Extended Reading from “The Photographer’s Mind” by Michael Freeman
Jun 14th, 2012 by ellen
A collection of links to material for extended reading suggested in the book The Photographer’s Mind by Michael Freeman.
Chapter 1: Intent
– Part I: Layers of subject
- Romano Cagnoni
- Abbas Attar
- László Moholy-Nagy photogram
- Otto Steinert
- Brett Weston
- Thomas Ruff Blue Eyes
– Part II: Looking good
- Edward Weston Pepper, 1930
- Velvia saturation
- Robert Adams
- National Geographic Pyramids cover</li>
- softbox lightbank
- ringflash
- shibui
- Beauty Check Regensburg
- Marquardt facial beauty
- Vitruvian Man Golden Ratio
- Devendra Singh WHR
- Irving Penn nudes
- Frederick Sommer dead animals
– Part III: Different Beauty
- Condé Nast Vogue covers
- Piranesi
- Caspar David Friedrich ruin
- Robert Adams
- Edward Burtynsky
- Irving Penn flowers
– Part IV: Dead Monsters
- J. M. W. Turner
- Claude-Joseph Vernet
- Thomas Moran
- Ernst Haas The Creation
- Kubrick 2001 star Gate
- Gustav Metzger Anschluss
- Romano Cagnoni ex-Yugoslavia
- Simon Norfolk military sublime
– Part V: Cliché and Irony
- Francis Frith Pyramids
- Jenny Holzer
- Andreas Gursky
- Wang Qingsong
- Francisco Asis Taos image
- Macchu Picchu image
- Bill Brandt nude
- Art Kane wide angle
- zoom effect photography
- Edward Weston Driftwood
- Paul Strand abstract
– Part VI: Lifting the Mundane
- Edward Weston toilet
- Objet Trouvé Surrealist photograph
- Atget Avenue des Gobelins
- Frederick Sommer chicken
- Jan Groover
- Irving Penn cigarette butts
- Fotoform Otto Steinert
- Martin Parr
Chapter 2: Style
– Part I: The Range of Expression
- László Moholy-Nagy
- New Color
- New Topographics
- Rudolf Arnheim
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging
- Photomatrix
- Neurobiology/Livingstone’s What/Where systems
- Jürgen Schmidhuber
- Gombrich’s “the beholder’s share”
- Chevreul’s Successive Contrast
- Part II: Classic Balance
- David Bailey
- Guy Bourdin
- Art Kane
- Pete Turner
- Complementary Colors
- Van Gogh’s Night Café
- J W von Goethe
- Part III: Harmonics
- Oskar Barnack
- IMAX
- Academy ratio
- 16:9
- Cartier-Bresson Geometry
- Leon Battista Alberti
- Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus”
- Jackson Pollock
(to be continued….)
