natalie Portman, Jennifer Lopez and Nicole Kidman, to name but a few. It was after shooting Lupita Nyong'o, however, that Lubomirski was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Damiani Editore 2016
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 770 LUMReed, Todd.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Todd & Brad Reed Photography 2008
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.461 REENational Geographic Society (U. S.)
Summary: Featuring the most liked, commented on, and favorite photos from National Geographic’s iconic Instagram account, @NatGeo is a winning combination of expertly curated and favorite National Geographic photographs from the company’s iconic Instagram account. National Geographic, or @natgeo, is the world's top noncelebrity account on Instagram, with nearly 50 million followers and over one billion...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 770 NATSummary: From director Michael Apted, a revealing look at the art of filmmaking & photography. The documentary explores the relationship between the artisans who create camera lenses and the masters of light who use these lenses to capture their beloved art form.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kinonation 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BENSummary: Often called the father of modern photography, Frenchman Eugene Atget embraced a heartfelt realism that influenced generations of younger photographers-including an American, Berenice Abbott, who championed him in his later career and carried on his legacy. This program examines the work of both artists, juxtaposing Atget's Paris oeuvre with Abbott's views of New York, describing how their...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: William Fox Talbot was a brilliant scholar determined to capture the magic of the camera obscura in some permanent, reproducible form. In 1835, he discovered the negative-positive process, and went on to prove himself an exceptional creative photographer. This program explains the technical aspects of his work and shows many of his most beautiful and thought-provoking results.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: No sooner had Europe declared an end to its Great War than the seeds of new conflict were sewn-in the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire. With typical global awareness, photography patron and archivist Albert Kahn chose to document the historic changes occurring in the colonial Middle East. This program traces his team's expeditions into Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine as Western powers...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Mora, Gilles
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.9123 MORSummary: As they built an unsurpassed visual archive of world culture, Albert Kahn and his photographers turned their attention to widely divergent locations. This program follows the maritime odyssey of Lucien Le Saint, circa 1922, as he captured on film the daily lives of Newfoundland cod fishermen, as well as expeditions into northwestern Africa. Images from Morocco and Tunisia focus on occupying...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Born Helmut Herzfeld in 1891, John Heartfield adopted his English name to protest the rise of German nationalism during the first world war-one of many symbolic gestures that defined the artist's uncompromising career. This biographical program begins in Heartfield's native Berlin and progresses through his painful childhood, his involvement in the Dadaist movement, his friendships with Bertolt...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010