A Moment: Master Photographers: Portraits by Michael Somoroff

Photographers Known is the body of work Michael Somoroff made thirty-five years ago. He took it upon himself to photograph in depth his heroes and mentors, the master pho-tographers of the twentieth century. Michael Somoroff had been introduced to their work and subsequently to the photographers themselves by his father, Ben Somoroff a successful com-mercial photographer. In honor of each of these photographers m en-toring Somoroff, he began a series of portraits of his heroes including Brassal, Andre Kertesz, Ralph Gibson, Arnold Newman, Helmut Newton and others. Each was caught at the quintessen-tial moment thereby defining a period of pho-tography that was unique. It book contains a vast array of cutting edge artists photographed formally as well as behind the scenes who in-formed Somoroff's art and craft. The text is written by William Ewing. The book is designed by Torn Bentkowski former Director of Design for LIFE.