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Искусство и наука фотографии оживают благодаря экспертному руководству по всему — от освоения настроек камеры до развития творческого взгляда. Ищете ли вы технические уроки, художественное вдохновение или инновационные способы использования фотографии для личностного роста и самовыражения, эти книги освещают путь от случайных снимков к захватывающему визуальному повествованию.

Фотография Саммари книг

The Lantern of Lost Memories

— Sanaka Hiiragi

He guides the dead through a lifetime of photographs, but his own past is a blank.

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🏮 Japanese Magical Realism 🚉 Afterlife Way Station 🤝 Found Family 👧 Sacrifice For A Child 📷 Photographs And Memory

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The Lantern of Lost Memories

He guides the dead through a lifetime of photographs, but his own past is a blank.

— Sanaka Hiiragi 2019 208 стр.

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🏮 Japanese Magical Realism 🚉 Afterlife Way Station 🤝 Found Family 👧 Sacrifice For A Child 📷 Photographs And Memory

Визуальное повествование

— Брюс Блок • 2007

Stop guessing at visual impact. A system for making every frame serve your story deliberately.

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🎬 Visual Storytelling 📷 Cinematography 🖼️ Visual Composition 👁️ Visual Perception 🎥 Film Directing

Иммерсивные

Визуальное повествование

Stop guessing at visual impact. A system for making every frame serve your story deliberately.

— Брюс Блок 2007 297 стр.

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🎬 Visual Storytelling 📷 Cinematography 🖼️ Visual Composition 👁️ Visual Perception 🎥 Film Directing

Film Directing Shot by Shot

— Steven D. Katz • 1991

Directors don't invent brilliance on set; they discover it on paper, in storyboards, shot by shot.

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🎬 Film Directing 🖼️ Visual Storytelling ✏️ Storyboarding 📐 Shot Composition 📖 Film Grammar

Иммерсивные

Film Directing Shot by Shot

Directors don't invent brilliance on set; they discover it on paper, in storyboards, shot by shot.

— Steven D. Katz 1991 366 стр.

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🎬 Film Directing 🖼️ Visual Storytelling ✏️ Storyboarding 📐 Shot Composition 📖 Film Grammar

Cinematic Storytelling

— Jennifer Van Sijll • 2005

The hundred visual decisions that tell your story before anyone opens their mouth.

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👁️ Visual Storytelling 🎥 Film Craft 🎬 Cinematic Language 🖼️ Shot Composition 🎭 Mise En Scene

Cinematic Storytelling

The hundred visual decisions that tell your story before anyone opens their mouth.

— Jennifer Van Sijll 2005 257 стр.

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👁️ Visual Storytelling 🎥 Film Craft 🎬 Cinematic Language 🖼️ Shot Composition 🎭 Mise En Scene

The Fountains of Silence

— Ruta Sepetys • 2019

An American photographer falls for a hotel maid in 1957 Madrid, where her silence hides a crime.

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🕊️ Post-Civil War Spain 🏴 Franco's Dictatorship 🇺🇸 American Abroad 💔 Forbidden Romance 🏨 Hotel Setting

The Fountains of Silence

An American photographer falls for a hotel maid in 1957 Madrid, where her silence hides a crime.

— Ruta Sepetys 2019 495 стр.

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🕊️ Post-Civil War Spain 🏴 Franco's Dictatorship 🇺🇸 American Abroad 💔 Forbidden Romance 🏨 Hotel Setting

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

— Walter Benjamin • 1936

Why does a perfect copy feel less real? Benjamin's answer upends art and politics.

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🏛️ Critical Theory 🏭 Frankfurt School ⚒️ Marxist Aesthetics 📡 Media Theory 👁️ Visual Culture

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Why does a perfect copy feel less real? Benjamin's answer upends art and politics.

— Walter Benjamin 1936 111 стр.

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🏛️ Critical Theory 🏭 Frankfurt School ⚒️ Marxist Aesthetics 📡 Media Theory 👁️ Visual Culture

Humans of New York

— Brandon Stanton • 2015

Ten thousand New Yorkers, one photographer, and the question that revealed a city's hidden soul.

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🧱 Street Photography 🎤 Oral History 🏠 Everyday Lives 🗽 New York City Life 🖼️ Visual Storytelling

Humans of New York

Ten thousand New Yorkers, one photographer, and the question that revealed a city's hidden soul.

