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Museum and Gallery Studies The Basics

Museum and Gallery Studies The Basics

Museum and Gallery Studies: The Basics is an accessible guide for the student approaching Museum and Gallery Studies for the first time. Taking a global view it covers the key ideas approaches and contentious issues in the field. Balancing theory and practice the book address important questions such as: What are museums and galleries? Who decides which kinds of objects are worthy of collection? How are museums and galleries funded? What ethical concerns do practitioners need to consider? How is the field of Museum and Gallery Studies developing? This user-friendly text is an essential read for anyone wishing to work within museums and galleries or seeking to understand academic debates in the field. | Museum and Gallery Studies The Basics

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Museum and Gallery Publishing From Theory to Case Study

Museum and Gallery Publishing From Theory to Case Study

Museum and Gallery Publishing examines the theory and practice of general and scholarly publishing associated with museum and art gallery collections. Focusing on the production and reception of these texts the book explains the relevance of publishing to the cultural commercial and social contexts of collections and their institutions. Combining theory with case studies from around the world Sarah Anne Hughes explores how why and to what effect museums and galleries publish books. Covering a broad range of publishing formats and organisations including heritage sites libraries and temporary exhibitions the book argues that the production and consumption of printed media within the context of collecting institutions occupies a unique and privileged role in the creation and communication of knowledge. Acknowledging that books offer functions beyond communication Hughes argues that this places books published by museums in a unique relationship to institutions with staff acting as producers and visitors as consumers. The logistical and ethical dimensions of museum and gallery publishing are also examined in depth including consideration of issues such as production the impact of digital technologies funding and sponsorship marketing co-publishing rights and curators’ and artists’ agency. Focusing on an important but hitherto neglected topic Museum and Gallery Publishing is key reading for researchers in the fields of museum heritage art and publishing studies. It will also be of interest to curators and other practitioners working in museums heritage and science centres and art galleries. | Museum and Gallery Publishing From Theory to Case Study

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The Future of Museum and Gallery Design Purpose Process Perception

The Future of Museum and Gallery Design Purpose Process Perception

The Future of Museum and Gallery Design explores new research and practice in museum design. Placing a specific emphasis on social responsibility in its broadest sense the book emphasises the need for a greater understanding of the impact of museum design in the experiences of visitors in the manifestation of the vision and values of museums and galleries and in the shaping of civic spaces for culture in our shared social world. The chapters included in the book propose a number of innovative approaches to museum design and museum-design research. Collectively contributors plead for more open and creative ways of making museums and ask that museums recognize design as a resource to be harnessed towards a form of museum-making that is culturally located and makes a significant contribution to our personal social environmental and economic sustainability. Such an approach demands new ways of conceptualizing museum and gallery design new ways of acknowledging the potential of design and new experimental and research-led approaches to the shaping of cultural institutions internationally. The Future of Museum and Gallery Design should be of great interest to academics and postgraduate students in the fields of museum studies gallery studies and heritage studies as well as architecture and design who are interested in understanding more about design as a resource in museums. It should also be of great interest to museum and design practitioners and museum leaders. | The Future of Museum and Gallery Design Purpose Process Perception

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Routledge Revivals: A Failed Strategy (1993) The Offshore Oil Industry's Development of the Outer Contintental Shelf

Routledge Revivals: A Failed Strategy (1993) The Offshore Oil Industry's Development of the Outer Contintental Shelf

First published in 1993 this book traces and analyses the changing policies of American offshore oil companies concerning the exploration and development of the Outer Continental Shelf in the period from 1970 to 1976 — covering environmental legislation the oil embargo presidential initiatives and proposed international laws. Where previous studies concerning the Outer Continental Shelf had only examined broad policy issues on an international level this study focuses on those American offshore companies who were major actors in ocean affairs especially in the exploration and development of the region. | Routledge Revivals: A Failed Strategy (1993) The Offshore Oil Industry's Development of the Outer Contintental Shelf

