Yes, Photography is art. Art is all about practical But camera is a tool a photo artist uses to explore his artistic talent. There are number of books published by number of of authors over the period of long time in various parts of the world covering the topics like ...How camera works, Is photographer Art ?, Studio lighting Types photography, Dark room editing, Digital photography, Film photography, HDR photography, etc.
Clicking more and more pics will make you good photographer however there is no harm in reading some books to give a direction to your artistic journey. Today in this blog post, I am sharing with you the list of few photography books about technicalities and artistic side of photog.
Best Photography Books :
Ansel Adams - Classic Images
Within the Frame, David duChemin
Stephen Shore - The Nature of Photographs
Visual Poetry, Chris Orwig
The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers. - Cartier Bresson.
The Photographic Act. - Philippe Dubois
Understanding Exposure - Brian Peterson
The Moment it Clicks - Joe MacNally
The Photographers Eye - Michael Freeman
Waiting For The Light - David Noton
On Photography. - Susan Sontag.
Camera Lucida. - Roland Barthes.
Dianne Arbus - Revelations
Dorothea Lange - Photographs of a Lifetime
Anne-Celine Jaeger - Image Makers, Image Takers
The Fundamentals of Photography - Helen Drew
Landscape Photography - Tim Fitzharris
Joe McNally's "The Moment It Clicks"
"Digital Photography" books by Scott Kelby
John Szarkowski's Looking at Photographsd
Pilgrimage by Annie Leibovitz
The Americans by Robert Frank
Note : I have not read all of them but these are the recommendation by various experienced photographers who have benefited and have improved their work on the basis of leanings they derived by reading this books.
Feel free to buy them online from Amazon, flipkart, infibeam or any other eCommerce portal or bookstores like Crosswords and others.
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