San Antonio College Library

The author first guides the reader in learning how to see more than the surface impression and then gives the elements of photography and visual design.

The Contact Sheet looks into some of the most iconic photographs of our times, revealing the rarely seen contact sheets from the original photo sessions. Looking at over 40 iconic images and restoring them to their original sequences, next to the near-misses. Photographs from international photographers including Dorothea Lange, Art Kane, and William Wegman. Photographs of icons include Marilyn Monroe, Aretha Franklin, and Richard Nixon.

"This book is a retrospective of André Kertész's long career and contains all of his best known works: Hungarian scenes, classic photographs of Mondrian's staircase, portraits of his artist and writer friends, as well as his famous Surrealist distortions."--Bookseller's description.

"This volume is the first book-length publication of Rocky Schenck's photography. The images range from human spaces - hotel rooms, store windows, lobbies, living rooms, even information booths - to natural places - oceans, lakes, forests, fields, and roadways - he encountered on trips through North America, Europe, and Mexico. For all their variety, however, Schenck's images form a coherent whole. Like lost scenes from a silent movie, they suggest...

"Initially envisioned as a simple collection to represent conventional topics - landscape, still life, portraiture, and similar genres - these images become markers for something greater. The body of work within these pages moves us to envision the world differently. We have the opportunity to glimpse, if just for a moment, the nature of an artist's vision."--Jacket