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Wright in Racine
Celebrating Mr. Wright's birthday
Posted by:
mhertzberg on
June 14, 2011 at
11:57PM CST
Text and photos (c) Mark Hertzberg Cindy and I had the pleasure of being invited by Minerva Montooth to help celebrate Frank Lloyd Wright's birthday at a recent reception at Taliesin and dinner at Hillside Home School. We spent the afternoon photographing in the area. I stopped to photograph the Rome and Juliet Windmill for the first time. I particularly like this frame: Then it was time to change from shorts into evening clothes:
Guests chat on the cantilevered balcony at Taliesin. Scott Perkins, of Price Tower, brought 16 colleagues to Spring Green for the celebration.
One of the guests was Pedro Guerrero. His photo show opened a week later. He looked at my camera, and remarked that he had decided not to continue with his photography when digital imaging became the norm. As I looked at the wonderful tones in his black and white film images in his book, after the dinner, I understood better why. Today's burgeoning photographers may be computer whizzes, but they know little, if anything, about how to make a sheet of photographic paper come alive in the darkroom. There is no magic like seeing a well-exposed print come to live in the developer! I remember Eliot Elisofon, one of LIFE magazine's great photographers, telling me he had cried the first time he saw a print in the developer (or "the soup" as we newspaper photojournalists called it). I was checking my exposure before Pedro Guerrero came out (you know, one of those things you can do with digital)...I like the picture I took of well, nothing special, it was just an exposure test.
The highlight of the evening: A Steinway Concert Grand piano, which Frank Lloyd Wright acquired from the University of Wisconsin School of Music, has been restored thanks to gifts from supporters of Taliesin. The restored piano was presented publicly for the first time to guests in the Hillside Theater, following a dinner celebrating Wright's birthday. Bill Lutes played Bach. He was then accompanied on the piano by his wife, Martha Fischer.
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