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Famous Photographers Tell How

If you’re lucky enough to own an LP record of “Famous Photographers Tell How” and a working turntable, this post won’t be of much interest to you. If not, though, you may be interested in to this chance to hear, straight from the photographers’ mouths, how a handful of mid-century masters made some of their most famous photos. Long story short, an antiques dealer perusing a recently purchased collection of 15,000 records stumbled across this LP and provided it to a friend—New York Photographer and record collector/blogger Ted Barron, who has uploaded to his site MP3s of a few tracks directly from the rare LP. While the owner of the original vinyl is able to listen to any of the eight photographers contained on the record—including Philippe Halsman and Bert Stern—for now only the brash Weegee and eloquent Henri Cartier-Bresson’s conversations have been uploaded to the site in MP3 form. My favorite highlight from news photographer Weegee’s clip? “The easiest kind of job to cover was a murder,” he explains in his quirky accent, “because the stiff would be laying on the ground. He couldn’t get up and walk away or get temperamental, and we would be good for at least two hours. So I had plenty of time. At fires you had to work very fast.”
http://boogiewoogieflu.blogspot.com/2009/06/weegee-speaks.html
Photo from Boogie Woogie Flu, Ted Barron

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