**The Art of Photography: Three Musicians with a Hidden Passion**

In this episode of Photo 3s, we're going to explore three musicians who have made a significant contribution to the world of photography. From jazz legend Milt Hinton to Canadian singer-songwriter Brian Adams, and avant-garde musician Ralph Gibson, these artists have demonstrated that music and photography can go hand-in-hand.

**Milt Hinton: A Jazz Bassist with a Photographer's Eye**

One of my first picks is Milt Hinton, a renowned jazz bassist who had a backstage pass to some amazing jazz musicians. As a photographer, he captured the essence of these musical legends, providing a unique perspective on the world of jazz that would otherwise be lost. With his camera by his side, Milt was able to document the lives and careers of these incredible musicians, giving us a glimpse into the behind-the-scenes world of jazz. His contributions as a photographer are immense, and his legacy continues to inspire photographers and music lovers alike.

**Brian Adams: A Singer-Songwriter with a Camera Eye**

Next up is Brian Adams, a Canadian singer-songwriter who had hits in the 80s like "Cuts Like a Knife" and "Everything I Do I'll Do It for You". But what's less well-known about Brian is his successful career as a photographer. With a keen eye for celebrity and fashion photography, he has worked with major magazines and has become known for his exceptional skills behind the lens. His work is a testament to the versatility of this talented musician, who has demonstrated that he can excel in both the music industry and the world of photography.

**Ralph Gibson: A Photographer with a Musician's Heart**

Lastly, I'd like to introduce you to Ralph Gibson, a photographer who is known for his stunning work in capturing the beauty of everyday life. His first job as a photography assistant was with Dorothy Lange, and he later worked with Robert Frank on several projects. Ralph has also done film work with Lou Reed and has collaborated with other notable artists in the world of music and art. What's remarkable about Ralph is his ability to find beauty in the most mundane objects, often referred to as "street object photography". His photographs are like windows into another world, revealing hidden details that we often overlook. And recently, he took his talents to the world of music by composing a piece for guitar that is performed with his photographs projected on the back of the stage.

