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Matinee: 'Visiting Allan Tannenbaum'
23 November 2024
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
So we're pleased to present the 579th in our series of Saturday matinees today: Visiting Allan Tannenbaum.
In this 8:47 video Ben Colonomos visits photojournalist Allan Tannenbaum, "the man who photographed everything."
Including, as Colonomos discovers, his father dancing with Disco Sally at Studio 54. The image suddenly popped up on his Facebook page. Curious, he traced the image to Tannenbaum. And went to visit him at his New York City studio.
We'll let Tannenbaum tell his own story, starting with his shot of Jimi Hendrix in 1968 that led to his first job. Five dollars a photo for a trial, $40 a week on staff if it worked out. It worked out for eight years.
But we will tell you that as the two chat, we get to see the photos Tannebaum has hung on the walls of his large studio, which constitutes something of a one-man show. There are the celebrities of the '70s and '80s but also Mandela on release from prison, Tannenbaum's combat photography and his images of 9/11. A lifetime of work, in short.
And yet, as Tannenbaum points out, as he nears 80, he's still working.