{"id":33414,"date":"2017-06-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/?p=33414"},"modified":"2017-06-27T17:26:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T21:26:41","slug":"meet-a-pro-cradoc-bagshaw-on-why-photography-is-a-feeling-not-a-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/meet-a-pro-cradoc-bagshaw-on-why-photography-is-a-feeling-not-a-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet A Pro: Cradoc Bagshaw on Why Photography is a Feeling, Not a Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cradoc Bagshaw is an internationally acclaimed photographer and photojournalist with a lifelong passion for documentary and street photography. \u201cI\u2019m not a travel photographer, but I work best when I\u2019m traveling, \u201d he wryly observes. His classic Leica black-and-white images capture the defining moments in life that express our shared human experience. A professional photographer and photojournalist for over forty years, his incisive work has appeared in dozens of prestigious publications including <em>Time, Newsweek, Forbes, Business Week, and the New York Times<\/em>. He\u2019s worked with Black Star and the Gamma Liaison agency in New York, doing both editorial and corporate assignments. Bagshaw has lectured on photography at numerous institutions including NYU, the International Center of Photography in New York, UCLA, the California Polytechnic Institute, and Brooks Institute of Photography in California. His clients include USA Today, ABC Good Morning America, UNICEF, Columbia, Capitol, Vanguard Records, the Whitney, Amon Carter, and Smithsonian museums.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33418\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33418\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33418 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/9-porto-portugal-man-wall-2000W.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/9-porto-portugal-man-wall-2000W.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/9-porto-portugal-man-wall-2000W-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Man walking past wall with graffiti, Porto, Portugal. \u00a9 Cradoc Bagshaw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33420\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33420\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33420 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/10-porto-portugal-women2000W.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/10-porto-portugal-women2000W.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/10-porto-portugal-women2000W-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Women, Porto, Portugal. \u00a9 Cradoc Bagshaw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33422\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33422\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33422 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/14-shakespeare-sylvia-whitman1600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/14-shakespeare-sylvia-whitman1600.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/14-shakespeare-sylvia-whitman1600-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33422\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sylvia Beach Whitman,Shakespeare &amp; Co, Paris, France. \u00a9 Cradoc Bagshaw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33419\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33419\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33419 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/6-milan-painting-street-2000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/6-milan-painting-street-2000.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/6-milan-painting-street-2000-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Man viewing painting. Milan, Italy. \u00a9 Cradoc Bagshaw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Note: Nearly all of the black-and-white images showcased here were taken with Leica M rangefinder cameras\u2014a few with Leica M3&#8217;s and M4&#8217;s, but the bulk with Leica M6&#8217;s, usually with a 35mm f\/2 Summicron lens. His more recent shots in Spain were made with digital Leica M9&#8217;s and 35mm f\/2 Summicron ASPH and a 28mm f\/2.8 Elmarit ASPH lenses. Bagshaw shoots Kodak Tri-X film in his M6\u2019s and also uses Leica 50mm f\/2 Summicron and 90mm f\/2.5 Summarit lenses from time to time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33421\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33421\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33421 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/8-new-york-street1620W.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/8-new-york-street1620W.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/8-new-york-street1620W-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New York Street Portrait. \u00a9 Cradoc Bagshaw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33417\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33417\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33417 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/5-marbella-spain-three-generations-women1620.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/5-marbella-spain-three-generations-women1620.