Mikkel Aaland's Letterman Moment

See and hear San Francisco photographer Mikkel Aaland talk to David Letterman in 1982 about taking portraits of folks visiting county fairs. These portraits were made in a portable studio that was hauled from fair to fair in California and Arizona between 1976 and 1980. The studio was complete with darkroom and a shooting stage and it took a crew of three to run it: a shooter (Mikkel), a front person to handle customers and a darkroom person to develop and print the 4x5 inch negative. The entire process, when going smoothly, took about fifteen minutes.

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[Marv Parker]

Very glad this was preserved. And look at all that hair the two of them have!!

[Pablo Zamora]

LHS

[RoachScholar]

COUNTY FAIR PORTRAITS is a great book. If you can scrounge yourself a copy, do it -- it might just become your favorite photography book.

[SunbirdStone]

Las imagenes, aun cuando fueron tomadas en un ambiente de ajetreado como una feria, no esconden mucha profundidad y sentido humano. Me gusto mucho el trabajo de esta persona. Lastima de audiencia como0 la de un programa como el de Letterman.

[stiandre]

That's right... his father was Norwegian...

I went to a lecture with him today... it was excellent... I wil start using Lightroom...

[wittykitty86]

Is he danish or swedish? The name is anyway...

[SANxJONERO]

s t r a i g h t - u p . i n f o

[sharkin]

im loving them oldschool norteno pics.