The Library has been very busy over the summer installing
a New Library Management System. This has allowed the Library to re-look at
some of its policies in the hope to improve its services to users.
NEW LOAN ENTITLEMENTS:
All students are now entitled to borrow up to 10 items at
any one time.
AVOID OVERDUE
FINES:
2 days prior to the item being due back to the library
you will receive an email. This is to remind you about your items on loan and
that you need to return the items or renew them. If you would like to keep
using them, please click on the blue web-link. This will take you straight to your
Library account where you can click on a renew button to extend your library
loans. You can do this up to five times before you have to physically bring to
item into the Library to renew. From your Library Account page you can also
search the Library catalogue. Hopefully
the new e-mail alert system will help you avoid overdue Library Fines
If you need help logging into your Library account,
searching the Library Catalogue or reserving books please ask at the Library
counter; and we will be happy to help. Equally if you need help in accessing the
Library’s databases please just ask.
NEW LIBRARY STUDY AREAS:
The Library’s space has been slightly re-organised, so that in addition
to the main Library there are now two quiet study rooms; one is for complete
silent study and the other is for quiet study, where low level conversation will be
allowed.
Click HERE to explore the new look Library catalogue.
NEW PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS
(Click on the title to go to the catalogue record to check availability)
Understanding light is fundamental to good photography.
How any image is lit will change how the viewer sees and interprets the
content. The second edition of Lighting teaches the theory and background of
how light works, the different types of light and the rules it obeys. The book
gives guidance on how to measure, control and use light for the best
photographic exposure. With new images and case studies, this edition
encourages a bolder and more innovative approach to the use of light in
photography.
A member of Magnum, Marc Riboud has travelled the world,
from Europe to the Middle East and from Vietnam to the United States. Repelled
by violence, indifferent to the pursuit of 'events', yet irresistibly drawn by
the desire to see, he is a reporter under the spell of life itself. Whether
covering the Cultural Revolution or the Soviet Union before perestroika, he
waits for the inner truth to 'rise to the surface of things'. These photographs
reveal his intense awareness of the innate power of each image.
A beautiful and moving anthology exploring the complex dynamics of
contemporary family life. Forty international photographers present pictures,
albums and archives, many never previously published in book form. They explore
relationships between brothers and sisters, parents and children, step-families
and in-laws, outcasts and adoptees. Featured projects include Birte Kaufman's
award-winning images of Irish travellers, Magnum member Trent Parke's darkly
amusing shots of his family in suburban Australia, Nadia Sablin's elegy to her
elderly aunts living in rural Russia, and Elina Brotherus' devastating records
of failed IVF. Two critically engaging essays address how photographs have
become an essential tool for families to lay down memories, reinforce identities
and understand emotional attachments. A bold and brave book that will captivate
everyone curious about other people's lives, and all those who turn to
photography to celebrate or make sense of their own family.
Focusing on the presence of the photographer's gaze as an
integral part of constructing meaningful images, Roswell Angier combines theory
and practice, to provide you with the technical advice and inspiration you need
to develop your skills in portrait photography. Fully updated to take into
account advances in creative work and photographic technology, this second
edition also includes stunning new visuals and a discussion on the role of
social media in the practice of portraiture. Each chapter includes a practical
assignment, designed to help you explore various kinds of portrait photography
and produce a range of different styles for your creative portfolio.
"Today's photography
is part of our own cultural moment, but it also arises from artistic traditions
of the past. Seduced by Art looks at the effects of art and its history on the
creation of photographs, tracing continuities in aims, visual style, and technical
experimentation. This sumptuous book shows how photographers such as Julia
Margaret Cameron sought to elevate the status of their work by referencing Old
Masters. Similarly, contemporary practitioners look to their photographic
predecessors, as well as art history, for inspiration. Among the many
photographers featured are Ori Gersht, Luc Delahaye, Thomas Struth, Tom Hunter,
and Helen Chadwick, and paintings from Caravaggio, Zurbara�n, Delacroix, Ingres, Constable, and others. Each chapter takes a genre--portraiture,
the nude, still life, and landscape--and discusses the challenges that each
poses for photographers. Interviews with Tina Barney, Rineke Dijkstra, Richard Billingham, Richard Learoyd,
Sarah Jones, and Maisie Maud Broadhead focus in-depth on contemporary working
practices."
