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 George Hurrel's studio in 1980 - that's 16-year-old actress Brooke Shields being made up. George, the master of Hollywood glamour in the 40s and 50s, made a comeback in the 80s. Today's photo oldy...Comments 6:09:40 PM 
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 Why I become a photographer: I was always a nerdly kind of kid, and am now happily thriving in Silicon Valley - so me first becoming a photographer, a style- and fashion-oriented photographer at that, may seem a bit strange.The story is that I had a great art teacher, guy named Bill Moos, at Western Reserve Academy, a fine then-boys school in Hudson, Ohio (amazingly, they gave me a full scholarship, but that's another tale).
Moos' teaching - he had a fine appreciation of light - and encouragement were key. But, the capper was that senior year we were shown the film 'Blow Up', Antonioni's arty epic set in 60s London. I was riveted by the glamour and cool, and decided then and there to become a photographer. And no regrets, either for having spent 20 years as a photographer or for having left it for high tech... |
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iPhoto is what I'm using to manage and publish the pix on this site, BTW, including the glorious black & whites. iPhoto is amazingly useful - it handles 20 MB image scans nicely, and will export Web-sized JPEGs with a click. Nice, Apple... Comments 5:14:40 PM
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'Tolerance of diverse views and of heretics fosters innovation'. Hypothesis from Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel Comments 8:42:14 AM
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