Product Description: In this book, Benny Migliorino teaches readers how to work with speedlights—lightweight, relatively inexpensive, and powerful palm-sized flash units—to create dramatic, dimensional, flattering lighting. 'Migs' presents 60 portraits shot in a wide range of environments—from cramped quarters and fluorescent light, to dimly lit rooms, to makeshift “studio” spaces in a client’s home or office...read more

Product Description: Glenn Rand, longtime photographic educator, and Tim Meyer, Lead Portrait Instructor at Brooks Institute, have collaborated to create a thorough and balanced textbook on the modern techniques and practice of portrait photography. They have crafted a definitive resource for professionals, students, and avid amateurs wishing to advance their skills in this discipline...read more

Product Description: An empathetic lens: The most extensive collection ever published on Robert Doisneau   As sensitive to human suffering as to the simple pleasures of life, Robert Doisneau is one of the most celebrated exponents of the Photographie humaniste that swept through the 1950s...read more

Product Description: Filled with images from every stage of Chuck Close’s distinguished career, this volume surveys the entirety of the artist’s photographic oeuvre for the very first time. Documenting Chuck Close’s vital engagement with photography over the course of many decades, this book offers the first full critical assessment of his work behind the camera...read more

Product Description: Nylora Bruleigh’s presentation of The Intricacies of Fine Art Portraiture - The Art of Being Creative perfectly depicts her creativity and ingenuity. Photographers by their very nature are creative, but Nylora takes it more than a step beyond the norm...read more

Product Description: This collects the photographs of legendary musician Les McCann; he documented the jazz scene and its players―Nina Simone, John Coltrane, Count Basie, and many others―from the inside, across several decades. Throughout Les McCann’s incredible jazz career, he took hundreds of photos―at clubs, studios, and festivals around the world―and documented the vibrant cultural life of jazz and soul between 1960 and 1980...read more

Product Description: How can a photographer of internationally known stars create iconic portraits that linger in the memory--especially since these actors have already been photographed and filmed millions of times? Vincent Peters--who has been working since 1995 for magazines such as Vogue and GQ and fashion brands including Dior, Louis Vuitton, and Yves Saint Laurent--relies entirely on the classic art of portrait photography for his pictures...read more

Product Description: With bold colors, inventive lighting, creative postproduction, and eye-catching poses, Neal Urban creates engagement portraits that go far beyond the expected. In this book, he takes you behind the scenes with dozens of couples to show you how each image was conceptualized, customized, and brought to life...read more

Product Description: In the Vale of Cashmere marks the culmination of acclaimed photographer Thomas Roma's four-year odyssey into a densely wooded, secluded corner of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park,  where gay cruising dominates the footpaths and trails...read more

Product Description: Gered Mankowitz created the enduring and defining image of the rock star as we know it today. Inspired to take up photography by the comedian Peter Sellers, Mankowitz opened his first studio in 1963 and soon established himself as one of the most prominent music photographers on the music scene...read more

Product Description: This limited edition of Julian Wasser's long-overdue first monograph includes a print signed and numbered by Wasser. The book presents a panorama of a bygone Los Angeles: Joan Didion leaning against a Corvette Stingray; Marcel Duchamp playing chess at his seminal 1963 Pasadena exhibition; Jack Nicholson and Angelica Huston at Jack's Mulholland Drive home; images of California counterculture such as the Hog Farm Commune in Sunland; surfers in Malibu Beach; the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Byrds, Frank Zappa and Joni Mitchell; the Watts riots; and Roman Polanski at his house on Cielo Drive after the murder of Sharon Tate in 1969...read more

Product Description: The Chicago Tribune possesses a vast photo archive spanning its more than 150 years in publication. From the Civil War era through today, its photographers have captured thousands of people, from everyday Chicagoans to visitors to the Second City to well-known artists, athletes, and politicians...read more

Product Description: Portraits of families and children against the dunes or with a crashing waves in the background are beautiful—but they are also one of the more difficult genres of photography. Wind, shifting sand, unpredictable sun mixing with clouds, and sudden storms all add to the normal challenges of a portrait session when you transport it to a beach setting...read more

Product Description: Today’s brides- and grooms-to-be have grown up inundated by world-class photography on the Internet, television, magazines, and social networking sites. Therefore, it’s no surprise that these savvy, image-conscious consumers have high expectations when commissioning their engagement portraits...read more

Product Description: A Beautiful Body Project: The Bodies of Mothers    First in a series of books with a strong media platform of truthful photographs and stories to celebrate the irreplaceable beauty of women and the body positive movement happening all over the world...read more

Product Description: Since 2007, Richard Renaldi has been working on a series of photographs that involve approaching and asking complete strangers to physically interact while posing together for a portrait. Working on the street with a large format 8-by-10-inch view camera, Renaldi encounters the subjects for his photographs in towns and cities all over the United States...read more

Product Description: Natural light can be the right light—indoors and out, all day long. Working with children, families, and couples, Krista Smith covers the entire process of designing natural-light portraits that are as vibrant and colorful as the personalities and relationships they depict...read more