I have been in the field of industrial photogra-

phy for more years than I want to talk about,

and I like to think that I kept myself pretty well

informed as I went along; I attended seminars

and trade shows, saw exhibits of all kinds of

photography and art, joined organizations for

the exchange of ideas, and read literally hun-

dreds of books and magazines. Yet in the

process of writing this book I had to do some

research and ask a lot of questions about par-

ticular facets of our work with which I thought

someone else might be more familiar, and I

learned much that I had not known about be-

fore. Most of this new material found its way

into the book, and for that reason I hope that

even the experienced industrial photographer

will find in it something of value.