Comedian George Carlin performing at the Count Basie Theater in Red Bank, NJ in March, 1991. Carlin, 71, died Sunday evening, June 22, 2008 in a Santa Monica, CA hospital after checking himself in, complaining of chest pains. © Chet Gordon / www.chetgordon.com
*I made George Carlin in concert on the NJ Shore back in 1991. If memory serves, I used a Nikon F4 or F3-T film body with a Nikon 300 f/2.8 manual focus, shot on T-Max 3200. Needless to say, I was a big, no huge, admirer of his work… -cg.
Chet Gordon resides in the lower Hudson Valley region of New York. A photojournalist for more than 25 years, he recently worked as Westchester Magazine's first photo editor, and previously was a staff photographer at four NYC metro area newspapers. He was also a photo editor at the NY Daily News for 5 years. His work has appeared in The New York Times, International Herald-Tribune, USA Today, MailOnline (UK), Army Times, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and Popular Photography magazines, among others. He is a career member of the National Press Photographer’s Association (NPPA), and a former board member of the NY Press Photographer’s Association (NYPPA). He served honorably as a U.S. Marine in the mid-1980's, including 2+ years stationed on Okinawa, Japan, and throughout Southeast Asia. A longtime volunteer and travel enthusiast, he accompanies several humanitarian aid clients on their international disaster relief and medical missions. Since 1997, he's worked in several African countries, the Middle East, Central and South America, Eastern Europe, as well as Afghanistan, Haiti, the Russian Federation, and Thailand. He routinely mentors young photographers looking to break into the industry and vacations in Bermuda and Kenya.
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