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12/20/2006 06:01:29 PM · #101

She studied with Alexei Brodovitch and Richard Avedon. Beginning in 1960, she worked as a photojournalist. In 1963 she received a Guggenheim Grant for photography. She became an iconic "modern photographer", famed for her unflinching depictions of the fringe elements of humanity. Who was she?

R.

12/20/2006 06:04:17 PM · #102

Diane Arbus? Maybe not.

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12/20/2006 06:07:01 PM · #103

Originally posted by ursula:

Diane Arbus? Maybe not.

BINGO! Great work, Ursula! Your turn...

R.

12/20/2006 06:17:13 PM · #104

All right. Another "who is this". He is an Irish photographer, from Dublin, worked for The Irish Times, then moved to the USA and worked with Richard Avedon. His award winning editorial and advertising career covers portraiture, fashion, travel, and reportage photography.

His images of Irish people are beautiful, to me at least they are somewhat reminiscent of Dorothea Lange's images.

12/20/2006 06:40:45 PM · #105

Too obscure? All right. A hint. Some of his work (the Irish tinker) was featured in one of the Aperture issues from many years ago, when

Gordon was a little boy just starting school.

12/20/2006 06:47:37 PM · #106

Alen MacWeeney (who I've never heard of before)

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12/20/2006 06:57:43 PM · #107

Originally posted by Gordon:

Alen MacWeeney (who I've never heard of before)

Yes, he's the one. I like his stuff.

12/20/2006 06:59:36 PM · #108

Who said 'If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough' and lived and died by this mantra by standing on a land mine, while trying to get up close and personal with his subject of choice ?

12/20/2006 07:02:56 PM · #109

Robert Capa

born Endre Erno Friedmann

He also said "It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian."

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12/20/2006 07:04:41 PM · #110

Originally posted by Spazmo99:

Robert Capa

born Endre Erno Friedmann

Yup and as a follow-up, which movie was he the still photographer for, staring his lover ?

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12/20/2006 07:10:06 PM · #111

Originally posted by Gordon:

Originally posted by Spazmo99:
Robert Capa

born Endre Erno Friedmann

Yup and as a follow-up, which movie was he the still photographer for, staring his lover ?

Hitchcock's "Notorious" starring Ingrid Bergman.

Nice two-parter.

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12/20/2006 07:10:51 PM · #112

Originally posted by Spazmo99:

Originally posted by Gordon:

Originally posted by Spazmo99:
Robert Capa

born Endre Erno Friedmann

Yup and as a follow-up, which movie was he the still photographer for, staring his lover ?

Hitchcock's "Notorious" starring Ingrid Bergman.

Very good :)

12/20/2006 07:12:32 PM · #113

OK, who was the youngest photographer to shoot a cover for Life Magazine and what was his subject?

Super Double bonus points if you can tell me how I knew him.

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12/20/2006 11:11:51 PM · #114

Hints: The cover was from 1939. He also shot the cover for the first issue of Sports Illustrated.

12/21/2006 01:30:17 AM · #115

So I've looked through all the covers for 1939, and found the cover of the first ever Sports Illustrated, and I think I figured out who this is.

Mark Kauffman

I have no idea how you knew him. Maybe he was your grandfather :)

Oh, yes, I forgot. The subject was Eleanor Roosevelt.

Other interesting (maybe) stuff from 1939 Life Mag covers:
(1) Alfred Eisenstaedt has the most covers
(2) The topics for the cover images really change in the Fall of the year, to a much more military look, after WWII officially started (but well before the US became involved).

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12/21/2006 01:49:10 AM · #116

Originally posted by ursula:

Nice job!

He was 17 when Eleanor Roosevelt visited his High School.

No, we aren't related. Mark Kauffman was my professor for a 2 years when he taught at Cal Poly SLO. I learned so much from him in his classes and outside of them too.

I think Eisenstaedt shot something like 90 covers while he was there. I don't think anyone else did more

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12/21/2006 02:00:27 AM · #117

:)

If it's OK, I'll post a question tomorrow, I'm too tired tonight. But if anyone else wants to post a question instead of me, that's fine too.

GeneralE

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12/21/2006 02:24:59 AM · #118

Originally posted by ursula:

:)

If it's OK, I'll post a question tomorrow, I'm too tired tonight. But if anyone else wants to post a question instead of me, that's fine too.

Goody, I have one ... I certainly haven't had any answers : )

What 19th century photographer's effort to settle a $25,000 bet laid the groundwork for animation and motion-picture photography?

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12/21/2006 02:29:08 AM · #119

Originally posted by GeneralE:

Originally posted by ursula:
:)

If it's OK, I'll post a question tomorrow, I'm too tired tonight. But if anyone else wants to post a question instead of me, that's fine too.

Goody, I have one ... I certainly haven't had any answers : )

What 19th century photographer's effort to settle a $25,000 bet laid the groundwork for animation and motion-picture photography?

That would be Eadweard Muybridge, right? The dispute, I believe, was whether all 4 of a horse's hooves ever left the ground simultaneously when it was galloping.

R.

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GeneralE

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12/21/2006 02:33:53 AM · #120

Except for the "weird" spelling, yes it would be Eadweard Muybridge (some beard too!).

Right, his second try, involving a series of camerals with trip-wires (literally!) proved that the horse's feet were all off the ground at once. The experiment took place at Leland Stanford's farm in Palo Alto (now part of Stanford University -- the farm, not Palo Alto), though most of his follow-up work on animal motion studies seem to have taken place in Pennsylvania.

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12/21/2006 10:52:14 AM · #121

continuing the Jeff Curto praise, that bet was also discussed in one of his early lectures.

12/21/2006 10:53:21 AM · #122

Originally posted by GeneralE:

The other odd side effect of this is that it revolutionised painting of horses too. Suddenly painters could paint horses with all hooves off the ground and not be thought to be idiots.

12/21/2006 11:43:57 AM · #123

Another question about Life photographers. Who was the first African-American photographer to work at Life magazine?

12/21/2006 11:45:02 AM · #124

Originally posted by ursula:

Another question about Life photographers. Who was the first African-American photographer to work at Life magazine?

Off the top of my head, Gordon Parks. Is that right?

R.