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HARVEY SCHWARTZ
I first picked up a 35MM camera after I saw
the movie Blowup back in the late 1960's. I was bitten by the
photography bug and began to use it as a way of expressing my
artistic side since I couldn't draw. Living in Manhattan at
the time, I photographed everything that turned me on and that
I could get in front of the lens. To my surprise, by the second
roll of developed B/W film, many of my friends wanted 8X10 prints
of some of the images. I continued to get more involved with my
photography, concentrating on scenics, interiors, portraits, and
the growing music scene to make money. The west was the place to
be in the early 1970's so in 1972 I moved to San Francisco and did
advertising for the manufacturers, fashion/musician portfolios, and
public relation photography for the financial industry. In the
early 80's with mergers and acquisitions the name of the business
game, I saw many of my clients merged and gone. In 1983 I attended
a major auto-racing event at Sears Point International Raceway in
Sonoma, just north of San Francisco. I loved the excitement and
atmosphere at the track and decided to get involved in the auto racing
photography scene. I then proceeded to cover all the auto racing
events on the west coast and Florida getting my photo press credentials
from the regional SCCA newspaper and being paid $0.00 for my published
photographs. On the other side, I hit the newsstands and got all the
auto racing magazines that I could find. In short order I was being
published in all the world's auto racing magazines on a regular basis,
plus I sold stock photos to the racing manufacturers and racing
vendors. To get closer to the auto-racing scene in California, I
moved to Los Angeles where today 80% of my work today is on-location
and either on assignment or selling stock photographs of new, classic
and exotic automobiles for auto manufacturers, the auto aftermarket,
private commissions, and auto magazines around the world to illustrate
their reviews.
My photographic direction has always been straight-ahead-just the right
composition with proper lighting and exposure. Today I can dress-up my
photographs very easily with PhotoShop.
I have a website on the World-Wide-Web that you can visit: http://www.autofotos.com
and you can find my auto images on over 15 other websites.
Harvey Schwartz
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