VIEW IN MY ROOM
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Photography, Black & White on Paper
Size: 30 W x 20.2 H x 0.1 D in
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This work is somewhat reminiscent of the Surrealist Period of famed photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. In the rear counter of this thrift shop are three 'head-like figures'. This image was taken the time just before photographer Crosley met Cartier-Bresson in 1969, before Crosley became familiar with HCB's work, and before Crosley received career advice from le maitre. Black and white, 35 mm film, this image was taken while Crosley strolled the steep streets of San Francisco and found this shop on a side street of a major 'hill'. This thrift shop reveals a bit of mystery of photography and displays image timing unlikely ever repeated. In that sense it foreshadowed Crosley's admiration for HCB's legendary timing, known as choosing 'the decisive moment'. Crosley captured this image shortly before he met HCB. On the date of that meeting Crosley only realized HCB's greatness AFTER Crosley had met the famed photographer, received advice from him, and then viewed HCB's huge touring museum exhibition. The meeting had been arranged by San Francisco colleagues including one friend from HCB's past who favorably compared Crosley's infant portfolio to work of his long-ago China friend, Cartier-Bresson. (Jimmy White) This photo was in Crosley's work he presented to AP and is a major reason the AP board, general manager, and famed photo chief, Hal Buell, waived AP rules to allow Crosley's hiring. Crosley was told by HCB's friend on the AP staff Crosley's images reminded him of his 'old friend' Henry (HCB). At their meeting, Cartier-Bresson advised Crosley to shoot photos for Crosley's 'own pleasure' and leave the photo staff of Associated Press where Crosley was expected to begin work shooting sports, fires, crimes and the long-expected 'Big One' -- a new earthquake. Crosley followed Cartier-Bresson's advice and thereafter shot 'only for himself'. He quit the AP photographer job the day he was to begin his first assignment. AP made a decision to make Crosley a newsman, despite Crosley's complete inexperience in news writing and reporting. That decision paid off when on his first day on the job, Crosley wrote a story that ran on front pages nationwide about an encounter in Yosemite National Park between a lost little girl and a 'great big bear' in the park's bitter cold wilderness, in which the girl scared the bear off by violently shaking tree branches.
Photography:Black & White on Paper
Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1
Size:30 W x 20.2 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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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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