The Richard Thompson Photograph

The Art of Photography

Ted Forbes

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🗓️ 29 October 2015

⏱️ 10 minutes

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The Artist Series crowdfunding campaign: https://www.rockethub.com/projects/61988-support-the-art-of-photography-artist-series I got some packages in the mail from viewers today - including John Free! I've always been a big fan of Richard Thompson and never realized that John made the photograph that was used for the cover of Small Town Romance. I've always loved that image. I asked John about it and he sent me a print. Also featured is Antoine Leblond. You can view more of his work including the beautiful train images from Japan on his website: http://donotcompute.jp/ And thanks to Gene at KBCovers for the nice gift of keyboard shortcut covers! http://kbcovers.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/tedforbes Instagram: http://instagram.com/tedforbes Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aop.podcast Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/tedforbes Website: http://theartofphotography.tv And get on our mailing list to stay up to date on photography news and the latest episodes: http://theartofphotography.tv/about/mailing-list/ Ted Forbes The Art of Photography 3100 Main St #135 Dallas, Texas 75226 Thanks for watching - if you like this video, remember to share it with your friends! My name is Ted Forbes and I make videos about photography. I’ve been making photographs most of my life and I have a tremendously deep passion for photography that I want to share with you on YouTube. The Art of Photography is my channel and I produce photography videos to provide a 360 degree look into the world of making images. We all want to get better so lets do this together! I make videos covering famous photographers, photography techniques, composition, the history of photography and much more. I also have a strong community of photographers who watch the show and we frequently do social media challenges for photographers to submit their own work. I feature the best and most interesting on the show when we do these so come check it out and get involved!

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? Welcome back to the show. I want to share some mail with you today. I've got some prints in the mail this last week and a beautiful book and I want to share this with you today. I do apologize for the audio. I know it is a little echoy and I will explain why in just a minute.
0:12.5	Anyway, I want to start with these.
0:14.0	My friend John Free sent these prints along
0:16.0	and many of you know John because I did a little documentary on him a few weeks ago.
0:20.0	If you haven't seen it, I will link it in the show notes below,
0:22.0	but this is a print that he made. ago. If you haven't seen it, I will link it in the show notes below.
0:22.6	But this is a print that he made.
0:24.6	This is Richard Thompson.
0:26.0	And Richard Thompson is a fantastic British singer-songwriter guitarist who's been around
0:31.0	probably since the 70s and does some amazing work.
0:34.1	This is the, this record, sorry this record, this image was used on a record called Small
0:39.2	Town romance that he used a long time ago and I've always known the album and I just
0:42.5	realized recently that John took this image and I didn't realize that and I
0:46.5	mentioned it to John he goes oh Richard Thompson's my brother-in-law and so it was
0:50.0	really kind of cool and we talked about Richard for a while and so I mentioned
0:53.1	that I'd always loved that cover and he said well it was an off-the-cuff picture that
0:56.6	was taken he said Richard was practicing and this was taken in New Orleans and
1:00.0	he got up to shut the doors and John happened to be walking by and got the photo.
1:04.1	Very off the cuff, but I think this is such a beautiful image.
1:06.8	And so I mentioned to him that that had always
1:08.1	been a special image to me and that I'd
1:10.5	gotten into Richard Thompson when I was in college, one of my best friends who builds guitars,
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