Opinion on Bruce Barnbaum's book

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Is this book any good? The Art of Photography. An Approach to Personal Expression by Bruce Barnbaum. Second Edition. I would like an opinion before I spend the money ordering this. I already have Tim Rudman's Master printing and Larry Bartlett's Black & White Printing workshop. Both of these are great books.

-- Mei Leng Lau (bohl-lau@erols.com), November 12, 2000

Answers

A great book expressing Bruce's personal approach to not only b/w but colour photography. Some advanced techniques illustrated with superb photographs. A book you can read cover to cover and then return and read it all over again.

-- Trevor Crone (tcrone@gm.dreamcast.com), November 13, 2000.

This is more than a "how to" book on simple photographic processes. It is as much the aesthetics of why things in photography work as how they work. I still enjoy and get great information from it. It was one of my first booksw on photography I purchased and I haven't stopped reading it. James

-- james (james_mickelson@hotmail.com), November 13, 2000.

Very stimulating. I have gone through it several times and it gave me new ideas each time. Well worth it.

-- Paul Harris (pharris@neosoft.com), November 14, 2000.

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