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New Museum Design

New Museum Design

New Museum Design provides a critical and compelling selective survey of contemporary international museum design since 2010. It provides an accessible and analytic review of the architectural landscape of museum and gallery design in the 2010s. The book comprises twelve case study museum and gallery projects from across Europe Asia North America Africa the Middle East and Australia. Each built example is interrogated through an essay and a series of beautiful supporting illustrations and drawings. Where appropriate architectural analysis is cross-scale extending from consideration of the artefact’s encounter with museum space at the most intimate scale through detailed architectural readings to the wider perspective of urban/landscape response. Similarly the book is not confined in its thematic or architectural ‘typological’ scope including museums and art galleries as well as remodellings extensions and new build examples. New Museum Design provides a critical snapshot of contemporary international museum architecture in order to: better understand reasons for the state of current practice; reveal and explore on-going themes and approaches in the field; and to point towards seminal future design directions. This book is essential reading for any student or professional interested in museum design.

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Museums and the Climate Crisis

Museums and the Climate Crisis

Museums and the Climate Crisis shows how museums can respond to the interrelated global climate biodiversity and pollution crises. They have a unique role because they take a long-term perspective and their scholarship and independence mean that they remain trusted by the public. Providing insights and international case studies from a range of museum and gallery professionals academics and consultants this book explores how museums can use this unique perspective to engage the public as active citizens and how they are exemplars of good practice in areas such as emissions reduction and encouraging biodiversity. It shows how museums can combat climate exhaustion by drawing on understandings about positive motivation and how to develop exhibitions events and activities that motivate visitors to take action. Taking a broad approach beyond purely climate issues the contributions touch on the use of renewables environmental controls and standards travel (including virtual couriering) waste management (including recycling plastic reduction and composting) reducing pollution and increasing biodiversity within museums. Museums and the Climate Crisis will be important reading to those studying in the fields of Museum Studies Heritage Studies and Conservation. Taking a practical approach it will also be beneficial to museum gallery and heritage professionals who are grappling with the challenges of the climate crisis.

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American Pop Art in France Politics of the Transatlantic Image

American Pop Art in France Politics of the Transatlantic Image

Pop art was essential to the Americanization of global art in the 1960s yet it engendered resistance and adaptation abroad in equal measure especially in Paris. From the end of the Algerian War of Independence and the opening of Ileana Sonnabend’s gallery for American Pop art in Paris in 1962 to the silkscreen poster workshops of May ’68 this book examines critical adaptations of Pop motifs and pictorial devices across French painting graphic design cinema and protest aesthetics. Liam Considine argues that the transatlantic dispersion of Pop art gave rise to a new politics of the image that challenged Americanization and prefigured the critiques and contradictions of May ’68. | American Pop Art in France Politics of the Transatlantic Image

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Roger Hilton

Roger Hilton

This title was first published in 2003. Twenty-seven years after his death Roger Hilton's reputation as a leading figure in British 'abstract expressionism' continues to rise. Following the major retrospective exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in 1993 and the drawings survey at the Tate St Ives in 1997 this lavishly illustrated account is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of the life and work of this important artist. Hilton's extraordinary career is discussed in all its phases from the intriguing earliest explorations in paint to the inception of his first abstract pieces around 1950 and the complex and intriguing interchanges of imagery and form that mark his final works. Adrian Lewis explains the artist's mature works as both attracting the viewer and resisting easy reading and discusses in detail the artist's debt to the Ecole de Paris and his relation to the notion of the 'act of painting' that pervaded post-war culture.

