The Artist's Complete Guide to Figure Drawing: A Contemporary Perspective on the Classical Tradition

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Really nice book.......2007-07-31

I got this book for my life drawing class and I really like this book. It does not teach anatomy or proportion. It shows the classical way of doing figure drawing and how to do finish rendering. It's more traditional approach and really helpful. I have learned a lot from it.

Good for drawing "live".......2006-07-17

Very usefull, very pleasant to read. I was expecting more explanations about the relationship between anatomy and the human pose, but it's more about how to look at the model to draw it well.

Thank God for an excellent figurative painter!.......2006-03-04

Ryder's book is a delight to leaf through, looking at the excellent life drawings in red earth, done with the same accuracy and passion as the masters of the past.
He gives a very clear account of how to tackle the drawing in phases, until it is finished.
I would have rated the book a solid 5, were it not that in my opinion Ryder spends too little time giving advice on how to measure proportions, which are the basis of a successful life drawing or portrait. He is undoubtedly a masterful draftsman, but the less experienced artist reading his book would expect to be led step by step on such an important aspect of drawing from life.

Excellent, but..........2005-11-05

The general consensus of the reviews I've read is that this is a fine book, but not for beginners. My take is somewhat different.

First of all, I think this is a fine book for a beginner if she or he is not (unlike most beginners it seems) indignant at the idea of having to have exercise patience and concentration.

Anthony Ryder is a fine draftsman and, to judge from this book, a fine teacher as well. He explains his method quite admirably. How others can think otherwise is a mystery to me. As far as I'm concerned, he does an excellent job of combining instruction in mechanical technique with broader insights into the process of drawing. While I have never met him, I find he comes across in this book as quite a likeable person.

I do, however, have a reservation. The author seems to have little understanding of, or at least does not convey, the limitations of the method he teaches.

For accurately conveying the appearance of still subjects in controlled lighting, I think this method is without better.

Many subjects, however, cannot be portrayed accurately using this method. You simply cannot make a good drawing of a living deer or chickadee, for instance, using this framework. Nor can you portray human subjects that are impractical for studio sessions, for instance a battle scene with many people (try paying just one model for 8 hours of posing) and in positions that no model can hold for very long or at all. All the work of A.R. that I have seen is either of inanimate objects or of human models in relatively leisurely poses, and his method reflects that.

Nonetheless, learning to draw accurately from still life is an essential skill for those who want to do realistic work, and this book is an excellent foundation. However, if you want to work with subjects other than lounging models and objects on table tops, you will need to go beyond it.

Figure Drawing.......2005-08-12

Mr. Ryder has compiled wonderful book for the figure drawing beginer that includes many types of drawings and drawing media, from pencil to charcoal to pastels. It is extremely well ilustrated with many great tips for the beginers. This is a book that I highly recomend for those just starting to those are already on their way.

the Artist's Complete Guide to FIGURE DRAWING - a Contemporary Perspective on the Classical Tradition

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Anthony Ryder
Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill Publications
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The first complete narrative history of Civil War photography, this work brings together the remarkable experiences of M.B. Brady, Alexander Gardner, George S. Cook, and other photographers, many of whom had careers stretching back more than two decades to the dawn of American photography in 1839. Step by step throughout the war, American photographers, North and South, advanced their craft to new heights, acting independently, but seemingly as if part of one great team, moved to act by "a spirit in their feet." With their wet plate cameras, they produced many firsts, including the first combat action photographs, the first photo essays of news events as they happened, and the first photos deemed so controversial that they were censored by the federal government. Zeller also examines the impact of photography on average Americans. The American Civil War was extensively photographed, not only to preserve history, but because the leading American photographers realized that they could make a profit by mass marketing the images. Complete with more than 150 illustrations, including previously unpublished Civil War images, as well as all known Civil War battle action photos, this work fills a huge gap in the history of America's greatest conflict. It tells the stories of the men who created the images that students of history know so well, men whose personal legacies became confused by myths and misinformation, were shrouded in obscurity, or have simply not been documented--until now.

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Much More Than a Coffee-Table Book!.......2006-03-20

I thought this book might just be a nice coffee-table book with some good Civil War photos, but it is so much more. While true, the book is filled with great photos, many I had never seen before, THE BLUE AND GRAY IN BLACK AND WHITE: A HISTORY OF CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPHY, by Bob Zeller, is just what the title implies; a photo and written history of Civil War photography.

Zeller, founder and president of the Center of Civil War Photography, has dauntingly researched his subject, and it shows in this book. Of course, Zeller includes the most notable of Civil War photographers, such as Matthew Brady and Alexander Gardner, whose over 1000 images of the war include the first images of war at Antietam and his photos of Gettysburg; however, much of the book chronicles the career of southern photographer, George Smith Cook.

The information on Cook is really a short biography within the pages of the larger work. Although Cook, who was present at Charleston, apparently and sadly missed the opportunity to chronicle the initial engagement with images, many of Cook's accomplishments are highlighted, such as the first photos of prisoners of war taken at Castle Pinkney, his photos of Major Anderson and the destruction at Fort Sumter as well as the ironclads in action.

