Awe inspiring work.

Barry Thornton uses a quite different approach in this book to those I've seen elsewhere. He starts each chapter with a personal anecdote and proceeds to show how this 'real-life' scenario relates to elements of fine art photography. Each chapter deals with almost a single aspect of the art, but building to include previous aspects as it does so. Terms are introduced gently, and in the main, they are extremely well explained.

Reading this book explained so many of the failures in my own photos. Now I finally understand why it was going wrong, and not just what was going wrong. I read a chapter or two each night, then tried to understand what I'd learned the next day.

If anyone out there wants to become a better black & white photographer, then this book just has to be a high priority.

This is not a coffee-table table, to use just to admire other people's pictures, this is a book to read, inwardly digest, learn from and be insprired by. The best book on Photography I've ever read.