Portraits
Portraits
Seidner's work pays homage to the great portrait painters of the early nineteenth-century. Fusing history and stylish antiquarianism with a contemporary sensibility, Seidner creates a distinctive and remarkable array of images.
He insisted they buy the best and most expensive sterling silver tea set, as well as the candelabra and crystal. Sara remembered her feelings when Rachel's wedding boxes began arriving from Gump's—how she'd admired and frankly envied ...
Acrylic Made Easy: Portraits is a fitting addition to Walter Foster's new dynamic technique and project-driven series devoted to introducing aspiring artists to the fun and engaging world of acrylic painting.
Biale et al., Hasidism, 17. 34. Moshe Rosman, Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem Tov (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), 69. 35. Rosman, Founder, 82. 36. Etkes, Besht, 79. 37. Biale et al., Hasidism ...
Here are the best of the best, in an unrivaled collection of classic portraits, accompanied by short, entertaining anecdotes.
William Douglas Home's play presents various points in the Bohemian artist's turbulent life from 1944 – 1961 through a reconstruction of sittings with three of his subjects (all played by the same actor) – General Bernard Montgomery, ...
In addition, each chapter includes a short essay on the artist and his/her work, including biographical details and commentary on the work, a photographic portrait of the artist by New Brunswick photographer James Wilson, and a reproduction ...
There is a section called “It Is So” throughout the book on random topics that God placed on my mind to enlighten the readers. SIT BACK, RELAX, AND ENJOY THE RIDE.
Steve McCurry never set out to take portraits. In 1985, he photographed an Afghan girl for the National Geographic. The intensity of the subject's eyes and her compelling gaze made...
In Portraits, Berger grounds the artists in their historical milieu in revolutionary ways, whether enlarging on the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves or Cy Twombly’s linguistic and pictorial play.
Every frame in this expansive volume is touched with Schoeller's distinctive flare for creating meticulously realized worlds--and confirm that he's a talent that consistently resets the limits of photographic portraiture.
There is , however , all the difference in the world between a skull as structure and a skull as a presence . Just as eyes can gaze through a mask , thus belying the disguise , so in this drawing bone seems to gaze through the very ...
A series of six publications to be released over three years, each of which focuses on different aspects of Friedlander's images of people, featuring photographs chosen and sequenced by the artist from his archive.
A collection of black and white 64 portraits, taken between 1926 and 1972. The subjects are identified inside the back cover.
This collection of essays illustrates the growth of interest in the representation of individuals, which resulted from the changed environment within which Greek and Latin authors worked in late antiquity.
Although the Czech photographer Josef Sudek was mildly reclusive by temperament, and although his photography is commonly characterized as unpeopled (in favor of what he termed the inanimate life of...
Portraits
Many of these essays have appeared in The American Scholar, edited by Joseph Epstein, who introduces this volume with his own portrait of Edward Shils.