Pictures on a page: Photo-journalism, graphics and picture editing by Harold Evans

Pictures on a page: Photo-journalism, graphics and picture editing Reviews

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  Nedislav

  Great book! Simply marvellous. Thanks to my art theory teacher Els Kuijpers.
  
  Harrold Evans created a very precise and easy guide to what a good picture is and how to treat it with respect. It came exactly when I needed to read something practical and I learnt a lot in short amount of time.
  
  He gives examples of composition, colour, subject and context. The images are good and bad, so you can see what to do and what not to do.
  
  Very entertaining and enjoyable read for all visual people, journalists and more.
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  Dev Tank

  This book was given to me at a time when I was still working as a photojournalist, but had gone freelance and was not working specifically for newspapers.
  The book changed my way of seeing, radically, and has influenced my way of thinking, critically on everything I shoot.
  
  It presents you with an established format of how to best represent your subject, and then adds the critical thinking support, giving you, the photographer, an insight into how the image will look as it appears on newsstands. This applies even today online and is especially important considering the vast amount of photography that now exists which didnt back then. A solid image is a solid image, and what makes it a solid image, if you think about whats in the frame, and add context and background knowledge this book shows you how to think through before pressing the button.
  
  It is the most valuable photography book I have ever read.