Three years strong for the Preston Contemporary Art Center
Preston Contemporary Art Center celebrates its third anniversary with a roster of internationally-renowned artists in a show its curator terms “off-the-chart exciting,” opening with an artists’ reception from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. today.
Digital Photography Trip: England and Spain, 2009
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Leica D-LUX5 10.1 MP Compact Digital Camera with Super-Fast f/2.0 Lens, 3.8x Zoom Lens, 3 LCD Display, O.I.S. Image Stabilization (Titanium Special Edition) $1,067.00 Leica D-Lux 5 10.1MP 3.75X Digital Camera Titanium…. |
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Leica D-Lux 5, Digital Camera Kit Black, with 2 4GB SDHC Memory Cards (total of 8GB), Camera Case, Table Top Tripod, USB 2.0 SD Card Reader $821.15 Up-to-date features, meet classic old-school Leica design: the Leica D-LUX 5 Digital Camera (Black) is a compact 10.1MP digital camera with a very fast f/2-3.3 DC Vario-Summicron 24-90mm (35mm equivalent) lens that is Leica inside and out.The D-LUX 5 delivers a range of features designed to give you brilliant image quality in a compact (4 1/3 x 2 2/3 x 1 5/7″), lightweight (9.5 oz) camera – with s… |
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Leica D-Lux 5 Titanium (Limited Edition) with Dedicated Leather Case – Bundle – - with 16 GB SD Memory Card, USB 2.0 SD Card Reader Up-to-date features, meet classic old-school Leica design: the Leica D-LUX 5 Digital Camera is a compact 10.1MP digital camera with a very fast f/2-3.3 DC Vario-Summicron 24-90mm (35mm equivalent) lens that is Leica inside and out.The D-LUX 5 delivers a range of features designed to give you brilliant image quality in a compact (4 1/3 x 2 2/3 x 1 5/7″), lightweight (9.5 oz) camera – with sensitivi… |
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Kamasutra: Fully Illustrated Sex Positions: The Art of Love (With Full Page Indian Erotic Art Pictures of Kamasutra Sexual Positions) $6.99 The complete Kama Sutra by Mallanaga V?tsy?yana (translated by Sir Richard Burton) fully illustrated with full page images of the Kamasutra Sex Positions.This is a delightful book in many ways.i) Sir Richard Burton’s translation is elegantly written and a pleasure to read.ii) It contains 90 beautiful Kama Sutra pictures – including 25 full page images of the Kama Sutra sex positions (warning- the … |
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Practical HDR, Second Edition: A complete guide to creating High Dynamic Range images with your Digital SLR (Handbook of the Philosophy of Science) $14.93 HDR is both a technical solution to the limitations of digital camera sensors, and a creative tool that can give any image much more impact – but it is not without its pitfalls, and it’s essential to understand these if you want to take full advantage of this innovative technique. The second edition of David Nightingale’s successful Practical HDR is completely updated with the latest techniques an… |
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The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media $13.50 Benjamin’s famous “Work of Art” essay sets out his boldest thoughts—on media and on culture in general—in their most realized form, while retaining an edge that gets under the skin of everyone who reads it. In this essay the visual arts of the machine age morph into literature and theory and then back again to images, gestures, and thought. This essay, however, is only the … |
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Photography and Its Media (Paperback) $65.47 Two events in particular occasion this volume on the philosophy of photography: the blurring of boundaries that many took to demarcate photographic technology and practices from other representational and artistic technologies and the invention of digital photography. The purpose of this volume is not to revive older questions by asking what, if anything, still distinguishes photography in the light of these developments, but to consider sundry questions about the materials and tools?or media?of photography from a variety of perspectives. critically examines classic and influential arguments in philosophy of photographyaddresses recent trends in photographic art, such as conceptualism and appropriationhighlights philosophically neglected elements of photographic art, such as performativity and self-portraiturereexamines the role of photographic media in photographic art practicesoffers new perspectives of the impact of digital technologies on photographyexplores the relationship between photographic art and photography in other arts (comics and music) and in sciencebrings a range of philosophical methodologies and traditions into dialogueincorporates extended discussions of the work of important photographers and artists who use photography (e.g. Friedlander, Gursky, Lawlor)illustrates philosophical points with reproductions, many of them not widely knownclosely connects philosophical theory to the details of photographic practiceoffers original and novel theories of the aesthetic, artistic, and epistemic values of photographs |
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Complete Digital Photography (Paperback) $48.98 Teaches digital photography techniques and skills, explains the difference between traditional and digital photography, and explores editing and special effects. |
