[pure-silver] Re: Book Recommendation Request
- From: Speedy <speedgraphic@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:27:55 -0400
Due to time constraints (50hr+/week job) I think my best bet is to find good
books to read and practice. I am a techie so I do not have a problem reading,
applying, and learning...
No matter how good you get at something you can ALWAYS get better!
I am about 1/2 way through The Command to Look.
Thanks
Chuck
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 18:04:52 -0400
From: michaelandpaula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Book Recommendation Request
Exactly. There needs to be an "abstract" structure underlying the
content of the picture. Some might say that no matter what is
photographed, the abstract structure and the rhythms created by that
structure--is the real subject of the photograph. Without it, the
picture not only sleeps, it is dead.
Michael
On 7/25/13 5:36 PM, BOB KISS wrote:
DEAR
CHUCK,
Am
I right that you have spent decades as an educator? One
thing I don’t
recall anyone suggesting was to go to a university and
take a DESIGN course…that’s
right, graphic design, artistic design…design! No it
isn’t as
independent or fast as a book but you will get a long term
opportunity to learn
all of the visual concepts and approaches upon which
“composition”
is based. Composition is a distillation of the concepts
of design.
Design is the set; composition is the subset.
I am sure that Michael and Paula’s
workshops would be
enormously helpful and, if you can, you should. But a 12
or 14 week
course gives time to try a wide variety of approaches,
make and learn from mistakes,
get critiques from teachers and fellow artists and to just
plain germinate.
Even if you did this when you were much younger, it is a
really good thing to
go back to school as a mature adult. I also have taught
for decades
including ICP, guest lecturing at NYU, FIT, and The Art
Center in LA and have taught photography
and film making at The University of the West Indies and
Barbados Community College.
But, since finishing the 5 year BS/MS program at RIT, I
went back to school for
film making at NYU, theater directing at Masterworks
Laboratory Theater, ground
and flight school to learn to fly, and two Olympic epee
coaching workshops.
When I teach photography I tell
students that the range
finder or ground glass is a design space…just like a white
piece of paper
or a canvas. As none of us are yet making 3 dimensional
photos (thought I
did holography at General Electric when I worked there) we
are all transforming
3D reality to a 2D space…a print or screen…and, if there
is no
design sense the photo sleeps. I tell them that the photo
should work as
an image of the subject but also as an abstract 2D design
in its own right.
THAT is composition.
Try it, you’ll like it!
CHEERS!
BOB
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That would be GREAT!
Thanks!
Chuck
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 09:37:24
-0700
From: emanmb@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Book Recommendation Request
To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
I
have a copy of Mortensen's The Command to Look: A
Formula for Picture Success
in pdf form. It's 51MB and I can post it on a cloud
thingy so it can be
downloaded easily. If anyone is interested let me
know and I'll post it
for download.
e
From:
Speedy
<speedgraphic@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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"pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
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Sent: Wednesday, July 24,
2013
10:50 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] Book
Recommendation Request
Of all the
places I might pose this question I
believe I will come closer finding an
answer here
than anywhere else.
I am looking for a good book on
Composition.
I am not looking for the basics, or even
something written for an
"Intermediate" photographer.
I am hoping to find a book similar in
caliber to Barry
Thornton's "Edge of Darkness" or Tim
Rudman's
"The Photographer's Toning Book..."
So, what is your suggestion for the best
book on composition available?
Thanks
Chuck
(AKA "Speedy")
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