Bruce Barnbaum, www.barnbaum.com

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Copyeditor: Jocelyn Howell

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Cover Photo: Bruce Barnbaum

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ISBN 978-1-937538-51-4

1st Edition

© 2015 by Bruce Barnbaum

All photography © Bruce Barnbaum (unless otherwise noted)

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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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