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Essays: Theater: 
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That's not Photoshopped, it's my arm coming through the stage.
Let's start with Theater Photography I've taken all sorts of commercial photos since I began shooting professionally in 1980, but one of the areas I've enjoyed the most is stage photography. I have put together a sampling of this work with thumbnails over there on the left; the actual image should open in another window or another tab depending on your browser. Unlike the rest of this website the photo section really wants to be viewed with a large monitor because of this double window style, which I find works better than a two frame window for this purpose, although the advent of tabbed browsing has mitigated the problem somewhat. Most of these are in black and white; that's because I really like black and white, although I've run hundreds and hundreds of rolls of slides through my cameras too. Some of these were live photos and some were advance photos -- the kind you do before the show opens, when actors often don't yet know their lines, costumes and sets aren't ready, and everything is still a sort of big collective dream. These offer much more of a challenge than the live shots because you have so much less to work with. Sometimes the good ones don't even get used. These photos represent something that I used to do rather than what I'm doing now; I'm less interested in stage work these days and more interested in doing photography which I find challenging. Without trying to denigrate PR people in the theater world too much, an awful lot of the time you are dealing with folks who just don't know a decent photo from a piece of crap. |
