Train Your Gaze
A Practical and Theoretical Introduction to Portrait Photography
Published on 21. May 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-2-940373-37-6 (ISBN)
Description
What is common to all portrait photographs is a situational element. In portrait photography, the presence of the photographers 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Lausanne
Switzerland
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 300 mm
Width: 220 mm
Weight
1230 gr
ISBN-13
978-2-940373-37-6 (9782940373376)
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Person
Roswell Angier has enjoyed a rewarding career as both a photographer and educator. He has worked as a freelance magazine photographer, been a partner in a co-operative photographic agency in New York and is currently a faculty member 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.
Content
How to get the most out of this book. Introduction. About looking. Self-portrait/no face. People at the margin: The edge of the frame. Behavior in the moment: Picturing eventfulness. You spy: Voyeurism and surveillance. Portrait, mirror, masquerade. Confrontation: Looking through the bull's eye. Out of focus: The disappearing subject. Darkness. Flash!. Figures in a landscape: Tableaux. Commentary: Digital personae. Appendices: Camera and camera controls; Exposure and metering; Using flash. Acknowledgements. Critical bibliography. Index.