Ottawa Portrait Photographer- From My Bookshelf
Not sure if I’d call myself a bibliophile quite yet, but we all read a lot at our house, and pretty much every available surface will usually have a stack of books on it. Geronimo Stilton and dinosaur books for the kiddos, classics for the husband, and of course, for me, photography books.
I thought I’d recommend a few.
1. Annie Leibovitz: At Work
I was given this book for Christmas, and loved it. I’m a fan of Annie Leibovitz anyhow, but even if you’re not it provides a neat insight into the world of a working photographer.
2. The Tao of Photography: Seeing beyond Seeing
This is a book I’ve had for a little bit, but keep coming back to it to re-read and get a little more from it. For anyone who is interested in the philosophical side of photography. Warning- the cover scares my 3 year old and I have to keep it face down!
3. The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers
Essential and always on my desk.
4. The World’s Most Dangerous Places ( I think I have the 5th ed.)
Not a photography book, but also always on my desk… not sure why…
5. Saudek
The photography of Jan Saudek.
Beautiful, disturbing, surreal, inspiring. We spent a class looking at images from an earlier collection of Saudek’s work over 10 yrs ago- and I regret not buying that volume- though I would browse through it everytime we went to the bookstore since they had one copy. Now that particular book is out of print or something, and I can’t get it.
I’ve linked to Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeebar on Wellington where I could, and Amazon where I couldn’t. If you can order through a local business, please do so, it benefits everyone in the long run. I’ve ordered from Collected Works before and they were lovely to deal with- great little kids section in the back, too.
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