Approaching Photography: An Introduction to Understanding Photographs

ISBN-13: 9781350108868 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 174 str.

Paul Hill

Opis

Fully updated and revised, this seminal book explains and illustrates what photographs are, how they were made and used in the past and, more particularly, what their place is in the creative arts and visual communications world of today.

Spis treści

Foreword by Roger Taylor ; Introduction ; 1. Seeing and Thinking Photographically ; 2. After the Shutter is Pressed ; 3. Art and Communication ; 4. How Photography is Used ; 5. The Photographer as Witness ; 6. Experiencing Beauty ; 7. In Search of Self and the Metaphor ; 8. From Printed Page to Gallery Wall ; 9. Radical Changes and the Imaging Future

O autorze

Paul Hill. After he worked as a newspaper reporter, climbing instructor and freelance photojournalist for The Guardian, The Observer and the BBC, amongst many others, he became Course Leader of the Creative Photography course at Trent Polytechnic in 1976, the same year as he set up The Photographers' Place, the first residential photo workshop in Europe. He has published several books on photography, including Dialogue with Photography (with Thomas Cooper) and was awarded an MBE in 1994. A recipient of the Royal Photographic Society's Education Award, he became a professor in 1995 at De Montfort University where he ran one of the first postgraduate courses in photography in the UK.