Art

Everything you’ll need to know in order to create great digital photos, from how a camera works to all the details of shooting, image editing, output, and workflow. The step-by-step tutorials included here -- using Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom -- offer great tips and techniques on improving your processes from start to finish.

Notable revisions in this new edition include introducing the concepts of focus stacking and HDR, as well as expanded discussions of multiple exposure, wireless flash, RGB histograms, live view, shutter priority with auto ISO, hand-held shooting techniques, and the author's equipment selections. A comprehensive guide to one of the broadest subjects in photography, explained and demystified.

Step-by-step guide for using your digital SLR to make quality videos. An overview of the DSLR video tools and process and shows how to establish camera settings for effective capture, light a scene, get sound, and achieve the film look. Basics on editing footage into a final product using common video editing tools.

Why and how did humans begin to make marks, and what does this practice tell us about the early human mind? Over 200 color images and discussions of chronology, dating, sites, and styles, this investigation of abstract geometrics explores its wide-ranging subject from the perspectives of ethnology, evolutionary biology, cognitive archaeology, and the psychology of artmaking.

Easter Island, isolated deep in the South Pacific and now a World Heritage Site, was home to a prehistoric culture that produced massive stone effigies (the moai) and the birdman cult, and yet much of the island's past remains shrouded in mystery. Where did the islanders come from, and when? How did Rapa Nui culture evolve over the centuries? How, and why, did their natural environment change over time?

Discover one hundred of the greatest folk artists practicing in the United States in Folk Masters: A Portrait of America. Photographer, Tom Pich has traveled the country to the homes and studios of recipients of the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Fellowship, the highest honor given to folk and traditional artists in the US. His portraits give us a glimpse into their art, their process, and their culture.

This two-volume set provides broad coverage of tattooing and body art in the United States today as well as around the world and throughout human history. Includes a comprehensive list of resources such as magazines, organizations, websites, and museums devoted to tattooing as well as a glossary and comprehensive bibliography.

Michelangelo pushed Renaissance naturalism into the furthest reaches of metaphor, using the language of the body and its actions to express fundamental Christian tenets once expressible only by poets and preachers.

Johannes Vermeer's luminous paintings are loved and admired around the world. Yet, why is there an absence of any preliminary drawing; why there are shifts in focus; and why his pictures are unusually blurred? Some wonder if he might possibly have used a camera obscura to capture what he saw before him. Jane Jelley, a painter herself, explores how Vermeer could have used a lens in the creation of his masterpieces.

Visual Culture of the Ancient Americas covers a wide range of topics, from Aztec picture-writing to nineteenth-century European scientific illustration of Andean sites in Peru. The essays focus on the ancient Andes; Classic period; and Postclassic Mesoamerica.