An introdution to the history, geography, economy, culture, and people of Italy

The Land and People of Italy (The Land and People Series)

Travis, David

Teen & Young Adult

Harpercollins Childrens Books

A social, geographic, and cultural tour of today's Italy focuses on the diversity of the country's regions and the challenges and promises that characterize Italian life.

The Land and People of Italy (Portraits of the Nations)

Harpercollins

The increasing use of color in electronic displays has been one of the major developments in the computer interface in recent years. Color not only adds an aesthetic quality to displays but is also an effective way of conveying complex information. It has important uses in tasks where identification, coding, and response times are critical. Unfortunately, many interface designers have little scientific appreciation of the effective and productive use of color in displays in the context of the human visual system. This book provides both the theoretical background and the practical guidelines for effective use of color in the computer display.**Effective Color Displays may be used as a tutorial text for courses on color displays or a practical guide for hands-on design. It will be essential reading for programmers, engineers, and psychologists concerned with color applications at the user interface. The book provides an introduction to both the color visual and display systems and develops into a full practical text for effective color display design. Color illustrations, as well as functions for color manipulation in C, look-up tables for color coordinates, and a checklist for display environments are included. Key Features * Illustrates the application of color science to user interface design * Includes step-by-step recipes for color specification * Features guidelines which are based on secure knowledge of the visual system * Contains applications for computer graphics and visual programming

Effective Color Displays: Theory and Practice (Computers and People)

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

Academic Press

Eugène Atget, Jacques Henri Lartigue, André Kertész, Brassaï, Henri Cartier- Bresson, Robert Doisneausome of the greatest photographers of Pariswere relatively unknown when they began their most innovative work. Not yet burdened with conventional career expectations, they found the city the perfect environment in which to invent and develop an entirely new approach to conceiving the photographic image. In the 1920s and 1930s, the generation of photographers after Atget responded not only to the physical city itself but also to a new sensibility of time as a spontaneous act.Masterworks by these now-famous visionaries of the medium are featured in this elegant book of photographs of Paris from the 1850s to the 1950s, drawn from the remarkable collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. David Travis introduces the book with an insightful essay on how these photographers inherited the culture of walking in and observing Paris from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles Baudelaire, and the boulevard flâneurs of the late nineteenth century. Their acceptance and celebration of the fluidity of the city’s street life became the chief virtue of their profession as photojournalists for the new illustrated magazines that would eventually make them famous.Paris: Photographs of a Time That Was is a marvelous tribute to the City of Light” and the photography that it inspired.

Paris: Photographs from a Time That Was

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Art Institute of Chicago

Top performing dotcoms share a common feature. It isn't a new software plug-in or a design gadget or any other piece of technology. These sites share a passionate focus on usability. This book is written by an international usability consultant, writer and trainer who specializes in the design and evaluation of web-based and wireless applications, e-commerce sites and interactive television. The author has worked with a number of blue-chip clients that value usability, including Hewlett-Packard, Thomas Cook, Philips, the Financial Times and Motorola. This guide is designed for software developers, project managers, business analysts and user interface designers, and does not require a background in human factors or usability. E-Commerce Usability: Tools and Techniques to Perfect the On-Line Experience presents a practical, structured, customer-centered design method that encourages innovation yet helps you make sure your final design is still easy to use.

E-Commerce Usability

Computers & Technology

Games & Strategy Guides

CRC-Press

River Of Colour: The India of Raghubir Singh

This is a retrospective view, since the mid-1960s, of the work of Raghubir Singh, one of India's greatest photographers. Published to mark the occasion of an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, it contains images of India, with an introduction by Singh and quotations by India's best-known writers. Since the 1960s, Singh has roamed far and wide across the vast expanses of India, from the source of the Ganges and the ghats of Benares, to Bombay and the Himalayas. In his introduction, he explains what India means to him - focusing in particular on colour. Arranged in 11 thematic sections, the images capture the sights and smells of streetlife, monuments and pilgrims to create a comprehensive picture of daily life in India.

River of Colour: The India of Raghubir Singh

Singh, Raghubir

Photography & Video

Phaidon Inc Ltd

'Boarding House' captures an imaginary space of transient residence, of comings and goings, focusing on the evocative drawings and sculptural objects as well as the people and animals found there.

Roger Ballen: Boarding House

BALLEN, Roger

Individual Artists

Phaidon Press

Exhibition catalog for a show of Luis Median's photographs at The Art Institute of Chicago, Nov 6, 1993 - Jan 19, 1994. Mostly portraits of Chicago gang members, Santero worshippers and street graffiti. Photographs by Luis Medina; by David Travis; essay by Ricardo Pau-Llosa. Perfect-bound; 62 pages; 26 color and 6 b&w plates; 9 x 9 inches. Chronology.

Facts and Fables by Luis Medina, Photographer

Contributions by Joel Snyder. Text by David Travis.

Jay Wolke: All Around The House

The Art Institute of Chicago

Photography rediscovered: American photographs, 1900-1930

Whitney Museum of American Art

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