Gittings Studios
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Gittings Studios is a photographic studio founded in 1927 by Paul Gittings. Mr. Gittings bought the Bachrach Studios in the southern region of the United States. The Gittings laboratory was a pioneer of color die transfer prints. In the 1960s, the Gittings laboratories were the first to use machines from Kodak that would develop into the "one hour processing". Due to this progress, the Gittings laboratory lost it's almost monopoly hold on the color film processing industry.
The company has trained an inspired generations of portrait photographers.
Gittings portraits have included many world leaders including Lyndon B. Johnson, Bill Clinton, George Bush Sr., George W. Bush, and Nicolae Ceauşescu.
The organization was sold in 1990 to Paul Skipworth and later to Greg Lorfing. The Gittings family,however,continues to work throughout the U.S. and Europe.
Paul Gittings jr. is based in Phoenix,arizona.
The grand son of Paul Gittings, Neil Gittings, is an artist born in Houston, Texas in 1957. Gittings learned the art of photography working in the Gittings family business. In the 1960's, Gittings worked at the d'Amico Gittings studio and laboratory in Houston, Texas at a time when the laboratory made dye-transfer prints from negatives taken during the Apollo 11 moon mission. During the 1970's, Gittings worked throughout southwest America. In 1984, while working in the Gittings studio at Bullocks Wilshire in Los Angeles, Gittings met Don Troop and Marisa Bozza and formed the rock group, the Naked Apes of Reason. The group performed throughout Texas. The group then moved to Paris, France in 1990. The group performed for several years and broke up. In Paris, Gittings painted the coupola of the concert venue, The New Moon (formerly known as the Nouvelle Athens) at place Pigalle. In 1995, Gittings walked from Paris to ex-yougoslavia in protest of the war. This march culminated in the BALKAN PEACE petition including the signatures of the Patriarch Pavle, Radovan Karadžić, the bishop of Sarjevo, and the bishop of Lubiana.
