- Hardcover: 128 pages
- Publisher: Argentum (6 Nov 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1902538099
- ISBN-13: 978-1902538099
- Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 23.6 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 230,025 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Illustrated with Barry Thornton's own stunning landscape pictures, each chapter is interlaced with technical detail and personal feelings.
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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A Black and White photography manual that is enlightening, informative and entertaining?!? Is this a real first?
Barry Thornton uses a quite different approach in this book to those I've seen elsewhere. He starts each chapter with a personal anecdote and proceeds to show how this 'real-life' scenario relates to elements of fine art photography. Each chapter deals with almost a single aspect of the art, but building to include previous aspects as it does so. Terms are introduced gently, and in the main, they are extremely well explained.
Reading this book explained so many of the failures in my own photos. Now I finally understand why it was going wrong, and not just what was going wrong. I read a chapter or two each night, then tried to understand what I'd learned the next day.
If anyone out there wants to become a better black & white photographer, then this book just has to be a high priority.
This is not a coffee-table table, to use just to admire other people's pictures, this is a book to read, inwardly digest, learn from and be insprired by. The best book on Photography I've ever read.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Barry Thornton's book must be one of the last words on the fine-art, high-definition photograph. What he didn't know about the art and craft of producing fine negatives and prints wasn't worth knowing. This book will reset your ideas about what really goes into making a fine print. Absolutely awe-inspiring.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is one of my favourite books about photography, it is incredibly informative, inspirational and also very different from the others. Barry Thornton's techniques have opened very new windows for me. I miss this exceptional photographer and great teacher very much!
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