Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:59 PM 22/11/99 -0500, Richard Le wrote: >Hi, > >I just picked up a nice little book from 1983 called "Master >Photographers." ... >So I was wondering if anyone knew of any similar books--where >photographers discuss the nitty-gritty technical aspects of how they shoot. > I found one in a used bookstore called "Contact: Theory" by Lustrum Press, NY. Very interesting! It came out in 1980. It shows representative contact sheets from photographers like Vestal, Cahbonnier, Erwitt, Gibson, Mapplethorpe, and Uzzle, just to name a few. You can learn an enormous amount by looking at the contact sheets of these photographers. Each photographer gives a brief essay on how they make their contact sheets, and how they use them to edit and evaluate their work. For Nuts and Bolts photographers, this book is terrific, if you can find a copy of it kicking around in your local library. A close examination of one contact sheet of a photographer can reveal an incredible amount of information about the working style and vision of a photographer. It is more useful than looking at the photographer's finished portfolio.