Art of Photography
By: by the editors of Time-Life Books.
Series: Life Library of Photography
Publisher: Time-Life Books
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Applied photography; Photography, Artistic
Description: In this volume there is a good deal of material, both visual and verbal, that seeks to explain how some of the fundamental principles of aesthetics apply to photography. The principles are not confining but liberating; they allow for countless individual approaches to art, from the dutifully conventional to the convention-defying. Learning about them and seeing how they operate will not assure you a place among great artists, but, by showing you why good pictures are good, the information will free you to make better pictures of your own. As Carl Mydans also put it, "one is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself. There is where creativity begins."
Notes: Bibliography: p. 227.
Table of contents: title: What the Camera Sees; title: Principles of Design; title: Responding to the Subject; title: Photography and Time; title: Challenging the Traditions; title: The Principles at Work