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A very well organized, detailed and structured guide to drawing the human anatomy. At this point it's way above my skill level, but this would be an excellent way to fill sketchbooks with figure studies for a serious student.

This is something of a Lightroom workbook. Duchemin begins with an excellent intro to his photographic/educational theme: Vision. Everything he publishes relates to Vision, and it is all helpful. This book begins with that summary, and then has an overview of Duchemin's postprocessing process in Adobe Lightroom. It's not an exhaustive how to, but a reflection from Duchemin's own style. Finally, Duchemin walks us through his postprocessing on 20 of his own images, step by step, and telling us why he chose to do what he did - all in pursuit of his photographic vision. I believe the book gives you access to those raw images so that you can follow along also, but I borrowed mine from the local library so I can't tell you that for sure.

All in all, I learned a few new tricks in Lightroom that I can use to craft my own photo vision.

An unbelievably complete look at anybody who was anybody in 60s-70s music. Boyd clearly had unfettered access to music's giants and shot them well live or not performing.

Photojournalists on War is a series of interviews and photos from 39 photojournalists who covered the American war in Iraq. The interviews are unvarnished, and as a result powerful. PJs discuss their frustration with the American public's lack of interest in the war as it passed its first few years, and they discuss the changing nature of journalism and news outlets in the past decade. PJs from other countries discuss their perspective on American citizens' war-weariness. And the role of the war photographer is described in realistic, haunting detail.

This is a very important book for anyone interested in American culture, photography, journalism or photojournalism. Or, modern warfare.