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Default What is The Best Book
I am looking for a good book about photography.
What are your suggestions please.
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Old 06-10-2009, 05:53 PM
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That's quite a broad remit

Could you be more specific?
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The best book ever made is and will be, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" Period.
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For a general photography book, I've heard nothing but good things about Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson, I believe. I haven't read it personally but from the sounds of it, this book does a very good job about what goes into and makes a picture.
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That is a good one on composition http://www.amazon.co.uk/Photographic.../dp/0817454276
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M.J. Langford at Focal Press
Has written good books for at least the last 30 years.

He was a teacher at London Royal Academy of Photography.
I still have 2 books from the 70's, in those 2 books there was almost everything to be learned about photography.

Also some great books from Ansel Adams.

Oups almost forgot about Scott Kelby..has written around 50 books so far.
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Edward Weston's Daybooks.
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This was discussed over here in this thread
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"Photography for the Joy of It" and "Photography and the Art of Seeing" by Freeman Patterson.
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