Didn't know Fred Lyon had just died....Aug 30 obit..
I just happened to watch Fred Lyon on Netflix last night, a week late. The vid wasn't well edited, several hanger-on blathered uselessly, but he did project what I remember and shared a life-changing lesson.
His thoughts on "professional" Vs "non-pro" (he respected both, saw them as different) were shared in the video and when we met in his Sausalito studio, cc 1967 Somebody at Adolph Gassers photo store on Geary St. referred me to him when I was about to commit to professional photography. Was freely "helpful" to people (like me) who visited him in his Sausalito studio.
He was a studio strobe pioneer...Balcar, I think (French)..a thing on wheels that seemed like a small row boat. He liked Angenieux (sp?) French zoom lenses in an era when Nikon's zooms weren't respected. Claimed to have been the first advertising photographer to shoot a national ad in a cocktail party setting (Seagrams?).
I found a funky copy of his excellent Time Life Italian Food book in a SF garage sale... am missing the cookbook that was orignally sold with it . Vintage Ektachrome images.
'His DNA was in San Francisco': Photographer Fred Lyon dies at 97"
A true San Franciscan and a true professional photographer. A good guy.
I just happened to watch Fred Lyon on Netflix last night, a week late. The vid wasn't well edited, several hanger-on blathered uselessly, but he did project what I remember and shared a life-changing lesson.
His thoughts on "professional" Vs "non-pro" (he respected both, saw them as different) were shared in the video and when we met in his Sausalito studio, cc 1967 Somebody at Adolph Gassers photo store on Geary St. referred me to him when I was about to commit to professional photography. Was freely "helpful" to people (like me) who visited him in his Sausalito studio.
He was a studio strobe pioneer...Balcar, I think (French)..a thing on wheels that seemed like a small row boat. He liked Angenieux (sp?) French zoom lenses in an era when Nikon's zooms weren't respected. Claimed to have been the first advertising photographer to shoot a national ad in a cocktail party setting (Seagrams?).
I found a funky copy of his excellent Time Life Italian Food book in a SF garage sale... am missing the cookbook that was orignally sold with it . Vintage Ektachrome images.
'His DNA was in San Francisco': Photographer Fred Lyon dies at 97"
A true San Franciscan and a true professional photographer. A good guy.
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