Becoming a skilled professional in your chosen field can pose challenges if you lack access to relevant books. While there is a wealth of literature available on photography as an art form, certain books stand out as essential reading for everyone. In this regard, we have compiled a list of six photography books that offer significant value to students. However, before delving into these resources, let’s first examine the impact of photo education on students.
Photography can transform students’ perspectives
There is an excellent possibility of providing students with the opportunity for artistic expression. Photography can help students understand that their surroundings do not define them. With photography, they can alter their surroundings by choosing to see them differently. In learning to see life differently, they are learning to see the opportunities within themselves. Why is it necessary to educate students on how to take photos?
- Anyone can do it.
- Most children can access a camera on different devices.
- Photography doesn’t require artistic skills or formal training.
- Everyone likes to take or look at photos.
- Photography allows for growth in the technology sector.
Studocu has many learning materials on how to take photos correctly. This allows students to quickly and easily find the necessary learning materials. Also, below we have gathered six books about photography that every student should read.
“Understanding Exposure, 3rd Edition: How to Shoot Great Photographs with Any Camera” by Bryan Peterson
There’s a reason experts and beginners alike will recommend Bryan Peterson to you. He has a talent for taking apart key photography concepts and talking about them in a way that’s easy to understand. This book is a great primer on the basics of light that will teach you how to get the best results in all situations, freeze action, and more in film and digital photography.
“50 Photo Projects: Ideas to Kick-Start Your Photography” by Lee Frost
All the technical knowledge in the world is useless if you have no ideas how to use it. The book by Lee Frost is one of the best books for photographers. It’s filled with suggestions for getting out of your comfort zone and creating exciting new images. With impressive enthusiasm and energy, Lee Frost jumps from topic to topic. One minute he’s full of ideas for architecture, and then he discusses ways to capture fast-moving action. He also discusses scanning techniques, black-and-white conversion, and many other aspects of photography that you may not have thought about. You’ll be full of ideas and determination by the time you’re done.
“Extraordinary Everyday Photography: Awaken Your Vision to Create Stunning Images Wherever You Are” by Brenda Tharp and Jed Manwaring
Taking photographs is not just about visiting incredible places and pressing the shutter button. No matter where you live, a world of incredible images will be created on your doorstep. The book will teach you how to see the potential wherever you are and no matter what you use. It has tips and exercises that work equally well whether you’re using a DSLR or an iPhone, and the authors provide plenty of their images shot on all sorts of different devices just to highlight this.
“HUMANS: Photographs That Make You Think (Kindle Edition)” by Henry Carroll
The book can be tricky for beginning photographers, but it’s like a tour of basic photography concepts that does a great job of teaching and inspiring. The book is generously illustrated and easy to read. It’s quite possible that you’ll get through it in a day and then head straight for your camera.
“1001 Photographs: You Must See Before You Die” by Paul Lowe
It is an effective way to fill your bookshelves with great photography. Covering hundreds of years of photography, from the earliest photographic stages to today, this collection is sure to include many images you’ll recognize, as well as some you haven’t noticed before. It’s endlessly enjoyable to flip through, and it proves irrefutably how much photography has influenced our world. This book allows you to inspire yourself in the company of great people — there is no better way to do it.
“Peter Lindbergh. A Different Vision on Fashion Photography” by Thierry-Maxime Loriot and Peter Lindbergh
It is one of the most important books for a photographer and has virtually no text. It contains the outstanding work of a fashion photographer. This master has always tried to show women as they are without retouching or embellishment. Unfortunately, Peter Lindbergh died at the age of 74. This edition can be classified as inspiration. Every photographer dreams of having this book and having it in his collection, to browse it in the evenings and learn from the master how to make soulful and sincere black and white portraits.
Conclusion
Finally, we advise you to have a notebook/diary of smart and useful ideas and record there all the most interesting things from the photo books you read. So you can save and apply them in practice and not forget them the next day.
Editor’s note: We welcome this post from Vanessa Friedman. Vanessa is a content marketing professional, who previously worked as a marketing manager for a tech software startup company. You can reach out to her at [email protected].
Thank you for these reccomentations, I think I need to do a present to myself with one of these books :)