Pinhole Photography: Rediscovering a Historic Technique
 The most incredible photography book I have ever read!: When I ordered this book, I expected it would cover the basics of pinhole photography, and it does. What I didn't expect was that the book would grab me and kept me under the spell with its [... more]
CDN$47.87
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The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes
From Amazon.com: Pssst, wanna make a weird photograph? How about a moody blue cyanotype or a Kallitype? Or maybe a ziatype, anthotype, or Ambrotype? Or perhaps you'd just like to know more about image transfer processes or how to make a pinhole camera. [... more]
CDN$92.95
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Seeing the Light: Optics in Nature, Photography, Color, ...
most missed book: This is the best textbook I ever had, and I sold it for some ($$$) at the end of a semester to buy a bus ticket. Very mad; I miss the book, but it's so expensive. It's amazing the way the author incorporates all sorts of literary [... more]
CDN$113.95
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Relearning to See: Improve Your Eyesight -- Naturally!
concise and detailed: I did not realize this was such a large book and technical at the same time. But it is concise and thorough and I skipped many of the technical explanations and derived the main geist of improving vision naturally. Mainly the book [... more]
CDN$34.50
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Story People
Why don't you have this book already?!?: Brian Andreas is one of the most uniquely talented people out there, and this book is a great starting point for appreciating his work. Within 5 minutes of picking up this book, you want to call everyone you know [... more]
CDN$22.39
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The Camera: The Ansel Adams Photography Series 1
Truly a masterpiece: Just like his photos, this book is a classic. It explains the fundamentals quite clearly, with intuitive diagram and real pictures. Its coverage on view camera is extremely valuable. Although not many people use view camera these [... more]
CDN$33.00
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Reporting Vietnam American Journalism Part Two 1969to1975
From Amazon.com: In the predawn morning of May 9, 1970, Richard Nixon left the White House and went to the Lincoln Memorial to speak with a handful of antiwar protesters, most of them college students. The nervous president, who, an assistant later said, [... more]
CDN$44.00
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Relearning to See
concise and detailed: I did not realize this was such a large book and technical at the same time. But it is concise and thorough and I skipped many of the technical explanations and derived the main geist of improving vision naturally. Mainly the book [... more]
CDN$43.95
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Tenure Track
Witty and engaging: Joe Meigs's first novel is a wonderful satire about one man's quest for tenure in the English department of a small, Southern college. I suspect that the book is more than a little autobiographical. Reminds me of this quote from [... more]
CDN$9.98
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Keith Carter Photographs: Twenty-Five Years
excellent: the photographs of keith carter really moved me. these are some of the best he's taken (though i can think of a few that should have been included). this book shows the talent carter has (and not just in photography, read his philosophy at the [... more]
CDN$62.50
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Basic Photographic Materials and Processes
wealth of information in a cheap jacket: No question, content wise this one tops most pubs on the subject. Especially helpful for those who like reading into it. In a sense it could replace all of Ansel Adams books. In some respects it makes photographic [... more]
CDN$82.25
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I Am Not This Body: Photographs by Barbara Ess
...and i am not this jaded: I remember being in 9th grade and digging through the garbage to collect trash to make psycho-sardonic-greeting cards with. Boy that was funny. Me and Ellen B just cracked up over that so hard...no one else seemed to get it. [... more]
CDN$40.13
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