Book Description
San Francisco, For more than a century, writers and poets have tried desperately to grasp the elusive Camelot. It is, perhaps, more a quest for a photographer. Surely its God-given beauty has never been more thoroughly captured than in these exquisite photographs by Robert Cameron. From his helicopter soaring over this idyllic setting, Bob Cameron has looked down with a God-like eye and recorded with his camera what God sees. He has recorded it for you, gentle reader, and for generations yet to come. Here in these pages is proof that, yes, once there was a Camelot. With introduction and text by Art Hoppe.


About the Author
Robert Cameron has been a photographer since 1921 when his father gave him a "Brownie" camera and encouraged him to use it. Cameron is now in his 90's and has published 16 of his "Above" books. He was a photographer for the Des Moines Register in the 1930's. Cameron learned the art of aerial photography during World War II, while shooting pictures of militaly installations for the War Department. Cameron is a member of the Royal Photographic Society and a member of the Presidents Council of the International Center of Photography. His work has been exhibited in Paris at La Bibliotheque Historique and the Foundation Mona Bismarck. In New York at the International Center of Photography, the New York City Municipal Arts Foundation. In San Francisco at the Vision Gallery, City Hall and the Pacific Center for Photographic Arts. In Chicago's O'Hare airport. In China at the New Gallery of Art in Shanghai and at the Forbidden City. Cameron is currently working on his highly anticipated new book "Above Mexico City".

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Robert Cameron's Photographic career began in 1933 as a news photographer for the Des Moines Register. During World War II he worked for the War Department as a civilian photographer. After a stint in the New York City business world he self-published fis first ABOVE book in 1969. Since that time there have been 16 additional ABOVE titles reaching a total of over two and one half million copies in print.
Technical data: He uses Pentax 6x7 cm cameras with a gyro stabilizer and 6 Takumar lenses from Fisheye to 400mm. His film: 220 Ektachrome 100s.

Since 1960, Arthur Hoppe has turned out some 6,000 daily columns for the San Francisco Chronicle and more than a hundred other newspapers. He is the author of six books and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harpers, Esquire and other magazines. His most recent honor was a Lifetime Achievement Society of Newspaper Columnists. His hobbies are golf, tennis, outdoor drinking and writing writing rare books.

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