Ted Glasso
Ted Glasso, (a pen name) for an author, illustrator, photographer, born in Warsaw, Poland, (July 4th, 1953 - ).
Growing up as the son of an accomplished artist (painter, sculptor and engraver) he was enchanted by photography and story telling from the young age of 7. His aspirations were to one day be able to live the life of a photojournalist, and work for a large magazine such as LIFE. Regularly published every week it was the medium of graphic communications from the 30's to the 70's when TV news took over. He saw his dreams suddenly become absent of the medium when LIFE closed its weekly magazine the year he was graduating high school in 1971. LOOK magazine closed the same year as well.
His early work to build his portfolio was comprised of street photography he did in New York. He developed a unique style that he called STRIPS, a moment captured in 2 or more images, and he preferred 4 sequence shots. He was told however, that only one image mattered the best one to capture the moment, "the others did not matter." He took that quite seriously and only showed his best image of the sequence, which he felt restricted his message. It was not until later when the digital world offered another way to process his images that he returned to his multi-image compositions and recompiled they collection from over 300 sequence stories he had done on his own to 50 of his best and published them in a book, "The First Fifty Candid Sequences - STRIPS 1 - (1969-1978): A portfolio of the earliest work by TED GLASSO" - ISBN-13: 978-1793403735
STRIPS 1
The streets of New York offered instant permission to photograph anything and anyone without a model release (since the people were on public streets). Glasso saw this as his opportunity to create a body of work that could establish him with the media as a viable photographic resource. He liked Sundays the most because the residents and their children were often out doing things that they did not do during the weeks as they rushed to school or work. He walked the streets looking and "sniffing out" opportunities as he moved about. We see in his work sequences that tell complete brief stories of kids playing with odd objects and picking through trash for a treasure. In his self published book The First Fifty Candid Sequences - STRIPS 1 we can see numerous layouts that tell a story with a series of images shot in sequence, much like a movie storyboard. Each image invites deeper into the story and provides a singular closed moment in time as if a time machine has transported one back to the late 60's early 70's era.
STRIPS 2
The streets of other cities he visited became his new subjects. After a long gap between the late seventies when he put aside his aspiration of becoming a photographic artist working as photojournalist long enough to discover his other talents as an editor and publisher. His next series of STRIPS were executed in the eastern European country of Poland and the city of his birth, Warsaw. He prowled the streets and over 16 excursions with some lasting full days he built the second portfolio of sequences, soon to be released as STRIPS 2.
BIOGRAPHY
After a move to Houston, TX in 1974 he fell in love with with the concept of publishing a weekly newspaper that would of course feature his photography work as well as his journalism. The tabloid he published at first was called the Houston Habitat, later renamed to the SW Star in order to assume a more authoritative and broad role. He sold the publication in 1980 and moved on to develop himself as an advertising creative machine, freelancing, and then taking on the position of Director of Advertising and Public Relations in the insurance industry. Script error: No such module "AfC submission catcheck".
References[edit]
PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS
- "The First Fifty Candid Sequences - STRIPS 1 - (1969-1978): A portfolio of the earliest work by TED GLASSO" - ISBN-13 : 978-1793403735
- "Natural Vision: Ted Glasso - 50 Years of photography, a retrospective by TED GLASSO" - ISBN-13 : 978-1986836760
- "Views 1968 - 2018: a retrospective" - ISBN-13 : 978-1728667898
- "The Walls We Build (Society's Walls)" - ISBN-13 : 978-1726752831
- "FLORAL PORTRAITS: One hundred portraits of flowers with personality" - ISBN-13 : 978-1724198242
- "My New York: Photographic Studies Starting in 1969" - ISBN-13 : 978-1484173787
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