What are some recommended books to gain knowledge about photography? I'm thinking of buying this one, but the old publishing date makes me a bit wary.

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>>4403814 (OP)
Yeah sorry Anon that one won't cut it, photography was updated to 2.0 in 2021.
This book won't teach you anything about how to compose with the new lighting reworks and composition meta. It's a completely different ball game.

>old
>2009

>>4403814 (OP)
Magnum Contact Sheets is pretty good. It won't teach you how to operate a camera but it leans into good composition and story-telling. And overall just an interesting read.

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For me, its this.

>>4403814 (OP)
I read books from the 60s and 70s and it's more useful than books now. Mainly it's because back then not everyone could get it right in the camera, so they had to make do with the closest they could. I like it most of all as it teaches you how to expose for low settings on a camera. Very useful if you're using a T2i.

>read photography book from the 50s
>"now before taking some swell photos of 14 year olds at the beach, beat your wife for messing with your settings"
Jesus

>>4403929
big if true

>look up recommendations
>"this book by susan sontag" a feminist jew
>"this book that focuses on heckin oppressed BIPOC"
>"this book by a tranny"
Jesus fucking christ

>>4403814 (OP)
the nature of photographs by Stephen Shore.
No technical information, no long winding essays with complicated art theory. just examples of photographs, and the all the different ways they work visually.

>>4403939
Have you tried not being a schizophrenic /pol/nigger?

>>4403977
Susan sontag is herself a schizophrenic /pol/cuck

Of all the people to contribute nothing to society she contributed nothing the worst. An actual zero value human being. There is no timeline in which killing susan sontag at any point does not improve the future.

>Book by a Bob Ross personality except now he is a photographer
>supportive info
BASED

Do I actually need any of these books to learn, or is all that information online?
I understand photobooks and history/technique ones have value, but what about tutorial books?

>>4404187
>Do I actually need any of these books to learn
no, the best way to learn is to take photos and share them on chinese cartoon image boards and get shit on till you figure out what people appreciate

OK I think I have the system worked out
Online and using camera for technicals and settings
Real books for art, composition and the more cerebral side

*Saves this thread before it gets killed by another 300 posts of gearfags insisting they need 500 megapixels to zoom in on their /p/athetic /p/et /p/ictures*
You're whalecum.

>>4410471
>0.7 megapixel image
>shows every single detail
No, stop, not like this…

The melty continues with unrepentant samefagging.
How many threads will the zoomer shit in? Place your bets now!

>>4410474
All he did was tell you that you overspent on cameras to no benefit. Arent you that guy who started out as an average photographer with a leica and turned into a horrendously bad photographer and actual furry after gearfagging over lf film and digital medium format?

>>4403939
who you think has all the galleries

>>4403814 (OP)
Anything that existed before you were born is dogshit and a waste of your time.

>/g/ has pic related
>/fit/ has starting strength
What is /p/'s equivalent?

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>>4403939
These are not books on photos, these are critical theory on media that happened to be photos. But I agree, it's pretty cringe to read them as photographer

Read the passionate photographer, 10 steps towards becoming great.
The best one I've read so far that's not specific to anything.

>>4415559
Langfords basic photography

Ansel Adam's, the camera

>>4403814 (OP)
Stick to these two to start, The photographic eye is structured in lessons and exercises that teach line, shape, texture, not just how to "see" them, but also how to use them.
It also teaches you how to critique other peoples photos and to learn from them, a very important skill.
Painting with light is all about lighting and what looks charming, sinister, etc,
You can find both on archive.org. good luck anon.

>>4403929
good ol' times

Being honest, I do not know much about the story and references from photography. Lately, I'm trying to understand better the theory and foundations and trying to research a little. Is there any good books that cover this topic?

read robert frank - the americans 50 times and youll be a better shooter.

>>4418838
why would I want to copy a streetshitter? His photos are only interesting by merit of being old. If you discard all the cultural stuff, they are just poorly composed snapshits, like all street photographers.

>>4418797
>Being honest, I do not know much about the story and references from photography.
Good. Keep it that way, you're better off doing your own thing. There is no objective theory that goes with photography. It's "do you like this photo; Y/N?" What you'll do by learning it is make yourself like all the famous, yet trash photographers who are only famous by being a member of the correct group, not due to skill in photography.

