From: Dwayne Sandall (sandall@shaw.ca)
Date: 12/27/02-08:44:14 PM Z
Hi Shannon & Group,
I found a copy of Tony Sweet's "Fine Art Nature Photography" under my
Christmas tree. Some great images plus a fairly decent technical
overview of how the image was made. The images are of 'coffee table'
book quality so the non-photographers in your household can enjoy the
images (as my partner has, she found it neat that one of my images
was similar to one of Tony's ).
I really haven't had a good chance to read it yet, just done some
flipping through to have the opinion that it is a reasonable book
that seems to hold up to it's subtitle of "Advanced Techniques and
the Creative Process". Perhaps I'll get a chance to really dig into
it over the weekend and give a fuller report.
Till later,
Dwayne
>Before the winter holiday we were talking about some books that it would be
>nice to receive for a present. I wonder what books people got that they
>like and would recommend? I got a very nice one called The Book of 101
>Books: The Seminal Photographic Books of the 20th Century. I haven't read
>it cover to cover yet, but I looked through it. It begins with Edward
>Curtis's The North American Indian, and runs through Camera Work, many
>European books I had never heard of, Robert Frank's The Americans and on up
>to our own time. For each book there are a few images. Most of the
>reproductions are rather small, but the text about how each book came to be
>is very interesting. There is a huge variety of formats for the
>"photographic book." Some contain drawings, maps, a little text or a lot.
> YOu could use this book to teach yourself a great deal about the history
>of photography, by going to the library and looking for each book mentioned.
>YOu could also use it to start a wonderful collection of books of your own.
>
>--shannon
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