'Balloon Man' - Special Edition - Limited Edition 1 of 40 Photograph

'Balloon Man' This interesting character with arched eyebrows, almost bug eyes, and sour frown seems ready made to contrast with the happy faces of Mickey, the world's happiest rodent' in the 'balloons within balloons' this 'balloon man' is vending to parade route viewers and attendees on a major boulevard in San Francisco one holiday afternoon in 1969. This photo has never previously been for sale. History: Within a year after purchasing my first camera, I had been shot while on my way to the Martin Luther King,Jr. protest riots which shuttered Washington, D.C.. On recovery, I also had worked my way in 1968 to Vietnam as a merchant seaman, disembarked in the war zone with my cameras and pluck, and after several months of photographing there, was medically evacuated to the United States suffering from a gunshot wound. I photographed riots and campus disturbances free lance in the San Francisco Bay Area which I marketed free lance to Associated Press, United Press International, and newspapers later resulting in a photographer job offering from Associated Press. One sunny afternoon during a parade I saw this forlorn man and his spray of contrasting balloons, instantly made this capture in black and white and realized at once it would be among my lifetime best. John John Crosley (Footnote: (I took a very similar photo with a second, larger format camera but in color. (The image colors were great, but the photo really was far less worthy than this B&W version. The reason? The balloons were multi-colored. (In this black and white image, the balloons are seen as identical, repetitive shapes, whereas in color each different colored balloon was somewhat unique, and as such the 'sameness' of the balloons and their shapes was largely broken. (A significant feature of the B&W image depends on the roundness of the balloons and their repeating shapes and the resultant repetition in the shape of the man's round head. (With the break in repetition introduced by a color capture, what makes the B&W image stand out as a 'best of lifetime' image was almost entirely missing in its color counterpart. (Because the repetition was not seen so clearly in the multi-colored image, it was entirely forgettable.) jc

Photography:Black & White on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1

Size:40 W x 31.8 H x 0.1 D in

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