The Art Of The Photograph, Essential Habits For Stronger Compositions - Book Review

The Art Of The Photograph, Essential Habits For Stronger Compositions – Book Review

June 30, 2015 ·

Michael Williams

The Art Of The Photograph, Essential Habits For Stronger Compositions
By Art Wolfe & Rob Sheppard, Photographs by Art Wolfe
Amphoto Books
www.amphotobooks.com
ISBN 978-0-7704-3316-1 $29.99

In his foreward Dewitt Jones invites the reader to explore what he calls the three critical elements of the book, “the images, Rob’s text, and Art’s stories.” That brief synopsis explains quite well how this book is constructed. Art Wolfe’s images illustrate every point and topic in this 256 page softbound book. From the front to the rear cover, images collected by Wolfe from his travels across the globe have been carefully chosen to enhance Rob Sheppard’s thoughtful text. Art Wolfe adds his own insights in the first chapter, titled “Finding Inspiration,” but then clearly yields the penmanship to Sheppard in the subsequent nine chapters. Together these collaborators weave a well-documented series of instructional vignettes designed to guide the reader along the path towar...

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Michael Williams

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Mike Williams, is a hobbyist photographer, sometimes art show participant, and works as the head librarian of the Central Library in downtown Indianapolis. A passionate technology explorer and early adopter his first digital camera was the Chinon ES-3000 in the mid 1990s. He and his wife Debbie enjoy traveling with their cameras as much as they can and hope to someday attend a Luminous Landscape workshop.