Photography

Train Your Gaze: A Practical and Theoretical Introduction to Portrait Photography

Roswell Angier

Train Your Gaze: A Theoretical and Practical Introduction to Portrait Photography offers the student a comprehensive guide to the practice of portrait photography. The text combines the theoretical with the practical and technical and is supported by numerous photographs of human subjects both contemporary and canonical.

It particularly stresses the presence of the photographer’s gaze, an integral part of what the picture is about. Each chapter is accompanied by an assignment that allows the student to explore an aspect of portrait photography in a way that is both structured and experimental.

Key features

• A detailed study of the art of portrait photography, discussing the importance of the photographer’s gaze as a presence in any image.
• Illustrated with images by some of the world’s most influential photographers and artists.
• Accompanied by a series of student assignments, encouraging a student to experiment with different styles and methods of portrait photography.

Readership: Advanced

• These titles are designed to support specialized modules of degree courses and provide a platform for further exploration of the subject matter.
• This title is an ideal core text for portrait photography modules, and will prove a useful reference tool at any academic level.

Well written in an engaging manner and treats the subject seriously and in an interesting way. Good, clear assignments at the end of each chapter.

Don Fitzpatrick, Coventry University, UK

978 2 940373 37 6

$49.95 srp

192 pages
250 colour images
300mm x 200mm
Paperback with flaps

Spring 2007