A new recommendation comes from a Spanish author, Eduardo Momee, a recommendation that will not leave you indifferent. This is not a book like the ones we have recommended before, to give you an idea, this is a photo book without photos (except the one on the cover) And what’s so interesting about it?Todo. De fact, I don’t think this should be lacking in your photography learning, I tell you why.
Before proceeding, it’s a good idea to tell which audience they are speaking to so you can get an idea of whether or not they might be interested.
- This is not a book for those waiting for recipes.
- Nor is it a practical book that will help you find the best opening or exhibition.
- For example.
- Nor is it a book for those for whom photography is simply a way to record family memories.
- Accuracy of photographs.
It is a book for lovers of photography, for those passionate about it, for those who really want to learn capital photography, for you if you want to undertake an inner journey to discover what you are or what you want to become. to you if you think photography is a way of life, if you ever want to see your photos exposed or published, for you if you want to move or tell something about your images.
If you feel identified with this last description keep reading, this is an indispensable book, if you are more of the first you may want to take a look at our other literary recommendations that will surely be more useful to you;).
And yes, that’s the title. Include the word course because it does. It’s a class. Or as if it were. Well, this is a book that aims to educate new photographers. Although I consider the success of the title when it mentions “for young photographers?”Well, any photographer who starts should read a book like this, I don’t think it’s a book for young photographers alone at all, but for EVERY photographer who knows himself. You’ve been in this world for many years, if you haven’t followed learning similar to the one these pages propose, you should read it.
It’s not a cookbook, from the outside in, as it may seem, but it’s meant to travel from the inside out, as you try to explore yourself to find your own way of seeing and photographing what’s around you. Momee says it’s more of a question text than an answer.
It would be impossible to summarize its 160 pages and all the wisdom it contains in about 1000 words, but at least I will give you a brief introduction by chapters, with brief brushstrokes of some of the ideas I have pointed out in chapters. although there are so many others. But for that you will have to read the book ;).
A brief introduction where it tells you the right way to read the book.
A decision chapter, where through a few questions it will guide you to reflect on the type of photographer you are or want to be, configure our profile so that we do not confuse or confuse the public.
A small dose of visual history. A walk through the emergence of perspective to understand the first photographic revolution and how it affected photography as we live it today, the importance of aesthetic gaze and the advent of instant photography as another decisive revolution.
On the responsibility of wanting to make photography an art when the mere fact of seeing the appearance of the world on paper must be fascinating and sufficient. How the historical burden of comparing photography and painting still hurts us today.
Also about the importance of the photographer’s own background when photographing, to mean the world through a camera.
Focus on how to become better photographers, show not the world, but how we see it and the need to have something to tell to reflect it in photography.
Brief review of some of the great photographers who knew how to write and build with their cameras. An invitation to break old prejudices.
One of the aspects it focuses on is the need to be critical and analytical with our photographs.
Gestures and attitudes that tend to damage our photographs. We need to feed ourselves culturally to be better photographers.
About the need for confinement during photography and some enemies of good photography.
Eduardo Momee, born in 1952 in Bilbao, is a photographer, teacher and essayist.
She has made numerous exhibitions in different countries and her photographs are part of public and private collections, her images have been published in magazines such as Vogue, Style, Marie Claire and Elle.
For many years he has been linked to teaching, teaching courses, workshops and seminars. Afterphoto is your school. You can see his work here.
Tout. Je I think since my studies I had not used a subiluminator in a book, I am one of those who think that writing in a book is almost desecrated (#asisoyquelevoyahacer), but this time I could not resist. In the first few pages I had to take the pencil and it accompanied me and the book throughout the reading, there is no waste.
I think there is nothing wrong with this book, or maybe there is, depending on how you look at it? It takes time. The time has come to delve into it, read it correctly, I did a first and quick reading so that I could get an idea and tell you about it, now I will delve into a much deeper, slower one, savoring it, stopping at each paragraph and examining each one of the names that appear in bold, whether you know them or not, as the author invites. It may take months or even years, but I don’t care. This is the end of this book, learning and real learning is not done in two days.
You will find many publications that tell you how to take a photo correctly (in this one, of course, you know or will know how to do it), but few that speak to you with a frankness and depth like this. Being pulled from the inside and asking questions so directly.
If you like photography, if you feel that you cannot find your hole, that your photos are missing something and it is not exactly sharp or clear, if you want to deepen its meaning, in what photography has to say, you can not leave reading this little gem.
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