John Dominis, John Zimmerman, Mark Kauffman, Wally Bennett and Hank Walker. Although not all big name photographers these five photographers and another two whose names I couldn't find, had two things in common.
They were all staff photographers for Life Magazine..... and this is the cool part...... all seven had the same high school photography teacher. That's a pretty good record for a high school teacher.
John Dominis, now in his 90's, mentioned that in the Life years he did a story on "Great Cats" and said "When I got to Nairobi, I went out and bought a Toyota Land Cruiser and I took it to a body shop and had a hole cut in the roof so I could shoot out the top with my long lenses. I never asked anyone if I could buy it; I just did."
Just think what your editor would say if you went out and bought a SUV while on a shoot. LOL.
If you want to find out a bit more about John and his book on Frankj Sinatra you can read David Burnett's blog.
Rob Skeoch
www.thepicturedesk.ca
www.thepicturedesk.ca
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