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Ansel
Adams - An Autobiography
In this bestselling autobiography, completed shortly before his death
in 1984, Ansel Adams looks back at his legendary six-decade career as
a conservationist, teacher, musician, and above all, photographer. Written
with characteristic warmth,vigour and wit, this fascinating account brings
to life the infectious enthusiasms, fervent battles, and bountiful friendships
of a truly American original.
1985, 1996 Little, Brown, Softback 339
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Basic Photography
John Hedgecoe
Much more basic than his co-professor Michael Langford's 'Basic Photography', this is a colour manual designed along the lines of the same authors 'Photographers handbook' and is a picture-taking guide for the beginner.
1993 , Collins & Brown, Softback 160 pp
Order code: 47 035
Price: £9.99
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First Light
A Landscape Photographers Art
Joe Cornish
No corners cut on the production side, high quality colour throughout in a casebound square format. Not one for the black and white landscaper, all images are in colour, but are highly inspirational, and represent a great advertisement for Fuji Velvia film.
2002 , Argentum, Hardback 160 pp
Order Code: 45 049
Price: £25.00
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Photographing People
Michael Freeman
Aimed squarely at the digital photographer, beginner to intermediate standard. Nicely designed full colour, part of a 'digital' series by the same author, hundreds of images, technical tips, personal insights.
2004 , Ilex, Softback 160 pp
Order Code: 46 988
Price: £17.95
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Landscape & Nature
Michael Freeman
In the same series as his 'people' book above, similar high production values.
2004 , Ilex, Softback 160 pp
Order Code 46 976
Price: £17.95
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The Photographers Handbook
John Hedgecoe
Originally out in 1977, and even if some of the shots do go back to '60's colour supplements, the rejigged Handbook is now a photographic institution, the incredibly busy pages stuffed with topics, images and diagrams covering, or at any rate, touching on, virtually everything in the photographic firmament. If you have to give a novice one book to start them off, this is the one.
1992 , Ebury Press, Hardback 352 pp
Order code: 19 209
Price: £20.00
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Photographs that sell and sell
Gerry Kopelow
The thrust of the book is maximising income through selling images through libraries and agencies. Guidance towards the most commercially successful images to aim for, how to assess a potential image, and how to achieve a professional quality shot.
2003 , Collins & Brown, 128 pp, Hardback
Order Code: 47 315
Price: £17.99
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Photography and the Performing Arts
Gerry Kopelow
Written by a Canadian photographer, this book details the market for photography within the performing arts, covering topics including types of imaging used in advertising and promotion, how to work with performers, and contacts for marketing. An excellent approach does however bear the dead hand of Focal Press's budgeting department - all illustrations are poor monochrome, apart from one small insert of colour, and the design is more suited to textbook than creative manual. All examples are taken from Canadian productions.
1994 , Focal Press, 194 pp
Order code: 47 327
Price: £25.00
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Seeing Landscapes
the creative process behind great photographs
Charlie Waite
A full colour illustrated guide to landscape from a dedicated master of the genre. He could'a squeezed in some black and white, but that's probably reserved for a later tome. Particularly interesting are the variations, comparative images taken with variations in lighting, or taken at different times, one pair of Rannoch moor having a 15 year separation, although with the same viewpoint, camera and film. Travel locations feature strongly, Dordogne, Tuscany, Provence and Andelusia to mention a few, although there are some UK images.
1999, Collins & Brown Softback, 160pp
Order Code: 45 000
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The Making of Landscape Photographs
Charlie Waite
Charlie Waites earlier book, again exclusively colour orientated. The process of photographing in the landscape is broken down into a dozen or so areas, including lenses, light, sky, water, buildings, etc, and a number of his images are then used within each section to dissect the topic.
1992, Collins & Brown Softback, 160 pp
Order Code: 18 237
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Stretch
the world of panoramic photography
Nick Meers
Well researched and illustrated book examining panoramic work from the photographers perspective, and the intense involvement they can generate in the viewer. Starting with the early history of the format, there are illustrations from the early 20'th century, including the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Technical chapters include: Panoric Camera Types: Accessories: Composition: Exposure: Processing, Printing & Displaying.
Portfolios are shown from a number of specialists, including David Noton, Everen Brown, Macduff Everton, Josef Koudelka, Benjamin Porter, Horst Hamann, and Joe Cornish.
2003, Rotovision, Hardback, 144 pp
Order Code: 44980
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Travel & Vacation Photography
Michel Busselle
Black and white landscape doesn't get a look in here, a full colour popular treatment, most suited to stimulating one to getting the best out of holiday pictures. Each topic is broken down into sections Seeing, Thinking and Acting, which combined with considerable licence in typeface will either appeal to one for its free-ranging approach, or make you want to hurl the book across the room. It does, though, work extremely well as a tune-up course in getting the best out of landscape images as they present themselves.
2002, Rotovision, Softback, 207 pp
Order Code: 45 199
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Landscape Photography
Michel Busselle
Using the same slightly mad text scheme as his travel and location book, this is a good inspirational book for anyone starting to look seriously at landscape work in colour - b&w doesn't get a look in. Divided into 4 general areas: the subject; the art of composition; light and the image; cameras & equipment.
1998, Rotovision, Softback, 126 pp
Order Code: 47 341
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Landscape
The worlds top photographers and the stories behind their greatest images
Terry Hope
An inspirational set of images from 38 photographers from a good mix of nationalities. High quality reproduction and full colour throughout, and driven by the images, although the technical detail is always present. Most of the imagery is colour.
2003, Rotovision, Hardback, 175 pp
Order Code: 44 927
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People Shots That Sell
Tract Tannenbaum - Kate Stevens
Highly readable do-it book from drawn from 25 years experience in video making, excellent breakdown of the techniques available to everybody now to use on an off the peg Apple mac.
2002, Rotovision, Softback, 143 pp
Order Code: 47 393
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The Essential Digital Video Handbook
Pete May
Highly readable do-it book from drawn from 25 years experience in video making, excellent breakdown of the techniques available to everybody now to use on an off the peg Apple mac.
2004, Rotovision, Softback, 192 pp
Order Code: 47 354
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