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TEXTBOOKS for
Intermediate Photography Courses


The Elements of Photography: Understanding and Creating Sophisticated Images

The Elements of Photography: Understanding and Creating Sophisticated Images, 2nd Edition
Angela Faris Belt
ISBN: 978-0-240-81515-2

Photographic technology is evolving at an ever-accelerating rate. In order to excel at this complex craft, students need to master both creative vision as well as technical skills to produce images that are visually inspiring as well as technically accurate.

In this highly visual, informative new book, Angela Faris Belt discusses the four crucial elements of photography that are essential for successful technical and conceptual image-making... [more]

Perception and Imaging: Photography--A Way of Seeing, 3rd Edition

Perception and Imaging: Photography—A Way of Seeing, 3rd Edition
Richard D Zakia
ISBN: 978-0-240-80930-4

How do you experience a photograph? What do you want a viewer to feel when they look at your image? Perception and Imaging explains how we see and what we don’t see. Relevant psychological principles will help you predict your viewer’s emotional reaction to your photographic images, giving you more power, control, and tools for communicating your desired message. Knowing how our minds work helps photographers, graphic designers, videographers, animators, and visual communicators both create and critique sophisticated works of visual art. Benefit from this insight in your work... [more]

Photography Courses
To find textbooks, click the course headings below.

Photojournalism courses:

  • Photojournalism

Introductory Photography courses:

  • Exploring Color Photography
  • Photographic Composition
  • Langford's Basic Photography
  • Digital Photography Best Practices and Workflow
  • Langford's Starting Photography

Intermediate Photography courses:

  • Perception and Imaging
  • The Elements of Photography

Advanced Photography courses:

  • The Elements of Photography
  • Langford's Advanced Photography
  • Photographic Possibilities
  • Exhibiting Photography
  • Perception and Imaging

Traditional Photography courses:

  • The Elements of Photography
  • The Darkroom Cookbook
  • John Hedgecoe's New Introductory Photography Course

Photographic Lighting courses:

  • Light, Science, and Magic
  • Stoppees’ Guide to Photograph yand Light
  • Digital Photography

Theory courses:

  • Photography as Activism
  • The Elements of Photography
  • Perception and Imaging
  • Basic Critical Theory for Photographers

Studio Photography courses:

  • Studio Photography: Essential Skills

Digital Photography courses:

  • Digital Collage and Painting
  • Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers: The Ultimate Workshop
  • Photoshop CS5: Essential Skills
  • How to Cheat in Photoshop CS5
  • Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers: A Professional Image Editor's Guide to the Creative Use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC
  • Black and White in Photoshop CS4
  • The Photoshop Lightroom Workbook

Alternative Processes courses:

  • Pinhole Photography

Composition courses:

  • The Elements of Photography

Graphic Art/Graphic Design courses:

  • 3D in Photoshop
  • How to Cheat in Photoshop CS5


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