Not being a photographer, there is a good bit of information here that was foreign to me as far as the early processes of photography. I am sure photographers would gain fruitful knowledge from such information and have a much deeper appreciation for this work, as Zeller's research was obviously painstaking and meticulous.

Monty Rainey
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On the Battle Line with Civil War Photographers.......2005-11-17

The Blue and Gray in Black and White A History of Civil War Photography by Civil War author Bob Zeller has added an exciting new dimension to the history of Civil War photography that will appeal to a broad spectrum of American historians, Civil War enthusiasts, and those who study photography as an art form. With newly discovered photographs and primary sources, Bob Zeller's study has captured the Civil War photographer on the edge and sometimes in the midst of the battlefield pointing his wet plate camera into the thick of battle smoke across the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg, on the sandy beach of Morris Island at Charleston's harbor as the huge Union ironclad, New Ironsides bombarded Confederate forts, and in the shivering cold of Nashville as a General Hood's army met its destruction.
Bob Zeller, author of his high successful The Civil War in Depth Volumes One and Two and president of The Center for Civil War Photography, "a non-profit organization dedicated to the study, presentation, and preservation of Civil War photography" has "walked the walk" in his thorough and exhaustive research of Civil War photographs. He has traveled the breadth of the country visiting private and public photographic and documentary collections in museums, historical societies, personal interviews, and the new digital collection at the Library of Congress. As a reader, I studied his thoroughly academic note section at the back of his study with great satisfaction.
The Blue and Gray in Black and White is the key primer how Civil War photographers such as Captain Andrew J Russell, the Union army's only photographer, Timothy O'Sullivan, George Barnard, and southern photographers George S Cook and J.D. Edwards visually captured on delicate wet plates the most bloody war in our Nation's history. The author weaves an engrossing story of photography as an art form and has also chronciled the industry of photography from its beginnings in late 1839 to the eve of war in 1860. In those twenty one years, we read the personal encounters of "daguerreian artist," Platt Babbitt who captured the "doomed" Joseph Avery clinging to life on a shifting log just above the American Falls on the Niagara River, Roger Fenton who traveled to the Crimea outside the Russian city of Sebastopol as he may have photographed the wisps of artillery smoke from Allied siege guns, and how the Cooper Union photograph of Lincoln had a tremendous national impact.
Bob Zellers story of Civil War Photographers as they applied their craft on the war torn American landscape has set the standard to study the entire history of Civil War photography.
Civil War photographs will no longer be incidental adornments to the pages of history texts. Publishers will have to ensure that historians have carefully dated and researched their photographic views. The author, moreover, carefully researched newly discovered photographs to illustrate the humorous side of the war. We the readers see General George B McClellan's staff drinking about the time President Abraham Lincoln visited the soon to be fired McClellan in October, 1862. In the chapter, Embedded With The Troops, we witness Union soldiers in a tree looking across the Rappahannock River as the smoke of battle rises behind the captured town of Fredericksburg.
The story of Civil War photography is not complete without tracing the perilous journey of the photographs "negatives" through nearly 80 years of American history as well as giving us a personal sense of poignancy to the life changing experiences major personalities of photograhic history have had.
In his first chapter, Bob Zeller tells us how a photographic exhibit in 1840 dramatically changed Edward Anthony's life and how his fascination and love for photography would build the largest photographic supply company in the United States. Bob Zeller completed the circle of life changing experiences how a young boy of nine in 1955, William A.Frassanito, read a Life Magazine article on the Civil War and the article's photograhs ignited all his youthful energies into the study of the photographs of the Civil War. Twenty years later, Frassanito, would write Gettysburg: A Journey in Time that established the academic standard for investigating Civil War photographs as documents of history. The author's tale is not complete until the reader has the opportunity to note the important efforts being made to preserve the images by the digitizing project of the Library of Congress.
It is a great book and I highly recommend it.
John R Kelley
Photographic Historian
Poughkeepsie, NY

The Blue and Gray in Black and White: A History of Civil War Photography.(Book review): An article from: Journal of Southern History

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The Blue and Gray in Black and White: A History of Civil War Photography.(Book review): An article from: Journal of Southern History
Frank H., III Goodyear
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ASIN: B000R4YTF6
Release Date: 2007-05-22

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Title: The Blue and Gray in Black and White: A History of Civil War Photography.(Book review)
Author: Frank H., III Goodyear
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Date: May 1, 2007
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Volume: 73 Issue: 2 Page: 472(2)

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The Blue and Gray in Black and White: A History of Civil War Photography

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The Blue and Gray in Black and White: A History of Civil War Photography
Bob Zeller
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The World's Greatest Marriage Cartoons

