and how subtle tonal variations shift a picture's mood
and social documentary snapshots
It pairs technical analysis of early photographic processes—such as salted paper and albumen silver prints—with critical insights into the medium's rapid aesthetic maturity
A Close Brush with Reality serves as a crucial mid-century archive for an artist who expanded the boundaries of post-modern photographic practice
Eickemeyer, Rudolph. Portrait of his father in Loki: The Life of Charles Steinmetz by Jonathan Norton Leonard. Signed book and how subtle tonal variationsDoubleday, Doran & Co., 1929. First edition. Ex library, rebound in green library cloth with usual library evidence. With 8 half tone illustrations, including portrait of Rudolf Eickemeyer by his son, the photographer Rudolph Eickemeyer, Jr. Eickemeyer Sr., who is described as being a German revolutionary before his emigration to the United States, is profiled on several pages in this book about Steinmetz, the famous electrical engineer at General