It Was Just One Of Those Things, Ella Fitzgerald, Seattle 1976 Today's Coolphoto 01/15/2024
“Time and tide wait for no man.“ - Geoffrey Chaucer
The jazz tunes of Ella Fitzgerald were a standard in our lives growing up. When she came to Seattle in 1976 I took my parents to hear her perform. In those days I covered events as though I was working press so I wandered right up to the stage with my camera. At the end of my roll I managed to shoot multiple exposures on a single frame, with Tommy Flanagan and his band in the back. Flanagan had by then been Ella’s band for twenty years.
One of my shots was particularly fine, and I sent it down to Norman Granz in LA. I did not hear from him, so I assumed it went into the round file, being unsolicited and all. Recently I found on Ebay that same photograph, framed nicely, posted in a completed auction. It had sold for more than eight hundred dollars. The note accompanying the auction described it this way:
OMG, she had framed the piece and kept it.
It was just one of those things,
just one of those crazy flings,
a trip to the moon on gossamer wings,
just one of those things.
It Was Just One Of Those Things, Ella Fitzgerald, Seattle 1976 Today's Coolphoto 01/15/2024
©2024 Christopher Petrich
Thanks to you my good friends for fifty years of professional photography and twenty five years of online success with Coolphoto.com! I am at the end of my retail sales career and am closing up shop by the end of this year. I will continue to post new work on Coolphoto, in the form of members-only galleries and Today’s Coolphoto blog posts such as this.
I am sending selected original photographs to the Christopher Petrich Collection at the Northwest Room of the Tacoma Public Library, and I am creating new bound volumes of selected pieces under my Coolphoto imprint. I have four titles in the pipeline to add to the three volumes already published: A Complete Guide To The Lighthouses on Puget Sound Including Admiralty Inlet (ISBN: 978‐0‐9744775-0-8), Dreams (ISBN: 978-0-9744775-1-0) and The Beach At Fox Island (ISBN: 978‐0‐9744775‐2‐7). Each new title will be issued in very small editions of 100 or fewer copies.
For those with questions about my original works, or anything else for that matter, please send me a message. I’d love to hear from you!
NEW PHOTOGRAPHY, BEAUTIFUL AND ORIGINAL
Most Editions are small, 5 and under. I’ve been at this a very long time and I have hundreds of vintage silver collectibles. I’m always taking pictures in Tacoma, of Tacoma people. The best images, on the best paper, in small editions, from a Tacoma photographer, of Tacoma.
Vintage prints are made within a year of the photographs create date. My usual practice is to print within a few days or weeks of exposure. What you see is a scan of the actual print that is for sale. Price does not include shipping or taxes.
Please note that vintage prints are imperfect. They’re old, after all. If you’re worried about it, bring it up. I’ll do my best to answer your questions.
Vintage - When I print the photograph within a year of the original exposure, that becomes a Vintage Print.
Archival Pigment - When I print in my studio using computer technology with pigmented inks on acid and lignin free paper, I call that an Archival Pigment Print.
Silver - When I print in my darkroom on gelatin silver paper, that is a Silver Print. These prints are double weight on a cotton fiber base.
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