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Via the story of two images separated by a century, Jean-Christophe Bailly's The Instant and Its Shadow is a poetic and theoretical reflection on the origins of photographic technique, the imaginative power of montage, and the relation of photography to time itself.

For generations of children, including a young Oprah Winfrey, opening a Lois Lenski book has meant opening a world. This was just what the author wanted: to help children "see beyond the rim of their own world." Bobbie Malone takes us into Lenski's own world to tell the story of how a girl from a small Ohio town became a beloved literary icon.

Through photographs, Architecture of the Lower Rio Grande Valley: An Introduction, celebrates the architecture of the Texas-Mexico border region, its craftsmen, its cultures and its climate.The 40 architectural images by Pino Shah provide a journey through 160 years of history and heritage, revealing the border's built environment as altered through diverse cultures: Mexican, Spanish, American, German, and French. The photographs highlight the distinctive styles -- Spanish and Mexican Colonial, border brick, Mid-century Modern, Pan American and 21st Century - found in the southernmost region of Texas. These architecturally significant buildings are often culturally and historically significant as well.Pino Shah @ArtByPino is a world heritage, architecture, and performing arts photographer based in McAllen, Texas, and Ahmedabad, India. Stephen Fox is an architectural historian and Fellow of the Anchorage Foundation of Texas provided the narratives for photographs and is as an architectural advisor to the project.

L'Italia all'aperto ci regala meravigliosi scenari. Questo libro fotografico è solo un piccolo campione relativo ad alcune località del Nord Italia, ma sufficiente a dare un'idea delle bellezze che ci mette a disposizione la nostra penisola. In chiusura del libro uno spazio dedicato ad una grande manifestazione all'aperto come il Carnevale di Venezia: uno spettacolo fantastico ed emozionante ambientato in uno scenario altrettanto fantastico ed emozionante quale è la Città Lagunare.

"Far Islands" is a photo documentary account of some of the world´s most isolated tropical islands and the people who live there.After three decades of absence the author and photographer Peter Bang returned to the outer islands in State of Yap. Here he revisited the tiny Micronesian paradise islands of his youth, which are now disappearing due to rising sea levels caused by climate change.

For 50 years, the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has championed honest and ethical wildlife photography, while pushing the boundaries of artistic freedom, technical skill and narrative excellence. This powerful collection of pictures features all the winning photographs from the prestigious 50th competition.

Frontmatter -- Vorwort -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Allgemeine optische Grundsätze -- Optische Kraft des menschlichen Auges -- Das zusammengesetzte Mikroskop -- Das optische Vermögen des Mikroskopes -- Das Zeichnen mikroskopischer Objekte -- Die Mikroskope der Gegenwart -- Gebrauch des Mikroskopes -- Anhang -- Die zum Werke benutzte Literatur -- Sach- und Namenregister

Dieses Buch prasentiert erstmals das Schriftwerk des Kunstkenners und Kulturvermittlers Claus Friede mittels eines Textkorpus von 85 Beitragen der vergangenen 30 Jahre (1990-2020). Transkultureller Fokus ist die Wende vom Analogen zum Digitalen. Mit 11 Gastbeitragen, biobibliographischem Anhang und reichhaltigem Bildmaterial.