Photography Takes Command

Author : Lev Manovich
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623562619
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Software Takes Command written by Lev Manovich and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Software has replaced a diverse array of physical, mechanical, and electronic technologies used before 21st century to create, store, distribute and interact with cultural artifacts. It has become our interface to the world, to others, to our memory and our imagination - a universal language through which the world speaks, and a universal engine on which the world runs. What electricity and combustion engine were to the early 20th century, software is to the early 21st century. Offering the the first theoretical and historical account of software for media authoring and its effects on the practice and the very concept of 'media,' the author of The Language of New Media (2001) develops his own theory for this rapidly-growing, always-changing field. What was the thinking and motivations of people who in the 1960 and 1970s created concepts and practical techniques that underlie contemporary media software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Maya, Final Cut and After Effects? How do their interfaces and tools shape the visual aesthetics of contemporary media and design? What happens to the idea of a 'medium' after previously media-specific tools have been simulated and extended in software? Is it still meaningful to talk about different mediums at all? Lev Manovich answers these questions and supports his theoretical arguments by detailed analysis of key media applications such as Photoshop and After Effects, popular web services such as Google Earth, and the projects in motion graphics, interactive environments, graphic design and architecture. Software Takes Command is a must for all practicing designers and media artists and scholars concerned with contemporary media.

Author : Bruce Catton
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504024214
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grant Takes Command written by Bruce Catton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian’s “lively and absorbing” biography of Ulysses S. Grant and his leadership during the Civil War (The New York Times Book Review). This conclusion to Bruce Catton’s acclaimed history of General Grant begins in the summer of 1863. After Grant’s bold and decisive triumph over the Confederate Army at Vicksburg, President Lincoln promoted him to the head of the Army of the Potomac. The newly named general was virtually unknown to the Union’s military high command, but he proved himself in the brutal closing year and a half of the War Between the States. Grant’s strategic brilliance and unshakeable tenacity crushed the Confederacy in the battles of the Overland Campaign in Virginia and the Siege of Petersburg. In the spring of 1865, Grant finally forced Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, thus ending the bloodiest conflict on American soil. Although tragedy struck only days later when Lincoln—whom Grant called “incontestably the greatest man I have ever known”—was assassinated, Grant’s military triumphs would ensure that the president’s principles of unity and freedom would endure. In Grant Takes Command, Catton offers readers an in-depth portrait of an extraordinary warrior and unparalleled military strategist whose brilliant battlefield leadership saved an endangered Union.

Author : William Mortensen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781627310017
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Command to Look written by William Mortensen and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Mortensen's irreverent and revolutionary book on photography and psychology is available again after a sixty-five-year banishment.

Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
ISBN 13 : 9780809448043
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lee Takes Command written by Time-Life Books and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When General Robert E. Lee took command of the Confederate forces defending Richmond in June of 1862, he was famous yet little known. How Lee's background and training prepared him for his supreme trial is shown on the following pages. - from the book.

Author : Jill Meryl Levy
Publisher : Firebelle Productions
ISBN 13 : 0965151611
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Take Command of Your Writing written by Jill Meryl Levy and published by Firebelle Productions. This book was released on 1998 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julian Rothenstein
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1616895640
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blind Photographer written by Julian Rothenstein and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The blind photographer cannot see a butterfly perched perfectly still on a flower, a bowl of sweet-smelling fruit, or a child's rattle on a darkened floor, but the mind's eye is sharply focused. How then, do blind or partially sighted people capture such extraordinary images? The photographs in this revelatory book suggest a deeper truth: that blindness is itself a kind of seeing, and that those who can see are often blind to the strangeness and beauty of the world around them. As the blind photographer Evgen Bavcar writes, "Photography must belong to the blind, who in their daily existence have learned to become the masters of camera obscura." Through the photographs of more than fifty blind or partially sighted people from around the world, this exhilarating book—the first to explore this phenomenon in all its vibrancy and diversity—will make you see differently.

Author : Lev Manovich
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1623567459
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Software Takes Command written by Lev Manovich and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers the first look at the aesthetics of contemporary design from the theoretical perspectives of media theory and 'software studies'.

Author : David Richards
Publisher : Headline
ISBN 13 : 1472220862
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking Command written by David Richards and published by Headline. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Sir David Richards is one of the best known British generals of modern times. In 2013 he retired after over forty years of service in the British Army and a career that had seen him rise from junior officer with 20 Commando to Chief of the Defence Staff, the professional head of the British Armed Forces. He served in the Far East, Germany, Northern Ireland and East Timor. He was the last Governor of Berlin's Spandau Prison, when Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy, was its sole prisoner. In 2005 he was appointed Commander of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps in Afghanistan and as commander of NATO forces became the first British General to command US Forces in combat since the Second World War. In 2000, Richards won acclaim when he brought together a collation of forces in Sierra Leone to stop the ultra-violent Revolutionary United Front from attacking the capital, Freetown. In so doing he ended one of the bloodiest civil wars to bedevil the region. He did so without the official sanction of London, and failure could have cost him his career. As Chief of the Defence Staff he advised the government during the crises and interventions in Libya and Syria and oversaw the controversial Strategic Defence and Security Review. Taking Command is Richards' characteristically outspoken account of a career that took him into the highest echelons of military command and politics. Written with candour, and often humour, his story reflects the changing reality of life for the modern soldier over the last forty years and offers unprecedented insight into the readiness of our military to tackle the threats and challenges we face today.

Author : Micheline Nilsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135157597X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Photographs written by Micheline Nilsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing that nineteenth-century photography goes beyond the functional to reflect the aesthetic, intellectual, and cultural concerns of the time, this study proposes that each photographic image of architecture be studied both as a primary visual document and an object of aesthetic inquiry. This multi-faceted approach drives Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Photographs: Essays on Reading a Collection. Despite three decades of post-colonial, post-structuralist and gender-conscious criticism, the study of architectural photography continues to privilege technical virtuosity. This volume offers a thematic exploration of the material, and a socio-historical examination that allows consideration of questions that have not been addressed comprehensively before in a single publication. Themes include exoticism and "armchair tourism"; the absence of women from architectural photography; the role of photographs as commodities; vernacular architecture and the picturesque; and historic preservation, urban renewal, and nationalism. Micheline Nilsen analyzes photographs from France and England?the two countries where photography was invented?and from around the world, representing a corpus of over 10,000 photographs from the Janos Scholz Collection of Nineteenth-Century Photographs of the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame.

Author : Robert Elwall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Photography Takes Command written by Robert Elwall and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Photography takes command thus aims to take a timely look at the crucial period between 1890 and 1939 when, supplanting other media, the camera first established itself as the unrivalled recorder of architecture. How did photographers set about recording the built environment during these years? Who, indeed, were these photographers and how did they respond to the demands of architects and the public? This work attempts to explore these questions by highlighting the subtle and constantly shifting relationship between architecture and photography and the changes in architectural taste that were often reflected in, or influenced by, changes in reproductive techniques."--Page 6.