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'The Concourse II' - Limited Edition 1 of 25 Photograph

John Crosley

United States

Photography, Color on Paper

Size: 36 W x 24.9 H x 0.1 D in

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The Concourse' depicted here is under the tarmac connecting Chicago's United Airlines giant main terminal with its equally long outer counterpart. It is a wonderful way most feel for changing terminal parts and a welcome change of pace for rushed travelers making often short plane connections. Above, pilots bring in planes that just landed, other planes begin to taxi to the takeoff runway, still others head to the hangars or parking places for maintenance, fueling and repair or even repositioning. They are are serviced unseen overhead by fleets of baggage carts and other airport vehicles drive overhead which comtrend with the stubby but extremely 'tugs' which pull and push planes into terminal gates. Meanwhile passengers are treated to lively Gershwin music and a light show and can relax for the few minutes it takes to transit the tunnel, hardly moving muscle except to step on and off the people mover. For the busy and hurried traveler, this concourse can be a welcome respite, with lovely,, ever-changing colors surrounding and pulsating Gershwin music in the background. Now-relaxing passengers are relieved of most effort except for twice stepping on and off the twin people movers as they rapidly move underground. A transit through this underground concourse can be one of the few pleasant experiences most air travelers will encounter on an airline journey. Photographer Crosley was accompanied as he traveled the concourse. He told his escort he wanted to pause for five minutes midAy through theis concours to tke a few pictures. He predicted they might be 'memorable' andone or mroe might ge world class. Usually Crosley refrains from predictions of any sort The person with him, not knowing him well had inquired about his photo skills, and Crosley replied 'just watch' and in that pause produced tjos and four or five similar photos, for a wonderful grouping, all taken at the same spot. This and two others taken at this spot,, Crosley counts this image and two others taken from this same spot as among his lifetime color best. Irt is on this site at the folowing URl and one is on this site at the following URL. https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Photography-The-Concourse-Limited-Edition-1-of-25/1006130/3866016/view The two make a very good pairing. Because they are 'art' and not 'journalism' it is possible to 'flip' or reverse direction of the pedestrians in one so the two images can better match without changing the 'truth' of the depictions, in part because both are almost completely symmetrical. If ordering both, please specify if one is to be flipped and which one. Within five minutes Crosley had taken this and three or four similar photos with different figure placement, all of them 'artistic' and his companion conceded he had more than exceeded expectations. See, for instance a prior listing showing two women and a man with open laptop going in opposite directions at this very spot within minutes of taking this. All are part of a grouping Crosley counts among his best color work. music playing throughout, the people mover passenger doesn't have to spend any effort to change from the main terminal to the outer terminal while envelped in a work of art. Here is the URL Giant elevators and escalators at the ends whisk passengers back to the elevated terminal parts. music playing throughout, the people mover passenger doesn't have to spend any effort to change from the main terminal to the outer terminal while envelped in a work of art. e to thet show surrounding and beautiful, lively music to match the pace of the business world playing, This concourse is a work of art in its own. With wonderful music in the background that matches the frenetic pace of business travel piped in throughout the very lengthy concourse, a travel or airplane crew person can ride people movers (a long belt which carries standing people and like an escalator without steps traveling horizontally). Midway between the ends each of two people movers ends, an amplified voice intones passengers of the 'end' and to 'please step off'. Throughout the entire length of the underground tunnel and concourse, the translucent panels separated by frames casts different colored light, often predominantly yellowish, but varying so that the appearance of the concourse changes many times through a journey from one part of the terminal on it to the other.

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Photography:Color on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1

Size:36 W x 24.9 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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