101 Quick and Easy Ideas Taken from the Master Photographers of the Twentieth Century.
Title:
101 Quick and Easy Ideas Taken from the Master Photographers of the Twentieth Century.
Author:
Bamberg, Matthew.
ISBN:
9781435455870
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (254 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- CHAPTER 1 Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) -- Barbershop Photography -- Building Soup -- The Power of Negative Space -- CHAPTER 2 Ansel Adams (1902-1984) -- Photographing and Photoshopping Trees -- Redefining Sky -- Reflecting Freeway Light in Black and White -- Perspective Revised -- CHAPTER 3 Robert Adams (1937- ) -- Black Smoke -- Smoggy Light -- Scrawling in Pristine Lands -- CHAPTER 4 Eugène Atget (1857-1927) -- Le Cirque Shadows -- Catch the Right Angle -- CHAPTER 5 Bill Brandt (1904-1983) -- The Wet Cobblestone Street -- Human Body Parts Close-Ups -- CHAPTER 6 Brassaï (1899-1984) -- Surrealist Graffiti -- Paris (or Any Big City) at Night -- CHAPTER 7 Harry Callahan (1912-1999) -- Vast Landscapes with Tiny People -- Minimalist Windows -- CHAPTER 8 Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) -- Moving Group of People -- Kids Playing a Game with Spectators -- CHAPTER 9 Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) -- Details of Pattern and Form -- Zebra Skin -- CHAPTER 10 Robert Doisneau (1912-1994) -- Human Interaction with Surroundings -- Wait for Foreground Subjects -- Frame the Audience -- CHAPTER 11 William Eggleston (1939- ) -- Find Muted Color Tones in a Landscape -- Photograph an Old Car with an Added Extra -- Photograph a Bright Color Indoors -- Find Beauty in Junky Surroundings -- CHAPTER 12 Walker Evans (1903-1975) -- Find Showbills on City Walls -- Frame the Façade of an Old Storefront -- Isolate Interesting Windows on a Building -- CHAPTER 13 Lee Friedlander (1934- ) -- Frame Scenes That Other Photographers Avoid -- Use a Fence to Add Lines to Your Photo -- CHAPTER 14 John Gutmann (1905-1998) -- Shoot an Object with Writing Covering the Entire Surface -- Place a Person's Back in the Foreground in a Two-Shot of a Couple Facing Each Other -- Shoot a Person Performing a Gymnastic Feat -- CHAPTER 15 Lewis Hine (1874-1940) -- Document Child Labor.
CHAPTER 16 André Kertész (1894-1985) -- Photograph Someone Reading -- Photograph Your Own Shadow -- Stage or Find a Still Life -- CHAPTER 17 William Klein (1928- ) -- Frame Soda Ads or Signs -- Photograph Active Children -- Make Images Grainy -- Form a Relationship, However Brief, with Your Subjects -- CHAPTER 18 Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) -- Photograph Signs of Poverty -- Shoot Inside of a Streetcar -- Photograph a Café or a Restaurant Counter -- CHAPTER 19 Clarence John Laughlin (1905-1985) -- Frame a Spiral -- Make a Double Exposure -- CHAPTER 20 Helen Levitt (1913-2009) -- Photograph Children Playing -- Make a Near Match in Colors Duplicated in the Frame -- Find Animals in Configurations of Three -- Find Chalk Drawings on the Sidewalk or Building Walls -- Find a Window with a Subject Looking Out -- CHAPTER 21 Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) -- Shoot the Heads of Statues as Profiles -- Make a Black Background for a Flower Image -- Frame a Subject Covering Her Face with Her Hands -- CHAPTER 22 Ralph Eugene Meatyard (1925-1972) -- Photograph Subjects Wearing Masks -- Make a Silhouette in Front of a Window -- CHAPTER 23 Lisette Model (1901-1983) -- Photograph a Pair of Elderly Women -- Frame Only the Bottom of People's Legs -- CHAPTER 24 Tina Modotti (1896-1942) -- Photograph a Large Group Wearing Hats -- Photograph Multiple Telephone Wires -- CHAPTER 25 Arnold Newman (1918-2006) -- Frame Porches with People -- Include an Arrow in the Frame -- Emphasize Shapes in the Frame -- Frame Clothes Hanging to Dry -- CHAPTER 26 Marvin Newman (1927- ) -- Take a Portrait of a Performer in Costume -- Catch a Passenger through a Bus or Train Window -- Photograph a Shadow Upside Down (or Rotate an Image with a Shadow in Photoshop) -- CHAPTER 27 Paul Outerbridge (1896-1958) -- Photograph a Gas Station -- Stage a Still Life -- CHAPTER 28 Gordon Parks (1912-2006).
Frame a Musician Playing for Money -- Find Patterns in Religious Dress -- CHAPTER 29 Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1956) -- Use a Variety of Angles to Photograph Objects and Subjects -- Photograph Repeating Balconies -- Photograph Buildings from the Bottom Up -- Make a Photo Montage -- CHAPTER 30 W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) -- Photograph Trails from a Moving Vehicle -- CHAPTER 31 Aaron Siskind (1903-1991) -- Place People in Motion on a White Background -- Find Abstract Art on Walls -- Find Abstract Art in Architecture -- CHAPTER 32 Frederick Sommer (1905-1999) -- Remains of Animals -- Frame a Landscape without a Horizon -- CHAPTER 33 Stephen Shore (1947- ) -- Photograph an Old Car in an Old Neighborhood -- Take a Picture of a Parking Lot from Above -- Shoot a Landscape of a Road with Two-Thirds of the Frame Filled with Sky -- CHAPTER 34 Julius Shulman (1910-2009) -- Avoid Converging Lines in the Frame -- Choose Indoor/Outdoor Settings -- CHAPTER 35 Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) -- Find Dead or Dormant Branches in Front of a Cloud -- Rotate Cloud Photographs -- Zoom in Close When Photographing a Celebrity -- Photograph a Reflection of Subjects/Objects in a Body of Water -- CHAPTER 36 Paul Strand (1890-1976) -- Isolate Buildings from Exterior Elements -- Photograph a Toadstool -- Find Architectural Shadows That Border on the Abstract -- Make a Fence Your Primary Subject -- CHAPTER 37 Edward Weston (1886-1958) -- Photograph a Lake Scene from the Top of a Hill -- Frame Vegetation against the Sea -- Find Programmatic Architecture -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J-K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q-R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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