Joseph Brignolo

I am retired from more than 50 years of commercial and industrial photography, now I have the time to pursue the pleasure of the art. I am the third generation of photographers in the Brignolo family. I was presented with a Brownie Box camera for my seventh birthday. My father, an internationally renowned corporate photojournalist, explained the cost of film and told me to make every shot count. He taught me how to develop the film and print my best pictures when I finished my first roll. I was hooked. I accompanied him on several local assignments and shadowed him with my Brownie. He was impressed with my results.
On my 13th birthday, I was presented with a Pentax single lens reflex 35mm camera. Now I had 36 exposures per roll, but my father cautioned me, “Remember, make every shot count.” And I did. I immediately joined the photo club at my junior high school and the advisor thought I was good enough to take pictures for the yearbook. By the time I was 16 years of age, I was photo editor of my high school yearbook and a photo stringer for Time Magazine in the Fairfield County, Connecticut area.
I am a self-taught photographer. I adhered to the “make every shot count” rule which taught me to compose each shot with a critical eye. ...

Electrical Engineering, University of Bridgeport, 1975

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