Friday, August 21, 2009

Train Your Gaze

Train your gaze: a practical and theoretical introduction to portrait photography by Roswell Angier is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:
  1. About Looking

  2. Self-Portrait/No Face

  3. People at the Margin: the Edge of the Frame

  4. Behavior in the Moment: Picturing Eventfulness

  5. You Spy: Voyeurism and Surveillance

  6. Portrait, Mirror, Masquerade

  7. Confrontation: Looking Through the Bull's Eye

  8. Out of Focus: the Disappearing Subject

  9. Darkness

  10. Flash!

  11. Figures in a Landscape: Tableaux

  12. Commentary: Digital Personae

Appendices


a) Cameras and Camera Controls: Some Differences Between Film and Digital Image Formation


b) Exposure and Metering: The Gray Scale, Color Film, and Digital Files


c) Using Flash

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