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Great Courses. National Geographic. With Fundamentals of Photography, you’ll learn everything you need to know about the art and craft of great photography straight from Joel Sartore, a National Geographer photographer with more than 30 years of experience. Designed for people at all levels, these 24 episodes are an engaging guide to how photographs work and how to make them work better for you.

 

 

Pressing On: The Letterpress Film: Wood and metal letters pressed into paper laid the foundation for the modern world. Once essential to communication, letterpress printing unexpectedly thrives in our digital age. PRESSING ON is required viewing for design centered audiences, advertising and type nerds, history buffs and documentary lovers.

 

 

Great Courses:  How to Draw: Drawing is one of humanity’s oldest forms of expression, with existing examples dating back an astonishing 80,000 years or more. Older than written language by tens of thousands of years, drawing developed across millennia, forming the base of many of the world’s artistic traditions.

 

 

Marketing your Work:  Even if you have an agent, you're still responsible for some aspects of marketing. Mr. Bell introduces you to the most important marketing tools. Get tips on selecting a marketable title, creating taglines, finding customers, using social media, building a website, using emails and newsletters, and knowing which self-publishing tools are worth the investment

 

 

The Arts in the Digital Era: In the digital age, who decides which art is of the best quality? Or rather, who builds the algorithms that decide? In a time of almost infinite choices, is there greater or lesser opportunity for unknown artists to put their work out there? And how has technology affected the artist's ability to learn deliberatively and experiment with all options?

 

Public Domain Image Resources 

These resources are openly available for reuse, without copyright restriction.  

Press Collections

Press collection photos are official photographs that have been authorized by the copyright holder for publication in a newspaper, magazine, or other media outlet and often hold historical value.