THE GREATS are RIGHT HERE!

  1968 Magnum Throughout the World
by Eric Hobsbawm Marc Weitzmann
 

• Flash! The Associated Press Covers the World; Vincent Alabiso(Editor), et al
• Magnum : Fifty Years at the Front Line of History; Russell Miller
• Black Star : 60 Years of Photojournalism/English, French, & German; Hendrik Neubauer
• Israel, 50 Years : As Seen by Magnum Photographers; Magnum Photos

 Icons of Photography : The 20th Century
by Peter Stepan (Editor)

 Faces of the Twentieth Century : Master Photographers and Their Work
by Mark Edward Harris
   

   A Great  Present - To yourself or to a real friend!

An American Century of Photography - From Dry-Plate to Digital - The Hallmark Photographic Collection

Also consider

• An American Century of Photography : From Dry-Plate to Digital : The Hallmark Photographic Collection; Hallmark Photographic Collection(Photographer), et al
• Propaganda and Dreams: Photographing the 1930s in the USSR and the US; Leah Bendavid-Val(Editor), et al
• Brooklyn Gang : Summer 1959; Bruce Davidson
• Faces of the Twentieth Century : Master Photographers and Their Work; Mark Edward Harris
•  Miguel Rio Branco; Miguel Rio Branco, et al
• Veronica's Revenge : Contemporary Perspectives on Photography; Elizabeth Janus(Editor), et al
• Heart of Spain : Robert Capa's Photographs of the Spanish Civil War; Robert Capa(Photographer), et al
• Let Truth Be the Prejudice : W. Eugene Smith His Life and Photographs; Eugene W. Smith, et al
• Margaret Bourke-White, Photographer : Photographer; Margaret Bourke-White(Photographer), et al
• Imogen Cunningham : Portraiture; Imogen Cunningham(Photographer), et al
• Paul Strand : Circa 1916; Maria Morris Hambourg

Thinking about storing and manipulating the images electronically?

THE FUTURE IS IN IMAGE COMPRESSION   ... 

 Compressed Image File Formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF, XBM, BMP  

Review:  This comprehensive reference on the major graphics file formats and the compression technologies they employ is an indispensable resource for graphics programmers, especially those developing graphical applications for the Web.

Compressed Image File Formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF, XBM, BMP examines the most common graphics file formats in detail and demonstrates how to encode and decode image files for each. In particular, this book offers in-depth coverage of the elaborate JPEG and newer PNG formats, providing clear explanations of complex concepts, experience-based practical techniques, and plentiful code examples. GIF, XBM, and BMP are also covered, with a focus on some of the less familiar and less well-documented features of these common file formats.

  topics  included:

* Compression technologies that each file format utilizes
* Color models employed by each file format
* The advantages and disadvantages of each file format
* Huffman Coding
* LZW Compression
* Deflate/Inflate
* Progressive JPEG
* The Discrete Cosine Transform
* Animated GIF

The accompanying CD-ROM contains the complete source code for all of the image formats covered in the book, as well as working examples and sample images. If you want to learn how to read and write graphic file formats for the Web--including PNG and JPEG files--there is no better resource than this book. 

• PNG: The Definitive Guide; Greg Roelofs
• A Simplified Approach to Image Processing : Classical and Modern Techniques in C (Hewlett-Packard Professional Books); Randy Crane
• Agp System Architecture (PC System Architecture Series); Dave Dzatko, et al
• Image Processing in Java; Douglas A. Lyon, Douglas A. Lyons

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