The photographer’s work album

210 The photographer’s work album

In the first decades of the association, some members of the FCCB, like other contemporary photographers, created albums that had different uses for their work. They glued contacts or small prints for negatives selected among shots they had taken on the pages of these albums. Thus, the album served as a device to collect the most compelling images. They also used these prints to define technical and creative strategies to be applied for the end product, for example, specifying areas where it was necessary to accentuate light or shadow, among others.

Together with the photographs he took, we received several albums that belonged to Victorio Micheletti (1920–2011), an amateur photographer and accountant by profession who was linked to the FCCB from 1950 to 1959. Micheletti's albums were small notebooks in which he placed one image on each page. Some prints of these albums contain marks for re-framing the final photo posteriorly.