Eric De Mare (1910–2002)

This is a book to help and stimulate the amateur photographer. It begins with a section on the history of photography; the bulk of the book, however, is devoted to a straight-forward account of the craft of photography. It explains simply, and without jargon, all about cameras, films, tripods, light meters, colour filters, lamps, and so on; it gives advice on how to work a camera and how to deal with the different kinds of photography from portraint to landscapes, from photomicrography to capturing the significant, moving instant of life. Then follow clear and full descriptions of processing: film development, printing and enlarging, touching up and finishing. The work concludes with a special section on colour photography, describing all the systems now available both in transparencies and prints. The whole is illustrated with line drawings by Gordon Cullen and a collection of photographs by some of the most renowned photographers in the world, both past and present, to provide the reader with example and inspiration. The book may also be valued by all who seek some general knowledge about a medium which has had a tremendous, though still largely unrecognized, impact upon our culture.… (meer)