[LargeFormat] Camaraderie

[Les Newcomer]

I have to say the same thing about William Henry Jackson.

Lugging around an 20x24 wet plate camera, darktent, and equipment in
Yellowstone just blows my mind. The fact that he lived to a ripe old age an=
d
being able to have seen and participated in photography from the dag to
kodachrome leaves me in awe.

then being able to get all of those glass plates back i none piece is
amazing.

(okay not all of them made it, but I doubt WHJ could get ANY through baggag=
e
claim these days)

> From: "Pete Caluori" <pcaluori@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: largeformat@f32.net
> Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 16:59:51 +0000
> To: largeformat@f32.net
> Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Camaraderie
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> From: "rstein" <rstein@bigpond.net.au>
> Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 19:56:00 +0800
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> <snip>
> " Who do you consider your favourite photographer? And why? "
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> Uncle Dick
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> Greetings,
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> I never had a "hero," or favorite photographer.  We're all just people an=
d
> all put our lens' on the same.  That was until I saw the photographs of
> Vitorio Sella (not sure I spelled his first name properly.)
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> This guy was a mountain climber and image maker that predated Ansel.  He =
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> born in the mid 1800's and most of his images were taken with (if I remem=
ber
> correctly) a 30cm x 40cm camera.  His images of some of the world's talle=
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> mountains are stunning and most were taken between 1880 & 1920.  Incredib=
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> what this guy did!
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> Regards, Pete
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