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Train your gaze [electronic resource] : a practical and theoretical introduction to portrait photography / Roswell Angier.

Series: Required Reading RangePublisher: New York, NY : Fairchild Books, [2015]Edition: Second editionDescription: 1 online resource (272 p.) : ill. (some color)001: 44077ISBN: 9781474222358 (online)Subject(s): Portrait photography -- Handbooks, manuals, etcAdditional physical formats: OriginalDDC classification: 770.92 LOC classification: TR575 | .A545 2015Online resources: Click here to access online Also issued in print.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction About Looking Self-portrait/No Face People at the Margin: The Edge of the Frame Behavior in the Moment: Picturing Eventfulness You Spy: Voyeurism and Surveillance Portrait, Mirror, Masquerade Confrontation: Looking through the Bull's Eye Out of Focus: The Disappearing Subject Darkness. Flash! Figures in a Landscape: TableauxCommentary: Digital PersonaeAppendices: Camera and Camera ControlsExposure and MeteringUsing Flash. AcknowledgementsCritical Bibliography Index.

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."-- Provided by publisher.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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Also issued in print.

Electronic reproduction. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. s2014 dcunns

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