Description:
"Renowned photographers and teachers Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb guide readers on a creative journey through the world of street photography and the poetic image as a path toward finding and deepening a unique photographic vision. Based on their popular international workshop, this creative couple interweaves real-world insight with stories that reveal their own creative process and influences. They touch on a variety of photographic issues essential to photographers of all levels and backgrounds, including how to photograph in cultures other than your own; how to capture luminous, poetic images in the world; how to work with color in a way that adds emotion to photographs; how complexity and creative tension affect the frame; how to hone a personal vision; and how to shape a growing body of work in an intuitive and meaningful way, one that enriches not only picture-making but also your life. This book provides rare access to the teaching and artistic practice of two leading photographers and is an indispensable tool for students, teachers and anyone who wants to take more successful pictures"--Publisher's description
The blind man and the bus -- The first photograph -- The camera eye -- Looking for photographs -- Tell it slant -- Walking and waiting -- The luminous image -- Color is emotion -- About blue -- The grace of others -- Meatyard's paradox -- Crowded frames -- I dream of journeys -- Terra incognita -- The unexpected metaphor -- Where the road is a river -- Mistakes as road maps -- Serendipity -- Lost and loss -- Metzker's shadows -- On creative tension -- The edge -- The antelope -- Lost in Istanbul -- Reading the landscape -- Novels as guides -- Obsession -- On text and images -- The art of failure -- On tone -- Being there -- The wisdom of re-vision -- Symphony and sonata -- Light like a bird -- Time as editor -- The attentive eye -- Asking questions -- On collaboration -- The visual refrain -- At day's end -- Living and dying -- Endings as beginnings -- The secret of life