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The Business of Fine Art Photography Art Markets Galleries Museums Grant Writing Conceiving and Marketing Your Work Globally

The Business of Fine Art Photography Art Markets Galleries Museums Grant Writing Conceiving and Marketing Your Work Globally

This guide for aspiring and exhibiting photographers alike combines practice and concept to provide a roadmap to navigating and succeeding in the fine art photography marketplace locally domestically and internationally. Join former New York gallery owner international curator and fine art photographer Thomas Werner as he shares his experiences and insights from leading curators gallerists collectors auctioneers exhibiting photographic artists and more. Learn how to identify realistic goals maximize results work with galleries and museums write grants develop strong nuanced imagery and build a professional practice in a continually evolving field. Featuring dozens of photographs from international practitioners and a robust set of resources this book will ensure you have the tools to give you the opportunity for success in any marketplace. Whether you are a student aspiring photographic or video artist or a photographer changing careers The Business of Fine Art Photography is your guide to starting and growing your own practice. | The Business of Fine Art Photography Art Markets Galleries Museums Grant Writing Conceiving and Marketing Your Work Globally

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Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing A Complete Guide to the Medium

Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing A Complete Guide to the Medium

Silverpoint and metalpoint more generally is the practice of marking with soft metal on a specifically prepared drawing surface. Practiced for centuries the artform is experiencing a resurgence in recent years with contemporary work exploring abstract as well as realist conceptual as well as traditional. Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing is the essential manual of metalpoint technique written by Susan Schwalb and Tom Mazzullo contemporary masters of the medium. This book is the first treatise on the subject for artists and art teachers with chapters on early history materials including grounds supports metals and tools techniques for working in metalpoint as well as mixed media and finally the care of metalpoint works. Not only beautifully illustrated this book also demonstrates how to photograph and exhibit metalpoint art. Featuring a gallery of drawings by contemporary artists along with their tips and insight Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing is a perfect introduction for students of the medium and an inspiration for those already more familiar with it. | Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing A Complete Guide to the Medium

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Museums and Design for Creative Lives

Museums and Design for Creative Lives

Museums and Design for Creative Lives questions what we sacrifice when we allow economic imperatives to shape public museums whilst also considering the implications of these new museum realities. It also asks: how might we instead design for creative lives? Drawing together 28 case studies of museum design spanning 70 years the book explores the spatial and social forms that comprise these successful examples as well as the design methodologies through which they were produced. Re-activating a well-trodden history of progressive museum design and raising awareness of the involvement of the built forms in how we feel think and act MacLeod provides strategies and methods to actively counter the economisation of museums and a call to museum makers to work beyond the economic and advance this deeply human history of museum making. Museums and Design for Creative Lives will be of great interest to academics and students in museum studies gallery studies heritage studies arts management communication and architecture and design departments as well as those interested in understanding more about design as a resource in museums. The book provides a valuable resource for museum leaders and practitioners.

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New Work New Workspace Innovative design in a connected world

New Work New Workspace Innovative design in a connected world

Does it matter where and how we work any more? Increasingly many of us can work anywhere so what is the meaning of the dedicated workspace? With 30 detailed case studies of all kinds of workspaces – from traditional workspaces to writer’s sheds and studios – this book argues that a specific place to work is still needed but that the kind of space is changing fast. As social interaction is favoured over places to toil and as millennials and Generation X take a very different attitude to work than their predecessors being more concerned with completing tasks than presenteeism so the needs of design change. There are increasing metrics for measuring the effectiveness of workspace and they show that good design – design that is focused on the environment and wellbeing that the workforce needs – is valued. At the same time there are more generic spaces such as co-working spaces that have to fit all – or at least all of the target community. Case studies include: 80 Atlantic Avenue Toronto Nick Veasey studio and gallery Kent Kostner House Italy GS1 Lisbon. | New Work New Workspace Innovative design in a connected world

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Delicious Decadence – The Rediscovery of French Eighteenth-Century Painting in the Nineteenth Century

Delicious Decadence – The Rediscovery of French Eighteenth-Century Painting in the Nineteenth Century

