Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgement (The Sources of modern photography) |
 | Author: Henry Poore
Publisher: Ayer Co Pub
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 3622428
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 282
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0405096526
Dewey Decimal Number: 770.11
EAN: 9780405096525
ASIN: 0405096526
Publication Date: June 1979
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Customer Reviews:
Long Version of Poore's Explanations June 6, 2006
Shock Writer (Knoxville, Tennessee United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A longer version (282 pages of small type) of Poore's Pictorial Composition book and worth the read though the shorter one (104 pages of larger type) ISBN: 0486233588 is easier to read and summarizes well. This long version is worth reading for art lovers and practitioners who want to know it all.
Poore is the only author I know of that has a reasonably complete list of composition strategies. He lists the rules that other writers say everyone knows but then they don't tell you what what they are!
Thankfully not a modern day "vanity press" textbook but a fully realized theory of applied rules that an artist can really use. While modern day textbooks seem to be trying to obscure the information Poore actually makes sense of it. The best source of composition information I know of first written in 1903. This 1979 version maintains the voice of the original writing. Highest recommendation.
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