Train Your Gaze: A Practical and Theoretical Introduction to Portrait Photography - Softcover

Angier, Roswell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 294037337X ISBN 13: 9782940373376

Publisher: AVA Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

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.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: AVA Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 294037337X
• ISBN 13: 9782940373376
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224