Professional Books - Page 12

The Image Factory: Consumer Culture, Photography and the Visual Content Industry (New Technologies/New Cultures)

Paul Frosh

Amazon Price: $36.95 List Price: $36.95 Usually ships in 2 to 3 weeks By: Berg Publishers Amazon Marketplace: 14 new & used starting at $15.90

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> Arts & Photography -> Photography -> Criticism & Essays
Subjects -> Arts & Photography -> Photography -> Professional
Subjects -> Nonfiction -> Social Sciences -> Anthropology -> Cultural

Editorial Review:

Quietly but implacably, powerful transnational corporations are gaining power over our visual world. A 'global, visual content industry' increasingly controls images supplied to advertisers, marketers and designers, yet so far the process has, paradoxically, evaded the public eye. This book is the first to expose the interior workings of the visual content industry, which produces approximately 70% of the images that define consumer cultures. The corporate acquisition of major photographic and film archives, as well as the digital rights to much of the world’s fine art, is having a profound effect on what we see. From stock photography to new technologies, this book powerfully engages with the historical and cultural issues relating to visual culture and new media. How has stock photography, the system of ‘renting out’ ready-made images, transformed the role of marketing and advertising? What impact are digital technologies having on the practices of industry professionals? How have software programs such as Photoshop enabled professionals to play ‘God’ with photographs and how does this influence our belief in the integrity of images?Combining original research on stock photography with a new theoretical take on the circulation of images in contemporary culture, The Image Factory provides a comprehensive and in-depth exploration of industrialized commercial photography, its uses and abuses.

American Showcase Artists' Representatives: Illustrations and Designers (200 Best Illustrators Worldwide)

List Price: $95.00 By: American Showcase Amazon Marketplace: 14 new & used starting at $10.15

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> Arts & Photography -> Photography -> Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions
Subjects -> Arts & Photography -> Photography -> How-to -> General
Subjects -> Arts & Photography -> Photography -> How-to -> General AAS

Irgendwo

Michael Schmidt

List Price: $79.95 By: Snoeck Amazon Marketplace: 11 new & used starting at $66.73

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> Arts & Photography -> Photography -> Photographers, A-Z -> General
Subjects -> Arts & Photography -> Photography -> Photographers, A-Z -> General AAS
Subjects -> Arts & Photography -> Photography -> Professional

The Photographer's Survival Guide: How to Build and Grow a Successful Business

Amanda Sosa Stone, Suzanne Sease

Amazon Price: $19.77 List Price: $29.95 Not yet published By: Amphoto Books

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> Arts & Photography -> Photography -> Professional
Subjects -> Arts & Photography -> Photography -> General
Subjects -> Arts & Photography -> Photography -> General AAS

Editorial Review:

This jam-packed guide provides independent photographers with the tools sorely needed to keep up in today's world of selling photography, discussing how to keep your image fresh and competitive, how to market yourself to clients, how to secure repeat as well as new clients, and generally teaching you from an insiders standpoint how to navigate the ins and outs of the industry, from pricing (with examples of estimates, budgets, and invoices from real-life shoots) to presentation (with helpful before and after makeover visuals of marketing presentation materials). The book includes practical resource information such as portfolio makers, website builders, printers, and fulfillment houses, and for added value, a CD with ready-to-use business forms and templates every photographer will need, such as a Talent Casting form, Property Release, Confidentiality Agreement, and more

Professional Secrets of Advertising Photography

Paul Markow

List Price: $29.95 By: Amherst Media Amazon Marketplace: 3 new & used starting at $21.82

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> Arts & Photography -> Photography -> Equipment
Subjects -> Arts & Photography -> Photography -> How-to -> General
Subjects -> Arts & Photography -> Photography -> How-to -> General AAS

Editorial Review:

Breaking into the lucrative and exciting field of advertising photography requires exceptional skills behind the camera as well as in sales and marketing. Using dozens of images to illustrate techniques, the book discusses the aspects of lighting, digital imaging, locations, special effects, and models that are unique and essential to this type of photography. It provides advice on working with agencies, preparing a portfolio, and submitting bids.

The Medium Format Advantage, Second Edition

Ernst Wildi

Amazon Price: $31.68 List Price: $42.95 Usually ships in 24 hours By: Focal Press Amazon Marketplace: 24 new & used starting at $21.00

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> Arts & Photography -> Photography -> Equipment
Subjects -> Arts & Photography -> Photography -> How-to -> General
Subjects -> Arts & Photography -> Photography -> How-to -> General AAS

Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

Learn the advantages and capabilities of medium-format cameras and examine all aspects of medium-format operations, including SLR, twin lens, panoramic, rangefinder, wide angle, press, and view cameras. Also explained and illustrated are lenses and their accessories, motor drives, films, flashes, filters, slides and slide projectors, and more. Includes black and white and color photographs and drawings to illustrate proper use of equipment and various techniques, effects, and possibilities that produce successful photographs with the best possible image quality.




