How Photos Work

• Understanding the basics of perception
• Reflecting and understanding the impact of images
• Which photos are impressively good and why

Why do you like a particular photo so much? What psychological mechanisms are at work in the background? Why do some photos appear alive and how is this impression conveyed to the brain? And if a photo composition disappoints your expectations, where did these false assumptions originally come from?

You will find answers to all these questions in this book. Internationally awarded cinematographer Brian Dilg combines photographic fundamentals such as exposure, focus and composition with the latest findings from psychology, cognitive neuroscience and evolutionary biology. That sounds dry, but it isn't at all, because Dilg writes in an exciting and entertaining way. Follow this exciting path of discovery to learn how a photo "works" and how you can use it to make your own photos better.

Featuring the works of over 50 renowned photographers, from twentieth-century masters to contemporary pioneers:

Paul Caponigro, Martin Parr, Pier Paolo Cito, Hilla & Bernd Becher, Jim Brandenburg, Edward Weston, James Casebere, Kevin Lamarque, Elliott Erwitt, Matt Stuart, George DeWolfe, Pentti Sammallahti, Garry Winogrand, Steve McCurry, Michael Crouser, Bjarte Bjørkum , David Burnett, Dorothea Lange, Raymond Meeks, Ragnhild Kjetland, Josef Koudelka, Bruce Gilden, Pixy Yijun Liao, Elinor Carucci, Chris Bucklow, André Kertész, JA Mortram, Isadora Kosofsky, Todd Heisler, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Tim Hetherington, Damon Winter, Martin Schoeller, Stuart Franklin

About the author:

Brian Dilg has worked as a photographer, cameraman, author and lecturer for decades. In addition to founding the photography chair at the New York Film Academy, he worked as a press officer at Canon. His works have been and are exhibited worldwide and have been shown in the New York Times« and in »Time Out Magazine«.

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