Glenn Rand, longtime photographic educator and Program Director for Graduate Programs at Brooks Institute, and Tim Meyer, Portrait Division Chair at Brooks Institute, have collaborated to create a thorough and balanced textbook on the modern techniques and practice of portrait photography. They have avoided the single-style viewpoint common to so many books on portraiture and have crafted a definitive resource for professionals, as well as students and avid amateurs, wishing to advance their skills in this discipline. Topics include: Quality of light and the portraitAmbient, continuous, and strobe light sourcesUnderstanding light modifiers and enhancersMastering lighting ratiosImportance and selection of backgroundsExtensive coverage of lighting setupsUnderstanding light meters and metering in portraitureLighting patterns on the human faceFacial analysisComposition in portraitureEliciting the appropriate expressionThe fine art portraitPortraiture for the masses
A national bestseller from acclaimed author Iain Pears, The Portrait is a novel of suspense and a tour de force.
Benjamin Franklin's portraits and colonial printing -- Phillis Wheatley and the durability of the author portrait -- Nationalist portraiture, magazines, and political books -- Picturing the seduction heroine in the U.S -- Gothic portraiture ...
37—“not fromthe sweet”:In M.A.DeWolfe Howe,Memories ofa Hostess: A Chronicle ofEminent Friendships Drawn Chiefly from the Diaries ofMrs. James T. Fields (Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922), p. 120. 38—“the appearance, the manner”: To ...
Tale of vengeance set in an island of the coast of Brittany. A painter, Henry MacAlpine, paints a portrait of an art critic. The book is a monologue by the painter during the painting process, revealing past lives, loves and grudges.
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In 'The Portrait's Subject', Sarah Blackwood tells a wide-ranging story about how images of human surfaces came to signal expressions of human depth during this era in paintings, photographs, and illustrations, as well as in literary and ...
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26 David Hevey, The Creatures Time Forgot: Photography and Disability Imagery (London: Routledge, 1992). 27 Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus: An ... 38 Millett-Gallant, The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art, p. 138. 39 Sontag, On Photography, ...
Provides a collection of contemporary portraits from around the world.
This is as much a novel as a reckoning." —New York Times Book Review Ocean's Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums; about ...