Bachrach Studios is an American photographic studio , believed to be one of the oldest continuously operating photography studios in the world.
6-649: Gittings Studios is a photographic studio founded in 1928 by Paul Gittings, Sr. . Gittings bought the Bachrach Studios in the southern region of the United States during the Great Depression . The Gittings laboratory was a pioneer of color dye transfer prints. In the 1960s, the Gittings laboratories were the first to use machines from Kodak that would develop into the "one hour processing." Due to this progress,
12-505: Is the one that brings success." The company has trained and inspired generations of portrait photographers. The organization was sold in 1987 to Paul Skipworth, then again in 1998 to Greg Lorfing. Under Lorfing's direction, Gittings has worked in 15 countries in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, gaining worldwide recognition as a leading studio for legal portraiture. Bachrach Studios It
18-700: The Gittings laboratory lost a substantial portion of its market in the professional color film processing industry. Paul Linwood Gittings, Sr. was instrumental in organizing, funding and establishing the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In the 1950s and 1960s, Mr. Gittings also operated a studio within Neiman Marcus . In his autobiography entitled Color Portraiture, he writes, "The photographer doesn't sell photographs; he sells sentiment and flattery. From
24-552: The company hired Paul Gittings, who opened and managed Bachrach Studios in Texas . Bachrach Studio had forty-eight locations throughout the United States at its height in 1929. During the Great Depression , Bachrach scaled down the company and sold the Texas studios to Gittings . Bachrach Studios remains a family business as of 2024. This United States media company article is
30-420: The day that he [the photographer] understands the philosophy of the product he sells and bends his efforts to that end alone, he will prosper." and "Finally, if I could choose those words of wisdom which have served me best, during a long photographic lifetime, I would mention first: 'The only difference between the difficult and the impossible is that the impossible takes more time.' Sometimes the hundredth attempt
36-697: Was founded in Baltimore in 1868 by David Bachrach, Jr. The studio's founder, David Bachrach, took the only photo of Abraham Lincoln 's Gettysburg Address . The studio has photographed every US Head of State since then, its founder having made it a goal to photograph all the important people he could. He sought and received permission to photograph such notables as Charles Lindbergh and Calvin Coolidge . The studio went on to produce portraits of Albert Einstein , Thomas Edison , Henry Ford , Eleanor Roosevelt , Douglas Dobson , and Muhammad Ali , among others. In 1919
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