Henry Carroll
Photographers on Photography-Henry Carroll
27 November 2018
Henry Carroll is a UK author and studied photography at the Royal College of Art. In recent years he has produced a series of books with ‘Read This If…’ in the title. A full list can be found here on Amazon
Aimed at the new and intermediate photographer to get creative with their camera, I have been pleasantly surprised by their straight forward approach. In his latest book- Photographers on Photography, there is no mention of the mechanics of photography here but rather a collection of quotes and images by masters of the art, with accompanying text by Carroll, he tries to show what photography actually means to the giants of the genres and how they developed their distinctive visual styles.
As he says in the introduction..” this offers an introduction to the more philosophical. Expect different opinions ranging from the personal to the practical, the esoteric to the enlightening’.
So one is given an insight into the approach of very different photography artists. It is a slim book, but big on content. Mixed in with the approach shown above, he has placed some interviews, among them Alec Soth.
An inexpensive, finally printed, book that I can highly recommend. It’s published by Laurence King Publishing and costs approx €16 in hardback at time of writing.