BOOK REVIEW
F1 GREATS
Rainer W
Schlegelmilch/Motorsport Images and Hartmut Lehbrink
RRP €299
Back in 2017, Autosport published a pair of supplements to celebrate the expansion of Motorsport Images following the acquisition of two remarkable picture archives, one of which represented 50 years of Rainer Schlegelmilch’s extraordinary output.
At the time we described him as one of the world’s most respected photographers. He’s arguably the most famous, and a strong case can be made for him being the finest.
This writer spends no an image is one of his. It’s the result of a rich chemistry of innovative composition and technique, the use of top-notch optics and the best film stock, followed by painstaking thoroughness in the process of development and retouching. In the results you’ll often see a crossover from sporting reportage into fine art.
