Missingham H. Design Focus

Van Nostrand Reinhold Australia, 1978. — 222 p.In this unique and colourful book, Hal Missingham has complemented the stimulating visual impact of his earlier book CLOSE FOCUS with a series of full colour photographs showing nature in a new, exciting and unusual way.The illustrations are not only pleasing to look at, they are a source of inspiration for architects, painters, sculptors. potters, weavers, fabric designers, printmakers, silversmiths, and jewellers.Hal Missingham and his camera lead us into an exciting world of colour, form and texture that is rarely seen. His 200 superb colour photographs are testimony to his great awareness, perception, and undoubted skill as a photographer. There is little that needs to be said of the photographs, they speak for themselves, for Hal Missingham is an artist who uses his camera as a painter uses his brush.