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Books

Comprehensive | Optics | Culture, History & Art Theory | Photoshop

For more on the art and science of photography, you can read some of these recommended books.

Recommended

* Ben Willmore
Adobe® Photoshop® 7.0 Studio Techniques
Peachpit Press / Adobe Press
2002
* Deke McClelland
Photoshop® 7 Bible
John Wiley and Sons
2002

 


Comprehensive

Here are some good books that cover a broad range of topics on photographic technique.

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Leslie Stroebel, John Compton, Ira Current, and Richard D. Zakia
Basic Photographic Materials and Processes
Second Edition
Boston: Focal Press, 2000.

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Richard D. Zakia
Perception and Imaging
Second Edition
Boston: Focal Press, 2001.

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Henry Horenstein and Russell Hart
Photography
Prentice-Hall, 2001.

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Barbara London, John Upton, Ken Kobré, and Betsy Brill
Photography
Seventh Edition,
Prentice-Hall, 2002

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Barbara London
A Short Course in Photography: An Introduction to Black-and-White Photographic Technique.
Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company.


Optics

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Sidney F Ray
Applied Photographic Optics
Third Edition
Boston: Focal Press, 2002.

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Rudolf Kingslake
Optics in Photography
Bellingham, Washington: SPIE Optical Engineering Press, 1992.


Culture, History, and Art Theory

These books are about the history and philosophies of photograhers, as opposed to about technique. Some of these are collections of photographs. Many are available at the Doe Library, on reserve.

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Liz Wells (editor)
Photography: A Critical Introduction, 2nd ed.
New York, London: Routledge, 2000.

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Gilles Mora
Photo Speak: Guide to the Ideas, Movements, and Techniques of Photography, 1839 to the Present.
New York: Abbeville Press, 1998.

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Therese Thau Heyman (editor)
Foreword by Beaumont Newhall
Seeing Straight: The f.64 Revolution in Photography
Oakland, Calif. : The Oakland Museum, c1992.

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Ansel Adams
Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs
Boston : Little, Brown, Boston, 1983.
Boston : Bulfinch Press.

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Sarah Greenough; Joel Snyder; David Travis; and Colin Westerbeck
On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: 150 Years of Photography
Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art ; Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago, 1989. Bulfinch Press.

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Brian Coe et al.
Techniques of the World's Great Photographers.
Secaucus, NJ: Chartwell Books, 1981.

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Helmut Gernsheim and Alison Gernsheim
The History of Photography from the Camera Obscura to the Beginning of the Modern Era
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969.

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Beaumont Newhall
The History of Photography: from 1839 to the Present
New York : Museum of Modern Art
Boston: Distributed by New York Graphic Society Books, c1982,
Boston: Little, Brown, and Co.

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Larry Bartlett with Jon Tarrant
Black & White: Photographic Printing Workshop
Rochester, New York: Silver Pixel Press, 1999.

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Vicki Goldberg (editor)
Photography in Print
University of New Mexico Press, 1988

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Jeff Wall (Editor), Arielle Pelenc, Boris Groys, Thierry De Duve, Thierry De Duve
Jeff Wall
London: Phaidon Press Inc., 1996

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Naomi Rosenblum
A World History of Photography Third Edition
New York: Abbeville Press, Inc., 1997

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Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Howard
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., 1985


Photoshop

These are books that discuss how to use Adobe Photoshop, an widely-used image-editing tool used for exposure compensation, color correction, cropping, image retouching, web design, digital art, etc.

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Martin Evening
Adobe Photoshop 6.0 for Photographers: A professional image editor's guide to the creative use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC
Boston: Focal Press, 2000

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Philip Andrews
Adobe Photoshop Elements
Boston: Focal Press, 2000.

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Deke McClelland
Macworld Photoshop 6 Bible
Hungry Minds, Inc., 2000

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David Blatner and Bruce Fraser
Real World Photoshop 6
Berkeley: Peachpit Press, 2001

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Dan Margulis
Professional Photoshop 6: The Classic Guide to Color Correction
John Wiley & Sons, 2000

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Bert Monroy
Photorealistic Techniques with Photoshop and Illustrator
New Riders Publishing, 2000

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Deke McClelland and Katrin Eismann
Photoshop Studio Secrets, 3rd Edition
Hungry Minds, Inc., 2001

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Adobe Creative Team
Adobe Photoshop 6 Classroom In A Book
Adobe Press

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Marc D. Miller and Randy Zaucha
The Color Mac: Design Production Techniques
Macmillan Computer Publishers, 1995

 

 

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