Cornwall in Photographs

Cornwall in Photographs

Author: Gabriel Fuchs

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2017-09-15

Total Pages: 77

ISBN-13: 1445671255

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In this book, photographer Gabriel Fuchs takes the reader on a journey around one of the most beautiful regions of the UK – Cornwall.


Debi Cornwall: Necessary Fictions

Debi Cornwall: Necessary Fictions

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2020-10-20

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9781942185697

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From the author of Welcome to Camp America, an eerie exploration of America's performance of power and identity in the post-9/11 era What are the stories we tell ourselves, the games we play, to manage unsettling realities? Made on ten military bases across the United States since 2016, Necessary Fictionsdocuments mock-village landscapes in the fictional country of "Atropia" and its denizens, roleplayers who enact versions of their past or future selves in realistic training scenarios. Costumed Afghan and Iraqi civilians, many of whom have fled war, now recreate it in the service of the US military. Real soldiers pose in front of camouflage backdrops, dressed by Hollywood makeup artists in "moulage"--fake wounds--as they prepare to deploy. Brooklyn-based conceptual documentary artist and former civil rights lawyer Debi Cornwall (born 1973) photographs this meta-reality--the artifice of war--presented in the book with a variety of texts to provoke critical inquiry about America's fantasy industrial complex. The book includes an essay by PEN Award-winning critical theorist Sarah Sentilles.


Photographing Cornwall and Devon

Photographing Cornwall and Devon

Author: Adam Burton

Publisher: Fotovue Photo-Location Guides

Published: 2016-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780992905132

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Boasting much of the UK¿s most spectacular coastline, together with endless rolling hills of patchwork countryside and the high moorland of Exmoor and Dartmoor, the South West is renowned for its beautiful landscapes and is rich with photographic potential. Author and professional photographer Adam Burton describes 70 of the best locations in Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset for photography in this lavishly illustrated photography-location guidebook featuring 300 stunning photographs, including detailed advice on how to take great photographs.


A Descriptive Catalog of Selected Aerial Photographs of Geologic Features in the United States

A Descriptive Catalog of Selected Aerial Photographs of Geologic Features in the United States

Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)

Publisher:

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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The U.S. Geological Survey has selected and assembled sets of photographs that illustrate numerous types of geologic features in the United States. This catalog lists these special sets of photographs that are available for purchase and describes the features illustrated. One reduced photograph from each set is shown on the back pages of this catalog to assist the purchaser in his selection. -- pg. 1.


The Short Story and Photography, 1880's-1980's

The Short Story and Photography, 1880's-1980's

Author: Jane Marjorie Rabb

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780826318718

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For over a hundred years stories about photographs and photography have reflected the profound uncertainties and inconclusive endings of the modern world. For many writers, photography, supposedly the most realistic of the arts, turns out to be the most ambiguous. As Jane Rabb observes in her introduction, a number of the stories in this collection involve mysteries, perhaps because photography has a capacity for both documentary reality and moral and psychological ambiguity. Many nineteenth-century writers represented here, including Thomas Hardy and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, helped make short fiction as respectable as the novel. Some of them were even serious photographers themselves. The twentieth century is arguably a golden age for both the short story and photography. This collection includes examples from a worldly group of writer--Eugène Ionesco, Julio Cortá¡zar, Michel Tournier, and Italo Calvino, as well as the Chinese writer Bing Xin and John Updike, Cynthia Ozick, and Raymond Carver. In this wide range of stories, varying from sentimental to obsessive, to sinister, to tragic and even fatal, the reader will find provocative examples of the confluence of the short story and photography, both once considered the bastard stepchildren of literature and art.


Photographing Cornwall

Photographing Cornwall

Author: David Chapman

Publisher: Alison Hodge Publishers

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 9780906720776

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Landscape photographs of Cornwall by one of the county's most respected photographers. Cornwall is pictured through the seasons and revealed in all its moods. Also included are technical details for the images, and hints on taking landscape photographs.


Tracing Your Ancestors Through Family Photographs

Tracing Your Ancestors Through Family Photographs

Author: Jayne Shrimpton

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 2014-01-09

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1781592802

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Jayne Shrimpton's complete guide to dating, analysing and understanding family photographs is essential reading and reference for anyone undertaking genealogical and local history research. Using over 150 old photographs as examples, she shows how such images can give a direct insight into the past and into the lives of the individuals who are portrayed in them. ??Almost every family and local historian works with photographs, but often the fascinating historical and personal information that can be gained from them is not fully understood. They are one of the most vivid and memorable ways into the past.??This concise but comprehensive guide describes the various types of photograph and explains how they can be dated. It analyses what the clothes and style of dress can tell us about the people in the photographs, their circumstances and background.??Sections look at photographs of special occasions – baptisms, weddings, funerals - and at photographs taken in wartime, on holiday and at work. There is advice on how to identify the individuals shown and how to find more family photographs through personal connections, archives and the internet - and how to preserve them for future generations.??Jayne Shrimpton's handbook is an authoritative, accessible guide to old photographs that no family or local historian can be without.??As featured in The Argus.


Archaeology from Historical Aerial and Satellite Archives

Archaeology from Historical Aerial and Satellite Archives

Author: William S. Hanson

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-11-12

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1461445051

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Historical archives of vertical photographs and satellite images acquired for other purposes (mainly declassified military reconnaissance) offer considerable potential for archaeological and historical landscape research. They provide a unique insight into the character of the landscape as it was over half a century ago, before the destructive impact of later 20th century development and intensive land use. They provide a high quality photographic record not merely of the landscape at that time, but offer the prospect of the better survival of remains reflecting its earlier history, whether manifest as earthworks, cropmarks or soilmarks. These various sources of imagery also provide an opportunity to examine from the air areas of Europe and beyond whose skies are still not open to traditional archaeological aerial reconnaissance. Tens of millions of such images are held in archives around the world, but their research potential goes very largely untapped. A primary aim of this volume is to draw to wider attention the existence, scope and potential access to historical archival aerial and satellite photographs, in order to encourage their use in a range of archaeological and landscape research. By drawing attention to this massive archival resource, providing examples of its successful application to archaeological/landscape questions, and offering advice how to access and utilise the resource, the volume seeks to bring this material to wider attention, demonstrate its huge potential for archaeology, encourage its further use and stimulate a new approach to archaeological survey and the study of landscape evolution internationally. ​