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The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: Dave (Isle of Skye) on January 03, 2013, 03:21:36 pm

Title: Lots of FREE books about photography to be found here..!
Post by: Dave (Isle of Skye) on January 03, 2013, 03:21:36 pm
Click here. (http://archive.org/search.php?query=photography%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts)

This is a good place to start, read the first chapter titled "The Thing That Really Matters" (http://archive.org/stream/outdoorphotograp00dimo#page/n0/mode/2up) yes these are mostly old books on photography, but none the less full of photographic wisdom.

Enjoy!
Title: Re: Lots of FREE books about photography to be found here..!
Post by: Tony Jay on January 03, 2013, 03:50:16 pm
Interesting.
Take a while to get through though!

Tony Jay
Title: Re: Lots of FREE books about photography to be found here..!
Post by: Dave (Isle of Skye) on January 03, 2013, 04:21:48 pm
Interesting.
Take a while to get through though!

Tony Jay

The site also contains video (such as "The Photographer" (http://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.46998) by Edward Weston) and audio texts and a whole load of other interesting stuff.

 ;D
Title: Re: Lots of FREE books about photography to be found here..!
Post by: wolfnowl on January 04, 2013, 02:27:58 am
Thanks for sharing!

Mike.
Title: Re: Lots of FREE books about photography to be found here..!
Post by: Riaan van Wyk on January 04, 2013, 03:05:11 am
Thanks for sharing Dave!
Title: Re: Lots of FREE books about photography to be found here..!
Post by: SunnyUK on January 08, 2013, 10:30:35 am
It's great that there are things which are free, but a link to nearly 2,000 articles chosen just for their inclusion of the word "photography" (but not photo, picture, image, camera....) in the title seems a bit general. Far better than 2,000 would be a list of the 20 books that YOU find really worthwhile to read.

(this is probably a good time to point out that I haven't read enough about photos yet to put together my own top-20 book list)
Title: Re: Lots of FREE books about photography to be found here..!
Post by: Dave (Isle of Skye) on January 08, 2013, 03:59:12 pm
It's great that there are things which are free, but a link to nearly 2,000 articles chosen just for their inclusion of the word "photography" (but not photo, picture, image, camera....) in the title seems a bit general. Far better than 2,000 would be a list of the 20 books that YOU find really worthwhile to read.

(this is probably a good time to point out that I haven't read enough about photos yet to put together my own top-20 book list)

You can never have enough books on photography, so you will need to make plenty of room for at least a couple of hundred books or so over the coming years, but my tip for a good place to start and a damn good read, would be - 'Galen Rowell's Inner Game of Outdoor Photography' (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Galen-Rowells-Inner-Outdoor-Photography/dp/0393338088/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357678235&sr=8-1).

Dave
Title: Re: Lots of FREE books about photography to be found here..!
Post by: Tony Jay on January 08, 2013, 04:02:53 pm
You can never have enough books on photography, so you will need to make plenty of room for at least a couple of hundred books or so over the coming years, but my tip for a good place to start and a damn good read, would be - 'Galen Rowell's Inner Game of Outdoor Photography' (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Galen-Rowells-Inner-Outdoor-Photography/dp/0393338088/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357678235&sr=8-1).

Dave
Galen may be dead but that is a fantastic read.
I thoroughly endorse this book - the fact that some of the technical information contained therein details information specific to film changes nought.

Tony Jay
Title: Re: Lots of FREE books about photography to be found here..!
Post by: SunnyUK on January 08, 2013, 04:24:31 pm
Thanks for the recommendation Dave and Tony. I have placed an order for a (used) copy of his book, and am looking forward to reading it.