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Author: Stephanie Calabrese Roberts
ISBN : 1454707623
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A partner and regular writer for the Shutter Sisters--a hugely popular Internet hangout for female photographers--Stephanie Roberts also offers her takes on professional photography through her studio, LittlePurpleCow. Stephanie pursues fine art and documentary photography and produces digital documentaries. Her work has been exhibited at shows including Mom 2.0 and FotoFest 2010, and she co-authored the recent book Expressive Photography.
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- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Pixiq; New edition, 2nd Edition edition (December 4, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 9781454707622
- ISBN-13: 978-1454707622
- ASIN: 1454707623
- Product Dimensions: 0.4 x 9 x 4.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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I guess I'm one of those Apple iPhone users who uses the word iPhoneography a lot. I spend well over an hour each morning taking iPhone photos down at our local beach and have been a part of this iPhoneography movement for a few years now. I love my iPhone and I'm sure you know someone who is as fascinated with it as I am.
iPhoneography grew out of the iPhone's ability to process and organize our snaps, and to share these photos via social media. Cell-friendly internet sites such as Twitter, Flickr, Posterous, Tumblr and now Instagram are all a part of this growing social photography phenomenon. The word has emerged from a growing global community who - to use a phrase coined by Sion Fullana - share a common language. That of the Apple iPhone.
The inspirational qualities of this book came as a delightful surprise. I ordered the book because it looked cool, covered a subject I feel passionate about and was written by one of the most respected and talented photographers in the iPhoneography movement. I've been a regular visitor to Stephanie Roberts' Posterous blog and have long loved her ability to share her travel photography whilst on the move around the globe. Her stories and photographs are always compelling and she's one of the reasons I started to really use my iPhone to create. It's so good to find that her communicative skills are in full effect here in this marvelous state-of-the-union address!
I've long held that the heart of iPhoneography is the shoot-and-share element. I love to be able to take a photograph literally in the field and share it with folks across the globe. Why I'm delighted with this perfect little book is that it is focused on personal creativity. It makes me want to try something new. Again.
The best camera is the one you have with you. For this reason iPhone photography is the future of image capture for the average person, and it will only get better as phone cameras improve and more apps appear. The book is a guide to picture taking with the iPhone. As a book it is well designed, nicely laid out and produced with good reproductions on high quality paper and cool typography, as one would expect for an art book. Stephanie Roberts explains the steps of iPhone image capture with many screen shots and brings in a number of third party photo apps for special effects such as a vintage look. There is a chapter of examples by a dozen iPhone photographers, amateur and pro. The orientation of the book is art rather than technology; how to see.
The book reminds me of another, "Plastic Cameras" by Michelle Bates, which is about the world of cheap Holga, Lomo, Diana cameras. Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity, Second Edition Both books belong to what could be called the "low fidelity" movement in art photography. Instead of fancier cameras with higher fidelity, sharper, more detailed images, the low fi approach goes for quick, low cost, evocative snaps which may be fuzzy but capture a moment. Defects such as distortions, light leaks, shadowed perimeters are not resisted but welcomed for the sense of mood and memory they convey. iPhone images are like this also. No one expects them to be museum quality images, but rather to possess an ephemeral quality. Of the two books, the "Plastic Cameras" book is more sophisticated in artistic vision and has more startling, beautiful examples.
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