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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Luis Marden. Timecode In: 00:00:05. Timecode out: 01:23:00. Notes: Photography; National Geographic. Subject 2: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Potomac River ambi, Low airplane. Timecode In: 01:26:02. Timecode out: 01:31:21. Habitat: River, Suburban. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Decoded MS stereo. NPR/NGS GEOGRAPHIC CENTURY LUIS MARDEN LOG ALEX CHADWICK INTERVIEW AT HOME WITH MARDEN WASHINGTON, D.C. RECORDED BY LINDA MACK August 22, 1996 LM -I used to carry 35 mm equipment -still pictures AC -yeah :36 LM -... still photography . .! travel sometimes with 40 pieces of luggage. AC -really ..... 1 :02 LM -well, it is like the 35 mm camera I pointed out to you -the camera was this big but the accessories could fill half this room AC -it must have been worse with those 5 by 7's -I imagine. 1: 15 LM -see they had to use glass plates bc of the requirements of the process -Finely (?) process. Had to be rigid, couldn't be any wavy film in the film plane. So they had to be glass. So to make 12 pictures you had 12 glass plates but the Finely plate process required that you had so called taking screen in contact with the negative. So that you carried 24 pieces ofglass5 by 7. 12 of which were plate glass. That plus the camera and the case -that is why all early photographers have long arms like gorillas. Particularly on one side to carry all that heavy stuff. 2:02 3: 11 LM -started off in radio ..... . AC -how was it that you decided to do a program about photography on the air? LM -well I got -I was very interested in photography in HS. We had a little camera club in HS .. .it was pretty popular for a while. AC -and some how a Leica salesman was passing through the area LM -yes, a man named Kip Ross ..... showed me color film ......talking about a book he wrote -the first one -on color photography -I was 21 AC -how did you learn about color chrome? LM -just reading, voracious reading .. .I read a lot. AC -I heard that you have the latest computer stuff available LM -well, what I can afford .... AC -how often do you get a new computer? 7:03 LM -oh, this has been an interval of about 3 years ....7:26 but I am interested in the image generated process 7:36 AC -how do you think that technology is coming along? LM -marvelously well. Everything seems to be going down hill in the world except technology -that is going strait up. My chief regret in leaving the scene is that I won't see the computers and the cameras of20 years from now. 7:53 LM -talking about electronic publishing has no future ¬ 9:11 AC -what is then that draws you to the electronic manipulation of image. LM -well, I don't want to give the wrong impression. AC -I am very very not knowledgeable in computers. . .. I use it as a tool mainly for manipulation of words ..... but it is mainly as a tool as a glorified type writer and then just going beyond that 10:46 AC -so how did you get your first Leica? LM -... 1 bought a second-hand Leica in Boston -I am talking about 1934 ....talks about the Great Depression ......wasn't much money around but I remember paying $60 in increments for my first Leica ... talk about his flight down to WDC for NGS interview....talking about first seeing the NG bldg. 12:41 talk about going to camera shop and then talking about photography ..... talk about applying for a job at NG bc he was interested in color photography. 15 :00 AC -talking about LM's 1st photo in the NGM -a photo of Boston.... 16:00 LM -talking about a photo in the NGM -first ones for the magazine 16:31 AC -when you started traveling wound up in Central and South America .... .interested in learning how you felt about being in these tropical places ..... 17:06 LM -I hated every min of it -the tropical part of it -for my sins now it turns out that I am sun sensitive and I have spent my profe... (Notes truncated)
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- 5 Sep 2008 - Ben Brotman
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- 4 Sep 2008 - Ben Brotman
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- 5 Sep 2008 - Ben Brotman