The history of collecting is a topic of central importance to many academic disciplines and shows no sign of abating in popularity. As such scholars will welcome this collection of essays by internationally recognised experts that gathers together for the first time varied and stimulating perspectives on the nineteenth-century collector and art market for French eighteenth-century art and ultimately the formation of collections that form part of such august institutions as the Louvre and the National Gallery in London. The book is the culmination of a successful conference organised jointly between the Wallace Collection and the Louvre on the occasion of the acclaimed exhibition Masterpieces from the Louvre: The Collection of Louis La Caze. Exploring themes relating to collectors critics markets and museums from France England and Germany the volume will appeal to academics and students alike and become essential reading on any course that deals with the history of collecting the history of taste and the nineteenth-century craze for the perceived douceur de vivre of eighteenth-century France. It also provides valuable insight into the history of the art markets and the formation of museums. | Delicious Decadence – The Rediscovery of French Eighteenth-Century Painting in the Nineteenth Century

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Curious Lessons in the Museum The Pedagogic Potential of Artists' Interventions

Curious Lessons in the Museum The Pedagogic Potential of Artists' Interventions

Amongst recent contemporary art and museological publications there have been relatively few which direct attention to the distinct contributions that twentieth and twenty-first century artists have made to gallery and museum interpretation practices. There are fewer still that recognise the pedagogic potential of interventionist artworks in galleries and museums. This book fills that gap and demonstrates how artists have been making curious but none-the-less useful contributions to museum education and curation for some time. Claire Robins investigates in depth the phenomenon of artists' interventions in museums and examines their pedagogic implications. She also brings to light and seeks to resolve many of the contradictions surrounding artists' interventions where on the one hand contemporary artists have been accused of alienating audiences and on the other appear to have played a significant role in orchestrating positive developments to the way that learning is defined and configured in museums. She examines the disruptive and parodic strategies that artists have employed and argues for that they can be understood as part of a move to re-establish the museum as a discursive forum. This valuable book will be essential reading for students and scholars of museum studies as well as art and cultural studies. | Curious Lessons in the Museum The Pedagogic Potential of Artists' Interventions

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Science Librarianship at America's Liberal Arts Colleges Working Librarians Tell Their Stories

Science Librarianship at America's Liberal Arts Colleges Working Librarians Tell Their Stories

In this book first published in 1992 science librarians analyse the life and times of small liberal arts college science libraries and the workday life of librarians serving scientists from a main campus library. They describe their efforts to defend expensive science collections in the face of tight budgets to singlehandedly monitor and select literature in all areas from astronomy through zoology and to compete with the humanities and social studies for library shelf space. | Science Librarianship at America's Liberal Arts Colleges Working Librarians Tell Their Stories

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Feminist Perspectives on Art Contemporary Outtakes

Feminist Perspectives on Art Contemporary Outtakes

When the body is foregrounded in artwork – as in much contemporary performance sculptural installation and video work – so is gendered and sexualised difference. Feminist Perspectives on Art: Contemporary Outtakes looks to interactions between art history theory curation and studio-based practices to theorise the phenomenological import of this embodied gender difference in contemporary art. The essays in this collection are rooted in a wide variety of disciplines including art-making curating and art history and criticism with many of the authors combining roles of curator artist and writer. This interdisciplinary approach enables the book to bridge the theory–practice divide and highlight new perspectives emerging from creative arts research. Fresh insights are offered on feminist aesthetics women’s embodied experience curatorial and art historical method art world equity and intersectional concerns. It engages with epistemological assertions of ‘how the body feels’ how the land has creative agency in Indigenous art and how the use of emotional or affective registers may form one’s curatorial method. This anthology represents a significant contribution to a broader resurgence of feminist thought methodology and action in contemporary art particularly in creative practice research. It will be of particular value to students and researchers in art history visual culture cultural studies and gender studies in addition to museum and gallery professionals specialising in contemporary art. | Feminist Perspectives on Art Contemporary Outtakes

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Renaissance Porticoes and Painted Pergolas Nature and Culture in Early Modern Italy

Renaissance Porticoes and Painted Pergolas Nature and Culture in Early Modern Italy

