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Known around the world as “the fourth Beastie Boy”, Ricky Powell has photographed some of the best known rap and hip hop artists of all time. From old school rappers Public Enemy, Run DMC and LL Cool J to some of the biggest stars today, they’re all here in this ten-year retrospective. 88 photos, 53 in full color. National author publicity, print ads .

Oh Snap!: The Rap Photography of Ricky Powell

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Freelance photojournalist John Annerino climbed mountains, was lowered from helicopters onto the tops of high desert-rock “needles,” and ran 25 miles of desert wilderness a day for a month just to see the land as Indian messenger-runners did. Presenting an unusual new format of photo and photo-story, he accompnies 95 images with the adventures behind them. 95 full-color photographs.

High Risk Photography: The Adventure Behind the Image

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David Travis, the Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago, is among the select few whose views on the subject are in focus and worth a close look. He has lived, breathed, and contemplated photographs for the past three decades and is among the small number of critics and writers whose knowledge of art, technique, and history (not to mention linguistics, mathematics, poetry, and philosophy) has enabled him to transcend the typical blather that surrounds photographs and get to the emotional, technical, and esthetic core of genius at work. In these seven essays, revised, rewritten, and expanded from his lectures, he presents his thoughts on a some of his favorite subjects: Weston, Stieglitz, Kertész, Brassaï, and Strand. His knowledge is such (often enriched by first-hand acquaintance) that he can, and does, discuss more than images or personalities; he understands what informs the work, from what milieu it derives, under what in?uences it matured, how it evolved, and how it succeeded. He is an art historian willing to venture far beyond the periphery of traditional academic fences; to discuss game theory (quite literally), the mathematics of G. H. Hardy, the poetry of Rimbaud, Valéry, Rilke, and Goethe, the philosophy of Nietzsche, the extravagance of Henry Miller.

Not since Szarkowsky s Looking at Photographs has so much singular and informed intelligence been brought to bear on this most recent of the fine arts. This is not so much a book of art criticism as a journey of philosophical inquiry. It is a text that completely understands the limitations, and potential glories, of the form within its wider context, celebrating the march of individual genius that has slowly, but inexorably, transformed a technical curiosity into an accepted art.

At the Edge of the Light: Thoughts on Photography and Photographers, on Talent and Genius

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Photographic images by artists of diverse cultural backgrounds further the understanding of contemporary immigration and the changing face of America in Tracing Cultures.

Themes central to the emerging definitions of multiculturalism are explored by recent photography and photo-related installation art that deals with issues of origin, acculturation, adjustment, displacement, and loss within the context of contemporary American life. Participating artists acknowledge that the melting pot ideal no longer suffices to describe their personal experience of cultural dislocation. Their art directly addresses the history and politics of American immigration in a country now obsessed with and, often fearful of, the notion of multiculturalism.

Artists represented include Albert Chong, Lewis deSoto, Shigeki Ito, Young Kim, Komar and Melamid, Dinh Q. Le, Gavin Lee, María Martnez-Cañas, Ruben Ortíz-Torres, Carrie Mae Weems, and Kim Yasuda.

Tracing Cultures: Albert Chong, Lewis Desoto, I.T.O., Young Kim, Komar & Melamid, Dinh Q. Lee, Gavin Lee, Maria Martinez-Canas, Ruben Ortiz Torres, Carrie Mae Weems

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To Photograph Darkness: The History of Underground and Flash Photography

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A complete, user-friendly guide to Zion National Park, written by an interpretive park ranger. It’s like having a park ranger in your back pocket.

Ron Kay has been exploring and guiding in Utah’s Zion National Park for more than 30 years. During that time and in the course of his work as an official U.S. interpretive park ranger, he has answered thousands of questions from park visitors and knows exactly where they want to go and what they want to see. Designed to be useful for any person who wants to visit Zion National Park—from first-time visitors to repeat guests ready to see and learn something new—this guide includes complete trail descriptions, maps, mountaineering tips, climbing spots, a detailed trip planner, and fascinating commentary about the park’s natural and human history, geology, flora and fauna. Also included are Ron’s recommendations for visiting Bryce and Grand Canyon National Parks. 50 black & white photographs, 6 maps.

Ron Kay’s Guide to Zion National Park: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Zion National Park But Didn’t Know Who To Ask!

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The young German Wilhelm von Gloeden – barely twenty-two – arrived in Taormina in1878 after a brief stop in Naples. He immediately became involved in photography; this new medium had fascinated him since his stepfather had given him a camera. This book features a collection of the pictures he took of the mythical landscapes around Vesuvius and Etna: the volcanoes on one side and the sea on the other, and, of course, the sun of the south. Also featured are many of his pastoral nude studies of Sicilian boys, which usually featured props such as wreaths or amphorae suggesting a setting in the Greece or Italy of antiquity. From a modern standpoint, his work stands out due to his controlled use of lighting as well as the elegant poses of his models.

Wilhelm von Gloeden: Photography

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“With the marvelous lens of dream and surprise, Atget ’saw’ (that is to say, photographed) practically everything about him, in and outside of Paris, with the vision of a poet.” –Berenice Abbott Atget’s photographs are unparalleled in their lucid realism and lyrical response to the pulse of the city and to the artifacts of human life in almost every social class. His images of parks, lakes, shop windows, vendors, prostitutes, buildings, sculpture, and Paris street scenes go beyond documentation to a poetic vision of an era. Atget created some of the most beautifully articulated images of light and space ever made with a camera. Paperback, 8 x 8 in./96 pgs / 43 color.

Eugene Atget

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Many of today’s most innovative photographers are pushing their work beyond the boundaries of the traditional silver-gelatin print. Liberated from the restrictions of common photographic paper’s size and surface, these artists seek to exploit the tactile, painterly, often emotional qualities offered by such processes as photogravure, Polaroid transfer and Kwik Print, three-dimensional construction and collage, hand coloring, bleaching, toning, Cyanotype, and even computer-aided photography.

This book is an exploration into the works, thoughts, and inspirations of seventeen photographer/artists investigating the aesthetic impact of the non-traditional print.

The Art of Enhanced Photography: Beyond the Photographic Image

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Iron Man Dani Davey’s intimate photo shoot, following his outdoor “Dani Davey & Mates On Maneuvers” adventure, also available in book form here. Full frontal male nudity, color, 42 pages.

Male Nude Photography- Intimate Moments With Dani Davey