Jim Bridwell

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Jim Bridwell: Madman, visionary, raconteur and one of the most accomplished climbers of the 20th Century. My portrait of him has been splashed across a double-paged spread in the current issue of Rock & Ice Magazine, on newsstands now.

Carl Perkins

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silvernitrate:
Here's a photo I took of rock & roll legend Carl Perkins in his living room in Jackson, Tennessee in the '90s. I was driving back and forth between Nashville and Memphis a lot in those days and would always call him from the gas station phone booth. Each time he'd invite me over for lunch and to hear a new song he'd written. Hours later I'd leave with some of his wife Valda's fresh baked cookies sitting on the car seat beside me. I still miss hearing his "Hey cat daddy!" coming out of my phone answering machine speaker...Photo ©Jim Herrington

Chuck Pratt

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Here’s my photo of Chuck Pratt, one of the boldest and most talented climbers of the 1950s and 1960s. He’s best known as an early pioneer of big wall climbing in Yosemite Valley and particularly for his skills as a free climber. His climbs, many of them nearly unprotected and downright terrifying, still make modern climbers question their own intentions and sanity, especially when one considers the primitive gear used on the first ascent. I photographed him in his later years when he lived and worked as a guide at the climber’s ranch in the Tetons in Wyoming. He died in Thailand in 2000. This is from my upcoming book about the early legends of climbing.