East Village photographer Sid Kaplan still developing great images in his 84th year
84, he recounts seeing an image emerge from the developer in a darkroom when he was all of ten years old.
He was winning camera club competitions at age 14, but he got some advice from camera store owner Lou Bernstein that he took to heart. “Don’t ever become a commercial photographer,” Bernstein said. “You’ll have to take the pictures that they want you to take, not what you want to do.” “I had different jobs — they lasted from two weeks to two days. My first job as a printer ended on the first day when the boss said, ‘get the hell out – you don’t know what you’re doing!’”
Sid would eventually get to know him, calling him “Uncle Weegee” until the man growled, “Don’t ever call me that again!” It was at his next gig — the Compo photo lab — that he really came into his own as a printer. He started out being “the guy who put the prints in the dryer” and ended up as the go-to man for 30×40 exhibition prints. He still remembers the day that someone handed him the phone and said, “Steichen wants to talk to you.” The next thing he knew the master was giving him instructions on how to print his 8×10 negatives.
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