Larry Fink on composition and improvisation

• Main Author: Fink, Larry (Author)
• Other Authors: Kereszi, Lisa (writter of added commentary)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Aperture 2014
• Series: Photography workshop series
• Subjects: Composition (Photography); Photography, Artistic
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The author of this book is well-known for his layered pictures in social settings, explores composing photographs and improvising within a scene to create images with both feeling and meaning. Through words and photographs, he reveals insight into his own practice and discusses a wide range of creat...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / Lisa Kereszi
• What does it look like to feel?
• Incongruency and the possibilities of photography
• Building the box
• Breaking the frame
• Under the influence
• Telling lies
• Choreographing miracles
• Between here and there
• Illumination and exaggeration
• Perception and perspective
• Looking for yourself within the subject
• The immediacy of desire
• Emotional composition
• The surface of the photograph
• Chance is everything
• Pushing the boundaries
• When it all comes together
• The zen in digital
• Going deeper
• Letting go
• From all things to your thing
• The goal is impossibility
• Influences. • 520__ |a "In this book, Larry Fink, well-known for his layered pictures in social settings, explores composing photographs and improvising within a scene to create images with both feeling and meaning. Through words and photographs, he reveals insight into his own practice and discusses a wide range of creative issues, from connecting with the subject in front of the lens to shaping a vision that is authentic."--The publisher.