| The Art of Seeing: The Best of "Reuters" Photography | 
 enlarge | Author: Reuters Photographers
Publisher: Reuters
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 34609
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 9.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 1903684374
Dewey Decimal Number: 300
EAN: 9781903684375
ASIN: 1903684374
Publication Date: November 13, 2003
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Superb book June 25, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this for a present for my other half. He is an amateur photographer and i thought that he would appreciate it. As it happens, it has been appreciated by just about everybody who has picked it up.
It is as you would imagine, images of a powerful nature from the news photographers around the world. It is well laid out with information on each picture and dates / place information. Absolutely superb read.
One draw back is the quality of the full page and double page pictures. A good few of them aren't as good a quality as you would expect.
Not appropriate for very young kids.
A few exceptional images and a lot more good ones... December 11, 2005
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
This is a quality book with some truly wonderful and though provoking images mixed in with a lot more less impressive but still very worthwhile pictures.
My only irritation is one that applied to most books of this kind: why print an image across two pages if the composition is ruined by the 'split'. I'd rather have a smaller but intact image please.
In summary: if you buy this you'll not be disppointed.
The art of the art of seeing September 9, 2004
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
'The Art of Seeing' - a title guaranteed to make a person think twice about picking the book up. Surely it has got to be pretentious twaddle about images, or perhaps the same stuff one has seen a hundred times before. But then 'Reuters''. Mmmmn.What a book. Absolutely lovely. I want to cut the book up and put the pages on the wall for inspiration. The photographs absolutely do live up the title. Without a word of explanation the photographs (no, not every one, but a lot of them) state what a photograph is. How it takes elements from a scene and makes the whole more than the parts. If you want to take photographs, buy this book and drool.
incredibly thought-provoking images January 20, 2004
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
it's not so much that every photograph is visually stunning purely as an image, but that each photo is truly incredible and takes you right to the scene. the symbolism and power of the images is amazing and the picture of the US marine doctor just sitting there, cross-legged on the ground, cradling a small girl whose mother has just been shot is truly one of the most moving pictures i have seen in a long time. this book is a real document to recent world events; buy it.
Remarkable January 8, 2004
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
A remarkable collection of pictures that illustrate all that is good about the talented photographers who work for Reuters. The book contains some truly striking images that are cleverly and subtly juxtaposed to provide a thematic coherence. Enjoy it while you can. As Reuters continues its retreat from its traditional media market the concern must be that the public will never enjoy a third edition of this wonderful book.
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