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Train Your Gaze to create breathtaking photographic portraits
Train Your Gaze to create breathtaking photographic portraits
* Easy-to-use format--use as a course in portraiture or for handy tips
* Packed with inspiring images from top photographers
* Practical advice plus clear theory
Learn to take beautiful, surprising, stunning portraits with Train Your Gaze. Author Roswell Angier, a renowned photographer and portraitist, explores the theory and the practice of shooting human subjects in this practical guide. The easy-to-navigate format allows the reader to use the book as a cover-to-cover, step-by-step course in portrait photography, or as a handy reference for setting up specific shots--or both. Technical talk is kept to a minimum; the emphasis is on creating remarkable portraits in many different ways. Illustrated with images from some of the world’s most influential photographers and artists, Train Your Gaze is sure to train photographers everywhere to think about portraits in a bold new way.
About the Author
Roswell Angier’s work is held in many prestigious museums and galleries, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Smithsonian Institution, the Addison Gallery of American Art, and private collections around the world. He is represented by Tom Gitterman Gallery in New York. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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photographic syntax, correct flash exposure, ambient light exposure, backdrop paper, street photography, direct flash, flash meter, flash unit, foreground subject, automatic units, brightness range, cable release, open flash Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Jeff Wall, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, August Sander, Man Ray, Richard Avedon, Tina Barney, Julia Margaret Cameron, Los Angeles, Dead Troops Talk, Cindy Sherman, Nancy Burson, Allie Mae Burroughs, Gerhard Richter, Nan Goldin, San Francisco, Boris Mikhailov, Courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery, Diane Arbus, Grim Street, Joel-Peter Witkin, Mark Cohen, Migrant Mother, Rineke Dijkstra New!
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