Digital Photography Best Practices And Workflow Handbook : A Guide To Staying Ahead Of The Workflow Curve / By Patricia Russotti, Richard Anderson.
Offers you
with the workflow practices for planning and capturing, and archiving your
digital photography. This title contains detailed charts and photos which give
you the tools you need to perfect your workflow. It is software version
independent and focuses on the key fundamentals that are a constant from
software to software.
This book is about inspiration. A range of
experienced and successful photographers talk about their images; how and why they
chose to make them, what motivates their photography and the background behind
the photograph. An image and details are provided for each shot.
Mixing iconic and rarely seen works,
Photography into Art includes over one hundred illustrations accompanied by
refreshing new scholarship - making this the essential book for collectors,
gallery goers and photography enthusiasts alike.
"Edited and expanded
to keep pace with the digital revolution, this highly popular and critically
acclaimed work continues to provide students with a comprehensive exploration
of imaging science. Brilliantly written and extensively illustrated, it covers
fundamental laws of physics as well as the cutting-edge techniques that are
defining the current direction of the field. It adds a new section on
astronomical imaging, as well as major revisions in the areas of digital
imaging and modern technology. All references have been updated and now include
a significant number of URLs leading to both teaching materials and expanded
information. A fundamental introduction to the subject, this volume takes
readers on a grand tour of imaging. Starting with the fundamentals of light and
basic cameras, the author journeys through television and holography to
advanced scientific and medical imaging. Topics such as digital recording of
images, the photographic process, and film development are dealt with in an
informative and entertaining manner. The book keeps mathematics to a minimum
and offers copious examples."
In more than 2,000 issues, British Vogue magazine has acted as a
cultural barometer, putting fashion in the context of the larger world in which
we live - how we dress, how we entertain, what we eat, listen to, watch, who
leads us, excites us and inspires us. The century's most talented
photographers, illustrators and artists have contributed to it. In Lee Miller
it had, unexpectedly, its own war photographer; in Norman Parkinson, Cecil
Beaton, David Bailey, Snowdon and Mario Testino the greatest portrait and
fashion photographers of their generation; and in Beaton and Irving Penn two
giants of twentieth-century photography. From 1892, American Vogue chronicled
the life of beautiful people - their clothes, parties, houses and habits - and
the magazine was exported for intrigued British readers. In 1916, when the
First World War made transatlantic shipments impossible, its proprietor, Conde
Nast, authorised a British edition. It was an immediate success, and over the
following ten decades of uninterrupted publication continued to mirror its
times - the austerity and optimism that followed two world wars, the 'Swinging
London' scene of the sixties, the radical seventies, the image-conscious
eighties - and in its second century remains at the cutting edge of photography
and design. Decade by decade, Vogue 100: A Century of Style celebrates the
greatest moments in fashion, beauty and portrait photography. Illustrated
throughout with well-known images, as well as the less familiar and recently
rediscovered, the book focuses on the faces that shaped the cultural landscape:
from Matisse to Bacon, Freud and Hirst, from Dietrich to Paltrow, from Fred
Astaire to David Beckham, from Lady Diana Cooper to Lady Diana Spencer. It
features the fashion designers who defined the century - Dior, Galliano, Balenciaga,
Saint Laurent, McQueen - and explores more broadly the changing form of the
twentieth-century woman.
OFF AIR RECORDINGS
Sky Arts launches the ultimate search for Europe's best
photographer with this unique competition. Open to both amateurs and
professionals, the winner will receive €150,000 and their own exhibition.
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