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The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

TCF Ep. 415 - William Albert Allard

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Arts, Visual Arts

4.8768 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The son of a Swedish immigrant, William Albert Allard was born in 1937 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He studied at the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts and the University of Minnesota. Allard is a photographer of people. From the beginning of his illustrious career in 1964 as a National Geographic photographic intern, Allard has contributed to 44 Geographic articles as a staff, freelance, and contract photographer and writer. His stories for the magazine have included "Rodeos: Behind the Chutes," "India's Untouchables," "Bohemian Rhapsody," and "Hutterite Sojourn." William Albert Allard's new book, Paris: Eye of the Flaneur, published in fall 2017 by Edition Lammerhuber in Vienna, Austria, is a 31-year retrospective of his work roaming the streets of his beloved Paris and will be available in the U.S. later this fall but can be preordered on the Edition Lammerhuber website. Allard has published six previously acclaimed books including his first, Vanishing Breed, of which the Associated Press said, "This is a classic." Published in 1982, Vanishing Breed was nominated for the American Book Award for 1982, and was the winner of the Wrangler Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Western Art Book, 1983, and was awarded the Leica Medal of Excellence, 1983. Resources: William Albert Allard Alex Webb David Allen Harvey Working the Street Photography Workshop - LACP 2018 StreetFoto Fest Workshops including Ibarionex's 2-Day Workshop The Candid Frame Alexa Skill The Candid Frame #105 - William Albert Allard Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for iOS. Click here to download for Android Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting patreon.com/thecandidframe or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via PayPal. You can follow Ibarionex on Instagram and Twitter.

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forward slash the candid frame. This is Ibarianx, and this is The Candid Frame.

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Though I took a few photography classes while I was in college, my real photo education came from photography books.

1:31.6

I'm not talking about how-to books, but rather monographs, collections of the great works of master photographers.

1:39.6

I was looking and analyzing the work of photographers like Joel Meyerowitz, Gordon Parks, Mary

1:45.2

Allen Mark, Lee Friedlander, Larry Fink, and hundreds of others that taught me so much.

1:51.8

I learned about the intricacies of composition, the subtle use of light and shadow, and how

1:57.1

to evoke intimacy from a subject. I didn't often succeed at meeting those high standards in my work, but I did develop a sensitivity

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to what's needed to achieve an exceptional photograph.

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William Albert Allard's book, The Photographic Essay, was and continues to be one of my

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