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Tim Mantoani
Gregory Heisler
[Behind Photographs]
n.d.
Polaroid
20 x 24
Provided by the artist - Tim Mantoani
© Tim Mantoani, Studio Mantoani
LL/32420
I first became familiar with Greg's work when I was a student at Brooks Institute of Photography. Greg was a guest speaker and his work was always inspirational and thoughtful. He was always pushing the limits when it came to technique. I remember him saying, "Take the biggest chance when you have the biggest opportunity." A few of Greg's words, "I made this portrait of my mentor, Arnold Newman, in 1982, seventeen years after I moved to New York to work as his assistant...I was scared shitless...he still intimidated the hell out me. This 4x5 Polaroid was literally the very first frame I exposed, after which I shot another dozen or more frames on "real" film. But. as is often he case, this first frame was the only one the captured his irascible, intense, curmudgeonly visage - the one that haunts me in my nightmares to this day..."
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