>>4418838
>the americans
LOL

>>4403814 (OP)
1. Do NOT purchase or read books that explain composition, color, lighting etc. to you in writing.
2. DO collect various photobooks, new and old, if you find the contents inspiring and/or it's a photographer you already know of and respect. You can do this on the cheap by browsing second-hand bookstores (online or in person), or if you don't mind shelling out a little money you can visit dedicated websites.
2.5. By doing step 2 you will automatically broaden your horizons and get a lot of obscure photographers on your radar.
3. Take a mental note of which particular pictures from your collection inspire you the most, and next time you're out shooting, try to COPY them in some manner. It obviously won't be a 1:1 but you can seek out similar lighting, compose the same way, find similar scenes etc.
4. Repeat step 3 until you become a good photographer.

>>4418921
OK, but then where do I actually learn about composition, colour, lighting and how to use my camera as a tool?
To me there's the art of photography, then the actual mechanical side

>>4419021
>Higher aperture numbers (f-stop) reduce the amount of light coming through the lens
>Lower f-stop makes your depth of field shallower, higher makes it deeper
>Many lenses suffer in sharpness at extreme f-stops, f5.5 to f/8 is usually the sweet spot for things like landscape where you want that sharpness, by f/16 you start losing sharpness to diffraction, and shooting wide open tends to have various aberrations that you may or may not want in your image depending your vision and the constraints of the scene
>higher ISO (film sensitivity) helps compensate for lack of light in the scene, allowing you to use faster shutter speeds or greater f-stop at the cost of noise
>shooting handheld is just a game of balancing your personal tolerance of ISO noise, your chosen f-stop for the visual you want, and a shutter speed fast enough to eliminate motion blur caused by hand shake (usually 1 over the focal length of your lens is good enough)
>just shoot aperture priority, choose your f-stop and ISO as appropriate for the scene and intent behind the shot, let the camera choose shutter speed. Tweak the aforementioned 2 values if you go under 1 over focal length
>You can use exposure compensation to make the image brighter or darker if you need to
>If you use a flash, get one that is the same brand as your camera so that it works in auto, and use exposure compensation if your shots are too bright or dark with the flash
>Regarding composition, the rule of thirds can help for starters but don't get too bogged down in rules
>Everything else you just learn on the job
There's your mechanical side, now go copy what you love

>>4419022
f/5.6, not 5.5. Cheeto fingered it

>>4419021
First, read & understand the owners manual of your camera. It should cover the basics.
Attempting to reproduce compositions &cet. you like is good exercise.
About not reading books: Ignorance is not strength.

>>4403814 (OP)
Yes, here is my list. I translated some titles using chatgpt cause many were in spanish, so they might be fucked up but I'm sure you can find them

There is art history, the field of aesthetics, general art books and a lot about photography, some technique but most about photography as art:

1

Nicolas-Bourriaud – Relational Aesthetics
Olivia Rubio, Hans-Michael Koetzle – STELLAR MOMENTS, Photography in the 20th Century
Patrizia Di Bello, Colette Wilson, Shamoon Zamir – The Photobook, From Talbot to Ruscha and Beyond
Paul Graham – Photography is Easy, Photography is Difficult
Rafael Levenfeld – Prophecies 01
Rafael Lopez Lita, Javier Marzal Felici, Javier Gómez Tarín – The Analysis of the Photographic Image
Randall Glenn – The Art, Science, and Craft of Great Landscape Photography
Richard Salkeld – How to Read a Photograph
Robert Gilliam Scott – Fundamentals of Design
Roland Barthes – Camera Lucida, Reflections on Photography
Rosa Olivares – Remembering Ourselves
Rosalind Krauss – The Photographic, Toward a Theory of Displacement
Rosalinf Krauss – The Photographic, Toward a Theory of Displacement
Ruben Bermudez – YTYPQEN
Santiago Olmo – The Perceptual Transformation of Photography
Scott McCloud – Understanding Comics
Sean O'Hagan – New Topographics, Photographs that Find Beauty in the Banal
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui – Sociology of the Image
Stephen Bull – Photography
Stephen Hicks – Ugly Art
Susan Sontag – Regarding the Pain of Others
Susan Sontag – In Plato’s Cave
Susan Sontag – In Plato's Cave
Susan Sontag – Notes on Camp
Susan Sontag – On Photography
Theodor W. Adorno – Aesthetic Theory
Umberto Eco – The History of Beauty
Walter Benjamin – Illuminations
Walter Benjamin – A Short History of Photography
Wassily Kandinsky – Point and Line to Plane

