August Abolins said to Bob Gearhart at 02-26-03  09:27
 Subject: "picture stories"
 

 BG>  Soon you just become a silly Bob taking pictures for the album and
 BG> are  BG>  completely ignored.  Now you can get a picture of Joe 
 BG> interacting with  Aunt Martha where Joe is the obvious center of 
 BG> interest, and Aunt Marthas interest in Joe is being shown, where 
 BG> they are having their conversation, who else is there, time of day 
 BG> and even the food on the picnic table. You are not required to tell 
 BG> anyone what is going on with words, you have told the whole story 
 BG> with a picture.

 AA> ..speaking of "picture stories", do you know the name of the
 AA> photographer who would take snapshots of say.. a card game going on,
 AA> every 30 seconds or so, and then assemble each individual print into a
 AA> collage sometimes overlapping another image slightly, to render a
 AA> rather unique result that would basically revealed the WHOLE card game
 AA> "story" at a glance?  The effect was rather stunning: you
could see all
 AA> the moves of each player, their entire surroundings, and have the
 AA> satisfaction of seeing the whole game.  Each collage could easily
 AA> consist of over 100 prints.   
 AA> I was really impressed with the effect.  It would be like seeing a
 AA> complete movie in just a few seconds.  Our minds are capable of
 AA> processing images so quickly!  Another wonderful result was that the
 AA> collage itself was beautiful to look at.

 No I don't, when I think of collages and picture story telling, Joe
 Clark comes immediately to mind.  A wonderful large man who over a pot
 of coffee could go on for hours talking, not about how to take pictures
 of people, but about people.  He hung the initials HBSS as suffix title
 on his business cards. The HBSS stood for Hill Billy Snap Shooter. So
 far as I am concerned, the best photographer ever at picture story
 telling and one of my most admired people for his talent.  During his
 early years at Life he could be hired to make presentations, and as one
 of the board members of our photographic society, I tried to get him in
 every couple years for a speech at the photo show.
 
 Looking on the web I found some of his stuff at the following URL.

 http://www.angelfire.com/ky2/cumberlandgapbc/index20.html

 AA> This was way before digital photography came along.   I remember
 AA> seeing a book of his work, and a TV special (on PBS?), but this was
 AA> over 8 years ago now.

 I'm going back about 35 years with Joe Clark.


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