Re: Bostick & Sullivan Circle

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From: Robert W. Schramm (schrammrus@hotmail.com)
Date: 05/01/01-06:38:10 PM Z


Richard,

Sounds like fun. The most fun will be reading the replys of other people but I will contribute.

Bob Schramm

Answers below:

>From: Richard Sullivan FRPS
>Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>To: richard@earthlink.net
>Subject: Bostick & Sullivan Circle
>Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 15:03:15 -0600
>
>
>Hi folks,
>
>Just for fun I've added a new conference called Bios etc. Just a
>place for
>people to tell us something about themselves. The questions are
>repeated in
>the conference.
>
>Here are some ideas for starters. Of course you don't have to do
>all, you
>can pick and choose. Maybe even answer just one. Or add something
>not here.
>
>1. How long have you been working in photography? Favorite process?

> Since the age of 9 (4th grade). That would be 57 years in my case. My parents gave be a Kodak Brownie Camera and home darkroom kit. I never stopped. I can remember ASA 10 Kodachrome and those big old Speed Graphic cameras. Glass plates were still on the market when I was in junior high.    All of the alternative processes are my favorites.

.>2. Influential teachers? Learned on your own?

> Read a lot. Learned on my own. A local TV photographer showed me how to process movie film once. I learned how to make a daguerreotype from Ken Nelson.

>3. Favorite photographers other than yourself?

> Steichen.

>4. Process you'd like to learn -- someday.

> Bromoil, Carbon and several other processes but, at my age, there is not much time left.
>5. Most embarrassing time with a camera in your hand. And don't say
>you've
>never had one!

> Photographing prostitutes. They saw me and started after me. Chased me down the street yelling and cursing. I got away but people passing by didn't know why they were chasing me.

>6. Worst disaster in the darkroom. You can't say you never had one
>here either!
> Mixing Terry's "lye." Filled the place with sulfer dioxide gas.
>7. Your first time shooting a nude, if ever?
> 1967  I was more nervous than the model. Mostly because I was paying and didn't want to make a mistake.
>8. What photographer, living or dead, you'd like to live a week in
>the life>of? (David Hamilton does not count!)

> Nadar He photographed famous opera stars. He was pals with the French impressionists.But the second choice would be one of the photosecessionists.

>9. Your dream camera? If you were Bill Gates, what would you buy?

> Too late, already own them. Leica, Hassy, Toya, Sinar. Wouldn't mind a few more lenses.

>10. If you could have any person in the world as a model for a day,

>who?
>Portrait, nude, whatever?
> Albert Einstein - Portrait   Just so I could talk to him and ask questions.
>11. What questions would you ask here?
> Does anyone else make uranotypes beside myself?
>--Dick Sullivan
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