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Good Morning, America
What makes showing up to work at 6AM worth it? Photographing a mural dedication and Philly reunion at the old American Bandstand studio (Now the Enterprise Center) featuring performances by bandstand standbys: Chubby Checker, Connie Francis, Jerry Blavat, Charlie Gracie and others.
If interested, the event will be on tomorrow’s Good Morning America sometime between 7:40 and 8:10AM.
On a personal note, I absolutely love shooting these events. Working as a photographer at an interesting local event is by leaps, bounds and light years more fun, stimulating and challenging than any other work I’ve done. Beyond any shadow of a doubt, it’s what I want to be when I grow up. The hard part is making enough cash to support myself. At this point, I make a nice, but largely insubstantial side-income.
Although I (unabashedly) think my work is as unique and or at least as interesting as at least half the other photogs at these events, I still feel privileged to have the opportunity to shoot them at all. Here’s a first look at this morning:
Dancers
Chubby Checker promotes his new CD
The unveiling
Jerry Blavat & mural
Charlie Graicie melts into the mural
Chubby Checker (ascending)
Connie Francis, face
The hands of Connie Francis.
Charlie and Connie with Charlie’s guitar
From right to left (Hebrew style) Chubby Checker, Charlie Gracie, Jerry Blavat, Connie Francis and I have no idea
The same four as above
O’yeah, the (amazing) muralist, Diane Keller:
The End
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