Jim Cornfield

Environmental Portraiture (eBook, ePUB)

A Complete Guide to the Portrait Photographer's Most Powerful Imaging Tool

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This unique book is a photographer's guide to the powerful medium of the environmental portrait. It explores in lucid detail the many "moving parts" of this imaging style, including the techniques and creative processes that drive some of this genre's finest contemporary practitioners.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317386476
• Artikelnr.: 58131209

Autorenporträt

Jim Cornfield is a freelance journalist, editor, travel writer, and veteran commercial photographer, based in Malibu Canyon, CA. His adventure and eco-travel articles, covering destinations from Israel, India, Costa Rica, Spain, and Italy to Honduras, the Cayman Islands, and Portugal, are widely published in magazines, including Scientific American, AARP Magazine, Sport Diver, Scuba Diving, and Continental Air Lines Magazine. His articles on photography and photo technique regularly appear in New York-based Rangefinder for which he is a columnist and contributing writer. Over a career that spans nearly 40 years, Jim Cornfield has been Feature Editor of Petersen's PhotoGraphic Magazine, Director of Photography for inflight magazine publisher East/West Network, and he was co-creator of the acclaimed book series, Masters of Contemporary Photography. His photographs are showcased in advertisements and corporate publications worldwide, for a clientele that includes NBC, CBS, Disney, Paramount Pictures, Tribune Broadcasting, Hewlett-Packard, Dole, AIG, Occidental Petroleum, and a gamut of periodicals including Reader's Digest, TV Guide, Los Angeles Magazine, Popular Photography and Oui. Cornfield is the author of five books and an experienced film and video director, having created many television commercials for his broadcasting clients. A native of Chicago, he was raised in suburban Los Angeles, graduated from UCLA and served four years as a commissioned officer in the US Air Force.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Foreword by Jacqueline Tobin
Preface: Beyond The Mask
Introduction
Part I: Fundamentals
Chapter One: Discovering the Environmental Portrait-A Memoir
Chapter Two: Portraiture and the Invisible Thread
Chapter Three: Deconstructing the Environmental Portrait, Phase One: A Look
Backward
Chapter Four: Deconstructing the Environmental Portrait, Phase Two: In The
Here And Now
Chapter Five: Executing the Environmental Portrait: The Opening Gambit
Part II: The Environmental Portrait In The Real World
Study Models: Ways to Actualize the Environmental Portrait
"The Four T's": A Template-a Guide for Organizing and Creating Serious
Environmental Portraiture
* The Tale
* The Task
* The Tactics
* The Tools
Chapter Six: Study Model
* The Four T's At Work
* Professor Steve Mayo and the Ethos of a Great University
Chapter Seven: Study Model
* Kid Thomas on The Vieux Carré
Chapter Eight: Study Model
* Tony Costanza in the Lair of The Rat Pack
* The Bartender Project
Chapter Nine: Study Model:
* Craig Calfee and the Bamboo Bicycle
Chapter Ten: Study Model
* Albert Lee, Country Music's Most Famous Unknown Artist
Chapter Eleven: Study Model:
* Capt. Curry and the Saga of Aqua 2
Part III: Masters Of The Environmental Portrait - An Annotated Portfolio
Introduction to Part III
Chapter Twelve: Portraitcraft
* Michael Grecco
Chapter Thirteen: Community
* Phil Borges
* Rania Matar
* Tom Atwood
Chapter Fourteen: Interactions
* Eric Myer
Chapter Fifteen: The Art Of Improvising
* Al Satterwhite
Chapter Sixteen: The Fictive Persona
* Larry Schiller
* Michael Wilson
Chapter Seventeen: Dr. Light
* Lou Jones
Chapter Eighteen: The Gold Standard
* Joe McNally
* Cathy Church and the Total Immersion Environmental Portrait
A Parting Word: On Newman, Self-Confidence, and the Critics in The Room
Next Door
Index