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Since this is in the "Philosophy of Photography" forum not the image processing or technique forum, I thought it would be helpful to start a list of books we've found inspirational over the course of time.
An introductory thread by bouvin, got me started down this route because he mentions a book he has found very helpful. Well it happens to have the same title as a book that I have always loved..so hence I've begun this thread which I hope everyone will contribute to and find helpful.
My first entry is "The Photographer's Eye" by John Szarkowski. I'm using Amazon as my linked to description because it is the easiest for me. Here is the editorial bit from the site to give you a taste for what lies within
An introductory thread by bouvin, got me started down this route because he mentions a book he has found very helpful. Well it happens to have the same title as a book that I have always loved..so hence I've begun this thread which I hope everyone will contribute to and find helpful.
My first entry is "The Photographer's Eye" by John Szarkowski. I'm using Amazon as my linked to description because it is the easiest for me. Here is the editorial bit from the site to give you a taste for what lies within
This is a great book, if you're not familiar with it. Take a look at the first "review" and I think you'll get a good feel for this valuable book.The Photographer's Eye by John Szarkowski is a twentieth-century classic--an indispensable introduction to the visual language of photography. Based on a landmark exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in 1964, and originally published in 1966, the book has long been out of print. It is now available again to a new generation of photographers and lovers of photography in this duotone printing that closely follows the original. Szarkowski's compact text eloquently complements skillfully selected and sequenced groupings of 172 photographs drawn from the entire history and range of the medium. Celebrated works by such masters as Cartier-Bresson, Evans, Steichen, Strand, and Weston are juxtaposed with vernacular documents and even amateur snapshots to analyze the fundamental challenges and opportunities that all photographers have faced. Szarkowski, the legendary curator who worked at the Museum from 1962 to 1991, has published many influential books. But none more radically and succinctly demonstrates why--as U.S. News & World Report put it in 1990--"whether Americans know it or not," his thinking about photography "has become our thinking about photography."