Nat Fein, Lyndon B. Johnson, Rally inside the old Madison Square Garden
Prints from the Nat Fein estate, including the famous "The Babe Bows Out," can be purchased from vintagephotos.com.
Mike
(Thanks to William Barnett-Lewis)
(Thanks to William Barnett-Lewis)
Makes my cropping finger twitch.
Posted by: Clayton Lofgren | Tuesday, 09 June 2009 at 06:03 PM
Clayton,
Seriously? Any cropping would completely ruin this picture. It's perfect the way it is.
Mike
P.S. And most probably it's already been cropped, by the photographer. Who did good, I might add!
Posted by: Mike Johnston | Tuesday, 09 June 2009 at 07:08 PM
Thanks for that Mike
Posted by: charlie d | Tuesday, 09 June 2009 at 07:47 PM
I need more money. Can't quite afford the prints I want on that site.
Posted by: Tom | Tuesday, 09 June 2009 at 07:48 PM
It's the monkeys and typewriters thing. Most of us have equipment capable of world class photos, but if we managed to make one we would crop it to death, destroy it in photoshop, or just delete it.
Posted by: Clayton Lofgren | Tuesday, 09 June 2009 at 08:27 PM
Cropping!?
Mike's right, if you look at the picture of the negative, it's obvious that Mr. Fein did crop just a little. My opinion, which is just my opinion, is that cropping sometimes has the effect of negating the story-telling value of a photograph.
Rob
Posted by: Rob Griffin | Tuesday, 09 June 2009 at 08:31 PM
Mike,
After seeing Nate Fein's and especially Rudy Mancuso's photographs, I wonder, what will remain of todays digital pictures in 50 years?
Posted by: André Moreau | Tuesday, 09 June 2009 at 10:50 PM
The estate sure wants a lot of money for those inkjet prints. I'd have thought that by this time they'd be in the public domain....
Posted by: Mike | Wednesday, 10 June 2009 at 12:38 AM
Mike,
Clayton is kidding of course, but I have to say that your photoshopping the whites in Mr. Fein's picture to the background yellow of your blog is not very ethical!
Best, Nick
Posted by: Nick | Wednesday, 10 June 2009 at 04:08 AM
Some fantastic stuff there.
Sadly beyond my pocket at the moment, though.
Nice to see that he cranked out plenty of dog and cat photos, just like the rest of us.
Posted by: Nigel | Wednesday, 10 June 2009 at 04:50 AM
Mike
Somewhere (it may have been in a recent Lenswork) I read an account of how Fein got to take "The Babe Bows Out" which is also in David Nieves book, "The Fein Story Behind the Pictures," that is available at Amazon.
Posted by: Ron W | Wednesday, 10 June 2009 at 07:59 AM
"Somewhere (it may have been in a recent Lenswork) I read an account of how Fein got to take 'The Babe Bows Out'"
Ron,
It's linked in the second featured comment to the Mancuso post.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Johnston | Wednesday, 10 June 2009 at 08:45 AM
Nick,
It might look that way, but I wouldn't do anything like that.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Johnston | Wednesday, 10 June 2009 at 08:56 AM