>>4403814 (OP)
>>4423614

2

Wucius Wong – Fundamentals of Design (2014)
Wucius Wong – Fundamentals of Bi- and Tri-dimensional Design
Wucius Wong – Principles of Color Design (2nd Ed., 2013)
X-Rite – Complete Guide to Color Management
The Photograph – Context and Narrative in Photography (3, 4, 6, 7, 7b, 8)
120 Films About Photography You Must Watch Before You Die
279 Books I Would Like to Have in My Photography Library
Abigail Solomon-Godeau – Winning the Game When the Rules Have Been Changed
Andrew Graham-Dixon – Art: The Definitive Visual Guide
Andy Grundberg – The Crisis of the Real
Angela Faris Belt – The Elements of Photography, Understanding and Creating Sophisticated Images
APERTURE – Documentary Expanded (Issue 214, p. 52–64)
Arthur C. Danto – After the End of Art, Contemporary Art and the Borders of History
Biblioteca Photobolsillo – Juan Manuel Castro Prieto
Brian Peterson – Learning to See Creatively
Castro Prieto, Chema Conesa – Guide for Photographic Projects (Presentation)
Celia Lury – Prosthetic Culture, Photography, Memory and Identity
Christopher Sommer – Building the Gymnastic Body
Clement Greenberg – Avant-garde and Kitsch
Clio E. Bugel – The Joy of Living After the End of Art (Interview with Arthur C. Danto)
Clive Scott – The Spoken Image, Photography Language
Common Ground – Volume 1 (Body and Space)
Daniel Merle – Memories of a Sad Poet (Interview with Robert Frank)
Daniel Miller – Photography in the Age of Snapchat
David Bate – Photography: The Key Concepts
David Campany – The Cinematic (Documents of Contemporary Art)
David Green, Joanna Lowry – Stillness and Time, Photography and the Moving Image
David Hurn – On Being a Photographer
Dominique Berthet – From Deviation to Copy
Donis A. Dondis – The Syntax of the Image
El País – Interview with Arthur C. Danto (2001 & 2005)
Elizabeth Prettejohn – Beauty and Art 1750–2000

>>4403814 (OP)
>>4423615
Ellen Lupton – Graphic Design, The New Basics (Second Edition)
Ernst Gombrich – The Story of Art
Erwin Panofsky – Studies in Iconology
Estrella de Diego – The Crime Scene, Repetitions, Copies, Revisions, Quotes, Reconstructions
EUROPA – An Illustrated Guide for Refugees (All Languages)
EXIT 47 – Painting Photography
Expanded Cinema Map
Fred S. Kleiner – Gardner’s Art Through the Ages: A Global History (2018)
Frederic Delavier – Strength Training Anatomy (3rd Ed., 2010)
Fredric Jameson – Archaeologies of the Future, The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions
Fredric Jameson – Postmodernism and Consumer Society
Fredric Jameson – Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991)
Geoffrey Batchen – Each Wild Idea, Writing Photography History
Gilles Deleuze – Foucault
Gilles Deleuze – The Time-Image, Studies on Cinema 1 & 2
Gillian Rose – Visual Methodologies, An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials
Graham Clarke – The Portrait in Photography
Hans Belting – Anthropology of the Image
Henry Fox Talbot – The Pencil of Nature
How Do Edward Burtynsky and Andreas Gursky Use the Sublime to Explore Landscapes in Contemporary Photography?
Italo Calvino – The Adventure of a Photographer
J.J. Long, Andrea Noble, Edward Welch – Photography, Theoretical Snapshots
James Curtis – Making Sense of Documentary Photography
Javier Marzal Felici – How to Read a Photograph, Interpretations of the Gaze
Jean-Marie Klinkenberg – Manual of General Semiotics
Jeff Rojas – Photographing Women: Posing, Lighting, and Shooting Techniques for Portrait and Fashion
Jeff Wall – Photography and Liquid Intelligence

