Photographers' Sketchbooks

Photographers' Sketchbooks

Author: Stephen McLaren

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780500544341

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From blogs to Instagram and photo-zines to contact sheets: how 43 photographers approach their work


Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War

Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War

Author: Alexander Gardner

Publisher: Ravenio Books

Published:

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13:

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In presenting the Photographic Sketch Book of the War to the attention of the public, it is designed that it shall speak for itself. The omission, therefore, of any remarks by way of preface might well be justified; and yet, perhaps, a few introductory words may not be amiss. As mementoes of the fearful struggle through which the country has just passed, it is confidently hoped that the following pages will possess an enduring interest. Localities that would scarcely have been known, and probably never remembered, save in their immediate vicinity, have become celebrated, and will ever be held sacred as memorable fields, where thousands of brave men yielded up their lives a willing sacrifice for the cause they had espoused. Verbal representations of such places, or scenes, may or may not have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will be accepted by posterity with an undoubting faith. During the four years of the war, almost every point of importance has been photographed, and the collection from which these views have been selected amounts to nearly three thousand.


Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the American Civil War, 1861-1865

Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the American Civil War, 1861-1865

Author: Alexander Gardner

Publisher: Delano Greenridge Editions

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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This volume contains one hundred of the greatest war pictures ever taken. Union troops in battle, Lincoln at Antietam, the ruins of Richmond, Lee's surrender at Appomattox, and more. It became the Civil War's best-known visual record and helped define how viewers would come to know the war. This classic also became foundational in the history of American photography, combining, for the first time, words and images in a sophisticated and moving account.


Street Photography Now

Street Photography Now

Author: Sophie Howarth

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780500289075

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'Street Photography Now' celebrates the work of 46 image-makers from across the globe. Included are such luminaries as Magnum grandmasters Gilden, Parr and Webb, as well as an international posse of emerging photographers. Four essays and quotes from interviews with the photographers are included--


Queen Victoria's Sketchbook

Queen Victoria's Sketchbook

Author: Marina Warner

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13:

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Presents paintings and sketches by the Queen, along with a narrative text drawn in part from her journals.


The Crash

The Crash

Author: Stephen McLaren

Publisher:

Published: 2018-08-30

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9781910566374

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Published to mark the 10th anniversary of the 2008 global financial crisis, these street photographs are a study of one of the most crucial locations for the world economy: the City of London. Shot over a decade to document the rise and fall of the crash's aftermath, McLaren has captured these surreal and tense times with a critical and satirical eye.


Witness to an Era

Witness to an Era

Author: Mark Katz

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781558537422

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Alexander Gardner's photographs are among the most memorable images of the Civil War, and they fill this powerful biography, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in History. "This album of Gardner's work is nothing less than sensational " -- "Booklist"


Omaha Sketchbook

Omaha Sketchbook

Author: Gregory Halpern

Publisher:

Published: 2019-08-31

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781912339440

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For the last fifteen years, Gregory Halpern has been photographing in Omaha, Nebraska, steadily compiling a lyrical, if equivocal, response to the American Heartland. In loosely-collaged spreads that reproduce his construction-paper sketchbooks, Halpern takes pleasure in cognitive dissonance and unexpected harmonies, playing on a sense of simultaneous repulsion and attraction to the place. Omaha Sketchbook is ultimately a meditation on America, on the men and boys who inhabit it, and on the mechanics of aggression, inadequacy, and power.


On Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War

On Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War

Author: Anthony W. Lee

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 0520251512

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"Lee and Young have admirably elucidated this foundational volume in the history of American photography by developing references that emerge from prior readings of these images, as well as thoughtfully producing new ways of seeing the landscapes Gardner presents. The book makes available to a wide audience one of the most important photographic records of any war and certainly the most interesting visual record of the American Civil War. This is superior scholarship."—Shirley Samuels, author of Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War "Anthony Lee and Elizabeth Young's deceptively slim volume is a complex, enlightening, and elegant study of a significant Civil War-era document that also greatly enhances our understanding of nineteenth-century visual culture. The analysis and format of this collaborative effort will serve as a model for cultural scholarship for years to come."—Joshua Brown, author of Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America "In this beautifully written analysis of one of the most important works of nineteenth-century American photography, Lee and Young restore Gardner's Sketch Book to its rightful place as a key document of American history. At once a report of a newsworthy event and a meditation on its historical meaning, Gardner's album is less unmediated reportage than a carefully constructed argument. In clear, lucid prose, Lee and Young help us understand just how Gardner made this work that helped fix the Civil War in American memory."—Martha A. Sandweiss, author of Print the Legend: Photography and the American West