Meet the Photographer
As an infantryman, he could field strip a Springfield '03 and reassemble
the rifle blindfolded. As an artilleryman, he could ram a 155mm shell
into the breech of a self-propelled howitzer with gusto. As a pilot, he could
execute an Immelman smartly. Now Norman S.Burzynski, photographer, brings that
same precision and passion to creating powerful images.
His military assignments included Cold War Berlin, Vietnam,
Republic of China, NATO, as well as two tours of duty at the Pentagon.
It was toward the end of his military career that he turned his attention to
the Civil War reenactments. His photographs have been published by the U.S.
Department of Interior, Eastman Kodak Company, Kiplinger, Hasbro, Historical
Engineering, Ltd., The Officer Magazine, Army Times Publishing Company,
Committee on America's Military Past, Shutterbug magazine, and the National
Guardsman, as well as local newspapers and regional magazines.
The 35mm Olympus 4-T camera and Olympus OM-1s, with motor drive, remain his
primary equipment. Although he owns medium and large format cameras, he
finds the 35mm camera, with lenses such as 500mm, 200mm, 75-150mm, 35-70mm,
and 21mm, more than equal to the reenactment demands. Most recently, he has
added an Olympus 2020Z and Konica Minolta A-2 digital cameras to his bag.
He is equally adept in a conventional darkroom, processing both
color and black and white film and prints, or in an electronic environment,
using the dry digital marvels of the computer age.
The Civil War Camera, a monthly ezine now in its tenth year, serves to
showcase not only his reenactment photographs but also those of others
throughout the country.
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