{"id":1417,"date":"2023-09-15T00:23:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T04:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredcpricephotographer.com\/?page_id=1417"},"modified":"2023-09-15T00:28:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T04:28:19","slug":"the-70s","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fredcpricephotographer.com\/?page_id=1417","title":{"rendered":"The 70’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 70's<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n [vc_empty_space height=\u201d60px\u201d][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=\u201d1\/3\u2033][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

During the seventies I continued to experiment but with more discipline and direction. Using <\/span>fewer films, papers and developers, I\u00a0 concentrated on both the print and the seeing.\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

A less scatter shot approach to picture making and a concentration on projects. Groups of <\/span>photographs became more interesting to me. I had portfolios of pictures, one made while <\/span>visiting another photographer in Puerto Rico.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=\u201d1362\u2033 img_size=\u201dlarge\u201d onclick=\u201dimg_link_large\u201d img_link_target=\u201d_blank\u201d][vc_column_text]The above image is from the Indian Cave at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. You had to climb down a<\/span>\u00a0ladder to get to the cave floor. I had my 4\u00d75 view camera, tripod, lenses and film holders.\u00a0 I put in my<\/span>\u00a0super wide angle f8 lens and could not see a thing on the ground glass. I then put in a less wide angle f6.8 lens and could not see a thing on the ground glass. I then put in my \u201cnormal\u201d f5.6 lens and could<\/span>\u00a0see some of the brighter parts of the image and made a couple of exposures. It was pretty dark down<\/span>\u00a0there!<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\u201d1\/3\u2033][vc_column_text]Another group, almost an essay, of pictures taken while <\/span>visiting my home town, Youngstown, Ohio. Our\u00a0 father had had a heart attack and survived and Frank <\/span>and I went back to see him and mom. Frank drove me around and we visited childhood haunts and<\/span>\u00a0looked at the mills. Which is what the landscape in Youngstown was. <\/span><\/p>\n

After living in New York we<\/span> could see that Youngstown had little to offer us. I used\u00a0 4\u00d75 and 35mm cameras\u00a0 and shot only black<\/span>\u00a0and white. I was pleased with the way some of pictures came out. Just as I expected. <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=\u201d1363\u2033 img_size=\u201dlarge\u201d onclick=\u201dimg_link_large\u201d img_link_target=\u201d_blank\u201d][vc_column_text]The landscape of twentieth century America had a visual fascination for me. Steel mills, other<\/span>\u00a0factories both working and abandoned, railroads, locomotives, flatcars, reefers, smoke stacks, all of<\/span>\u00a0that and more. I felt at home among workers. In strange towns I gravitated to places where workers ate<\/span>\u00a0and drank and bought work clothes and the ethnic neighborhoods they lived in. I still feel that way. <\/span><\/p>\n

No doubt because of the enchantment generated by looking at the work of Eliot Porter, Bret and<\/span>\u00a0Edward Weston, Ansel Adams nature photography became a more satisfying project. Using mostly<\/span>\u00a0large format I was firmly in the f64 school. Sharp with a long range of tones was my goal.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\u201d1\/3\u2033][vc_column_text]I\u00a0 found a path that might result in how I wanted my physical print to look. Deliberately<\/span>\u00a0ignoring the ugly Kodak papers and using DuPont and GAF but still experimenting with paper<\/span>\u00a0developers, and adding chemicals to the developer to extend the range of tones for example.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=\u201d1364\u2033 img_size=\u201dlarge\u201d onclick=\u201dimg_link_large\u201d img_link_target=\u201d_blank\u201d][vc_column_text]I first started to have some of my photographs exhibited at some of the very small Galleries that were around at that time in New York City, The ones ran by Jacob Deschin for the Modern Age Photo <\/span>Processors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I looked at every venue for photographs and at all places that showed works on paper and any <\/span>prints. I became enchanted with the Japanese woodblock print makers like Hiroshige and Hokusai.\u00a0<\/span>Rembrandt etchings were\u00a0 the best black and white work I had ever seen. I had also seen some black<\/span>\u00a0and white lithographs, I believe by Picasso that I had never seen in a book. And\u00a0 I was smitten with<\/span>\u00a0those.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As a photographer I was looking to find the picture. As an artist I became more interested in <\/span>composing the picture.\u00a0<\/span>Striving to make prints that were both beautiful and archival and to possess an image that I<\/span>\u00a0could not improve on was my goal. <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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