— Brandon Stanton 2015 428 стр.

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🧱 Street Photography 🎤 Oral History 🏠 Everyday Lives 🗽 New York City Life 🖼️ Visual Storytelling

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

— Andy Warhol • 1975

The most exciting thing is the thing you never do, and the best art is a dollar bill.

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🎨 Pop Art 💭 Pop Philosophy ✍️ Artist Memoirs 💵 Art And Commerce 🌟 Fame And Celebrity

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

The most exciting thing is the thing you never do, and the best art is a dollar bill.

— Andy Warhol 1975 272 стр.

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🎨 Pop Art 💭 Pop Philosophy ✍️ Artist Memoirs 💵 Art And Commerce 🌟 Fame And Celebrity

Architectural Digest at 100

— Architectural Digest • 2019

One magazine's hundred-year archive reveals how the world lives, decorates, and dreams at home.

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📰 Magazine History 🌟 Celebrity Homes 🌴 California Modernism 📐 Design History 🏡 Designers At Home

Architectural Digest at 100

One magazine's hundred-year archive reveals how the world lives, decorates, and dreams at home.

— Architectural Digest 2019 464 стр.

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📰 Magazine History 🌟 Celebrity Homes 🌴 California Modernism 📐 Design History 🏡 Designers At Home

How to Shoot Video That Doesn't Suck

— Steve Stockman • 2011

Ten seconds is all your video gets. The working-director playbook for making people stay past that.

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🎬 Video Production 🎥 Beginner Filmmaking 📖 Storytelling Basics 👁️ Visual Storytelling ✂️ Editing And Pacing

How to Shoot Video That Doesn't Suck

Ten seconds is all your video gets. The working-director playbook for making people stay past that.

— Steve Stockman 2011 248 стр.

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🎬 Video Production 🎥 Beginner Filmmaking 📖 Storytelling Basics 👁️ Visual Storytelling ✂️ Editing And Pacing

We Have Always Been Here

— Samra Habib • 2019

Arranged marriage at sixteen. Queer awakening in secret. Then a camera gave her a voice.

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🛬 Immigrant Memoir 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Faith 🕌 Muslim Memoir 💔 Religious Trauma 🫂 Inclusive Islam

We Have Always Been Here

Arranged marriage at sixteen. Queer awakening in secret. Then a camera gave her a voice.

— Samra Habib 2019 220 стр.

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🛬 Immigrant Memoir 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Faith 🕌 Muslim Memoir 💔 Religious Trauma 🫂 Inclusive Islam

Womanhood

— Laura Dodsworth • 2019

100 women photographed from a perspective they'd never seen themselves: their own vulva.

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⚖️ Body Politics 📸 Documentary Photography ✊ Sex-Positive Feminism 🗣️ Oral History 💔 Body Shame

Womanhood

100 women photographed from a perspective they'd never seen themselves: their own vulva.

— Laura Dodsworth 2019 336 стр.

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⚖️ Body Politics 📸 Documentary Photography ✊ Sex-Positive Feminism 🗣️ Oral History 💔 Body Shame

Искусство Братства Кольца

— Гэри Рассел • 2002

The sketches, designs, and stories behind the film that made Tolkien's world real.

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🎨 Film Art Books ✏️ Concept Art 🏗️ Production Design 🧙 Fantasy Film 🎬 Making Of

Искусство Братства Кольца

The sketches, designs, and stories behind the film that made Tolkien's world real.

— Гэри Рассел 2002 192 стр.

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🎨 Film Art Books ✏️ Concept Art 🏗️ Production Design 🧙 Fantasy Film 🎬 Making Of

365 Journal Writing Ideas

— Rossi Fox • 2013

One prompt a day for a year of memories, self-reflection, and creativity. The blank page loses.

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📓 Journaling 🧭 Guided Journals ✍️ Writing Prompts 🎨 Creativity Exercises 📅 Daily Practice

365 Journal Writing Ideas

One prompt a day for a year of memories, self-reflection, and creativity. The blank page loses.

— Rossi Fox 2013 250 стр.

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📓 Journaling 🧭 Guided Journals ✍️ Writing Prompts 🎨 Creativity Exercises 📅 Daily Practice

The Last Assignment

— Erika Robuck • 2025

Rejected at home, a woman war correspondent finds family among soldiers on the front lines

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💪 Woman In A Man's World 🫂 Found Family 📖 Based On A True Story 💔 Toxic Marriage 🌱 Trauma Recovery

The Last Assignment

Rejected at home, a woman war correspondent finds family among soldiers on the front lines

— Erika Robuck 2025 448 стр.

