Saturday, March 29, 2008

Photography and the Art of Seeing

Freeman Patterson, 2004 [ Technique ]

This may be a thin book, but it is quite heavy reading. Patterson challenges the reader to break the barriers of seeing by "thinking sideways" and "relaxed attentiveness", two techniques he introduces to us in Learning To Observe. He then goes on the next chapter of Learning to Imagine and teaches us to use our mind's eye to gives us exercises on abstracting and selecting visual elements. Finally, Learning to Express covers the treatment of subject matter and thinking about visual design. 136 pages.


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