The Nature of Photographs
by Stephen Shore
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The Nature of Photographsis an essential primer of how to look at and understand photographs, by one of the world's most influential photographers, Stephen Shore. In this book, Shore explores ways of understanding photographs from all periods and all types - from iconic images to found photographs, from negatives to digital files. This books serves as an indispensable tool for students, teachers and everyone who wants to take better pictures or learn to look at them in a more informed way.Tags
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A natural descendant -and companion - to Szarkowski's "The Photographers's Eye", Shore's book is a great tool for the student and for the photography reader in general. Each concept is described cleraly and shortly and accompanied by significant - and beautiful, and greatly reproduced - pictures. A pleasurable short read, destined to be followed by many re-reads of several parts of the text.
This is an excellent, very short, illustrated essay about how photographers see things, what defines what they see, and why it all works. Just what I was looking for.
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Stephen Shore is currently the Susan Weber Soros Professor in the Arts at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
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- Original publication date
- 2007
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- Languages
- 6 — English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
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- 13
