The Creative Photographer: A Complete Guide to Photography

by John Ingledew

The Creative Photographer is a complete introduction to the modern medium of photography, designed to meet the needs of photography, art, and design students, as well as beginners who want a broad overview of the field. It approaches photography as an artistic medium for solving problems in visual communication, showing how established photographers and advanced students approach such typical photographic subjects as portraiture, landscape, still...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810992418
• ISBN13: 9780810992412
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: ABRAMS
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.6" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

A timeless introduction to photography

Ingledew's "The Creative Photographer" should be required reading for anyone picking up a camera seriously for the first time. Covers everything from the technical (depth of field, silver gelatin printing) to the psychological (the snapshot, persuasion through advertising), the history of photography from Niépce's first photograph to the digital photography integrity debated today. Most memorably, he writes about alternative and upcoming processes (pinhole photography, cyanotypes, digital manipulation) also suitable for the advanced amateur. In a word, this book is "timeless". I read this book for the first time in mid-2006, and since then, have read it many times through for inspiration. Flipping through the book as I write this review, such names come up like David LaChapelle, Duane Michals, Weegee, Ernst Haas, Andy Warhol, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ansel Adams, Hiroshi Sugimoto. These are the queens and kings of the photo world. Ingledew has an eye for selecting excellent photography and a mental clarity for the clear and concise written page.