Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jul 25, 2009, at 3:16:45 PM, Ted wrote: you have no credibility as a photojournalist doing a proper and truthful assignment and should be "happy snapping for Playboy! Many years back I would have loved it. Different strokes for different folks. My first paying job in photography was in 1948 as a photo stringer for the Boston Globe. As a joke, the Photo Editor assigned me the burlesque beat in Scolley Square. Boston was a big Navy town then and the star performers at the Old Howard theater rated a couple of paragraphs and a picture or two. The burlesque theaters bought big ads. On my first week Sally Rand and her troupe were the featured performers. Motherly (then middle aged) Sally took me, a shy 18 year old cameraman with a huge Speed Graphic, under her wing. She arranged shoots with her girls, warned me which ones to approach and which to stay away from. I was in heaven. My pictures, stage managed by Sally, even impressed the Photo Editor and I was promoted to more substantive, if less erotic, work. I kept in touch with Sally for several years and visited her every time she was in Boston. Not street photography to be sure. Larry Z