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Train Your Gaze: A Practical and Theoretical Introduction to Portrait Photography Roswell Angier
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Train Your Gaze: A Practical and Theoretical Introduction to Portrait Photography offers the reader a comprehensive guide to the practice of portrait photography.
The text combines the theoretical with the practical and technical and is supported by numerous photographs of human subjects, both contemporary and canonical. It particularly stresses the presence of the photographer’s gaze, an integral part of what the picture is about.
Each chapter is accompanied by an assignment that allows the reader to explore an aspect of portrait photography in a way that is both structured and experimental.
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Key features
A detailed study of the art of portrait photography.
Discusses the importance of the photographer’s gaze as a presence in any image.
Illustrated with images by some of the world’s most influential photographers and artists.
Accompanied by a series of assignments, encouraging readers to experiment with different styles and methods of portrait photography.
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Roswell Angier is a photographer and educator. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. His images appear in collections at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Addison Gallery of American Art.
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Reviews
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'A very nice collection of the "best of" in historical and contemporary photography.'
Kathleen Parzych, University at Buffalo, USA'I find this text to be strong when discussing both technical and conceptual aspects of portraiture.'
Michelle Given, Murray State University, USA -
Readership: Module Readers
978 2 940373 37 6
216 pages
250 colour images
300mm x 220mm
Paperback
May 2007
