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Re: Chambers St Photos

Posted by cortelyounext on Sat Feb 22 10:48:59 2025, in response to Re: Chambers St Photos, posted by Zac on Fri Feb 21 20:42:20 2025.

Appreciate you. During my university years, I'd come back to New York City during the summers and "worked" as an assistant's assistant for some well known commercial photographers. I used quotation marks since I was more of an errand boy than anything else, running contact sheets up to the big advertising agencies in midtown Manhattan and oh by the way, on the way back, pick up lunch sandwiches for the staff back at the studio. These photographers were elitist I meant to write elite but they were businessmen first, artists second. It was the assistants who did all the technical work (I realize the photographers were probably assistants early in their careers.) I learned from those assistants about camera functionality, film, lighting, etc. I'd help with the equipment setup and loading magazines, film not bullets, that sort of thing. A lot of still life work, a lot of fashion shoots both in studio and off-site en plein air. It was a privilege to work with large format cameras with the bellows and glass plates, the Nikon 35mm with various lenses, and the venerable Hasselblad Deuce and a Quarters. I took a couple photography courses back in Boulder using my trusty 35mm Pentax and then developing the film and manipulating the prints through "burning" using Adams' Zone System. I can't tell you how much trouble I had wrapping the film properly on those steel spools in the dark - I lost/damaged a lot of work during that time, mostly urban and rail yard shots down in Denver. Thanks again.

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