>>4403814 (OP)
>>4423616
Joan Fontcuberta – Through the Looking Glass (Catalog)
Joan Fontcuberta – Photography, Why Do We Call It Love When We Mean Sex
Joan Fontcuberta – Pandora's Camera, Photography After Photography
Joan Fontcuberta – Further Away, Closer
Joan Fontcuberta – For a Post-Photographic Manifesto
Joan Fontcuberta, Christian Caujolle – The Ubiquity of the Image (Dialogue)
Johannes Itten – The Art of Color
John Berger – Understanding a Photograph (1968)
John Berger – Ways of Seeing
John Berger – Uses of Photography
John Szarkowski – The Photographer’s Eye
John Tagg – The Disciplinary Frame
Jonathan Crary – Suspensions of Perception, Attention, Spectacle and Modern Culture
Jordi Soler – The Era of Funes
Jorge Luis Marzo – Do It Yourself (Digital Bricolage at Home)
Jorge Luis Marzo – Me, Mycell and I
José Fernández Vega – A Freedom Without Hope (Interview with Arthur C. Danto)
Jose Luis Brea – The Three Eras of the Image, The Electronic Image
Jose María Mellado – High-Quality Photography
José Miguel G. Cortéz – The Captive City, Order and Surveillance in Urban Space
The New Documentary Photography – The Common Man Documents the World
Leah Ollman – LACMA Traces Photography’s New Path
Leonardo Lippolis – Journey to the End of the City
Liz Wells – Photography: A Critical Introduction
Lourdes Socarrás Ferrer – Revealing Gazes, Cuban Photography
Lynne Warren – Encyclopedia of 20th Century Photography
M. Carmen Cabrejas Almena – Costume and Mask in 19th-Century Photographic Portraits
Maarten Dings and Joachim Naudts – Boundaries Merely Exist in People’s Minds (Interview with Martin Parr)
Marc Augé – Non-Places, Spaces of Anonymity
Martin Jay – Downcast Eyes, The Denigration of Vision in 20th-Century French Thought
Martin W. Sandler – Photography, An Illustrated History
Mary Beard and John Henderson – Classical Art: From Greece to Rome (2001)

>>4403814 (OP)
>>4423620
Michael F. O'Brien & Norman Sibley – The Photographic Eye, Learning to See with a Camera
Michael Freeman – The Photographer’s Eye
Michael Langford, Anna Fox, Richard Sawdon Smith – Langford's Basic Photography
Michael Langford, Efthimia Bilissi – Langford’s Advanced Photography
Michael R. Peres – The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography
Michel Foucault – Security, Territory, Population
Michel Foucault – Discipline and Punish, The Birth of the Prison
Michel Merlot – A Brief History of the Image

Explain to me why this book upsets /p/ without mentioning the author's ethnicity.

Just pirate it first and buy it later if you like it. You can get it here: https://annas-archive.org/md5/e643c01817fe4cf0ec5404b46e01647a

Because the file is big, I recommend first downloading JDownloader and then use your download link there once you have waited the 300 seconds. This prevents the download from stopping if it stalls, preventing you from having to start over like 5 times to successfully download it

>>4403814 (OP)
Yes this is how you're supposed to do it.

You buy beautiful books of pro photographers, study it, copy it and then you'll get better.

Buy a book of each of these photogs and you'll be elevated fast.

Richard Avedon
Annie Leibovits
Cindy Sherman
Diane Arbus
Helmut Newton
Irvin Penn
RObert Frank
David Bailey
Mario testino
Steve McCurry
Martin Parr
Sebastiao Salgado
Nan Goldin
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Gregory Crewdson
Tim Walker
Vivian Maier
An my lê
Peter Lindbergh
Nick Knight


It's just like any other hobby really, you have to study the past masters to understand how to do better

>vivian maier
>annie leibovits
>susan sontag
Avoid these ones

>>4403985
You ever read her stuff?

Her "On photography" is based.
She talks about /p/ users, using japs tourists with nikons as an exemple

>Most tourists feel compelled to put the camera between themselves and whatever is remarkable that they encounter. Unsure of other responses, they take a picture. This gives shape to experience: stop, take a photograph, and move on.

>>4423941
>photographers take photos
Holy shit...that's so profound and deep
Next you'll tell me swimmers swim in water
Woah...

>>4423942

>>4423943
>photographers feel compelled to take photos
No shit
>cyclists feel compelled to cycle
>painters feel compelled to paint
>writers feel compelled to draw
She smirked quite jewishly as she wrote this tripe

All of these books are available on Anna's Archive. Unfortunately, a lot of detail is often lost in images for the sake of compression. Not always.

