Single Shoe
Don
Hunstein
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Single Shoe
Bien que compositeur, écrivain et aussi homme de radio, Glenn Gould est surtout connu pour ces interprétations au piano du répertoire classique. Excentrique, ou tout du moins considéré comme tel, il abandonne définitivement sa carrière de concertiste en 1964 à l’âge de 32 ans. Il continue cependant à enregistrer des disques et produit des émissions de radio. Sa manière de jouer est empreinte d’une rapidité et d’une clarté de voix hors du commun. Sa personnalité extravagante se manifeste dans son mode de vie en général. Cependant, c’est surtout l’usage d’une seule et unique chaise pliante dont il avait scié les pieds qui reste dans les mémoires. Ce siège qui l’oblige à ce plier en deux et mettre son visage presque au niveau des touches l’accompagne dans chacun de ses déplacements durant sa vie entière.
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Don
Hunstein
Don Hunstein’s photographs are iconic. During thirty years when he worked with Columbia Records, he photographed the famous and the not so famous and has hundreds of album covers and behind the scene photographs to his credit. His work speaks of a time when musicians concentrated solely on their music and paid little attention to their image.
After university where he gained a degree in English, Don Hunstein was enlisted to the US Air Force. He was stationed in England to a desk job. This posting allowed him to travel around the whole of Europe. He began to take photographs that he sent to his family. He then purchased a Leica and a collection of photographs by Henri Cartier Bresson inspired him. What was just a hobby became more and more important in his life. He was then transferred to London where he joined a photography club as well as taking evening classes at London’s Central School of Art and Design.
He returned to New York in 1954. He then started an apprenticeship in a commercial photography studio. As luck had it, he rapidly made interesting contacts. Thus, he met Deborah Ishlon who worked in the publicity department of Columbia Records. She offered him a job and it did not take long for Don Hunstein’s work to be noticed. He climbed the ranks and became Director of Photography for CBS Records.
He became chief photographer at Columbia Records when the aforementioned was at its peak. Directed by Goddard Lieberson at the time, Columbia thought it important to document in photos the cultural history of music of their time. Besides album sleeves and advertising photographs, Don Hunstein photographed recording sessions and intimate personal moments of the musicians. Don Hunstein had the ability to ‘listen’ with his camera. He immediately understood the importance of patience, trust and humility to capture magical moments and immortalise them. He had the ability to set newcomers, as well as established stars, at ease which allowed him to take quintessential portraits which marked the history of music.
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