ERNST HAAS – THE ART OF SEEING Ernst Haas (1921-1986) was a pioneer. He received both the first color feature in Life Magazine and the first one-person show of color photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His book The Creation, which I purchased in 1976, was the reason I decided to … Continue reading “”
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RUSSIA FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX CANCELLED AFTER UKRAINE INVASION This is just another sign that the world sees Russia differently today. The Haas F1 racing team also removed the Russian flag-based livery from their cars. Many drivers say they had already decided not to attend the Russian race scheduled for September anyway. Hopefully, more financial … Continue reading “”
ERNST HAAS – HIS 100TH BIRTHDAY Ernst Haas, the pioneer of color photographic essays, would have been 100 years old today. He created the first magazine color photo-essay in LIFE in 1962. He became the first color photographer to have his own exhibit at MOMA shortly thereafter. He made this photo of a fall leaf … Continue reading “”
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JOHNNY DEPP IS W. EUGENE SMITH IN MINIMATA Filming has begun in Japan to portray one of the most inspiring photo essayists ever. W. Eugene Smith’s images in Life magazine are legendary for their powerful emotion and use of low key light. His 1948 series, “Country Doctor”, is now recognized as “the first extended editorial … Continue reading “”
PHOTOGRAPHERS HAVE A COMPOSITIONAL KEY It’s built into their brain. That’s part of what makes them unique. It could be a perfect triangle (Sam Abell), a figure 8 (Ernst Haas), or something in between.
RANDY’S BIO & TESTIMONIALS
Randy Wells was born March 3 in Cordova, Alaska to a ballet teacher and a commercial fisherman. A Kodak photo contest winner at age 12, a motocross rider at 14, a certified scuba diver at 16, and an art student in Paris at 20, he later became an optometrist at age 25. Through it all, … Continue reading “RANDY’S BIO & TESTIMONIALS”
SEEING IS EVERYTHING
PETE TURNER One of the original master color photographers (Ernst Haas and Jay Maisel are two others), Pete Turner passed away today. He was 83. Pete made many of the most iconic jazz album covers of all time. Photo District News voted him as one of the 20 most influential photographers of all time.
THROWBACK THURSDAY Can’t afford a new digital Leica SL with 50mm lens? There’s always the all analog Leicaflex SL from the early ’70s. It was made from 1968 to 1974, with 1080 being capable of being motorized (SLMOT). Here’s my first Leica camera, bought used in 1979. Hey, if it was good enough gear for … Continue reading “”
ERNST HAAS TRIBUTE WEEK 1953 First Color Photo Essay – LIFE 1962 First Color Photography Exhibition – MOMA “As part of this week long tribute to Ernst Haas on the 30th anniversary of his death (September 12, 1986), I share my remembrance on AI-AP/Pro Photo Daily,” says my dear friend and colleague Arthur Meyerson. Arthur … Continue reading “”
SAM ABELL AND ERNST HAAS TOGETHER It would be fun to eavesdrop on what my two photographic mentors were talking about in the ’70s. I can just imagine Sam Abell (left) saying to Ernst Haas (right),
REFLECTIONS ON ERNST HAAS “There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult.†– Ernst Haas “Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical … Continue reading “”
AS SUMMER ENDS It’s been a great year. Unfortunately, Speed Week at Bonneville was cancelled (again). Weather is one thing you cannot control. Thankfully I was able to photograph the World of Speed event at the salt flats as well as the Pikes Peak Hill Climb earlier in 2014. Here are some non-assignment images I … Continue reading “”
30 YEARS AGO It was thirty years ago that I traveled to Tokyo to participate in a photo workshop taught by Ernst Haas. I knew nobody when I arrived and gained two life-long friends by the time I returned home two weeks later. One is Len Krueger, as gifted a visual artist as anyone I’ve … Continue reading “”
FOCAL LENGTH OK, let’s talk focal length (FL) on a full-frame 35mm camera. 14 and 15mm: The widest angle FL has traditionally been a 14mm lens. This exotic optic is available in a rectilinear design so it can reproduce straight lines as straight, yet it “stretches” the subject. It is limited in it’s usefulness but … Continue reading “”