Book description
Jay Maisel, hailed as one of the most brilliant, gifted
photographers of all time, is much more than that. He is a mentor,
teacher, and trailblazer to many photographers, and a hero to those
who feel Jay’s teaching has changed the way they see and
create their own photography. He is a living legend whose work is
studied around the world, and whose teaching style and presentation
garner standing ovations and critical acclaim every time he takes
the stage.
Now, for the first time ever, Jay puts his amazing insights and
learning moments from a lifetime behind the lens into a book that
communicates the three most important aspects of street
photography: light, gesture, and color. Each page unveils something
new and challenges you to rethink everything you know about the
bigger picture of photography. This isn’t a book about
f-stops or ISOs. It’s about seeing. It’s about being
surrounded by the ordinary and learning how to find the
extraordinary. It’s about training your mind, and your eyes,
to see and capture the world in a way that delights, engages, and
captivates your viewers, and there is nobody that communicates
this, visually or through the written word, like Jay Maisel.
Light, Gesture & Color is the seminal work of one of the true
photographic geniuses of our time, and it can be your key to
opening another level of understanding, appreciation, wonder, and
creativity as you learn to express yourself, and your view of the
world, through your camera. If you’re ready to break through
the barriers that have held your photography back and that have
kept you from making the types of images you’ve always
dreamed of, and you’re ready to learn what photography is
really about, you’re holding the key in your hands at this
very moment.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Light
- Gesture
-
Color
- Things Not to Do
- Lousy Painter
- Joy
- Reverse Shadows
- Keep Moving
- Context
- Think Revelation, Not Replication
- New Viewpoint
- Something New
- If It Fascinates You, Keep at It
- Jobs Can Be Fun
- Carry the Damn Camera
- Bad Light at Noon 1
- Bad Light at Noon 2
- Bad Light at Noon 3
- Bad Light at Noon 4
- Bad Light at Noon 5
- Surprise Light
- Less Is More
- Questions
- Wander Around
- I Am Technically Challenged
- Two Out of Three Is Not Bad
- Ready, Aim…
- Have You Learned Nothing?
- Be Open
- The Problem at the Tetons
- Keep Going Back
- Gifts
- The Background Is Also Yours
- Open Shade Light
- Saving the Child
- Background Could Be Better
- Not Enough Lens to Get Closer
- Look Around
- Light from Below
- Less Is More
- Surprise and Delight
- I Miss 99 Out of 100 of These
- North Light
- Don’t Pose. Oh,Wait, It’s Okay
- Gesture Is Not Always Action
- Ambivalent
- 400-Year-Old Wall
- Be Very Specific
- There Are No Pictures in Orlando
- Long Trip to Shoot Fish
- Four Surprising Gestures
- The Details
- Make Some Notes
- Use & Abuse
- Snow
- Patterns
- Whole New World
- I Didn’t Really Want to Shoot This
- Using Compression with Your Lens
- Opening Up Space
- Context 1
- Context 2
- Shoot It Forever
- The Gesture of Space
- The Gesture of Space 2
- Gesture of a City
- I Really Have to Get This
- Inanimate Gesture
- Different Universes
- Visual Contract
- Two’s Tougher Than One
- Train Station, Rome
- The All-Important Gesture
- Let the Subject Show
- Waiting 35 Years
- I’ve Been Influenced
- Shooting Without Breaking Stride
- That’s Not What I Meant
- Invisible Fence
- I Found Her Again
- Shoot It, Dammit!
- A “Save”
- No-Color Color
- Make Visible
- I’ll Paint It Again
- Finally...
- Wait
- “Well...”
- Guess Who Tells You the Shoot’s Over
- Full Color
- Colors, Not Color
- Color, Not Colors
- Forget What It Was, Look at What It Is
- Is It Light, Gesture, or Color?
- Colors That Have Lived Together
- Move Your Ass
- Garry’s Color Events
- The Players Will Come
- The Next Day
- Avoid Blinders
- What’s Not Really There
- A Little Knowledge Can Be a Wonderful Thing
- Spoiling Mystery
- Rushed Wedding
- Traffic Tie-Ups Can Work for You
- Got Anything Shiny or Red?
- Something’s Always Going On
- It’s All Spread Out in Front of You
- You Get Two Chances, Again
- Perfect Adobe
- Problem=Solution
- Luck
- Stop Planning
- Crop in the Camera as Much as Possible
- Five Hours of Nothing
- Something New
- Black and White and Color
- There Are No Rules
- Bizarre Sunrise
- Index
Product information
- Title: Light, Gesture, and Color
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2014
- Publisher(s): New Riders
- ISBN: 9780134033013
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