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| Image Makers, Image Takers | 
 enlarge | Author: Anne-celine Jaeger
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Category: Book
List Price: $34.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (4 reviews)
Sales Rank: 172606
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.1 x 1
ISBN: 0500286620
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.0922
EAN: 9780500286623
ASIN: 0500286620
Publication Date: May 28, 2007
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Product Description
Aimed at professionals and beginners alike: the first systematic attempt to find out how photographers of world stature approach their work, and what it is that makes them succeed.
This essential new guide to photography draws upon in-depth interviews with established photographers from the fields of fashion, art, portraiture, documentary photography, and advertising as well as comments from picture editors, curators, agency directors, and publishers who reveal what they look for when choosing an image.
The book first focuses on photographers' working practices, from how Mario Sorrenti got the inspiration to photograph a naked Kate Moss draped over a couch for the iconic Calvin Klein campaign to how the Dutch portrait photographer Rineke Dijkstra gets the best out of her subjects. What made the photographer start taking pictures? How did he or she develop a signature style? What is the process involved in going from concept to shoot? How important is postproduction?
Then the book turns to selection. How does the picture editor of the New York Times Magazine decide which photographer to commission for the next fashion spread? What kind of photograph, according to the Senior Curator of London's Photographers Gallery, is worthy of being hung in a gallery? What advice would art book publisher Gerhard Steidl give a budding photographer? Whether it is the question of what to look for in an image, views on cropping, or the pros and cons of color versus black and white, the shapers of taste give acute and useful accounts of their methods. 150+ illustrations in color and black and white.
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 Only half-way through and in Love with this Book! November 12, 2008
A great combination of interviews, insights, and images. Not technical information, just the thoughts of successful photographers, and their images.
My only complaint is that not ever image discussed in the interviews is in the book - looking them up online can be distracting to the flow of the book.
 Inspiring! October 8, 2008
This is one of my favorite photography books to date.
The interviews with many of the top photographers alive today are really well done and their answers are inspiring and thought provoking.
I return to the book once in a while when I need a dose of inspiration :)
I highly recommend it!
My Favorite Book...Ever January 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love it. Wonderful, inspiring interviews with some of the best photographers alive today. Especially interesting are the interviews with Alec Soth and Anton Corbijn. You will not regret purchasing this, I just wish I had read it sooner! Beautifully put together and a great value.
Inspiring reading October 22, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was thrilled to find this fresh, new, exciting book. It is densely packed full of interviews with a diverse range of the planet's top photographers, and other industry professionals, who answer questions in an engaging and thoughtful manner. There are lots of great tips for budding photographers. A contemporary classic, and latest must-read, for anyone into photography!
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