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Photogs Pose With Their Famous Photo

It’s not a question of putting a face to a name but of putting a face to a photo. In ‘Behind Photographs’, a series by commercial and editorial photographer Tim Mantoani, the photogs behind some of our age’s most iconic photographs are the subject, each exposing the individual responsible for images that have, since their publication, been burned into our memory.

“I still remember pictures. A parking lot seen from above, a diagonal line of people surging like salmon through a sea of cars. A black man’s toothy face shining up at the camera from an upholstered chair in a garbage strewn Cleveland street, a Great Society button in his lapel. A street corner in Missouri, where overalled and shirtsleeved farmers meet slicked and suited candidates for County office. A picnic in a dandelion meadow, people looking this way and that, condensed against each other by distance and a long lens while a boy floats almost imperceptibly in the foreground, his sneakers a full two feet off the ground. A triangulated composition of wires and poles, framing a rural power station against whose chain-link fence a big white sign declares: God Is. I was seeing,  clearly and possibly for the first time, middle America, which is all America: the America of Saturday afternoon high school football, concrete highways to towns named Fate, and undeclared wars featured on the six o’clock news. This was not Apple Pie America, nor Glamor America, nor Ugly America, nor Bloody America. This was an America most people lived in and few people looked at. This was America as it must be, and I was seeing it because a citizen named George Gardner was taking me there…” Jim Hughes describing photographer George W. Gardner, who took the image above. Read more about him and see his photos here. High-res

“I still remember pictures. A parking lot seen from above, a diagonal line of people surging like salmon through a sea of cars. A black man’s toothy face shining up at the camera from an upholstered chair in a garbage strewn Cleveland street, a Great Society button in his lapel. A street corner in Missouri, where overalled and shirtsleeved farmers meet slicked and suited candidates for County office. A picnic in a dandelion meadow, people looking this way and that, condensed against each other by distance and a long lens while a boy floats almost imperceptibly in the foreground, his sneakers a full two feet off the ground. A triangulated composition of wires and poles, framing a rural power station against whose chain-link fence a big white sign declares: God Is.

I was seeing,  clearly and possibly for the first time, middle America, which is all America: the America of Saturday afternoon high school football, concrete highways to towns named Fate, and undeclared wars featured on the six o’clock news. This was not Apple Pie America, nor Glamor America, nor Ugly America, nor Bloody America. This was an America most people lived in and few people looked at. This was America as it must be, and I was seeing it because a citizen named George Gardner was taking me there…”

Jim Hughes describing photographer George W. Gardner, who took the image above. Read more about him and see his photos here.

(via trendytraveler)