Name: How to Read a Photograph: Understanding, Interpreting and Enjoying the Great Photographers
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Published by Thames & Hudson, 2010, softcover, illustrated, index, 380 pages, 18 cms x 24.8 cms, some highlighting otherwise condition: very good.

Ian Jeffrey is a superb guide in this profusely illustrated introduction to the appreciation of photography as an art form. Novices and experts alike will gain a deeper understanding of great photographers and their work, as Jeffrey decodes key images and provides essential biographical and historical background. Profiles of more than 100 major photographers, including Alfred Stieglitz, Bill Brandt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Paul Strand, Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, highlight particular examples of styles and movements throughout the history of the medium. Each entry includes a concise biography along with an illuminating discussion of key works and nuggets of contextual information."" "How to Read a Photograph: Lessons from Master Photographers" is the third book in Abrams successful series that includes "How to Read a Painting" and "How to Read a Modern Painting."

This is, so far, the best book of its type I've encountered. Ian Jeffery selects photographers from the earliest technical explorers to very recent members of the photographic pantheon... and a few along the decades that most of us have never heard of... for an exposition of how to view the pictures in both their personal and historic contexts. Unlike most authors in the survey of photographic history realm, he provides enough biographical and sociological background along with technical information that the analysis of the pictures makes sense. Irrelevancies like dates of gallery shows don't appear and useful but distracting bibliographies and provenance info appear as appendices. There is a really useful index. Sometimes the discussions of the pictures point to small details that are actually important. Sometimes Jeffery is frankly but articulately subjective about feelings that enhance understanding. Bravo. I especially appreciate the presentation of Soviet era and post WWII Japanese photographers that are usually way under-represented in such volumes. An ass-kicker that puts the book over the top is the cover photo by William Eggleston. Every element of this picture below the type lines has something to be seen. Look in every corner.

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