Las week was National Authors Day, so today’s post might be considered a follow up…
Today’s Post by Joe Farace
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”—Omar Khayyám
The November 1981 issue of Audio-Visual Communications magazine included my second-ever published magazine article: it was called “3-D Photography: Coming At You, Again.” If you check my Bio you’ll see that many years later, some things never change, I’m still interested in 3D imagery and movies.
That wasn’t my first magazine article; That story was published in the September 1981 issue of Telephony magazine and was originally written when I was still working for a Great American Telephone company in Maryland. Later, another article about 3D photography appeared in the January 1982 issue of Audio-Visual Directions magazine (at right) along with a pre-Photoshop enhanced 80’s style cover that was based on one of my portrait photographs—the original was shot with my Hasselblad 500CM on Polaroid film—accompanying my cover story called “The Resurgence of 3D.”
My writing career or what’s left of it, became somewhat serious after I made a presentation at the annual National Audio Visual Association’s annual convention called “Photography for Multi-Projector Slide Shows.” Immediately,after the presentation, a gentleman —and he was really an old school gentleman— named Fred Schmidt came upt o me asking if I was interested in writing an article for Photomethods magazine that would be based on my talk. Fred was the long time editor of Photomethods and later I ended up as a Contributing Editor, writing a monthly column for that magazine until it, like so many other photographic publications of that era, ceased operation. Fred passed away many years later but I have many fond memories of him as a friend, mentor and editor. He was a great influence on my life, both writing and otherwise and one of my earliest photography books is dedicated to him.
After a health crises in in 1989, writing about the art, craft and business of photography ended up becoming the focus of my life and with more than 3000 published magazine articles, (I can’t count how many thousand) blog posts and 37 books later, I’m still at it—at least for this blog. While Thanksgiving Day is not far away, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you, the readers of this blog, my magazine articles as well as my books for accompanying me on this journey.
Along with photographer Barry Staver, Joe is co-author of Better Available Light Digital Photography that’s out-of-print but new copies are available for $21.50 or used copies for giveaway prices starting around five bucks as I write this. For some reason, the Kindle version is expensive.