This book is the first study of the portico and its decorative program as a cultural phenomenon in Renaissance Italy. Focusing on a largely neglected group of porticoes decorated with painted pergolas that appeared in Rome and environs in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries it tells the story of how an element of the garden—the pergola—became a pictorial topos in portico decoration and evolved hand in hand with its real cousin in the garden into an object for cultural emulation among the educated patrons of early modern Rome. The liminality of both the portico and the pergola at the interface of architecture and garden is key to the interpretation of these architectural and painted forms which rests on the intersecting frameworks of the classical tradition natural history and the cultural identity of the aristocracy. In the mediating space of the Renaissance portico the illusionism pergola created an art gallery a natural history museum and a virtual garden where one could engage in leisurely strolls learned conversations appreciation of art and scientific investigation as well as extensive travel across time and space. The book proposes the interpretation that the illusionistic pergola was an artistic formula for the early modern perception of nature. | Renaissance Porticoes and Painted Pergolas Nature and Culture in Early Modern Italy

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Museums and Societal Collapse The Museum as Lifeboat

Museums and Societal Collapse The Museum as Lifeboat

Museums and Societal Collapse explores the implications of societal collapse from a multidisciplinary perspective and considers the potential museums have to contribute to the reimagining and transitioning of a new society with the threat of collapse. Arguing that societal collapse is underway but that total collapse is not inevitable Janes maintains that museums are well-positioned to mitigate and adapt to the disruptions of societal collapse. As institutions of the commons belonging to and affecting the public at large he contends that museums are both responsible and capable of contributing to the durability and well-being of individuals families and communities and enhancing societal resilience in the face of critical issues confronting our species. Within the pages of this groundbreaking book Janes demonstrates how museums and their staff as key civic resources with ethical responsibilities can examine the meaning and value of their work how that work is organized and managed and to what end. This is a call to action demonstrating how museums can move the conversation about collapse into society at large. Museums and Societal Collapse will be essential reading for museum professionals working in museums and galleries as well as for cultural and civil society organizations around the world. It will also be an essential reading for academics and students of Museum and Heritage Studies Gallery Studies Heritage Management and Arts Management. | Museums and Societal Collapse The Museum as Lifeboat

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The Academy of San Carlos and Mexican Art History Politics History and Art in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

The Academy of San Carlos and Mexican Art History Politics History and Art in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

The first substantial Mexican colonial art historiography in English this book examines the origin of the study of colonial art in Mexico as a symptom of the development of modern museum practice in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico City. Also an intellectual history this study recognizes the role of nationalism in the initiation of art historical practice in what is understood today more broadly as Latin America. Although there has been a steady stream of scholarship produced about the subject beginning in Mexico and increasingly in the United States what is variably known as viceregal or colonial Mexican Spanish colonial and colonial Latin American art continues to be underplayed or overlooked by most art historians and is thus marginal in the field of art history. Ray Hernández-Durán redresses that omission presenting a detailed examination of the origin of the study of colonial art in Mexico. Drawing upon archival research this volume touches upon the role of politics on the formation of the first gallery of Mexican painting in the Academy of San Carlos and the first comprehensive historical treatment of the material in the form of a dialogue. Furthermore this study promotes further research in colonial art historiography and underlines the pivotal role that the Indo-Hispanic Americas played in the emergence of early modernity and the process of globalization. | The Academy of San Carlos and Mexican Art History Politics History and Art in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

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Visual Spatial Enquiry Diagrams and Metaphors for Architects and Spatial Thinkers

Visual Spatial Enquiry Diagrams and Metaphors for Architects and Spatial Thinkers

