{"id":5752,"date":"2022-01-15T10:39:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T10:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chanintr.com\/pages\/?post_type=journal&#038;p=5752"},"modified":"2022-01-19T06:34:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T06:34:08","slug":"how-i-met-rodney","status":"publish","type":"journal","link":"https:\/\/www.chanintr.com\/pages\/journal\/how-i-met-rodney\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Met Rodney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-heading\">A visionary who was devoted to his art, Rodney Smith was an artist of the highest order. His friends often describe him as particular, meticulous and detailed. Simply put, an embodiment of \u201cliving well.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>But he was also caring and had a great sense of humor. Following are some first impressions of Smith\u2019s, and how the perceptions evolved over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI had been asked to produce a commercial campaign in South America with a \u201cfamous photographer\u201d named Rodney Smith. The executive producer told me I first needed to go up to Rodney\u2019s house to meet him and essentially get approved for the job. I had never heard of Rodney Smith and didn\u2019t know anything about him. These weren\u2019t the days of Googling everyone and everything so I truly went up to Rodney\u2019s house not knowing anything about him or his work. Based on a few assumptions that I inaccurately made, and the fact that his executive producer was a guy who I associated with hip hop culture, I had assumed Rodney was a young hipster. Clearly, upon arriving at his house which was a beautiful estate, and meeting Rodney with his monogrammed Brooks Brothers shirt and tie, he was clearly not what I expected. He looked more like a CEO of a bank. My impression changed over time and I found Rodney to be playful, fun, funny, serious but he could also laugh at things and be lighthearted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014 Alec Sash, Producer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI met Rodney in 1974 as a college teacher of mine. At that time, I felt that he was very serious, intense and committed to his craft. In later years, his sense of humor came forward, but his commitment to creating photographs as works of art continued unceasingly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014 Terence Falk, Rodney Smith\u2019s Former Assistant<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><meta charset=\"utf-8\">________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRodney wasn\u2019t a small talker. He got right into the hard questions and wanted to know the intimate details of your life. It was very startling the first time I met him. But after getting to know him, I realized it was how he showed he cared about you as a person and wasn\u2019t concerned with the trivialness of small talk. He wanted to know you and cared about you as a person.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014 Patricia Barrett, Rodney Smith\u2019s Assistant and Master Printer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><meta charset=\"utf-8\">________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen Jill told me that she wanted to introduce us at his house, I was intimidated at first. He was very well dressed, and, like so many other designers, I admired his work so much. He loved our company and made us feel so welcome. He was very down-to-earth and excited that I loved the same things he did. We had this immediate friendship with one another because we respected and appreciated one another\u2019s work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014 Suzanne Kasler, Interior Designer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><meta charset=\"utf-8\">________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAlways in a hurry, curious about other people, selective and precise, very funny. Pretty accurate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014 Sabine Feuilloley, Fashion Stylist<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><meta charset=\"utf-8\">________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy first impression was over the phone when I had inquired about representing his work in Sun Valley. He was warm, thoughtful and thorough. He was not willing to commit to anything until we met in person, which we did. He was all of those things in person as I experienced and the phone. That initial impression stayed true over all the years I knew him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014 L\u2019Anne Gilman, Director of Gilman Contemporary<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5780,"template":"","filed_under":[],"class_list":["post-5752","journal","type-journal","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How I Met Rodney | Chanintr Living Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"First impressions of Rodney Smith \u2014 as told by his closest friends and loved ones.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chanintr.com\/pages\/journal\/how-i-met-rodney\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How I Met Rodney | Chanintr Living Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"First impressions of Rodney Smith \u2014 as told by his closest friends and loved ones.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.chanintr.com\/pages\/journal\/how-i-met-rodney\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"CHANINTR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-01-19T06:34:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.chanintr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/holiday-2021-RSM-1013-016-08-HIRES.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.chanintr.com\/pages\/journal\/how-i-met-rodney\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.chanintr.com\/pages\/journal\/how-i-met-rodney\/\",\"name\":\"How I Met Rodney | Chanintr Living Journal\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/34.124.208.30\/pages\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.chanintr.com\/pages\/journal\/how-i-met-rodney\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.chanintr.com\/pages\/journal\/how-i-met-rodney\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.chanintr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/holiday-2021-RSM-1013-016-08-HIRES.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-15T10:39:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-01-19T06:34:08+00:00\",\"description\":\"First impressions of Rodney Smith \u2014 as told by his closest friends and loved ones.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.chanintr.com\/pages\/journal\/how-i-met-rodney\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.chanintr.com\/pages\/journal\/how-i-met-rodney\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.chanintr.com\/pages\/journal\/how-i-met-rodney\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.chanintr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/holiday-2021-RSM-1013-016-08-HIRES.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.chanintr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/holiday-2021-RSM-1013-016-08-HIRES.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":1024,\"caption\":\"holiday 2021 RSM 1013 016 08 HIRES\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.chanintr.com\/pages\/journal\/how-i-met-rodney\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/34.124.208.30\/pages\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Journal\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.chanintr.com\/pages\/journal\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"How I Met Rodney\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/34.124.208.30\/pages\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/34.124.208.30\/pages\/\",\"name\":\"CHANINTR\",\"description\":\"CHANINTR pursues the art of &quot;Living Well&quot; 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