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/5-marbella-spain-three-generations-women1620-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three generations of women in religious procession, Marbella Spain. \u00a9 Cradoc Bagshaw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ever since his early teens, Cradoc Bagshaw aspired to be a photographer. Inspired by the superb black-and-white images of Cartier-Bresson, W. Eugene Smith, and Werner Bischoff that he discovered at the local library, he wanted to emulate them. He grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, then a small provincial town, and when he was only 14 he gathered up the money earned on his paper route and bought a new Baby Rolleiflex (a 4&#215;4 cm-format twin-lens reflex that took 127 film) for only $99. Within a year he\u2019d put together a picture portfolio and showed it to the editor of the <em>Anchorage Daily News<\/em>. The editor liked the pictures but told Cradoc to come back when he was older. Fortunately, he took the talented kid\u2019s phone number.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33424\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33424\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33424 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/13-santa-fe-clearance-2000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/13-santa-fe-clearance-2000.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/13-santa-fe-clearance-2000-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33424\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Fe Clearance Sale. \u00a9 Cradoc Bagshaw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33423\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33423 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/12-prague-woman-snow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/12-prague-woman-snow.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/12-prague-woman-snow-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prague, Woman n the snow. \u00a9 Cradoc Bagshaw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>About a week later,\u00a0Cradoc\u2019s mother called him to the phone. It was the newspaper editor. He explained that the staff photographer had just died on a canoeing trip and the paper needed someone desperately. Some of the reporters took pictures, but none of them knew how to do darkroom work. And so, a couple of weeks shy of his 16<sup>th<\/sup> birthday, Cradoc Bagshaw became a newspaper photographer. He worked hard that summer, photographing grinning politicians, celebrities, fishermen, and fires. The most important lesson he learned &#8211; \u00a0that proposing his own story ideas was the best way to show up in print.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33425\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33425\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33425 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Monk-in-monastery-Hungary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Monk-in-monastery-Hungary.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Monk-in-monastery-Hungary-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monk with two canes at monastery in Budapest, Hungary. \u00a9 Cradoc Bagshaw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33427\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33427\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33427 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/7-Navajo-Hopi-Uva-2000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/7-Navajo-Hopi-Uva-2000.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/7-Navajo-Hopi-Uva-2000-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33427\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apache\/Navajo woman, Arizona. \u00a9 Cradoc Bagshaw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In his early 20\u2019s Bagshaw continued doing newspaper work because enabled him to shoot everything with his beloved Leica M4 on Kodak Tri-X black-and-white film. But the pay was so low he could barely live on it, so he started filling in with commercial work, mostly shot in color. A break came when an editor from the<em> L.A. Times<\/em> signed him up to shoot\u00a0an article on New Mexico Indian <em>pueblos<\/em> for their Sunday magazine, and he wound up shooting the entire issue. That led to a meeting with the <em>L.A. Times<\/em> art director, who assigned him to shoot two more complete issues from covers to inside spreads. He took copies of these, and his portfolio, to New York and made the rounds.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33428\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33428\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33428 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/15-venice-italy-fog1600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"677\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/15-venice-italy-fog1600.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/15-venice-italy-fog1600-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fog on the Grand Canal, Venice, Italy. \u00a9 Cradoc Bagshaw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33429\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33429\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33429 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/11-prague-hands-gallery-2000-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/11-prague-hands-gallery-2000-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/11-prague-hands-gallery-2000-1-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hands. Passerby at a gallery in Prague. \u00a9 Cradoc Bagshaw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bagshaw hit it off with the photo editor at <em>Forbes<\/em> and became one of their main photographers. His work appeared in<em> USA Today, USA Weekend, N.Y. Newsday, the N.Y. Times, and Time Magazine.<\/em> He was doing practically everything\u2014crafts for <em>American Craft Magazine,<\/em> architecture for <em>Architectural Digest<\/em>, and lifestyle images for <em>Southern Living<\/em>. He hooked up with stock agencies &#8211; \u00a0Black Star in the \u201870&#8217;s, and later Gamma Liaison in New York.