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David Molnar was never supposed to be a professional photographer. Until the fateful day he almost died from a head on collision. While learning to walk again, photography became his escape and a form of therapy. But he found that turning pro in photography wasn't clear. There is no Bar exam for photography. He wished he had a mentor to show him the way. He struggled for a decade using trial and error before finding eventual success.

Renowned for her screen performances, down-to-earth personality, and love affair with Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner left an indelible mark on Hollywood history. Her adventurous life story is told through authoritative text and hundreds of photos in Ava: A Life in Movies. Ava is an illustrated...

This audiobook is a fabulous tool for any photographer just starting out in the genre of landscape photography. While the audiobook does offer some technical insights and guidelines on how to get the most out of your camera, it is focused on the art of seeing, and how beautiful landscapes can be created using the elements and principles of design. In this way, anyone, at any level, whether they shoot on manual or auto, can create a captivating landscape.

Seeing with Your Own Eyes: The Zen of Photography is about discovering a different way of seeing that changes our attitude toward picture-making. Usually, we don’t question the way we see the world because we believe our way is the one and only. These essays present an alternative viewpoint. They challenge the habitual way of seeing, which gives priority to technique, subject, and outcome.

"Narrators Dion Graham and Mychal-Bella Bowman's grand and lively performances will have young listeners eager to hear every story in this vibrant collection of African and African-American-inspired tales."—AudioFile From the New York Times bestselling authors of GLORY, Kahran and Regis...

Susie Bright, “The Pauline Kael of Porn” (SF Chronicle), rips open the history of erotic cinema before the internet— from the Golden Age of lavish 35mm hardcore, to the video-inspired “Porno Spring”, initiated by none other than punk, feminist, and lesbian video-makers.

A fascinating biography of the philanthropist Albert Barnes, whose pioneering collection of modern art was meant to transform America’s soul From prominent critic and biographer Blake Gopnik comes a compelling new art collector biography of America’s first great collector of modern art...

Academy Award-winning actress and New York Times bestselling author Shirley MacLaine shares a dazzling memoir in photographs, chronicling her extraordinary life with 150+ images from her personal archive With more than seventy years on the silver screen, Shirley MacLaine has, as she says, seen...

Have you always loved the idea of portraiture photography, and yet have never been able to make a portrait you were completely satisfied with? This book will walk you through each of these procedures step by step, and with time, practice, and patience, you'll learn how to make a stunning, successful portrait both you and your model will be very satisfied with.

AWA is back with a new book - sharing dozens of idiosyncratic stories that make each place unique. You'll venture to Antarctica through the Drake Passage, make a stop in lesser-known Jincumbilly, Australia (where there are more platypuses than people), travel the backroads of Vermont, and drop into one of the oddest umbrella shops of London. But no matter where or how the adventure unfolds, it's nothing without the people who make it memorable. Here, we share the stories of communities and characters who come to life as vividly as the photos themselves.

If you're an intermediate photographer who've mastered the basics of DSLR photography and are looking to upgrade your portfolio with masterpieces, then this guide is for you. In DSLR Photography Advanced, Leonard Piquar shows you how to take amazing, professional-quality photographs every time you press the shutter button and take your photography skills to a whole new level.

Let Jamie Beck transport you to the South of France with An American in Provence: part art book, part travelogue, part memoir, and part cookbook, and perfect for art lovers, Francophiles, and armchair travelers alike. An American in Provence is a beautiful collection of exquisite portrait...

A love letter to the small but mighty dachshund or, as it’s more affectionally known, the Sausage Dog. This book – almost as adorable as its namesake – proves that sausage dogs are not just sweet, soft and a little bit silly to look at. They can be an example to us all. Despite having the...

Selling your photos as prints for someone to hang on their wall is a dream of many photographers and this guidebook will help you achieve that. This is a guidebook to selling your work online as prints or on other products. Whatever other books might claim, there is no "one size fits all" recipe for success. Let me say straight away that not everything I do will work for you. And some things that didn’t work for me could work for you and so I have included details of all my experiments and approaches so you can understand what is likely to happen and can then decide if it will work for you.

Before it became iconic, it was accidental. Before it was pop art, it was procedure. Before it was remembered, it was thinking. The Avengers was never just a spy show. It was a cultural experiment—one that smuggled philosophy, intelligence culture, fashion, and quiet rebellion into living rooms under the cover of wit and elegance.

Paris, August 19, 1839. François Arago reads the technical details of Louis Daguerre's photographic process into the joint session of the Académie des Sciences and the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Within weeks the satirical press is mocking photographers as mechanics and copyists. Twenty years later, Charles Baudelaire writes the canonical hostile statement: photography belongs in the museum of records, not the gallery of art. The painters of 1839 were wrong. They were also partly right. The Scientific Aesthetic begins with that double judgment and works through its consequences.

Want to know how to get those amazing dreamy images you see in photo magazines? This book shows you how—explaining all the different techniques and gear which will help. You'll be making your own wonderful shots in no time after listening to this book.

An empowering, feminist and moving novel that will change the way you see the world. Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Day, Claire Fuller and Joanna Cannon. 1968. Veronica Moon, a junior photographer for a local newspaper, is frustrated by her (male) colleagues' failure to take her seriously. And...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of How to See the World, A Pelican Book, by Nicholas Mirzoeff, read by Jonathan Keeble. In recent decades, we have witnessed an explosion in the number of visual images we encounter, as our lives have become increasingly saturated with screens. From Google...

In My Scotland, number one best-selling author Val McDermid takes readers to the landscapes she has known all her life and the places where her stories and characters reside. This remarkable book uncovers Val's own Scotland in all its glory - from the iconic Isle of Skye to the majestic streets of Edinburgh, from the undiscovered hideaways of the Highlands to the wild and untamed Jura. Featuring excerpts from Val McDermid's best-selling novels and charting Karen Pirie's Fife to Lindsay Gordon's Glasgow, My Scotland is an unforgettable and uniquely personal journey.