Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! This is such a needed video. A long time ago when I started to take photography seriously, it was easy finding books and articles on "photography for beginners: Aperture, ISO and Shutter speed" but I was having a really hard time finding books like Camera Lucida. Books "On Photography" as something philosophical. I love it!
I'm always surprised to see so many different versions of "photography for beginners" books. There such a variety of them and, like you mentioned, theres a good audience for those who have mastered the basics and want to engage with the conceptual and philosophical arenas of photography. Happy you enjoyed the video!
Wow, that's fantastic and you have so many of my favourites in there as well, Robert Adams, Art and Fear, Shore, Playbook, The Education. Beautiful Szarkowski edition too. May I add something to the list? Really enjoyed David Campany's On Photographs (funny title, he explains it) - very much in the spirit of the nature of photographs but also lighthearted, full of anecdotes and very entertaining - couldn't put it down. Thanks for the video!
Thank you! I love the Szarkowski edition, too. It was originally a very well produced book. I know of David Campany but I've never read On Photographs, so I'll have to add it to my reading list.
Thanks for watching! Happy to recommend some standard textbooks. For digital photo-The Elements of Photography by Angela Faris Belt. For analogue photo-the classic Black and White Photography by Henry Horenstein. For Photo History-Photography: A Cultural History. For Historic Process-The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes by Christopher James.
That's a great to hear there are e-books available for these titles. Most of the other books I review wouldn't have that option, so I'd never considered e-books before.
Great collection. Thank you. A book I really loved that could belong is Believing Is Seeing by Errol Morris. Fantastic book that really challenged me. I wonder what your thoughts are on it!
Ah yes, I have a copy myself but haven't read through the whole thing yet. His research on the Roger Fenton photograph made during the Crimean War is actually in one of my lectures on landscape photography.
