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Photography, Black & White on Paper
Size: 40 W x 30 H x 0.1 D in
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ABOUT THE ARTWORK
In 1969, one year after purchase of my first camera, and after returning from freelancing the war in Vietnam, I walked streets in San Francisco. This photo was taken on San Francisco's Powell Street near Market Street. The wall behind with shiny marble panels joined by whitish mortar at the joints, forms the representation of a gun sight crosshair -- a sort of unrecognized but happy occurrence completely unforeseen until camera was raised to eye and after this image was taken. The wall is that of the Woolworth Building, a 'five-and-dime' store. The older subject, clad in a sports jacket or suit and wearing a fedora was only seen as I wheeled around to view passersby on Powell Street downtown San Francisco. On spying this older man, I raised camera to eye, and in a thrice took this image. I then recognized the possibility I might have caught this passerby in the smallest fraction of a second in which that man appeared in very good juxtaposition to the wall joint and giving the appearance this man was previously seen and posed as though in gunsight crosshairs In actuality this photo was seen, visualized minimally, framed, and taken in less than two seconds. Some photos in 'street' can be taken even after an hour or more of observing a likely scene, or, like here, it all can occur within a second and maybe a fraction. This vintage photo, taken in 1969, is my avatar -- long used to represent me in print and on the Internet. Henri Cartier-Bresson, during the five or six decades in which he actively was taking photos purposely avoided being photographed. He was afraid in his world travels especially in political hot spots, he might be recognized and his life might be endangered, he told a reporter and repeated from time to time. After his retirement, he expressed little qualms about his image being captured; there was no more anticipated danger in being recognized. I still photograph actively and mostly avoid being photographed for the same safety reason. john (John Crosley)
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2017
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Black & White on Paper
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40 W x 30 H x 0.1 D in
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John Crosley
United States
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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