Photographic Composition

The Author

Albrecht Rissler started to draw as a child—and has never stopped. Drawing has played a key role in his development as a window dresser and later as a poster artist and a freelance graphic designer. He studied pedagogy and taught art and technical subjects for 10 years at various schools. In 1980 he founded an illustration studio and worked for a number of book and magazine publishers. In 1988 Albrecht Rissler was hired as a professor of drawing and illustration at the University of Applied Sciences, Mainz. The subject of image composition—often informed by photography—is a key topic in his courses on illustration and in his publications. He has published two other books, on drawing: Zeichnen. Unterwegs mit Stift und Skizzenbuch in ...