Digital BW, The Print

David Jackson asked for book recommendations for studio lighting and 
portraiture.   One of the very few photography books I've found entertaining and 
useful marries both subjects.   It's called Hollywood Portraits:   Classic Shots 
and How to Take Them by Roger Hicks and Christopher Nisperos (Amphoto 2000).   
The authors take fifty or so publicity photos of the great Hollywood figures 
from the 1920s through the 1950s -- Garbo, Gable, Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, 
they're all here -- and deconstruct the lighting and camera placement for the shot.  
 The images are a delight to see, their deconstruction (complete with 
lighting diagrams for each) gives a better understanding of how the photographers 
accomplished the Hollywood Look of the genre, and there are a number of sidebars 
included about the Hollywood photographers who made their livings turning out 
photos like these for the studios.   Fun and informative.

Sanders McNew.


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