Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/10/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Yoicha Okamoto
From: Steven Alexander <alexpix@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 15:20:57 -0400

on 10/22/02 10:29 AM, B. D. Colen at bdcolen@earthlink.net wrote:

> I do indeed remember Yoicha Okamoto, who if memory serves me was LBJ's White
> House photographer.
This is correct


> AND, of more interest to folks in D.C., I also seem to
> recall that he was one of the founding partners who established a B&W
> pro-lab in the 1700 block of Pennsylvania Ave. NW called Images.

Two for two

>..They did
> great work, and were still there and functioning at least as late as 1980
> when I left town - can't tell you about anything after that.
> 
> As to later WH photographers - site lines may be an issue, but I think there
> are two more important issues...
> Real WH photography began with JFK - then LBJ had a photographer with great
> access, and so on...we've been looking at these sorts of images now for more
> than 40 years...all of a The President, in his office, and in other WH
> offices and on AF1, meeting with staff...the faces change, the situations
> remain the same...so there has to be a sense of...'seen that before...'
Like cute smiling kids, hungry, dirty kids , war, death and most human
conditions photographed over and over by us photojournalists.  However, I
feel you are referring to WH Presidential shooters not those of us who
brought you the real inside views.


> Also, there is more than a possibility that some of the photographers were
> not the world's best, and may not have been inspired by what they were
> doing...

Three for three and most did not use Leicas either......hummmm



Happy snaps,
Steven Alexander


 
> B. D.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Don Dory
> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 11:20 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] Yoicha Okamoto
> 
> 
> I was just given a copy of "LBJ"; apparently most of the images were taken
> by Yoicha Okamoto.  To my sadly uneducated recollection, he apparently had
> almost unlimited access to LBJ.  Any of the long time photojournalists
> remember this photographer?
> 
> There are a fair number of images that a later White House photographer in
> the 90's apparently duplicated.  Is this because there are only so many
> sight lines in the White House so that anyone in the Cabinet Room or the
> West Wing will have to pick similar images?
> 
> Just curious.
> 
> Don
> dorysrus@mindspring.com
> 
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