Langford's Basic Photography: The Guide for Serious Photographers

10 best books like Langford's Basic Photography: The Guide for Serious Photographers (Michael Langford): Interviews with Francis Bacon, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship, The Photographer's Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, Understanding Shutter Speed: Creative Action and Low-Light Photography Beyond 1/125 Second, Digital Photography Masterclass: Advanced Photographic and Image Manipulation Techniques for Creating Perfect Pictures, Travel Photography: A Guide to Taking Better Pictures, Colazione sull'erba, Ensaio

Interviews with Francis Bacon

Author	David Sylvester
ISBN	0500274754

"Controversial in both life and art, Francis Bacon was one of the most important painters of the twentieth century. His monumental, unsettling images have an extraordinary power to disturb, shock, and haunt the spectator, "to unlock the valves of feeling and therefore return the onlooker to life...

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

Author	Oscar Wilde
ISBN	0140436065

Combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation, the works collected in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays are edited with an introduction, commentaries and notes by Richard Allen Cave in Penguin Classics.

'To lose one parent may be regarded...

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

Author

Gail Caldwell

In Let’s Take the Long Walk Home, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gail Caldwell has written a powerful and moving memoir about her coming-of-age in mid-life, and her extraordinary friendship with the author of Drinking: A Love Story, Caroline Knapp—fellow writers, AA members, dog lovers, and...

The Photographer's Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos

Author	Michael Freeman
ISBN	0240809343

Design is the single most important factor in creating a successful photograph. The ability to see the potential for a strong picture and then organize the graphic elements into an effective, compelling composition has always been one of the key skills in making photographs.

Digital photography...

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

Author	Roland Barthes
ISBN	0374521344

A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucida was first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of language or culture, acting on the body as much as on the mind, and rendering death...

Understanding Shutter Speed: Creative Action and Low-Light Photography Beyond 1/125 Second

Author	Bryan Peterson
ISBN	0817463011

The first book in the Understanding Photography series, Understanding Exposure, was a runaway best-seller, with more than 250,000 copies sold. Now author Bryan Peterson brings his signature style to another important photography topic: shutter speed. With clear, jargon-free explanations of...

Digital Photography Masterclass: Advanced Photographic and Image Manipulation Techniques for Creating Perfect Pictures

Author	Tom Ang
ISBN	0756636728

It's easy to see why digital photography has overtaken analog in popularity-it's affordable, convenient, versatile, and, above all, it makes photography more fun than ever before. Tom Ang's latest book is an in-depth, inspirational, and uniquely practical guide to every aspect of digital photography....

Travel Photography: A Guide to Taking Better Pictures

Author	Richard I'Anson
ISBN	1741041848

I ordered this together with another photography guidebook ( The Photographer's Eye ) right before my trip next week. I was looking for tips to improve my photography without having to deal with too many technical details (I only have a point & shoot camera anyway), but more from a composition...

Colazione sull'erba

Author

Luigi Ghirri

Luigi Ghirri (1943-1992) was an extraordinary photographer as well as a prolific writer and curator. He is considered to be the most important Italian photographer of the 20th century. Ghirri’s work covers a wide range of subjects mostly photographed in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy. His photos...

Ensaio

Author

Antonio Julio Duarte

The new book by António Júlio Duarte, shows us a sequence of images shot in the Summer of 2015, on the set of Colo, a film by Teresa Villaverde.
Ensaio – the word in Portuguese means both essay and rehearsal – is a melancholic study about the mechanisms of identity construction. It revolves around...

The Map and The Territory

Author	Luigi Ghirri
ISBN	1912339080

Through the course of the 1970s and 1980s, Luigi Ghirri pursued his extraordinary project, open-ended and mercurial, marked by empathy for the changing everyday spaces of his time. Over the course of his short career, Ghirri would produce a vast body of photographs without parallel in the Europe of...

The Exiles

Author	Josef Koudelka
ISBN	0500542082

This powerful document of the spiritual and physical state of exile now contains 10 new images by master of photography Josef Koudelka. The sense of mystery that fills these photographs mostly taken during Koudelka's years of wandering through Europe and the United States since leaving his native...

Sequentially Yours (English, German, French, Spanish And Italian Edition)

Author	Elliott Erwitt
ISBN	3832795782

In this unique book, photographic legend Elliott Erwitt presents a series of vignettes, each showing a sequence of photographs shot just moments apart. The characters portrayed vary widely: Erwitt captures everyone from infants to the elderly to dogs. The themes range from the buzz of street life...

1+1=1

Author

Daniel Blaufuks

Daniel Blaufuks nasceu em Lisboa em 1963, numa família de refugiados judeus alemães.
A sua formação dividiu-se entre a AR.CO, Lisboa, o Royal College of Arts, Londres, e a Watermill Foundation, Nova Iorque.
Desde "My Tangier" (1991), em que colaborou com o escritor Paul Bowles, que o...

Dialogue with Photography: Interviews by Paul Hill and Thomas Cooper

Author	Paul Hill
ISBN	1899235612

These are the classic interviews with the men and women who shaped so much of twentieth century photography. Ansel Adams, Man Ray, Brassai, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Andrés Kertész, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, George Rodger, Robert Doisneau, Brett Weston, W.Eugene Smith, Imogen Cunningham, Wynn...

The Digital Photography Book

Author	Scott Kelby
ISBN	0321773020

Scott Kelby, author of The Digital Photography Book (the best-selling digital photography book of all time), is back with another follow-up to his smash best-seller, with an entirely new book that picks up right where volume 3 left off. It's even more of that "Ah ha, so that' s how they do it," straight-to-the-point,...

The Camera

Author	Ansel Adams
ISBN	0821221841

Ansel Adams has a dry and terse style, I think I haven't read technical books with so much content per word, very little is wasted. This book is relatively small, but there is so much information that it must be read carefully.

Much of the book seems out of date, and it is, but even the things most...

Picture Perfect Practice: A Self-Training Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Taking World-Class Photographs (Voices That Matter)

Author

Roberto Valenzuela

This is the eBook version of the printed book.Foreword by Skip Cohen
Translating the chaos of the real world into a breathtakingly simple, beautiful photograph can often seem like an impossible task. With busy, cluttered backgrounds and subjects who don't know how to pose, how can you take control...