Retro Large Format Photography

These are the 2 books I Photographed for Tessing Design, covers included. These are books about building large and small scaled wooden toys, plans included. Each of over 50 setups that were photographed using an 8”x10” Deardorff wooden view camera. The lighting was Balcar Strobes, and the film processing labs were Ross-Ehlert, & Gamma. Louise & Arv Tessing handled all the preproduction & postproduction work on the design and printing the books. Sadly Arv Passed away during Covid. I remember the fun times we had with the Tessing’s, when we lived in Lincoln Park in Chicago, Il.

©Don Sala Images

©Don Sala Images