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F22 NEWS | 5 F22 PAGE 5.indd 1 06/05/2017 11:11 SNAPSHOTS THE SOCIETY PHOTOGRAPHER David He hired ‘professional administra Hogan was a key member of a favour tor’ Westbrook, who came complete ed goto clique of party snappers with glowing references, when in that included Richard Young, Dafydd fact she was penniless, recently re Jones and Dave Benett. He mingled leased from prison – and a career with the stars, capturing intimate criminal with a long record for theft, moments for national press stories fraud and forgery. Hogan now esti and picture spreads in glossy mag mates West brook stole in the region azines, and earning enough to pay of £100,000 a year right from under for his own celebrity lifestyle. But a his nose, whilst masquerading as his tragic Hogan became the headline trusted ‘Girl Friday’. He soon lost the story himself in March when it was ten-bedroom Shadingfield Hall in revealed his trusted assistant was Suffolk, bought for £1.2 million and in fact a glamorous conwoman who forced to sell at a £250,000 loss. In systematically stole his money. 2012, he was served with a surprise £100,000 tax bill. Threatened with Caron Westbrook (inset), had a crim bankruptcy he then had to sell his inal record as a fraudster. Over the large Muswell Hill home. Depressed, 11 years she worked for Hogan, she he contemplated suicide. But West siphoned off what he estimates to be brook’s deceit was gradually being nearly £1 million, taking him to the exposed. Hogan’s wife discovered a brink of financial ruin. Westbrook, 53, dormant account now had a £50,000 was sentenced in March to five-and- overdraft. A subsequent investiga a-half years in prison for theft at Isle tion by the Met fraud unit took two worth Crown Court. Her husband will years before the Westbrook’s were serve three years and four months finally collared. Although the pros for his part in the deception. Judge ecution case focused on the theft of John Denniss described the pair as £565,000, this only covered a specific parasites. time period between 2009 and 2014. Blow(n) Hogan’s own specialist accountant Hogan, 56, a workingclass boy from was able to trace a total of £840,000. Wales first came to London in 1982 Today a wiser Hogan says: ‘I lost my and by 2000 had his own picture agen home, she drove me to financial ruin cy employing ten staff. In 2003, he sold and I nearly lost my sanity and my his Mission Pictures to Getty Images life. I wanted to end it and it is only Up and invested in a Suffolk mansion. my family and friends that saved me.’ ANSEL ADAMS’ ARCA-SWISS 4x5 A VIEW CAMERA kit, used by Ansel Adams (right) from 1964 to 1968, failed to sell at Heritage Auctions. Comprising an Arca-Swiss 4x5 View Camera and more*. The landscape maestro had given the camera to his thenassistant, Liliane de Cock. Adams wrote how he made the wellknown image of Arches, North Court, Mission SNAP HAPPY San Xavier del Bac using the 4 x 5 Arca Swiss view camera. Coming directly THE EARLIEST known Nikon camera achieved €384,000 (double maximum from the de Cock/Morgan family, this estimate) at the WestLicht Photographica auction, Austria. As the most was the only Adams view camera ever expensive Nikon ever, it is only the third Nikon body made – being to come to auction. Estimates were manufactured in occupied Japan in April 1948. It was matched with a 5cm F2 optimistic at $70-100,000. Nikkor-H lens, no.70811 – coincidentally the 11th such lens ever made – with *Lot comprising a 4x5 Arca-Swiss monorail original lens cap. It was once in the collection of the noted Japanese expert, camera, extra bag bellows, a Wollensak Raptar Tad Sato. Originally available only in Japan, Nikon came to prominence when 13in. f/6.8 lens No. 971865 in Alphax shutter, Life photographer David Douglas Duncan discovered Nikkor lenses while a Ross Express 5in. f/4 lens No. 153041 in covering the Korean war and told other press photographers. Similar in design Ilex No.4 Acme Synchro shutter, a Kodak Ektar 203mm f/7.7 lens No. RE262 in Flash to the German Contax, the Nikon used a 24x32mm film frame which didn’t fit Supermatic Shutter, compendium lens hood, Kodak slide mounts. two Graflex graphic film pack adapters, Tiffen To access the US step up rings, Kodak Series VII to VIII step up market, the MEANWHILE ring, Kodak Series VII step-up ring 1 7/8” to 47.5 mm, Wratten gelatin filters, Kodak No. company had A CAMERA and 12 VIII glass filter, and dark cloth all in original to create the lens owned and fitted carrying and shipping case. Together Nikon M (in used by the with a Majestictripod and shutter speed test late 1949) with famous German documentation. standard 24x36 photographer frames. Nikon Herbert List will celebrate its (1903-1975) Straw box portrait 100th birthday whose clients Men of in 2017. included Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Life, made Straw produces a multipoint perspective €78,000. List was also associated from each individual drinking with Magnum. His extremely rare HAVING previously experimented straw which forms a tube that and fully original doublestroke black with pinhole cameras, Mick Farrell collects light and records it onto paint Leica M3 (with black film counter and Cliff Haynes have collaborated photosensitive material. The and all early features of these un to create a ‘straw camera’, an 254mm long, 22mm wide, straw official pre-series black cameras) was analogue machine that produces gives an aperture of about f127, delivered on 15 March, 1958 to Tiranty, fragmented images via their which is used as a starting point Paris. Only about 90 of these pre-series home-made camera box filled with for exposure. The analogue cameras were produced, much less are 32,000 drinking straws. Instead creation gives a straight indexical known to exist. of producing an image from a rendering of whatever is placed single point perspective, as would directly in front of it. a pinhole, its straw counterpart Source: Mashable 6 | F22 NEWS F22 PAGE 6.indd 1 06/05/2017 11:12 Douglas Kirkland the ‘Nude In White Silk’ photo shoot from 17 November, 1961 The MONROE DOCTRINE Frieda Hull, purporting to show the actress pregnant 8 July, 1960 THE WORLD seems still obsessed the affair.