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Learn to take beautiful, surprising, stunning portraits with Train Your Gaze. Author Roswell Angier, a renowned photographer and portraitist, explores the theory and the practice of shooting human subjects in this practical guide. The easy-to-navigate format allows the reader to use the book as a cover-to-cover, step-by-step course in portrait photography, or as a handy reference for setting up specific shots--or both. Technical talk is kept to a minimum; the emphasis is on creating remarkable portraits in many different ways. Illustrated with images from some of the world's most influential photographers and artists. Train Your Gaze is sure to train photographers everywhere to think about portraits in a bold new way. This book emphasizes the situational element in various kinds of portrait photography. One point that is particularly stressed is the presence of the photographer's gaze, as an integral part of what the picture is about: the activity of one person looking, manifested in a moment that can feel as transitory as the blink of an eye or as durational as a small eternity Portraiture is one of the most enduring and compelling of photographic genres. Above all others, it signifies a relationship between the photographer and the subject that is not explicit in other genres. This book deals with portraiture. Description based on print version record.