Book Review: The Best Camera is the One That's with You: iPhone Photography by Chase Jarvis

Chase Jarvis's iPhone photography ecosystem rolls on with the 3rd element in this project. First came the app 'Best Camera' and community website 'The Best Camera', and now his book of photos all taken with his iPhone, titled 'The Best Camera is the One That's with You' has hit the streets.

The book is a nicely presented 6"x6" paper back containing over 200 photos charting the past year of Chase's iPhoneography journey, and contains a wide range of iPhone photos, which depending on your tastes you will either like, dislike or think are just plain rubbish, but in Chase's words "What you're holding in your hands is a chunk of me. My guts. My process. My study. It's a look into the production of my ideas."

As you flick through the book you will notice that each photo has a description of some kind, and then at irregular intervals Chase breaks up his photos by adding a little note about that photo on the facing page.

Like Chase says "Writers have notepads, painters have sketchbooks, and I have a camera that's always with me", and this statement is true for all photographers, whether they be regular photographers or iPhoneographers.

Overall this is a nice book of photo art that should appeal to most of us, inspiring us all to shoot more photos with our iPhones, and priced at a reasonable £11.99/$13.59 from Amazon (although prices will vary) will sit nicely on any iPhoneographers coffee table.

Comments

[Chris Comair]

Wow, that is pretty cool.

[r4 dsi]

I love it. The photos are very inspiring. Chase shows that you don't need a 5 thousand dollar camera to create an image to capture ones attention. Much thanx to Chase and his team for creating the app, book and site in which we post our pictures! I look forward to more pix by Chase and those around the world that are using this application!!