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Photography, Color on Paper
Size: 36 W x 23.9 H x 0.1 D in
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This photo, 'Hamburg Train Station (Bahnhof)' is first and foremost a street photo that depends on timing and composition. As such, it is an homage to the work of the master of the genre, the late Henri Cartier-Bresson. This image is from a platform in the Hamburg, Germany central train station. It depicts a passerby passenger, the yellow and white train, and a yellow and white overhead advertisement. It features visages of the passenger and the advertisement portrait set at 90 degree angles -- one a side view, and one face on or frontal. That contrast of profile and expressions (deadpan vs. happy) is a point of contrast and hopefully its humor. Composition and timing are keys to the image, the play on mirroring two portraits, plus a play on the use of the colors yellow and white. Cartier-Bresson photographed primarily in black and white and felt his color works were not to his standard. He once even tried to destroy his color work at a restaurant meeting of friends that included a prestigious Parisian photo editor. Cartier-Bresson probably was correct in his assessment of his color vs. his superb, landmark, black and white work. This photo shows my attempt to fuse black and white street images into color with emphasis on 'the decisive moment' and hopefully the good composition that Cartier-Bresson pioneered. You can be the judge of how my color work matches up, though I also love black and white street work. Without the color element,I strongly feel this image would lack its impact. john (John Crosley)
Photography:Color on Paper
Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1
Size:36 W x 23.9 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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