BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY is a comprehensive instructional book that covers every element of photography. Henry Horenstein's books have been widely used at leading universities, including Parsons School of Design, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and MIT as well as in continuing education programs. Horenstein is a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design. BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY is a real bargain among photographic how-to books.
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Henry Horenstein is a widely published and exhibited professional photographer and the author of more than two dozen books, including the classic texts Black & White Photography and Beyond Basic Photography,and monographs such as Honky Tonk, Animalia, Show,and Close Relations. Horenstein is a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he has taught for more than twenty years. He lives and works in Boston.
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Henry Horenstein is a widely published and exhibited professional photographer and the author of more than two dozen books, including the classic texts Black & White Photography and Beyond Basic Photography, and monographs such as Honky Tonk, Animalia, Show, Close Relations, and Racing Days. Horenstein is professor of photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. You can see his work at www.horenstein.com.
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I picked this book on recommendation by my darkroom teacher and I loved it!
Henry Horenstein covers everything you need to know in order to make good quality black and white pictures from start to finish and well beyond just pressing the button. He discusses how to use different cameras and films that you might come across as well as different types of lenses and their pro's and con's. His discussion of exposures and appertures is very informative and beautifully illustrated with lots of examples. The sections on film and print developping are filled with numerous practical tips and step-by-step guides I found enormously useful - so much that after reading them I was able to set up a darkroom by myself on a minimum budget (and avoided buying a separate darkroom book altogether). The section on using multigrade filters was particularly good. The last few sections deal with toning and some creative effect and are just opening the door to unconventional photographic methods. (The goal of the author was deffinitely not to review all creative movements in photography which is another book by itself.)
The book is printed on heavy paper and all illustations (black and white of course) are of excellent quality. There are numerous examples of beautiful photographs with a short explanation of how they were made.
Overall, I was enormously satisfied with the book and find it to be an excellent B&W photography textbook. The book is very complete and full of important facts and tips of the "wish someone told me that" type. It is very exhaustive in covering the basics but goes well beyond the bare minimum. Despite my previous experience, I learned an awful lot by this book and now I am even more inspired by B&W photography and more confident in the darkroom.
I would recommend this book to every beginner and slightly experienced aficionado of B&W photography.
PS: This book does not address digital photography in any way. There are tons of other very good book which do that.
Henry Horenstein covers everything you need to know in order to make good quality black and white pictures from start to finish and well beyond just pressing the button. He discusses how to use different cameras and films that you might come across as well as different types of lenses and their pro's and con's. His discussion of exposures and appertures is very informative and beautifully illustrated with lots of examples. The sections on film and print developping are filled with numerous practical tips and step-by-step guides I found enormously useful - so much that after reading them I was able to set up a darkroom by myself on a minimum budget (and avoided buying a separate darkroom book altogether). The section on using multigrade filters was particularly good. The last few sections deal with toning and some creative effect and are just opening the door to unconventional photographic methods. (The goal of the author was deffinitely not to review all creative movements in photography which is another book by itself.)
The book is printed on heavy paper and all illustations (black and white of course) are of excellent quality. There are numerous examples of beautiful photographs with a short explanation of how they were made.
Overall, I was enormously satisfied with the book and find it to be an excellent B&W photography textbook. The book is very complete and full of important facts and tips of the "wish someone told me that" type. It is very exhaustive in covering the basics but goes well beyond the bare minimum. Despite my previous experience, I learned an awful lot by this book and now I am even more inspired by B&W photography and more confident in the darkroom.
I would recommend this book to every beginner and slightly experienced aficionado of B&W photography.
PS: This book does not address digital photography in any way. There are tons of other very good book which do that.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A Basic Manual, 3rd Edit Revised is an excellent resource for the new (film) photographer. I'd also argue its not a half-bad general resource for the more experienced photographer. I used his previous version in an introductory course in black and white photography that I taught for a number of years. Of late I have been using Mastering Black and White Photography by Bernhard Suess but will now switch back to this text. Student response to both texts has been overwhelmingly positive however I feel Horenstein's writing style is easier for them to follow. The sequence, illustrations and figures of the Horenstein book seem both logical as well as well done. Particularly useful are the illustrations of common negative faults, something I had missed after moving to the Suess text. Highly recommended but please note that this is a book heavily weighted to using film cameras as well as processes and procedures in the darkroom. There are other works more suited for digital photography and for those who are looking for a reference on the "art" of photography.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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I just want to add come comments to the previous reviews. Horenstein's manual is geared for the beginner and covers all of the basics and then some in a clear and precise manner. The book is extremely well illustrated with great shots that explicate the techniques that the author discusses. When I began to experiment with photography I came to regard this book as an absolutely superb resource, the ideal beginning point from which one can proceed to more sophisticated things.
One reviewer noted that there is nothing in the most recent edition concerning digital photography. If you are a traditionalist who wants to stick to film, and all the complexities of developing film, this deficiency surely does not present a problem, and in fact may be an asset; even an earlier edition will be tremendously useful. This is a great book at a fair price and I very strongly recommend it.
One reviewer noted that there is nothing in the most recent edition concerning digital photography. If you are a traditionalist who wants to stick to film, and all the complexities of developing film, this deficiency surely does not present a problem, and in fact may be an asset; even an earlier edition will be tremendously useful. This is a great book at a fair price and I very strongly recommend it.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Great for film photographers
I rated this low because it's almost entirely about film photography and film cameras. And what there is about digital is pretty old. Read more
Published 2 months ago by rich
Great for its price
I liked the condition of this book for its price! Really inexpensive and it will definitely we used again :)
Published 3 months ago by Andrea
great book! defnitely informative.
Took a class intro to b&w photography class two summers ago and this was a requirement to have, gotta say it was very helpful.
Published 6 months ago by Alan Q.
Beautiful book.
Bought the book for my college age daughter. It is beautiful and she loves it. Hope it gives her the incentive to actually do her homework!
Published 7 months ago by Mom's reviews
decent photography book.
i got this book for my black and white photography class.
i learned a lot from this book. it helped a lot with the fundamentals of photography. Read more
i learned a lot from this book. it helped a lot with the fundamentals of photography. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Bijan Turkcan
Satisfied!
I bought this book after knowing it has been used at different universities as the reference guide. I have found it very clear and complete, I wanted to learn how to develop film... Read more
Published 12 months ago by CRosito
Fast delivery
The book was just as described and arrived a week before it was scheduled to!!! Would recommend!
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Published 20 months ago by Amanda M. Foucher
Perfect for those stepping into the world of B&W film and darkroom
I have another book on the same subject. It covers more and it offers more detail in almost every subject it handles.
And, it made me feel helpless when I tried to read it. Read more
And, it made me feel helpless when I tried to read it. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Bulent Celasun
good read if you need the basics
A well done book about Black and White photography. It was purchased for a class I'm taking. It essentially goes over all of the basics.
Published on February 28, 2010 by K. Deese
Black and White Photography 3rd revised ed.
The book was in very good shape. However, I did order standard shipping and it took over two weeks for the book to arrive from the day it was shipped, so I wasn't pleased with the... Read more
Published on February 7, 2010 by M. Werbel
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