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In world travels sometimes one encounters architectural features which are photogenic and lend themselves to good composition, especially when combined with a human accent. Here, a young boy descends a geometric staircase surrounding the front of a supermarket in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine (now named Dnipro after the huge, historic, Dnipr river which passes by this fourth largest Ukrainian city of about 2 million). Designed by architects of the Soviet Union when Ukraine was a Soviet Republic, this concrete staircase was considered an ideal combination of utility combined with good architecture in a photogenic, geometric, and pleasing architectural setting. Like many Soviet 'architectural' works, this one has substantial impracticalities. There are no safety rails, no alternate entrance or way for disabled to access the store, and no safeguards from snow and ice when steps are slick and hazardous which results each winter in numerous broken bones. The Soviet Union fell apart in December 1991. Once a Soviet Republic called 'The Breadbasket of the Soviet Union,' Ukraine is now an independent country and in land area it is Europe's largest. Some new supermarkets or superstores (called hypermarkets as are throughout France) in this city and other large Ukrainian cities are bigger than a Sam's Club and Costco combined. Such huge, new style combined markets carry a tremendous range of goods of all sorts from hard goods to groceries, and are cutting edge modern. But they are without poorly thought out hazards such as this pleasant looking but sometimes dangerous staircase. Practicalities aside, this staircase to me is a visual and photographic delight with great parallel lines and a vanishing point that seems straight from an artist's geometry textbook. john (John Crosley)
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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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