I’ve photographed a few superstars in my career, but none as important, and as anonymous, as Claude Shannon, scientist for Bell Labs. In 1948 Claude Elwood Shannon created [...]
By now you’ve probably all seen photos taken by the 20 by 24″ Polaroid camera. You might also have gotten close enough to an original to see the unbelievable detail that they display. [...]
Polaroid built a 40″ x 80″ “instant” camera which was basically a room with a hole in it for a lens and a large vacuum easel, inside the room, on the other side of the [...]
Not theirs, but mine. With all the talk about the death of the company, the film and the folks at The Impossible Project trying to reinvent the film, I went into my deep archives for [...]
About 5 years ago I was president of the American Society of Media Photographers. One of the problems I had with the association, and the industry in general, was that they would teach the theory [...]
Here’s a photo taken of the Rosetta Stone, showing all three scripts: the upper text is Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle shows the Demotic script, and the lowest show Ancient Greek. It [...]
Here’s a photo of the cell block at Alcatraz Prison, shot in the 1970’s:
Boston Based Photographer Stanley Rowin www.stanstudio.com Phone +1 (781) 259-0064