Books like Edward Weston by Brett Abbott

A seminal collection of essays by Susan Sontag that examines photography’s history, meaning and role in capitalist societies.

Guide to crafting compelling digital photographs through disciplined design, composition, and post‑processing techniques.

109 pages : 22 cm

An illustrated autobiography about Ansel Adams’ dedication, adventures, and achievements in landscape photography and environmental conservation in the United States National Parks. This book focuses on Adams' wisdom and concern for human beings and nature.

Sixty portraits of twentieth-century Germans.

Henri Cartier-Bresson, at eighty-six, is the old master of European photography. Paris - the city and its people - has pervaded his work ever since he first exchanged his paintbrushes for a camera, influenced by the Surrealist movement of the late 1920s. A propos de Paris presents the photographer's personal selection of more than 130 of his best photographs of Paris, taken over fifty years. As ever, his vision transforms photojournalism into high art, revealing images of Paris with a rare, dreamlike, almost crystalline clarity. He unfolds before our eyes a kind of intellectual reconstruction of the city, reaching far beyond the cliches of tourism and popular myth. Accompanying texts by Vera Feyder and Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues discuss the history of Cartier-Besson's engagement with the city and its place in his achievement. This is a unique gallery of urban landscapes rendered by a great sensibility - Cartier-Besson's homage to the place perhaps closest to his heart.

"In 1933, Walker Evans traveled to Cuba to take photographs for The Crime of Cuba, a book by the American journalist Carleton Beals. Beals's explicit goal was to expose the corruption of Cuban dictator Gerardo Machado and the long, torturous relationship between the United States and Cuba.". "As novelist and poet Andrei Codrescu points out in the essay that accompanies this selection of photographs from the Getty Museum's collection, Evans's photographs are the work of an artist whose temperament was distinctly at odds with Beals's impassioned rhetoric. Evans's photographs of Cuba were made by a young, still maturing artist who - as Codrescu argues - was just beginning to combine his early, formalist aesthetic with the social concerns that would figure prominently in his later work."--BOOK JACKET.

A thirty‑year survey of photographs that defy the traditional portrait, featuring faces averted, obscured or eyes closed, collected by W. M. Hunt and showcasing works by Avedon, Arbus, Cunningham, Klein, Mapplethorpe, and Frank.

Veteran photographer Bryan Peterson simplifies exposure, covering light fundamentals, aperture, shutter speed, and their interactions, plus advanced topics like flash, gels, and star trails.

A biographical guide and comprehensive catalogue of Julia Margaret Cameron (1815‑1879), the pioneering English photographer whose close‑up portraits of contemporary celebrities and mythic subjects influenced the direction of modern photography.

Bruce Barnbaum’s celebrated photography guide, now in its latest edition, balances technical depth with artistic vision, offering clear explanations of composition and creative expression supported by his renowned imagery.