Books with author Percy Fitzgerald

Look at a ‘great’ photo – that is, a photo by one of the many great photographers. Rotate it 90 degrees (either way). Are you seeing new things / new aspects / a different story in the photo? Almost certainly the answer is ‘yes’; the photo is showing you something you hadn’t registered before. The message has changed – unsurprisingly – between the physical thing and you.So what’s happening?If photography is important to you, then I believe this twisting of the photo-to-person space has to be explored (by you). And by extension, understanding what is happening in rotated photographs may tell us a great deal about what happens, between the image and you, in ‘normal’, unrotated ones. We gain an insight too into visual artefacts – the visual arts and beyond – more generally.This simple idea of rotation is illustrated here with the help of 60 stunning portrait photographs. You'll discover works by some giants of photography, Dorothea Lange, Julia Margaret Cameron, and Walker Evans among them. Or – if you know these photographers already – you'll discover whole new ways of looking at their work. Give it a go – discover that you can see photography differently.____Peter FitzGerald is an artist, web developer, and former editor of Circa Art Magazine; he holds a doctorate in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford, and a degree in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin.

Look at a ‘great’ photo – that is, a photo by one of the many great photographers. Rotate it 90 degrees (either way). Are you seeing new things / new aspects / a different story in the photo? Almost certainly the answer is ‘yes’; the photo is showing you something you hadn’t registered before. The message has changed – unsurprisingly – between the physical thing and you.So what’s happening?If photography is important to you, then I believe this twisting of the photo-to-person space has to be explored (by you). And by extension, understanding what is happening in rotated photographs may tell us a great deal about what happens, between the image and you, in ‘normal’, unrotated ones. We gain an insight too into visual artefacts – the visual arts and beyond – more generally.This simple idea of rotation is illustrated here with the help of 60 stunning landscape photographs. You'll discover works by some giants of photography, Ansel Adams among them. Or – if you know these photographers already – you'll discover whole new ways of looking at their work. Give it a go – discover that you can see photography differently.____Peter FitzGerald is an artist, web developer, and former editor of Circa Art Magazine; he holds a doctorate in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford, and a degree in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin.

Look at a ‘great’ photo – that is, a photo by one of the many great photographers. Rotate it 90 degrees (either way). Are you seeing new things / new aspects / a different story in the photo? Almost certainly the answer is ‘yes’; the photo is showing you something you hadn’t registered before. The message has changed – unsurprisingly – between the physical thing and you.So what’s happening?If photography is important to you, then I believe this twisting of the photo-to-person space has to be explored (by you). And by extension, understanding what is happening in rotated photographs may tell us a great deal about what happens, between the image and you, in ‘normal’, unrotated ones. We gain an insight too into visual artefacts – the visual arts and beyond – more generally.This simple idea of rotation is illustrated here with the help of 60 stunning photographs of our built environments. You'll discover works by some giants of photography, Ansel Adams, Gertrude Käsebier, Edward Weston, Berenice Abbott, Alfred Stieglitz among them. Or – if you know these photographers already – you'll discover whole new ways of looking at their work. Give it a go – discover that you can see photography differently.____Peter FitzGerald is an artist, web developer, and former editor of Circa Art Magazine; he holds a doctorate in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford, and a degree in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin.

Nukes ended most of society. Now all that’s left is taxes.Arthur McDowell works for the most indestructible employer left in post-apocalyptic America: the IRS. Safe and sound inside a government bunker, Arthur is proud to be just another drone. But for an ambitious man (and excellent typist) such as Arthur, a promotion to supervisor is just around the corner. Arthur’s world flips when instead of a becoming supervisor, the brass makes him a census-taker. His task: to head out into the irradiated streets armed with paperwork and red tape. Assigned to him is a drug-addicted bodyguard, Rabia Duke, who could care less if they survive. All’s well at first, but after Arthur is confronted by a warlord, he realizes that the only thing that can save them all is a massive audit. Because even above radiation, roving gangs, and starvation, what the world should fear the most remains bureaucracy. A happy bureaucracy.Brazil by way of Mad Max, M.P. Fitzgerald’s A Happy Bureaucracy is a bleak and hilarious look at the wheels of a system that keep turning even when nothing else is left. Get your copy today!

Written between 1920 and 1937, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was at the height of his creative powers, these ten lyric tales represent some of the author's finest fiction. In them, Fitzgerald creates vivid, timeless characters -- a dissatisfied southern belle seeking adventure in the north; the tragic hero of the title story who lost more than money in the stock market; giddy and dissipated young men and women of the interwar period. From the lazy town of Tarleton, Georgia, to the glittering cosmopolitan centers of New York and Paris, Fitzgerald brings the society of the "Lost Generation" to life in these masterfully crafted gems, showcasing the many gifts of one of our most popular writers.

One of the masterworks of 20th-century literature, The Great Gatsby is a novel of Jazz Age romance and the dark side of the American Dream that has been beloved for generations. Because of multiple revisions and the tight production schedule, the text of the first edition did not appear as Fitzgerald had intended. Now noted Fitzgerald biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli has produced the critical, accurate edition.