At 11:15 7/15/02, Mike Veglia wrote:
In a message dated 7/14/2002 John Lind writes:
<< BTW, for adults, my wife came home with this one two days ago:
_An_Ansel_Adams_Guide:_Basic_Techniques_of_Photography_(Book_1)_
by John P. Schaefer
Little, Brown and Company, Boston
Haven't read it completely yet, but looks like a compendium of selected
text from Adams' trilogy (The Camera, The Negative, and The Print) >>
For adults? I recall absorbing all three books in that trilogy, along with
the Time Life series and others, at around 13 or 14 years old.
If only I could recall everything I learned back then ;-)
You obviously had a passion for Adams' material. Many (most ??) teens are
not passionate about photography, and it's not lightweight reading due to
its combination of conciseness and depth.
I'll modify that from "adults" to "teens with a passion for photography,
and adults." You're right; someone at about 7th or 8th grade can handle
it, *if* they have decent reading skills and the very high interest level
to pursue it that deeply.
-- John
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