The First Fifty Candid Sequences - Strips 1 - (1969-1978)

The works of Ted Glasso have never been exhibited officially, or published. Yet he has been creating photographic images for over fifty years. The series will present painters, photographers sculptors and graphic artists. This book explores the earliest collection of images created by Ted Glasso on the streets of New York, between the years 1969 and 1971. The only exception, a self-portrait on page 85, which was shot in 1978. He calls his unique manner of storyboard-like method of multiple shots then assembled to tell a story STRIPS. His earliest shots were all candid and executed in real time. Thus they also qualify as being Documentary Photographs. The subject of life on the streets New York fascinated from the first moment he heard that it can be done legally if it was to be published as works of art. Earlier, while still in high school he predicted that photography would become as accepted as any of the other mediums practiced in the fine arts; as a full-pledged art medium in its own right, just as lithographs and etchings, or paintings. He saw the handwriting on the wall, yet he did not pursue it for himself. Why? You will ask, because he became involved in earning a living, and the realities of life dictated otherwise. Also, Ted Glasso is a pen name he had selected not too long ago and has decided that it would serve him better in his writing and photography. So far he has written a Young Adults urban science fiction novel, (the first in a series of four) and two children's picture books that he illustrated as well. The first, titled Johnny Be Good, is about an American Bald Eagle that's hatched in a hen house and doesn't know he's an eagle until he discovers that he's really different from all the other birds there. Thus the theme of self-discovery. The second book is about two frogs that become close friends and go on adventures. Photography was Ted's first love and will remain unshaken in this position.