Mr. Robert Cameron: Best selling author,
publisher and photographer of Above Books
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At 94 years old, with limited vision in one eye and completely blind in the other, Mr. Cameron was still very active - carrying his four pound Pentax 6x7 while photo shooting from a Bell Ranger helicopter, publishing 'ABOVE BOOKS' and putting in a regular Monday/Wednesday/Friday at the office week. Knowing that Mr. Cameron was a good friend, golfing buddy and also a competitor of Ansel Adams (and having worked on both of these Pro Photographers originals) Tim’s statement should be carefully considered:
The year was 2006 and that’s when Mr. Cameron and Master Printer/Photo Artist Tim Hall (S.F. neighbors for over 40 years) finally met. The two immediately began a working collaboration with Tim becoming Mr. Cameron’s hands and eyes in the darkroom. Through color correction, light balancing and raw talent, Tim has turned Mr. Cameron’s great captures into substantially better and quite spectacular photographs.
Tim has produced all of the photographs for Mr. Cameron's Environmental Journey, a future (signed by Mr. Cameron) 'Above' Exhibition and the limited Metallic Cameron Folio.
“Bob’s work often evokes strong emotional response, his black and white capture is extraordinarily good and Bob’s color capture is superior to Ansel Adams.”
The amusing thing is, when ever he was asked, Mr. Cameron was quick to say (with a twinkle in his eye) that he was a not a very good photographer. He said he knew that because Ansel Adams regularly told him so.
