Norman Rockwell: The Photographs Behind the Art

Off to School, 1952
"A lot of photographers ... figured they were artists in their own right. They liked deep, very contrasty, dark photographs that let the shadows go black," Lemone said. Rockwell "was looking for kind of a gray photograph ... He wanted to see into the shadows and, if he wanted, could paint the shadows black. Most photographers were so used to making snappy, dark photographs, they didn't understand this."

• Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera