National Camera: Photography and Mexico's Image Environment (Paperback)

Now updated and expanded to cover the latest information on the impact of digital imaging and Internet technology, Mastering Black and White Photography covers every aspect of the process, from choosing a camera and building a darkroom to finding subjects and creating dazzling prints. Readers will discover expert advice and no-fail techniques for developing a contact sheet; creating a final print, using the Internet to present a portfolio, making extra prints and enlargements, and more. For any photographer...

'An interesting character', and 'very Australian', according to Thomas Orde-Lees, one of the men who worked alongside Hurley on the Shackleton trek in 1915, Hurley was a pioneer cameraman, photographer, explorer, film director, writer, lecturer and broadcaster. This book looks at his image-making in the Antarctic, WWI Flanders and PNG.

Paris at the turn of the 20th century was obsessed with the interrelations of the arts. It was a time when artists and writers spoke of poetry as music, sounds as colors, and paintings as symphonies. The music of Claude Debussy, with its unique textures and dazzling colors, was the perfect counterpart to the bold new styles of painting in France. Paul Roberts probes the sources of Debussy's artistic inspiration, relating the "impressionist" titles to the artistic and literary ferment of the time...