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The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

TCF Ep. 446 - Jim Herrington

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Cameras, Art, Photoshop, Visual Arts, Career, Interviews, Photographers, Arts, Photography, Photo, Digital

4.8749 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Jim Herrington is a photographer whose portraits of celebrities including Benny Goodman, Willie Nelson, The Rolling Stones, Cormac McCarthy, Morgan Freeman and Dolly Parton have appeared on the pages of Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Esquire, GQ, Outside and Men’s Journal as well as on scores of album covers for more than three decades. He has photographed international ad campaigns for clients such as Thule, Trek Bikes, Gibson Guitars, and Wild Turkey Bourbon.For nearly two decades, he worked on a portrait series of early-to-mid 20th Century mountain climbing legends. The result is the recently published 'The Climbers', a collection of sixty black-and-white photographs that document these rugged individualists, including the likes of Royal Robbins, Reinhold Messner, Yvon Chouinard, and Riccardo Cassin. Between the 1920s and 1970s, these determined men and women used primitive gear along with their considerable wits, talent, and fortitude to tackle unscaled peaks around the world. In these images, Herrington has captured their humanity, obsession, intellect, and frailty.The book, published in October 2017, won the Grand Prize at the 2017 Banff Book Awards, as well as the Mountaineering History Award. www.theclimbersbook.comHerrington co-produced the Jerry Lee Lewis episode for the HBO/Cinemax series ‘Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus’ that premiered September 2017.Herrington’s photography has been exhibited in solo and group gallery shows in New York City, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Nashville, Milwaukee, and Charlotte, and is in numerous private collections. Resources: Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download   Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort.  You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .

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0:00.0

This is a buddy in X, and this is the candid frame.

0:13.0

Though I didn't realize it at the time, many of the interviews that I've recorded for you to wrap up

0:22.1

the 2018 season have something in common. In very unique ways, we meet photographers who go to

0:31.2

extraordinary lengths to create their work. We can often think of photography as a relatively simple thing. I mean, all you have to do

0:41.0

is press a button or tap a screen and you've got a picture. The people I'm talking about,

0:47.6

however, make commitments that go beyond the mechanics of just taking a picture. These are people who are committed to a vision, a story, or a purpose for their work.

1:00.8

When I interviewed photographer Jim Harrington 10 years ago, he had already begun his project,

1:06.4

The Climers. At the time, he had mentioned a personal project that he was working on, but we didn't include it in the discussion.

1:15.4

But the project, which spanned nearly two decades, was completed and images compiled in a beautiful and stunning book that was released last year.

1:26.7

His portraits of adventurers, who as climbers, were some of the

1:30.0

first to climb the world's highest and most treacherous peaks. These were the people who inspired

1:36.3

generations of sports climbers. Going back to climbers who established their reputation as far back

1:43.3

as the 20s, Jim has been on his own

1:46.3

track to create a body of work that at any point could have failed because of money, time,

1:53.4

logistics, and even mortality. But just like his subjects, Jim was able to achieve something

2:00.3

extraordinary and beat the odds.

2:03.7

Because he began this project before the age of the internet, he had to reach out to subjects

2:09.0

the old-fashioned way and hope that he would be able to connect with them and convince them

2:14.1

to be part of the project. You know, I'd get these little pieces of paper from someone with an address,

2:21.3

and I would write a handwritten note to Europe,

2:24.3

and maybe wait a month or two whenever I got a reply

2:28.3

that may come back in Italian,

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