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Yann Arthus-Bertrand: Being a Photographer

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Any photographer lucky enough to have a retrospective of their life's work created with the quality put into this book and accompanying DVD would have to be happy. This is a wonderful volume of extraordinary photographs and excellent text. Being a Photographer traces the life and photographs of Yann Arthus-Bertrand, a French photographer who spent years in Africa as a young man. It was from there that he first started photographing the Earth from above as he gave hot air balloon rides to tourists. Yawn spent more years photographing major sporting events, travel destinations, and other projects before returning to aerial photography to produce his famous book Earth from Above. The superbly printed photographs in this book cover a lifetime of great work and are supplemented with biographical text by Sophie Troubac. The accompanying DVD makes it a great combination and inspirational book for anyone interested in photography.

This has got to be the best "behind the scenes" or "How I got started" photography book ever. His story is an interesting one, and the photographs are wonderful. There's not very much here on "how to take a picture", other than how to lead a life that puts you in interesting situations. Even though there's no "photo technique" covered in the book, lots of the pictures are wide enough so you get a sense of what it was like to be on the set or in the field with him.

After I had read most of the book, I found that the DVD was essentially an hour-plus worth of the same material, but with video instead of stills. The book alone and the DVD alone are each worth the Amazon cost. Getting both of them is wonderful.

This is a great book + DVD-documentary combination! The DVD is in a sleeve glued to the inside of the back of the book.

The author of the book, most famous for his series of "Earth from Above" photo books, chronicles his life and career in photography, from his early days following a pride of lions to his star-photographer status for his outdoors exhibit of "Earth from Above". A very interesting and inspiring book+documentary, highly recommended to anyone interested in photography and photojournalism or the study of the human experience...

This is the third copy of this book I have ordered (and paid for). The first two were from bordeebook and were shopworn and the first was missing the DVD. This was never made good by bordeebook. The third book took over a month to receive from Vana but it was the USPS' fault, not the vendor's. The third book from Vana is in excellent condition but the DVD is faulty, as was the DVD in the second book from bordeebook.
In the future, I will not order from Amazon's vendors. The book is beautiful - the photography is spectacular.