The Making Of Great Photographs: Approaches and Techniques Of The Masters

by McCabe, Eamonn

• ISBN13: 9780715321560
• ISBN10: 0715321560
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-05
• Publisher: F & W Media Inc
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Summary

*Fascinating collection of some of the greatest images in the history of photography *Practical technical breakdown discusses how the modern photographer can achieve classic effects The Making of Great Photographs is a collection of images by some of the most important photographers in history. Eamonn McCabe discusses the techniques and approaches employed by the masters in each image and, uniquely, how photographers can achieve similar effects using modern equipment. A great collection and a stimulating, practical insight into the work of the masters of the photographic medium, The Making of Great Photographs features a wide range of styles from the fascinating and beautiful early images of Julia Margaret Cameron, to twentieth-century masters such as Edward Weston and Paul Stran, from the pioneers of the process itself such as Fox Talbot, to the celebrated post-war documentarist Tony Ray Jones. The Making of Great Photographs is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of photography as well as practicing photographers everywhere.

Table of Contents

introduction	9	(7)
documentary photography
frank meadow sutcliffe	16	(3)
Shadows in an Alleyway, c. 1905
george rodger	19	(1)
Korongo Nuba Wrestlers of Kordofan, South Sudan, 1949
dorothea lange	20	(2)
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936
alfred stieglitz	22	(2)
The Steerage, 1907
don mccullin	24	(2)
Refugees from East Pakistan on the Indian Border, 1971
horace nicholls	26	(2)
Derby Grandstand, c. 1909
larry burrows	28	(2)
South of the DMZ, South Vietnam, 1966
thomas annan	30	(2)
Close No. 28, Saltmarket, 1868
lewis hine	32	(2)
Man in a Firebox, c. 1925
robert capa	34	(2)
Women in Bilbao run for safety with rebel planes approaching, 1937
john thomson	36	(2)
Covent Garden Labourers, 1877
bert hardy	38	(2)
Gorbals Boys, 1948
tony ray-jones	40	(2)
Glyndebourne, 1967
william henry fox talbot	42	(2)
The Open Door, 1844
josef koudelka	44	(2)
Gypsies, c. 1970
eadweard muybridge	46	(2)
Dusel hauling a heavy weight (from Animal Locomotion) 1884--5
kurt hutton	48	(4)
Funfair, Southend, Essex, 1938
landscape and architecture
frederick evans	52	(2)
Sea of Steps, Wells Cathedral, 1903
john blakemore	54	(2)
Mawddach Estuary, 1973
margaret bourke-white	56	(2)
George Washington Bridge, 1933
peter henry emerson	58	(2)
Rowing Home the Schoof-stuff, 1887
josef sudek	60	(2)
Prague in Winter, 1955
samuel bourne	62	(2)
Interior of Moti Masjid, Agra, c. 1865
fay godwin	64	(2)
Large White Cloud, Kent, 1981
paul strand	66	(2)
The White Fence, Port Kent, New York, 1916
francis frith	68	(2)
The Sphinx, 1859
ansel adams	70	(2)
Moonrise over Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941
george davison	72	(4)
The Onion Field, 1896
photography as art
alvin langdon coburn	76	(2)
Vortograph, 1917
roger fenton	78	(2)
Still Life with Ivory Tankard and Fruit, 1860
edward weston	80	(2)
Nude on Sand, Oceano, California, 1936
albert renger-patzsch	82	(2)
Timber Yard, 1929
paul caponigro	84	(2)
Backlit Sunflower, Winthrop, Massachuesetts, 1965
rudolf koppitz	86	(2)
Movement Study, 1926
andre kertesz	88	(2)
From My Window, c. 1980
clarence h white	90	(2)
Nude, c. 1907
oscar rejlander	92	(2)
The Two Ways of Life, 1857
brassai	94	(2)
Les Gouttes, c. 1935
emma barton	96	(2)
Old Familiar Flowers, 1919
henry peach robinson	98	(2)
Bringing Home the May, 1862
manuel alvarez bravo	100	(4)
Optic Parable, 1931
portrait photography
julia margaret cameron	104	(2)
lago, Study from an Italian, 1867
nickolas muray	106	(2)
Soldiers of the Sky, 1940
lewis carroll	108	(2)
Xie Kitchin as Chinese Tea Merchant, c. 1867
cecil beaton	110	(2)
Twiggy at 8 Pelham Place, London, 1967
fred holland day	112	(2)
Ebony, c. 1897
horst p horst	114	(2)
Carmen, New York, 1946
yousuf karsh	116	(2)
George Bernard Shaw, 1943
clementina hawarden	118	(2)
Clementina Maude Hawarden, c. 1860
john french	120	(2)
Hardy Amies, 1961
nadar	122	(2)
Nadar in conversation with M-E Chevreul and his laboratory director, 30 August, 1886
edward steichen	124	(2)
Gloria Swanson, 1924
david bailey	126	(2)
Andre Kertesz, 1980
robert demachy	128	(2)
Figure Study from an Etched Negative, 1906
alexander rodchenko	130	(2)
Varvara Stepanova, 1928
david hockney	132	(2)
My Mother, Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, 1982
glossary of photographic processes	134	(8)
photographic acknowledgments	142