Photography
Subtitle: a crash course
By: Dave Yorath
Publisher: Silverdale Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Leicester [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781856058025
Subjects: Photography; History
Description: This book "is a guided tour of the cameraperson's art, from the beginnings (the camera obscura, the daguerreotype) to the present day (the digital revolution). We follow the photographer through the city streets, the war zone, the fashion studio and the art gallery, always in search of 'the decisive moment'. Focusing as much on the person behind the camera as on the final image, Dave Yorath looks at the conflicts between the photograph as impersonal record and as a form of self-expression ; between the 'real' image and its digitally manipulated alter ego ; between the photographer as technician and the photographer as artists. Along the way he provides some practical hints and tips to keep you snapping happily."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes index and glossary.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Now you see it, now you don't; title: In a dark room; title: Looking for a fix; title: A lasting impression; title: The French concoction; title: Not drowning, only waving; title: The pencil of nature; title: I know a lot about art ...; title: Wonderful things and faraway places; title: May I present myself?; title: In olden days a glimpse of stocking; title: Blazing trails and laying rails; title: They almost move; title: They do now; title: Line engravers and picture chasers; title: War is a photo opportunity; title: The caring eye; title: The quiet passion; title: Underbellies and goodfellas; title: Flash! Bang! Wallop!; title: You press the button, we do the rest; title: First impression; title: Camera work; title: Strange conjunctions; title: New objectivity in Germany; title: Who ate my pepper; title: Modern or what?; title: Mixing the media; title: Photography as 'evidence'; title: Photography fights back; title: All human is is thereish; title: Snap out of it; title: Looking at folk; title: Au naturel; title: Straight from the heart; title: Conflict and objectivity; title: New authority; title: The new photo-journalism; title: Down on the street; title: Through the looking glass; title: Documentary fictions; title: Through a glass darkly; title: - Other perspectives; title: From pastoral to political; title: Form follows function; title: A hard rain's gonna fall; title: Society 'Gels' and soft focus filters; title: 'Over here, love!'; title: Dreaming in colour; title: More of the same; title: 'I counted them all and I counted them all back in again'; title: Lodging with the family; title: Sex, drugs & Rock 'n' Roll; title: Where's the beef?; title: Girrrl power; title: New narratives; title: Don't touch that!; title: Who the hell am I?; title: Dear Diary; title: The found photograph; title: Constructions and manipulations; title: Quiet angers; title: Well, scan me!; title: Glossary; title: Index; title: Photographic credits.