Train Your Gaze: A Practical and Theoretical Introduction to Portrait Photography

by Roswell Angier

Overview

Train Your Gaze to create breathtaking photographic portraits

*Easy-to-use format—use as a course in portraiture or for handy tips

*Packed with inspiring images from top photographers

*Practical advice plus clear theory

Learn to take beautiful, surprising, stunning portraits with Train Your Gaze. Author Roswell Angier, a renowned photographer and portraitist, explores the theory and the practice of shooting human subjects in this practical guide. The easy-to-navigate format allows the reader to use the book as a cover-to-cover, step-by-step course in portrait photography, or as a handy reference for setting up specific shots—or both. Technical talk is kept to a minimum; the emphasis is on creating remarkable portraits in many different ways. Illustrated with images from some of the world's most influential photographers and artists, Train Your Gaze is sure to train photographers everywhere to think about portraits in a bold new way.

Roswell Angier's work is held in many prestigious museums and galleries, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Smithsonian Institution, the Addison Gallery of American Art, and private collections around the world. He is represented by Tom Gitterman Gallery in New York. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474239165
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	01/29/2015
Series:	Required Reading Range
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	90 MB
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About the Author

Roswell Angier is currently a faculty member at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA. Roswell has enjoyed a rewarding career as both a photographer and educator, and has worked as a freelance magazine photographer and been a partner in a co-operative photographic agency in New York. Many of his images are held in prestigious collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Smithsonian Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art and private collections around the world.

Table of Contents

Introduction About Looking Self-portrait/No Face People at the Margin: The Edge of the Frame Behavior in the Moment: Picturing Eventfulness You Spy: Voyeurism and Surveillance Portrait, Mirror, Masquerade Confrontation: Looking through the Bull's Eye Out of Focus: The Disappearing Subject Darkness. Flash! Figures in a Landscape: TableauxCommentary: Digital PersonaeAppendices: Camera and Camera ControlsExposure and MeteringUsing Flash. AcknowledgementsCritical Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

This book is a truly unique and valuable contribution to the field. It is not only a history, but also a theoretical analysis of the problem of portraiture, as well as a guide to the practice of making imagery itself. . . It is exceptionally well illustrated with contemporary and historical work, and is very catholic in its approach to the medium and the multiple concerns of portraiture in the numerous genres of camera image making.

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