http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/07/27/ansel.adams.discovery/
(Photograph by Ted Orland)
Now if we could just find $2,000,000.00 lying around in the garage…
UPDATE: Of course they weren’t Ansel Adams’s negatives (no surprise), for lots of reasons. Now the story is just tedious, so perhaps I’ll delete this post; look it up for yourselves.
“A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.”
Here are some long-unseen pictures by another BHS alumnus.
(Keep in mind that these are from the mid ’90s.)
Remember when we directed your attention to a print sale designed to help Devendra, last December? Here is another project worthy of our support. “Digressions: A Blog” is produced by Daniel Shea, lately of Chicago. Look at all his work and consider acquiring a print or two.
I thought that a good reply to “How’re you spending the summer?” might be “I’m directing a community theatre production of the life of Gene Pitney.” Pitney was a serious pop composer and successful performer with a longer career than most people are aware of (it survived the British Invasion, and actually thrived in England into the ’90s). After two days I realized that Pitney’s “It Hurts To Be In Love” was still stuck in my head. It must have come over me in EuroFresh, because the oldies station is always on the PA system in there. I seem to have exorcised it by picking out the melody, the higher Sedaka-ish harmony part, and the voices in the bridge on our “Bastardo” grand piano.
Watch him sell a song using only his jaw:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7BRraVMZzc
(Pitney was quickly replaced by Henry Mancini’s theme from “Two For The Road.”)
Marvin Heiferman’s mini-essay puts things into perspective a little bit:
http://blog.photography.si.edu/2010/06/09/picture-perfect-not-all-the-games-we-play/
(I suppose I could find out for myself [perhaps by familiarizing myself with the rules] why, when soccer games end 0-0, one team advances in the tournament and another might be eliminated.) I (and, I daresay, we) have enough on our plate (I’ll let that potential pun slide — that one as well) with the baseball rule book. I just like Mr. Heiferman’s conclusion.
Photogram by Robert Heineken
Photogram of the late Robert Heineken
Creative Camerawork 
