Camera & Craft: Learning the Technical Art of Digital Photography

Camera & Craft: Learning the Technical Art of Digital Photography
Author: Andy Batt
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2014-09-19
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1135041377

Advice and insights from professionals working in a variety of fields, from photojournalism and portraiture to fine-art, landscape and commercial photography Technical explanations about how photographic tools work—so you can connect knowledge to your practice and work more instinctively and creatively Key steps for improving digital workflow Innovative exercises at the end of each chapter as well as on our companion website that encourage you to experiment with and understand the photographic process—from learning how far you can push your camera’s sensor to exploring the effects of neutral vs. creative color Interviews with technical and creative experts about developing skills and making images that matter

Historicizing Emotions: Practices and Objects in India, China, and Japan

Historicizing Emotions: Practices and Objects in India, China, and Japan
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2017-09-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004352961

In Historicizing Emotions: Practices and Objects in India, China, and Japan, nine Asian Studies scholars offer intriguing case studies of moments of change in community or group-based emotion practices, including emotionally coded objects. Posing the questions by whom, when, where, what-by, and how the changes occurred, these studies offer not only new geographical scope to the history of emotions, but also new voices from cultures and subcultures as yet unexplored in that field. This volume spans from the pre-common era to modern times, with an emphasis on the pre-modern period, and includes analyses of picturebooks, monks’ writings, letters, ethnographies, theoretic treatises, poems, hagiographies, stone inscriptions, and copperplates. Covering both religious and non-religious spheres, the essays will attract readers from historical, religious, and area studies, and anthropology. Contributors are: Heather Blair, Gérard Colas, Katrin Einicke, Irina Glushkova, Padma D. Maitland, Beverley McGuire, Anne E. Monius, Kiyokazu Okita, Barbara Schuler.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner)

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner)
Author: Sherman Alexie
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2012-01-10
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0316219304

A New York Times bestseller—over one million copies sold! A National Book Award winner A Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live. With a forward by Markus Zusak, interviews with Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney, and black-and-white interior art throughout, this edition is perfect for fans and collectors alike.

Recent Trends in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition

Recent Trends in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition
Author: KC Santosh
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2023-01-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3031235991

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Recent Trends in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, RTIP2R 2022, held in Kingsville, TX, USA, in collaboration with the Applied AI Research Laboratory of the University of South Dakota, during December 01-02, 2022. The 31 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: healthcare: medical imaging and informatics; computer vision and pattern recognition; internet of things and security; and signal processing and machine learning.

India: In Word and Image, Revised, Expanded and Updated

India: In Word and Image, Revised, Expanded and Updated
Author:
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2013-09-24
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1599621282

Gorgeously jaw-dropping, India has been beautifully redesigned with 32 additional pages of glorious photos shot by Eric Meola since India was first published. This revised and expanded version of Eric Meola's 2008 India takes the reader on a journey through Mumbai, Rajasthan, Agra, Dungarpur, along desert roads, to the Ganges water's edge, including spectacular ruins, the Taj Mahal, and the Festival of Elephants, capturing the spectacle and vibrant colors of these ancient regions. INDIA is rapidly becoming one of the pre-eminent leaders of the twenty-first century. For more than a decade, Eric Meola has returned repeatedly to India, photographing the people, temples, landscapes, architecture, celebrations, and art of this uniquely exuberant and incredibly diverse country. Meola's journeys took him from the Himalayas and monasteries in the North to the temples of Tamil Nadu in the South, from the color and pageantry of Rajasthan in the West to the tea plantations of Darjeeling in the East. Over 200 photographs (edited from more than 25,000 images) will fill this beautifully printed, large-format book. The photographs will be accompanied by dozens of essays, stories, and poems by contemporary and classical Indian writers. Table of Contents INDIA: In Word & Image Photographs by Eric Meola Contents 19 Eric Meola My Private India 24 Bharati Mukherjee Introduction 29 Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children 34 I. Allan Sealy The Trotter-Nama 47 R. K. Narayan Ganga’s Story 52 R. K. Narayan The Ramayana 63 William Buck Mahabharata 67 R. K. Narayan Mr. Sampath—The Printer of Malgudi 71 Gita Mehta A River Sutra 83 Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss 86 Manil Suri The Death of Vishnu 94 R. K. Narayan The Guide 100 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala The Housewife 110 Jhumpa Lahiri Interpreter of Maladies 119 Thomas Byrom Dhammapada 120 Anita Desai Fasting, Feasting 129 Amit Chaudhuri A Strange and Sublime Address 132 Nirad C. Chaudhuri My Birthplace 136 R. K. Narayan The Dark Room 147 Nirad C. Chaudhuri My Birthplace 150 Kiran Desai Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard 163 Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children 169 Clark Blaise and Bharati Mukherjee Days and Nights in Calcutta 178 Rabindranath Tagore Subha 182 Upamanyu Chatterjee English, August 185 Vikram Seth A Suitable Boy 190 Amit Chaudhuri A Strange and Sublime Address 194 Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things 198 Anita Desai Fasting, Feasting 203 O. V. Vijayan The River 211 Kamala Markandaya Nectar in a Sieve 214 Amit Chaudhuri Sandeep’s Visit 222 Gita Mehta A River Sutra 232 V. S. Naipaul An Area of Darkness 239 Manil Suri The Death of Vishnu 243 Ismat Chughtai The Wedding Shroud 246 Nirad C. Chaudhuri The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian 250 Nirad C. Chaudhuri My Birthplace 254 Anita Desai A Devoted Son 260 Kamala Markandaya Nectar in a Sieve ---

