I like reading the old books

[CollinB]

Went to a garage sale today and got a copy of Mortensen's The Model,
a '46 printing. It was refreshing to read.
So the question is, what are your posing book recommendations?

[holmburgers]

Ahh, I picked up Mortensen's Pictorial Lighting at a Library sale for pennies. He has a very singular, yet informed, way of working.

[joenail]

'The Body' is a fantastic book. It doesn't provide a very deep look into any one photographer, but covers loads! It's my go-to book for portrait inspiration.

[MDR]

I found a copy of the model in russian unfortunately I can't read russian but the illustrations speak for themselves and the book is quiet good. BTW One of Mortensens books "The new projection control" is available for download on the internet archive. http://www.archive.org/details/newpr...oncon000727mbp it's not a posing book though.

Dominik

[X. Phot.]

Go to http://books.google.com/. On the search line type a subject such as Photography, or Camera, etc; and the press the Search Books button.

Then on the left-side of the page containing the search results, select the "Free Google eBooks" option. Most, if not all of the books listed will be downloadable in their entirety. You can use Acrobat Reader for the books you collect that are in PDF format.

[X. Phot.]

Here's a short list of photography related works that are available (or once were) through the link provided previously.

The studios of Europe
Abels Photographic Weekly
Abels Photographic Weekly VolViii
Abels Photographic Weekly VOLXI
Abels Photographic Weekly VOLXXI
Amateur Portraiture at Home
American Journal of Photography
American photography
American Photography 1910
American Photography 1915
American Photography 1920
American Photography 1922
Alfred Stieglitz
Anthonys photographic bulletin
An Adventure in Photography
An elementary treatise on phototopograph
Artists of the nineteenth century and th
Art and I
Art and the camera
Art in photography
Art Principles in Portrait Photography
A Childs Guide to Pictures
A guide to photography 1845
A handbook to the waxed paper process in
A history of photography
A Manual of Photography
A Poor Mans Photography at the Great Pyramid
A treatise on photography
Bromide paper instructions for contact p
Bromide printing and enlarging
Bulletin of Photography
Burtons Modern Photography
Camera Vol20
Camera Vol6
Camera
Camera craft XIX
Camera craft XXI
Camera craft XXIII
Camera craft XXIIII
Camera craft III and IV
Camera craft V
Camera craft VI
Camera craft XII and XIII
Camera Craft XIX
Camera craft XV
Camera craft XVI
Camera craft XVII
Camera Craft XVIII
Camera craft XX
Camera Craft XXI
Camera Craft XXIII
Camera Craft XXV
Camera Craft XXVII
Camera Craft XXVIII
Cassells cyclopaedia of photography
Complete Self instructing Library of Pra - Negative
Complete self instructing library of pra VOL 1
Complete Self instructing Library of Pra VOL 3
Dry Plate Making for Amateurs
First steps in photography
How to colour a photograph or Lessons
How to Make Photographs
How to Paint Photographs in Water Colors
Instruction in photography
Instruction in photography 2
International Annual of Anthonys Photog 1889
International Annual of Anthonys Photog 1897
International Annual of Anthonys Photog 1899
International Annual of Anthonys Photog 1900
In Natures Image
Landscape and Figure Composition
Landscape and figure composition2
Letters on Landscape Photography
Modern Photography in Theory and Practice
On the various methods of printing photo
Photogenic manipulation
Photograms of the Year
Photograms of the year2
Photographic amusements
Photographic apparatus making and adapti
Photographic manipulation containing de
Photographic Mosaics1870
Photographic Mosaics1895
Photographic Mosaics1898
Photographic optics
Photographic printing methods
Photography as of 1840
Photography by Blake
Photography(1853)
Photography, Volume 25
Photography
Photography and Fine Art
Photography Applied to the Microscope
Photography artistic and scientific
Photography as a Fine Art
Photography for the Sportsman Naturalist
Photography Indoors and Out
Photography in a nutshell
Photography with emulsions
Photography including the daguerreotype
Photography its history processes app
Photo Critic
Photo era magazine
Pictorial composition and the critical j
Pictorial Composition in Photography
Pictorial Effect in Photography
Pictorial landscape photography
Pictorial photography
Pictorial Photography in America
Picture Making by Photography
Popular photographic printing processes
Portrait
Practical enlarging
Practical guide to photographic photomec
Practical guide to photography
Practical Junior Photographer
Practical notes on photography
Practical photography
Practical Pictorial Photography
Process Photograpm Vol V 1898
