A beautiful book wherein the author interviews noted photographers about their work. For one needing some inspiration, rereading it is therapeutic.

Inside pages showing the work of Charles Freger

I need inspiration and Anne-Celine Jaeger’s Image Makers, Image Takers book is just what I need. Rereading her interviews of noted photographers like Stephen Shore, Sebastiao Salgado, Mary Ellen Mark, Charles Freger, and 15 others talk about their beginnings, processes, and photography helps me in reassessing my own approach to come up with better ideas and fine tune my manner of working. It’s insightful and the photographers are from different disciplines: art, documentary, fashion and advertising, portraiture and what she calls, the next generation.

The author didn’t limit it to working photographers but also included photo editors as well as publishers, agency directors, curators and gallerists. In this way, you get to have an idea of how the business is and how these movers and shakers think, look and consider. The mix of 218 illustrations found in the book is interesting and the images by the different photographers gives you a good range of their work.

As what the blurb said, this is “the essential guide to Photography for those in the know.“

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24 September 2009