FACES - FOTOGRAFIA E A ARTE DE RETRATAR
FACES - FOTOGRAFIA E A ARTE DE RETRATAR

Author: Steven Biver

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2011-08-22

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 8535246819

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There is so much detail to be captured in a face. Cicero (106-43 BC) said: "The face is a picture of the mind as the eyes are its interpreter." To capture a person's personality, there are many things to keep in mind, and the authors of FACESshow us how to match up a personality with lighting, posing, and composition. Portraiture is truly an art, and this book dives deep into the details so that you end up with a gorgeous portrait that both you and your subject love. Not only is this book the most comprehensive title available on portraiture, but it contains stunning images. Each image is paired with a lighting diagram, a description of why the type of image was chosen, and then takes you through postproduction to put the finishing touches on. The authors also showcase a gallery of portraits by renowned photographers.

El rostro humano
El rostro humano

Author: William A. Ewing

Publisher:

Published: 2008-02

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9788498012675

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Anuncio de la muerte del retrato convencional, nuevas maneras de retratar el rostro. El rostro como estudio de la individualidad humana. Provocadores retratos con un énfasis puesto en lo que está a la vista y no en lo oculto.En una época en la que se nos bombardea con imágenes impecables de belleza juvenil, y en la que el rejuvenecimiento puede conseguirse mediante un tarro de crema o un bisturí, no es de extrañar que una nueva generación de artistas y fotógrafos investiguen sobre nuevas técnicas de retrato. Al explorar nuevas y atrevidas estrategias de presentación, los artistas presentan al mundo rostros que son, a veces, enternecedores, y, otras aun, aterradores, pero que nunca dejan de ser fascinantes. A través de una gran variedad de técnicas, entre ellas la manipulación mediante ordenador, el retoque, el fotomontaje, la apropiación de imágenes y diversos métodos de veladoy de simulación, los artistas presentan sus innovadores retratos. Al sustituir la claridad por lo borroso, lo instantáneo por el momento elástico y la realidad por la hiperrealidad, cuestionan la idea de una identidad fija, de la cara como 'reflejo del alma', de lo que constituye la belleza y de la fe en una absoluta verdad fotográfica, creando así retratos más próximos a los del siglo XIX que a los del siglo XX.

Mónica Castillo
Mónica Castillo

Author: Mónica Castillo

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13:

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The work of Mexican artist Mónica Castillo explores the genre of self-portraiture from an informed and deviant point of view. Part of a generation that has had to reconcile the mythology erected around Mexican and Latin American art when it was internationally relaunched in the eighties, the work of Castillo severs the self-portrait-a mode cultified by the Frida Kahlo craze-from its convenient and voyeuristic biographical meanings. Essays, in both Spanish and English, by Cuauhtémoc Medina and Justo Pastor Mellado.

Praying to Portraits
Praying to Portraits

Author: Adam Jasienski

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2023-09-14

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 027109463X

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In Praying to Portraits, art historian Adam Jasienski examines the history, meaning, and cultural significance of a crucial image type in the early modern Hispanic world: the sacred portrait. Across early modern Spain and Latin America, people prayed to portraits. They prayed to “true” effigies of saints, to simple portraits that were repainted as devotional objects, and even to images of living sitters depicted as holy figures. Jasienski places these difficult-to-classify image types within their historical context. He shows that rather than being harbingers of secular modernity and autonomous selfhood, portraits were privileged sites for mediating an individual’s relationship to the divine. Using Inquisition records, hagiographies, art-theoretical treatises, poems, and plays, Jasienski convincingly demonstrates that portraiture was at the very center of broader debates about the status of images in Spain and its colonies. Highly original and persuasive, Praying to Portraits profoundly revises our understanding of early modern portraiture. It will intrigue art historians across geographical boundaries, and it will also find an audience among scholars of architecture, history, and religion in the early modern Hispanic world.

Subway Art
Subway Art

Author: Martha Cooper

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9780805006780

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Traces the history of New York graffiti, shows a variety of painted subway cars, and desribes the graffiti writers and how they work.

MUSAC
MUSAC

Author: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León

Publisher: Actar D

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 662

ISBN-13:

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This sequel to the first volume, surveys the second phase of the collection of MUSAC, The Castilla and Leon Museum of Contemporary Art. Featuring works by over 100 artists from 2005 to the present, with critical texts and illustrated introductions.

De lo humano
De lo humano

Author: Ute Eskildsen

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13:

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Originally published in 1977, this book brings together what is known about liberal feminist and socialist movements for the emancipation of women all over the world in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It deals not only with Britain and the United States but also with Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary and the Scandinavian countries. The chapters trace the origins, development, and eventual collapse of these movements in relation to the changing social formations and political structures of Europe, America and Australasia in the era of bourgeois liberalism. The first part of the book discusses the origins of feminist movements and advances a model or 'ideal type' description of their development. The second part then takes a number of case studies of individual feminist movements to illustrate the main varieties of organised feminism and the differences from country to country. The third part looks at socialist women's movements and includes a study of the Socialist Women's International. A final part touches on the reason for the eclipse of women's emancipation movements in the half-century following the end of the First World War, before a general conclusion pulls together some of the arguments advanced in earlier chapters and attempts a comparison between these feminist movements of 1840-1920 and the Women's Liberation Movement.