The Story of One of the Most Famous Photos Ever
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In January 1996, Charles O'Rear pulled onto the shoulder of California State Route 121 in southern Sonoma County, pushed a Mamiya RZ67 through a wire fence, and made a few exposures of a bare green hill. The film in the back was Fujichrome Velvia, an ISO 50 transparency stock. Two years later, that frame was sitting on a Corbis stock catalog disc as image 71810, with a copyright bar across the bottom reading "©CHARLES O'REAR/Westlight 71810WL." [ Read More ]
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