The second amazing person we met on our little trip to 16th street was this man right here. Hal Gould. This man is quite literally a sage of photography, 90 years old, and has his own official "Hal Gould Day" (February 19). He founded the Camera Obscura gallery--one of the oldest purely fine art photography galleries--after the director of the Denver Art Museum refused to show photography as an art medium. Hal opened Camera Obscura right behind DAM (as a kind of "up yours") and it was immensely successful. Although some of the photographs he curates are not my cup of tea (mostly old western-types), I can certainly appreciate the man himself. Hal has an amazing life story, having travelled to every continent, taking pictures along the way. Without Hal, photography may have never been regarded as the art form it is today.
"Art is in the artist, not in the medium."
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