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:
> 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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