|
5-Minute Sketching -- People: Super-quick Techniques for Amazing Drawings
Pete Scully · Firefly Books Pages: 128 Format: Paperback
|
Sketching has become an extremely popular pastime. For example, on YouTube, "Tips to Draw Better in 6 Minutes" has 1.7 million views, and "How to Draw Better in 2 Minutes", has 2 million views. Every day, the website @SketchDailies tweets an "inspiration" to 45,000... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
A History of Photography in Fifty Cameras
Michael Pritchard · Firefly Books Format: Hardcover
|
A History of Photography in Fifty Cameras explores the 180-year story of perhaps the most widely used device ever built. It covers cameras in all forms, revealing the origins and development of each model and tracing the stories of the photographers who used and popularized them. Illustrated... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
De Niro: A Life
Shawn Levy · Crown Archetype Format: Kindle Edition
|
REMARKABLE BIOGRAPHY OF AN ICONThere's little debate that Robert De Niro is one of the greatest screen actors of his generation, perhaps of all time--if not, in fact, the greatest. His work, particularly in the first 20 years of his career, is unparalleled. Mean Streets, the Godfather... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
The South in Color: A Visual Journal
William R Ferris · The University of North Carolina Press Pages: 144 Format: Print book
|
Since the moment William Ferris's parents gave their twelve-year-old son a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera for Christmas in 1954, Ferris passionately began to photograph his world. He has never stopped. The sixties and seventies were a particularly significant period for Ferris as he became... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jeter Unfiltered
Derek Jeter · Gallery Books Pages: 252 Format: Hardcover
|
The only authorized full-color book commemorating Derek Jeter's iconic baseball career with the New York Yankees, featuring archival images and original photos of his final 2014 season from renowned photographer Christopher Anderson.Derek Jeter's twentieth and final season in Major... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Chinese Brush Painting: Flowers: 36 Beautiful Flowers and How to Paint Them
Joan Lok · Barron's Educational Series Format: Print book
|
Those who practice Chinese brush-painting are very familiar with the blooms of the lotus, peony, and plum blossom. These flowers are common in instructional brush painting books because of their special symbolism in Chinese culture. In Chinese Brush Painting Flowers, artists will have the opportunity... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Bruce Davidson: Survey
Carlos Gollonet · Aperture ; Madrid Pages: 316 Format: Print book
|
Bruce Davidson is a pioneer of social documentary photography. He began taking photographs at the age of ten and continued to develop his passion at Rochester Institute of Technology and Yale University. Later called upon for military service, Davidson met Henri Cartier-Bresson in France... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art
David Salle · W.W. Norton & Company Pages: 256 Format: Print book
|
A master class in contemporary art by one of the preeminent painters of our time.How does art work? How does it move us, inform us, challenge us? Internationally renowned painter David Salle's incisive essay collection illuminates the work of many of the most influential artists of the twentieth... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Art of Robert E McGinnis
Art Scott · Titan Books; 1St Edition edition Format: Hardcover
|
A Modern Master Robert E. McGinnis began his career in 1947 as a cartoonist, and produced his first cover illustrations for 1956 issues of the magazines True Detective and Master Detective. Then in 1958, he painted his first paperback book cover, and from that day forward his work... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain
Charles R. Cross · It Books; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
|
In Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain, Charles R. Cross, author of the New York Times bestselling Cobain biography Heavier Than Heaven, examines the legacy of the Nirvana front man and takes on the question: why does Kurt Cobain still matter so much, 20 years after his death?Kurt... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Wildlife Photographer of the Year: 50 Years
Rosamund Cox · Firefly Books Format: Hardcover
|
How wildlife photography became art. The ultimate book of wildlife photography, with 200 award-winning images from the BBC competition. Fifty years ago, the BBC originated a now-famous competition open to professional and amateur photographers. It was a pioneering display of photographic... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Plain Simple Useful: The Essence of Conran Style
Terence Conran · Conran Octopus Pages: 224 Format: Hardcover
|
Terence Conran has always believed that objects - and surroundings - that are plain, simple and useful are the key to easy living. By being practical and performing well over time, they are as much the antidote to superficial styling as they are to the shoddy and second-rate. Applied to the home... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
The History of Music in Fifty Instruments
Philip Wilkinson · Firefly Books Format: Hardcover
|
The 400-year story of music told by the instruments that make an orchestra. The History of Music in 50 Instruments outlines musical history in well-written nuggets of information. Profiling one instrument at a time, it describes the history of music since the 1700s, when orchestras... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
One: Sons & Daughters
Adam Gopnik · Powerhouse Books Pages: 140 Format: Print book
|
A baby's first year is filled with an endless stream of new experiences, contributing profoundly to their physical, mental, and emotional development. Typically at the age of one-year an infant has the motor skills and ability to sit on their own for the first time and their uninhibited... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Classical Music For Dummies
David Pogue · For Dummies Pages: 384 Format: Paperback
|
Haydn, Tchaikovsky, and Brahms, oh, my! The beginner's guide to classical music Classical Music For Dummies is a friendly, funny, easy-to-understand guide to composers, instruments, orchestras, concerts, recordings, and more. Classical music is widely considered one of the pinnacles... |
|
|
|
|
|