After an interview with Tony Vaccaro for WINk Magazine, I decided that other photographers would be inspired to hear his story. I hope you enjoy this blog, as I’ll post my experiences, his stories, quotes and images. I would also love it if you could share your stories or favorite images taken by him.Tumblr (3.0; @tonyvaccaro)http://tonyvaccaro.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyj308A42Q1rotp3do1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Tony Vaccaro in his backyard, first snow October 29th, 2011. Photo by Chrissy Reilly</p>http://tonyvaccaro.tumblr.com/post/16656137095http://tonyvaccaro.tumblr.com/post/16656137095Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:43:00 -0500waxtheduck<p><p class="MsoNormal">October 16th, 2011.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Willem De Kooning in 1956 stated that, &#8220;Whatever I see becomes my shapes and my condition&#8221; (Painters on painting by Eric Protter, pg 242). Today, I stare at Tony Vaccaro and ask him about his experience shooting DeKooning along with a laundry list of other abstract expressionists, actors, sculptors and movie directors. Our shape, two people with more than a half-century of life in between us; Our condition, a small coffee shop in Long Island City on a perfect October day.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Before all of the glamour of editorial and fashion photography, Vaccaro’s own history of photography started in his high school in New Rochelle, NY.  He pointed to a photograph, “this is the man who made it all happen, and here (pointing to the subject of the photograph) was my high school sweetheart”.</span></p></p>http://tonyvaccaro.tumblr.com/post/16655300216http://tonyvaccaro.tumblr.com/post/16655300216Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:28:00 -0500tony vaccarophotographylife ofhistoryphotographerwaxtheduck