Photographers' Sketchbooks

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43 leading and emerging photographers give insight into their working methods via presentation of their sketchbooks? (encompassing conventional artists? sketchbooks, book maquettes, online blogs and photostreams, ontact sheets and many more), accompanied by three thematic essays from the authors.

Photography is so much more than pushing a button. It is a way of seeing, a way of life, a grasping of life. At the same time it involves an enormous amount of preparatory work, research, and trial and error.

All photographers ? the visually restless, the diarists, the experimenters, the R&D obsessives, the collectors and the cross-genre free wheeler's know this as they dream of future pictures and agonize over the next big project. They create speculative work that may blossom into something important, or wind up in a box under the bed ? or its virtual equivalent.

This book offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at the working methods of nearly 50 photographers from around the world.

In their own words, they present selections from their ?sketchbooks?: everything from Polaroid studies to smartphone snaps, diaries, found photography, installations, zines, blogs and online photo streams alongside traditional contact sheets, photo albums and book dummies.

With over 500 images, Photographers? Sketchbooks is a compelling insight into the ways professional photographers realize a personal vision.

Extent: 320 pp
Format: PLC (no jacket)
Publication date: 2014-10-13
Size: 22.0 x 29.7 cm
ISBN: 9780500544341
Introduction • Photographers A–G • Essay 1: Publishing • Photographers H–M • Essay II: Experiments • Photographers N–Z • Essay III: Projects

Press Reviews

To flick through the book is to gain a new understanding of the detailed thinking that goes into every professional photograph
Daily Telegraph

Proves that the best shots hardly ever happen by chance
Sunday Telegraph

Gives you a fascinating window into the creative process … As you’d expect of Thames & Hudson, the presentation, design and print quality are second to none
Royal Photographic Society

Meticulously researched … a fascinating insight into the work and methods of more than 50 photographers
Independent on Sunday

About the Authors

Stephen McLaren is a photographer, writer and curator based in Los Angeles. He is the co-author of three previous Thames & Hudson titles: Street Photography Now, Photographers? Sketchbooks and Family Photography Now.

Bryan Formhals is a photographer and writer, and the founding editor of LPV Magazine.

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