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💪 Woman In A Man's World 🫂 Found Family 📖 Based On A True Story 💔 Toxic Marriage 🌱 Trauma Recovery

How Do I Do That in Photoshop?

— Scott Kelby • 2016

From skin tones to lens distortion: every Photoshop fix, with the slider name and the shortcut.

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📷 Photo Editing 📸 Digital Photography 📖 Quick Reference 🔧 Nondestructive Editing 🎨 Post-Processing

How Do I Do That in Photoshop?

From skin tones to lens distortion: every Photoshop fix, with the slider name and the shortcut.

— Scott Kelby 2016 288 стр.

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📷 Photo Editing 📸 Digital Photography 📖 Quick Reference 🔧 Nondestructive Editing 🎨 Post-Processing

The Handmade Entrepreneur—How to Sell on Etsy, or Anywhere Else

— Dani Marie • 2015

Profit from your crafts: the photography, search, and social media system that sells what you make.

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🧵 Craft Business 📸 Product Photography 🔎 Ecommerce Seo 📱 Social Media Marketing 🏷️ Small Business Branding

The Handmade Entrepreneur—How to Sell on Etsy, or Anywhere Else

Profit from your crafts: the photography, search, and social media system that sells what you make.

— Dani Marie 2015 179 стр.

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🧵 Craft Business 📸 Product Photography 🔎 Ecommerce Seo 📱 Social Media Marketing 🏷️ Small Business Branding

Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs of People

— Henry Carroll • 2015

People photography is a silent negotiation. Master it with mood and light, not rules.

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📷 Portrait Photography 🚶 Street Photography 🖼️ Photo Composition 💡 Photographic Lighting 🎞️ B&W Photography

Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs of People

People photography is a silent negotiation. Master it with mood and light, not rules.

— Henry Carroll 2015 128 стр.

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📷 Portrait Photography 🚶 Street Photography 🖼️ Photo Composition 💡 Photographic Lighting 🎞️ B&W Photography

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

— William H. Whyte • 1980

A decade of time-lapse footage on New York plazas upended every assumption about what draws a crowd.

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🏙️ Public Space 🚶 Street Life 🏘️ Human-Scale Urbanism ✨ Placemaking 🌍 Urban Anthropology

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

A decade of time-lapse footage on New York plazas upended every assumption about what draws a crowd.

— William H. Whyte 1980 125 стр.

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🏙️ Public Space 🚶 Street Life 🏘️ Human-Scale Urbanism ✨ Placemaking 🌍 Urban Anthropology

Adobe Photoshop CS6 Classroom in a Book

— Adobe Creative Team • 2012

Slideshows, zoomable images, and navigation menus: all built inside Photoshop, no code required.

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🖥️ Web Design 📷 Digital Imaging 🎨 Web Graphics 💻 Software Training 📘 Official Courseware

Adobe Photoshop CS6 Classroom in a Book

Slideshows, zoomable images, and navigation menus: all built inside Photoshop, no code required.

— Adobe Creative Team 2012 400 стр.

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🖥️ Web Design 📷 Digital Imaging 🎨 Web Graphics 💻 Software Training 📘 Official Courseware

Photography Q&A

— Zack Arias • 2013

The gear won't teach you to see. Candid answers to questions working photographers actually ask.

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📷 Photography Fundamentals 👁️ Artistic Vision 💼 Creative Entrepreneurship 💡 Lighting Technique 🤝 Client Relationships

Photography Q&A

The gear won't teach you to see. Candid answers to questions working photographers actually ask.

— Zack Arias 2013 299 стр.

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📷 Photography Fundamentals 👁️ Artistic Vision 💼 Creative Entrepreneurship 💡 Lighting Technique 🤝 Client Relationships

A Little Bit of Everything For Dummies

— John Wiley & Sons • 2011

Seventeen Dummies lessons: fix your computer, play rock guitar, train your puppy, and navigate love.

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🧰 Life Skills Compendium 🐣 Beginner's Guides 🏠 Adulting Basics 📚 Self-Help Guides 😂 Humorous Instruction

A Little Bit of Everything For Dummies

Seventeen Dummies lessons: fix your computer, play rock guitar, train your puppy, and navigate love.

