Lens on Life: Documenting Your World Through Photography

Mostly candid and spontaneous, documentary photography serves to preserve a moment in time. In Lens on Life, celebrated documentary photographer and author of the best-selling The Art of iPhoneography: A Guide to Mobile Creativity, Stephanie Calabrese Roberts, inspires you to explore, shoot, and share documentary photographs, guiding you as you define your own style. Illustrated with the author's striking artwork and diverse insight and perspectives from seasoned photographers including Elliott Erwitt, Elizabeth Fleming, Sion Fullana, Ed Kashi, John Loengard, Beth Rooney, and Rick Smolan, this book will sharpen your artistic intuition and give you the confidence to take on personal or professional documentary assignments. Full of advice that will challenge you and strengthen your photography, Lens on Life shows you how to capture an authentic view of your world. The perfect book for any photographer looking to broaden your scope from holiday snapshots and posed family groups, whatever camera you use A balance of personal and professional examples makes this book useful if you're capturing family moments in your own backyard or exploring the cultures of the globe A special projects chapter helps you develop the skills of the young photographers in your life, letting you be a part of their creative education Features the work of a number of established documentary photographers in case study form, interviewing them about specific projects so you can refer to a wide variety of styles