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Can you recommend ... ?

Mon Feb 2, 2009, 7:54 PM
... a good book on photographic composition? Almost everything in my local library on photography begins with "This is your viewfinder" and ends with framing and the rule of thirds. I'd like to pick up a more advanced book about composition, but don't have a lot to spend on books right now and don't want to buy another dud.

Any suggestions?

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~TowardTheSun Feb 3, 2009, 11:53:37 AM
i doubt there's anything on advanced photographic composition but the rogue book exchange across from the batting cages on the road that goes to the airport has free books. they're open tuesdays and thursdays. :)
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~patrick-brian Feb 3, 2009, 1:39:45 PM
Um ... thanks. I'll look for it. Is "the road that goes to the airport" Biddle? :)

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~TowardTheSun Feb 4, 2009, 12:22:06 AM
i think it's bullock.
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~patrick-brian Feb 4, 2009, 4:30:07 AM
Damn ... I'll have to use a phone book ... or a map ... or something.

So much for laziness. :)

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~hazyraniedaze Feb 5, 2009, 12:03:09 PM
rogue book recyclery might have something- and its free. bullock road near fredmeyer and the airport
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~lll22T Feb 8, 2009, 4:22:22 PM
I found very interesting this book:

Roland Barthes
Camera Lucida: Reflections on photography

I think that composition in general is an implicite theme of this book. Although other views are possible.
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~lll22T Feb 8, 2009, 4:27:13 PM
find, not found.
it is a fenomenological work. but it is not a scientific writing. I believe you will like it. He was a french semiotician, philosopher and literary scientist/writer.
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~patrick-brian Feb 8, 2009, 8:45:58 PM
Hah! I've been meaning to read it for years, but had forgotten. I love the other Barthes that I'd read. I'll have to order a copy come next payday ... thank you!

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