The 50 Greatest Photo Opportunities in New York City by Amadou Diallo

By Amadou Diallo

Long island urban is among the most unusual and renowned trip locations on the earth, bursting with old landmarks, bright road scenes, cultural delights, and world-famous icons. when you plan on documenting your journey via images, then this can be your advisor to creating the main of your images in big apple urban. you are going to research the place to discover the main attention-grabbing perspectives, while to shoot them, and the way to recreate the photographs you notice in those pages. the entire examine, position scouting, and making plans were performed for you so that you can spend it slow in ny urban taking lovely pictures. equivalent elements photograph essay and how-to, "The 50 maximum picture possibilities in long island urban" is intended to counterpoint your conventional urban guidebook and assist you trap the thoughts of your journey with professional-quality pictures. additionally try out the new better half web site for our "The 50 maximum picture possibilities" sequence! For updates, assistance, tutorials and different information on all issues go back and forth images, stopover at http://blogfiftygreatestphotos.com.

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Masterpieces of Painting in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Burton B. Fredericksen

By Burton B. Fredericksen

This moment variation of Masterpieces of portray within the J. Paul Getty Museum includes basically 13 of the work formerly illustrated, indicating the variety of major acquisitions made by means of the Museum’s division of work considering 1981. The fifty-three colour plates mirror the emphasis that has been given to broadening the scope of the gathering. one of the extraordinary photographs obtained and featured listed here are works by way of Pissarro, Monet, Degas, and Lautrec, in addition to masterpieces through Bouts, Mantegna, and Salviati. every one colour representation is observed by way of a textual content access that gives either statement and heritage info.

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Studies in Numismatic Method: Presented to Philip Grierson by C. N. L. Brooke, B. H. I. Stewart, J. G. Pollard, T. R. Volk

By C. N. L. Brooke, B. H. I. Stewart, J. G. Pollard, T. R. Volk

Cash are some of the most ample assets for our research of the earlier, but their price as historic facts is comparatively ignored as a result of a basic lack of understanding of numismatic options. This quantity of essays, provided by means of a circle of acquaintances, colleagues and students operating in Britain, Europe and North the USA, is meant to pay tribute to Philip Grierson's special contribution to the examine of numismatic process. A medievalist via education, via his wide-ranging pursuits in cash and coinage Grierson has commanded the dignity of historians and numismatists of all sessions for the originality and stable feel of his prolific scholarship. greater than the other dwelling student, he has been chargeable for making on hand an realizing of numismatic services to expert and non-specialist audiences.

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Sports Photography: How to Capture Action and Emotion by Peter Skinner

By Peter Skinner

В книге рассмотрены такие вопросы, как выбор оборудования и носителя (цифра или пленка), освещение, экспозиция, особенности съемки динамических сцен, эстетика и психология спорта, организационные проблемы (доступ к спортсменам, конкуренция с другими фотографами и др. ) Книга отлично иллюстрирована.

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Early Cycladic Sculpture An Introduction by Pat Getz-Preziosi

By Pat Getz-Preziosi

First released in 1985, this ground-breaking e-book surveys the improvement of Cycladic sculpture produced through unidentified artists who labored within the Aegean islands forty-five hundred years in the past. Illustrated with a number of items from American collections—with specific emphasis on a few dozen items within the Getty Museum—this quantity surveys the typological improvement of Early Cycladic sculpture and identifies, the place attainable, the paintings of person sculptors. Newly revised and up to date, this booklet is a concise creation to the sector.

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The Myth of the Machine: Technics and Human Development by Lewis Mumford

By Lewis Mumford

This ebook is an try and clarify the forces that experience formed expertise from prehistoric occasions on, and feature more and more been shaping sleek guy. rather than starting with the issues of our personal new release, Lewis Mumford is going again to the origins of human tradition; yet to date from accepting man's upward thrust as due in most cases to his command of instruments and his conquest of nature, he unearths strong grounds for rejecting this view. He demonstrates how instruments themselves didn't and will now not strengthen a ways with no even more major sequence of innovations in ritual, language, and social association.

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Imagine There's No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation by Joan Copjec

By Joan Copjec

Winner within the 2003 AAUP ebook, Jacket, and magazine festival within the Scholarly Illustrated category.

Jacques Lacan claimed that his conception of female sexuality, together with the notorious proposition, "the lady doesn't exist," constituted a revision of his prior paintings on "the ethics of psychoanalysis." In Imagine There's No Woman, Joan Copjec indicates how Freud's ragtag, approximately incoherent thought of sublimation used to be refashioned via Lacan to turn into the major time period in his ethics. to track the hyperlink among female being and Lacan's ethics of sublimation, Copjec argues, one needs to take the unfavorable proposition concerning the woman's life no longer as simply one other nominalist denunciation of thought's illusions in regards to the lifestyles of universals, yet as acceptance of the facility of suggestion, which posits and provides start to the adaptation of gadgets from themselves. whereas the relativist place at the moment dominant insists at the distinction among my perspectives and another's, Lacan insists in this distinction in the item I see. the preferred place fuels the disaffection with which we regard a global in a nation of decomposition, while the Lacanian replacement urges our funding in an international that awaits our invention.

within the book's first half, Copjec explores confident acts of invention/sublimation: Antigone's burial of her brother, the silhouettes through the younger black artist Kara Walker, Cindy Sherman's Untitled movie Stills, and Stella Dallas's ultimate gesture towards her daughter within the famous melodrama. within the moment half, the focal point shifts to sublimation's adversary, the cruelly uncreative superego, as Copjec analyzes Kant's notion of radical evil, envy's corruption of liberal calls for for equality and justice, and the adaptation among sublimation and perversion. keeping her specialise in inventive texts, she weaves her arguments via discussions of Pasolini's Salo, the movie noir vintage Laura, and the Zapruder movie of the Kennedy assassination.

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