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Thursday 15 March 2012

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Photography, As L. Ron Hubbard Was Fond Of Pointing Out, Means “Light Writing,” And Given The Way In Which His Photographs Communicate, The Phrase Is An Apt Description Of His Work.

A Keen Student Of The Camera Through His Youth, His Career Effectively Began In The Late 1920s With A Series Of Celebrated Studies Taken Through The Course Of Travels In China. The Work Was Squarely Professional And Ultimately Purchased By The National Geographic. Returning To The United States, He Continued His Photographic Career As Both A Photojournalist For Local Newspapers And, On A Freelance Basis, For Several National Publications. Most Notable Among The Latter Was His Work For The Air Enthusiast Publication The Sportsman Pilot.

With The Commencement Of His Formal Writing Career In 1933, Mr. Hubbard’s Photographic Work Tended To Take A Back Seat. Nevertheless, His Later Years Still Regularly Found Him Behind The Camera For Work That Included Promotional Photographs For Various European Bodies And Much Acclaimed Landscapes Of Southern England, Eventually Selected From Among 3,300 Entries For The International Photography Exhibition In Nantes, France. Mr. Hubbard’s Photographs

A Pioneering Barnstormer In His Own Right, L. Ron Hubbard Served As Both Photographer And Writer For The Sportsman Pilot Magazine.

From These Years Were Also Selected For Display At The Versailles Salon International D’art Photographique And Have Subsequently Seen Publication In The L. Ron Hubbard Photographic Calendars.

In 1975, He Continued Such Work On The Island Of Curaçao In The Netherlands Antilles, Where In A Matter Of A Few Days Of His Arrival It Was Reported: “Mr. Hubbard With His Professional Accurateness, Gets The Shot He Wants, One After Another At A Production Rate Of More Than 7,000 Photographs Since He First Started Taking Photographs Here In Curaçao.”

Returning To The United States In 1976 To Establish A Home In Southern California, L. Ron Hubbard’s Photographic Career Took Another Dimension—The Training Of Photographers. From This Instructional Work, Came His Delineation Of All Vital Steps The Photographer Must Take To Ensure A Successful Shot—Including The Often Neglected Preliminary Of Envisioning Or Preconceiving The Picture. Or As An Alternative, He Advised Photographers To Learn To Immediately Recognize A Picture. In Either Case—And Herein Lay The Common Denominator Of All L. Ron Hubbard’s Artistic Work—Photographers Must Learn “To Make The Picture Talk.” As A Part Of The Instruction Process, All Students Were Privileged With A Personal L. Ron Hubbard Review Of Their Photographs. In Addition To The More Conventional Points Of Composition And Lighting, He Typically Continued To Stress That Very Key Matter Of Communication: What, If Anything, Did The Picture Say? Also From This Instructional Period Came His Highly Important Testing Procedures For Both Equipment And Film, And His Clarification Of That Long-Misunderstood Subject, Composition.

Today, The Definitive Body Of His Photographic Work Has Been Carefully Assembled In The L. Ron Hubbard Series And L. Ron Hubbard: Images Of A Lifetime. In All, More Than Six Hundred Photographs Are Presented—From His Earliest Shots With A Simple Kodak Brownie To His Later Work In Southern California. Included, Of Course, Are Several Selections From His Famed China Series, His Award-Winning Shots Of The English Countryside And All Else That Defined The Man’s Work In What He Called “Writing With Light.”

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