Train Your Gaze: A Practical And Theoretical Introduction To Portrait Photography

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Learn to take beautiful, surprising, stunning portraits with Train Your Gaze. Author Roswell Angier, a renowned photographer and portraitist, explores the theory and the practice of shooting human subjects in this practical guide. The easy-to-navigate format allows the reader to use the book as a cover-to-cover, step-by-step course in portrait photography, or as a handy reference for setting up specific shots--or both. Technical talk is kept to a minimum; the emphasis is on creating remarkable portraits in many different ways. Illustrated with images from some of the world's most influential photographers and artists. Train Your Gaze is sure to train photographers everywhere to think about portraits in a bold new way.

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train your gaze a practical and theoretical introduction to portrait photography roswell angier train your gaze [ A Practical and Theoretical Introduction to Portrait Photography ] An AVA Book Published by AVA Publishing SA Rue des Fontenailles 16 Case Postale 1000 Lausanne 6 Switzerland Tel: +41 786 005 109 [email protected] Distributed by Thames & Hudson (ex-North America) 181a High Holborn London WC1V 7QX United Kingdom Tel: +44 20 7845 5000 Fax: +44 20 7845 5055 [email protected] www.thamesandhudson.com Distributed in the USA & Canada by: Watson-Guptill Publications 770 Broadway New York, New York 10003 USA Fax: 1-646-654-5487 [email protected] www.watsonguptill.com English Language Support Office AVA Publishing (UK) Ltd. Tel: +44 1903 204 455 [email protected] Copyright © AVA Publishing SA 2007 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without permission of the copyright holder. ISBN 2-940373-37-X and 978-2-940373-37-6 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Design Christopher Cannon, Eric Baker Design Associates Cover Image “Stranger, 1999” © Shizuka Yokomizo. Courtesy of Cohan and Leslie, New York Index courtesy of Indexing Specialists (UK) Ltd. Production by AVA Book Production Pte. Ltd., Singapore Tel: +65 6334 8173 Fax: +65 6259 9830 [email protected] All reasonable attempts have been made to trace, clear and credit the copyright holders of the images reproduced in this book. However, if any credits have been inadvertently omitted, the publisher will endeavor to incorporate amendments in future editions. train your gaze [ A Practical and Theoretical Introduction to Portrait Photography ] roswell angier 1 8 2 4 5 6 3 10 9 11 12 7 ............................................................................................................................................................................ contents How to Get the Most Out of This Book introduction vi .............................................................................................. ..................................................................................................................... 1 1 about looking 2 se