BOOK - Photography: Techniques, practice, aesthetics

To photograph is above all to take sides, to choose a point of view, a framing, a distance, a focal length, but also a device, a process, an editing. It also means exploring the various photographic fields, from portraiture to street photography, from old photography to current visual research. Such is the challenge of this beautiful book – neither historical work, nor technical compendium, nor pure practical manual – which offers for the first time an inventory of photography today. Addressing the various photographic and technical themes, it recalls a truth that is too often forgotten: photographic culture is as aesthetic as it is technical and cannot be acquired through tips and tricks, software or accessories. It is through practice and passion, by looking at and understanding the photographs of others, known or unknown, that one progresses and truly becomes a photographer.