>>4423941
This sounds like the thought process of a schizophrenic psychopath. The kind of creature that only exists, or only should exist, as a philosophical caricature from semi-obscure french literature. And yet it is a living, breathing person that once existed. Disturbing.

I wonder why the humanities section of academia liked her so much? I think I'll check her biographical info, starting from the early years.

>>4424102
>This sounds like the thought process of a schizophrenic psychopath. The kind of creature that only exists, or only should exist, as a philosophical caricature from semi-obscure french literature. And yet it is a living, breathing person that once existed. Disturbing.

a description of the average 4chan poster

>the schizophrenic psychopathy in question

>>4427408
only a deranged mind could post such nonesense on the internet for no purpose whatsoever and no potential gratification. Only someone deeply isolated from any love and gratification in this world and for whom communicating itself doesn't need message, convention or someone to communicate to. For such an individual, posting online is the same as the rambled fantasies inhabiting there mind 24/7. Thus is the condition of the average low-life hanging in these premices

>>4427418
dogs are cute and funny

>>4427477
ToT

>>4415562
100% this one.
It’s perfect for what op is asking for.
I keep this book around and before I go out I’ll gloss over the back to refresh on visual ideals to keep in mind when shooting. It’s great I love that book. Someone from here recommended it to me and I recommend it now

I got my first ever quasi-photobook, Nakamuras Project Urbex
It's fantastic, seeing photos in print like that really elevates them and makes me understand what photography is all about

>>4403819
Dont even get me started on the shutter matrix!

>>4423620
>John Berger – Ways of Seeing
Rubbish. Rest of your list is probably also utter trash

what are some places where you can download photography books ?

>>4433673
What books are not rubbish, anon?

I just want to take good pictures and videos with my cheap phones. But these books and online guides are written by and for people who come from money.

>>4415562
>>4418509
The Photographer’s Eye and The Photographic Eye.
Totally not confusing at all.
My google seems to default to Photographer’s Eye results.

>>4423939
Can anyone confirm if these people's photograph collection are worth buying/learning? I've been misled before in other hobbies.

>>4436176

>Richard Avedon
Known for his transformative work in fashion and portraiture, Avedon’s minimalist style and ability to capture the essence of his subjects (e.g., Marilyn Monroe, actress, New York City, 5-6-57) have made him a cornerstone of 20th-century photography. His work, like Dovima with Elephants (1955), is iconic and frequently featured in major auctions and museum collections (e.g., Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA).

>Annie Leibovitz
Renowned for her celebrity portraits and editorial work with Vogue and Vanity Fair, Leibovitz’s images are instantly recognizable for their bold compositions and cultural relevance (e.g., her Portraits 2005-2016 collection). Her work is both commercially successful and artistically significant, making it a solid choice for study or investment.

>Cindy Sherman
A pioneer of conceptual photography, Sherman’s self-portraits explore identity and societal roles, often fetching high prices at auction (e.g., her Untitled Film Stills series). Her work is essential for understanding contemporary art photography.

>Diane Arbus
Her raw, empathetic portraits of marginalized communities, like Identical Twins, Roselle, N.J., 1967, are highly sought after and considered foundational in documentary photography. Her prints, such as those sold at Phillips auctions, are valued for their historical and emotional depth.

>Helmut Newton
Known for provocative, glamorous fashion photography, Newton’s works like Sie Kommen Naked, Paris, 1981 are collector’s items due to their bold aesthetic and influence on modern fashion imagery.

>Irving Penn
A master of studio photography, Penn’s work spans fashion, portraiture, and still life, with iconic images like Dior Fur Scarf (Jean Patchett), New York, 1950-51. His prints are highly valued for their technical precision and timeless elegance.

>Robert Frank

>>4436386
Is this AI?

>>4436481
Yep, I'm Grok 3, created by xAI. Just here to help answer your questions with a bit of wit and a lot of info. What's up?

>>4436481
It is AI. The short summary, the cut reply. A lot of the online posts you see are bots.

Ansel Adams - The Print, The Negative, The Camera. Used softcover copies can be had cheap, Vol 1 The Camera would be all you need if you're shooting digital, The Print can be skipped if you're not home developing/printing. Most things still apply today, you can ignore whatever doesn't. It's photography 101 by one of the best to ever do it. The Zone system of exposure is worth knowing about and is still applicable to everything today.

>>4436992
Even digital?

>>4436992
Even smartphone with fixed everything?

>>4435482
My cock

>>4437251
Is this AI?

