Rainer Schlegelmilch Is An F1 Photographer, He's Been Committed To It For 55 Years (Thanks Steve!)
Rainer W. Schlegelmilch inwards all likelihood the near famous Formula 1 photographer, initiatory of all with his initiatory of all race inward 1962, shooting at Nürburgring, every bit good every bit his initiatory of all Formula 1 race was the Grand Prix of Kingdom of Kingdom of Belgium 1962 at Spa-Francorchamps, the 1st of near 600 GP races he photograhed
Schlegelmilch's archive of near 600,000 photos was of belatedly bought past LAT, adding to their 15 million F1 photograph archive of negatives, colouring slides every bit good every bit digital photos from 1962 to 2016.
In Monza inward 2011, Bernie Ecclestone honored Schlegelmilch with a lifetime permanent lensman accreditation - the initiatory of all every bit good every bit exclusively one.
Here is why:
In early 1990s F-1 started to change, every bit good every bit that was a considerable, visible change. Federation Internationale de L’Automobile (FIA) undertook an “inventory” of all the media that wrote near racing. Grand prix events henceforth could exclusively alive on photographed past journalists with a FIA accreditation, they had to alive on staff photographers of a limited number of newspapers every bit good every bit magazines with no less than 270 published stories a year. As for me, I never worked for whatsoever media: I was making books, calendars. So they kicked me out.
Bernie Ecclestone, the irreplaceable F-1 managing manager every bit good every bit FOM president, on hearing that I had lost my accreditation, offered me to acquire his receive lensman with a permanent FOM pass. Because I was always inward sight every bit good every bit or as well as so every bit good every bit was taking my locomote actually seriously. In that status I select been shooting F-1 for over xx years.
Portraits are an significant concern part of F-1 photography. But pilots demonstrate are also young, every bit good every bit actually few sack boast of an interesting face, of a personality. In goodness quondam days racers were aged xxx to 50, every bit good every bit those were characters with life experience. They were charismatic, every bit good every bit their faces were actually expressive.
Schlegelmilch has also published more than than xl books featuring his images starting with "Grand Prix - The Fascination of Formula 1 (1969-1993)" which sold more than than 130,000 copies.
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/formula-one-epic-photos-gallery-940142/amp/
http://www.schlegelmilch.com/
https://www.autosport.com/netw/news/131170/motorsport-network-acquires-schlegelmilch-archive
https://birdinflight.com/inspiration/experience/rainer-w-schlegelmilch-generally-fond-racing-shooting-unrivalled-pleasure.html
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