A guide for photographers who need help capturing mood & expanding their creative potential. It shows how to take photos that go beyond mere representation to make a statement, convey a feeling or capture an emotional atmosphere. It teaches how the four basic qualities of light (colour, contrast, direction & intensity) can enhance a picture. ...

It makes sense for institutions to digitally register their collections or company information. Office automation has been introduced in almost all museums in the Netherlands. This work describes how the Tropenmuseum has developed from a completely analogue institution to a museum where digitisation is central & forms part of the work processes. ...

Presents an informative introduction to the tradition of French landscape painting. Featuring full-colour illustrations, this title highlights the key moments of the French landscape tradition from its emergence in the 1600s to its pre-eminence in the 1800s. ...

Helps oil & pastel painters learn new ways of seeing & painting light & colour. This book uses the full-colour seeing method, a way to see & paint colour as affected by the surrounding light. It contains examples & demonstrations of landscapes & still lifes so readers learn how to interpret this method of seeing to any subject. ...

Explores & demonstrates various aspects of drawing & painting birds. This title explains how to create a true impression of a bird's appearance. It describes the author's own experiences among birds in the wild, discusses bird anatomy, & lays out the essential principles of realistic painting. ...

Introduces a collection of photographs taken along French the river between 1910 & 1927 by Doctors J Ernest Rushbrook & Frank Sherman. This title

Includes:: material on author's research on this area & the era. It is intended for history buffs & serves as a companion for those canoeists & travellers venturing into French River country.

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Nominated for Best Feature Documentary at the 2004 Academy Awards, this unusual & disturbing documentary charts the scandal that surrounded the Friedman family from Long Island in the 1980s. Arnold, a well-respected schoolteacher, & his wife Elaine were a seemingly typical middle class couple who, along with their three boys, enjoyed making home movies of their daily lives. Their world was shattered in November 1987 when the police raided their home after Arnold & his eldest son Jesse were accused of multiple counts of child molestation. Arnold's home computer was found to contain a sizeable collection of child pornography. But how much truth was there behind the tide of allegations against the family? Andrew Jarecki pieces together footage from the Friedmans' home videos, news clips from the time & recent interviews with the family to assemble this thought-provoking film, which asks as many questions as it answers
- & paints an intimate & devastating portrait of the collapse of a family.
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