it is not a textbook on how your camera works, on which lens to buy, how to mix up a developer or make an exhibition enlargement. in fact, it is not technical at all. there are plenty of good books like that already on the market.
but it is how-to-do-it book in an unusual sense.
its purpose is to sufggest how to look at photographs, how to understand them, how to think about them, and, as a result, how to use photography more effectively in your daily life. it is a step-by-stem appreciation course on photography, its basic principles and the characteristics which make it a unique visual medium.
in brief, On Looking at Photographs aims to answer the question: what is photography? and demostrate that photography is a rich, vibrant, complex tool in the hands of intelligent practitioners.
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