Jonathan blair photographer
Jonathan blair photographer
Jonathan blair (born january 25, 1941), american photographer.
Jonathan Blair
American photographer
Jonathan Blair () was an American photographer who has worked for the National Geographic Society since s.[1] His photographs have been published in Time, Life and Newsweek, and The New York Times Magazine, as well as in a photographic book called Outlaw Trail, which was an international best seller.[2] His photography is diverse, ranging from underwater shipwrecks, to wildlife on the Pacific Islands to the Wild West in the United States.[3] However, he specialized in natural history and deep ocean photography.[4]
Biography
Blair was born in in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.[5]
He began his photography career at Northwestern University as a darkroom technician where he took pictures of various stars for Dearborn Observatory.[6] Later, while on a trip to White Sands, New Mexico to help set up an observatory, he realized that it was his passion to become a landscape photographer.