Hurn D., Jay B. On Looking at Photographs: A Practical Guide

LensWork Publishing, 2000. — 97 p.It is not a textbook on how your camera works, on which lens to buy, how to mix up a developer or make an exhibition enlargement. In fact, it is not technical at all. There are plenty of good books like that already on the market.But it is a how-to-do-it book in an unusual sense. Its purpose is to suggest how to look at photographs, how to understand them, how to think about them, and, as a result, how to use
photography more effectively in your daily life. It is a step-by-step appreciation course on photography, its basic principles and the characteristics which make it a unique visual medium.