Arts & Photography

Best Art and Photography  Books

Before getting to know the books of Art and Photography. This blog will explain what exactly is art, why it is important, types of photography and art and the books for art and photography. Art is an object of visual experience created through imagination. Art has many types such as painting, sculpture, fine arts,  photography, drawing, decorative arts, and installation. 

Types of Art

Visual Arts: This kind of art has  Fine Arts as one of the themes. It includes line, texture, form to convey ideas and emotions.  FIne art forms include painting, drawing, printmaking, photography and mixed media.  Visual arts help in fostering imagination .  and creativity.  

Photography: It is the art and application and practice of creating images by recording light and images through electronics.  The first photograph was taken in 1826 in France, when an image of the Sun was taken.  The types of photography are landscape, macro, portrait, documentary, fashion, travel and event photography, flash and digital photography.

Types of Photography 

Flash Photography: Many people have had experiences of being clicked by a camera with flash.  So, what is a flash? Flash is using an external light, in case of poor light conditions, still used in museums, or red carpet events such as museums. 

Fine Art Photography: In fine art photography images are clicked, or curated using art.  Fine art is used by artists to emote and imagine images as forms of art. These images can be landscapes, still images, or abstract images. 

Books on Fine art Photography 

1. Art Photography Here and Now:  This book was written by Susan Bright.  This book has been organised into seven sections such as: portrait, narrative, object,  document and city. Each of these themes explores these subjects and how these diverse styles are important for art photography and how themes like memory, time, objectivity, politics and identity are connected to approaches of art photography. 

Artistic photo books 

Artistic Photo Books are books on photography that follow a storyline.    They are inexpensive means to showcase your art through collections. This book of 24 Highways on Bookswagon. Ae has pictures of 24 highways by Lindsay  Reference:  Highways - a photobook (Bookswagon.ae) Books have pictures of art printed in four dimensional spaces. 

 Digital Photography:  THis is a form of image capture that is done through electronic devices like DSLR, phones and other digital devices to capture images. 

Books on  Digital Photography 

1. Digital Darkroom by James Abbott: Post production can make a marked difference between a good image and a great image.  The book will outline all techniques intended to create the darkroom effect for creating great images using Adobe Photoshop and Affinity Photos.

2. Digital Photography a Complete course:  It is a book detailing the very minute details of digital photography, so that you can manipulate images properly to get great images.

What is Painting 

Photography is digital storytelling and painting is creating stories on canvas through visual art and aesthetic appeal.  Paintings have existed in olden times in churches as frescoes and on caves and they are made on canvas through oil paints and watercolours using brushes.

Paintings were done on murals as well in India such as Kangra Art and Mughal Art.  Mughal art consisted of paintings made of battle scenes and court culture. 

Books on Art and Drawing

1. Joy of Botanical Drawing:   This book is available on Bookswagon.ae and it has simple drawings of fruits and vegetables, a child also can draw.  It is meant for budding artists to spread their wings.  Drawing sheets are enclosed inside, so that children do not need drawing sheets

2.  Mandala Colouring Books for Adults:   Mandalas are spiritual and ritual diagrams to help you relieve stress.  You can draw and colour on these sheets, the way you are feeling. They can help in self- discovery and lightning Moods

3. Painting in the Kangra Valley by Vijay Sharma:  Art can truly inspire art and in this book. There are 150- 200 drawings of Kangra paintings of 18th and 19th century India available on the best photography and art book online store in Dubai. 

 Importance of Art and Photography 

 So, why do you think art is inspiring for us, it helps us to capture emotions and feelings, and when, drawing something, we create what we feel, so in this way photography and art are related and are important for us to capture and depict what we feel.

Art  has a language of its own known through paintings, mosaics, collages and others. Every  medium of art has its own story to tell such as performing arts like dances, drama and music. Art helps us calm our emotions and help us feel blissful and help you give wings to your creative expression. So start giving wings to your creative expressions in art by buying art and photography books in  Dubai. Log on to Bookswagon.ae for the fastest delivery, good packaging and all categories of art and photography books on  the website.