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August 27, 2012
On April 14 and 15, 1972, the Wisconsin Music Festival was held at the University of Wisconsin Fieldhouse in Madison.
The show consisted of about 10 acts performing each day. On the first day day I photographed Bob Brown, Nick Holmes, Dave Van Ronk, McKendree Springs, Rosalie Sorrels, Ramblin Jack Elliott, Richie Havens, The Earl Scruggs Review and Uncle Dirty who was the MC for both days.
Being just 17 years old and hanging out in the dressing room with these musicians is still a great memory for me. I was a music photographer for the Bugle-American newspaper at the time, and with this two day show I got two pages of photographs in the magazine! It was a wonderful time and everyone was so nice to me. These days, it would never happen for a young photographer to be able to roam around and mingle like I did.
Enjoy the seven photographs attached of Bob Brown, The Earl Scruggs Review, Ramblin Jack Elliott, Richie Havens, Rosalie Sorrels and a photo of Earl Scruggs' sons.
Next week I will feature the second night of the festival in my blog which has some more memorable pictures that I took.
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Rich Zimmermann
August 20, 2012
This past weekend the American LeMans Series (ALMS) was at Elkhart Lake. This form of racing in 1991 was called the International Motor Sports Associations (IMSA) Camel GT and it was big racing!
Camel cigarettes sponsored the series and some of the major car manufacturers were really into this form of racing in a big way. Dan Gurney had the Toyota Eagles with Juan Manuel Fangio II in one car and P J Jones in the other. Geoff Brabham and Chip Robinson were driving the Nissans The Bud Light Jaguar of Davey Jones was amazing and Wayne Taylor in the Chevy Intrepid also tried to keep up the pace.
The days of Porsche winning everything by 1991 was done since Toyota, Nissan, Jaguar and Chevy were now racing with huge budgets.
Enjoy a few memorable photographs from the Nissan Grand Prix at Road America won by Davy Jones in his Jaguar on August 25, 1991.
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August 13, 2012
Two weeks ago in blog #19, I had a story about myself and the band Queen with some color photographs that I took on March 7, 1975. The response was wonderful from all of you and I appreciate the comments as always. It made me dig into the archives a little further to find the black and white images from that show for you to enjoy.
We are spoiled in the digital world as a photographer in that we can switch from color to black and white very easily. In 1975 you had to switch rolls of film!!!!!!!!!! In digital, we can also change the ISO or film speed quickly and from photo to photo. Wow, would that have been nice in 1975 because we were all using push processing on our film to get a faster ISO or as we called it back then, ASA. I had to do special things in the darkroom in the old days and it was fun but you did not know what you were going to get right away like we do now. It took a while to see what you photographed in the old days.
I miss the smell of fixer and stop bath in the darkroom and it was like being a magician sometimes. The darkroom was a fun place to play and work with film, paper and chemicals. Black and white versus color is like digital versus film. They both work but are very different and people still argue over film being better and color being better than black and white.
What do you think and which do you like better, film versus digital or color over black and white? It is a very personal choice I think and it will be interesting to see what you think.
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