Reading, Visual, & Theory Resources

While we try to keep the information on these pages current, you should always look for newer iterations of the pages or links to reflect recent program updates.

Three Must-See You-Tube Videos for Every Photographer

• Joe McNally's Confessions with Father Krist (a great reinforcement of what we teach)
• What Is Composition (with Barefoot Contessa Photo Adventures)

Museums & Galleries

• A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans, LA (one of most respected photography galleries in America)
• Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (renowned for its Alfred Stieglitz collection and deep holdings in modernism)
• Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ (Houses massive archives of masters like Adams, Weston, and Callahan)
• Frænkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (has presented almost 400 exhibitions exploring photography and its relation to other media)
• George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY (world's oldest photography museum, featuring over 400,000 images and 23,000 cameras)
• Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX (holds significant historical collections, including the world's first photograph)
• International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, NY (world’s leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture)
• Mercer Labs, New York, NY (where art and technology converge to transform the way you see, feel, and interact)
• Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL (groundbreaking exhibitions with a permanent collection of over 18,000 artworks)
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (one of the earliest museums in the country to collect photography)
• Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA (specialized institution dedicated to photography, film, and video)
• Robert Klein Gallery,Boston, MA (ranks among the world's most prestigious showrooms of fine art photography)

Magazines & Journals

• Lens Work (strong black and white)
• Aperture (about the photograhy fine-art, world scene)
• South x Southeast (color and black-and-white photography)

Books & DVDs

• Our Basic Principles of Photography (workshop participants receive this)
• Adobe Lightroom Classic CC – The Missing FAQ by Victoria Bampton, The Lightroom Queen (as well as Adobe Community Professional and Adobe Certified Expert for Lightroom), with excellent information on the whys and wherefores of various aspects of Lightroom as well as a step-by-step and how-to walk through the program (available in both paperback and assorted eBook formats).
• The DAM Book by Peter Krough (DAM=Digital Asset Management, excellent guide to storing and finding digital images for those who deal with thousands of images in their files)
• The Daybooks of Edward Weston (insights into the creative mind with its elations and frustrations)
• Magnum Contact Sheets (contact sheets from famed Magnum photographers showing how intensively they worked a scene to capture that one "decisive moment")

Theory & Good Explanations

• Barefoot Contessa Photo Adventures' Blog (Articles on different aspects of photography, from compositional and technical elements, to travels and stories, to post-production, to copyright issues and the value of photography.)



• It Depends
• © is for Copyright (a group of articles and how-tos on copyright)
• The Photographer's Guide to Copyright (from ASMP & Photoshelter)
• Color Theory (from Wikipedia)
• Understanding Golden Hour, Blue Hour and Twilights from Petapixel.com
• Learn Photography Concepts (from Cambridge in Colour, must-read for beginners)
• Cameras vs. the Human Eye (from Cambridge in Colour, read and understand why you and the camera must learn to see the same things)
• 8-versus 16-bit Mode (simple explanation of why you do not want to shoot in jpg/jpeg)
• ICC Profiles (information on why icc profiles matter)
• International Color Consortium (ICC) (in-depth resource for all things icc)
• Strobist (all about lighting)

Humor

• It Depends (by our very own, many-time alum, Phil Poon)
• What The Duck (humor that only an irreverent photographer could appreciate)