Photography and the Art of Seeing, Marcel Natkin
Photography and the Art of Seeing, Marcel Natkin
£58.00
Photography and the Art of Seeing, Marcel Natkin
The Fountain Press. London. First edition 1935 (printed in Great Britain by the Garden City Press, Letchworth, Herts). 72pp
Includes famous images in photogravure by Brassai and a nude image by Man Ray.
Instructions and sample photographs about main issues of Leading Trends, Composition, Lighting, Relief and Movement, Personality, Nature.
Photographs, printed in photogravure by Albin Guillot, Boucher, Brassai, Duval, Kertesz, Kollar, Man Ray, Meerkamper, Sougez, and many others.
’The artistic quality of a photograph is a function of the "art of seeing”. What, precisely, is the nature of this art? The art of seeing cannot be summarised in a few rules, nor is this my aim. ‘ Marcel Natkin