[Leica] Re: Bio

["Thomas Brabant" <tbrab@mindspring.com>]

I'm convinced.   But didn't really need to be.   If you had not been about
the most succinct and apparently knowledgeable contributor to the LUG,  I
would not have  e-mailed you.   And it looks as if you have backed up your
knowledge with performance.

My wife and I have made many trips out west during the years,  and
unfortunately we have missed Portland.  We did fly to Seattle,  had intended
to drive south through Portland, down into southern Oregon,  and make our
loop back up the coast,  through Victoria,  and back to Seattle.
Unfortunately,  we ran into horrible traffic and weather problems on I-5 (I
think) and cut over to the coast.   We went down the coast of Wash and
Oregon and back.   Got some great pictures.  (Who couldn't?)   Terrific
coast.   Have told everybody that, although different,  it beats the Big Sur
coast of Cal.   It was on that trip that I wish I had not forsaken  black
and white for Cibachrome.    Oh I wish I had had a bunch of rolls of old
Panotomic X.   Then I could have come home, somehow found some Acufine(sp),
and made some great 16-20's of that coast and also in Seattle at the fish
market.     I think they would have been better than the Cibas that  I made.

The Portland paper landed a sports writer who moved from Lexington last
year.   He's kind of far out sometime,  but was, and I'm sure still is,
good.    His name is Chuck Culpepper.   I miss him.  Brought a little levity
to sports--as if it is not a life and death thing.   (Don't mention the car
crash victim.)

Thanks a bunch for your replies.   And good luck in your endeavors!    And
keep up your good comments to LUG!

Tom


- ---- Original Message -----
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
To: Thomas Brabant <tbrab@mindspring.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 9:44 PM
Subject: Bio


> You could find my listing in the Portland Oregon yellow pages under
commercial
> photographers for most of the last 23 years with the exception of 1999.
> Some highlights: I have worked for or had photo's in Vogue, Mademoiselle,
> Sport's Illustrated, Oregon Magazine, Seventeen, Town and Country,
Multnomah
> Monthly, Via, Stepping out, Willamette Week...
>
> Fashion catalog work for Nordstrom, Meier and Frank and Dehan Knitting
here in Portland.
>
> Retail fashion for The Brazen Bean, Johnny Sole, Big Bang, NW Examiner,
> Willamette Week, Marcy Hearing Clothing/Fabric Design, Mr. Formal,
M.Willock,
> Jayne Marie, Couch Street Outfitters.
>
> Promotional work for musicians, dancers, actors and corporations.
>
> At one time I was doing the head shots for the news teams of all three TV
News
> networks in Portland at the same time
>
> Others accounts have included Jantzen, Microsoft, Oregon Art Institute,
Billy
> Rancher and the Unreal Gods, Courtney Love, Napoleon's Mistress, Tom
Grant, Zia
> McCabe of the Dandy Warhol's. My photo's of Courtney Love have appeared in
the
> BBC film "Kurt and Courtney."
>
> I have done extensive theatrical photography for Firehouse Theatre in
Portland,
> and Academy Playhouse in Chicago...   Taught or Lectured at Academy one,
Bassist
> College, Mt. Hood Community College.
>
> I have been the object of a 3 minute KOIN TV News story and a 5 page
Willamette
> Week Magazine article.
>
> I appeared in the book " A Day in the Live of Oregon" by the Oregon
Historical
> Society.
>
> When Rosyln Carter was first lady of the USA I photographed her for
Mademoiselle Magazine.
>
> No major prizes. Print showings at the Camerawork Gallery started here by
Minor
> White, The White Gallery, The Shadow Gallery and a show sponsored by the
> Portland Opera.
>
> Mark Rabiner