
Thirty years of still photography:
Nature
Promotional/Catalog
Museum Displays
Web Virtual Reality
Motion Picture Publicity
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Still Photography Biography:
Steve Slocomb’s photography career encompasses both still and motion picture work. This resume focuses solely on his still photography.
His first professional photography was of actors and models for their
“composites” that they use to promote themselves. He then went on to do
photography at Magic Mountain Theme Park of the various entertainers who
performed there. His pictures were given to them as gifts. They included a
variety of performers such as Phyllis Diller, Milton Berle, Count Basie, Jerry
VanDyke, Frank Gorshin, and Rich Little.
In the early 1970’s with the noted designer Charles Eames he
produced slide show imagery for multi-screen slide presentations for IBM, the
National Science Foundation, and others. He was also employed doing large format
photography for museum and interpretative displays on themes ranging from Thomas
Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin to ones on scientists like Nicholas Copernicus
and Leonardo Fibonacci. All the Eames studio images are now archived in the
Library of Congress.
In the late 1970’s he branched out into doing a very
specialized kind of photorealistic photography of architectural models for
various architects and designers. They were used for client presentations.
During this time he also produced some large format photography for special
effects on the feature films Tron and House.
Throughout the 1980s he engaged in the hobby of making
complex slide presentations of various themes from Glacier Bay National Park,
Venice Beach, holy week in Antigua Guatemala, and even the behind the scenes
making of Francis Ford Coppola’s Captain Eo Disney theme park film. He is in the
process of gradually transferring them onto DVDs, eventually even high
definition Blu-Ray.
In 1984 he was a photographer for the architects and
designers of the Los Angeles Olympic games. He also produced publicity
photography on six feature films including Disorganized Crime in his home town
of Hamilton Montana. Off and on through the 1980s he provided imagery for
several magazines and catalogs including the covers of Mother Earth News and USA
Today.
In
the last 8 years he has utilized digital still photography on his numerous video
productions through the use of complex three dimensional animation techniques.
His photography continues on, now focusing on creating 360 degree virtual
reality imagery for the internet and the capturing of nature photographs from
the local wilderness area.