Salem House Concise Guide to Photography: The Professional Manual for the Amateur Photographer [Paperback]

Michael Freeman (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Salem House (1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0881620963
• ISBN-13: 978-0881620962
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,655,137 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael Freeman, professional photographer and author, with more than 100 book titles to his credit, was born in England in 1945, took a Masters in geography at Brasenose College, Oxford University, and then worked in advertising in London for six years. He made the break from there in 1971 to travel up the Amazon with two secondhand cameras, and when Time-Life used many of the pictures extensively in the Amazon volume of their World's Wild Places series, including the cover, they encouraged him to begin a full-time photographic career.

Since then, working for editorial clients that include all the world's major magazines, and notably the Smithsonian Magazine (with which he has had a 30-year association, shooting more than 40 stories), Freeman's reputation has resulted in more than 100 books published. Of these, he is author as well as photographer, and they include more than 40 books on the practice of photography - for this photographic educational work he was awarded the Prix Louis Philippe Clerc by the French Ministry of Culture. He is also responsible for the distance-learning courses on photography at the UK's Open College of the Arts.

Freeman's books on photography have been translated into fifteen languages, and are available on other Amazon international sites.

They are supported for readers by a regularly updated site, http://thefreemanview.com

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This review is from: Salem House Concise Guide to Photography: The Professional Manual for the Amateur Photographer (Paperback)

The only problem with this book is that it's a little bit dated.

This book is a complete portable pack of all the infor,ation most photographers are ever likely to need. This working manual is the distillation of years of professional experience into a form which can readily be understood, both visually and verbally. It aims, quite simply, to present the essentials of photography in compact and usable form. In easy-to-follow sections, every practical aspect of indoor and outdoor photography is covered in a variety of situations, demonstrating how the best results can be achieved.