can anyone id these photographers?

[thecatspajamas]

Scott, you tease! I hope that somebody knows where that site is, or else I'm going to go mad looking for it, as that is exactly the kind of info-laden site I've been wishing for to research photographers' backgrounds. These guys are TOUGH to find any kind of info on other than the occasional tagline!

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by thecatspajamas

Scott, you tease! I hope that somebody knows where that site is, or else I'm going to go mad looking for it, as that is exactly the kind of info-laden site I've been wishing for to research photographers' backgrounds. These guys are TOUGH to find any kind of info on other than the occasional tagline!

Lance, I'll try to figure out who I was looking for when I stumbled on the site - it was some obscure (to me) journalist.

[JoeyF1981]

On the back of the photo written in pencil it says

Carl Nesensohn
photographers + managers
before world series

[thecatspajamas]

Carl Nesensohn was a New York Times / Wide World photographer. Interesting story here about a photo he took titled, "The Burning of the 'Morro Castle.'"

http://books.google.com/books?id=Dqw...graphy&f=false

He could have written the note on the back, or someone at the paper could have written it to ensure that proper credit for the photo was given. Either way, Brooklyn never played the Giants in a World Series. Perhaps there was an exhibition game in 1922 between the two teams and the editor or whoever wrote the note misidentified the event, or perhaps Robinson was on hand for the Yankees vs Giants World Series in 1922 and snagged a photo op (seems less likely, but who knows?)

[JoeyF1981]

Was he a well known photographer?

[thecatspajamas]

No idea. I hadn't heard of him before I started Googling, but it may just be that he was not a "primarily baseball" photographer. I admit to being somewhat of an uncultured buffoon about such things when they fall outside the realm of baseball.

[bgar3]

from a quick google search, i have found him described by Christie's auction house as the most important NY times photographer in the 20's to 30's, and another description that had his starting time with the NY Times as 1916. (1898 -1970). Time period certainly fits. Really curious about this assemblage.