Black and White Photography : A Basic Manual

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Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-04-20
Publisher(s): Time Warner
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Summary

One of the most popular and useful instruction manuals of its kindwhich has set the standard for nearly thirty yearsis now completely revised and updated, encompassing the latest photographic techniques, materials, and processes. Black and White Photography has sold more than 500,000 copies in its first two editions. The second edition (1982), currently in its twenty-fourth printing, still enjoys net sales of 25,000 to 30,000 copies a year. A popular, hands-on size, Black and White Photography is a bargain photographic how-to book. Past and present users of Horensteins books include the Parsons School of Design, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and MIT, in addition to continuing education classes and photography buffs who have discovered them through favorable word of mouth.

Author Biography

Henry Horenstein is a widely published and exhibited professional photographer and the author of more than two dozen books, including the classic texts Black & White Photography and Beyond Basic Photography,and monographs such as Honky Tonk, Animalia, Show,and Close Relations. Horenstein is a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he has taught for more than twenty years. He lives and works in Boston.

Table of Contents

Beginnings
2(8)
Camera Types
10(12)
Black-and-White Film
22(10)
The Camera Lens
32(24)
The Shutter
56(12)
Film Exposure
68(30)
Camera Accessories
98(14)
Lighting
112(16)
Film Developing
128(32)
Making the Print
160(48)
Other Approaches
208(20)
Finishing the Print
228(18)
Index 246

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