Photograph Like a Thief: Using Imitation and Inspiration to Create Great Images

In Photograph Like a Thief, photographer, author, and retoucher Glyn Dewis embraces the idea of “stealing” and recreating others’ work in order to improve as an artist. By stepping inside others’ images, you can learn to reverse engineer their creation, then build an image that simultaneously pays homage to that work and is also an original creation itself.

No photographer works in a vacuum. Photographers, like all artists, stand on the shoulders of those who came before them, and they are i...