Bruce Barnbaum, www.barnbaum.com
Publisher: Gerhard Rossbach
Copyeditor: Jocelyn Howell
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Cover Design: Helmut Kraus, www.exclam.de
Cover Photo: Bruce Barnbaum
Printer: Tara TPS
Printed in Korea
ISBN 978-1-937538-51-4
1st Edition
© 2015 by Bruce Barnbaum
All photography © Bruce Barnbaum (unless otherwise noted)
Rocky Nook Inc.
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Image on page 35 used by permission.
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941
Photograph by Ansel Adams
Collection Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
© 2013 The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Barnbaum, Bruce, 1943-
The essence of photography : seeing and creativity / Bruce Barnbaum. -- 1st edition.
pages cm
ISBN 978-1-937538-51-4 (paperback)
1. Photography--Vocational guidance. 2. Photography--Technique. 3. Composition (Photography) I. Title.
TR154.B37 2014
770.23--dc23
2014000426
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