The India Way

The India Way
Author: S. Jaishankar
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2020-09-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9390163870

The decade from the 2008 global financial crisis to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic has seen a real transformation of the world order. The very nature of international relations and its rules are changing before our eyes. For India, this means optimal relationships with all the major powers to best advance its goals. It also requires a bolder and non-reciprocal approach to its neighbourhood. A global footprint is now in the making that leverages India's greater capability and relevance, as well as its unique diaspora. This era of global upheaval entails greater expectations from India, putting it on the path to becoming a leading power. In The India Way, S. Jaishankar, India's Minister of External Affairs, analyses these challenges and spells out possible policy responses. He places this thinking in the context of history and tradition, appropriate for a civilizational power that seeks to reclaim its place on the world stage.

Graven Images

Graven Images
Author: A. David Lewis
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2010-10-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0826430260

Comic books have increasingly become a vehicle for serious social commentary and, specifically, for innovative religious thought. Practitioners of both traditional religions and new religious movements have begun to employ comics as a missionary tool, while humanists and religious progressives use comics' unique fusion of text and image to criticize traditional theologies and to offer alternatives. Addressing the increasing fervor with which the public has come to view comics as an art form and Americans' fraught but passionate relationship with religion, Graven Images explores with real insight the roles of religion in comic books and graphic novels. In essays by scholars and comics creators, Graven Images observes the frequency with which religious material—in devout, educational, satirical, or critical contexts—occurs in both independent and mainstream comics. Contributors identify the unique advantages of the comics medium for religious messages; analyze how comics communicate such messages; place the religious messages contained in comic books in appropriate cultural, social, and historical frameworks; and articulate the significance of the innovative theologies being developed in comics.

The Image of the City

The Image of the City
Author: Kevin Lynch
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1964-06-15
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780262620017

The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.

Amerasia

Amerasia
Author: Elizabeth Horodowich
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2023-09-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1942130848

A connected world as imagined by early modern European artists, mapmakers, and writers, where Asia and the Americas were on a continuum America and Asia mingled in the geographical and cultural imagination of Europe for well over a century after 1492. Through an array of texts, maps, objects, and images produced between 1492 and 1700, this compelling and revelatory study immerses the reader in a vision of a world where Mexico really was India, North America was an extension of China, and South America was marked by a variety of biblical and Asian sites. It asks, further: What does it mean that the Amerasian worldview predominated at a time when Europe itself was coming into cultural self-definition? Each of the chapters focuses on a particular artifact, map, image, or book that illuminates aspects of Amerasia from specific European cultural milieus. Amerasia shows how it was possible to inhabit a world where America and Asia were connected either imaginatively when viewed from afar, or in reality when traveling through the newly encountered lands. Readers will learn why early modern maps regularly label Mexico as India, why the “Amazonas” region was named after a race of Asian female warriors, and why artifacts and manuscripts that we now identify as Indian and Chinese are entangled in European collections with what we now label Americana. Elizabeth Horodowich and Alexander Nagel pose a dynamic model of the world and of Europe’s place in it that was eclipsed by the rise of Eurocentric colonialist narratives in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. To rediscover this history is an essential part of coming to terms with the emergent polyfocal global reality of our own time.

Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory

Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
Author: Claudio Saunt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2020-03-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0393609855

Winner of the 2021 Bancroft Prize and the 2021 Ridenhour Book Prize Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction Named a Top Ten Best Book of 2020 by the Washington Post and Publishers Weekly and a New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2020 A masterful and unsettling history of “Indian Removal,” the forced migration of Native Americans across the Mississippi River in the 1830s and the state-sponsored theft of their lands. In May 1830, the United States launched an unprecedented campaign to expel 80,000 Native Americans from their eastern homelands to territories west of the Mississippi River. In a firestorm of fraud and violence, thousands of Native Americans lost their lives, and thousands more lost their farms and possessions. The operation soon devolved into an unofficial policy of extermination, enabled by US officials, southern planters, and northern speculators. Hailed for its searing insight, Unworthy Republic transforms our understanding of this pivotal period in American history.