The Print by Ansel Adams
I checked to see which book, The Negative or The Print were more worn out from use. I couldn't tell. The print helps you understand photographic paper and developers. And how to make a fine print with the simple controls of burning and dodging with or with out the use of two developers.
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Quiet Light by John Sexton
You may read all the photography books in the world, but I think you must also see great prints to help you relate to what a print is. Quiet Light - Fifteen Years Of Photographs is - my words WoW! I had seen Mr. Sexton images many times over the years in the Darkroom Techniques magazine and thought they were awesome, wait until you see the images in the book.
The last page, one line of technical information of each image in the book is very useful to see and play with
to understand the N+ and the N- of development with exposure. Fifty beautiful images for pleasure and study.Purchase
Listen to the trees by John Sexton
A beautiful book. Comments anyone? Purchase
Examples - The Making of 40 Photographs by Ansel Adams
Mr Adams shows by example. He shows a full page image, then he fully discusses how he shot the scene to get the end print. Ansel talks about his zone placements and why he did a N+ or N- development of the negative and why he used one or two developers to get the image on paper.
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Paul Caponigro Masterworks from Forty Years
A Masterwork of landscapes and still life subjects. Mr Caponigro use of tones is amazing. The use of the tone black is used so well I am still studying the sixty images in this very beautiful large book.
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Darkroom Cookbook by Stephen G. Anchell
If you love photography and want to go to the next control level - the control and mixing of your own chemicals for development, do get this book. The book list many film and paper developers, toners, fixers, reducers and intensifiers. You will understand there are no magic formulas, just how to use what for what.
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The Variable Contrast Printing Manual by Stephen G. Anchell
I have not yet read this book. Comments anyone?
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The Darkroom cookbook volume2 Film developing by Stephen G. Anchell
Mr. Anchell long awaited Film Developing book.
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Photographic Chemistry by Georger T. Eaton
A straight forward book, the chemistry of photography. Written by a research chemist who was associated with Eastman Kodak Company from 1937 to 1975. And taught photographic evening chemistry classes at Rochester Institute of Technology.
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View Camera Technique by Leslie Stroebel
I think one of the best books on How to Use a View Camera Book. Gives full information on view camera characteristics, movements, image formation, exposure, lenses, perspective, depth of field, film types, filters, exposure meters, exposure/development factors.
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Ways of Seeing by John Berger
My copy dates back to 1975 when a photography instructor Honns, told me to purchase a copy. Sometimes a strange simple book. From the cover:
Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that the world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know it never settled.
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Pricing Photography by Michal Heron and David MacTavish
Ever wondered what do you charge for this image when the someone wants it? Pricing photography helps you understand the business of photography if you are into stock and assignment photography. Great pricing charts.
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The Arctic Books
Our Boots by Jill Oakes and Rich Riewe
A beautiful book - An Inuit Womens's Art The Making Of Seal Skin Boots. Excellent drawings on how the material was measured and sewn for the wide variety of boots used in the Arctic. Beautiful color photographs of the boots - caribou, seal, polar bear, moose, eider duck skin.
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Sculpture of the Inuit An excellent pictorial and chronicle book by Mr. George Swinton - one of the foremost authorities on Inuit sculptures.
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Inuit Women Artists Twelve women artist and writers from Cape Dorset show and talk about their art.
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Inuit Dolls Reminders of a Heritage The history of the making of dolls - Inuit dolls using animal skins and cloth.
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Antikvariat Steven Ekholm Nyheter News ARCTICA from Sverige Sweden. A rare book list by Steven Ekholm listing past history of expeditions to Greenland, Canada, Alaska, Russia. This fine rare book list is not associated with amazon.com See Rare Book List
