The Picture Down The Hall Part Nine

I dialed the number. The unmistakable voice answered.


"Mr Crisp?"


"Yes?"


"My name is Stephen Mosher. My friends told me I should call you."


"why did they ask you to do that?"


"I'm a photographer and I'm working on a book to raise money for AIDS organizations and.."


"I'll do it."



This was one of the great days, one of the great shoots.




Vacationing with a group of friends on a lake in Vermont, I saw two best friends sitting on the pier talking. We all knew that one of the two would probably die soon of viral cardio myopathy. I used my telephoto lens to take this photo, one that is treasured by both myself and the surviving friend.



This photo is so special to me that it hangs on the wall in my home office.

Shortly after coming to New York, I landed a gig shooting the tenth anniversary concert of Sunday in the Park With George. It turns out that it is my favourite musical ( it and NINE ), so I was elated. It turns out that I have always wanted to shoot a photo of Bernadette Peters. It turns out I revere Mr Sondheim.

So you see; I couldn't be happier.

One of my all time favourite pics, this shows the way it should be between sisters.

These are my niecese, by the way.


During my time in Dallas I did photos for almost every small theater around. One of the theaters was doing Streetcar Named Desire; but the director wanted to keep their Blanche Dubois under wraps until the audience got there. So all the photos we did were of Stanley and Stella Kowalski.

This is an unused photo from that session and one of my most beloved.

I have known Jake Speck since he was ten. Getting to do the engagement photos of he and Emily was an extraordinary gift for me. To talk about how much this man, this couple, means to me would be a bore for everyone reading it; so I'll just let the photo do my talking.

A small theater in Dallas was doing SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL - set in a new time period. They brough Jonna McElrath in for a publicity sitting and this picture of some Bette Davis esque diva became a staple in my portfolio. That was some 18 years ago.

The photo is still in my portfolio today.

We needed just the right amount of sun to get this photo of David Salih. It was, therefore, planned that we shoot at sunrise; not a time of day David tended to like at that period of his life.

It was totally worth it, though.