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The Art of Seeing: The Best of "Reuters" Photography
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Another stunning selection of the Best of Reuters Photography
"Photography as history. The peerless Reuters collection tells a multi-stranded story - of celebrity, hardship, normality, beauty and brutality - through the lenses of the world's leading photo-journalists." The Guardian
The Art of Seeing 2 offers a fascinating and visually stunning selection of pictures taken by Reuters photographers who have had the vision and ability to capture extraordinary incidents or moments of beauty. This new collection comprises a story with many threads: celebration, adversity, hope, triumph and humanity - and offers some of the most spectacular and significant images you will ever see.
The Art of Seeing 2 showcases the two essential characteristics of the top photojournalist - a nose for a story and an eye for a photo. This second installment of the fascinating and visually stunning best of Reuters photography collection features a sharper and brighter selection than even the hugely successful first edition.
Praise for The Art of Seeing:
"A tribute to the ingenuity and cunning that a photographer has to combine, along with an eye for a picture, in order to get a brilliant image." The Independent
"A veritable hail of the most powerful and evocative photographs to have pummeled the public’s awareness of news and events over the last 15 years." Metro
"A masterclass in the photojournalists’ art." Amateur Photographer
"…the raw, frontline images which catch the drama of history-changing moment." The Big Issue
"Pictures marking most of the world’s great events over the past 15 years, mostly of conflict, but also of great beauty, the work of masters of their art."
The Star, South Africa
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #32470 in Books
- Published on: 2003-11-13
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 192 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
"Photography as history. The peerless Reuters collection tells a multi-stranded story - of celebrity, hardship, normality, beauty and brutality - through the lenses of the world's leading photo-journalists." The Guardian
Reviews of the first editon
"A tribute to the ingenuity and cunning that a photographer has to combine, along with an eye for a picture, in order to get a brilliant image." The Independent
"A veritable hail of the most powerful and evocative photographs to have pummeled the public’s awareness of news and events over the last 15 years."Metro
"A masterclass in the photojournalists’ art."
Amateur Photographer
"…the raw, frontline images which catch the drama of history-changing moment." The Big Issue
"Pictures marking most of the world’s great events over the past 15 years, mostly of conflict, but also of great beauty, the work of masters of their art."
The Star, South Africa
Synopsis
"Another stunning selection of the Best of Reuters Photography" ""Photography as history. The peerless Reuters collection tells a multi-stranded story - of celebrity, hardship, normality, beauty and brutality - through the lenses of the world's leading photo-journalists."" " The Guardian" "The Art of Seeing 2 "offers a fascinating and visually stunning selection of pictures taken by Reuters photographers who have had the vision and ability to capture extraordinary incidents or moments of beauty. This new collection comprises a story with many threads: celebration, adversity, hope, triumph and humanity - and offers some of the most spectacular and significant images you will ever see. The Art of Seeing 2 showcases the two essential characteristics of the top photojournalist - a nose for a story and an eye for a photo. This second installment of the fascinating and visually stunning best of Reuters photography collection features a sharper and brighter selection than even the hugely successful first edition.
From the Back Cover
THE ART OF SEEING 2
the best of reuters photography
The Art of Seeing offers a fascinating and visually stunning selection of pictures taken by Reuters photographers with the vision and imagination to capture extraordinary incidents or moments of beauty. This collection comprises a story with many threads: celebration, adversity, hope, triumph and humanity - and offers some of the most spectacular and significant images you will ever see.
The Art of Seeing showcases the two essential characteristics of a top photojournalist - a nose for a story and an eye for a photo.
www.reuters.com
Customer Reviews
Superb book
I bought this for a present for my other half. He is an amateur photographer and i thought that he would appreciate it. As it happens, it has been appreciated by just about everybody who has picked it up.
It is as you would imagine, images of a powerful nature from the news photographers around the world. It is well laid out with information on each picture and dates / place information. Absolutely superb read.
One draw back is the quality of the full page and double page pictures. A good few of them aren't as good a quality as you would expect.
Not appropriate for very young kids.
A few exceptional images and a lot more good ones...
This is a quality book with some truly wonderful and though provoking images mixed in with a lot more less impressive but still very worthwhile pictures.
My only irritation is one that applied to most books of this kind: why print an image across two pages if the composition is ruined by the 'split'. I'd rather have a smaller but intact image please.
In summary: if you buy this you'll not be disppointed.
The art of the art of seeing
'The Art of Seeing' - a title guaranteed to make a person think twice about picking the book up. Surely it has got to be pretentious twaddle about images, or perhaps the same stuff one has seen a hundred times before. But then 'Reuters''. Mmmmn.
What a book. Absolutely lovely. I want to cut the book up and put the pages on the wall for inspiration. The photographs absolutely do live up the title. Without a word of explanation the photographs (no, not every one, but a lot of them) state what a photograph is. How it takes elements from a scene and makes the whole more than the parts. If you want to take photographs, buy this book and drool.
