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The library has many class items on "Course Reserve" for a short checkout period, as well as items from the AS Bookloan Program. Use the OneSearch "Course Reserves" tab to see if the library has your textbook.
Photography: A Cultural History, 4th edition by Above is an example of a textbook we have on reserve for Photo 50B. Search for more Course Reserves by course number or book title.
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BOOKS!
Books in the library are organized by call number according to the Library of Congress classification system which groups items by subject, so you can often simply browse the shelves. Photography books can be found in the TR section!
Photography, Artistic TR 1-990
Librarians add books to the collection year round, so there's always something new to find!.
Opens up the conversation around the role of the Black body in the marketplace; the cross-pollination between art, fashion, and culture in constructing an image; and the institutional barriers that have historically been an impediment to Black photographers participating more fully in the fashion (and art) industries.
Tracing the Iranian-born artist's personal journey in exile from her native Iran, this book presents Shirin Neshat's iconic early videos and photographs along with new work making its global debut.
How historical moments of racial crisis come to be known photographically and how the past continues to inhabit, punctuate, and transform the present through the photographic medium in contemporary art.
The most influential ideas that have shaped photography from the invention of the daguerreotype in the early 19th century up to the digital revolution and beyond.
Examines the photography of Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989), whose art is a touchstone for cultural debates surrounding questions of gender and queerness, race and diaspora, aesthetics and politics, and the enduring legacy of slavery and colonialism.
In a world of selfies and body shaming, Photoshopping and gender fluidity, body image has never been more at the forefront of popular cultural dialogue. Body is a definitive, democratic statement at a time when our fixation with images of the human form is greater than ever before.
In the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, Kwame Brathwaite used his photography to popularize the political slogan "Black Is Beautiful." This is the story of a key, but under-recognized, figure of the second Harlem Renaissance.
In 2018, contemporary art superstar JR brought his legendary photo truck to San Francisco to try and capture the essence of the city in words and images.
Dawoud Bey offers his insight on creating meaningful and beautiful portraits that capture the subject and speak to something more universal.
With a powerful juxtaposition of portraiture and landscape photography, this book explores Dawoud Bey's vivid evocations of race, history, time, and place.
If you want to inject more excitement into your photography than just applying a filter in an app, this book is for you.
Since the birth of photography, photographers have been taking images of the earth from the air. This incredible collection of images also offers a unique overview of the events, challenges, and changes of the past 150 years of human history.
What does whiteness look like, and how might we begin to trace an anti-racist history of artistic resistance that works against it?
Why do girls love pink toys, and boys love blue ones? Jeongmee Yoon (*1969, Seoul) poses this question in her work, The Pink and Blue Project, for which she began photographing Korean and American girls and boys in their rooms in 2005.
The book emphasises the central role of narrative and visual storytelling through a technique of 'photosketching' to develop the building blocks of visual creativity and ultimately to craft successful bodies of photographic work.
The preface by Deborah Willis is followed by essays that explore Draper's life and work; the history of The Black Photographers Annual; and Kamoinge's influence on contemporary African American photographers.
This book examines how Western photographic practice has been used as a tool for creating Eurocentric and violent visual regimes, and demands that we recognize and disrupt the ingrained racist ideologies that have tainted photography since its inception in 1839.
Documentary photography is undergoing an unprecedented transformation as it adapts to the impact of digital technology, social media and new distribution methods.
A workshop in a book, helping any photographer take their images to the next level.
EBOOKS!
The CCSF community has access to more than 242,000 ebooks and evideos via our O'Reilly and EBSCO eBook subscriptions.
An active RAM ID (student ID number) and RAM ID password is required for off-campus access to CCSF Library e-books. When accessing these resources from off-campus, users will be prompted to log in with RAM ID, then will be able to view resources as if they are on-campus.
A stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiers
Each photograph, handpicked by Deborah Willis, America's leading historian of African American photography, celebrates the world of music, art, fashion, sports, family, worship, or play.
Attracted by the image quality, the tactile joy of a finely made camera, and the affordable prices of vintage equipment, photographers around the world are rediscovering the joys of manual photography.
Ideal for the new wave of snapshooters using DSLR, compact system and bridge cameras, looking for top photography tips.
This straight-talking guide will give you top portrait photography tips and is ideal for users of any camera who have a basic knowledge of photography.
Gerry Badger offers insight into some of his favorite images, artists, and themes, drawing upon nearly three decades of experience writing and thinking about photography.
A picture-rich field guide to American photography, from daguerreotype to digital. Whether for selfies or sepia tones, the rules for good pictures are always shifting, reflecting new ways of thinking about ourselves and our place in the visual world.
Frank looked beneath the surface of American life to reveal a people plagued by racism, ill-served by their politicians and rendered numb by a rapidly expanding culture of consumption. His subject matter--cars, jukeboxes and even "the road" itself-- redefined the icons of America.
Leading scholars of photography and media examine photography's vital role in the evolution of media and communication in the nineteenth century.
Tanya Sheehan takes humor seriously in order to trace how photographic comedy was used in America and transnationally to express evolving ideas about race, black emancipation, and civil rights in the mid-1800s and into the twentieth century.
A comprehensive guide to using photographs to make art using the Photoshop software.
The production of each artist is examined as an ideological interpretation of how Chicano experience is constructed and interpreted through the medium of photography, in sites ranging from the traditional barrio to large metropolitan societies.
In 1970 photography curator Peter C. Bunnell organized an exhibition called Photography into Sculpture for the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Topics covered include the fundamentals of exposure, how lens choice affects creative control, digital image characteristics, and how to make the most of natural light.
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