>>4437252
There's nothing artificial or intelligent about my cock.

idk about learning but i basically buy everything photography related Taschen puts out, except the fashion stuff that i personally dont care for

>>4435239
made a thread about this on /p/, almost a week, no solid answer

>>4444785
buy the book, support the photographers who inspire you

>>4444785
I did some research after that post and I would recommend internet's archive https://archive dot org/details/folkscanomy_photography
and anna's archive

>>4435239
Nice try, publisher intern.
https://open-slum.org/
Anyways, these books are expensive. So no one would rip them apart to get a good scan.
I’m looking for some out-of-print books that are too expensive in used book store. But the stuff on pirate sites are usually bad scans, filled with compression artifacts, in strange colors.
It’s just the nature of the hobby imo.

>>4445067
nice website thanks. The best hobby imo cost wise is dirt ball rolling but yeah ....

>>4435239
check /ptg/ on /g/

>>4445082
Why would you even want to use a private tracker for ebooks?

>>4445089
because
>>4444785
>made a thread about this on /p/, almost a week, no solid answer
>>4445067
>Anyways, these books are expensive. So no one would rip them apart to get a good scan.
literally wrong :^]
>>4445089
>Why would you even want to use a private tracker for ebooks?
Also, stuff available instantly, fast seeds, etc etc.

>>4440366
>Taschen
giga based, i wish i wasn't poor to have more of their stuff in hard cover. just downloaded picrel off annas archive though and its pretty based. they got lots on there but you lose something viewing them digitally i feel.

>>4445117
>literally wrong :^]
Oh come on. Only a few books mentioned on this thread have good scans on annas, libgen, etc.
Like why even lie?

>>4415562
can confirm. good book

>>4415562
Is there any order his books shall be read in?

>>4445399
Holy shit, this guy wrote a lot of books.

>>4445406
yeah

>>4419022
>(usually 1 over the focal length of your lens is good enough)
the what

>>4445399
>Is there any order his books shall be read in?
https://diginsider.com/2012/12/06/michael-freemans-eye-vision-and-mind/
According to this guy, it's Mind > Eye > Vision.

>>4418921
Nah, DO read about composition, color, lighting, etc. This accelerates the absorption and enables intentful practice to speed up learning. Doing Step 2 in your post IS important, but it's enhanced by having a way to think about and language to use, to analyze and understand the photos and why they work.

>>4418921
Horrible advice, enjoy your work being a bad copy of what others do because you lack the technical skill to pull it off or better yet, innovate.
>get a lot of obscure photographers on your radar.
If they are truly obscure it's often for a good reason.

>>4445425
>>4445435
So, what books I should read, anon?

>>4445457
Cinematography books are a great start, there's less misguidance and filler in them because it's srs bsns

>>4445457
see:
>>4415562
>>4418509

>>4445435
Nah, there's a lot of really good obscure photographers out there. A problem with photography as an art form (and most forms of art, really), is that there's more talent than money, and talent and success don't necessarily go hand-in-hand.
(And to make problems worse, a lot of famous and well known photographers are famous not for their talent, but because of historical perspective do end up becoming interesting. E.g. Vivian Maier -- objectively mid photos at best. But I guess that's still a good study on intent).

>>4445467
>>4445435
Oh, this is also why you should try to go to photography museums, view photography sections of art museums, and visit galleries. They're curated, and curators like to balance more known stuff also with more obscure stuff that still provides value. (I mean, most curators are SJW shits who bring out the stupidest shit because they're friends with them or because they have an agenda to push, but you can figure out which places do have good curators (they will still almost be SJW shits with agendas to push, but some do in fact have artistic sensibilities)).
Also look at different mediums of art than just photography. Again, you'll learn artistic intent, develop more sense of composition, color, value, etc.
Seriously, this is ez mode. Other people have done the work for you.

>>4445467
So who are the talented photographers, anon? I want to buy photo books.

>>4445764
Me of course

>>4445764
Only one you need

>>4445832
>not Kibosh
k3k

>>4403945
Out of print. Used book stores that have them don't send to my country. Pirated pdf files are compressed as fuck. FML.

You have to learn how to look first. Find pictures you like and find those compositions in the world around you without looking through a viewfinder. I mean literally just with your naked eyeballs, look at the world and find those compositions. Photograph them. Keep doing this.

Reading about composition is only useful if you already have a general sense of what you like.