Lighting for Portraiture

This fundamental work of photographic literature shows how lights and lighting create a portrait. For more than sixty years Lighting for Portraiture has remained unchallenged for its thoroughness of thought, clarity of system, and presentation as well as the breadth of its illustrations.

In this revised, updated and partly illustrated edition, the original book, a product of many years’ study and research, has been republished for a new generation of portrait photographers.

The main for possibilities of lighting the human face are reduced here to steps of simple technique as methodically as a grid splits into clear and compact squares the confusing vastness of a map. The wealth and value of information so efficiently mapped out will be obvious even to readers who merely browse in its pages- but will be fully revealed to the worker who turns to this book in a quest for definite answers and then tests them in practice.