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The Nature of Photographs is an essential primer of how to look at and understand photographs, by one of the world’s most influential photographers, Stephen Shore. In this book, Shore explores ways of understanding photographs from all periods and all types — from iconic images to found photographs, from negatives to digital files. This books serves as an indispensable tool for students, teachers and everyone who wants to take better pictures or learn to look at them in a more informed way.
The book is deceptively simple. Shore sets out to describe “the physical and formal attributes of a photographic print” (although, it seemed to me, the work applied equally to an image on a monitor) “that form the tools a photographer uses to define and interpret…content.” For example he suggests that at the depictive level there are four separate ways the camera transforms the world into a photograph: flatness, frame, time and focus. Each of the discussion points is supported by great images from photographic history, taken by photographers as diverse as Timothy O’Sullivan and Paul Caponigro.
The text is short, capable of being read in less than an hour. However a useful reading requires a lingering over the photographs presented. For example, in commenting upon a picture of a clear-cut hillside, Shore says that photographer Robert Adams could frame a picture so that a railroad track appearing in a corner could enhance the meaning of the image. When I first glanced at the picture, I looked for an obvious railroad right-of-way, but closer examination showed a single railroad track just appearing in the bottom corner. One might have thought it was unavoidably included, a mere accident. But realizing that Adams was not so casual gave a whole new level of meaning to the photograph. Moreover it suggested to me that important elements of a photograph need not be obviously highlighted, and that, just as creating a good photograph requires more time and thought than a hasty click of the shutter, exploring a photograph might require more than the usual three seconds of looking committed by the average viewer.
Shore himself is a great photographer, appearing in the seminal 1997 “New Topographics” show, but the photographs he uses to illustrate his thesis cover the entire range of imagery. The book was originally published in 1998, but Phaidon has issued reprints regularly since 2007, and the book is now available in paper-back for an almost ridiculously low price, considering the value of the content.
I’m certain many photographers will say “I know what a photograph is, and how it works.” I challenge this assumption. Examine this book, its text and its images. If you can say it added nothing to your understanding of photographs, my hat is off to you.
Name: Ron Milestone, author of NEUROMIND: A Contemporary Approach to Mental Health
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Learning to see
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 13, 2012
Review: Be prepared. This is not an ordinary book on photography or teaching photography. Yet it is a very effective one. The author, a famous art photographer, explores the fundamental elements of the technique in a most basic way illustrating each point with photographic examples. It forces the student or experienced photographer to re-examine the fundamentals of the task. But be aware that you will not get any technical advice: no fstops, lens markings, hyperfocal distances, etc.
Name: Zone
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: One of the best
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 15, 2016
Review: One of the best photography texts, focused in its particular way (on visual properties of photographs, and to an extent their presence as objects). Its text is spare, to the point of being poetic, worth giving some real time to but not demanding of long hours of reading. That’s a great balance that I appreciate. I assign this for studio photography classes and it’s great for opening up various lines of thought without demanding a lot more reading than our focus can allow.
Name: KURT47
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A disappointing book.
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 7, 2013
Review: I was very disappointed by this book. It does little to help the reader understand how Shore seeks, recognizes, and creates a compelling photograph.
The power of Shore’s photographs is in their unique content, perspective, and story telling prowess. So I was expecting a book by Shore to delve into that. But there is none of that in this rather shallow book.
Shore is honest about this fairly early, on pg. 12, “The aim of this book then is not to explore photographic content…”
But I was mainly interested in Shore’s brilliant choice of ‘content’ to create his compelling images. I was more interested in how he sees, what he’s looking for. But instead the book is much more shallow and obvious. There’s a hint of that limitation, on the cover below his name, where he refers to the book as “A Primer”.
But even as “A Primer” I think it falls short. Mainly because it’s written content is so abbreviated — — basically simple statements without much development. Altho’ I understood what he was talking about, that understanding did not come from the content of the book but from being well prepared before reading it.
So, I’d say go look somewhere else. [e.g. consider “The Ongoing Moment” by Geoff Dyer.]
Name: Walter E Glover
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: in the tradition of the great John Szarkowski
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 1, 2018
Review: For me, photographers (of which I am one) speak most eloquently through their photographs — as Stephen Shore has done for may years. They should never talk about themselves, and he doesn’t. Instead, in the tradition of the great John Szarkowski, Shore shares his incredible visual literacy in discussions of the works of others.
Name: AmazonCustomer1111
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Amazing book
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 2, 2019
Review: Highly recommend to anyone interested in photography; the photos alone are worth it, but the text adds as well.
Name: ez
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: thought provoking
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 25, 2018
Review: SShore suggesting ways to look @ photos that I hadn’t considered
Name: Amazon Customer
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Too much for me
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 31, 2012
Review: I wanted a book that was more art theory than how-to guide, and this book is definitely that. Unfortunately a lot of it simply is beyond me. I’m sure I will keep coming back to it and hopefully I will get more out of it as time passes.
The format of the book is an image per page and short blurbs giving you something to think about and recognize in the images. Some of it makes sense to me: how framing can make a picture self-contained or suggest a world beyond it, for example; or how depth of field and the plane of focus can create a heirarchy of importance in the picture’s contents. Other stuff, like how your ability to perceive your surroundings affects the gestalt of the images you make, is not something I can comprehend. And this is one of the shortcomings of the book for me: sometimes he makes a statement like this and follows it with a few pages of uncaptioned images, but I need him to be telling me what to see in the image that demonstrates his prior statement.
