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Your Five Favourite Books
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My earliest favorite was Aaron Sussman's THE AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER'S HANDBOOK. It explained a lot of things about the way light works that I have never seen in any other photo book and light is our raw material.

Another is Jim Jackson's SEEING YOURSELF SEE. Not really a photography book, but photography is primarily about seeing and only secondarily about the mechanics. Understanding how we see is to photography what drawing is to painting.

As a young photographer the biggest influence on me was WITNESS TO OUR TIME by Alfred Eisenstaedt.

More recent favorites are Robert Adams' WHY PEOPLE PHOTOGRAPH and Ansel Adams AUTOBIOGRAPHY. I don't like the photographs of Robert Adams but he writes very thoughtfully. I do like the photographs of Ansel Adams and he is an interesting character as well as a great photographer.

The list will undoubtedly change. I have several photography books on my Amazon wish list and am adding more faster than I read them.

ADK Jim
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Your Five Favourite Books - by matthew - Aug 11, 2008, 18:57
Your Five Favourite Books - by shuttertalk - Aug 11, 2008, 21:22
Your Five Favourite Books - by ADK_Jim - Aug 12, 2008, 18:22

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