4 comments about Women Empowered: Inspiring Change in the Emerging World.

1. This photo book really touches the heart. The photos along with brief synopsis really makes one think about the plight of women around the world. I highly recommend this coffee-table book. It will inspire you to take action.



2. I cannot emphasize strongly enough how moving this book is. I have a lot of photography books and this one is my favorite. You will not be disappointed!



3. Strong images speak for themselves, and the inspiring text goes right along with the beautiful photography.



4. I was familiar with Phil Borges' photography and knew I'd like this book, but it exceeded all my expectations. The photographs speak for themselves, and the text is inspiring and enlightening. I plan to purchase this book for all my family and friends. It is a beautiful book, full of hope and compassion.

5 comments about Mastering Digital Scanning with Slides, Film, and Transparencies.

1. This book may have been useful in 2003 when it was written, but in the hyper changing digital world, it's now (2008) seriously out of date. As a consequence nearly everything specific about particular hardware or software is not useful. I'm returning the book.



2. This book actually made me angry. I feel the title is misleading to the point of fraud. Not only will you not master slide scanning (or any scanning) with this book, you won't even get to first base. The author natters on and on about everything under the sun remotely connected to scanning but gives next to no information on how to actually scan! Some people are saying that it might be good for beginners, but I really disagree. It's almost completely lacking basic, basic information anybody, especially beginners, would need to get good results. I am in complete agreement with the critical reviews by Mark Zelyony, Bernd Schneitler, and Mick36522. Conversely, I am amazed at some of the laudatory reviews. Whatever you guys are smoking, I want some too!



3. I thought the book went through step by step which is ferry help full I real recommend this to Slide person or somebody an pictures the book is ferry help full the best book on the shelf!!!!!!!!!!



4. Excellent text and tons of infromation, too much for the casual user. For someone serious about scanning from film media it's excellent. Someone wanting to scan objects or photos should find another source.



5. This book should have been called "What can you buy if you are thinking about playing with scanner", and it is good at that. It does not tell you much about scanning, it is more about buying equipment, and possibly software related to scanning. Just think about it: There is a chapter "Where to buy", and a chapter "Buying on ebay". There is no chapter "Do this if you miss shadow detail", though. This book is aimed at a high school student who is doing his/her first steps with a film camera and wants to get those pictures into the computer (is there such a person these days?) The book even mentions cross processing. No, it does not say what should you do if you need to scan a cross-processed film. It just says that you can process your film in the wrong developer and it will affect the image on the film.
   I was greatly impressed by the chapter on sending off your slides for scanning. Well you definetly need a book to tell you that you can do that, and it greatly improves your scanning skills
   If I had a chance to look at the book at the local store I would not ever buy it. Now it goes back to Amazon.

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5 comments about The Sea/Day by Day.

1. There are terrific photographs of the sea, boats, the seashore and all things maritime. We love it! It's a perfect coffee table book for a summer house by the ocean. The photos were taken by someone who obviously loves the sea and is great for people who share that feeling. The only issue is that the editor (I guess) chose to leave descriptions of the photographs (and even page numbers) off of the pages- possibly for aesthetic reasons. The index, located in the back of the book, is helpful to identify where each of the photos was taken, but paging back and forth is a little difficult.



2. Wow, substantial is an understatement - 195 photographs (most of them 22x14 +) and 16 panoramic foldouts. Aside from the calm, the charming and the rapturous faces of the sea that you can normally imagine, could the sea be like the desert, hot lava, an impressionist's oil painting, fields of grain, bubbling rocks and sand paper...? Find out in this book of photography. I always thought photographs are comparatively realistic. But Philip Plisson's skills conjured up powerful imagery from reality to fantasy, from abstract to molecularly concrete. It is a feast to the eye and possibly shocks to the senses.



3. This huge (more than a square foot), heavy book of photographs is made panoramic by the numerous horizontal double foldouts that appear every few pages of the book. Frankly, I haven't read the text, and don't know whether I will--I bought this book for the pictures, which mean everything.
   
   Were I to magically change anything, the photographs devoted to showing ships in the making or the deck of an aircraft carrier, would be eliminated and replaced by visages of the sea itself; there are few of these throwaway photos, and I would have liked to have seen something else. That said, I can offer no other criticism of this extraordinary book. Though I bought a slightly different version (not "Day by Day," and different photograph on the cover), it is the same book, a real bargain when bought used.