— John Wiley & Sons 2011 362 стр.

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🧰 Life Skills Compendium 🐣 Beginner's Guides 🏠 Adulting Basics 📚 Self-Help Guides 😂 Humorous Instruction

The Art of Photography

— Bruce Barnbaum • 1994

Stop following rules. See light, compose with intent, and print photographs that are truly yours.

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🎨 Artistic Photography 🖼️ Photographic Composition 📷 Exposure Control ⬛ Black And White Photography 💡 Light And Shadow

The Art of Photography

Stop following rules. See light, compose with intent, and print photographs that are truly yours.

— Bruce Barnbaum 1994 349 стр.

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🎨 Artistic Photography 🖼️ Photographic Composition 📷 Exposure Control ⬛ Black And White Photography 💡 Light And Shadow

Digital SLR Cameras & Photography For Dummies

— David D. Busch • 2004

Get off Auto. Master exposure, lenses, and lighting to take the photos you actually pictured.

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📷 Digital Photography ⚙️ Camera Fundamentals ☀️ Exposure Techniques 💡 Photography Lighting 🖥️ Photo Editing

Digital SLR Cameras & Photography For Dummies

Get off Auto. Master exposure, lenses, and lighting to take the photos you actually pictured.

— David D. Busch 2004 352 стр.

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📷 Digital Photography ⚙️ Camera Fundamentals ☀️ Exposure Techniques 💡 Photography Lighting 🖥️ Photo Editing

Therapeutic Photography

— Neil Gibson • 2018

A camera can reach what talk therapy cannot: the visual path to self-esteem and resilience.

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🎨 Art Therapy 👶 Attachment Theory 📖 Narrative Therapy 👥 Group Therapy 🕊️ Grief Work

Therapeutic Photography

A camera can reach what talk therapy cannot: the visual path to self-esteem and resilience.

— Neil Gibson 2018

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🎨 Art Therapy 👶 Attachment Theory 📖 Narrative Therapy 👥 Group Therapy 🕊️ Grief Work

Impounded

— Linda Gordon • 2006

Dorothea Lange's internment photos were impounded: they showed the humanity the government denied.

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🏮 Japanese Internment 📷 Documentary Photography 🔒 Wartime Incarceration ⚖️ Civil Liberties 🚫 Government Censorship

Impounded

Dorothea Lange's internment photos were impounded: they showed the humanity the government denied.

— Linda Gordon 2006 224 стр.

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🏮 Japanese Internment 📷 Documentary Photography 🔒 Wartime Incarceration ⚖️ Civil Liberties 🚫 Government Censorship

Directing the Documentary by Michael Rabiger (1992-01-01) Paperback

— Michael Rabiger • 1987

From research to final cut: the documentary director's craft, where ethics and story meet the lens.

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🎬 Film Directing 👁️ Visual Storytelling 🖼️ Shot Composition ✂️ Film Editing 🎥 Film Production

Directing the Documentary by Michael Rabiger (1992-01-01) Paperback

From research to final cut: the documentary director's craft, where ethics and story meet the lens.

— Michael Rabiger 1987

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🎬 Film Directing 👁️ Visual Storytelling 🖼️ Shot Composition ✂️ Film Editing 🎥 Film Production

Stargazing for Dummies

— Steve Owens • 2013

Planets and galaxies hide in plain sight. Find them with your eyes first.

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🔭 Amateur Astronomy ✨ Stargazing Guides 🧭 Night Sky Navigation 🔬 Telescope Basics 📷 Astrophotography How-To

Stargazing for Dummies

Planets and galaxies hide in plain sight. Find them with your eyes first.

— Steve Owens 2013 352 стр.

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156 оценок

🔭 Amateur Astronomy ✨ Stargazing Guides 🧭 Night Sky Navigation 🔬 Telescope Basics 📷 Astrophotography How-To

Mastering Digital Cameras

— Al Judge • 2013

Ditch auto: sharpness comes from sensor size, lens quality, and a three-way balance of light.

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📸 Digital Photography 🌱 Beginner Photography ⚙️ Camera Settings ☀️ Exposure Techniques 🔍 Lens Photography

Mastering Digital Cameras

Ditch auto: sharpness comes from sensor size, lens quality, and a three-way balance of light.

— Al Judge 2013 139 стр.

