Word: sochurek
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lives of private people, their tribulations and triumphs, jinks high and low, the places they inhabited or returned to or recalled. This collection, elegantly introduced and annotated by Maitland Edey, a former assistant managing editor of LIFE, includes such classics as W. Eugene Smith's Spanish Village, Howard Sochurek's The Prairie and Dorothea Lange's Irish Country People, as well as many less remembered but equally riveting studies, complemented by Edey's inside story of the ways they were put together. Seldom can one say that a 278-page book should have been twice...
Here is a piece of Frost, written with diffidence and pictured in a large batch of welcome photographs, many of them done by LIFE'S Howard Sochurek during Frost's 1957 visit to England. The poet is elsewhere, though never so remote that he cannot inform anything that has been written about him. For example, these lines from his long poem on New Hampshire...
...save time in covering the vast distances, Shaw and Sochurek did most of their traveling by air, including one memorable morning when they waited 20 minutes in -25° weather before the Aeroflot crew arrived and unlocked the plane. "It had been sitting on the freezing runway all night," Shaw recalls. "The temperature inside was about 20 below, and there were thick icicles inside the door. Finally a crewman hauled aboard a hose from the engine-warmup truck and began blasting hot air straight into the cabin. It was rough, but it worked-a bit like Siberia itself." Our story...
...Sochurek, whose color photographs accompany the article, February's visit was his 15th to the Soviet Union since 1958. This time both he and Shaw were treated to a view of Russia's interior that few foreign journalists have ever seen. They traveled to the western Siberian oilfields of Samotlor and Surgut, and emerged with the first color photographs of the area ever taken by an American photographer. At Aldan, Sochurek talked Aeroflot officials into renting him a helicopter to photograph the gold fields and track down the reindeer herds that graze in the area. In the eastern...
Cold feet, in fact, became a very real problem for both Shaw and Sochurek, but the -74° temperatures that they encountered proved especially difficult for the photographer. The moving parts of his camera froze, the film turned brittle, and the metal adhered to his skin whenever he tried to focus the lens...