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'A Well Dressed Man' - Limited Edition of 20 Photograph

John Crosley

United States

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Size: 40 W x 26.7 H x 0.1 D in

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i took a photo of an old man walking down San Francisco's famous Powell Street, alongside the mai cable car line start Market Street. In one second after turning, i saw an old man walk past that exterior building's stone walls at a place where the junction of large exterior stones joins and the joints form a point that resembles a gun sight with the passerby directly in front of the cross hair. Since that 1969 photo was so well received, i have adopted it as my avatar; that's not 'me' in those photos of a older man walking past a wall. That's just a photo that identifies my work. Since that 1969 image, i had searched for similar situations to photograph, but it took me to 2011 to find a good enough setting to emulate that first, successful photo. This well - dressed old man was spotted outside an Eastern Europe metro station dressed just as this without any inerference from this photographer as is almost always the case., makiing it a 'street portrait' but in this instance, the man was aare he was being photographed but had no idea how he would look with the building stones and joints in the background. i was greatly influenced by the success of the early, 1969 image, and sad that i had not since then seen and captured a similar image until this one in 2011 and none since. My first test of success is whether i like the image,and ii t like it very much and consider this image among my best work.

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Photography:Paper on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:20

Size:40 W x 26.7 H x 0.1 D in

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I am a photographer who has taken in the past 12 years, over est. 2 million images, mostly street, with many shown previously under various host sites to over est. 200 million counted viewers. I practiced law very successfully in Silicon Valley, CA for nearly two decades; retiring at about age 40. I am a graduate of NYC's Columbia College, Columbia University. As editor/writer/photographer, I won the Lebhar-Friedman Publishing Blue Chip award for excellence in writing, editing, and photography. For law,I won a variety of awards and special recognition. I attended law school in Silicon Valley, graduating with honors and founding my own Silicon Valley law firm, from which I retired in the late 1980s. I have worked side by side with over a half dozen Pulitzer prize-winning photographers, was shot once, and later medically evacuated from Vietnam while photographing the war there. Self-taught in photography, later, among others, I have been mentored by the following: 1. Henri Cartier-Bresson 2. Sal Vader, Pulitzer winner, Associated Press 3. Wes Gallagher, President/Ceo of Associated Press who groomed me to replace him as A.P. head. 4. Sam Walton, Wal-Mart founder who tried to lure me into his smaller company, now the world's largest. retailer. 5. Walter Baring, Peabody award winner, WRVR-FM NYC's premier cultural radio station. 6./ A variety of great photographers, many Pulitzer winners, including many also from Associated Press,/ Many were Vietnam war colleagues from my freelancing the Vietnam war; others from AP NYC world headquarters. I took H C-B's advice: 'Shoot for yourself, John,' to avoid photo work that would require shooting in a special style. not my own. HCB's s generous, helpful advice also resulted in a career with AP wire service as a world news writer and editor, world service, Associated Press world headquarters, NYC. 6. Michel Karman, Lucie Award photo printer and photo exhibition genius. ent in two 'wars' -- the Vietnamese War, and a prisoner of war taken by Russian separatists in the current Ukrainian--Russian Separatist battles that killed over 10,000 and displaced over 1 million. While writing and as a worldwide photo editor for Associated Press, I was asked to understudy their CEO (worldwide General Manager), to become successor general manager on his retirement, but declined the position. I live the lifestyle of a photographer and am proud of it.

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