Shaun Considine

All photographs, with a few exceptions, were taken in New York
City, from 1970 onwards.

The first in the performing arts category was done with actress
Lois Nettleton, in her east side apartment. Most of the subsequent portraits were likewise taken during or following interviews with
the subjects, in their homes, hotel suites, or on the sets and soundstages of the films and plays they were involved with at the
time. None of the photographs were done on assignment - apart
from Sexual Perversity in Chicago, David Mamet's breakthrough Manhattan play, which was staged off-Broadway by struggling producer friends who couldn't afford a professional photographer.
The fee agreed upon for that assignment was twenty dollars, and two tickets to opening night.

Passion aside, the initial skill was rudimentary, and any technique
self-taught, refined through the generosity and enthusiasm of the people I met and came to know. Some, including Madeline Kahn, requested repeat photo sessions, which provided more insight into
their work and into what I was doing. And though some of the
photographs were published in the New York Times, People
and New York magazine, most were never printed, let
alone released, for a variety of reasons. Events and changes
were evolving fast. And though fully captured, little time was left
to fully assess or decipher the visual documentation. Hence, only
the text was submitted; which left the contact sheets, negatives
and slides to be filed in large boxes and cabinets in my back room.

When the 1970s ended, I withdrew from writing articles and concentrated on books. The photography, however, continued
unabated, now expanded to cover different subjects. The terrain,
however, remained the same - New York City, a few details of
which can be found in that section - "Only in New York."