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Re: Photo collections you would like to see more of?
Author: L.A.Scrafford
Date: 02-12-2015 - 14:11
T.O. Repp, is one of my favorites as well as his book Mainstreets of the Northwest.
Anything of Ted Benson, Richard Steinheimer, John Illman, Harold Hill, Jim Turner, Warren Wing, Jim Fredrickson, Ron Nixon and Henry Griffiths. Most of these worked in black and white format which most individuals in the modern era do not appreciate. Also Roger Burrows and J.F. Garden from up north. Blair Kooistra and Bruce Kelly for their work in the Northwest.
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> Bill, wow, I'm at a loss for words to express how
> moved and honored I am just to be mentioned in
> this context. There are folks out there shooting
> today who are a hundred times more talented than
> me when it comes to technical expertise and range
> of skills in handling their camera. But I suppose
> old guys from my generation, and before, do hold a
> slight edge in having shot things that are now
> long gone.
>
> I can say this: the roughly one thousand or more
> photos I've had published since about 1982
> represent less than 10 percent of the images I've
> actually taken. And I dare say that much of what I
> feel is my best work is among the 90 percent that
> has never seen the light of day, or the printed
> page.
>
> I fully agree on T.O. Repp. There was once talk
> that he would release a second volume to his
> Mainstreets book, to cover Washington and western
> Canada, I believe. But there were some things
> about the handling of the first book that
> supposedly discouraged him, not just the fact that
> the maps had a number of missing placenames, but
> that the size and layout of the book wasn't what
> he expected. I still consider it one of the best
> RR books ever produced, but having seen a number
> of my own efforts botched or mishandled by certain
> editors, I can understand Repp's loss of incentive
> to proceed on the next book with that publisher.
>
> Beyond that, I could rattle off a long list of
> just about every contemporary shooter whose work
> we once enjoyed in mags published on the West
> Coast, East Coast, and somewhere in between. I do
> miss seeing the regular appearance of Eastern
> mountain and steel mill scenes from guys like
> Scott Snell, or the more obscure places in the
> Nevada and California deserts by Mark Wayman.
>
> In a more historical context, I'd love to spend
> time digging through the Phil Hastings collection
> that is supposedly housed at WSU in Pullman, WA.
> There must be a lot more of his steam and electric
> era photos from the Palouse region back when it
> was really a cobweb of crisscrossing branch lines.
Anything of Ted Benson, Richard Steinheimer, John Illman, Harold Hill, Jim Turner, Warren Wing, Jim Fredrickson, Ron Nixon and Henry Griffiths. Most of these worked in black and white format which most individuals in the modern era do not appreciate. Also Roger Burrows and J.F. Garden from up north. Blair Kooistra and Bruce Kelly for their work in the Northwest.
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> Bill, wow, I'm at a loss for words to express how
> moved and honored I am just to be mentioned in
> this context. There are folks out there shooting
> today who are a hundred times more talented than
> me when it comes to technical expertise and range
> of skills in handling their camera. But I suppose
> old guys from my generation, and before, do hold a
> slight edge in having shot things that are now
> long gone.
>
> I can say this: the roughly one thousand or more
> photos I've had published since about 1982
> represent less than 10 percent of the images I've
> actually taken. And I dare say that much of what I
> feel is my best work is among the 90 percent that
> has never seen the light of day, or the printed
> page.
>
> I fully agree on T.O. Repp. There was once talk
> that he would release a second volume to his
> Mainstreets book, to cover Washington and western
> Canada, I believe. But there were some things
> about the handling of the first book that
> supposedly discouraged him, not just the fact that
> the maps had a number of missing placenames, but
> that the size and layout of the book wasn't what
> he expected. I still consider it one of the best
> RR books ever produced, but having seen a number
> of my own efforts botched or mishandled by certain
> editors, I can understand Repp's loss of incentive
> to proceed on the next book with that publisher.
>
> Beyond that, I could rattle off a long list of
> just about every contemporary shooter whose work
> we once enjoyed in mags published on the West
> Coast, East Coast, and somewhere in between. I do
> miss seeing the regular appearance of Eastern
> mountain and steel mill scenes from guys like
> Scott Snell, or the more obscure places in the
> Nevada and California deserts by Mark Wayman.
>
> In a more historical context, I'd love to spend
> time digging through the Phil Hastings collection
> that is supposedly housed at WSU in Pullman, WA.
> There must be a lot more of his steam and electric
> era photos from the Palouse region back when it
> was really a cobweb of crisscrossing branch lines.
