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Dead Trees
-- Mani Sitaraman, November 29, 2001
Mani Sitaraman's comment is very valid. One of Sebastiao Salgado's pictures haunted me after seeing it
in the November 2001 issue of Popular Photography. The image showed three lines of people waiting to
receive clean water. Each night I picked up the magazine and would study the expression on each
person's face. The people weren't smiling, smirking, or even casual toward Salgado's lens. Instead, each
of them seemingly revealed themselves without guile, showing varied expressions of weariness,
concern, and even laughter. This can only happen when the photographer has earned the trust of the
people he photographs. Despite what some people think, Salgado is not just caputuring horrific human
conditions. For me, Salgado shatters the barriers that stop us from actually seeing one another. Instead,
of poor, backwards, miserable people we are left seeing human beings, like you and me, often living in
unbearable conditions. I recently bought Salgado's Migrations and Workers books. The books are
excellent from the stunning photography to the excellent print making and reproduction used in its
making. I have enjoyed these books enormously and in sharing them with friends.
-- Gary Przyborski, December 18, 2001
Manual of Photography, Photographic and digital imaging, 9 th edition
Ralph E Jacobson, Sidney F Ray, Geoffrey G Attridge, Norman R Axford
ISBN: 0240515749, Publisher, Amazon.
This book is simply wonderful. It is a detailed book on the physical, optical, chemical and otherwise
scientific theory behind photography (the authors all have a bevy of these wonderfully quaint British
learned society titles, in addition to a hefty list of PhDs and graduate degrees). Also distinctive is that the
first edition was published in 1890! I've been looking for a long time for such a book, that explains the
theory without patronizing a scientifically literate reader. If you are afraid of equations, this is not the
book for you.
-- Fazal Majid, March 26, 2002
Thanks Eduard, I'ze wondering if anyone was gonne mention that, but I can second that the National
Geographics Photography Field Guide is an excellent all rounder book with some really nice
inspirational photos and tips.
Natural Light Photography is also a really good inspirational book. Not everyones cup of tea as almost
all text is written in caption style to photos but I certainly found Jim Zuckerman's tips quite useful.
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