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Train your gaze : a practical and theoretical introduction to portrait photography
- Title
- Train your gaze : a practical and theoretical introduction to portrait photography / Roswell Angier.
- Author
- Angier, Roswell
- Publication
- London, UK ; New York, NY : Fairchild Books, [2015]
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- Description
- 272 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm.
- Summary
- "Combining the theoretical with the practical and technical, Train Your Gaze explores different aspects of picture-making process and addresses issues of content, paying attention to history, theory, and formal analysis along the way. Each chapter is accompanied by a practical assignment, designed to help you explore and produce a range of different styles in your own work.The text has been updated throughout to take into account advances in creative work and technology over the last six years. In addition, this second edition includes a very substantial revision of Chapter 12, 'Digital Personae' - including a discussion of the role of social media in the practice of portraiture. There are also new assignments at the end of each chapter, and expanded captions throughout to contextualize the images"--
- Series Statement
- Required Reading Range course reader
- Uniform Title
- Required reading range. Course reader.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- About Looking -- Protrait/Self-portrait, Face/No Face -- At the Margin: The Edge of the Frame -- Tremors of Narrative: Portraits and Eventfulness -- You Spy: Voyeurism and Surveillance -- Portrait, Mirror, Masquerade -- Confrontation: Looking through the Bull's Eye -- Blur: The Disappearing Subject -- Flash -- Figures in a Landscape -- Digital Personae -- Bibliography -- Index -- Picture Credits.
- Call Number
- TR575
- ISBN
- 9781472525109
- 1472525108
- LCCN
- 2014011575
- OCLC
- 878224665
- 878224665
- Author
- Angier, Roswell, author.
- Title
- Train your gaze : a practical and theoretical introduction to portrait photography / Roswell Angier.
- Publisher
- London, UK ; New York, NY : Fairchild Books, [2015]
- Edition
- Second edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Required Reading Range course readerRequired reading range. Course reader.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- *R-SIBL TR575 .A545