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The Making of Great Photographs Eamonn McCabe

The Making of Great Photographs By Eamonn McCabe

The Making of Great Photographs by Eamonn McCabe


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Summary

A collection of images by some of the important photographers in history. It discusses the techniques and approaches employed by the masters in each image and how photographers can achieve similar effects using modern equipment. It features a wide range of styles from images of Julia Margaret Cameron, to 20th-century masters such as Edward Weston.

The Making of Great Photographs Summary

The Making of Great Photographs: Approaches and Techniques of the Masters by Eamonn McCabe

The Making of Great Photographs is a collection of images by some of the most important photographers in history. Eamonn McCabe discusses the techniques and approaches employed by the masters in each image and, uniquely, how photographers can achieve similar effects using modern equipment. This collection features a wide range of styles from the fascinating and beautiful early images of Julia Margaret Cameron, to 20th-century masters such as Edward Weston and Paul Strand, and from the pioneers of the process itself such as William Henry Fox Talbot, to the celebrated post-war documentarist Tony Ray Jones. The Making Of Great Photographs is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of photography as well as practising photographers everywhere.

About Eamonn McCabe

Eamonn McCabe was Picture Editor of The Guardian from 1988-2000 and is credited with changing the look of quality English newspapers. Four-times Sports Photographer of the Year, he was named News Photographer of the Year in 1985 and is currently an Honorary Professor at Thames Valley University. He lives in London.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1 Documentary Photography inc. Dorothea Lange, Alfred Stieglitz, Don McCullin, Robert Capa, Lewis Hine, Horace Nicolls and many more; 2 Landscape and Architecture inc. John Blakemore, Frederick Evans, Ansel Adams, Paul Strand, Fay Godwin, Josef Sudek and many more; 3 Photography as Art inc. Roger Fenton, Edward Weston, Clarence H White, Paul Caponigro, Andre Kertesz and many more; 4 Portrait Photography inc. David Bailey, Fred Holland Day, Cecil Beaton, Nadar, David Hockney, John French, and many more; Glossary of Photographic Processes; Acknowledgments.

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GOR003992390
9780715321560
0715321560
The Making of Great Photographs: Approaches and Techniques of the Masters by Eamonn McCabe
Used - Very Good
Paperback
David & Charles
20080530
144
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