| Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values |  | Author: Robert Adams
Publisher: Aperture
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Pages: 112
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Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0893813680
Dewey Decimal Number: 770.1
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Publication Date: June 15, 2005
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These essays address us in the quiet voice of a working photographer, an artist and craftsman who has thought long and seriously about his endeavor, who has tested and questioned his own assumptions in the light of actual practice. The result is a rare book of criticism, one that is alive to the pleasure and mysteries of true exploration. Written over a ten-year period, and originally published in 1981, this timeless collection of writings now includes a new preface by the author.
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 Classic August 22, 2010
Suvendu Chatterjee
The beauty of the essays reinstates that each and every frame/image has its own value. It gives the warmth and feeling while reading the essays. Robert Adams, like his photography writes as well eloquently.
Well written, very honest a bit conservative. June 18, 2010
John J. Falkenstine
This is really a book-let, something of a size common in old European Schools. The views expressed are honest but conservative, and overall its clear that the author lives in a somewhat "safe" academic environment and likes to resort to the standard referral method of using other photographers as setters of standards or at least, a base of reference. But, he does it knowingly and cracks at least one joke about it. It makes a very good read, and I worked my way through it in less than an hour. I would place it in a category perhaps of a "Zen of Photography" reading. For those photographers who are full of themselves this booklet will do no good. For those who perhaps, like to go on photographic quests, and thusly often question what they are doing, this book is a good read. The images shown are small and just act to prop up the essays, so they don't need to be supreme works of the printing art.
A good buy for the student and the expert alike.
A must read April 28, 2009
M. Dallos (State College, PA USA)
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A great read for anyone who is more than interested in photography. For those who have given this low reviews, I recommend reading this book, and then read it again and again and again. One day you will be out making photographs and it will click.
A True Gem November 7, 2008
Ikasumi (Tokyo, Japan)
This slender volume is my favorite among the many books I have read on photography - a subject about which I have found it frustratingly hard to find good, clear writing. This is a book to be read, marked up, reread, savored. Adams cuts to the heart of not only photography, but art in general. He is an outstanding writer - clear, unambiguous, and refreshingly free of jargon. Some may understandably fault the low-end quality of the photographic reproductions, but I found them sufficient to get the points across. The interested reader can seek out better quality versions of those photographers' works; this is not a book of photographs but one about photographs.
 Excellent October 30, 2008
Richard J. Matson (Arvada, CO United States)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Like Adams' "Why People Photograph" this series of essays is deeply insightful. Beyond Aesthetics as a philosophical discipline it is a deeply moving -trenchant, poetic-analysis and articulation of photography's largely unrecognized "deep structure" or force as an art.
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