The famed photographer Arnold Newman may not have invented environmental portraiture, but his portraits of artists, photographers and intellectuals, that included Salvador Dali, Picasso and Eugene Smith, helped to elevate the genre to an art.
Newman called himself a "saver" perhaps a euphemism for "pack rat." He kept his notes, which he wrote meticulously, as well as his sketches, which he made exactingly. And although he published several photography books over the course of his life, what's interesting about this one is the emphasis on that ephemera which illuminates both his methodology and his personality.
Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach called simply Alfred Krupp. The picture was taken in Essen, Germany, 1963.
Earlier this year the University of Texas Press has produced a brilliant book, called At Work, that contains not only many of Newman’s signature images (including the superb portrait of Stravinsky at the piano), but also contact sheets, Polaroids, and work prints with his handwritten notes detailing his process.