BIOGRAPHY:
Charles Crandall has been capturing the world on film for half a century. His images have appeared in countless national and international magazines and he was principal photographer on over 20 books, including several he wrote or co-authored. In the early l960s, he was west coast contributing editor for the Chicago Daily News covering the North Beach and "hippie" scene for the paper. His interest has always been in recording the fleeting glimpses of human nature in portraits of people in urban settings, although he has always worked with leading residential and landscape architects and interior designers producing images of their designs. He counts among his valued friends, past and present, Ansel Adams, Dorthea Lange, printer-maker Irwin Welcher, and Henri Lenoir, patron and proprietor of the Black Cat Cafe next to City Lights bookstore in San Francisco. He attended the Atlanta Art Institute where he learned composition and control and light and shadow, and has had two one-man exhibitions of his work. His images and paintings are in dozens of national and international collections.
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