{"id":5352915,"date":"2019-10-11T16:03:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T16:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/?post_type=photographer&#038;p=5352915"},"modified":"2019-10-11T16:03:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T16:03:36","slug":"horace-bristol","status":"publish","type":"photographer","link":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/horace-bristol\/","title":{"rendered":"Horace Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote id=\"single-block_5d9b72476dcc8\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5352916 desc=\"Asset ID: 1375977. \" caption=\"Group of torpedomen relaxing beneath rows of deadly torpedoes in torpedo shop, one man actually sitting on torpedo resting on gurney, during WWII. (Photo by Horace Bristol\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/07175922\/1375977-e1570471161124-820x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Group of torpedomen relaxing beneath rows of deadly torpedoes in torpedo shop, one man actually sitting on torpedo resting on gurney, during WWII. (Photo by Horace Bristol\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Group of torpedomen relaxing beneath rows of deadly torpedoes in torpedo shop, one man actually sitting on torpedo resting on gurney, during WWII. (Photo by Horace Bristol\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Horace Bristol (1908-1997) always called himself a photojournalist, rather than a photographer. Indeed, in the &#8217;30s, when he was associated with the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/lens.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/11\/an-in-depth-history-of-group-f-64\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">f\/64 group<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which included Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, the latter said Bristol&#8217;s approach was that of an artisan rather than an artist. Bristol agreed; he wasn&#8217;t interested in stately tripod work\u2014he wanted to tell a story. After seeing Dorothea Lange&#8217;s pictures of migrant workers, Bristol, who was on staff at LIFE during 1937 to 1938, pushed the topic at the magazine. Finding no interest, he persuaded John Steinbeck to work with him as a captionist for a book on the migrants&#8217; plight. After two months, Steinbeck begged off, saying there surely was a book to be made, but he saw it as a novel; Bristol later said that Steinbeck never mentioned his part in the birth of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Grapes of Wrath<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Bristol went on to make an important patriotic contribution with his robust images of sailors during World War II.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adapted from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Great-LIFE-Photographers-Editors\/dp\/0316097934\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1EH15RRHPZHFO&amp;keywords=the+great+life+photographers&amp;qid=1570115481&amp;s=gateway&amp;sprefix=the+great+life+photogr%2Caps%2C142&amp;sr=8-1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Great LIFE Photographers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote id=\"double-block_5d9b72716dcc9\" class=\"double-image aligncenter\">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5352920 desc=\"Asset ID: 504644. \" caption=\"Army maneuvers at Fort Warren. (Photo by Horace Bristol\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation) \" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/07175931\/00504644-e1570471171998-770x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Army maneuvers at Fort Warren. (Photo by Horace Bristol\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Army maneuvers at Fort Warren. (Photo by Horace Bristol\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation) <\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5352921 desc=\"Asset ID: 501270. \" caption=\"Oil wells near Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Horace Bristol\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/07175939\/00501270-e1570471178604-777x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Oil wells near Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Horace Bristol\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Oil wells near Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Horace Bristol\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horace Bristol (1908-1997) always called himself a photojournalist, rather than a photographer. Indeed, in the &#8217;30s, when he was associated with the f\/64 group, which included Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, the latter said Bristol&#8217;s approach was that of an artisan rather than an artist. 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