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Title: Stage Lighting Design: The Art, the Craft, the Life by Richard Pilbrow, Harold Prince ISBN: 0-89676-235-1 Publisher: Quite Specific Media Group Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Lighting Design Top 5
Comment: I would easily say this is one of the top 5 books on Theatrical and Concert Lighting Design. As a young designer his advise in learning and developing the craft as well as the background he provides is invaluable. I'd recomend this book to anyone seriously considering the field.
Rating: 5
Summary: You don't need photos...it's the theory and technical info
Comment: Another person reviewed this book complaining that it wasn't effective because it didn't have an abundance of color photographs. He missed the mark big time! This isn't a book on lighting for photography, it's a book on lighting for the eye and a theatrical experience, two different things. A static photo doesn't give you the interaction with how the cue ran, what the actors are doing, how the audience is supposed to feel. The photo whould just be a picture of a person in a light and convey nothing.
True, the end product of lighting design is a visual medium, but the means of getting there are purely cerebral.
Lighting designs are drawn in black and white based on theory, knowledge, practical experience and the ability to visualize. This is a book on theory and knowledge culled from Pilbrow's extensive experience.
If you want to approach lighting design like a cake recipe or an auto repair manual then this is the wrong book for you and probably the wrong career.
If you are dedicated to your craft, want to add to your knowledge base and get more out of your work experience, buy this book. Reading this book is like sitting down with Pilbrow and asking him how he did this or that and why. As your career grows, you will find yourself rereading passages of this and getting more out of it each time.
Rating: 3
Summary: It's a Visual Medium for Pete's Sake
Comment: When I received the book I was surprised that Pilbrow had written a 450+ page book on lighting and there were only 6 pages of color photos and scattered pencil drawings and black/white photos in select areas. This is analogous to explaining engine repair without detailed diagrams. The lighting designer is a visual person. It is a visual medium. Words are poor vehicles to carry the ideas of this art form. I think Pilbrow missed the mark. That's why I'm returning the book.
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Title: A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting by Steven Louis Shelley ISBN: 0240803531 Publisher: Focal Press Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Photometrics Handbook by Robert C. Mumm ISBN: 0911747370 Publisher: Broadway Pr Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Light Fantastic: The Art and Design of Stage Lighting by Max Keller, Johannes Weiss ISBN: 3791321625 Publisher: Prestel Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Lighting and the Design Idea by Linda Essig, Essig ISBN: 0155020692 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $36.99 |
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Title: Light on the Subject: Stage Lighting for Directors and Actors and the Rest of Us by David Hays ISBN: 0879101261 Publisher: Limelight Editions Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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