The
National Soaring Museum holds many slides and prints by George Uveges.
Many of George's photographs became covers of
Soaring magazine.
George accompanied me when I shopped for and purchased a special camera that I used for making lithographic negatives from papered images for use in
Low & Slow and
Hang Glider and
Hang Glider Business Weekly, etc. He was lending his photographic expertise to the renaissance of hang gliding publishing. He lived just a block away from the Santa Monica airport. At that time circa 1960-70, the Soaring Society of America was based at the Santa Monica Airport; Lloyd was MIT educated. George was close friends in the 1960s with HG guru Richard Miller. Lloyd Licher was executive director of the Soaring Society of America 1957 – 1976 (19 years); George frequented the office. George would often work directly with
Doug Lamont the editor of Soaring Magazine at the time when I first met George. Lloyd introduced me to Doug Lamont and
Lianna Lamont. Doug Lamont published my first letter-to-the-editor in
Soaring magazine. It was my special experience to sit with Doug L. and describe my visions of the unfolding hang gliding; we discussed some tensions the HG renaissance would form within the sailplane fraternity.
Lloyd L. sold me for $1 an old out-of-commission small offset printing press that Soaring Society of America held fully unused. I had a little offset printing experience in my first early job at Douglas Aircraft. But I had to study from scratch how to ungunk the non-running printing press. Paul Wahl, author, sent me a U.S. Navy manual on offset printing. Finally I got the machine going and printed some
Low & Slow with the machine. The machine would find its way into the small attic of my Venice home. Using funds from the
Dial Soap HG TV commercial, I replaced the machine with a large printing press that permitted printing on 11"x17" paper for the larger
Hang Glider magazine. These machines would print images of many of George Uveges' photographs.
Quote:
One of the great photos by George Uveges was of Richard Miller's
Conduit Condor being flown at the great Otto Meet.
Related:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Soaring_MuseumPhoto of Doug Lamont
http://www.soaringmuseum.org/halloffame/LamontD.jpgQuote:
Another image of the 1960s Richard Miller by George Uveges, large image:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... iller.jpeg Click that link for a large image.
Here shown is the same in moderate size:
