A Deadly Shade of Gold

A Deadly Shade Of Gold

Literature & Fiction

John D. MacDonald

Michael Pritchard

Genre Fiction

BOOKS-ON-TAPE, INC.

Text includes a brief discussion of the growth of early photography, followed by references and bibliography. The final three parts include an A-Z listing of London Photographers 1841-1908, and two appendices discussing new names and photographer listings & contact addresses, respectively. Bottom fore-edge corners bumped. With the book plate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. 140 pages. decorated paper-covered boards. tall 8vo..

A directory of London photographers, 1841-1908

PhotoResearch

An extravagant photographic history of photographers and their cameras
An extravagant photographic history of photographers and their cameras, featuring over a century of striking images, Photographers celebrates the truly innovative men and women behind the camera; trailblazers in their field, who captured and immortalized our world. This definitive and unique edition is a must-have for any coffee table. It shows rarely seen photographs of some of 20th-century photography's greatest names. From Henri Cartier-Bresson and Weegee, to David Bailey and Richard Avedon by way of the men and women of Life and Picture Post magazines as well as anonymous pressmen, they are all shown at work with their camera. Photographers shows photographers with their celebrity subjects, who range from the best-known Hollywood stars to players of sport, musicians and politicians. It also shows some of those same celebrities turning the camera back on to the photographer. Photographers shows off the classic cameras used by the press, photojournalists and fashion photographers. The Leica, the Nikon, the Pentax, the Rolleiflex and Speed Graphic are among the cameras shown in use. A section on wartime photographs shows aerial cameras in action. An introductory essay by one of the world's leading photographic specialists, Michael Pritchard, sets the photographers and their cameras within a wider context of the rapid growth in demand for photographs of celebrities from the 1890s and the development of celebrity culture associated with the rise of the movies from the 1920s.

Photographers

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Reel Art Press

The history of photography perhaps more so than any other art, is a history of technology that is best revealed in the very vehicle that makes it possible- the camera. Through a selection of fifty landmark cameras, Michael Pritchard tells the story of this ground-breaking piece of equipment that changed the way we saw the world around us. Beginning with Louis Daguerre's daguerreotype of 1839, other entries include the Brownie (1900), the Kodak Instamatic 100 (1963), the Plaroid SX-70 (1972), right up to the Canon EOS 5D Mark III (2012) and the Nokia Lumia camera-phone (2013). Illustrations show not only the cameras themselves but also the advertising material that accompanied them and some of the well-known images they were used to take. Pritchard uses each camera as point of entry for talking about the people who created and used them and the kind of photos they produced, from Weegee and his Speed Graphic to Cartier-Bresson and Leica's role in the invention of photojournalism. In the hands of individuals photographers, he reveals, camera came to represent unique styles of depiction. Together, the stories of the fifty cameras gathered here present an approachable and informative take on a medium that continues to fire the imagination, whether we're perfecting the selfie using the modern camera-phone or longing for the days of Fotomat.

History of Photography in 50 Cameras

Bloomsbury Academic Visual Art

This comprehensive companion details the recurring placenames which feature in Nigel Tranter's works. Over 200 places are listed alphabetically, with map references and associated passages from relevant novels provided for each entry.

Tranter's terrain

Alison Pritchard

Neil Wilson Publishing

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