Mini Book Review: Why Photographs Work. By George Barr

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Mini Book Review: Why Photographs Work. 52 Great Images,
who made them, what makes them special and why.

What works: There are 215 entries, each entry has a main photo,
the author's analysis of the photo, the photographer's perspective,
a background of the person and the technical aspects.

if you are a Medium format or large format users, you'd be pleased
to know that more than 50% of the photos were taken in these
format, the rest being small and digital format.

These are mainly landscape, abstract and still life with a bit of
portraits thrown in.

In the example below, the tree picture was taken with a holga
while the portrait was taken with a hassleblad wit trix and then sepia toned.

I borrowed this book from the local Library.
it is published by Rockynook 2011. Author is George Barr.

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raytoei

 

[gns]

Did you like the book?
What did you think of the author's analysis of the pictures?

I saw this book come up in my Amazon account suggestions list about a year or 2 ago.
The title made me laugh (...what makes them special and why) and I never heard of the author so I passed.