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Arts & Photography

Jay, Bill

Photography & Video

Focal Press

Physical description; 112 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Index. Subjects; Frith, Francis (1822-1898). Photographers, British. Rural Areas. Victorian Period. Photographs. Photographers. Description. Travel. Landscape. Photographers - Great Britain. England - Pictorial works. Great Britain - Description and travel - (1801-1900) - Views. Great Britain - Description and travel - Pictorial works. Photography. Special subjects: England, (1850-1898) - Collections from individual photographers. Genres; Biography. Illustrated.

Victorian cameraman; Francis Frith's views of rural England, 1850-1898

David&Charles

Victorian candid camera;: Paul Martin, 1864-1944;

Mylar protected dustjacket is tattered at edges. Water and mold damage to front board: bottom 1/2". Musty odor to book. Pages clean.

Amphoto

Photographers photographed

Peregrine Smith Books

The famous British playwright shares his views on photography versus painting, and discusses terms, processes, an artists

Bernard Shaw on Photography

SHAW, BERNARD

Gibbs-Smith

Our latest anthology of Bill Jay's writings on photography, Sun in the Blood of the Cat covers a wide range of topics, including reflections on the profession of teaching photography; advice on how (and whether) to select a graduate school for an MFA in photography; reminiscences of the author's days as editor of Album and Creative Camera; how to become famous (sort of); the history of women in photography; and more of Jay's delightful "verbal snapshots," this time featuring Michael Kenna, Arnold Newman, Aaron Scharf, and Ferenc Berko. The book's title, as explained in the introduction, has its roots in the author's dislike for typing: after installing voice recognition software into his computer, Jay spoke into his computer: 'I would like to produce a collection of articles called Something Photographic, a seemingly bland phrase but nevertheless one which sounds rather jaunty.' As Jay sat back and watched, the computer typed: 'I would like to produce a collection of articles called sun in the blood of the cat...' Jay looked at that sentence and said to himself: 'Yes, I would!' So here it is, joining Occam's Razor (now back in print) and Cyanide &amp; Spirits (to be re-released this Autumn) on our growing list of titles from Bill Jay.

Sun in the Blood of the Cat

Nazraeli Pr

At the risk of sounding soft and sentimental, this is a beautiful, soulful, poignant little book. Jay has earned his place in the pantheon of photographic critics by dint of decades of dedicated iconoclasm, but his own work as a photographer, other than his 1983 book of portraits, has been relatively seldom seen. Men Like Me should be a brisk awakening to anyone who thinks that those who can't make art, write about it instead. Jay's routine has been to walk around his adopted Southern California beachside town at dawn, photographing the weathered walls and alleys, and the equally weathered men who live there. The men are down and out (or outright homeless), and Jay has made a strong series of close-ups of the arroyos and whiskery groundcover that surround their open, knowing eyes. The black-and-white portraits are juxtaposed with color images of the alleys, and all of the pictures are tied together with bits of the conversations Jay has had with these men. This is a risky aesthetic combination, but Jay's skill as an image maker and writer, and his empathy with the men, ties the whole package together to form an affecting whole. The book isn't a documentary or a social polemic, and doesn't feel like it panders to its subjects. As the title suggests, Jay is simply drawn to the men he photographs because he senses his kinship with them. In fact, part of the power of the book lies in what the photographer reveals about himself between the lines: an admiration for men who've seen some of the worst that life can dish out and still retained their self-respect; and the all-too-realistic fear that, should we fall away from the small world that knows and cares for us, we may well be left to die alone and unremembered.

Men Like Me

Nazraeli Press

Physical description; xxi, 146 p., 40 p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Notes; Price-clipped. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Photography. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated.

Shaw on Photography: Essays and Photographs by George Bernard Shaw

Moore, Margaret

Holroyd, Michael

HarperCollins, Publishers

Cover Art is different than MAin Amazon Image. See my image.

On Being a Photographer: A Practical Guide

Hurn, David

Individual Artists

Lenswork Pub

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