Grant was a Senior Research Associate of KRL. He wrote several books including the Monobath Manual and Modern Photographic Processing. His latest book covered George Eastman's cameras. See it on
www.haistpress.com and try to get a copy of his books.
I first met him while working on Dye Bleach and Instant thermal in about 1970, and he told me that he had never done color and wanted to learn more as he wrote his book. He used to come over here and use my darkroom. We have several Research Disclosures together.
He was an accomplished National Geographic photographer, and in the photo above, he had just returned from the Falkland Islands taking pictures of the wildlife. He had been bitten by a penguin and in escaping had damaged his Nikon. I was trying to find him a replacement part but we failed to find one in my gadget box. So, we spent an afternoon talking.
Grant and I lost touch when Kodak transferred him to Kodak Office to work on a new book and then I heard he took an early retirement. Just shortly after that, tragedy struck and his wife died. Shortly after, he had a stroke. He finally remarried and carried on with a rich productive life living in Okemos, Rochester and Naples.
When he recovered from his stroke, he took up his work and (not sure of the sequence) retraced Adams footsteps through the Grand Tetons at the request of the NG. He was never able to get those 4x5 Ektachromes processed, and I have them today in my freezer. We have no idea if they are still good. There are a hundred or more 4x5s to process.
Many of the photos in the Kodak How To series were taken by Grant.
So, I take up in the middle of Grant's life so to speak.
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