Life Library of Photography. Photographing Nature

Time-Life Books, 1971. — 246 p. — (Life Library of Photography)The Life Library of Photography series consists of 17 volumes. The books cover all the main aspects of photography: technology and equipment; shooting methods; film processing and photo printing; history of photography; photography as an art form.In most areas of photography man glorifies himself and his possessions. He, his species and his works, good and bad, are spread across acres of film and printing paper that display his babies and buildings, his arts and artifacts, all the things he sells and buys.Not here. In this book about photographing the natural world, man is really just an offstage voice. He is the inventor-operator of the imagemaking apparatus, but is not in the picture itself, and does not belong there.Our aim has been to show the natural world in all its infinite variety, almost as if man were the one animal that did not exist in it.