GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - Famed Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw was also an accomplished amateur photographer. Larry Elkins Elkinsphotos Fine ArtPhotography

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - Famed landscape photographer Ansel Adams once said, "There are no rules for good photographs. There are only good photographs.". Larry Elkins elkinsphotos.com

FULL DEMI

The August 1991 photo of a nude and very pregnant Demi Moore by photographer Annie Lebowitz for the cover of Vanity Fair Magazine created a major controversy and coined the phrase Full Demi. It also created a boon for portrait photographers when pregnant women all over the country decided that they wanted sexy nude and semi nude photos of themselves taken during various stages of their pregnancies. The desire for pregnant boudoir portraits has not abated. Today, the controversy surrounding the photo seems somewhat dated. One thing is certain. We've come a long way since Lucille Ball appeared on TV obviously pregnant and yet the word pregnant was not allowed to be used. Larry Elkins Elkinsphotos Fine Art Photography

ACCURATE AVEDON

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - Famed fashion photographer Richard Avedon once stated, "All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.". LARRY ELKINS elkinsphotos.com

DIANA ARBUS 360

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - Influential Twentieth Century American photographer Diana Arbus once photographed the infant son of socialite, heiress, fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt. The baby's name was Anderson Cooper. He was not yet ready for prime time. His CNN gig was still years in the future. Larry Elkins elkinsphotos.com

OLIVER WENDELL HOME STEREO VIEWER

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - Did you know that famed American jurist and U. S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1855, invented a highly popular stereoscopic viewer. What's that you say? Holmes didn't invent a stereo viewer? Oh, I get it. It was Holmes' father, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. who was into photography. Junior merely practiced law. Larry Elkins Elkinsphotos Fine Art Photography

ELKINSPHOTOS.COM

JUST A GENTLE REMINDER - Check out our sister website www.elkinsphotos.com. Larry Elkins ELKINSPHOTOS FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY

WHAT A VIEW - MASTER

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - "What a view, master!", the genie exclaimed. One of my fondest memories of growing up in the fifties and sixties involved playing with the View-master stereoscopic photographic viewer. While the roots of the view-master date back to the 1939 New York World's Fair, the height of the view master craze stretched from the 1950's to the mid 1960's. The popular disks from that period ranged from eye popping scenics to animated Disney characters. The view-master is still being sold today although its popularity has been largely supplanted by the high tech toys that abound in today's market. Larry Elkins Elkinsphotos Fine Art Photography