[Leica] My high school photography teacher

[Christopher Crawford]

Yes, he was an 86 year old man in poor health who had been sitting in an
unheated building on a cold November day for the past nine hours, and he
was freezing! He wouldn’t take it off for anyone’s photos, not even mine.

-- 
Chris Crawford
Fine Art Photography
Fort Wayne, Indiana
260-437-8990

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On 11/16/17, 6:31 AM, "LUG on behalf of Douglas Barry"
<lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of
imra at iol.ie> wrote:

>Unusual portrait, Chris. Was there a reason for getting him to keep his
>hood up?
>
>Douglas
>
>
>On 14/11/2017 00:55, Christopher Crawford wrote:
>> Last Friday and Saturday, the high school I graduated from in 1994,
>>Elmhurst
>> High school in Fort Wayne, was opened for alumni to tour it one last
>>time
>> before it is demolished. The school has sat empty since it closed in
>>2010.
>>
>> Don Goss, who was Elmhurst's art teacher for 56 years, and an Elmhurst
>>grad
>> himself, sat in the gym all day, both days, to talk to his students. I
>>made
>> this portrait of him Friday afternoon. He was my photography teacher,
>>and
>> because of his encouragement, I went to art school after high school. I
>>am
>> one of many, many of Mr. Goss's students who became fulltime
>>professional
>> artists.
>>
>> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?product=2759
>>
>
>
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