The Flood of 2013 chronicles an unforgettable summer of angry rivers, unprecedented flooding and undeniable human spirit. This book looks at how the disaster irrevocably changed southern Alberta and its people. In the face of disaster, Albertans showed their true grit and rose above adversity-just like their ancestors did for generations before them.The flood began in southern Alberta on June 20 and led to four deaths, billions of dollars in damage and more than 100,000 pe...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The remarkable memoir of an ambitious young photojournalist who went off to war as a twenty-two-year-old girl—and came back, four years and many adventures later, a woman“Eloquent and well observed, not only about the memoirist, but about the world: war, death, photojournalism and, of course, the worldwide battle between the sexes.” —The Washington Post Book WorldIn 1988, fresh out of Harvard, Deborah Copaken ...

Mostly candid and spontaneous, documentary photography serves to preserve a moment in time. In Lens on Life, celebrated documentary photographer Stephanie Calabrese Roberts inspires you to explore, shoot, and share documentary photographs, guiding you as you define your own style.Illustrated with the author's striking artwork as well as that of eight seasoned photographers who have visually documented stories all over the world, this book will sharpen your artistic intuition and gi...

Having already taught you how to compose and interpret great photos, Michael Freeman now continues his best-selling series by exploring the most successful methods for presenting photography meaningfully and in an engaging format. This is the critical "next step" that separates adequate image galleries from captivating collections - and disinterested viewers from enthralled audiences.Tapping into his decades of experience shooting for such publications as Smithsonian, GEO, and Cond...

The Birmingham canals truly got underway following an advertisement in Birmingham's Aris's Gazette of 26 January 1767. The plan was to take a waterway from Wolverhampton to Birmingham with a branch to Lord Dudley's coal mines near Wednesbury, and this canal network continued to grow extensively until the 1860s. With the decline in the demand for coal after the Second World War, the BCN lost sixty of its miles, but it has nevertheless largely survived to the present day. R. H. Davies, autho...

William White-acre takes photography to the next stage. Photos and computer manipulation, a marriage made in Art heaven, results in a photobook called Human Condition. Linking photography--digitalization and existential moments--35 photos depict scenes of life.

He dressed of silence and left the house early in the morning. He ran down the boulevard - clasped hands over the camera he held at chest height. Then – once reached the street corner - he stopped. He leaned his small body against the walls of a building. His name was Onafets. But no one in the neighborhood knew him by his real name. No one knew how old he was or from what part of the city he arrived. For all he was just the photographer at the street corner.The book contains 39 ph...

The pictures are paired with tongue-in-cheek captions showcasing the likes and dislikes of both the man and the kitten. Like the guys themselves, this book is the perfect combination of cute, sexy, and funny. You'll find yourself saying "ooh" and "aw" at the same time!

Do you have one? Maybe two? Do you have no legs at all? I am sure you like shoes. This is a brief journey to the landscape of human legs. Having it absolutely informal, like if you can frost an instant of life in New York. Legs dressed for lovers; undressed feet for the voyeurs as well. Fleshy protuberance for indiscreet collectors of a particular kind of human beauty. Here and there, just that, legs.

This "visually arresting" photography book collects and organizes images from the natural and built world according to the spectrum of colors in a rainbow ( Country Living).This playful collection of rainbows is a bright and beautiful appreciation of all the color that surrounds us. Artist Julie Seabrook Ream invites us to see the extraordinary beauty of ordinary objects: she gathers colorful iterations of a single type of thing, from feathers to fishing g...

Are photographers the artists with the camera as they would imagine themselves to be, or are they indeed nothing more than glorified photocopiers?This question was posed to me recently and I felt it worthy of discussion.In this age of high tech equipment and equally high tech software, are we photographers merely photocopiers?It is an interesting question.

How wonderful to imagine what it would like to view what individuals have seen from this bridge since it was constructed prior to WWII. I would imagine such a process would be like rediscovering photographs from your old photo albums that you haven't seen in a long time. That thought has focused my attention on capturing, not just appreciating, the images I have seen from this location from my daily walks over the years. Sixteen of my images have been selected for in this monograph..