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	Understanding Digital Cameras : Getting the Best Image From Capture to Output 2007 eBook A useful general introduction to digital cameras, terminology and settings. Various shooting types and conditions are discussed. (people, nature, action, studio) Several quality-related topics are discussed. (digital, optical and color quality)
	Career As a Professional Photographer : Commercial, Corporate and Industrial, Fashion, Fine Art, Forensic, Portrait, Scientific, Medical, Stock, Wildlife and Nature 2007 eBook Intro to the range of options available to professional photographers, and the nature of the profession. Note the brief chapter: I Am a Fine Art Photographer
	Picturing Ourselves : Photography & Autobiography 1997 eBook Essays exploring the role and nature of autobiography, particularly as photographs contribute to, or become autobiography.
	Trace and Transformation : American Criticism of Photography in the Modernist Period 1999 eBook Explores critical issues in fine art photography including: Pictorialism, Straight Photography, Documentary Photography, Popular Criticism, Subjectivism, Independent Vision, Formalism, Modernism and Postmodernism.
	The History and Practices of the Art of Photography Full Text AvailableBy: Snelling, Henry Hunt. Project Gutenberg. eBook. 63p.
	Real Fantasies : Edward Steichen's Advertising Photography Full Text AvailableBy: Johnston, Patricia A. University of California Press. 1997. eBook. 370p.
	The Burden of Visual Truth : The Role of Photojournalism in Mediating Reality Full Text AvailableBy: Newton, Julianne Hickerson. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 2001. eBook. 219p.
	Scenes in a Library : Reading the Photograph in the Book, 1843-1875 Full Text AvailableBy: Armstrong, Carol. MIT Press. 1998. eBook. 533p. Explores how we view images and derive meaning from or attach meaning to photographs.
	Literary Admirers of Alfred Stieglitz Full Text AvailableBy: Thomas, F. Richard. Southern Illinois University Press. 1983. eBook. 128p. ... of Stieglitz and photography is necessary to an understanding of the enormous impactphotography has had on our ways of seeing, thinking, and, therefore, writing. Although this study is confined to a certain historical period (c. 1900–1940), I hope that the implications of the thesis transcend the period, for the visual revolution that began with the advent of photography is now a constant, ...
	Cultures of Vision : Images, Media, and the Imaginary Full Text AvailableBy: Burnett, Ron. Indiana University Press. 1995. eBook. 365p. ...What interests me is the formal and historical reciprocity between photography and painting, a reciprocity governed by notions of intention and artistic control. It took until the middle of the twentieth century for photography to overcome the stigma of its technological base.
	Out of Date, but available... Digital photography has dramatically changed the tools and options available to photographers. Though the core of image-makiing and visual expression persist, content about cameras needs to be recent to be helpful to beginning photographers. These books are easily accessible, but are likely only marginally useful.
	Complete Idiot's Guide to Digital Photography 1999 eBook
	Pocket Idiot's Guide to Photography 1998 eBook
	Careers for Shutterbugs & Other Candid Types 1995 eBook