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Essays by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Jean-Francois Chevrier, Armin Zweite, and Rainer Rochlitz.

This publication brings together four texts which analyze Gerhard Richter's monumental project Atlas, an assemblage of photographs that he has collected since 1962. Atlas, which at present comprises more than 5,000 images, constitutes an ordered collection of personal visual memories from which Richter draws the themes and motifs for his ongoing exploration of the possibilities of painting. The images range from political portraits to landscapes and from found photojournalistic pictures to photographs taken by the artist himself. ... Read more

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The revised third edition of this classic meditation on the art of photography, which received high praise from Cecil Beaton, Peter Nicastro, and others. ... Read more

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Volume 3. Ballistic Photography - Carte de Visite. Pages 388-576. ... Read more

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Les McLean starts by explaining the technicalities of black-and-white photography - and, more importantly, how to overcome the technical limitations of cameras and film. Metering systems, film acutance and grain, simple tests and tricks of the trade that will allow you to achieve the image you want: all are explained simply and clearly, and backed up by specially commissioned photographs. Visualization comes next: the best black-and-white prints are those in which the photographer has thought from the outset about the effect that he or she wants to create and about how to achieve that effect in the darkroom. Renowned both as a photographer and as a fine photographic printer, Les McLean is uniquely qualified to emphasize the importance of this link. Chapters 3 and 4 cover developing and printing processes - again with the emphasis being on understanding your materials so that you can select the film, developer and paper combinations that will match your photographic vision.In Chapter 5, Case Studies, McLean looks at some of his all-time favourite photographs and explains from start to finish how he created them - the mood and effect that he wanted, the technicalities of taking the shots, and how each image was printed and manipulated in the darkroom. Finally a chapter on digital black and white, explaining how to combine silver halide and digital to best effect and the pros and cons of digital printing brings the subject right up to date. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (5)

Outdated
This book would be okay if I still used film, which I don't. The author barely touches on digital and the information on the subject is way out of date.

Good Book for B&W Film Shooters
This is a very good book for black and white film shooters, but the information on digital is not current. This is a problem with many older photography books in a digital age. Since I no longer use film, information on developing and printing is no longer applicable to me.

I like the author's photographs very much and was able to get a lot of good ideas from his work.

Pretty Good for the Nature Photographer
I found this to be a pretty good book for nature and landscape photography. The cover is very misleading. It is a wonderful cover photo and I expected to see a lot more people pictures of that quality inside the book. There is much more weight given to scenics.

The information on manipulating the black and white image is well presented.

Good Information, ButSomewhat Outdated
This book is very well written and contains numerous good ideas about making a good black and white picture. Unfortunately, with the changes in technology and digital imaging, the book is now outdated. I hope the author has the opportunity to rewrite this book to encomapss digital technology.

Creative Black and White Photography
Les McLean has produced a wonderful book to inspire darkroom and lightroom black and white printers of every ability. He is a great photographer and master printer who is happy to share the secrets of his trade with the rest of us.

McLean is an ex Geordie miner and rock and roll player who has spent 30 years honing his skill becoming one of the foremost black and white printers. He learnt his art by his own trial and error. He now teaches in England and the United States and has, at last, been persuaded to write his first book. He debunks many of the esoteric theories and concentrates instead on the essential practical techniques needed to make expressive prints.

This book was revelatory. Its central theme is to learn to adapt our seeing by pre-visualising how our photographic tools see and record what we chose to photograph. He first demonstrates how to produce an expressive negative and then leads us to techniques to turn it into a fine print.

Although most of the book deals with traditional methods, Les recognises that the two techniques can work together to take our image making into new directions. He shows how simple it is to use and configure Photoshop to produce digital negatives and apply darkroom techniques to produce sensational images.

This is certainly the best black and white book I have read. It has blown away the cobwebs, witchcraft and confusion of other manuals. I eagerly await his next book. ... Read more

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New York: Chilton (Amphoto) 1970. Original Xograph (3-D color photo) tipped on cover. Hardbound with mylar jacket. 1st Edition / 1st Printing. 159 pages, illustrated with b&w & color photos. ... Read more

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Discusses the components of and ways of using the simple camera. ... Read more

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This is not a CD-ROM.It is two books in electronic form on a single diskette (formatted for PCs, not Macintosh).

This diskette includes two classic books about the history of photography:

History and Practice of the Art of Photography by Henry Snelling

American Handbook of the Daguerreotype by Samuel D. Humphrey

This is a public domain edition. Buy one and make copies for your colleagues, students, or friends.

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Please accept these texts "as is," in the spirit of sharingwhich prevails on the Internet.(If for any reason you arenot satisfied with a disk which you purchased directly fromus, you may return it for replacement or refund.)

We encourage you to become an active participant on the Internet.We believe that by providing you with thisservice, by helping you easily get the information that ismost improtant to you, we free you up to engage in theexciting and creative opportunities offered by the Internet,instead of being bogged down in the time-consuming chores ofhunting and downloading.

Remember, much of the value of having public-domain texts on computer disk comes from the ability to copy them.For example, those of you who are teachers can:

1) use a disk as a substitute textbook -- have all yourstudents bring in their own blank disks and make copies atyour computer center or library;

2) take texts from several disks and make your ownanthology, as easily as you might make a "mix" of yourfavorite music.

Remember that the disks you buy and the anthologies you compile also benefit the rest of your department, who inturn can do what they want with their copies.And rememberthat you can reuse these texts in the same manner for yearsto come.

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"Bulldogs in Bloom" reveals for the first time the exquisite aesthetic sensibility of this widely misunderstood breed, whose representatives are here portrayed in the midst of their secret gardens.Every soft petal and tender frond is the fruit of their own horticultural labors.This beautiful book proves that, in the case of bulldogs, "Iron Butterfly" is no oxymoron. ... Read more

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Colonialist Photography is an absorbing collection of essays and photographs exploring the relationship between photography and European and American colonialism. The book is packed with well over a hundred captivating images, ranging from the first experiments with photography as a documentary medium up to the decolonization of many regions after World War II.

Reinforcing a broad range of Western assumptions and prejudices, Eleanor M. Hight and Gary D. Sampson argue that such images often assisted in the construction of a colonial culture.