Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
Posted on May 6, 2018, 11:45 pm, by QT Luong, under
Books.
One of the best ways to improve your photography is to study a multitude of photographs. The photography book remains my preferred way to look at photographs. Since books are meant to be lasting legacies, the editing standards are higher than those applied in online publication. Sequencing and design elevate the work, reproduction quality can […]
Posted on April 8, 2018, 7:50 pm, by QT Luong, under
Books.
In the 1990s, as I was discovering Yosemite, one local landscape photographer served as an inspiration. It wasn’t Ansel Adams, but a younger large format photographer, for he was working in color and had created a body of work that felt original and personal, no small feat given the shadow cast by the elephant in […]
Posted on January 29, 2018, 10:13 pm, by QT Luong, under
Books.
A quarter-century ago, when I started large format nature photography, Jack Dykinga’s work was a main source of inspiration. His wilderness advocacy books on the American Southwest, and in particular the Sonoran, Mojave, and Escalante Canyons, used fine art photography as a means to document the land in a way both accurate and stirring. I […]
Posted on January 8, 2018, 11:55 pm, by QT Luong, under
Books.
How do you separate wheat from chaff within the several thousand photobooks published last year? Photographers, critics, curators, and journalists have been writing year-end lists of best (favorite, interesting, notable…) photobooks. However, each list is subjective and limited by the number of photobooks to which the writer had access. The meta-list is a methodology to […]
Posted on September 22, 2017, 11:10 pm, by QT Luong, under
Books.
I received the following question by email: “… I was wondering about the level of photography tips you offer in this book. I am primarily interested in learning some of your techniques (both while capturing the shot & post), and so that content to me is perhaps more important than the final photographs themselves (as […]
Posted on January 11, 2017, 12:33 pm, by QT Luong, under
Books.
Here is this year’s meta-list of best photobooks. It started with the Aperture Photobook Awards 2016 shortlist, and continued with Olga’s compilation of lists at phot(O)lia, which I encourage you to visit to follow the links to those lists. The methodology is the same as for my meta-lists of previous years (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015), […]
Posted on November 18, 2016, 12:15 am, by QT Luong, under
Books.
Yosemite, one the most popular and oldest national parks, has inspired photographers from its creation. Carleton Watkins and Ansel Adams created some of their most important work in the park. More recently, photographers as different as Galen Rowell, William Neill and Michael Frye left their distinctive visual mark there. Having studied many photography books about […]
The 100th anniversary of the National Park Service has finally arrived, and others have written more eloquently about the significance of the event than I could ever do. My contribution to the occasion is the photography book Treasured Lands. I view it as the 21st century version of National Parks Portfolio, the first photography book […]
Posted on August 20, 2016, 12:16 am, by QT Luong, under
Books.
Treasured Lands has, at least, finished printing last week at Artron, in Shenzhen, China. This post shares a few videos that should give you an idea of what’s happening in the book printing factory. We take a walk within the massive sheetfed offset printer. As detailed in The Printed Picture, offset printing remains the superior […]
Posted on April 22, 2016, 8:18 pm, by QT Luong, under
Books.
There are a lot of books about photographing a specific national park, but to the best of my knowledge, there are only two books about photographing all the national parks. Photographing National Parks by Chris Nicholson, 2015, Softcover, 232 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, $28 Photographing National Parks is a modestly guidebook-sized volume (5.5 x […]
