Art of waiting

August 10th, 2009

A week ago I read a post on Plop about this book:

Photography and the Art of Seeing: A Visual Perception Workshop for Film and Digital Photography, Freeman Patterson

I’m still waiting for the delivery and I’m very excited about it. As I interpreted what Cedric (the author of Plop) wrote, the book seems to be totally clean on technical details and completely dedicated to what you see. Kind of a open your eyes, it’s there, can’t you see it. You don’t have to travel to the other side of the world, to a place where everything is so different even a blind man sees great pictures. Just stay where you are and open your mind and eyes. Not necessarily WYSIWYG, rather WYS. All this is of course my highly personal and well biased interpretation of what the book is about, time will reveal if I was right. I hope so.

I can’t wait laying my hands on this book, I’m so eager I had to write a post about it. :-)

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8 Comments

  1. Paul
    Posted August 10, 2009 at 17:32 | Permalink

    I’ll be looking forward to your review. I like his work but, I must admit, I don’t own any of his books.

  2. Anita Jesse
    Posted August 10, 2009 at 18:08 | Permalink

    I enjoyed the book immensely. This is one that I go back to periodically—just to browse through and be reminded. I am eager to read your review.

  3. Ove
    Posted August 10, 2009 at 18:32 | Permalink

    Good to know, Anita, that you liked this book this much. This makes the chances even higher that also I do that. I will write a review when I have received and read it.

  4. Cedric
    Posted August 11, 2009 at 08:20 | Permalink

    I hope it lives up to your expectations and that you enjoy it as much as I did Ove. I’ll look forward to hearing your views on it.

  5. Ove
    Posted August 11, 2009 at 09:07 | Permalink

    Thanks, Cedric, I’m pretty confident in that I will like this one!
    The status on the Amazon delivery says I’ll get it in a few days, can’t wait to get my hands on it. And I will give a view on my experiences from it.

  6. Andreas Manessinger
    Posted August 11, 2009 at 13:04 | Permalink

    It’s a great book and it teaches seeing. Basically his credo is that great images are not bound to location, they are bound to an open mind. True.

  7. Thomas
    Posted August 13, 2009 at 22:16 | Permalink

    This book (and the other books by Freeman Patterson) are all-time classics. Wonderful, real marvels from all perspectives: the photos, the philosophy, the writing. Enjoy! (I’m sure you will…)

  8. Ove
    Posted August 13, 2009 at 22:29 | Permalink

    Sounds great, Thomas! The book arrives any day, now…

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