Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Pair of Picture Books about Picturing


These two books were purchased at the local Dollar Bookstore at different times. The first would have been very helpful for a piece I wrote a while back about Modern Magic. It has a very nice detailed explanation for how photography works and how it originally developed, pun not really intended.

If you ever would like to explain to someone how light mixed with metals to make images, this is the colorful book for you. If you'd like an idea on what makes for art in photography this book also does a pretty good job with an introducing that subject.

This next book does a better job with that, with what the vocabulary is when talking about photography as an artform. Both books are very cool and very neat looking, even if photography doesn't really interest you.



If photography is a direction you want to send a career, these books probably aren't sufficient for the full one lesson.

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