Author: Arthur Zajonc
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: light, mind, history, entwined, catching
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1995-04-20
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0195095758
ISBN-13: 9780195095753
In 1910, the surgeons Moreau and LePrince wrote about their successful operation on an eight-year-old boy who had been blind since birth because of cataracts. When the boy’s eyes were healed they removed the bandages and, waving a hand in front of the child’s physically perfect eyes, asked him what he saw. "I don’t know," was his only reply. What he saw was only a varying brightness in front of him. However, when allowed to touch the hand as it began to move, he cried out in a voice of triumph, "It’s moving!" He could feel it move, but he still needed laboriously to lea
Author: Don Marr
Publisher: Amherst Media, Inc.
Keywords: light, existing, sources, using, techniques, photographic, available
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-06-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 158428255X
ISBN-13: 9781584282556
Emphasizing how to work with natural light rather than using supplementary lighting to create an artificial environment, photographers can use these simple techniques to mold existing light into the desired quality and shape. All situations are discussed, including overcast and sunny days, backlighting and flare, window light, daylight studios, natural reflectors, and studio lighting at home, offering a plethora of ideas for finding, diffusing, and creating light. As photographers learn the advantages of shooting with available lightno set up, more spontaneity, more time to concentrate on the
Author: Christa van Sante
Publisher: Birkhuser Basel
Keywords: light, context, urban, city, zone, planning
Number of Pages: 127
Published: 2006-04-21
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 3764375221
ISBN-13: 9783764375225
The face of the nocturnal metropolis is marked decisively by light, and the number and variety of the light sources is increasing to the point of "light terror.? A well-lit urban space can be very inviting, giving residents and visitors a sense of well-being and security. A successful lighting design can also give the city at night an identity of its own and accentuate architectural qualities. In this book, the author embodies her many years of experience as a practitioner and teacher of lighting design. In preparation, she visited ten European cities ?? including Paris, Brussels, Berlin,
Authors:Jonathan Speirs, Anthony Tischhauser Mark Major,
Publisher: Birkhuser Basel
Keywords: light, architecture, art, made
Number of Pages: 231
Published: 2006-02-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 3764368608
ISBN-13: 9783764368609
Our visual world is made of light. We light to see and to communicate. We light for security, to create mood and atmosphere, to enhance and entertain. Where natural light fails man has learned to improvise, constantly developing new technologies to illuminate art and architecture. Our visual experience and emotional reaction to buildings is shaped by the control of light and shadow. Light is increasingly integrated into the fabric of buildings and becomes a part of the architecture. Jonathan Speirs and Mark Major are experienced, award-winning Lighting Architects working internationally at the
Author: Ken MacLeod
Publisher: Tor Book
Keywords: light, book, engines
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-01-20
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0765344963
ISBN-13: 9780765344960
With his sharp, fast-paced, challenging novel Dark Light (sequel to the Prometheus Award-nominated Cosmonaut Keep in the Engines of Light series), Ken MacLeod reaffirms why he is science fiction’s hottest new writer at the turn of the millennium. From the days of the dinosaurs, mysterious aliens have been transporting earthly life forms across the galaxy to the worlds of the Second Sphere. Here, the descendants of humans abducted from the Stone Age and from colonial America coexist with dinosaurs--and with the saurs, their intelligent descendants, who are technologically superior to the
Authors:Ken Light, Melanie Light,
Publisher: Heyday
Keywords: dreams, shadows, valley
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2012-05-01
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1597141720
ISBN-13: 9781597141727
Ken and Melanie Light have embarked on a photographic and literary exploration of a region known for its agricultural plenty--and the marginalization of its people. In Valley of Shadows and Dreams they dig deep into the harsh truths of farm workers’ daily experience, revealing a deep sense of anger and betrayal toward the destructive legacies of politics, bureaucracy, and control. The Lights show us once-viable farmland transformed into neighborhoods full of empty tract homes that no workers can afford. We are confonted head-on with the devastating results of foreclosure. We stand in
Authors:Suzanne Donovan, Ken Light, Ken Light,
Publisher: Univ Pr Of Mississippi (Trd)
Keywords: row, death, texas
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1997-05
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0878059504
ISBN-13: 9780878059508
Ken Light and his camera were permitted unparalleled access to Texas Death Row. His stark, powerful images show where and how the condemned live. In the year he took these pictures, fourteen men were executed in Texas. Suzanne Donovan’s accompanying essay, "Shadow Figures: A Portrait of Life on the Row," draws upon her interviews with the condemned men and with prison authorities, family members, and members of victims’ families Whoever opens this book will want to look away, for the pictures and words force us to gaze intimately into the eye of death. Since 1976, when the U. S
