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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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How to learn from photography books (the unseen, Saul Leiter) (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by FloralChesterfield@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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I recently bought the unseen by Saul Leiter, beautiful book with a lot of great photos.

I am curious though as someone who’s never taken a photography class, what are the best ways to learn from a book like this?

-what should I be looking for? -compositions? -should I be trying to guess how he took certain shots? -the lighting?

Any tips would be helpful as I love his style and I love street photography and would love to be able to learn from this book rather than simply appreciate the beautiful photos… or maybe that’s just part of it?

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[–] FloralChesterfield@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for this, any other photographers you'd like to suggest please do. I'm trying to be a sponge here.

[–] manjamanga@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

There are... a lot of them.

In no particular order... Paul Strand, Ralph Gibson, Diane Arbus, Sebastião Salgado, Ansel Adams, Alfred Stieglitz, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Josef Koudelka, Marvin Newman, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Robert Frank, Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis, Eduardo Gageiro, William Klein, Richard Avedon, William Eggleston, Saul Leiter, Anton Corbijn, Fan Ho, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Michael Kenna...

That's just the tip of the iceberg. Look those up and others will come up.