4. This opening phrase from Walt Whitman's epic poem 'A Song for all Seas, All Ships' best describes this visually stunning photographic essay of the many manifestations of the sea, that mighty body of water that reigns the planet and as such reigns the hearts and imaginations of poets, painter, writers, and dreamers alike. Philip Plisson is highly regarded as a marine photographer and has here selected some of the finest of his works that explore the massive body of water, of history, of romance, of treacherous vagaries, and of man's humble intervention with oceans around the world.
   
   In rich color these photographs are most expressive when they deal solely with the body of water itself, the myriad surfaces of calm, tranquility, storm and rage and the eruptions of violence against rocks and cliffs and ships. Thankfully there are no written words to distract from the images, though there are notes in the postlude that describe the various areas of origin of the photographs.
   
   This is a book for lovers of the sea. In scale of the book's size as well as the content of visual imagination this is a mighty work. Or as Whitman phrased it 'Sail forth - steer for the deep waters only, Reckless, O soul, exploring...' Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, March 06



5. My husband saw this in a coffee shop one day and so I bought it for his birthday. THe pictures are absolutely beautiful and exquistitly done. Each picture has a caption to describe each scene. Would highly recommend to any water lover!

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1 comments about Israel 60. Those Were the Years.

1. For any teacher who has to give kids a project, where much research has to be done, but not so much that the bigger picture gets lost in the minutiae, this book is a wonderful addition to any Jewish Studies Library. With wonderful illustrations, an excellent time line of events from each year and an introduction to each decade written by a famous Israeli, this book is easy to read and easy in which to find enough information for students from 5th grade up to early High School. I recently used this book for a joint 5th/8th project and it was wonderful to see the ease with which this book could be used by the 5th graders. The most outstanding events of each year are written about with more depth while the time line gives other events, allowing the "researcher" to then make a further search in an encyclopedia or other books or-shudder-on line. Not being a great lover of the computer, where kids tend to get too much information, this book provides an outstanding source of material and just enough for a project on Israel, whether on her history, the country's growth, her politics, wars, etc. The copy I purchased has the latest decade added and goes up to 2007, so it is extremely up to date. The pictures are wonderful as well. I heartily recommend this book to any teacher who has to teach Israel in a way that makes it informative and exciting.

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2 comments about Kyrgyzstan.

1. BEAUTIFUL, UNUSUAL, FASCINATING
   The album is an unusual combination of photography and anthropology, art and erudition. Kyrgyzstan is one of those far away, fascinating, little known states in Central Asia. Before being incorporated into the Soviet Union it was nomadic nation, high in the mountains, maintaining for century its particular language, culture and art, which differs visibly from its neighbors'. "Kyrgyzstan", published beautifully by Skira, can be made use of as a college/university textbook, but also as part of the collection of artifacts from Central Asia.
   What is most unusual are the photos of Kyrgyz people, taken by Rolando Paiva, the French-Argentinean painter and photographer, deceased in 2003 as he was finishing this album. (It was finally finished by his son Mateo). The photos are of ordinary people, in their everyday surrounding, and Paiva captured their pride, their beauty and the harmony with their surrounding, be it high mountains, be it the very specific Kyrgyz house decoration. The faces on these photos are even more beautiful than I have seen during my many travels to Kyrgyzstan. Paiva captured them as if there was never before in Kyrgyzstan communism, repression, hunger and humiliation. We see beautiful, wrinkled old women, the colorful silk they make, serious, non-smiling children and men in their felt hats. If you were ever in Kyrgyzstan - you are thrilled and want to show the book to your friends; those who have never been there - want to go there before this world disappears.



2. The Kyrgyzstan book is a wonderful cultural insight into the various regions that make up The Kyrgyz Republic. In a rapidly changing nation, this book is very much a window in time and place. With a colour plate on the vast majority of pages, it beautifully illustrates the various styles of dress.
   
   The backbone of the book is the lifelong research of anthropologist Klavdiya Antipina who died at the age of 92. Her decades of study, the detailed watercolours by Temirbek Musakeev and photographic portraiture of Rolando Paiva combine to make a captivating and accessable book that you want to pick up time and again.

1 comments about Jerry Uelsmann: Photo Synthesis.

1. This is the third book I'vepurchased by Uelsman and his work never ceases to amaze me.His vision in the darkroom is beyond anythingI've ever seen but hope to increase my knowlage by observeing his.Keep those photos comeingJerry.Your work is nothing short of brilliant!!!Thanks for shareing your work with us.

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