New Book: Eleventyone Portraits 1841 to 1950

[Hugo Zhang]

I received my copy of the book two days ago. It is a beautiful book with plenty labor of love. It reminds me of Ansel Adams book Examples.

Having read through three pictures so far and I have the feeling of being transported into the early days of photography through the author's eyes. What a pair of eyes: cool, observant and not a tiny bit of details of the image escapes his description. Of course here and there, he shows us things we don't normally see as I think he uses his imaginations a little bit. That's inevitable because he loves these images.

I feel so lucky to have ordered this book and I surely will learn quite a lot about photography from its historical and technical aspects. Especially portrait photography.

If you want to get one book in 2020, order this book.

[cowanw]

Here is another of my portraits in the book. This is of a man photographed by Gertrude Käsebier. Gertrude Käsebier is better known for her family and woman centric compositions but she was also a comercial photographer and in regard to this she did a series of "men of worth" for a magasine series.
.

[cowanw]

I am very pleased to have been noticed by Mick Johnston and been his Book of the Year for 2021.
https://theonlinephotographer.typepa...reat-book.html
I have added a few images and pages to the sample pages section of the Word Press web site.
http://eleventyoneportraits.com/
http://eleventyoneportraits.com/wp-c...-1024x1024.jpg
http://eleventyoneportraits.com/wp-c...-1024x1024.jpg
These might be of interest to as they are very very early British daguerreotypes.