Best Photography Textbooks and Handbooks
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Fundamentals of Photography: The Essential Handbook for Both Digital and Film Cameras
Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age
The Ansel Adams Guide: Basic Techniques of Photography - Book 1
The Photographer's Handbook
Photography: The Essential Way
The Elements of Photography: Understanding and Creating Sophisticated Images
Photography for The 21st Century
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Top 10
1. Photography
This best-selling introductory photography text teaches students how to use the medium confidently and effectively by emphasizing both technique and visual awareness. Comprehensive in scope, this book features superb instructional illustrations and examples in its clear presentation of both black and white and color photography. London offers extensive coverage of digital imaging and the latest technological developments, such as Web page design and…»
2. Photography
This best-selling introductory photography text teaches students how to use the medium confidently and effectively by emphasizing both technique and visual awareness. Comprehensive in scope, this book features superb instructional illustrations and examples in its clear presentation of both black and white and color photography. London offers extensive coverage of digital imaging and the latest technological developments, such as Web page design and…»
3. Fundamentals of Photography: The Essential Handbook for Both Digital and Film Cameras
The most comprehensive, accessible, and completely up-to-date guide available for todayâÄôs photographer: whether beginner or advanced, using a film camera or digital.Award-winning photographer Tom Ang provides a thorough, explicitly detailed bottom-to-top understanding of modern photography, explaining all the techniques that will help anyone who uses a cameraâÄîin a professional capacity or as a snapshot shooterâÄîimprove the quality of his or her photographs…»
4. Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age
Light & Lens: Photography in the Digital Age is a groundbreaking introductory book that clearly and concisely provides the instruction and building blocks necessary to create thought-provoking digitally based photographs. It is an adventurous idea book that features numerous classroom-tested assignments and exercises from leading photographic educators to encourage you to critically explore and make images from the photographers' eye, an aesthetic point of…»
5. The Ansel Adams Guide: Basic Techniques of Photography - Book 1
Arguably the best book yet written for those wishing to pursue photography seriously, Basic Techniques of Photography, Book 1 has been completely revised and updated in order to keep pace with fast-moving technological advances in the field. The revised edition includes more than fifty new illustrations, offering still greater clarity in presenting Ansel Adams legendary approach to photography. Since its publication in 1992, The Ansel Adams Guide: Basic…»
6. The Photographer's Handbook
A classic, bestselling photographer's manual is issued for the first time in paperback, revised and updated. More than 600 separate entries illustrated with 1,250 photographs, diagrams, and charts cover the entire range of subject matter, from choosing a camera to storing finished prints.»
7. Photography: The Essential Way
Photography: The Essential Way is a departure from tradition that moves boldly into the digital age with you. This new book embraces the new photography that is captured, shaped, transmitted, printed, and saved electronically, while retaining coverage of film and its exposure and development. Comprehensive coverage of essential topics such as digital and film cameras, lenses, exposure, sensors and film, and developing black-and-white film.»
8. The Elements of Photography: Understanding and Creating Sophisticated Images
Photography is a complex craft. Some excel at the technical side of image-making, focusing perfectly on the subject, releasing the shutter at just the right moment and making exposures with the precise amount of light. Others are artists and storytellers, capturing a fleeting moment in time which inspires a viewer to gaze upon an image and ponder its meaning. The best photographers are masters of both. In this highly visual, informative book, Angela Faris…»
9. Photography for The 21st Century
This pioneering book bridges the gap between traditional and digital camera and darkroom techniques, easing the transition from one system to the other while developing an understanding of the scope and importance of the evolution. Photography is investigated as a visual art throughout and cultural references provide a solid understanding of the power and significance of the medium. Readers learn not only how to make photographs-but also how to evaluate…»
10. Photography
A classic reference work now fully revised for a second edition, Photography combines how-to information with inspiring examples to illustrate techniques that readers can immediately apply to their own work, whether in color or black and white. An all-new chapter on digital photography, plus an in-depth look at the world of commercial photography, make this edition a "must-have" primer and reference for beginning through intermediate students, amateurs,…»
Photography: Revised Edition
Photography Foundations for Art and Design, Fourth Edition: The creative photography handbook
Handbook of Photography
Langford's Advanced Photography, Seventh Edition
Manual of Photography, Ninth Edition
Photography In Focus 5th Ed
Illustrated Dictionary of Photography: The Professional's Guide to Terms and Techniques
The Complete Practical Guide to Digital and Classic Photography: The Experts Manual on Taking Great Photographs
The Manual of Photography, Tenth Edition
The Abrams Encyclopedia of Photography
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11. Photography: Revised Edition
This art book shows contemporary and cutting-edge work as well as historical. It deals with real-life issues of taking pictures and making prints in the practical way working photographers do. Using strong contemporary portfolio photographs, profiles of top photographers with a look at career matters, it includes practical strategies for taking and printing photographs, and a seamless mix of color, black-and-white, and digital technologies. For…»
