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by Roswell Angier (Author)

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Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: AVA Publishing (21 May 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 294037337X
ISBN-13: 978-2940373376
Product Dimensions: 29.8 x 22 x 3.2 cm

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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Portraiture is one of the most enduring and compelling of photographic genres. Above all others, it signifies a relationship between the photographer and the subject that is not explicit in other genres. What is common to all portrait photographs is a situational element. In portrait photography, the presence of the photographerâs gaze also becomes an integral part of what the picture is about: the activity of one person looking, manifested in a moment that can feel like the blink of an eye or a small eternity. This book offers for the first time a complete text that combines the theoretical with the practical.

About the Author

Born in 1940, Roswell Angier was motivated to take up photography as a way to escape graduate school. Since that time he has enjoyed a rewarding career as both photographer and educator. Photography projects have included shooting strippers in Boston and recording the Navajo people in America's southwest. He has worked as a freelance magazine photographer, been a partner in a co-operative photographic agency in New York, and is currently a member of faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Many of his images are held in prestigious collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Smithsonian Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art and private collections around the world. He is represented by Tom Gitterman Gallery in New York.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book, 26 Oct 2007

By	Brian Hamilton "brianhamilton14" (Scotland, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

My level of photography is perhaps (ashamedly) below those whom this book is aimed at but I have to say I got a lot from it. The book is divided into twelve chapters that cover every aspect of portraiture from voyeurism to shooting at night or using a flash to training the eye to critically appraising portraits. However, this book covers little by way of the technical aspects of photography, there are small but informative appendices but on the whole the book assumes a degree of technical knowledge of the subject.

Don't let this put you of, on the contrary, a book on portraits that concentrates on the reading of photographs by famous luminaries such as Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank is inspiring and illuminating. It certainly allows you appreciate their work on a deeper level and to critcally appraise and appreciate portraits like never before.

The quotes by famous (and not so well known) photogrpahers are themselves inspiring but at the end of each chapter is a series of assignments to allow the student to put the ideas and theories into practice. For the beginning student or those who are squeamish about approaching people to ask them sit for portraits there are assignments on photographing in public and self portraits.

I think anybody who is serious about photogrpahy will take a lot from this book whatever their level of experience. The main chapters are inspiring and inspired and the assignments are thought provoking and worthwhile.

I highly recommend this book and do not hesitate in giving it five stars. Also, I do not apologise for overusing the word inspire in thise review, anybody who reads this book and fails to have their creative spark ignited should not be into photogprahy in the first place.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book, 1 Jul 2009

By	Chris Russell - See all my reviews

This is a wonderful book, filled with inspiring images and words. Anyone with an interest in portrait photography should own a copy.

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