**The Power of Photography and Music**

These three musicians have demonstrated that photography and music can be intertwined in incredible ways. Whether it's capturing the essence of jazz legends or scoring music for visual art, they have shown us that creativity knows no bounds. Ralph Gibson's latest project is a perfect example of this fusion, where his photographs are used to create an immersive experience that combines sound and image. His work is like nothing you've ever seen before, and it's a testament to the power of collaboration between musicians and photographers.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, these three musicians have made significant contributions to both music and photography. From Milt Hinton's behind-the-scenes documentation of jazz legends to Brian Adams' celebrity-filled photographs, and Ralph Gibson's innovative fusion of sound and image, each has demonstrated their unique perspective on the world. Whether you're a musician, photographer, or simply someone who appreciates the art of both, these artists are definitely worth checking out. Join us next time on Photo 3s for our Q&A show, and we'll be back with another episode of The Art of Photography on Sunday.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everybody this is Ted Forbes from The Art of Photography and welcome back to our show called photo threes our weekly show where we take three things that are fairly interesting in the world of Photography and bring them straight to you these come out every Wednesday and remember to subscribe to the channel we're doing three shows a week now that fits in with the threes theme so anyway if you want the latest and greatest content delivered straight to you you can subscribe and you can even set up email preferences so they're delivered straight to your inbox but today our topic on Photo 3s is I want to talk about three musicians who are also known as photographers or you could also look at this as three photographers who were also known as musicians um but anyway I think this is fairly interesting and it was fairly fun to research there obviously you can come up with more than three of these but the three we're going to talk about today I think are particularly interesting and they're all very different uh the first photographer slm musician I want to discuss is a gentleman who's probably best known as a jazz bass player a gentleman by the name of Milt Hinton uh Milt Hinton was probably best known I think to most people as the uh bass player who did the intro to The Drifter song Under the Boardwalk uh but actually more importantly uh he played with pretty much everybody during a history of jazz which included people like Billy Holiday and Art Tatum Dizzy Gillespie you name it he probably played with them and toured with them and basically as a Bas player he was an amateur photographer and started out on Argus C3 which is a kind of affectionately nicknamed The Brick and he managed to get all these behind thes scenes backstage shots of major luminaries in jazz music uh particularly uh during a slice of time that I think was extremely important to American Jazz so you see people like Billy Holiday uh you see people like Dizzy Gillespie the list goes on and I think the important contribution that Milt Hinton had as a photographer was pretty much you're dealing with a guy who had a backstage pass uh really to some amazing Jazz musicians and he provides to the world of Photography a view of something that's very important musically that otherwise if he didn't take the photos nobody would have been able to see and melt hiton died in 2000 I believe and left behind an enormous Legacy not only as a jazz bass player but also as a photographer and uh so he's my first pick uh second pick today is somebody who's fairly well known uh if you're have been in pop music in the last 20 years at all gentleman named Brian Adams and Brian Adams is best known as a Canadian singer songwriter who had hits in the 80s like Cuts Like a Knife and many others everything I do I'll do it for you which I really don't need to ever hear again but anyway other than that uh Brian has maintained kind of this double career not only as a musician being very well known for that but also as a very successful photographer uh obviously he knows a ton of celebrities and his work is very celebrity based um it's actually pretty interesting work I think uh it fits right in he shoots for major magazines so uh you know mostly celebrity and fashion types of stuff and he fits right in line with a lineage of photographers that came before him doing that so uh you know you could definitely see an influence of people like Richard avidon here David Bailey and I think at its very best starts to Echo probably maybe a dark version of Dwayne Michaels and it's actually fairly impressive for somebody who has had Fair really two very successful careers so Brian Adams is somebody that you may not know had a very successful career as a photographer as well who is also a musician and finally the third person I want to talk about today I think in my personal opinion is one of the most interesting this gentleman is actually more known as a photographer and I only came to find that he was a musician a few years ago um it's a gentleman by the name of Ralph Gibson and Ralph Gibson has had a stunning career as a photographer he does extremely important work um his first job as a photography assistant was for dorothia Lang and later on he did several projects and worked with uh Robert Frank and he's even done some film work and worked with people like Lou Reid and so he's he's worked with some seriously um amazing luminary artistic Minds uh in the world of Photography music art and he's done some film himself uh his photographs are amazing if you've never seen them um they're you know kind of definitely there's a Robert Frank influence there and they really take it a Step Beyond it's almost like these Urban still lives sometimes um I think Ralph Gibson has this amazing ability to find things in that are very common maybe it's a ready-made object maybe it's just part of a scene maybe it's a table that the sun's hitting it just right but he finds Beauty in the most common things and so I guess this kind of uh Street object photography sometimes for just lack of a better phrase anyway the music part of this comes in because Ralph Gibson a couple years ago started scoring music and he wrote a piece that actually uh the German name I am the KN um and basically it was music as he described it for for lens and guitar and he plays guitar and if you're not familiar with listening to a lot of avantgard music it may be kind of difficult at first uh because it's definitely out there uh I will link up to his website because he does have two videos on his website the problem that I have with them is they kind of show him playing the guitar more than they show the photographs that are rolling behind him but basically it's a performance-based piece where he stands on stage um plays this piece of music for guitar that goes along with photographs that you're going to see projected on the back through the dark on the in the theater on the stage um it's an extremely interesting piece it's very much in the line of his work I happen to like a lot of very experimental music things like JN Zorn and you know so for