Ken Schuster - Photoillustrator Photographer

<bgcolor="#343434" text="#FFFFCC" link="#00EAEA" vlink="#00B3B3"> <p>(To see this site properly, please set your browser preferences to allow frames. Thanks!)</p> <p> </p> <table border="2" cellpadding="38" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#C0C0C0" bordercolor="#000000" bordercolorlight="#786901" bordercolordark="#000000" width="80%"> <tr> <td align="center"> <p align="left"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode,arial,sans serif" size="2"><b><font color="#004566">After Philadelphia's Charles Morris Price School of Advertising & Journalism, Philadelphia Museum College of Art, three years in the Army (including 18 months in </font><a href="eritrea.html"><font color="#FFFFFF">Eritrea, Ethiopia</font></a><font color="#004566">, doing a mid-'60s, east African version of "Good Morning Vietnam" from an 8,000' mountain top); then back to Philly for a year as Account Executive/TV producer/copy writer/Art Director at Ball Associates Advertising Agency, and two years at WIP Radio... I entered Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles in 1968. While in school, I assisted film-makers Haskell Wexler, Cal Bernstein and other notables.</font></b> <p align="left"><font color="#004566" size="2" face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><b>Upon graduation, I worked with designers Charles and Ray Eames and shared a studio with Jim Britt, MoTown's premier music industry photographer in L.A., and I was the West Coast Manager of the commercial photography division of The Associated Press.</b></font> <p align="left"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="2" color="#004566"><b>In 1973 I substituted for a photography teacher on leave. Like everything in life, one thing led to another, and soon I was teaching at East L.A. College, Cal State University, Mt. San Antonio College and </font><a href="http://www.lacitycollege.edu/academic/departments/medarts/photo/gallerymain.html" target="_blank"><font color="#FFFFFF">L.A. City College</font></a><font color="#004566">. Meanwhile, my client list was expanding, and I opened a solo studio, specializing in advertising and illustrative photography, with clients such as Mattel, Rockwell, Metromedia, Paramount Pictures, Atlantic Records, MGM, several regional and national consumer magazines and advertising agencies.</font></b> <p align="left"><font color="#004566" size="2" face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><b>At night and weekends, I squeezed-in graduate work at The Annenberg School of Communications at USC, and picked up a teaching credential at UCLA.</b></font> <p align="left"><font color="#004566" size="2" face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><b>Eventually, full-time teaching swapped places with full-time photography.<a name="bioreturn"></a></b></font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="2"><b><font color="#004566">In 2001, I retired and spent a year "decompressing" in an old-growth redwood grove </font><a href="cottage.html" target="_self"><font color="#FFFFFF">near Eureka</font></a><font color="#004566">, northern California. Then it was on to New Hampshire and a radically different and enjoyable life in a rustic post-and-beam house surrounded by trees and bordered by hundreds of acres of Audubon Society wildlife refuge. Now I'm re-experiencing the joy of photography, unencumbered by publication deadlines and academia.</font></b></p> </font></font></td> </tr> </table> <p> </p>