We buy this book with the initial intent to learn about the different aspects of street photography, the goal being to increase our practical knowledge. We close the book with the feeling that we learned way more than we anticipated.
David Gibson’s work offers more than advices. In order to make it more fulfilling for the reader, the writer takes care of adding twenty very interesting portraits of renowned photographer’s working method and interests. Those names include Blake Andrews, Johanna Neurath, Matt Stuart and Maria Plotnikova. The reader improves his knowledge of photography history at the same time as he acquires new tools that will help him in his street photography practice.
Photographing people on the street is not necessarily easy. It takes determination to carry out a project that will include a person, especially if you are not working with a telephoto and you want to capture a scene where all the faces are visible. The author explains what kind of preparation is needed and he insists on the importance of avoiding disrespect toward others.
But street photography is not only about people, although approximately 75% of those pictures include a person. Other subjects of interest are, for example, experimentation with objects, shadows, empty spaces, abstraction, photographing through glass or wet surfaces, etc.
The writer has divided his book into twenty projects, to which he added, for each project, a road map. The latter can be used as a concise guide every time the street photographer puts in practice his newly acquired knowledge. If he wishes, the reader can rapidly get to work, using the ideas proposed within the twenty different themes.
The book is easy to understand and goes straight to the point. If the reader wishes to dig deeper in a specific aspect of street photography, he is given multiple internet site references.
This high quality book will surprise you and certainly be an inspiration in the preparation of your next street photography session.
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Title: The Street Photographer’s Manual
Author: David Gibson
©2014 Quintet Publishing Limited
ISBN: 978-2-10-071135-2
Author’s internet site: www.gibsonstreet.com