Who put the "art" into celebrity?

Jack Robinson Photographer Artist Humanitarian

This post will be just words, no images.

That is so you can take more time looking at the images that you will find here.

When it comes to photography and art meets celebrity, there are names that come to mind. Depending upon whom you ask, those people associated with the art of a particular photographer will have, at the top of their list, that photographer with whom they're associated.

But I want to suggest another realization. Probably, this isn't a new concept. This writer believes the old saying about what isn't new under the...well, you know.

When the photograph happens to be of a celebrity, there is so much buried treasure that it turns out to be a miraculous feat of good luck that the person pressing the button got to do it. Voila, art of a deep magnitude (or else they wouldn't probably be a celebrity) was captured.

So what does an organization do with oodles... literally hundreds of thousands of negatives, created by a guy who got to do it (press the button in the presence of celebrity--and by the way--for hundreds and probably thousands of other photo shoots deemed important to editors and publishers of magazines in the 60s, 70s and 80s)?

The simple answer is profit by them. The more complete answer requires us to define profit.

Stay tuned for the decade ahead, the time that Jack Robinson comes back to front stage in the art world. A stage he never cared to brag about, but one that he stood on, dead center, for many years.