Book Summary: These forty-three photographs, taken in the 1930s and 1940s with three different cameras, illustrate both the formal and narrative skills of framing the world as only a great short story writer could. They show Eudora Welty (1909-2001) ardently pursuing an audience and honing her technique as she worked behind the lens.
Considering light, design, texture, framing, and perspective, she experimented with composition. She tried different films, papers, and exposures, took shots from various angles and distances, cropped and enlarged photographs in her kitchen darkroom, then waited until morning to discover what had been revealed.
I got another Eudora Welty photography book from the library. I didn't enjoy this book as much as the first. The photos were very good and interesting to see, but I took issue with the forward and the afterward. One writer, for example, contributed about 10 pages, and for those 10 pages there was about 4 pages of footnotes. Entirely too much back and forth for a forward of a book. I did enjoy the photographs though!
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