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

By:

Angier, Roswell [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Required Reading RangePublisher: New York, NY : Fairchild Books, [2015]Edition: Second editionDescription: 272 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781472525109 (paperback)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

770.92 23

LOC classification:

TR575 .A545 2015

Other classification:

PHO016000

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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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	TUP Manila Library	General Reference Section-GF Mezzanine	R TR 574 A54 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P00030643

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.

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