<\/p>\n<p>He was making lots of money and getting lots of work, but he wasn&#8217;t happy. His true passion was to shoot simply, with Leica cameras, in black-and-white, but he couldn&#8217;t find clients that would pay him to shoot in that way. In short, he was tired of chasing the money.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33430\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33430\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33430 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/4-marbella-spain-4-tattoo1620.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/4-marbella-spain-4-tattoo1620.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/4-marbella-spain-4-tattoo1620-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Woman showing her tattoo, Marbella, Spain. \u00a9 Cradoc Bagshaw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When Bagshaw was 39 years old, his wife, Indian artist Helen Hardin, died of breast cancer, an event that transformed his life. From that point on, he committed himself to doing only the kind of photography he found personally fulfilling. However, he also had to make enough money to support himself.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Helen\u2019s death in 1984, he went to China, just as that country was beginning to open up. He was still shooting color slides rather than black-and-white because he knew he could place color images with stock agencies and generate income. \u201cIt was color,\u201d he recalls, \u201cbut at least I was shooting what I love, people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bagshaw returned from China with 5,000 slides, but they needed to be captioned. The only option at the time was a rubber stamp that let you slowly dial the alphabet to form words. It was terribly inefficient, so he found some small labels that would fit his slide mounts and, using his primitive Radio Shack model 100 \u201cproto-laptop\u201d he wrote a program that would print the labels. \u201cMy best friend, the president of ASMP in L.A., saw it and had to have it,\u201d he says with a smile. \u201cThen all our friends wanted it. Pretty soon the demand was so great that I gave it a name, The Cradoc Captionwriter, and started selling it.\u201d Once word got out he sold thousands of them to photographers and agencies, then started selling the labels. His unexpected success enabled him to move away from commercial work, and within a year he was back to his first love, shooting pictures on Tri-X with his Leicas.<\/p>\n<p>In 1989, Bagshaw remarried, sold the Captionwriter, and in 1990 he and his wife, Therese, took off for a year of shooting. They spent 3 months in Alaska and the rest of the time in Western and Eastern Europe documenting the effects of the Soviet withdrawal from Eastern Europe. The Russian army was still stuck there, and the soldiers were selling their uniforms to tourists to get money. When they returned from Europe, Bagshaw wrote another software program: fotoQuote, a blue book of photo prices that soon became the North American standard for photo pricing. He followed up with fotoBiz, a business management program aimed at freelancers that was an immediate success. After he finished fotoBiz, he went to Paris to study black-and-white printing with Georges Fevre, Henri Cartier-Bresson&#8217;s printer for 30 years. \u201cI shot every day and had my film processed each night,\u201d Bagshaw recalls. \u201cIt was heaven!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the past several years, Bagshaw has split his time between the Vancouver, Canada area, and Marbella, Spain. He\u2019s been invited to teach 3 workshops at the Porto Photo Fest in Portugal this September. In short, he is, at long last, the photographer he always wanted to be, and here\u2019s what he says about it: \u201cI love it when I can tell a story with a single picture! In the software world or in the commercial arena, I was always thinking too much. When I shoot my black-and-white photos there isn&#8217;t time to think. The decision has to be made in an instant. I have to be in the present and in touch with my feelings. It&#8217;s a feeling that pushes the shutter, not a thought. I look for relationships when I&#8217;m shooting. And when I see a relationship, feel something, and photograph it, I usually don&#8217;t know what motivated me, or why I took the shot until I look at the photo later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bagshaw loves to photograph places in transition. For example, he documented the amazing contrasts in Europe after the Berlin Wall came down. \u201cPortugal right now is the same,\u201d he notes. \u201cBecause of its past economic problems, Porto feels undeveloped. I can feel it&#8217;s history, and to some extent it&#8217;s decay. There are lots of social and visual contrasts here, and that makes good photos.\u201d Getting to where he wanted with his photography wasn&#8217;t a straight route by any means, and wasn&#8217;t what he expected when he started. But after years of shooting pictures to please clients, he\u2019s finally re-discovered his true passion\u2014exploring his personal vision and sharing it with others.<\/p>\n<p>See more of Cradoc Bagshaw&#8217;s work:<\/p>\n<p>Online Portfolio:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cradocphoto.com\/\">http:\/\/cradocphoto.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Instagram:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cradocbagshaw\/\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cradocbagshaw\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks shy of his 16th birthday, Cradoc Bagshaw became a newspaper photographer. 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