Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On the issue of "keepers" per roll, I particularly enjoy looking at proof sheets by photographers to see how many shots and what type of angles they used to get a given iconic picture. There are reproductions of proof sheets in some of the monographs I have and it's always enlightening to study them. One example that comes to mind is a proof sheet of pix by Kertesz. It's in Bohran's "A.K.: His Life and Work" on page 278, for those of you who have the book. It shows 21 treatments of a given scene, all slightly different. There's another example in Boubat's little photograpy manual, "La Photo," on page 182 in my old edition. It shows some six variants on his famous image of a man sleeping on a terrace overlooking Nazaré, Portugal. In both cases, you can see that something caught the photographer's eye, and they just explored it for a while, trying a number of variations on the basic "theme" of the picture. I've heard (probably on this list) that Magnum likes to see the proof sheets of photogs they're considering to have as members. Could this be the reason? Guy - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html