me it really made sense and it was so beautiful to hear this but I think he's definitely worth checking out you might have to be a little open-minded but I hope you would at least give it a shot so those are three photographers slm musician people three photographers who are also known as musicians so we have Milt Hinton Brian Adams and the always wonderful Ralph Gibson so anyway guys this has been another episode of photo 3s and join us Friday when we'll do our Q&A show and we'll be back on Sunday with a full episode of The Art of Photography so until then my name is Ted Forbes and I will see you guys in the next episode laterhey everybody this is Ted Forbes from The Art of Photography and welcome back to our show called photo threes our weekly show where we take three things that are fairly interesting in the world of Photography and bring them straight to you these come out every Wednesday and remember to subscribe to the channel we're doing three shows a week now that fits in with the threes theme so anyway if you want the latest and greatest content delivered straight to you you can subscribe and you can even set up email preferences so they're delivered straight to your inbox but today our topic on Photo 3s is I want to talk about three musicians who are also known as photographers or you could also look at this as three photographers who were also known as musicians um but anyway I think this is fairly interesting and it was fairly fun to research there obviously you can come up with more than three of these but the three we're going to talk about today I think are particularly interesting and they're all very different uh the first photographer slm musician I want to discuss is a gentleman who's probably best known as a jazz bass player a gentleman by the name of Milt Hinton uh Milt Hinton was probably best known I think to most people as the uh bass player who did the intro to The Drifter song Under the Boardwalk uh but actually more importantly uh he played with pretty much everybody during a history of jazz which included people like Billy Holiday and Art Tatum Dizzy Gillespie you name it he probably played with them and toured with them and basically as a Bas player he was an amateur photographer and started out on Argus C3 which is a kind of affectionately nicknamed The Brick and he managed to get all these behind thes scenes backstage shots of major luminaries in jazz music uh particularly uh during a slice of time that I think was extremely important to American Jazz so you see people like Billy Holiday uh you see people like Dizzy Gillespie the list goes on and I think the important contribution that Milt Hinton had as a photographer was pretty much you're dealing with a guy who had a backstage pass uh really to some amazing Jazz musicians and he provides to the world of Photography a view of something that's very important musically that otherwise if he didn't take the photos nobody would have been able to see and melt hiton died in 2000 I believe and left behind an enormous Legacy not only as a jazz bass player but also as a photographer and uh so he's my first pick uh second pick today is somebody who's fairly well known uh if you're have been in pop music in the last 20 years at all gentleman named Brian Adams and Brian Adams is best known as a Canadian singer songwriter who had hits in the 80s like Cuts Like a Knife and many others everything I do I'll do it for you which I really don't need to ever hear again but anyway other than that uh Brian has maintained kind of this double career not only as a musician being very well known for that but also as a very successful photographer uh obviously he knows a ton of celebrities and his work is very celebrity based um it's actually pretty interesting work I think uh it fits right in he shoots for major magazines so uh you know mostly celebrity and fashion types of stuff and he fits right in line with a lineage of photographers that came before him doing that so uh you know you could definitely see an influence of people like Richard avidon here David Bailey and I think at its very best starts to Echo probably maybe a dark version of Dwayne Michaels and it's actually fairly impressive for somebody who has had Fair really two very successful careers so Brian Adams is somebody that you may not know had a very successful career as a photographer as well who is also a musician and finally the third person I want to talk about today I think in my personal opinion is one of the most interesting this gentleman is actually more known as a photographer and I only came to find that he was a musician a few years ago um it's a gentleman by the name of Ralph Gibson and Ralph Gibson has had a stunning career as a photographer he does extremely important work um his first job as a photography assistant was for dorothia Lang and later on he did several projects and worked with uh Robert Frank and he's even done some film work and worked with people like Lou Reid and so he's he's worked with some seriously um amazing luminary artistic Minds uh in the world of Photography music art and he's done some film himself uh his photographs are amazing if you've never seen them um they're you know kind of definitely there's a Robert Frank influence there and they really take it a Step Beyond it's almost like these Urban still lives sometimes um I think Ralph Gibson has this amazing ability to find things in that are very common maybe it's a ready-made object maybe it's just part of a scene maybe it's a table that the sun's hitting it just right but he finds Beauty in the most common things and so I guess this kind of uh Street object photography sometimes for just lack of a better phrase anyway the music part of this comes in because Ralph Gibson a couple years ago started scoring music and he wrote a piece that actually uh the German name I am the KN um and basically it was music as he described it for for lens and guitar and he plays guitar and if you're not familiar with listening to a lot of avantgard music it may be kind of difficult at first uh because it's definitely out there uh I will link up to his website because he does have two videos on his website the problem that I have with them is they kind of show him playing the guitar more than they show the photographs that are rolling behind him but basically it's a performance-based piece where he stands on stage um plays this piece of music for guitar that goes along with photographs that you're going to see projected on the back through the dark on the in the theater on the stage um it's an extremely interesting piece it's very much in the line of his work I happen to like a lot of very experimental music things like JN Zorn and you know so for me it really made sense and it was so beautiful to hear this but I think he's definitely worth checking out you might have to be a little open-minded but I hope you would at least give it a shot so those are three photographers slm musician people three photographers who are also known as musicians so we have Milt Hinton Brian Adams and the always wonderful Ralph Gibson so anyway guys this has been another episode of photo 3s and join us Friday when we'll do our Q&A show and we'll be back on Sunday with a full episode of The Art of Photography so until then my name is Ted Forbes and I will see you guys in the next episode later\n"