Photography: A Critical Introduction [Review]

Photography: A Critical Introduction is an academic game of-catch up in the history of photographic development, and especially the debates around those developments. It was a good, exhausting read. The book, which is in its fifth edition, is on the reading list for the School of Visual Arts MFA. That means its heady and theoretical and …

Picture Perfect Posing [Review]

Picture Perfect Posing by Roberto Valenzuela is not a book about the perfect poses, which is almost useless to anyone but the faddist. It’s a book about the building blocks of them and it’s a very effective instructor. Posing, like the rest of photography, is not a set of hard and fast rules. It’s more like an …