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📸 Digital Photography 🌱 Beginner Photography ⚙️ Camera Settings ☀️ Exposure Techniques 🔍 Lens Photography

Susan Sontag

— Jonathan Cott • 1978

Intelligence as a pulse, illness as biology, art as a body: the complete Sontag interview.

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📝 Cultural Criticism 🏥 Illness Narratives 📷 Photography Criticism ✍️ Writer's Vocation ⚧️ Gender Stereotypes

Susan Sontag

Intelligence as a pulse, illness as biology, art as a body: the complete Sontag interview.

— Jonathan Cott 1978 168 стр.

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📝 Cultural Criticism 🏥 Illness Narratives 📷 Photography Criticism ✍️ Writer's Vocation ⚧️ Gender Stereotypes

The Ultimate Guide to Selling on Etsy

— Noelle Ihli • 2021

Crack Etsy's algorithm, make your products pop, and turn a craft hobby into real income.

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🛒 Ecommerce Marketplaces 🧶 Handmade Business 📸 Product Photography 🔎 Ecommerce Seo 💲 Pricing Strategy

The Ultimate Guide to Selling on Etsy

Crack Etsy's algorithm, make your products pop, and turn a craft hobby into real income.

— Noelle Ihli 2021 326 стр.

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🛒 Ecommerce Marketplaces 🧶 Handmade Business 📸 Product Photography 🔎 Ecommerce Seo 💲 Pricing Strategy

My Beautiful Black Hair

— St. Clair Detrick-Jules • 2021

101 Black women on freeing their natural hair and finding their true selves underneath.

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🌀 Natural Hair Movement 👸🏿 Black Beauty Standards 💖 Self-Love Journey 🌍 Cultural Reclamation 🎤 Oral History

My Beautiful Black Hair

101 Black women on freeing their natural hair and finding their true selves underneath.

— St. Clair Detrick-Jules 2021 256 стр.

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🌀 Natural Hair Movement 👸🏿 Black Beauty Standards 💖 Self-Love Journey 🌍 Cultural Reclamation 🎤 Oral History

Sweet Caress

— William Boyd • 2015

A woman photographer documents the twentieth century's chaos while her life remains out of focus.

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📖 Fictional Memoir 🎨 Artist's Life 📷 Woman Photographer 🪖 War Trauma 🪵 Family Dysfunction

Sweet Caress

A woman photographer documents the twentieth century's chaos while her life remains out of focus.

— William Boyd 2015 464 стр.

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📖 Fictional Memoir 🎨 Artist's Life 📷 Woman Photographer 🪖 War Trauma 🪵 Family Dysfunction

Curso Diseño Gráfico

— Anna María López López • 2013

Every technical step of graphic design, from brief to bleed, in one complete professional course.

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🎨 Graphic Design 👁️ Visual Communication 🌈 Color Theory 🔤 Typography 📐 Layout And Composition

Curso Diseño Gráfico

Every technical step of graphic design, from brief to bleed, in one complete professional course.

— Anna María López López 2013 288 стр.

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🎨 Graphic Design 👁️ Visual Communication 🌈 Color Theory 🔤 Typography 📐 Layout And Composition

This Is Gonna Hurt

— Nikki Sixx • 2011

Beauty in the broken: a rock icon's lens on music, photography, and creative imperfection.

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🎸 Rock Memoirs 📸 Music Photography 🎨 Creative Process 🤝 Artistic Collaboration 🌑 Dark Aesthetics

This Is Gonna Hurt

Beauty in the broken: a rock icon's lens on music, photography, and creative imperfection.

— Nikki Sixx 2011 224 стр.

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🎸 Rock Memoirs 📸 Music Photography 🎨 Creative Process 🤝 Artistic Collaboration 🌑 Dark Aesthetics

The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 1

— Mark Cotta Vaz • 2011

Designs, stunts, prosthetic wolves: a backstage pass to the Twilight film's most impossible scenes.

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📽️ Film Production 🎬 Behind The Scenes 🎞️ Movie Tie-In 🎨 Production Design ✨ Visual Effects

The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 1

Designs, stunts, prosthetic wolves: a backstage pass to the Twilight film's most impossible scenes.

— Mark Cotta Vaz 2011 144 стр.

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📽️ Film Production 🎬 Behind The Scenes 🎞️ Movie Tie-In 🎨 Production Design ✨ Visual Effects

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