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Studio Portrait Photography of Children and Babies
Photographing children and babies constitutes a large portion of the business in most portrait studios. Working with young children who are nervous or uncooperative can present a formidable challenge for the photographer. Beginning with infants, this book discusses the specific details of photographing children at every stage of growth, addressing age-specific psychology and attention spans. Technical information on posing and lighting, including props, backgrounds, low- and high-key lighting, and special effects, is supplemented with advice on making children comfortable and cooperative. Special attention is given to how sights and sounds will soothe a baby and get his or her attention for the best portrait.
Naked Babies
In Naked Babies, Nick Kelsh and Anna Quindlen collaborate to produce a unique view of babies—one that owes nothing to tradition, sentimentality, or the cult of the cute. Unlike traditional baby photographs, Nick Kelsh’s amazing black-and-white pictures focus on specific aspects of babies—the perfection of a hand, the swirls of a cowlick, the smoothness of skin on the neck—and all are honest, exquisite, and invitingly tactile.
Anna Quindlen’s essays are as graceful, snappy, perceptive, and personal as anything she has ever written. They muse on what it is about babies that causes our hearts to crinkle and fold: “The meaning of life is in them.â€
You’ll share some of the things that Quindlen has learned as a mother, such as: “From time to time, I would lie on the floor with my babies to see exactly what they were seeing when it looked as though they were just wasting time†and . . . “The next time you’re sitting in a meeting after three cups of coffee, badly needing to go to the bathroom but instead doodling dutifully, crossing your legs and watching the clock, remember that if you were a baby, you would have gone by now, and no one would be the wiser.â€
       Kelsh’s photographs and Quindlen’s text complement each other perfectly. Two masters of their craft have created an unusual meditation and wondrous book—a totally original gift for every parent or parent-to-be.
Anyone who has ever witnessed a baby escape from his mother’s arms–sans clothing–and run wildly, or crawl as the case may be, about the house in what can only be described as a euphoric state knows that babies are really at their best when they’re naked. No bonnets or booties to hold them in–just pure, blissful nakedness. In Naked Babies author Anna Quindlen and photographer Nick Kelsh expertly record this unique time in childhood when modesty means nothing at all. Quindlen’s perceptive and personal essays are remarkable musings on motherhood and the amazing little miracles that babies are, while Kelsh’s photographs are, well, amazing little miracles in their own right. Shot entirely in black-and-white, these are not cutesy, sentimental, or traditional photographs. Rather, Kelsh captures “specific aspects of babies–the perfection of a hand, the swirls of a cowlick, the smoothness of skin on the neck–and all are honest, exquisite, and invitingly tactile.” Both “an unusual meditation and a wondrous book,” Naked Babies is the perfect gift for the parent or the parent-to-be.
Baby Unique
Baby Unique celebrates babyhood in words and pictures. This is a book full of luminous photographs of babies – from the joy of the newborn to the fascination of an unfolding personality. Quotes from new parents and well-known figures are interspersed throughout. Baby Unique is a glorious must-have gift book for mothers-to-be, dads-to-be, and all who are anxiously awaiting or celebrating a unique arrival of their own!