School science and mathematics
Snap Shots
Studio light Vol 10 No 10
Studio light Vol 10 No 5
Studio light Vol 10 No 7
Studio light Vol 10 No 9
Studio light Vol 11 No 1
Studio light Vol 11 No 11
Studio light Vol 12 No 2
Studio light Vol 12 No 5
Studio light Vol 14 No 4
Studio light Vol 14 No 6
Studio light Vol 2 No 3
Studio light Vol 4 No 11
Studio light Vol 4 No 12
Studio light Vol 4 No 7
Studio light Vol 5 No 10
Studio light Vol 5 No 11
Studio light Vol 5 No 12
Studio light Vol 5 No 2
Studio light Vol 5 No 3
Studio light Vol 5 No 4
Studio light Vol 5 No 6
Studio light Vol 5 No 9
Studio light Vol 6 No 1
Studio light Vol 6 No 2
Studio light Vol 6 No 3
Studio light Vol 6 No 4
Studio light Vol 6 No 5
Studio light Vol 6 No 6
Studio light Vol 6 No 7
Studio light Vol 6 No 8
Studio light Vol 6 No 9
Studio light Vol 7 No 1
Studio light Vol 7 No 10
Studio light Vol 7 No 3
Studio light Vol 7 No 4
Studio light Vol 7 No 5
Studio light Vol 7 No 6
Studio light Vol 7 No 7
Studio light Vol 7 No 8
Studio light Vol 7 No 9
Studio light Vol 9 No 1
Studio light Vol 9 No 12
Sunlight and Shadow
Telephotography
The ABC of modern photography
The Amateur photographer
The American amateur photographer
The American Amateur Photographer JAN-DEC 1890
The American Amateur Photographer JAN-DEC 1891
The American Amateur Photographer JAN-DEC 1892
The American Amateur Photographer JAN-DEC 1895
The American Amateur Photographer JAN-DEC 1897
The American Amateur Photographer JAN-DEC 1898
The American Amateur Photographer JAN-DEC 1899
The American Amateur Photographer JAN-DEC 1900
The American Amateur Photographer JAN-DEC 1901
The American Amateur Photographer JAN-DEC 1902
The American Amateur Photographer JAN-DEC 1903
The American Amateur Photographer JAN-DEC 1904
The American Amateur Photographer JAN-DEC 1905
The American Amateur Photographer JAN-DEC 1906
The American Amateur Photographer JUL-JAN 1889
The American annual of photography
The American Annual of Photography 1908
The American Annual of Photography 1910
The American Annual of Photography 1913
The Analysis of Beauty
The Art of Photography
The art of photography with practical h
The Barnet Book of Photography
The book of photography
The book of the dance
The British Journal of Photography
The Camera 1907
The Camera 1916
The camera and darkroom Vol 8
The Camera and Darkroom Vol VIII
The Camera and Darkroom
THE CAMERA AND THE PENCIL OF THE HELIOGR
The Camera Man
The Chemistry of Photography
The Chemistry of Photography2
The collodio albumen process hints on c
The Complete Photographer
The Dry Collodion Process
The elements of a pictorial photograph
The exhibition print
The fine art of photography
The Illustrated photographer
The International annual of Anthony s ph
The International Studio
The Kodak Magazine
The Modern Way in Picture Making
The New Photography
The New Photo miniature
The optics of photography and photograph
The Oxymel process in photography
The Photogram
The Photogram I
The Photogram VOL1
The Photogram VOL9
The photographic art journal
The Photographic dealer and D P trade re
The Photographic Instructor
The Photographic journal
The Photographic journal2
The Photographic Journal of America
The Photographic News
The Photographic Times Vol XL 1908
The Photographic Times Vol XLVII 1915
The Photographic Times
The Photographic Times 1898
The Photo American 1905
The Photo beacon
The Photo miniature III
The Photo miniature V
The Photo miniature VII
The Photo miniature VIII
The Photo miniature XIV
The Practical Photographer 1904
The Practical Photographer No.4 1904
The Practical Printer
The Preparation of Illustrations for Rep
The principles and practice of photograp
The Principles of psychology
The processes of pure photography
The Professional and Amateur Photographe
The Science and Practice of Photography
The secret of exposure
The Silver Bromide Grain of Photographic
The Silver Sunbeam
The Story of Photography
The Year Book of Photography and Amateur
The Year book of Photography and Photogr
Three colour Photography
Tom Wedgwood the first photographer
Tom Wedgwood the First Photographer
Unit Photography
Voigtlander and I
Why My Photographs are Bad
Wilsons Photographics
Wilsons Photographic Magazine 1907
Wilsons Photographic Magazine 1896
Wilsons Photographic Magazine 1897
Wilsons Photographic Magazine 1900
Wilsons Photographic Magazine 1901
Wilsons Photographic Magazine 1902
Wilsons Photographic Magazine 1903
Wilsons Photographic Magazine 1904
Wilsons Photographic Magazine 1906
Wilsons Photographic Magazine 1907
Wilsons Photographic Magazine 1908
Wilsons Photographic Magazine 1909
Wilsons Photographic Magazine 1911
Wilsons Photographic Magazine 1912
Wilsons Photographic Magazine 1913
Wilsons Photographic Magazine 1914
Wilsons Photographic Magazine 1911
Wilsons Quarter Century in Photography