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Damo Ward's Top 5 Photography Books

26/9/2015

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Damo Ward's blog is a fantastic resource for digital creativity and art related information. This is a guest blog post about his favourite photography books. 
When you’re looking at resources to help develop a new course or just out of personal interest, often you browse Goodreads or Amazon looking for that perfect book. As can be read in a previous post, I found websites that really helped me focus essentials for a GCSE Photography course. Looking across my bookshelf, I realised I had quite a few photography resources already. How do they compare with supposedly more ‘current’ information on the web?

Here is a quick round up of my top five:
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The Photography Book Ian Jeffrey
  • Paperback: 520 pages
  • Publisher: Phaidon Press; mini format edition (30 April 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 071483937X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0714839370
  • Product Dimensions: 12.7 x 3.2 x 16.5 cm
  • Review: 5/5 Perfect! Pocket sized and alphabetical for quick finding inspiration.
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The Photographer’s Eye Michael Freeman
  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Ilex Press; First Edition edition (11 Jun. 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1905814046
  • ISBN-13: 978-1905814046
  • Product Dimensions: 23.7 x 1.4 x 25.9 cm
  • Review 4.5/5 Superb for intruding design and composition creativity with the not-so artistic. Amazing examples.
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Teaching Photography Rand & Steven
  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Focal Press; 2 edition (8 April 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1138838543
  • ISBN-13: 978-1138838543
  • Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 18.5 x 2.3 cm
  • Review: 4/5 Includes advice for questioning, photographic technique & creativity. Edtech section will date fast.
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Collins’ Complete Photography Projects Garrett & Harris
  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins (7 Nov. 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 000750926X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007509263
  • Product Dimensions: 1.9 x 17.8 x 22.2 cm
  • Review: 4/5 Good catalogue of ideas and Quick Tips per section. Needs more Photoshop/Lightroom projects to be truly complete.
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Understanding Exposure  Bryan Peterson
  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Amphoto Books; 3 edition (7 Aug. 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0817439390
  • ISBN-13: 978-0817439392
  • Product Dimensions: 21.7 x 1.1 x 28.1 cm
  • Review: 3.5/5 Comprehensive but would have benefitted from being bundled with his book on composition and further aperture advice.
​What would be in your Top 5 Photography teaching books?

The original version of this blog post appeared on Damo's blog.
3 Comments
Jon Nicholls link
27/9/2015 05:39:15 pm

Here are my top 5 (in no particular order):

• David Bate 'Photography: The Key Concepts'
• Robert Adams 'Why People Photograph'
• Stephen Shore "The Nature of Photographs'
• John Szarkowski 'Looking at Photographs'
• Robin Kelsey 'Photography and the Art of Chance'

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Damo link
2/1/2016 04:41:06 pm

Thank you for sharing this; hopefully I can contribute moe in future. Nb my website has moved URL and will no longer be found at the above link. Please re-link to http://www.damoward.wordpress.com instead.

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Geraldine Edwards link
1/6/2021 10:11:12 am

These are all superb books! During my free time, I use it to read books and you know what? It helps me a lot to become a successful photographer.

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