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View GalleryI.C. Rapoport / July 30, 2016 / Uncategorized
Brando and Me July 1971 It was to be my first feature film. Edgar Scherick of Palomar Pictures in New York had hired me to adapt an Algis Budrys short story (it had appeared in the Saturday Evening Post) into a screenplay. Chokeberry Bay was completed in the fall of… Read More
I.C. Rapoport / July 1, 2016 / Uncategorized
SIXTY STRANGE DAYS (October – December 1961) It didn’t take much to convince Don Moser, or his bosses, at Life to invest in the Basic Training project. It wouldn’t cost them any money so they agreed to supply the film and to process it. I brought with me two Nikon… Read More
I.C. Rapoport / June 24, 2016 / Uncategorized
MARBLE CHAMPIONSHIP (July 1961) My photographs of Fidel Castro and Marilyn Monroe for Paris Match gave me entrée into the prestigious Time-Life Publications. LIFE and TIME were particularly choosy as to who should represent them out in the world, and it was well known that workin… Read More
I.C. Rapoport / June 17, 2016 / Uncategorized
MARILYN MONROE (March 1961) From the moment I arrived back in New York, Mary and I were never apart (with the exception of my travels away on assignments). In early March, Paris Match had me visit Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in upper Manhattan. Marilyn Monroe was a patient there and no… Read More
I.C. Rapoport / June 14, 2016 / Photojournalism
This post is part of the series My Career . Show All Posts Hide All Posts Part 1: The Early Years - Part 1 Part 2: The Early Years - Part 2 Part 3: First Published Photos - Jubilee Magazine Part 4: Why Dreams Matter - I Take a Chance… Read More
I.C. Rapoport / June 13, 2016 / On Assignment
This post is part of the series My Career . Show All Posts Hide All Posts Part 1: The Early Years - Part 1 Part 2: The Early Years - Part 2 Part 3: First Published Photos - Jubilee Magazine Part 4: Why Dreams Matter - I Take a Chance… Read More
I.C. Rapoport / June 10, 2016 / Photojournalism
This post is part of the series My Career . Show All Posts Hide All Posts Part 1: The Early Years - Part 1 Part 2: The Early Years - Part 2 Part 3: First Published Photos - Jubilee Magazine Part 4: Why Dreams Matter - I Take a Chance… Read More
I.C. Rapoport / June 3, 2016 / Photojournalism
This post is part of the series My Career . Show All Posts Hide All Posts Part 1: The Early Years - Part 1 Part 2: The Early Years - Part 2 Part 3: First Published Photos - Jubilee Magazine Part 4: Why Dreams Matter - I Take a Chance… Read More
I.C. Rapoport / May 27, 2016 / On Assignment
This post is part of the series My Career . Show All Posts Hide All Posts Part 1: The Early Years - Part 1 Part 2: The Early Years - Part 2 Part 3: First Published Photos - Jubilee Magazine Part 4: Why Dreams Matter - I Take a Chance… Read More
I.C. Rapoport / May 25, 2016 / On Assignment
This post is part of the series Aberfan . Show All Posts Hide All Posts Part 1: Nightmares of a Disaster, Part 1 Part 2: Nightmares of a Disaster, Part 2 Part 3: Nightmares of a Disaster, Part 3 Part 4: John Collins - Man Who Lost Everything HERE’S SOMETHING… Read More
I.C. Rapoport / May 25, 2016 / Uncategorized
ABERFAN The Days After (Part Three) The nightmares began a few weeks into my assignment. I had spent the first ten or twelve days immersed in the “story” I was about to tell with my photographs. As a photojournalist, my task was not merely to wander the village looking for… Read More
I.C. Rapoport / May 21, 2016 / Uncategorized
ABERFAN The Days After (Part Two) The Mackintosh Pub became my friend. My only friend. As a journalist, I was an outcast and in some cases a despised one. Thanks to the hundreds of newspaper and TV reporters who came through Aberfan before me, a very bad taste was left… Read More
I.C. Rapoport / May 18, 2016 / Photojournalism
JAMIN (August 1959) Once again, my boss Paul Slade was off shooting a story in Hollywood or somewhere glamorous and I was asked by Stephane Grueff to accompany Match reporter Philippe de Bausset to Roosevelt Raceway in Westbury, Long Island to photograph a French wonder, a trotting horse named Jamin… Read More
I.C. Rapoport / May 13, 2016 / Photojournalism
FIDEL CASTRO (April 1959) Three and a half months after he removed dictator Batista from power in Havana, revolutionary Fidel Castro, the Presidente of Cuba, and his band of romantic, world-wide heroes, came to New York on an unofficial visit. It was, April 1959, and it signaled the springtime of… Read More
I.C. Rapoport / May 11, 2016 / Uncategorized
ABERFAN The Days After Part One (November 1966) It was on all the news stations that October morning. First reports: A mountain had fallen on an elementary school in Aberfan, Wales. Hundreds of children were dead or missing along with some of their teachers. It was Friday, 21 October 1966.… Read More
I.C. Rapoport / May 6, 2016 / Photojournalism
“QUI EST RAPOPORT”…THEROND (July 1959) [x_button shape=”square” size=”large” float=”right” href=”http://gallery.icrapoport.com/-/galleries/ussrusa-track-meet-1959″ title=”I.C. Rapoport Photo Gallery” info=”none” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover”]See Photo Gallery[/x_button] One month into the summer of 1959, I received a call from Stephane. Paul was occupied on another assignment and woul Read More
I.C. Rapoport / April 29, 2016 / Photojournalism
PARIS MATCH (1959) I hope Ohio University forgives me for only attending two years well they should. After all, having spend those two years in the Photo Department to the neglect of my “important” studies, I went on to become a successful photojournalist working for the best and greatest publications.… Read More
I.C. Rapoport / April 22, 2016 / Photojournalism
SOMEBODY UP THERE BELIEVES IN ME (1958) Before going to join Mike Amberger in San Juan, I had the presence of mind to contact the editor of Jubilee Magazine, a slick Catholic publication that was making a name for itself by giving a head start to several soon-to-be-great photojournalists, not… Read More
I.C. Rapoport / April 14, 2016 / Photojournalism
THE EARLY YEARS – PART TWO (1955-1957) My career as a photojournalist was going nowhere and living at home, with my family, in The Bronx was beginning to wear upon me. Not only didn’t they have faith in my abilities to succeed as a magazine photographer they were able to… Read More
I.C. Rapoport / April 1, 2016 / Photojournalism
THE EARLY YEARS (1955-1957) When I told my mother that I had decided to become a photographer the first question she asked me was “Yes, but what are you really going to do to earn a living?” And Dad followed up with: “You should take teaching. A teacher will always… Read More
I.C. Rapoport / March 14, 2016 / Photojournalism
JOE PILATES – The Assignment That Would Last a Lifetime (October 4, 1961) October First arrived. We counted the days. Only two more weeks together. I had already given up hope of some sort of reprieve. Besides, I had worked hard to make the transition from civilian […] Read More