Victor Schrager

By Amie Tucker

• On this particular picture, I cropped it to make it more in Victor Schragers style. The blurry boook at the back makes the depth of field deeper. He closer the object the more clear the object is. The colours and positions of he books is in the same style as Victor Schrager.

• The exposer enhances the white background and makes the open book pages blend into the background. I used the saturation settings to make the red stand out, I also used brightness to do the same thing. I used these books because they have the same sort of colours as Victor Schrager.

• In this picture I used a light hanging from above to create shadows on the books. I have ‘enhanced’ the exposer on this photo giving it better depth of field which gives the impression that the green book at the front is floating- brightness enhanced the colour. The saturation brings out the white backdrop making the books stand out.

This image was the most successful because of the position and the colours and has a good depth of field. This picture is the closest to Victor Schragers style.

• Victor Schrager orginal image : His interest in the aesthetics of hard-cover books followed from his early ‘Botany’ series (1999-2000) when he used them as backdrops. ‘I was always taken with the evocative colours of old hard covers.’ He experimented with the plate camera’s selective focus, considering its swings and tilts as a way to physically engage the elements of a picture and soon became hooked, photographing nearly nothing but the books for five years – the project became an obsession.