No of people

[wannabegood]

hello
how many people would you say is the maximum ammount of people in a huge group photo for a 4x5 LF


wannabegood

[Thingy]

It depends what you meanby a group photo. If you include using a 5x4 positioned 80ft off the ground on the devils elbow of a land implanted mast, then Reg Fisk may hold the record for photographing 2000 Juniors (boy ratings) on the huge parade ground at the former Royal Naval training establishment, HMS Ganges at Shotley Gate, Suffolk. Every Sunday during Term Time, Summer or freezing Winter, 2000 trainees has to parade in their best uniform for divisions. Reg Fisk photographed these and sold them at what seemed a fortune at the time. A friend of mine who was there in 1962 had a pay several shillings for a series of images to impress his parents out of a weekly income of 15 Shillings! Fisk spent most of his career as a professional photographer at Ganges. He used a 5x4 press camera and worked first in b&w then, colour from the 1960s until the ship was decommissioned, in 1976, when he took early retirement. You can view his work in the Historic Photographs section of the National Maritime Museum. Having looked a several dozen of his original monochrome negatives in the early 1980s, they are very impressive given the kit and film he was working with.

Perhaps Bill Brandt did some images of factory workers en masse?

Steve

Fisk's work shows what can be done with even an old press camera and lenses.

[IanG]

Have a look at David Burnett's work, I'd guess there a few thousand in some of his images shot at the Olympics with his Speed Graphic

Ian

[robinb]

I remember seeing a B/W picture shot from a platform at a beach of thousands of holidaymakers
It looked like the 50s and I seem to remember it was on the italian riviere
All eyse were on the camera so I guess there must of been something gpoing on that they were all watching

Was about to ask if anybody new who it was by when I spotted this post

would love to know who shot it,
I think it was somebody famous

thanks

Robin