Biography

During his fascinating life, Robert Cameron became well known to many celebrities including Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Pierre Salinger, George Plimpton, Herb Caen, President's Carter and Reagan. The Great Louis Armstrong was a good friend of Mr. Cameron. Because this relationship went beyond photographer/client, he received stage access allowing for photography well beyond canned studio shots. Using a 4x5 press camera with slow extinguishing flash bulb (extreme brightness allowed for a tight aperture opening and very fast shutter speed) during a live performance, he captured the following extremely rare crisp image. Even though early prints from this negative had the light areas blown out, Mr. Cameron told me that Louie had told him this was the best performance photograph that anyone had ever taken of him.

Tim worked over six months on this single image. By creating three levels of masks and sandwiching them with the original negative Tim has brought details in the light areas that previously were not visible. All photographs have been archival washed and selenium toned.

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