12. Photography Foundations for Art and Design, Fourth Edition: The creative photography handbook
Photography: Foundations for Art and Design is the perfect introductory guide for those of you learning the basics of photography. Offering a clear and well-illustrated structured approach to the tools and techniques, it will also guide you through the important aspects of photography as a means of self-expression and communication. The main focus is setting a comprehensive list of objectives and resources for clarity at the outset. A series of sequential…»
13. Handbook of Photography
Handbook of Photography-one of the most highly regarded photography textbooks, now in its sixth edition-is designed for those who have never held a camera, as well as those who know the basics but want to improve their photographic skills. In language that is simple and straightforward, this time-honored book blends contemporary topics, such as digital capture and digital image-processing, with all the traditional topics, including camera operation,…»
14. Langford's Advanced Photography, Seventh Edition
The 7th edition of Langford's Advanced Photography brings this bestselling advanced guide right up to date, with Michael Langford's renowned level of technical detail now extended to cover all the latest in digital technology. Whether you are a serious enthusiast, a student or a training professional this book covers it all; from cameras, lenses, digital imaging sensors and films to insights into photography as an industry and how to manage accounts,…»
15. Manual of Photography, Ninth Edition
The Manual of Photography is the standard work for anyone who is serious about photography - professional photographers and lab technicians or managers, as well as students and enthusiastic amateurs who want to become more technically competent. The authors provide comprehensive and accessible coverage of the techniques and technologies of photography. The Manual has aided many thousands of photographers in their careers. The ninth edition now brings this…»
16. Photography In Focus 5th Ed
In an expanded, completely revised fifth edition, "Photography in Focus" is a comprehensive textbook on photography today--from basic camera functions and lighting to film development and printmaking for black, white, and color.»
17. Illustrated Dictionary of Photography: The Professional's Guide to Terms and Techniques
Cataloging everything from historic photographic processes to the latest advances in digital technology, this reference contains nearly 5,000 entries explaining the terms and techniques of photography. An ideal sourcebook for anyone with an interest in photography, entries include words associated with shooting techniques, digital imaging terms, specialized photographic subgenres, the science of photography, and notable photographers. Each entry blends…»
18. The Complete Practical Guide to Digital and Classic Photography: The Experts Manual on Taking Great Photographs
A practical guide written by professional photographers, with easy-to-follow guidance and tips»
19. The Manual of Photography, Tenth Edition
The Manual of Photography and Digital Imaging is the standard work for anyone who is serious about photography - professional photographers and lab technicians or managers, as well as students and enthusiastic amateurs who want to become more technically competent. The authors provide comprehensive and accessible coverage of the techniques and technologies of photography from capture to output.The Manual, first published in 1890, has aided many thousands…»
20. The Abrams Encyclopedia of Photography
Photography is a revolutionary art medium that has changed the way in which the world is presented. It has become an indispensable mode of communication and a vital means of revealing and explaining the world. This comprehensive encyclopedia traces the amazing journey of photography, from the invention of the daguerreotype in 1829 to the digital photograph of today. In outlining nearly two centuries of this innovative art form, the book touches on some of…»
Master Guide for Professional Photographers
The Ansel Adams Guide : Basic Techniques of Photography: Book 2
The Photography Handbook
Photography: The New Complete Guide to Taking Photographs - From Basic Composition to the Latest Digital Techniques
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21. Master Guide for Professional Photographers
From shooting basics to image editing, this textbook is an all encompassing reference that can be used by students in any level of photography class as well as those studying to complete the Certified Professional Photographer program. Beginning with an overview of camera choices and basic camera functions, this guide outlines the fundamentals of lighting equipment, light theory, composition, and digital imaging while providing a comprehensive roadmap for…»
22. The Ansel Adams Guide : Basic Techniques of Photography: Book 2
Expanding on the fundamental principles of photography presented in Book 1, this second volume enables the committed amateur or student photographer to advance. With chapters on exposure and development, it also offers an account of Ansel Adams Zone System.»
23. The Photography Handbook
Revised and updated, this second edition of The Photography Handbook provides an introduction to the principles of photographic practice and theory and offers guidelines for the systematic study of photographic media. Including a new chapter on the ethics of photojournalism, and an expanded chapter on digital photography, as well as a new section on research in photography, The Photography Handbook includes: new case studies of the war photographer James…»
24. Photography: The New Complete Guide to Taking Photographs - From Basic Composition to the Latest Digital Techniques
A revised and updated edition of John FreemanâÄôs bestselling photography title, with a discussion of new cameras, information on new digital technologies, and numerous sparkling new images! Acclaimed photographer Freeman simply covers all the basicsâÄîand moreâÄîin one single easy-to-follow volume. He provides hundreds of tips for taking more creative and expressive photos; explores all the most popular topics, including people, nature, the urban landscape, and…»