Black & White Photography: The timeless art of monochrome in the post-digital age

by Michael Freeman

Beautifully illustrated and far-reaching in scope, this guide is destined to be a standard reference for years to come. Alongside the work of author Michael Freeman, you'll find the classic photography of renowned black and white photographers such as Ansel Adams, Ian Berry, Bill Brandt, Edward Curtis, Brett Weston and Edward Weston.

Freeman covers all aspects of black-and-white digital the fine art tradition as well as the techniques. Learn how to see and expose in black and white, digitally convert colour to monochrome and develop a black and white digital workflow using the latest software.

Genres: Photography

190 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 15, 2017

About the author

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Michael Freeman is a professional photographer and author. He wrote more than 100 book titles. He was born in England in 1945, took a Masters in geography at Brasenose College, Oxford University, and then worked in advertising in London for six years. He made the break from there in 1971 to travel up the Amazon with two secondhand cameras, and when Time-Life used many of the pictures extensively in the Amazon volume of their World's Wild Places series, including the cover, they encouraged him to begin a full-time photographic career.

Since then, working for editorial clients that include all the world's major magazines, and notably the Smithsonian Magazine (with which he has had a 30-year association, shooting more than 40 stories), Freeman's reputation has resulted in more than 100 books published. Of these, he is author as well as photographer, and they include more than 40 books on the practice of photography - for this photographic educational work he was awarded the Prix Louis Philippe Clerc by the French Ministry of Culture. He is also responsible for the distance-learning courses on photography at the UK's Open College of the Arts.

Reviews

[Tina Panik · Rating 4 out of 5]

Full of excellent, detailed, step-by-step techniques for maximizing the impact of black and white images. It's especially helpful to see the color and black and white images side by side.

[Brendan · Rating 3 out of 5]

A mostly technical book but referencing old versions of Photoshop and Lightroom so not super helpful. Lots of the other sections talk about software that is no longer popular. The non technical parts are good and technical parts aren’t a complete waste since you can figure out how todo similar things in the newer version of Lightroom. Also has interesting sections like a discussion of Ansel Adam’s Zone System.

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

Freeman is a moron. And he is proud of it. Post-digital, because this guy has already left the digital behind and is doing photography with the next thing, which he can't name, and looks suspiciously like digital technology. And of course, he does monochrome without colors. But that is too much for his brain to process.

[Tarikrobertson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good author

Just now getting in to black and white photography. He give a history of black white film to digital to digital photography.

[Grof J. Kešetović · Rating 3 out of 5]

For the price of this book, I think it doesn't cover every detail and isn't well explanatory at times. The illustrations and paper print is very nice however.