what's a good photography book?

[pbwhite]

can anyone suggest a good photography book for a beginning photographer that doesn't know anything?

 

[hobbes28]

John Hedgecoe's New Book of Photography

or

John Hedgecoe's New Manual of Photography

 

[Digital Matt]

I 2nd that.

 

[Slowboat]

I highly recommend "Photography" by Barbara London & John Upton. This book is in its 7th edition and is widely used in photography classrooms and is a required course book for students.

[ame]http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0130282715/qid=1089868518/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/104-5720196-4635105?v=glance&s=books&n=507846[/ame]

 

[danalec99]

You could also consider these two books by Bryan F. Paterson:

1. Learning to See Creatively: Design, Color & Composition in Photography
2. Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs

 

[ksmattfish]

I have 3 Henry Horenstein books that I highly recommend:

Black And White Photography
Beyond Basic Photography
Color Photography

These books could be the textbooks for the Photog 101, Photog 102, and Color Photog classes I took in college. Horenstein probably explains it better than my teachers did.

 

[garry]

Do either of these books cover digital photography? If not can anyone recommend a good book for new digital users?

 

[garry]

Do either of these books cover digital photography? If not can anyone recommend a good book for new digital users?

 

[hobbes28]

Yup. John puts out a new book about every two years to cover the new things.

 

[Artemis]

Dummies Guids are fantastic books.

I recently got a decent book for £2 or about cause i bought it in america, its very good.

But yeah, dummies guids are very good.

 

[Soulreaver]

Do either of these books cover digital photography? If not can anyone recommend a good book for new digital users?

The one slowboat recommended does.I have that one and I like it very much.
Now I have beyond basic photography from Horenstein coming too, but it hasnt arrived yet