This essential guide draws on in-depth interviews with establishedphotographers from the fields of fashion, art, portraiture, documentaryphotography, and advertising as well as comments from picture editors,curators, agency directors, and publishers who reveal what they look forwhen choosing an image.<br /><br />The book first focuses on photographers' working practices. Whatmade the photographer start taking pictures? How did he or she developa signature style? What is the process involved in going from concept toshoot? How important is postproduction? Then the book turns to selection.How does a picture editor decide which photographer to commission forthe next fashion spread? What kind of photograph is worthy of being hungin a gallery? What advice would an art book publisher give a buddingphotographer? Whether it is the question of what to look for in an image,views on cropping, or the pros and cons of color versus black and white,the shapers of taste give acute and useful accounts of their methods.<br /><br />This updated edition includes five new interviews: Pascal Dangin, whopioneered a revolutionary digital scanning technique; Fabrice Dall'Anese,a celebrated French portrait photographer for <em>Vanity Fair, GQ, Ell</em>e, andothers; Jörg Colberg, creator of the photography blog, Conscientious; JehadNga, a self-taught photographer whose focus has recently shifted fromphotojournalism to fine art photography; and Tim Barber, who launchedtinyvices.com in 2005, an online gallery and image archive.