The medium format is truly the format in the middle. It combines many of the benefits of 35 mm photography with those of the large format, making a medium format system an excellent choice for almost all types of photography from candid action with a hand-held camera to critical studio work from a tripod. Special chapters are devoted to these different applications and the type of equipment that most likely meets your photography needs. This book explains clearly the medium format's benefits, advantages, and disadvantages and provides a comparison of the medium format to other formats so you can decide whether it is right for you and your photography.

*The definitive book on medium format, cameras and technique, the most commonly used format of commercial photography
*New material on panoramic format, apochromatic lenses, aspheric lenses, tele extenders, glass and relative illumination, and motor drives
*Updated information on perspective control, tilt controls, built in metering systems, and use of apertures.

The Big Picture: The Professional Photographer's Guide to Rights, Rates & Negotiation

Lou Jacobs

List Price: $17.99 By: Writer's Digest Books Amazon Marketplace: 28 new & used starting at $0.79

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> Arts & Photography -> Photography -> How-to -> General
Subjects -> Arts & Photography -> Photography -> How-to -> General AAS
Subjects -> Arts & Photography -> Photography -> Professional

Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Covering All the Bases... 4 out of 5 stars.
11 of 16 people found this review helpful.

Although my interest is mainly focused on wedding and portrait photoghraphy, the other chapters were informative. They explained how to deal with editorial, advertising and corporate clients, to name a few. Throughout the book the author gives helpful sources to follow up on, including questions and anwsers with experts at the end of every chapter.

Editorial Review:

This quick-reference guide gives photographers the essential business knowledge needed to seek the rates and rights that match their skills.

The Photojournalist's Guide to Making Money

Michael Sedge

Amazon Price: $12.89 List Price: $18.95 Usually ships in 24 hours By: Watson Guptill - Model: 1581150768 Amazon Marketplace: 54 new & used starting at $0.48

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> Arts & Photography -> Photography -> Equipment
Subjects -> Arts & Photography -> Photography -> How-to -> General
Subjects -> Arts & Photography -> Photography -> How-to -> General AAS

Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 1.0 of 5

Egh... 1 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

A suggestion to photojournalists looking to make money: based on the axiom that a penny saved is a penny earned, don't waste your money on this book. Everything you stand to learn from Mr. Sedge you should already know. If you want applicable advice to help grow a photography business, look at "Best Business Practices for Photographers" by John Harrington.

Editorial Review:

This guide offers an insider's look at how to make money as a photojournalist, detailing 500 manoeuvres for promoting your photographs. There is advice on how to establish a business, implement cutting-edge research tactics, develop a professional niche, network with editors and other photo buyers, pitch to radio and TV producers, and expand your business through lectures and teaching. The book includes extensive sections on Internet marketing and resources for photographers.

Fashion Images De Mode No. 3 (Fashion Images De Mode)

Lisa Lovatt-Smith

List Price: $34.95 By: Steidl Amazon Marketplace: 5 new & used starting at $20.37

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> Arts & Photography -> Fashion -> General
Subjects -> Arts & Photography -> Fashion -> General AAS
Subjects -> Arts & Photography -> Photography -> Fashion

Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

interesting but not innovative 3 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

This book is very appealing to the eye with all the colors different models but the fact of the matter is...it's boring. I bought this book and I do like it but i had antisipated more fashion images. I seemed to get a book full of glossy so-so pictures. The pictures where more avant-garde than of that of fashion photography. If your interested in a fashion photography book, you should look into the impossible image or anything by Nick Night. Hotel lachapelle by David Lachapelle is an excellent fashion book as well. I would recommend those books over this one.

it makes a fortune (not yours) 3 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

well, it's their forth. good enough for people who don't read magazines at all, it gethers a lot of so-call contemporary fashion photos in a book for a good coffee-table vaule, but i think it's only "so-call contemporary", for something more contemporary, try "dazed/confused"

Absoulutely Amazing 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

I received this book for my 17th birthday. I am a budding photographer and I hope to become involved in the fashion industry when I leave school. This book is fantastic. The images as well as the style of the photgographers was diverse and interesting. Photographers featured include David LaChapelle, Mario Testino and Nick Knight. I loved it and I would really recommend this book to anyone.

Editorial Review:

Edited by Stephen Gan. Text by Lisa Lovatt-Smith.

The Doll

Hans Bellmer

List Price: $39.95 By: Fhg Publications Amazon Marketplace: 6 new & used starting at $51.80

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> Arts & Photography -> Photography -> Photographers, A-Z -> General
Subjects -> Arts & Photography -> Photography -> Photographers, A-Z -> General AAS
Subjects -> Arts & Photography -> Photography -> Professional