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Capire la Finanza: Guida Practica agli Strumenti Finanziari 7a Edizione
Mario; De Bruno, Sandro Gabbrielli
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El peor enemigo de la democracia: la partidocracia: todo lo bueno, en exceso, envenena: eso le esta pasando a la fragil democracia mexicana por la voracidad ... Primer Plano).: An article from: Contenido
Pedro C. Baca , and Ruben C. Navarro
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Release Date: 2006-05-24

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Title: El peor enemigo de la democracia: la partidocracia: todo lo bueno, en exceso, envenena: eso le esta pasando a la fragil democracia mexicana por la voracidad y torpeza de la clase politica. (En Primer Plano).
Author: Pedro C. Baca
Publication: Contenido (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2003
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Financiamiento y nuevas formas de gerencialismo universitario.: An article from: Educación

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Financiamiento y nuevas formas de gerencialismo universitario.: An article from: Educación
Allan Abarca Rodriguez
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Title: Financiamiento y nuevas formas de gerencialismo universitario.
Author: Allan Abarca Rodriguez
Publication: Educación (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2002
Publisher: Universidad de Costa Rica
Volume: 26 Issue: 1 Page: 73(11)

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Finanzas Practicas
Joan Massons , and Ramon Vidal
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Las gangas foxistas.(investigación de supuesta corrupción en venta de fideicomiso a la empresa Construcciones Prácticas): An article from: Proceso

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Las gangas foxistas.(investigación de supuesta corrupción en venta de fideicomiso a la empresa Construcciones Prácticas): An article from: Proceso
Jesusa Cervantes , and Juan Pablo Proal
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Release Date: 2007-06-26

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Title: Las gangas foxistas.(investigación de supuesta corrupción en venta de fideicomiso a la empresa Construcciones Prácticas)
Author: Jesusa Cervantes
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Date: May 13, 2007
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MARC21 y conceptos de economía en las decisiones bibliotecarias.: An article from: Información, Cultura y Sociedad

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MARC21 y conceptos de economía en las decisiones bibliotecarias.: An article from: Información, Cultura y Sociedad
Luis A. Herrera
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ASIN: B000F3UBH4
Release Date: 2006-03-21

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Title: MARC21 y conceptos de economía en las decisiones bibliotecarias.
Author: Luis A. Herrera
Publication: Información, Cultura y Sociedad (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2005
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Practica De Las Finanzas De Empresa,La.
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PRI 2003: ahora o nunca: cuando en el PRI cabia todo Mexico, al partido le bastaba garantizar cierta equidad en el reparto de beneficios para que sus propios ... Institucional ): An article from: Contenido
Fernando Guzman , and Ruben C. Navarro
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ASIN: B0008DAFNG
Release Date: 2006-05-24

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Title: PRI 2003: ahora o nunca: cuando en el PRI cabia todo Mexico, al partido le bastaba garantizar cierta equidad en el reparto de beneficios para que sus propios integrantes lo mantuvieran en el poder. Ahora medio pais se salio del molde: para volver a gobernar tendra que convencer no solo a los de adentro sino tambien a los de afuera. (Reportaje Gigante).(Partido Revolucionario Institucional )
Author: Fernando Guzman
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Date: March 1, 2003
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Vicente Fox: ¿un presidente ilegítimo? (Editorial).: An article from: Siempre!

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Vicente Fox: ¿un presidente ilegítimo? (Editorial).: An article from: Siempre!

Manufacturer: Edicional Siempre
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ASIN: B0009FKKLK
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on March 2, 2003. The length of the article is 938 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Vicente Fox: ¿un presidente ilegítimo? (Editorial).
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: March 2, 2003
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 49 Issue: 2594 Page: 6(2)

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1-2-3 en el mundo de las finanzas: Manual de formulas y de aplicaciones practicas

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1-2-3 en el mundo de las finanzas: Manual de formulas y de aplicaciones practicas
Ron Person
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Empirical measurement of impacts of active labour market programmes has started to become a central task of economic researchers. New improved econometric methods have been developed that will probably influence future empirical work in various other fields of economics as well. This volume contains a selection of original papers from leading experts, among them James J. Heckman, Noble Prize Winner 2000 in economics, addressing these econometric issues at the theoretical and empirical level. The theoretical part contains papers on tight bounds of average treatment effects, instrumental variables estimators, impact measurement with multiple programme options and statistical profiling. The empirical part provides the reader with econometric evaluations of active labour market programmes in Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Slovak Republic and Sweden.

Microeconometric Evaluation of Labour Market Policies (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)

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Microeconometric Evaluation of Labour Market Policies (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)
Marco Caliendo
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The evaluation of labour market and other public policies has become increasingly important in recent years. In an era of tight government budgets, a thorough analysis of these measures is imperative. This book provides a comprehensive overview and assessment of the most relevant microeconometric evaluation methods. It focuses on the popular propensity score matching method and gives extensive guidance for its implementation. In the second part of the book, this method is used to evaluate the employment effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany. Based on a large administrative dataset of over 11,000 participants, the study allows to draw policy-relevant conclusions for the first time.

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