Visual Spatial Enquiry explores visual and textual ways of working within spatial research. Architects and spatial thinkers from the arts social sciences and humanities present rich case studies from remote and regional settings in Australia to the suburbs of Los Angeles and from gallery and university settings to community collaborations in Mongolia. Through these case studies the authors reappraise and reconsider research approaches methods and processes within and across their fields. In spatial research diagramming can be used as a method to synthesise complex concepts into a succinct picture whereas metaphors can add the richness of lived experiences. Drawing on the editors’ own architectural backgrounds this volume is organised into three key themes: seeing doing and making space. In seeing space chapters consider observational research enquiries where developing empathy for the context and topic is as important as gathering concrete data. Doing space explores generative opportunities that inform new and innovative propositions and making space looks at ways to rethink and reshape spatial and relational settings. Through this volume Creagh and McGann invite readers to find their own understandings of the value and practices of neighbouring fields including planning geography ethnography architecture and art. This exploration will be of value to researchers looking to develop their cross-disciplinary literacy and to design practitioners looking to enhance and articulate their research skills. | Visual Spatial Enquiry Diagrams and Metaphors for Architects and Spatial Thinkers

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Museum Educator's Handbook

Museum Educator's Handbook

Described by GEM* as 'a very informative and practical book . worth having on any museum shelf' the Museum Educator's Handbook is a thorough and practical guide to setting up and running education services in all types of museum even the smallest in any geographical setting. This third edition has been comprehensively updated to reflect the increased emphasis on the role of museums at all levels of education from schools to further and higher education. There are new sections which deal with the importance of risk management and quality assurance as well as guidance on the prevalent use of policy documents and new marketing methods. *Group for Education in Museums

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Museum Activism

Museum Activism

Only a decade ago the notion that museums galleries and heritage organisations might engage in activist practice with explicit intent to act upon inequalities injustices and environmental crises was met with scepticism and often derision. Seeking to purposefully bring about social change was viewed by many within and beyond the museum community as inappropriately political and antithetical to fundamental professional values. Today although the idea remains controversial the way we think about the roles and responsibilities of museums as knowledge based social institutions is changing. Museum Activism examines the increasing significance of this activist trend in thinking and practice. At this crucial time in the evolution of museum thinking and practice this ground-breaking volume brings together more than fifty contributors working across six continents to explore analyse and critically reflect upon the museum’s relationship to activism. Including contributions from practitioners artists activists and researchers this wide-ranging examination of new and divergent expressions of the inherent power of museums as forces for good and as activists in civil society aims to encourage further experimentation and enrich the debate in this nascent and uncertain field of museum practice. Museum Activism elucidates the largely untapped potential for museums as key intellectual and civic resources to address inequalities injustice and environmental challenges. This makes the book essential reading for scholars and students of museum and heritage studies gallery studies arts and heritage management and politics. It will be a source of inspiration to museum practitioners and museum leaders around the globe.

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The Complete Guide to Landscape Astrophotography Understanding Planning Creating and Processing Nightscape Images

The Complete Guide to Landscape Astrophotography Understanding Planning Creating and Processing Nightscape Images

The Complete Guide to Landscape Astrophotography is the ultimate manual for anyone looking to create spectacular landscape astrophotography images. By explaining the science of landscape astrophotography in clear and straightforward language it provides insights into phenomena such as the appearance or absence of the Milky Way the moon and constellations. This unique approach which combines the underlying scientific principles of astronomy with those of photography will help deepen your understanding and give you the tools you need to fulfil your artistic vision. Key features include: • Distinguished Guest Gallery of images from renowned nightscape photographers such as Babak Tafreshi Bryan Peterson Alan Dyer Brenda Tharp Royce Bair Wally Pacholka and David Kingham • The twenty-five best landscape astrophotography subjects and how to photograph them • Astronomy 101 - build your knowledge of night sky objects and their motion: the Milky Way moon Aurora Borealis/Australis constellations meteors and comets • Information on state-of-the-art planning software and apps designed to enable you to capture and enhance your landscape astrophotography • Field guide for creating a detailed plan for your night shoot • Description of the best moon phases for specific types of nightscape images and the best months and times of night to see the Milky Way • How-to guide for creating stunning time-lapse videos of the night sky including Holy Grail transitions from pre-sunset to complete darkness • Four detailed case studies on creating landscape astrophotography images of the Milky Way full moon star trails and constellations | The Complete Guide to Landscape Astrophotography Understanding Planning Creating and Processing Nightscape Images

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