Photography Article August Photography Book Club: Photography and the Art of Seeing|Photography Artist Statement

Last month I wrote a post about the significance of accountability and counseled that "in case you need to enhance your pictures, you need to discover ways to interact and by means of challenged with the aid of the broader community. You want to be responsible." One of the approaches I suggested to are trying to find out responsibility is to just accept a challenge. So, for the month of August, I am offering you the undertaking to take part in an online photography book club.

This image was capture as part of a photography scavenger hunt.  Your photography grows in community.

The book for August is Freeman Patterson's classic Photography and the Art of Seeing. Suitable for any camera and level of experience, this book focuses on the concept of 'seeing,' encompassing everything from observation, imagination, expression, and visual design. It should be an excellent opportunity for all of us to reflect, practice, and expand our photography.

Each week in August we are able to cognizance on a exceptional set of themes from the e book:

• Week 1: August 1-10: Barriers to Seeing and Learning to Observe
• Week 2: August 11-17: Learning to Imagine and Learning to Express
• Week 3: August 18-24: Unique Properties of Photography
• Week 4: August 25-31: Elements of Visual Design

I will be posting updates about the themes and exercises each week, as well as reflections and images from the previous week.

There are several versions of Photography and the Art of Seeing

I wanted to announce the book club well ahead of its start to give people who are interested time to track down a copy of the book. Photography and the Art of Seeing was first published in 1979 and has been updated several times, most recently in 2011. The majority of the text is the same across different editions (at least the 1985 and 2011 ones), although the example images have been updated, so you can certainly use older versions. My public library has several copies or it is available (new and used) from Amazon. Canadians can even order from Freeman Patterson's own website and get a personally-autographed copy. If you can't track down a copy, you can follow along here with the weekly posts and reflections.

I desire you will don't forget joining in. I locate that regularly when I examine images books I breeze right through the physical games or encouragements to get available and shoot, so the instructions that I've found out from reading by no means get applied. Here's a hazard for all of us to encourage and motivate each different to translate those training into movements and to make strides in our photographic journeys.

Interested?  Considering joining the Photography Book Club Flickr Group to post photographs and add to the discussion.

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