Legendary photographer Charles Clyde Ebbets
American photographer Charles Clyde Ebbets (Charles Clyde Ebbets) was born 18 Aug 1905 in Gadsden, Alabama. The restless career of the photographer began in 1920 in St. Petersburg, Florida, although the first camera he had at the age of eight. He bought it using the account of his mother, who worked in a pharmacy. For this act he was so whipped that week he could not sit, even in a school near their desks had to stand. The camera Charles treasured to the last days of life.
In 1924, Ebbets became fascinated with cinema, and not only filmed, but also starred under the pseudonym of Wally Renny. During the 1920-ies he successfully mastered a number of professions: he was a pilot, racecar driver, wrestler and hunter. But never let go of the camera. He was the official photographer of the boxer Jack Dempsey, filmed for several major American publications, including the Miami Daily News.
1. "Lunch atop a skyscraper"
To 1930-m to years Ebbets has gained wide popularity, his work has been published in major Newspapers across the country, including in the New York Times. According to one version, he is the author of the famous photo taken in 1932, which depicts eleven men sitting on a girder during their lunch break. Their legs dangle over the streets of new York at 69-th floor of Rockefeller center, which in those days was in the last stages of construction.
2. In 1933, the photographer returned to Florida, where I was to live and work the rest of my life. His interests are focused on attracting tourists to the region, the Indians of the Seminole tribe and in the vast expanse of untouched nature in the Everglades.
3. In 1935 Ebbets became the first official photographer for the Associated Press in the state. In that year, his photos of the infamous hurricane that destroyed the Florida Keys, has spread around the world. During the same period, he founded the Miami Association of photographers and became its first President.
4. Charles Ebbets known unique friendship with many Indians of a tribe of Seminoles. Many of the leaders of this people considered him a personal friend. In 1938 he became the first white man who was allowed to attend the sacred dance of the green corn. The photographer was allowed to shoot the event all week. Extensive collection of those images remains one of the best of its kind.
5. In the next decade, the photographer had not ceased to travel, and once on set in the swampy plains of my back. Because of the injury he came to the front during the Second world war, the medical Board rejected his application. However, being a licensed pilot and photographer, he served as attaché in the army aviation, later assigned to the aviation Institute Embry-riddle and trained pilots of the American and British Royal air force.
6. At the end of the Second world war, Ebbets returned home to Miami, where with two companions founded the City of Miami Publicity Bureau. For the next 17 years he was the head of this advertising Agency and this is due to the huge number of its issued photos of the city of Miami has become a center of tourism industry. His images were printed in the Miami Daily News, The New York Times, National Geographic, Outdoors Unlimited, Field & Stream, Popular Boating, U.S. Camera, Outdoor Life, Look Magazine, Popular Photography and other publications.
7. During the 1970-ies Ebbets continued to photograph life in South Florida. July 14, 1978 at the age of 72 years, he died of cancer. Daughter the photographer has created a website EbbetsPhoto-Graphics.com where you can see a vast collection of images that will be included in a forthcoming book about the life and work of Charles Clyde Ebbets.
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